Sexual Violence Awareness -- Education, Prevention and Supports

Book Club

The following are suggestions for personal reading or book clubs. These titles are not available at the Library, but they are widely available and may be of interest to members of the College Community.

You may be able to find them at the Winnipeg Public Library, or through booksellers such as Amazon.ca, McNally Robinson, or local bookstores. 

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Fiction

• Asking for it by Louise O'Neill
• April Raintree by Beatrice Mosionier
• Bear Town by Fredrik Backman
• Birdie by Tracey Lindberg
• The Break by Katherena Vermette
• Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo
• Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
• Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
• My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
• The Power by Naomi Alderman
• Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams
• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
• The Red Word by Sarah Henstra
• The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
• Trust Exercise by Susan Choi
• What Red Was by Rosie Price
• A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum
• Women Talking by Miriam Toews

Essays & Anthologies

• Bad Feminist by Roxane Gay
• One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi Koul
• We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Memoir

• Know my Name by Chanel Miller
• From the Ashes by Jesse Thistle
• Girl in the Woods by Aspin Matis
• A House in the Sky by Amanda Lindhout and Sara Corbett
• In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado
• South of Forgiveness: A True Story of Rape and Responsibility by Thordis Elva and Tom Stranger 
• They Said this would be Fun by Eternity Martis

Poetry

• Milk and Honey by Rupi Kaur

Non-Fiction

• Catch and Kill by Ronan Farrow
• Had it Coming: Rape Culture Meets #MeeToo by Robin Doolittle
• No Visible Bruises by Rachel Louise Snyder

Self Help

• The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
• The Body Keeps Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
• 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild
• The Body Remembers (2 volumes) by Babette Rothschild

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Streaming

• Framing Britney Spears (Crave)
• The Hunting Ground (Netflix)
• I Will Destroy You (Crave)
• Unbelievable (Netflix)

Podcasts

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Here is a list of recommended children's books. We don't have these in our collection, but you may be able to find them at the Winnipeg Public Library, or through booksellers such as Amazon.ca, McNally Robinson, or local bookstores. 

• C is for Consent by Eleanor Morrison and Faye Orlove
• Don’t Touch My Hair! by Sharee Miller
• My Body Belongs to Me from My Head to My Toes by International Center for Assault Prevention, Dagmar Geisler, and pro Familia
• Miles is the Boss of His Body by Samantha Kurtzman-Counter, Abbie Schiller, and Valentina Ventimiglia
• No Means No! by Jayneen Sanders and Cherie Zamazing
• Will Ladybug Hug? by Hilary Leung
• Personal Space Camp by Julia Cook
• Consent (For Kids!) by Rachel Brian

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Do you have a title to recommend for our collection? Use the Suggest a Purchase form to suggest a book, video or journal.

Are you an RRC Polytech staff or student with suggestions or feedback that can help improve this guide? Please contact this guide's author on the "Getting Started" page.