This list is probably going to grow (ALOT)- please feel free to comment and add your ideas for recommended reading or send your suggestions to malintzine@gmail.com

The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities - Ching-In Chen (Editor), Jai Dulani (Editor), and Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (Editor); Andrea Smith (preface)

Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide - Andrea Smith

Colonize This!: Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism - Daisy Hernandez

Feminist Theory: From Margin to Center by bell hooks

Loose Woman: Poems - Sandra Cisneros

Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities John D’Emilio

Crip Theory Robert McRuer

The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros

Reading Chican@ Like a Queer - Sandra Soto

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color - Cherie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation - Gloria Anzaldúa and AnaLouise Keating.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza - Gloria Anzaldua

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches - Audre Lorde

The Black Unicorn: Poems - Audre Lorde

¡Chicana Power!: Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement - Maylei Blackwell

A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness: Writings, 2000–2010 - Cherie Moraga

Desert Blood: The Juarez Murders - Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Chicana Feminist Thought: The Basic Historical Writings - Alma M. Garcia

Chicana Falsa and How to be a Chicana Role Model - Michelle Serros

Women, Race and Class - Angela Davis

Living Chicana Theory  Carla Trujillo

Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa Rigoberto Gonzalez

Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States  Joey L. Mogul, Andrea J. Ritchie, Kay Whitlock

MARIPOSAS: A Modern Anthology of Queer Latino Poetry  Emanuel Xavier

For Colored Boys Who Speak Softly Yosimar Reyes

Before Night Falls: A Memoir Reinaldo Arenas

Tragic Bitches: An Experiment in Queer Performance Adelina Anthony and Lorenzo Herrera

Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue  Leslie Feinburg

Virgins, Guerrillas, and Locas: Gay Latinos Writing about Love Jaime Cortez

Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About Carla Trujillo

Chulito: A Novel Charles Rice-Gonzalez

Gay Latino Studies: A Critical Reader Michael Hames-Garcia

Sexuality and Socialism: History, Politics, and Theory of LGBT Liberation Sherry Wolf

Blues Legacies and Black Feminism - Angela Davis

Methodology of the Oppressed - Chela Sandoval

The Decolonial Imaginary - Emma Perez

Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature - Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana S. Rivero

Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity - Chandra Mohanty

Arab & Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence, & Belonging - Rabab Abdulhadi, Evelyn Alsultany, and Nadine Naber.

A fat girl’s guide to life - Wendy Shanker

Pedagogies of Crossing: meditations on feminism, sexual politics, memory, and the sacred - Jacqui Alexander

Racial Formation in the United States - Michael Omi and Howard Winant

Feminist Genealogies, Colonial Legacies, Democratic Futures - Jacqui Alexander and Chandra Mohanty

Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980 - Kimberly Springer

The Straight Mind - Monique Wittig

Color of Violence: The Incite! Anthology - INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment - Patricia Hill Collins

Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought - Beverly Guy-Sheftall

Entry Denied: Controlling Sexuality at the Border - Eithne Luibheid

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law - Dean Spade

The Legacy of Conquest - Patricia Limerick

Race, Reform and Rebellion - Manning Marable

Autobiography of Angela Davis - Angela Davis