Autotheory Reading List

A curated list of books and texts that Lauren has explored in her research on autotheory.

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza and Light in the Dark/Luz en lo Oscuro: Rewriting Identity, Spirituality, Reality by Gloria Anzaldúa

Tender Points by Amy Berkowitz

The Crying Book by Heather Christle

Index Cards by Moyra Davey

King Kong Theory by Virginie Despentes

The Years by Annie Ernaux

Burn It Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution e. by Breanne Fahs

Abandon Me: Memoirs by Melissa Febos

Mean by Myriam Gurba

Trans: A Memoir by Juliet Jacques

All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson

Ban en Banlieue by Bhanu Kapil

I Love Dick by Chris Kraus

Females by Andrea Long Chu

Sister Outsider and Zami by Audre Lorde

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado

Thick: And Other Essays by Tressie McMillan Cottom

This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color ed. by Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

The Argonauts by Maggie Nelson

A Ghost in the Throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa

I Choose Elena by Lucia Osborne-Crowley

Girl Zines: Making Media, Doing Feminism ed. by Alison Piepmeier

Testo Junkie and An Apartment on Uranus by Paul B. Preciado

Portals by Rosie Roberts

Love’s Work: A Reckoning with Life by Gillian Rose

The Breaks and No Archive Will Restore You by Julietta Singh

Against Memoir by Michelle Tea

Heaven by Emerson Whitney