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Speaking Your Truth books

Below are the best books we could find on Speaking Your Truth.

“Speaking your truth” is a way we frame the act of sharing your experiences, telling your story, and finding your voice—especially when speaking authentically provokes disapproval, hostility, or confusion from friends, family, community, or people in power. Many of us are trained from a young age to silence ourselves, whether through direct instruction or more subtle expectations and assumptions of how we “should” feel, think, and act; deviating from those expectations can often result in fear and shame. But finding ways to communicate our lived experiences is one of the most original courageous acts of liberation we can accomplish as individuals. As Reverend angel Kyodo williams puts it, “the flip side of living in fear is actually living in truth.” Finding safe, productive ways of speaking our truth can be a struggle, but there are many ways to find our voice.

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Feck Perfuction: Dangerous Ideas on the Business of Life

Begin before you’re ready and other lessons on living a happy and creative life: Renowned designer and professional hell-raiser James Victore wants to drag you off your couch and throw you headfirst into a life of bold creativity.

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Powered by Girl: A Field Guide for Supporting Youth Activists

Drawing from a diverse collection of interviews with women and girl activists, Powered by Girl is both a journalistic exploration of how girls have embraced activism and a guide for adults who want to support their organizing.

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Fat and Queer: An Anthology of Queer and Trans Bodies and Lives

This one-of-a-kind collection of prose and poetry radically explores the intersection of fat and queer identities, showcasing new, emerging and established queer and trans writers from around the world.

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My Story to Yours: A Guided Memoir for Writing Your Recovery Journey

Reflecting on and telling our stories is a time-honored tradition in recovery circles—whether in silent meditation, speaking out at meetings, or between sponsors and their sponsees.

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The Other Madisons: The Lost History of a President’s Black Family

In The Other Madisons, Bettye Kearse—a descendant of an enslaved cook and, according to oral tradition, President James Madison—shares her family story and explores the issues of legacy, race, and the powerful consequences of telling the whole truth.

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Student Voice: 100 Argument Essays by Teens on Issues that Matter to Them

In this new collection of 100 essays curated by The New York Times, students will find mentor texts written by their peers―13-to-18-year-olds―on a wide range of topics, including social media, race, video games, lockdown drills, immigration, tackle football, and the #MeToo movement.

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How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning With the History of Slavery Across America

Beginning in his hometown of New Orleans, Clint Smith leads the reader on an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks—those that are honest about the past and those that are not—that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation’s collective history,...

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Own Your Greatness: Overcome Impostor Syndrome, Beat Self-Doubt, and Succeed in Life

Stop letting impostor syndrome hold you back! This guided workbook of interactive exercises and research-backed activities will help you conquer self-doubt, realize your true worth, and enjoy your success.

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The Pretty One: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability, and Other Reasons to Fall in Love with Me

Keah Brown loves herself, but that hadn’t always been the case. Born with cerebral palsy, her greatest desire used to be normalcy and refuge from the steady stream of self-hate society strengthened inside her.

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The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

Something has been going wrong on many college campuses in the last few years. Speakers are shouted down. Students and professors say they are walking on eggshells and are afraid to speak honestly. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicide are rising—on campus as well as nationally.

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