CFFP’s Black Feminist Reading List 2.0

CFFP’s Black Feminist Reading List 2.0

To be clear – Black history is in the making every day and should thus be celebrated every day, but we still want to take the opportunity of Black History Month 2023 to highlight Black feminist voices. In the last year, our team has grown quite a bit – with that comes more people to ask about their favourite essays, books, poems and articles! We did exactly that and compiled the second edition of CFFP’s Black Feminist Reading List for you. You can download it below. If you’re based in Germany and want to order one of the books online while still supporting local bookshops, consider www.genialokal.de.

And if that’s not enough for you, make sure you have a look at the first edition which also includes podcasts. Enjoy!


CFFP’s favourites 2.0

  1. Ain’t I a Woman?: Black Women and Feminism, 1981, bell hooks
  2. Algorithms of Oppression, 2018, Safiya Umoja Noble
  3. Assata: An Autobiography, 1988, Assata Shakur
  4. Binti, 2015, Nnedi Okorafor
  5. Black Cake, 2022, Charmaine Wilkerson
  6. Call Us What We Carry, 2021, Amanda Gorman
  7. Daughters of Africa, 1992, Margaret Busby (ed.)
  8. Dear Senthuran: A Black Spirit Memoir, 2021, Akwaeke Emezi
  9. Efuru, 1966, Flora Nwapa
  10. European Others: Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe, 2011, Fatima El-Tayeb
  11. Ezili’s Mirrors: Imagining Black Queer Genders, 2018, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley
  12. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, 2015, Angela Davis
  13. His Only Wife, 2020, Peace Adzo Medie
  14. Hood Feminism, 2020, Mikki Kendall
  15. How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective, 2017, Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
  16. If They Come in the Morning: Voices of resistance, 1971, Angela Davis
  17. Male Daughters, Female Husbands: Gender and Sex in an African Society, 1987, Ifi Amadiume
  18. Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America, 2020, Ijeoma Oluo
  19. Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, 2021, Michaela Coel
  20. Mobilising Black Germany: Afro-German Women and the making of a transnational movement, 2020, Tiffany Florvil
  21. Nervous Conditions, 1988, Tsitsi Dangaremba
  22. Rassismus. Strukturelle Probleme brauchen strukturelle Lösungen!, 2021, Natasha A. Kelly (German)
  23. Sensuous Knowledge: A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, 2021, Minna Salami
  24. The Girl with the Louding Voice, 2020, Abi Daré
  25. The Intersectional Environmentalist, 2022, Leah Thomas
  26. The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses, 1997, Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
  27. The Other Black Girl, 2021, Zakiya Dalila Harris
  28. There’s Something In The Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities, 2018, Ingrid R. G. Waldron
  29. Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, 2020, Alexis Pauline Gumbs
  30. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, 2019, Sadiya Hartman
  31. Why We Matter: Das Ende der Unterdrückung, 2021, Emilia Roig (German)
  32. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, 1982, Audre Lorde
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