BOOKS

• Emotional Self-Care for Black Women: Discovery How to Raise Your Self-Esteem, Eliminate Negative Thinking and Heal from Past Traumas Even if Your Life is Chaotic Right Now by Alicia Magoro

• Self Care Workbook for Black Women: 52 Week Guided Check-in Journal, Planner & Activity Book for Well-being: 12 Months of Self Care for Black Women Who Do Too Much by Stress Less Press

• For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color by Prisca Dorcas Monica Rodriguez

• Chica, Why Not? How to Live with Intention and Manifest a Life That Loves You Back by Sandra Hinojosa Ludwig

• I Am Diosa: A Journey to Healing Deep, Loving Yourself, And Coming Back Home to Soul by Christine Gutierrez, MA, LMHC

• The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well by Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins

• Black and Menopausal: Intimate Stories of Navigating the Change by Yansie Rolston and Yvonne Christie (editors)

• The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT

• Calling the Moon: 16 Period Stories from BIPOC Authors by Christina Soontornvat and Camille Saied Méndez (Editors)

• Period: Twelve Voices Tell the Bloody Truth by Kare Farrell

• ¡Hola Menstruación! by Yuri Stynes, Dr. Melissa Kang, MD and Jenny Latham
  

ONLINE ARTICLES AND RESOURCES

• “What is Menopause Like for Women of Color?” Article and request for stories from readers about their menopause experience, The New York Times. January 13, 2023. www.oprahdaily.com/life/health/a42781139/menopause-what-is-normal/

• “How Menopause Affects Women of Color,” by Alisha Haridasani Gupta, The New York Times. August 23, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/23/well/live/menopause-symptoms-women-of-color.html

• “What Experts Want Women of Color to Know About Menopause,” by Beth Levine, Everyday Health. January 13, 2022. https://www.everydayhealth.com/menopause/what-experts-want-bipoc-women-to-know-about-menopause/

• “Menopause Is Different for Women of Color: Black and Latina women enter menopause earlier and experience more severe symptoms,” by Adriana Velez, Health Central. March 10, 2021. https://www.healthcentral.com/condition/menopause/menopause-different-women-color 

• “Im a Black Woman and Thought My Period Pain was Actually Going to Kill Me,” by Claire Francis, Healthline. May 29, 2018. https://www.healthline.com/health-news/im-a-black-woman-and-thought-my-period-pain-was-going-to-kill-me 

• “Fibroids, Endometriosis, & When a ‘Normal Period’ Isn’t Normal with Dr. Soyini Hawkins,” Girlboss. https://girlboss.com/blogs/read/fibroids-endometriosis-dr-soyini-hawkins

• “Endometriosis & Health Disparities,” Alliance for Period Supplies. June 29, 2023. https://allianceforperiodsupplies.org/endometriosis-health-disparities/

• “How Latinas Are Reclaiming the Power of Their Menstrual Cycles,” by HipLatina. October 31, 2018. https://hiplatina.com/latinas-reclaiming-their-menstrual-cyles-power/

• “Physical and Psychosocial Changes During the Menopause Transition Among Latinas: A Narrative Review,” by Valentina Marginean and Yamnia I. Cortés, PhD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Nursing. April 2020. https://our.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/1148/2020/04/Final_UNC_Celebration_of_Undergraduate_Research_Poster.pdf

• “Period Fiction: 2 Middle Grade Books About Menstruation and the Politics Beyond It,” by Anna Holmes, The New York Times. June 2, 2023. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/02/books/review/calling-the-moon-aida-salazar-yamile-saied-mendez-code-red-joy-mccullough.html 

• “Indigenizing Your Self-Care,” by WeRNative.org https://www.wernative.org/articles/indigenizing-your-self-care 

• The Black Girl’s Guide to Surviving Menopause Podcast: https://blackgirlsguidetosurvivingmenopause.com/ 

• Messages from the Menopausal Multiverse by Omisade Burney-Scott. https://blackgirlsguidetosurvivingmenopause.com/messages-from-the-menopausal-multiverse/