I was forwarding these to a friend and figured it’d be worth sharing them all here too so enjoy some free books and essays and things in no particular order:
Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects
Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde
Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer
Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price
Learn Socialism Resources
Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson
Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar
Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks
Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson
Sinister Wisdom Archives
Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong
How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ
Women’s Voices Now
The Life of Tove Jansson
Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo
‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow
OUTWEEK Archives
AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins
Devotions - Mary Oliver
Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin
Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau
Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson
Sula - Toni Morrison
Not Vanishing - Chrystos
The Fever - Wallace Shawn
Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard
Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan
AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario
In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit
Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker
Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana
Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove
Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds
The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf
Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones
A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride
Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson
Lesbian Herstory Archives
Bartleby
Guggenheim Books
We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David
On Beauty - Zadie Smith
Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado
How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation - Anne Helen Petersen
Why the Popular Phrase ‘Women and Femmes’ Makes No Sense - Kesiena Boom
Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow
Taking Care - Callista Buchen
Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films
Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield
Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz
Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel
Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy
East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha
Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.” - Molly McManus
They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson
The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities - Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.
The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library
A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver
Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks
Working Class History
Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson
In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman
Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb
Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation - Silvia Federici
Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) - Jane Yeon and Audris Park
Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman
Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra
R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker
The Journey - Mary Oliver
The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg
What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan
The poetry and brief life of a Foxconn worker: Xu Lizhi (1990-2014)
Magda Romanska, “Necr-Ophelia: Death, Femininity, and the Making of Modern Aesthetics”
Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington
Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)
Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution
Ozamu Tezuka Documentary
Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall
38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark
‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed
This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s
Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately
Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere
There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)
1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews
Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division
Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson
Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)
“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier
Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie
JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown
Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna
Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland
Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2
Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery - Virginia L. Blum
The Heart of the Race: Black Women’s Lives in Britain by Beverley Bryan, Stella Dadzie, and Suzanne Scafe Foreword by Lola Okolosie (ebook free to download this month 06/2020)
Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube
The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde
Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.
Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)
Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)
CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982
Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash
Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley
A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde
Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)
Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2
Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’
Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris
Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert
‘They Set Us Up to Fail’: Black Directors of the ’90s Speak Out. Julie Dash, Matty Rich, Darnell Martin, Ernest Dickerson, Leslie Harris and Theodore Witcher on a boom that went bust, and what’s different now. - Reggie Ugwu
You can now search and browse every edition of Spare Rib online!
(Important information for researchers: Some material from the Spare Rib magazines on the Journal Archives site has been redacted until the Library is able to secure further copyright permissions.)
How to Repair a Hole in a Sock with Darning
Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes - Kate Mulherin et al.
What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us - Sam Kriss
Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine
If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - James Baldwin
“Scenes of an Indelicate Character”: The Medical “Treatment” of Victorian Women - Mary Poovey
The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong
Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity
Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat - Gina Kolata
How to Sew a Button - for Absolute BEGINNERS
Angela Davis: An Autobiography
Solidarity Cinema
Where to watch classic films directed by women online and for free - Rafaella Britto
Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici (Audiobook by Lil Guillotine)
Colonising the Body: State Medicine And Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Chapter 5) - David Arnold
“Racism, Birth Control And Reproductive Rights” (From Woman, Race and Class) - Dr. Angela Davis
No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear - Toni Morrison
My Withered Legs - Sandra Gail Lambert
Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, at work in 1952 (video)
You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. - Kate Murphy
The History and Troubling Present of the “Pansexual” Label - Kravitz M.
A Man and his Hoe
For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big - Jane Healey on secret corridors and impossible floorplans
May 23rd, 1988. Section 28. Lesbians invade BBC. - Colin Clews
Complete issues of The Gay Left 1975-80
A Decade of World-Class Masterclasses Online - Scottish Documentary Institute
5 Steps to Illustrating a Repeat Pattern by Hand - Julia Rothman
“Feminism was not invented by American women.” Nawal El Saadawi in conversation with Krishnan Guru-Murthy
