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