Research Guides: I'm Speaking: Women's Voices That Inspire

Memoirs @ St. Kate's Library

Warda: My Journey from the Horn of Africa to a College Education by Warda Mohamed Abdullahi

Staring Down the Tiger: Stories of Hmong American Women by Pa Der Vang (Editor)

Sitting Pretty: The View From My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body by Rebekah Taussig

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood by bell hooks

Assata: An Autobiography by Assata Shakur

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Tell Me Your Names and I Will Testify by Carolyn Holbrook

Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride

This Child Will Be Great by Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf

Videos

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Podcasts

The NYPR Archives Celebrates Women's History Month
(Series) The New York Public Radio Archives has pulled together some of the department's leading preservation work, series, and sonic artifacts concerning women's history.
The Moth
(Episode) Women in the World The Moth has presented thousands of true stories, told live and without notes, to standing-room-only crowds worldwide. Moth storytellers stand alone, under a spotlight, with only a microphone and a roomful of strangers.
Black Feminist Rants
(Series) A podcast that centers the experiences of Black women and femmes navigating social justice spaces and the world.
QUEERY with Cameron Esposito
(Episode) Hayley Kiyoko Sit in on an hour long-conversation between host and standup comic, Cameron Esposito, and some of the brightest luminaries in the LGBTQ+ family. QUEERY explores individual stories of identity, personality and the shifting cultural matrix around gender, sexuality and civil rights.
What'sHerName
(Series) A women’s history podcast hosted and produced by academic sisters Olivia Meikle and Katie Nelson. Committed to reclaiming forgotten history, What’sHerName tells the stories of fascinating women you’ve never heard of (but should have).
hey, girl.
(Episode) Felicia on Self-Work and Craft hey, girl. is a podcast that unites the voices of phenomenal women near and far. Created with sisterhood and storytelling in mind, author Alex Elle sits down with people who inspire her.

Essays and Nonfiction @ St. Kate's Library

Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science -- and the World by Rachel Swaby

Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War by Karen Abbott

Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color by Chandler O'Leary & Jessica Spring

Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II by Liza Mundy

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Edited by Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua

The Witches: Salem, 1692 by Stacy Schiff

Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Hidden Figures: The True Story of Four Black Women and the Space Race by Margot Lee Shetterly

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women by Lisa Charleyboy & Mary Beth Leatherdale (Editors)

For Young Readers - Library To Go

Library To Go is a way to discover a wide, fun selection of reading material when browsing for books isn't possible. Find the next great read for the young readers in your life with one of our Women's History Month themed grab bags.

Each offers an assortment of 10 books at various children's reading levels. The book bags are stored at our circulation desk, which means you can stop by during our Library Pick Up hours, ring the doorbell, and check-out any of the available bags.