CSEC Book Club is an opportunity to build community while empowering Task Force members in their professional and personal development.

Book 26 will be discussed via Zoom on Friday, December 20, 2024 @ 2:00 pm. Please email Kelly.Mangiaracina@KingCounty.gov for log on information. Help us select book 27 here.

Book Twenty Six: The Well-Armored Child: A Parent's Guide to Preventing Sexual Abuse by Joelle Casteix

Book Twenty Five: Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Gasgow

Book Twenty Four: Nightcrawling: A Novel by Leila Mottley

Book Twenty Three: Gather Together in My Name by Maya Angelou

Book Twenty Two: The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines

Book Twenty One: Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman

Book Twenty: Split Tooth by Tanya Tagaq

Book Nineteen: A Piece of Cake by Cupcake Brown

Book Eighteen: My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

Book Seventeen: The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris

Book Sixteen: A Seat at the Table: The Courage to Care About Trafficking Victims by Celia Williamson

Book Fifteen: Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present by Harriet A. Washington

Book Fourteen: The Beginning and End of Rape: Confronting Sexual Violence in Native America by Sarah Deer

Book Thirteen: Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality Book by Gail Dines

Book Twelve: White Tears/Brown Scars How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Book Eleven: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

Book Ten: Runaway Girl: Escaping Life on the Streets by Carissa Phelps with Larkin Warren.

Book Nine: Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools by Monique W. Morris.

Book Eight: Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD & Amelia Nagoski, DMA.

Book Seven: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall.

Book Six: And Life Continues Sex Trafficking and My Journey to Freedom by Wendy Barnes.  

Book Five: How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi.

Book Four: Fragments: A Post-Traumatic Paradigm by K.D. Roche

Book Three: White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo.

Book Two: So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

Book One: Highway of Tears: A True Story of Racism, Indifference and the Pursuit of Justice for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls by Jessica McDiarmid