Swansea University Library collaborated with our Students’ Union to ask students to suggest titles which should be added to the Library which reflect decolonisation, diversity, wellbeing, and welfare.  Twenty-seven of the suggested titles were available for purchase as e-books from the Library’s budget.  Paper copies of these, and an additional number of titles which were not available electronically, were purchased by the Students’ Union for placement in the Libraries in both Singleton and Bay campuses.  The Library is happy to announce that it will do further consultation with students in the upcoming academic year to identify further titles in this area.

This has been a part of an ongoing project to diversity our library collection.  You can find more information at our Diversifying Library Collections pages

E-book titles which are now available through the Library’s catalogue are:

Authoring Autism: On Rhetoric and Neurological Queerness (Thought in the Act)

Melanie Yergeau

Between Perfect and Real

Ray Stoeve

Broken April

Ismail Kadare

Delusions of Gender: The real science behind sex differences

Cordelia Fine

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century: Unabridged Selections

Alice Wong

A FLY girl’s guide to university: Being a woman of colour at Cambridge and other institutions of elitism and power

Odelia Young, ed.

Girl, woman, other

Bernardine Evaristo 

How to be an antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

Imagining Autism: Fiction and Stereotypes on the Spectrum

Sonya Freeman Loftis

Invisible women: Exposing data bias in a world designed for men

Caroline Criado Perez

Justice on trial: Radical solutions for a system at breaking point

Chris Daw

Life isn’t Binary

Alex Iantaffi and           Meg-John Barker

Men explain things to me

Rebecca Solnit

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

Outlanders - Hidden Narratives from Social Workers Of Colour

S Maclean and W Reid

Redefining Realness

Janet Mock

Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds

Cordelia Fine

The Neurodiverse Workplace: An Employer’s Guide to Managing and Working with Neurodivergent Employees, Clients and Customers

Victoria Honeybourne

The pretty one: On Life, Pop Culture, Disability and other reasons to fall in love with me

Keah Brown

The Stonewall Reader

The Tradition

Edmund White 

Jericho Brown 

They/Them/Their: a guide to nonbinary and genderqueer

Eris Young

Tomorrow will be different: love, loss, and the fight for trans equality

Sarah Mcride

We Have Always Been Here: a queer Muslim memoir

Samra Habib

We should all be feminists

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

Why I’m no longer talking to white people about race

Reni Eddo-Lodge

Women don’t owe you pretty

Florence Given