Freedom Is My Favorite Position Library Catalog and Reading List

edited by Nafis M. White and André Bloodstone Singleton

On the shelves:

Aperture and the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

  • Paul Mpagi Sepuya

Queen Afua

  • Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing The Feminine Body, Mind and Spirit - 

Jean Shinoda Bolen, MD

  • Goddesses in Older Women

Adrienne Maree Brown

  • Pleasure Activism

Austin Channing Brown

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness

Ariane Cruz

  • The Color of Kink

Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham, Editors

  • Black Futures

Martin Duberman

  • Hold Gently: Michael Callen, Essex Hemphill, and the Battlefield of AIDS 

Tameka Ellington, Joseph L. Underwood

  • Textures - The History of Art and Black Hair

Dossie Easton  & Janet W. Hardy

  • The Ethical Slut A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures

Ross Gay

  • The Book of Delights

  • Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude

  • Inciting Joy

Tricia Hersey, Founder of The Nap Ministry

  • Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

bell hooks

  • All about love

  • Art on My Mind: visual politics

Jenn Joy

  • The Choreographic

Audre Lorde

Oge Mora

  • Thank You, Omu! 

Toni Morrison

  • The Source of Self-Regard

Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

  • The Sex Lives of African Women

Paul Mpagi Sepuya

  • Orifice + Aperture 

Sobonfu Somé

  • The Spirit of Intimacy: Ancient African Teachings In The Ways of Relationships

Susan Sontag

  • Illness as Metaphor

Tristan Taormino

  • Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

Sonya Renee Taylor

  • The Body Is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

Jack Whitten

  • Notes from the Woodshed

J. Enrico White

  • The curvature of a second-order differential equation

Yung Pueblo

  • Clarity & Connection

  • Lighter

Further reading: 

Afrosexology

  •  Solo Sex: A Workbook for Becoming Your Best Lover

Patricia Hill Collins

  • Black Sexual Politics African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism

Miguel Gutierrez 

  • When You Rise Up

Jessica Fern

  • Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Stephen O. Murray & Will Roscoe

  • Male Wives, Female Husbands: Studies in African Homosexualities