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Resources
Free Mental Health Self Help Resources (inc. CBT Modules for overcoming procrastination, perfectionism and much more) designed and tested by clinicians.
https://www.cci.health.wa.gov.au/Resources/Looking-After-Yourself
Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture
https://overcomingracism.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/HANDOUT-SHARED-Characteristics-of-White-Supremacy-Culture-original-1.pdf
and https://www.whitesupremacyculture.info/characteristics.html
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron (Art Therapy Workbook likely available at your local library)
https://dn760107.eu.archive.org/0/items/the-artists-way-julia-cameron_202403/The_Artists_Way_Julia_Cameron.pdf
Readings
In no particular order, the following are some of my favourite books and thesis that have had a strong impact on my life and the way I experience and respond to the world. Unless otherwise described, these are all non-fiction books. All the links below are to free pdfs, but the books can also likely be found at (or ordered by request to) your local library! Happy reading! If you have a reading rec you think I might like, feel free to send me it via my contact page!
Her Body and Other Parties 2017 (feminist, queer horror fiction)
by Carmen Maria Machado
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope 2003
by bell hooks
where we stand: CLASS MATTERS 2000
by bell hooks
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants 2013
by Robin Wall Kimmerer (I highly recommend the audio book read by the author)
We Should All Be Feminists 2014
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
EMANCIPATE ME HARDER! LESSONS FROM THE BDSM COMMUNITY ON SAFETY, CONSENT, THERAPEUTIC POTENTIAL, AND RADICAL SUBVERSIVE RESISTANCE 2025 (thesis)
by Madeline Rae
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good 2019
by adrienne maree brown
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds 2017
by adrienne maree brown
(I recommend the entirety of the Emergent Strategy series)
The Book of Light 1993 (poems)
by Lucille Clifton
No Archive Will Restore You 2018
by Julietta Singh
Hunger: A memoir of (my) body 2017
by Roxane Gay
Pedagogy of the Oppressed 1968
by Paulo Freire
Parable of the Sower 1993 (speculative fiction)
by Octavia Butler
1984 1949 (speculative fiction)
by George Orwell
Indigenous Littoral Practice: a Viable Framework for Collaborative and Dialogic Curatorial Practice 2021 (thesis)
by Cathy Mattes
Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene 2016
by Donna J. Haraway
A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century 1985
by Donna J. Haraway
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto 2020
by Legacy Russell
Conjuring Alterity: Refiguring The Witch and the Female Scream in Contemporary Art 2019 (thesis)
by Naomi Blacklock
I also recommend everything written by Maya Angelou. I borrowed almost all her books from my local library as audio books read by the author.