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The Grid contain links to articles or places you can download books for free.
Text links direct you to a place you can purchase a copy of a book recommendation (or sometimes news relevant to that book).
Abolition
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
Critique of The New Jim Crow
We Do This Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba
Anti-Racism
How to be an Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
Me and White Supremacy by Layla Saad
Attachment + Relationships
Polysecure by Jessica Fern
Autism
Unmasking Autism by Dr. Devon Price
Boundaries
Set Boundaries Find Peace by Nedra Tawwab
Body Acceptance + Self Love
The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
Domestic Violence
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
The Revolution Starts at Home
Executive Dysfunction
How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
Fat
Fearing the Black Body by Sabrina Strings
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon
Intuitive Eating
Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison, MPH, RD
Fuck It Diet by Caroline Dooner
Neurodivergence
Sonny Jane's Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills
Psychological Self-Help
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life by Hayes
Psychology
Hallucinations by Oliver Sacks
Jump the paywall is a site that helps you access the google cache of the pay walled site and jump the paywalls that make many news and other sites inaccessible to the poor.
You can also read comics for free at getcomics!
Books Unbanned is a projected going on at the Brooklyn Library that allows teens ages 13-21 to apply for a free Brookly Public Library ecard.
To apply for an elibrary card, email booksunbanned@bklynlibrary.org.
BPL’s eCard is always free to teenagers in New York State. Apply here.
To find a non-profit news source look here: https://inn.org/
I have never personally enjoyed Brene Brown and Dr. Yazeed talks about the Dangers of Courage Culture and why Brene Brown isn't for Black Folk
(so no, none of her work is linked here)
Whenever possible please support your local bookstores. Literati is local to Ann Arbor and Blackstone is local to Ypsilanti.
Literati Bookstore
Blackstone Bookstore