Reading list

Trauma & healing

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez

Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater

Spirituality

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

No Death, No Fear by Thích Nhất Hạnh

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

justice & liberation

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll

dear elia: Letters from the Asian American Abyss by Mimi Khúc

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Healing Justice Lineages by Cara Page and Erica Woodland

The Viral Underclass: The Human Toll When Inequality and Disease Collide by Steven W. Thrasher

Care: The Highest Stage of Capitalism by Premilla Nadasen

The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon

Pedagogy of the Oppressed by Paulo Friere