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Books Where Women of Color Tell Their Own Stories About Mental Health

Shejal Shah describes this list, published at Electric Literature, as something with "writers and books who showed me a way forward: women of color who had reference points other than Western medicine or binary models of illness and health. Books helped me feel less alone. They helped me find words to talk back."
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Citizen (Claudia Rankine)
Citizen
1
Claudia Rankine
Sister Outsider (Audre Lorde)
Sister Outsider
2
Audre Lorde
Redefining Realness (Janet Mock)
Redefining Realness
3
Janet Mock
Minor Feelings (Cathy Park Hong)
Minor Feelings
4
Cathy Park Hong
The Collected Schizophrenias (Esmé Weijun Wang)
The Collected Schizophrenias
5
Esmé Weijun Wang
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life (Yiyun Li)
Dear Friend, From My Life I Write to You in Your Life
6
Yiyun Li
Brown Album (Porochista Khakpour)
Brown Album
7
Porochista Khakpour
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying (Bassey Ikpi)
I'm Telling the Truth, but I'm Lying
8
Bassey Ikpi
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice (Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha)
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
9
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
This Is One Way to Dance (Sejal Shah)
This Is One Way to Dance
10
Sejal Shah
Talking Back (Bell Hooks)
Talking Back
11
Bell Hooks
How We Show Up (Mia Birdsong)
How We Show Up
12
Mia Birdsong
Olive Witch: A Cross-Cultural Memoir (Abeer Y. Hoque)
Olive Witch: A Cross-Cultural Memoir
13
Abeer Y. Hoque
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