Jeanette Winterson - Art Objects

Does Your Daughter Know It’s Okay To Be Angry? - Soraya Chemaly

Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer

Zami, Sister Outsider, Undersong - Audre Lorde

Garments Against Women - Anne Boyer

Laziness Does Not Exist - Devon Price

Learn Socialism Resources

Do Economists Actually Know What Wealth Is? - Nathan J. Robinson

Love Dialogue: CÉLINE SCIAMMA on Portrait of a Lady on Fire - Carlos Augilar

Teaching To Transgress - Bell Hooks

Sexing the Cherry - Jeanette Winterson

Sinister Wisdom Archives

Why Pop Culture Links Women and Killer Plants - Amandas Ong

How To Suppress Women’s Writing - Joanna Russ

Women’s Voices Now

The Life of Tove Jansson

Unbearable Weight; Feminism, Western Culture and the Body - Susan Bordo

‘A Simple Favour’ and That Whole Lesbian Psycho Thing - Ciara Wardlow

OUTWEEK Archives

AirPods Are a Tragedy - Caroline Haskins

Devotions - Mary Oliver

Go Tell It On The Mountain - James Baldwin

Nevertheless, She Feasted: Why Girls Get Hungry in Horror Movies - Francesca Fau

Written on the Body - Jeanette Winterson

Sula - Toni Morrison

Not Vanishing - Chrystos

The Fever - Wallace Shawn

Portrait of a Lady on Fire director Céline Sciamma: ‘Ninety per cent of what we look at is the male gaze’ - Alexandra Pollard

Minimalism Is Just Another Boring Product Wealthy People Can Buy - Chelsea Fagan

AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury - John d’Addario

In the Day of the Postman - Rebecca Solnit

Blood and Guts in Highschool - Kathy Acker

Mark My Words: The Subversive History of Women Using Thread as Ink - Rosalind Jana

Exploring Frida Kahlo’s Relationship With Her Body - Rebecca Fulleylove

Ravens have paranoid, abstract thoughts about other minds - Emily Reynolds

The Lady in the Looking Glass - Virginia Woolf

Angela Carter talks beauties and beasts with Terry Jones

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing - Eimear McBride

Why Female Cannibals Frighten and Fascinate - Kate Robertson

Lesbian Herstory Archives

Bartleby

Guggenheim Books

We Are Lisa Simpson: 30 Years with the Smartest and Saddest Kid in Grade Two - Sara David

On Beauty - Zadie Smith

Her Body and Other Parties - Carmen Maria Machado

Ask No Man Pardon: The Philosophical Significance of Being Lesbian - Elsa Gidlow

Taking Care - Callista Buchen

Word Is Out: Stories of Some of Our Lives (1977) - Mariposa Films

Why you should give money directly and unconditionally to homeless people - Matt Broomfield

Yo Soy Así (2010) - Jodi Savitz

Liuzhou “Luosifen”: Slurpy, Spicy, and Absolutely Satisfying | Liziqi Channel

Root intelligence: Plants can think, feel and learn - Anil Ananthaswamy

East Bloc Love (2011) - Logan Mucha

Why Do Rich Kids Do Better Than Poor Kids in School? It’s Not the “Word Gap.”  - Molly McManus

They Shut Me Up In Prose - Emily Dickinson

The Importance of Friends with Similar Disabilities -  Elizabeth Mazur, Ph.D.

The Lesbian Archives at the Glasgow Women’s Library

A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver

Teaching Community. A pedagogy of Hope - Bell Hooks

Working Class History

Why don’t doctors trust women? Because they don’t know much about us - Gabrielle Jackson

In Our Brutal Modern World, Science Shows Our Brains Need Craft More Than Ever - Susan Luckman

Why were the lives of ordinary 16th and 17th century women largely undocumented? | Suzannah Lipscomb

Caliban And The Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation  - Silvia Federici

Mother’s Touch (엄마의 손길) -  Jane Yeon and Audris Park

Gene Wilder Was Right: Gilda Radner Didn’t Have To Die, And We Need To Talk About Why She Did - Abby Norman

Why 1984 Was a Vital Year for British Gay Culture: An interview with Paul Flynn - Hanna Hanra

R&B Legend Jackie Shane On Growing Up Trans in the South - Zackery Drucker

The Journey - Mary Oliver

The Fictional Spinster Classification Index - Daniel Mallory Ortberg

What kind of country have we become? Try asking a disabled person - Frances Ryan

Nobody talks about it, but too many rich kids are at university who shouldn’t be there - Julia Shervington

Barbara Hammer - The 90’s (experimental shorts)

Remembering Stormé - The Lesbian Woman Of Color Who Incited The Stonewall Revolution

Ozamu Tezuka Documentary

Sheroes: The Lesbian Stonewall

38 Lesbian Magazines That Burned Brightly, Died Hard, Left A Mark

‘It has made me want to live’: public support for lesbian novelist Radclyffe Hall over banned book revealed

This is what Britain’s Gay Liberation Front movement looked like in the 1970s

Pawn shop bars and poverty chic: how working-class life was colonised - Dale Lately

Prolife IS the extremist viewpoint. - Taryn De Vere

There Was No Them There (An Autobiography of Stella F Duffy)

1984. The trials of Gay’s the Word. - Colin Clews

Cambridge’s appropriation of the working class makes for bitter social division

Why we fell for clean eating - Bee Wilson

Glass Labyrinth - Shuji Terayama (1979)

“Maybe She Had So Much Money She Just Lost Track of It” Somebody had to foot the bill for Anna Delvey’s fabulous new life. The city was full of marks. - Jessica Pressier

Top 10 books about women and the sea - Charlotte Runchie

JK Rowling’s Harry Potter? A thank you would be nice, says Worst Witch author - Anita Singh and Helen Brown

Heather Widdows: The Ugly Side of Beauty - Regan Penaluna

Why Women Are Shamed for Having Body Hair: On #everydaylookism and the normalization of the hairless body. - Heather Widdows and Jessica Sutherland

Dante’s Inferno: The Private Life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Poet and Painter - Ken Russell (1967) Part 1 | Part 2

Are Prisons Obsolete? - Dr. Angela Davis / also available as a free audiobook on YouTube

The Cancer Journals - Audre Lorde

Anti-Racism Resources for White People: Document compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker, Alyssa Klein in May 2020.

Human Being/Insan (Ibrahim Shaddad, 1993)

Black Leaders Discussion feat. Angela Davis, Kwame Ture & Fannie Lou Hamer (1973)

CEREALS | Mayram Yusupova | 1982

Prairie House (1991) dir. Julie Dash

Julie Enszer: “We Couldn’t Get Them Printed,” So We Learned to Print Them Ourselves - Catherine Halley

A Burst of Light and Other Essays - Audre Lorde

Palestine Film Institute (one free film weekly)

Black British Women You Aren’t Taught in School (compiled by inamahair) Part 1 | Part 2

Intersections: Crafting a Voice for Black Culture - Alice Walker on Zora Neale Hurston’s ‘Spiritual Food’

Part 1: Why we’ll succeed in saving the planet from climate change - Emma Marris

Part 2: Why we won’t avoid a climate catastrophe - Elizabeth Kolbert

(Important information for researchers: Some material from the Spare Rib magazines on the Journal Archives site has been redacted until the Library is able to secure further copyright permissions.)

How to Repair a Hole in a Sock with Darning

Weight stigma in maternity care: women’s experiences and care providers’ attitudes - Kate Mulherin et al.

What the Caves are Trying to Tell Us - Sam Kriss

Delusions of Gender - Cordelia Fine

If Black English Isn’t a Language, Then Tell Me, What Is? - James Baldwin

“Scenes of an Indelicate Character”: The Medical “Treatment” of Victorian Women - Mary Poovey

The Curse of Quon Gwon (1917) dir. Marion E. Wong

Black Panthers White Lies | Curtis Austin | TEDxOhioStateUniversity

Why Do Obese Patients Get Worse Care? Many Doctors Don’t See Past the Fat - Gina Kolata

How to Sew a Button - for Absolute BEGINNERS

Angela Davis: An Autobiography

Solidarity Cinema

Where to watch classic films directed by women online and for free - Rafaella Britto

Revolution At Point Zero by Silvia Federici (Audiobook by Lil Guillotine)

Colonising the Body: State Medicine And Epidemic Disease in Nineteenth Century India (Chapter 5) - David Arnold

“Racism, Birth Control And Reproductive Rights” (From Woman, Race and Class) - Dr. Angela Davis

Jessie Knight, Britain’s first female tattoo artist, at work in 1952 (video)

You’re Not Listening. Here’s Why. - Kate Murphy

The History and Troubling Present of the “Pansexual” Label - Kravitz M.

A Man and his Hoe

For Gothic Heroines, Haunted Houses Are Always Too Big - Jane Healey on secret corridors and impossible floorplans

May 23rd, 1988. Section 28. Lesbians invade BBC. - Colin Clews

Complete issues of The Gay Left 1975-80

A Decade of World-Class Masterclasses Online - Scottish Documentary Institute

5 Steps to Illustrating a Repeat Pattern by Hand - Julia Rothman

Recent Acquisition - Postcard Collection

Only a Dream ! I saw you in a dream last night And you were sitting down to write ! My name was on that letter, too -  Now, won’t you make that dream come true?

Think about why you are writing the letter and what you want to include.

Select some nice stationary.

Start with a polite greeting!

Ask them how they are.

Write about what's happening and your thoughts.

Include something sweet like a sketch, poem or dried flower.

I see lots of posts where people answer this question with recommendations for classic historical romance authors like Georgette Heyer or more modern bodice-rippers like Julia Quinn or Tessa Dare. But to me that’s never quite the appropriate answer. Sure, if what you want is romance with country dancing and breeches, that’s fine, but surely if you want to read more things similar to Jane Austen, the best way to do that is to delve into her lesser known contemporaries. People Austen admired and people who admired her. People writing on similar themes and using similar language. 

So this is my list of 10 novels from the 18th and early 19th century that you might like to try if you’ve read Austen and want to branch out more. These are just personal recommendations and based off what I’ve read; I’m very happy to hear other suggestions!

Worth noting as well that all of these are available online or free for kindle download. :)

Yiddish for Pirates by Gary Barwin - super Jewish historical fiction featuring the Spanish Inquisition, star-crossed lovers, and Caribbean piracy, as narrated by an African Grey parrot

The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin - New York City becomes self-aware and embodied in the minds of select, random people, is instantly attacked by Lovecraftian entity, starts with battle against tentacle monster that’s won with an umbrella and an antique taxi to give you some idea.

Eifelheim by Michael Flynn - alien first contact in medieval Germany, features quantum drives, the synchronicity of medieval philosophy and scientific knowledge, a battle against the town down the mountain, and the Black Death

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire - found family, telepathy, time travel, alchemy, deconstruction of portal fantasies, ancient Greek ideas about math, music, and the nature of the universe, and also a spin on Frankenstein

His Majesty’s Dragon by Naomi Novik - alternate Regency England where they have a dragon air force (but so does Napoleon). Continue the series to get international travel and the dragons unionizing to get their “human” rights.

Among Others by Jo Walton - epistolary boarding school coming of age novel that doubles as a classic SF rec list and also there are fairies and the MC can do magic

The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson - science fiction with super-advanced nanotech where everyone lives in gated community-countries based on Aesthetic™ and also there’s an orphan girl who gets a talking book (made by Neo-Victorians) that changes her life

Child of a Hidden Sea by A.M. Dellamonica - new adult portal fantasy about a nature photographer, with coming-of-age vibes, magic, a water world where almost everyone lives on tall ships, and ecological themes

nay, encouraged to…

buy books you’ll never read

abandon books halfway through

read your favorites over and over again

read ‘easy’ books

read books you don’t totally understand

just look at the pictures

start in the middle

take notes

break spines

read the book after you saw the movie

skip the boring parts

keep books out of sentiment

bring a book everywhere

read comics

return books to the library unread

therapistaid has many, many worksheets for skills from dbt and even a self care assesment!

cbt worksheets from psychologytools.

coping skills for anger, managing difficult thoughts, getting better sleeping habits, etc.

mental health resources for kids & teens.

DBT skills training (pdf)

DBT skills workbook (pdf)

wysa app offers a wide range of skills, from a personalized AI chat where you can vent to a compilation of your emergency contacts. (only available on google play as of feb 2021)

sanvello app (google play + app store) allows you to track your progress, identify which self care habits you need to improve and guives you monthly reports of your overall state.