Erin O'daniel is a gender expansive Queer Writing in Duluth (stolen Anishinaabe land), Minnesota

Top 25+

Annotated bibliography is my middle name. Grad school!

So when asked post speaking gig last month by macro social work students to blog a list of my 25 favorite books about pleasure activism, sexuality, reproductive justice, and relationality, I agreed. Here you go fabulously curious co-learners.

The list is a semi-ordered, trashE nod to writers who cracked my young queer heart wide open years ago, taught me about queer re-remembering in my thirties (listen to audio on no 1 . SwOoOoon Audre), and today center me in midst of impending Roe repeal as I engage intersectional sex affirming + anti-Racism + healing work in community. Yes, these books are my teachers, guides, partners, Loves woven together in new-old heart expansive ways.

PS- I literally carried most of these titles with me into the macro class. Ready to engage and geek out about my bibliophilia. Pulling books out of a large Mary Poppins like bag when related topics surfaced (#walking sexuality-reproJ-pleasure activism library). Yes to a life long practice of loving and sharing words, self, writing as liberation.

  1. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name

  2. Selected Works of Audre Lorde: The Uses of the Erotic

  3. Kim TallBear

  4. PolySecure

  5. Love and Rage

  6. Ethical Slut 3rd Edition

  7. Undrowned

  8. Ace

  9. Undivided Rights; Women of Color Organize for Reproductive Justice

  10. Box Lunch

  11. Pleasure Activism

  12. My Grandmother’s Hands

  13. Unf*ck Your Intimacy

  14. How to Understand Your Sexuality

  15. Trans Bodies, Trans Selves

  16. PussyPedia

  17. Kink

  18. A Quick and Easy Guide to Sexuality and Disability

  19. Come As You Are

  20. Honeypot

  21. CounterSexual Manifesto

  22. Colonize This! new edition

  23. The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex

  24. Curvy Girl Sex

  25. Hot Wet & Shaking

  26. Sex From Scratch

  27. What You Really Really Want

  28. Hell Yeah Self-Care! : A Trauma-Informed Workbook

  29. Polyamory Break Up Book

  30. Cunt

  31. The Penis Book

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