This page features a small selection of UConn library and external resources on Women of Color & Wellness. This list is meant to be exploratory and is not a comprehensive representation or list of the library's holdings.
For additional assistance, please contact Stephanie Birch, Research Services Librarian for Africana Studies at stephanie.birch@uconn.edu.
Additional resources on BIPOC Wellness are available through the UConn Library Wellness Collection:
From the UConn Library: Self-Care, Love & Healing
Chingona: owning your inner badass for healing and justice by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781506483191Publication Date: 2022-11-01
Girl Gurl Grrrl: on womanhood and belonging in the age of black girl magic by Call Number: Leisure Reading Collection - Level B ; 305.488 HunISBN: 9780062987648Publication Date: 2022
It's Always Been Ours: rewriting the story of black women's bodies by Call Number: Leisure Reading Collection - Level B ; 305.488 WilISBN: 9780306827693Publication Date: 2023
A Love Letter to This Bridge Called My Back by Call Number: eBookISBN: 0816544085Publication Date: 2022
The Pain We Carry: healing from complex PTSD for people of color by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781684039326Publication Date: 2022
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Call Number: HQ1155 .B76 2019ISBN: 9781849353267Publication Date: 2019-03-19
Rest Is Resistance: a manifesto by Call Number: BJ1499.R4 H47 2022ISBN: 0316365211Publication Date: 2022
Right Within: how to heal from racial trauma in the workplace by Call Number: HF5549.5.M5 H3687 2021ISBN: 9781541619623Publication Date: 2021
Self-Care for Black Women: 150 ways to radically accept & prioritize your mind, body, & soul by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781507217320Publication Date: 2022
The Self-Love Revolution: radical body positivity for girls of color by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781684034123Publication Date: 2020-05-01
From the UConn Library: Sisterhood & Community
Becoming Kin: an indigenous call to unforgetting the past and reimagining our future by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781506478265Publication Date: 2022
Building Womanist Coalitions: Writing and Teaching in the Spirit of Love by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780252042423Publication Date: 2019
The Caregiving Ambition: What It Is and Why It Matters at Home and Work by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780197512418Publication Date: 2022
The care manifesto : the politics of interdependence by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781839760976Publication Date: 2020
Community as rebellion : a syllabus for surviving academia as a woman of color by Call Number: eBookISBN: 1642597198Publication Date: 2022
Dear Black Girl: Letters from Your Sisters on Stepping Into Your Power by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781523092314Publication Date: 2021
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts by Call Number: eBook; E184.N53 M65 2021ISBN: 9781541674868Publication Date: 2021
Indigenous Communalism: Belonging, Healthy Communities, and Decolonizing the Collective by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781978805415Publication Date: 2019
The Purpose of Power: How we come together when we fall apart by Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780525509691Publication Date: 2020-10-20
Sister Circle: Black women and work by Call Number: HD6057.5.U5 S576 2002ISBN: 9780813530604Publication Date: 2002
Sister Power: how phenomenal Black women are rising to the top by Call Number: E185.86 .R416 1996ISBN: 9780471104612Publication Date: 1996
From the UConn Library: Leisure Reads for the Soul
Black and Female: essays by Call Number: Level B ; 824.914 DanISBN: 9781644452110Publication Date: 2023-01-17
Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business) by Call Number: Level B ; 158.1 BroISBN: 0063080281Publication Date: 2021-09-28
Furious Flower: seeding the future of African American poetry by Call Number: PS591.N4 F87 2020ISBN: 9780810141544Publication Date: 2019
Hard Times Require Furious Dancing: new poems by Call Number: PS3573.A425 H37 2010ISBN: 9781577319306Publication Date: 2010
In Every Mirror She's Black by Call Number: Level B ; FICTION AkiISBN: 1728240387Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Light from Uncommon Stars by Call Number: Level B ; FICTION AokISBN: 9781250789068Publication Date: 2021-09-28
Misfits: A personal manifesto by Call Number: Level B ; 158.2 CoeISBN: 1250843448Publication Date: 2021-09-07
Required Reading for the Disenfranchised Freshman by Call Number: Level B ; FICTION LeeISBN: 0593309154Publication Date: 2022-02-01
We Deserve Monuments by Call Number: Level B ; FICTION HamISBN: 9781250816559Publication Date: 2022-11-29
