6 Books For The Budding Social Justice Warrior!
No matter the stage in your social justice journey, these titles will help you to explore, expand, and acknowledge what you don’t yet know about activism, justice, and finding your voice. Featuring interviews with activists to protagonists in fiction who exemplify youth activism, these books will leave you inspired, compelled, and ready to tackle the issues facing young people today and tomorrow.
YOUTH TO POWER: YOUR VOICE AND HOW TO USE IT by JAMIE MARGOLIN
A practical guide--written by a young activist--with advice on how to pitch and write op eds, organize successful events and peaceful protests, how to use both social and traditional media to spread word, sustain long-term activism, and even time management skills. Jamie walks you through each step of what healthy, effective, productive, intersectional activism looks and feels like and features interviews with prominent young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
HOW I RESIST : ACTIVISM AND HOPE FOR A NEW GENERATION edited by MAUREEN JOHNSON
An all-star collection of essays about activism and hope. Through the eyes of young activists today, this primer helps budding social justice warriors ask the questions: “Where can I start?” and “How can I help?”
WATCH US RISE by RENÉE WATSON AND ELLEN HAGAN
Sick of the way that young women are treated even at their 'progressive' New York City high school, protagonists Jasmine and Chelsea decide to start a Women's Rights Club. A stirring read about what it means to be a young woman today. Author Renée Watson said of Watch Us Rise, “We knew right away that we wanted to write a book about girls who are budding activists and artists.”
WHEN THEY CALL YOU A TERRORIST: A BLACK LIVES MATTER MEMOIR by PATRICE KHAN-CULLORS and asha bandele
Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele's reflection on humanity. It is an empowering account of survival, strength and resilience and a call to action to change the culture that declares innocent Black life expendable.
OCTAVIA'S BROOD : SCIENCE FICTION STORIES FROM SOCIAL JUSTICE MOVEMENTS edited by WALIDAH IMARISHA AND adrienne maree brown
Walidah Imarisha and adrienne maree brown have brought twenty stories together in the first anthology to explore the connections between radical speculative fiction and movements for social change. Those who wish for justice and liberation must convince others to make way for lasting change.
SO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT RACE by IJEOMA OLUO
In So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo guides readers of all races through subjects ranging from intersectionality and affirmative action to "model minorities" in an attempt to make the seemingly impossible possible: honest conversations about race and racism, and how they infect almost every aspect of American life.
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