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Rebel Well: Resources

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This piece is part of Rebel Well: a Starter Survival Guide to a Trumped America for Teens and Emerging Adults.

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SOME BOOKS FOR YOUNG ACTIVISTS

  • Halpin, Mikki; It’s Your World — If You Don’t Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers (Simon Pulse; 2004)
  • Herman, Edward S., Chomsky, Noam; Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Pantheon; 2002)
  • Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne; An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon Press; 2015)
  • Charlton, James; Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment (University of California Press, 2000)
  • Herriot, Lindsay and Fry, Kate (eds.); Growing Up Trans (Orca Book Publishers, 2021)
  • Abrego, Leisy and Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve (eds.); We Are Not Dreamers (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
  • Chung, Nicole and Gigney, Shannon (eds.); When We Become Ours (HarperTeen, 2023)
  • Dionne, Evette; Lifting As We Climb (Penguin Random House, 2022)
  • Hayes, Kelly and Kaba, Mariame; Let This Radicalize You (Haymarket Books; 2023)
  • Kuklin, Susan, Ed.; Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (Candlewick, 2014)
  • Jenkins, Henry, Shresthova, Sangita, Gamber-Thompson, Liana, Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta and Zimmerman, Arely;  By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism (NYU Press, 2016)
  • Jensen, Kelly (ed.); Don’t Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental 
    Health (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018)
  • Kendall, Mikki; Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights (Penguin Random House, 2015)
  • Constanza-Chock, Sasha; Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! (MIT Press, 2014)
  • Locke, Katherine and Melleby, Nicole (eds.); Athlete is Agender (Christy Ottaviano Books, forthcoming 2025)
  • Moraga, Cherríe and Anzaldúa, Gloria, This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color (State University of New York Press; 2015)
  • Solnit, Rebecca; Hope in the Dark (Haymarket Books, Updated Edition, 2016)
  • Wong, Alice (ed.); Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Readers) (Algonquin Young Readers; 2021)

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