Sexual Assault Awareness Reading List

This is a list of books for and about sexual assault survivors.

 

Queer Books

 
  1. Queering Sexual Violence by Jennifer Patterson

  2. Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Nonbinary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence ed. by Lexie Bean

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Consent, Boundaries, & Rape Culture

  1. Unfuck Your Boundaries by Faith Harper

  2. Ask: Building Consent Culture ed. by Kitty Stryker

  3. Learning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support by Cindy Crabb

  4. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture ed. by Roxane Gay

  5. The Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence Within Activist Communities ed. by Ching-in Chen, Jai Dulani, & Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

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Picture books & chapter books

 
  1. C is for Consent by Eleanor Morrison

  2. Let’s Talk About Body Boundaries, Respect, and Consent by Jayneen Sanders

  3. My Body! What I Say Goes! by Jayneen Sanders

  4. Not in Room 204: Breaking the Silence of Abuse by Shannon Riggs

  5. Please Tell: A Child’s Story About Sexual Abuse by Jessie

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YA/Teens

 
  1. Asking for It: The Alarming Rise of Rape Culture and What We Can Do About It by Kate Harding

  2. I Have the Right To: A High School Survivor’s Story of Sexual Assault, Justice, and Hope by Chessy Prout

  3. Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

  4. When Teenage Boys Have Been Sexually Abused free booklet

  5. The Mirror Season by Anna-Marie McLemore

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For Masc Sexual Assault Survivors

 
  1. Nice to Meet Me by Chris Carlton

  2. Victims No Longer (Second Edition): The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse by Mike Lew

  3. Young Men of Color and the Other Side of Harm--Addressing Disparities in our Reaction to Violence free PDF

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For BIPOC Survivors

 
  1. I Will Survive: The African-American Guide to Healing from Sexual Assault and Abuse by Lori Robinson

  2. The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer

  3. At the Dark End of the Street: Black Women, Rape, and Resistance—A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power by Danielle L. McGuire

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Recovery

 
  1. The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

  2. Aftershocks: The Poetry of Recovery for Life-Shattering Events ed. by Tom Lombardo

  3. Want: 8 Steps to Recovering Desire, Passion, and Pleasure After Sexual Assault by Julie Peters

  4. Even If You’re Broken: Essays on Sexual Assault and #MeToo by Katie Rose Guest Pryal

  5. The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse (3rd Edition) by Wendy Maltz

  6. Support: Feminist Relationship Tools to Heal Yourself and End Rape Culture by Cindy Crabb

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Survivor Stories

 
  1.  I Still Believe Anita Hill ed. by Amy Richards and Cynthia Greenberg

  2. Breaking the Ruhls: A Memoir by Larry Ruhl

  3. Hunger: A Memoir of My Body by Roxane Gay

  4. Mean by Myriam Gurba

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