Mikki Kendall, author of Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights, shares her recommendations for our toolkit feature–ways to learn more and stay connected to the conversation—three people to follow, three things to read, and three organizations to check out and support.

PEOPLE/GROUPS TO FOLLOW

1) Prison Culture: For an example of how to use your power wisely to help those who need it the most

2) Well-Read Black Girl: For an example of how to find others using their power to change the way the world sees them and those like them

3) Mona Eltahawy: For an example of how to use your power fiercely and fearlessly

BOOKS TO READ

1) Well-Read Black Girl: Finding Our Stories, Discovering Ourselves by Glory Edim

2) Bad Girls Throughout History: 100 Remarkable Women Who Changed the World by Ann Shen

3) A Woman's Place: The Inventors, Rumrunners, Lawbreakers, Scientists, and Single Moms Who Changed the World with Food by Deepi Ahluwalia & Stef Ferrari

ORGANIZATIONS TO SUPPORT

1) Scarlet Teen: A place to learn how to take power over your body and to respect others

2) Mothers Against Senseless Killing: A place where you can use your power and privilege to help communities facing gun violence

3) Families for Freedom: A place where you can use your power and privilege to help communities facing deportation

Mikki Kendall is a writer and blogger, and the creator of the viral hashtag #solidarityisforwhitewomen. She has written for NBC's Think, the Washington Post, the Guardian, Ebony, Essence, Publishers Weekly, Global Comment, and other online and print markets. She has also been published in several anthologies, both fiction and nonfiction. Her professional comic works includes Swords of Sorrow with Dynamite Comics, and Action Lab’s Princeless Charity Series. Her upcoming book is titled Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women's Fight for Their Rights.

HEADER IMAGE Reprinted from Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists. Copyright © 2019 by Mikki Kendall. Illustrations copyright © 2019 by A. D’Amico. Published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC.

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