resources.
this collection is a reading list, not the reading list, and reflects the texts, thinkers, and traditions that inform my understanding of healing, relationships, and human flourishing as an asian american male therapist practicing from a trauma-informed liberative framework.
because my framework requires engaging questions of history, power, oppression, and healing, these resources extend beyond psychotherapy, because that’s how our mental health has always been. my hope is that these texts offer pathways for curiosity, reflection, language, and imagination for those interested in the intersections of trauma, identity, and collective healing.
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Black AF History by Michael Harriot (2023)
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014)
Becoming Kin by Patty Krawec (2025)
An Afro-Indigenous History of the United States by Kyle T. Mays (2022)
The Making of Asian America by Erika Lee (2015)
Asian American Histories of the United States by Catherine Ceniza Choy (2022)
Black Reconstruction in America by W.E.B. DuBois (1935)
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (2011)
A Black Queer History of the United States by C. Riley Snorton & Darius Bost (2026)
On Juneteenth by Annette Gordon-Reed (2021)
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Unassimilable by Bianca Mabute-Louie (2025)
Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong (2021)
Asian Americans in an Anti-Black World by Claire Jean Kim (2023)
The Latinos of Asia by Anthony Christian Ocampo (2016)
The Hyphenated Life by Han Ren (2026)
Patterns That Remain by Stacey Diane Arañez Litam (2024)
Brown Skins, White Minds by E.J.R. David (2013)
Biting the Hand by Julia Lee (2024)
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong (2019)
American Chinatown by Bonnie Tsui (2010)
Yellow by Frank Wu (2002)
Asian Americans and the Spirit of Racial Capitalism by Jonathan Tran (2021)
Asian American Feminisms and Women of Color Politics by Lynn Fujiwara and Shireen Roshanravan (2018)
We Are Each Other's Liberation edited by Rachel Kuo, Jaimee Swift, and TD Tso (2025)
Permission to Come Home by Jenny Wang (2024)
Coming Full Circle by Leny Mendoza Strobel (2016)
Nervous by Jen Soriano (2023)
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A Protest History of the United States by Gloria J. Browne Marshall (2026)
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit (2016)
From Dictatorship to Democracy by Gene Sharp (2012)
On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder (2017)
Becoming Abolitionists by Derecka Purnell (2021)
We Do This 'Til We Free Us by Mariame Kaba (2021)
Let This Radicalize You by Mariame Kaba and Kelly Hayes (2023)
Border & Rule by Harsha Walia (2021)
Unbuild Walls by Silky Shah (2024)
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon (1961/2021)
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis (2015)
A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Thier (2018)
Emergent Strategy by adrienne maree brown (2017)
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The Pain We Carry by Natalie Gutierrez (2022)
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo (2023)
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem (2017)
Decolonizing Therapy by Jennifer Mullan (2023)
All Parts Welcome by Sand Chang (2025)
What It Takes to Heal by Prentis Hemphill (2025)
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman (2022)
The Politics of Trauma by Staci Haines (2019)
Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater (2014)
Break the Cycle by Muriel Buqué (2024)
Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Joy DeGruy (2017)
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The Will to Change by bell hooks (2004)
Patriarchy Blues by Frederick Joseph (2022)
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall (2020)
White Tears, Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad (2019)
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit (2014)
The Patriarchs by Angela Saini (2023)
They Were Her Property by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers (2020)
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Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Tawwab (2021)
Drama Free by Nedra Tawwab (2023)
Monsters in Love by Resmaa Menakem (2023)
Rock My Soul by bell hooks (2004)
Parenting for Liberation by Trina Greene Brown (2020)
Healing Shame and Guilt by Laurence Heller (2026)
Raising Free People by Akilah S. Richards (2020)
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Octavia's Brood edited by adrienne maree brown and Walida Imarisha (2015)
Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (1993)
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin (1974)
Always Coming Home by Ursula K. Le Guin (1985)
The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk (1993)
Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (1998)
The People Could Fly by Virginia Hamilton (1985)
Terra Ignota series by Ada Palmer (2016)
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho (1988)
The Celestine Prophecy series by James Redfield (1993)
Red Rising series by Pierce Brown (2014)
Blood at the Root series by LaDarrion Williams (2024)
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Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo (2015)
Battlefield Blooming by Do Nguyên Mai (2019)
Hybrida by Tina Chang (2019)
Motherlands by Camille Hernandez (2025)
Time is a Mother by Ocean Vuong (2022)
Call Us What We Carry by Amanda Gorman (2021)
Enemy of the Sun edited by Naseer Aruri and Edmund Ghareeb (2025)
The Tradition by Jericho Brown (2019)
Make Me Rain by Nikki Giovanni (2020)
You Are Only Just Beginning by Morgan Harper Nichols (2023)
All Along You Were Blooming by Morgan Harper Nichols (2020)
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All About Love by bell hooks (1999)
The Source of Self-Regard by Toni Morrison (2019)
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin (1963)
Teaching Community by bell hooks (2003)
Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey (2022)
Let the Poets Govern by Camonghne Felix (2026)
Killing Rage by bell hooks (1995(
Inflamed by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel (2021)
Writings for a Liberation Psychology by Ignacio Martín-Baró (1996)