A curated register of quotes from under-represented voices.
Learning
Black Literature
ConfirmedA body of writing that reshaped what English-language fiction could carry: memory, migration, family, resistance.
- Beloved, Toni Morrison (1987)
- Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston (1937)
- Sula, Toni Morrison (1973)
- Kindred, Octavia Butler (1979)
- The Colour Purple, Alice Walker (1982)
Asian Voices
ConfirmedWriters, artists and organisers across Asia and its diasporas, on identity, belonging and being seen on your own terms.
- The Joy Luck Club, Amy Tan (1989)
- The Woman Warrior, Maxine Hong Kingston (1976)
- Minor Feelings, Cathy Park Hong (2020)
- Interior Chinatown, Charles Yu (2020)
Black Activism
ConfirmedThe long tradition of Black organising for civil rights, freedom and dignity, from abolition through Stonewall to Black Lives Matter.
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, with Alex Haley (1965)
- The Fire Next Time, James Baldwin (1963)
- Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates (2015)
- How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
- Freedom Is a Constant Struggle, Angela Davis (2016)
Disability Rights
ConfirmedThe social model of disability, in which the disabling factor is a world built to shut people out, and the movement that has been rewriting that world.
- Being Heumann, Judith Heumann (2020)
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, edited by Alice Wong (2020)
- Documentary: Crip Camp (Netflix, 2020)
- The Country of the Blind, Andrew Leland (2023)
Indigenous Voices
ConfirmedFirst Nations writers and leaders on sovereignty, land, language and the long work of survival.
- Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer (2013)
- An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)
- Mankiller: A Chief and Her People, Wilma Mankiller (1993)
- All the Real Indians Died Off, Dunbar-Ortiz and Gilio-Whitaker (2016)
Latinx Voices
ConfirmedWriters, organisers and artists across Latin America and the Latinx diaspora, from farmworkers' rights to magical realism.
- My Beloved World, Sonia Sotomayor (2013)
- The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros (1984)
- I, Rigoberta Menchú, as told to Elisabeth Burgos-Debray (1983)
- The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende (1982)
LGBTQ+ Voices
ConfirmedWriters, artists and organisers whose work insisted on being seen, and on the room, in every field, being made bigger.
- Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin (1956)
- Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde (1982)
- Stone Butch Blues, Leslie Feinberg (1993)
- Documentary: Paris Is Burning (1990)
- Nanette, Hannah Gadsby (Netflix, 2018)
Trans Rights
ConfirmedA movement led largely by trans women of colour, still fighting for the most basic protections in most of the world.
- Redefining Realness, Janet Mock (2014)
- Whipping Girl, Julia Serano (2007)
- Documentary: Disclosure (Netflix, 2020)
- Documentary: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson (2017)
Women in Politics
ConfirmedFrom the first women to hold high office to those still opening the way, on power, representation and how change gets made.
- Becoming, Michelle Obama (2018)
- My Own Words, Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2016)
- The Truths We Hold, Kamala Harris (2019)
- Unbowed: A Memoir, Wangari Maathai (2006)
- Documentary: Knock Down the House (2019)
Women in Science
ConfirmedScientists and thinkers whose work reshaped their fields, often with less recognition than their male peers received for the same discoveries.
- Silent Spring, Rachel Carson (1962)
- In the Shadow of Man, Jane Goodall (1971)
- Hidden Figures, Margot Lee Shetterly (2016)
- Thinking in Pictures, Temple Grandin (1995)
- Lab Girl, Hope Jahren (2016)
Women in Sport
ConfirmedThe struggle for equal pay, recognition and access: on the court, on the track, and off it.
- All In, Billie Jean King (2021)
- Documentary: Battle of the Sexes (2017)
- Wilma: An Autobiography, Wilma Rudolph (1977)
- Documentary: LFG, on the US Women's National Team (2021)