Writing and publishing empowering literature is a major platform for Dr. Bakari. Her work includes authoring four books, publishing in research journals, and hording an unpublished collection of over 150 poems and a greeting card collection.
She published her first book, “Self-Love: Developing and Maintaining Self-Esteem for the Black Woman,” in 1994 and her most recent book in 2018, “Too Much Love is not Enough: A Memoir of Childhood Sexual Abuse.” Her memoir has been suggested as "required reading" because some people refer to her as a real-life hero.