Historias de Resistencia: Women’s Voices That Shape Our World
- Nicolette Alexandra Brito-Cruz
- Mar 13
- 3 min read
Feliz March! Women’s History Month is here, and we’re celebrating with a powerful lineup of books that honor the voices, ideas, and resistance of women who continue to shape our world. Whether you’re reflecting on identity, questioning the systems around us, or simplemente buscando historias that spark reflection and conversation, these reads invite you to think deeply and feel deeply.
This month’s spotlight centers stories of faith, feminism, autonomy, and radical love: from a queer Muslim coming-of-age memoir to transformative reflections on love, urgent critiques of mainstream feminism, and real-life stories about the fight for reproductive freedom.
Hijab Butch Blues by Lamya H.
In this daring and deeply personal memoir, Lamya H. recounts her journey growing up as a queer Muslim immigrant moving between South Asia, the SWANA region, and eventually the United States. As a teenager struggling to understand her feelings and sense of belonging, she begins to reinterpret stories from the Quran, finding unexpected parallels between her life and figures like Maryam, Musa, and Nuh. These reflections become a guide as she navigates faith, queerness, migration, and the search for community. Honest, thoughtful, and often tender, Hijab Butch Blues explores what it means to claim space for your full identity while holding onto spirituality and hope.
All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
In this influential and accessible work, bell hooks asks a deceptively simple question: what is love, really? Challenging the way our culture reduces love to romance or desire, hooks argues that love is an active practice grounded in care, responsibility, respect, trust, and commitment. Drawing from philosophy, psychology, religion, and her own life experiences, she examines how lovelessness shows up in families, relationships, and society at large. All About Love offers a powerful reimagining of love as a transformative force, one that can help individuals heal and communities grow when we choose to treat love not as a feeling, but as a daily action.
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
In this sharp and necessary collection of essays, Mikki Kendall challenges the blind spots of mainstream feminism and asks an essential question: what good is a movement if it doesn’t address the realities many women face every day? Kendall argues that issues like food insecurity, housing instability, gun violence, healthcare access, and quality education are fundamentally feminist issues, yet they are often sidelined in favor of conversations that center the concerns of more privileged women. Blending cultural critique, political commentary, and personal experience, Hood Feminism calls for a more inclusive movement, one that recognizes how race, class, sexuality, and ability shape women’s lives and struggles.
Undue Burden: Life and Death Decisions in Post-Roe America by Shefali Luthra
In this deeply reported investigation, journalist Shefali Luthra examines the realities of seeking abortion care in the United States after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Through the stories of patients, healthcare providers, and advocates across the country, she reveals the difficult decisions people face when access to reproductive healthcare becomes restricted or disappears entirely. From individuals traveling hundreds of miles for care to those forced to carry dangerous pregnancies, Luthra traces how abortion bans ripple through families, communities, and the broader healthcare system. Undue Burden offers a powerful and human-centered look at the stakes of reproductive freedom and the profound impact these policies have on people’s lives.
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