October Media Map: Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa

Everything is better with friends... Pair your reading of Radical Intimacy by Sophie K. Rosa with one (or more) of our recommendations of related TV & film, music, podcasts, resources, and more resources ready for you to enjoy below.

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Music

• Hardcover Hotties Collaborative Playlist

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Books

• Love Across Borders: Passports, Papers, and Romance in a Divided World by Anna Lekas Miller

• Whipping Girl by Julia Serano ♥

• Men Who Hate Women - From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All by Laura Bates

• I'm Afraid of Men by Vivek Shraya

• Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way to Think About Abortion by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

• Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado-Perez

• Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks

• The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century by Amia Srinivasan

• Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again: Women and Desire in the Age of Consent by Katherine Angel

• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

• Sexed Up: How Society Sexualizes Us, and How We Can Fight Back by Julia Serano

• Living a Feminist Life by Sara Ahmed

• Rewriting the Rules: An Anti Self-Help Guide to Love, Sex, and Relationships by Meg-John Barker

• We Will Not Cancel Us: And Other Dreams of Transformative Justice by adrienne maree brown

• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks ♥

• Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker

• Full Surrogacy Now: Feminism Against Family by Sophie Lewis

• Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman

• Detransition, Baby by Torrey Peters

• Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

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Art

• Maya Seri

• A Columbus and Boston based photographer and filmmaker capturing the intimacy in friendships, queerness, and creative expression

Shot by Maya Seri (2021)

• Guerrilla Girls

• Anonymous group of female artists that helped inaugurate feminist movement in the wider sphere of Western art

• Protested gender and racial inequalities in the art world/greater art historical canon

Guerrilla Girls (1985)

TV and Film

• Women Talking (2022)

• Muriel’s Wedding (1994)

• Thelma & Louise (1991)

• Deathgasm (2015)

• Violet Perfume (2001)

• Y Tu Mamá También (2001)

• Girlfriends (1978)

• Rita, Sue, and Bob Too (1987)

• Old Joy (2006)

• Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020)

Podcasts and Video

• Resistance and ‘Radical Intimacy’ (with Sophie K Rosa) | Critical Literary Consumption

• Novara FM: Much More Freedom Is Necessary W/ Sophie K. Rosa) | Novara Media

Accounts to Follow

• @aortafilmswillneverdie

• @going_with_grace

• @alualoveslife

• @acalltomen

• @motheringisradical

• @nextgenmen

• @lifesubstancee

• @gendersauce

Resources

• Men Care: A Global Fatherhood Campaign

• Woman Life Freedom Posters

Articles to Check Out

• Sex and Revolution by Sophie K. Rosa | Pluto Press

• ‘Radical Intimacy’: love, sex and intimacy in a capitalist society | Mashable

• Refuge and Resistance: On Sophie K. Rosa’s “Radical Intimacy” | Los Angeles Review of Books

• Freeing our Imaginations: Can Men Help Take Down Patriarchy? | Men Care

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