2022 Holiday Booklist
The Moms at Work Collective regularly brings together authors, thinkers, and people dedicated to making an impact. As a group we work on learning, changing and growing as leaders and changemakers.
As a gift to a friend or yourself, a good book is a beautiful thing. This booklist is made up of books from some of our author guests and recommendations from our members and network. Check them out and join our community.
Books To Inspire
Still Hopeful
Maude Barlow
A lifetime of advocacy as a feminist and world’s leading water defender. Maude Barlow is an icon – this book is a gift.
Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think about Abortion
Gabrielle Stanley Blair
Abortion has always been labelled as a women’s issue – what happens when we reframe that?
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons
Julia Gillard and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
The authors take a comprehensive approach to teasing out what is different for women who lead. Real stories, great insight.
The Three Mothers: How the Mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin Shaped a Nation
Anna Malaika Tubbs
Mothers are powerful. Read the stories of how these mothers raised leaders and shaped a nation.
Books To Escape
Black Sci-Fi Short Stories
Temi Oh (Foreword), Tia Ross (Co-editor), Dr. Sandra M. Grayson (Introduction)
This collection is powerful and showcases the world building skills of a set of authors who will change how you see earth and beyond.
Healing Through Words
Rupi Kaur
In her newest release – Canadian poet shares pieces of herself as she attempts to help heal us through words.
Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul
Nikita Gill
In this book, gone are the docile women and male saviors. Instead, lines blur between heroes and villains. You will meet fearless princesses, and an independent Gretel who can bring down monsters on her own.
Woman World
Aminder Dhaliwal
When a birth defect wipes out the planet’s entire population of men, Woman World rises out of society’s ashes. Dhaliwal’s infectiously funny graphic novel follows the rebuilding process.
Books To Grow
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
In her searing collection of essays, Mikki Kendall takes aim at the legitimacy of the modern feminist movement, arguing that it has chronically failed to address the needs of all but a few women.
We Were Feminists Once: From Riot Grrrl to CoverGirl®, the Buying and Selling of a Political Movement
Andi Zeisler
What does it mean when social change becomes a brand identity? Feminism’s splashy arrival at the center of today’s media and pop-culture marketplace, after all, hasn’t offered solutions to the movement’s unfinished business. So what is next?
Laziness Does Not Exist
Devon Price
A conversational, stirring call to “a better, more human way to live” that examines the “laziness lie”—which falsely tells us we are not working or learning hard enough.
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Angela Garbes
Part galvanizing manifesto, part poignant narrative, Essential Labor is a beautifully rendered reflection on care that reminds us of the irrefutable power and beauty of mothering.