{"title":"Trans\/Genderqueer","description":"Now through Nov. 14, use code TRANSRESISTANCE at checkout to get 20% off all books in this collection!","products":[{"product_id":"normal-life-administrative-violence-critical-trans-politics-and-the-limits-of-law","title":"Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (Revised \u0026 Expanded)","description":"\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eWait—what's wrong with rights?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and \"equality\" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions. But is this strategy effective?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to \"pinkwash\" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Spade has succeeded in reframing the terms of LGBT politics by building a far-reaching vision for queer and trans politics that is rooted in community work that has already begun. . . . [It] lay[s] out a road map for queer and trans activists that leads neither to the altar nor to war, but guides us to resist state power by building community and returning to our radical roots.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWendy Elisheva Somerson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dean Spade’s much-anticipated book is a rich tapestry of critical inquiry, interventions into legal and transgender studies, and strategies for transformative resistance. . . . The strength of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lies in Spade’s commitment to accessibility as a matter of political and ethical principle. This principle is evident in the way Spade skillfully articulates theoretical concepts in common parlance, enabling critical trans politics to inform political struggles beyond the academy. Moreover, his concrete discussions of administrative governance and transformative political interventions position radical change within our reach rather than demarcate it to the realm of speculative futures.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDan Irving\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGLQ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] makes an important contribution to a new and emerging critical trans politic. It is provocative, comprehensive, and engaging. It should be widely discussed as an important strategic framework for work within the LGBTQ movement.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJennifer Levi and Giovanna Shay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spade's book is personal, practical, and theoretical. It lays out a framework for a critical trans politics, and gives fresh analyses of immigration, legal reform, wealth distribution, and lesbian and gay politics—all buoyantly and optimistically aimed at a repaired world.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKate Clinton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eProgressive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Spade] provides an eminently teachable text for courses on power in society, social movements, and community organizing—in the university, and outside. . . .We will have to take Spade's proposals very seriously to build a movement centered on those most affected by administrative violence.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMarcia Ochoa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSocial Justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"This street-smart and theoretically sophisticated little book should be required reading for all would-be radicals looking for practical ways to build a better future.\" Susan Stryker author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTransgender History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDean Spade is an Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and\/or people of color. For more writing by Dean Spade, see \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deanspade.net\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttp:\/\/www.deanspade.net.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175070150749,"sku":"9780822360407","price":29.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/91zau6kq86L._SL1500.jpg?v=1718210812"},{"product_id":"resistance-behind-bars-the-struggles-of-incarcerated-women","title":"Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2nd ed.)","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist circles. Resistance Behind Bars is determined to challenge and change such oversights. As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, Resistance documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. Emphasizing women’s agency in resisting the conditions of their confinement through forming peer education groups, clandestinely arranging ways for children to visit mothers in distant prisons and raising public awareness about their lives, Resistance seeks to spark further discussion and research into the lives of incarcerated women and galvanize much-needed outside support for their struggles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis updated and revised edition of the 2009 PASS Award winning book includes a new chapter about transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender-variant people in prison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e's eight years of research and writing, inspired by her unflinching commitment to listen to and support women prisoners, has resulted in an illuminating effort to document the dynamic resistance of incarcerated women in the United States.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wr\\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Written in regular English, rather than academese, this is an impressive work of research and reportage.\" Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row political prisoner and author of \u003cem\u003eLive From Death Row \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"Finally! A passionately and extensively researched book that recognizes the myriad ways in which women resist in prison, and the many particular obstacles that, at many points, hinder them from rebelling. Even after my own years inside, I learned from this book.” Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Excellently researched and well documented, Resistance Behind Bars is a long needed and much awaited look at the struggles, protests and resistance waged by women prisoners. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the modern American gulag.” —Paul Wright, former prisoner, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePrison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Repression tries not only to crush but to quiet. But as Vikki Law shows in this multifaceted book, all that is unseen is not absent. Guided by years of anti-prison organizing and a palpable feminist practice, Law documents the many ways women challenge the twin forces of prison and patriarchy, each trying to render women invisible. In the face of attempts at erasure, women prisoners resist to survive and survive to resist. We would do well to pay attention.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eLetters from Young Activists\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Resistance offers us a much-needed, much broader and nuanced definition of resistance—a woman's definition based on the real material conditions of women. I hope that when one reads about the experiences of women prisoners' organizing and resistance, the reader, both woman and man, will begin to glimpse the possibilities and necessity of such forms as we continue to struggle for a more just and equal world free from all forms of oppression. If women worldwide are unable to liberate themselves, human liberation will not be possible.” Marilyn Buck, anti-imperialist political prisoner, activist, poet and artist \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. After a brief stint as a teenage armed robber, she became involved in prisoner support. In 1996, she helped start Books Through Bars-New York City, a group that sends free books to prisoners nationwide. In 2000, she began concentrating on the needs and actions of women in prison, drawing attention to their issues by writing articles and giving public presentations. Since 2002, she has worked with women incarcerated nationwide to produce the zine Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison and has facilitated having incarcerated women’s writings published in Clamor magazine, the website “Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance” and the upcoming anthology Interrupted Lives. In 1995, she became involved with ABC No Rio, a collectively-run arts center on New York’s Lower East Side, serving as Board Treasurer from 1997 to 2002. In 1997, she organized a group of activist photographers to transform one of No Rio’s upstairs tenement apartments into a black-and-white photo darkroom for community use. Since then, she has remained actively involved in coordinating (and sometimes co-teaching) free photography classes for neighborhood youth. In addition, she has participated in and curated numerous exhibitions at No Rio’s gallery, many with themes addressing social and political issues such as incarceration, grassroots efforts to rebuild New Orleans, Zapatista organizing, police brutality and squatting. In 2003, she began presenting “Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind,” a workshop addressing the specific (and often unacknowledged) needs of parents and children in radical movements. Sometimes with China Martens and sometimes with Jennifer Silverman, she has facilitated discussions in Baltimore, New York City, Providence, Montreal, Minneapolis and Boston. With Jessica Mills and China Martens, she is compiling a handbook for allies of radical parents by the same name. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175080112221,"sku":"9781604865837","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71fZXJRK6RL._SL1500.jpg?v=1718216724"},{"product_id":"sometimes-the-spoon-runs-away-with-another-spoon-coloring-book","title":"Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon Coloring Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe have the power to change fairy tales and nursery rhymes so that these stories are more realistic. In \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e you will find anecdotes of real kids’ lives and true-to-life fairy tale characters. This book pushes us beyond rigid gender expectations while we color fantastic beasts who like pretty jewelry and princesses who build rocket ships. Celebrate sensitive boys, tough girls, and others who do not fit into a disempowering gender categorization. \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e…aids the work of dismantling the Princess Industrial Complex by moving us forward with more honest representations of our children and ourselves. Color to your heart's content. Laugh along with the characters. Write your own fairy tales. Share your own truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As moving and funny as \u003cem\u003eWalter the Farting Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, with pictures you can color however your heart desires, \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e… is appropriate for children of all ages, especially those who grew up without it.\" Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist of \u003cem\u003eThe East Village Inky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For some people the sky's the limit. For Jacinta Bunnell it's a place to put a rainbow. There are no limits in \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e—just fun and love. Jacinta Bunnell invites you to \"Step right up!\" to the wonderful world of you!\" World Famous *BOB*, \u003cem\u003eUltimate Self Confidence! Coach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacinta Bunnell\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley where she enjoys makes coloring books for a gender-defiant new world. Jacinta is a rehabilitated and reformed cheerleader who now has pep rallies for all sorts of freaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cstrong\u003eNat Kusinitz\u003c\/strong\u003e was in 6th grade he saw a painting of Frida Kahlo with all of her hair chopped off and was never the same again. He currently resides in New Orleans, where he spends his time riding the streetcar around and staring wistfully out of windows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175082831965,"sku":"9781604863291","price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_940_spoon3_0.jpg?v=1654987289"},{"product_id":"gender-failure","title":"Gender Failure","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on their acclaimed 2012 live show that toured across Canada and the US and in Europe,\u003cem\u003eGender Failure\u003c\/em\u003e is a poignant collection of autobiographical essays, lyrics, and images documenting Ivan and Rae's personal journeys from gender failure to gender self-acceptance. Equal parts hilarious and heartbreaking, it's a book that will touch LGBTQ readers and others, revealing, with candor and insight, that gender comes in more than two sizes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIvan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted \"gender failures.\" In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional gender roles fail us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Ivan E. Coyote\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Rae Spoon\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1551525365\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2014\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175192408157,"sku":"9781551525365","price":17.94,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/genderfailure.jpg?v=1654987823"},{"product_id":"butch-is-a-noun","title":"Butch Is a Noun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eButch is a Noun\u003c\/em\u003e, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman,won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home. From girls' clothes to men's haircuts, from walking with girls to hanging with young men, Butch is a Noun chronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living lifeoutside the gender binary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes a new afterword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Butch is a Noun\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that a) should be required reading in any gender studies curriculum; b) femmes should read whenever they're feeling unloved, lonely, or misunderstood; c) butches should read; d) all of the above. The answer, of course, is d. Thank you, dear Bear.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\" title=\"Kate Bornstein\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eGender Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175223275613,"sku":"9781551523699","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781551523699_butchisanoun.jpg?v=1654987932"},{"product_id":"the-nearest-exit-may-be-behind-you","title":"The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, \u003cem\u003eThe Nearest Exit May Be Behind You\u003c\/em\u003e, is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humour and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one; throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you're visibly different from those around you―whether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Bear offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the \"official stories\" about how gender and sexuality work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBear Bergman writes circles around most people—circles that enclose so many identities, and so much insight about all of them, that you're bound to see some of your own selves newly, and beautifully, reflected there. \u003cbr\u003e\n―Carol Queen, author of \u003cem\u003eReal Live Nude Girl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLife having the unpredictable crossroads it does, I've often wondered how memoirists handle the problem of writing a second book. Thanks to Bear Bergman's The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, I know the answer: one goes about it with good-humored smarts, candid humility, and a queer and delightful generosity of spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\n—Hanne Blank, author of \u003cem\u003eVirgin: The Untouched History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf we could just clone Bergman's brain and manners, the world would be a much better place, indeed. This new collection of meditations, essays, and stories about living visibly queer is complex in beautifully simple ways. \u003cbr\u003e\n—Helen Boyd, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Husband Betty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBear Bergman is an endearing, gallant, sexy fellow, the queer world's daddy, brother, and son. In Nearest Exit, he's writing it all down for us, today's transgender experience. This is a landmark book for both queer theory and literature, written by an accomplished teller of tales. It's a book that will be cherished by generations of queer youth and adults alike. My heart overflows the brim with love and pride when I read his words. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\" title=\"Kate Bornstein\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHello, Cruel World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is rare that I pick up a book and see my life reflected in the words inside it. Bear Bergman has written parts of my life down for me to look at from another direction—a funny, compassionate, nimble-tongued and Jewish direction. I want to give a copy of this book to everyone in my family, with love.\u003cbr\u003e\n—Ivan E. Coyote, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Fix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn intellectually whip-smart and engagingly personal collection of essays about gender and its assorted - and sometimes confounding - permutations and combinations.... a candid, self-effacing and generously instructive primer on proud transmasculine life. \u003cbr\u003e\n—Richard Labonte, \u003cem\u003eBook Marks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's writing style is witty, razor sharp and super smart. Ze also writes about gender with a sensitivity that is hard to find. Bergman tackles the difficult intricacies of the terrain of gender with grace and humor. \u003cbr\u003e\n—Feministing.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA sweet and tender collection. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eCapital Xtra!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-described gender-jammer S. Bear Bergman is an very courageous individual, though I suspect ze would react to that by turning red and looking down at hir shoes while muttering something self-deprecating. But The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, a collection of essays on being trans, negates any argument you might have about Bear's intestinal fortitude. Courage fairly drips off these pieces, but it's not the stern John Wayne type. It's a common sense, do-what-you-have-to-do type ballsiness leavened with humor. Oh yes. Bear is a very funny writer indeed. So funny you almost forget there's a point to be made. Almost.\u003cbr\u003e\n— Out in Print blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's elegantly written collection of essays chronicles life as a gender non-conformist with a laugh-out-loud sense of humor.... This engrossing memoir is highly recommended. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eGay and Lesbian Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBear continues to write about the subject [of gender] in hir funny, thoughtful, insightful and touching ways. Bear continues to give a voice to all the gender incongruent people who are flipping madly through the dictionary, trying to find the words to describe the gender mess they see in the mirror. Bear ... continues to be an absolutely vital voice in our queer community. \u003cbr\u003e\n—TLA Video\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's gift of storytelling illuminates the evolving nuances of queer and trans life, and one of the greatest elements of hir book is that ze has a way of making the personal not only political, but public and shared as well.... Few books discuss queer and trans topics in such a personal way, and this book does a great service to contributing to the growing canon of queer literature. By making hir experiences visible, Bergman provides yet another narrative within the LGBTQ discourse, and lengthens the spectrum of possibility even further, one essay at a time. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection reveals a passionate and captivating storyteller at work. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eBitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmart, provocative, accessible, and funny. \u003cbr\u003e\n—GCN (Ireland)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA second collection of autobiographical essays by Bergman, whose transmasculine gender identity is best described as \"post,\" and who writes unabashedly about everything from gay men's bathhouses to lesbian potlucks. This is gender theory at its most accessible. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eCurve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eS. Bear Bergman is a natural storyteller. As a trans-Jewish writer, Bergman is navigating uncharted literary terrain, writing \"hirself\" (the pronoun used in the book) into the ever-expanding landscape of contemporary queer Canadian literature. Bergman writes about hir personal experience in day-to-day life in first person without the guise of fiction. With heartbreaking honesty, ferocious wit and humour, Bergman is the best thing since hir comrade Ivan Coyote came along. Some writers just translate a story, best kept to the bound and printed page, Bergman's work is meant to be read out loud. This collection of essays can coax readers into stitches as quickly as it can tears. \u003cbr\u003e\n—The Coast (Halifax)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBroadly appealing in presentation and penetrating in content, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You can stand its ground next to the defining works of Leslie Feinberg, Judith Halberstam, and Alison Bechdel in any queer, gender, or LGBTQ studies course... 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Rather, Bergman opts for a gendered journey of hir own choosing, one that requires a parachute and a strong arm to unlock the emergency exit. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's work is both hilarious and heartbreaking. The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You had me in stitches one paragraph, the next in tears. In our complicated, detached modern world, pure heart and sheer honesty goes a long way. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eXtra!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: S. 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Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand.” \u003cem\u003eVulture\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“One of the most celebrated novels of the year.”\u003cem\u003e Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“You won't be able to put it down.” \u003cem\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The book everyone is talking about.” \u003cem\u003eBustle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for The Women’s Prize • Roxane Gay’s Audacious Book Club Pick • New York Times Editors’ Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTorrey Peters is the author of the novellas \u003ci\u003eInfect Your Friends\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eand\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eLoved Ones \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e The Masker\u003c\/i\u003e, which are available for free on her website. She holds an MFA from the University of Iowa and an MA in Comparative Literature from Dartmouth. She grew up in Chicago and now lives in Brooklyn.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Torrey Peters\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9780593133378\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 352 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: One World\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"One World","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175367094365,"sku":"9780593133378","price":36.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/detransitionbaby.jpg?v=1654988912"},{"product_id":"continuum","title":"Continuum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eContinuum\u003c\/em\u003e, fine artist, activist, and Titans actor Chella Man uses his own experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color to talk about cultivating self-acceptance and acting as one's own representation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePocket Change Collective is a series of small books with big ideas from today's leading activists and artists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What constructs in your life must you unlearn to support inclusivity and respect for all?\" This is a question that artist, actor, and activist Chella Man wrestles with in this powerful and honest essay. A story of coping and resilience, Chella journeys through his experiences as a deaf, transgender, genderqueer, Jewish person of color, and shows us that identity lies on a continuum -- a beautiful, messy, and ever-evolving road of exploration.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chella chronicles the value in creating your own mold in order to reclaim your space and to feel represented in this always ever-evolving world, and he inspires others to stretch what it means to be human--and there's no right way.\" Nyle DiMarco (model, actor, and Deaf activist)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Full of heart, grace and precision, Chella Man charts his path toward himself in a world not yet equipped for all he encompasses. An affirming, artistic and accessible primer for anyone searching for themselves or yearning to learn about others.\" Janet Mock (Bestselling author of \u003cem\u003eRedefining Realness and Surpassing Certainty\u003c\/em\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chella is the future. A total visionary and a wonderful example of a human being in every way. A master of empathy, courage, and growth.\" Jameela Jamil (actress, model, writer, and activist)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Navigating social norms can be so damn confusing and traumatic as a kid, but Chella shows that there is always a degree of dignity behind each step as we venture closer to the self.\" Christine Sun Kim (sound artist and composer)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Chella Man's journey is as compelling as it is brave and candid. I can't even imagine all the boxes people wanted to put him into and yet, he has emerged triumphant. His story will resonate with anyone who has a desire to be their true self. I can't wait to see the next chapter of his extraordinary life.\" Marlee Matlin (Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning actress, author, and activist)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Co-Illustrator\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAshley Lukashevsky is an illustrator and visual artist born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii, currently based in Los Angeles. Ashley uses illustration and art as tools to strengthen social movements against systemic racism, sexism, and anti-immigrant policy. 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When you still feel the sadness, even with the music, that means there's something wrong with this music. Sometimes I feel like sex without context isn't sex at all. And sometimes I feel like sex without context is what sex should always be.\" —\u003cem\u003eThe Freezer Door \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Freezer Door\u003c\/em\u003e records the ebb and flow of desire in daily life. Crossing through loneliness in search of communal pleasure in Seattle, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore exposes the failure and persistence of queer dreams, the hypocritical allure of gay male sexual culture, and the stranglehold of the suburban imagination over city life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFerocious and tender, \u003cem\u003eThe Freezer Door \u003c\/em\u003eoffers a complex meditation on the trauma and possibility of searching for connection in a world that relentlessly enforces bland norms of gender, sexual, and social conformity while claiming to celebrate diversity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLonglisted for the 2020 PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncluded in \u003cem\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e's list of \"The 42 Best LGBTQ Books of 2020.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is much to love here. The pacing of the work, with its often fragmentary form, allows readers to sit with poignant moments for a beat, unpacking a sentence only to return later to unpack it again...There are no questions answered in this book. Instead, questions create further questions, further attempts at rediscovery and at blurring boundaries. Hers is a welcome blurring and, in a culture of relentless demarcation, a necessary one.\" \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Freezer Door\u003c\/em\u003e is an aching, playful memoir of vivid desire amid the desperation of midlife disconnection...this book brims with slippery sentences that reach their truths like rivers finding the sea. With an intellect that supersedes social boundaries through sheer insistence, Sycamore chronicles the paradox of inhabiting a fluid life in a rigid world.\" \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s \u003cem\u003eThe Freezer Door\u003c\/em\u003e. In a happy paradox common to great literature, it’s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty, to wield non sequitur with grace and power, to ponder the past while sticking with the present, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit, candor, inventiveness, and majesty.\" Maggie Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore puts sex and gender, suffering and gentrification, encounter and solitude, at the center of a book that defies borders and uses language to dive directly into mystery. 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Here is the editors' introduction to this issue, followed by the table of contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs this issue goes to print – almost a full year after our last – European countries boil in a General Strike, Occupy Sandy Relief challenges the US government for primacy in disaster relief, and the Strike Debt Campaign launches a Rolling Jubilee, seeking to buy up and write off Americans’ bad debts. Coordination, organization, struggle. The success of the Québec student strike that kicked off 2012 came on the heels of 2011’s Occupy movement, demonstrations against Scott Walker’s union busting, and the energy of the Arab Spring; we are seeing collusions and collisions between spontaneity and organization play out – the dialectical back and forth that Rosa Luxemburg theorized almost a century ago. Coordination and organization are needed to pull off a cross-continent day of strikes and protests; structure is required for a months-long province-wide student strike; energy, spontaneity, and creativity are needed to make these events visible, to capture the popular imagination, and to push disparate actions into a revolutionary movement. How do activists conceive of spontaneity and organization? How does the interplay between the two move us closer to a sustainable revolutionary movement? We ask these questions in our editorial, seeking to understand what it would take to use spontaneity and organization for truly revolutionary ends.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur interviews section begins with Robert Nichols speaking to lawyer, professor, and activist \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e about critical trans politics and an appropriately strategic interface with the law. We then turn to Susie Day’s conversation with Josh MacPhee and Laura Whitehorn about the historical and contemporary roles of political art in social movements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are two articles in this issue: the first, by Ross Wolfe, takes on a key debate in left theory and struggle: the interrelated concepts of resistance, reform, and revolution. By understanding the historical lineages of these ideas, he attempts to better understand the converging role they play in the present. Next, Andalusia Knoll argues that activists should draw lessons from the of the 1999 student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico. Though the strike was ostensibly defeated, Knoll demonstrates that scattered throughout the campus remains an important infrastructure through which movements continue to grow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe next section is unique to this issue: we present highlights from Élise Thorburn’s extensive interviews with key activists involved in the Québec student strike. To our knowledge, this is the first English-language account of how activists built one of the most formidable movements in North America, detailing some of its internal debates and strategies. The interviews took place in May 2012, during some of the strike’s most catalyzing struggles. While much has changed since then, these interviews provide insight into how activists understood their movement, where it came from, and where they hoped it would go.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo and half years ago, more than a thousand people were arrested in Toronto during the anti-G20 protests. While most charges were dropped, 17 activists were pursued as the movement’s “ringleaders.” After accepting a plea deal, six of the co-accused spent or are spending considerable time behind bars, while the others saw their charges dropped after living for more than a year under harsh bail conditions. Tom Keefer and Sharmeen Khan spoke with three of these activists: Mandy Hiscocks, Alex Hundert, and Johanna Adamiak. Taken together, their interviews present a debate on the import of black bloc tactics, state infiltration, activism behind bars, and the lessons we can take from the anti-summit mobilization and its fallout. Finally, we have book reviews: Neil Balan on Ilan Pappe’s Out of the Frame and Joshua Stephens on Gabriel Kuhn’s \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNDkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/sober-living-for-the-revolution-hardcore-punk-straight-edge-and-radical-politics\" title=\"Sober Living for the Revolution\"\u003eSober Living for the Revolution\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublishing a journal collectively and autonomously isn’t easy. After the launch of Issue 13, the UTA Editorial Committee decided to pause and undertake a restructuring process during the winter and spring of 2012. Over this time we thought a lot about how the project could better function as a tool for our readership and the broader movement. In response to feedback from our readers and comrades, we strategized ways of producing content more frequently and intentionally. While our dreams became more ambitious, our capacity diminished radically. Two of our senior editors, Clare O’Connor and AK Thompson, left the project at the start of the new year. One of UTA’s founders, Aidan Conway, and another long-time editor, Kelly Fritsch, were on leave for Issue 13 and subsequently decided that they could not return to the Editorial Committee. Lorenzo Fiorito, who joined us for Issue 13, also left to pursue other projects. The experience and skill of these editors has been invaluable to UTA. They are sorely missed, but we’re excited to see what’s in store for them. Finally, Tom Keefer is on an indefinite leave from the journal, but continues to assist with technical and administrative work. While our high hopes for producing a monthly pamphlet series remain unrealized, we continue to make it our priority to produce a high-quality printed journal with timely and rigorous analysis for those engaged in radical left struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo that end, we’ve changed the structure of our Advisory Board. In order to make engagement more effective, we’ve reduced its size and limited members’ terms. With this change, we say goodbye to many board members whose contributions have been invaluable: Kheya Bag, Honor Brabazon, Bryan Doherty, Eton Harris, Heather Hax, Chris Hurl, Chandra Kumar, Mike Leitold, Tyler McCreary, Shourideh Molavi, Garth Mullins, David Shulman, Kim Smith, Kalin Stacy, and Lesley Wood. We wish them the very best. Remaining on our Advisory Board are Kieran Aarons, Rob Butz, Chris Dixon, Mandy Hiscocks, David Hugill, Karl Kersplebedeb, PJ Lilley, Thomas Nail, Scott Neigh, Robert Nichols, Robyn Maynard, Ander Reszczynski-Negrazis, and Brett Story, who have provided us with crucial support in producing Issue 14.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are pleased to announced that Irina Ceric has joined the Editorial Committee, and that we have our first Associate Editor: Toban Black, who lives in Kitchener, Ontario. If you’re interested in joining the project, please visit our website or email us for details on how to apply.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOur commitment to independence means that we are entirely reliant on subscribers, sustainers, and donors. We urge you to subscribe or, even better, sign up to make a monthly donation as a sustainer; we wouldn’t be here without your continued support.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs always, we are eager to receive pitches for our next issue. Please send them to us no later than the end of January 2013.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe hope that Issue 14 proves a pleasurable, provocative read – and we look forward to your feedback.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor a revolutionary tomorrow,\u003cbr\u003e\nTom Keefer, Sharmeen Khan, Robyn Letson, Adrie Naylor, Élise Thorburn, and Simon Wallace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEditors’ Note: We were much saddened to hear the news of Neil Smith’s death in September 2012. His work was influential to many of us on the Editorial Committee and Advisory Board, and we remain deeply thankful for his support of UTA. He will be missed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLETTERS TO THE EDITOR\u003cbr\u003e\nPrison Abolition and \"Sex Crimes\" - Vikki Law\u003cbr\u003e\nIt's More Than a Class Thing When We Deal with Class Struggle - Ajamu Nangwaya\u003cbr\u003e\nCopwatching Everywhere - Alex Stearns\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Law's Fundamentally Violent Character - Irina Ceric\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEDITORIALS\u003cbr\u003e\nNotes on Spontaneity and Organization - Elise Thorburn, Adrie Naylor, and Robyn Letson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eINTERVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\nOccupying Then and Now: An Interview with Josh MacPhee and Laura Whitehorn - Susie Day\u003cbr\u003e\nToward a Critical Trans Politics: An Interview with Dean Spade - Rob Nichols\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eARTICLES\u003cbr\u003e\nTake it Back and Keep it: Strikes, Autonomy, and Legacy at the National Autonomous University of Mexico - Andalusia Knoll\u003cbr\u003e\nResistance, Reform, Revolution: Revisiting the Terms of Debate - Ross Wolfe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eROUNDTABLES\u003cbr\u003e\nOrganizing Against the G20 in Toronto: Interview with the Co-Accused\u003cbr\u003e\nSquarely in the Red: Dispatches from the 2012 Quebec Student Strike\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBOOK REVIEWS\u003cbr\u003e\nRadical Discipline - Joshua Stephens\u003cbr\u003e\nNot a Bunker But an Act - Neil Balan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175373025373,"sku":"UTA 14","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/uta-14_340_560_s_c1.jpg?v=1654988945"},{"product_id":"feminicide-and-global-accumulation-frontline-struggles-to-resist-the-violence-of-patriarchy-and-capitalism","title":"Feminicide and Global Accumulation: Frontline Struggles to Resist the Violence of Patriarchy and Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe global struggles against racism, capitalism, and patriarchy revealed by the Black and Indigenous women and trans communities leading its resistance. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e brings us to the frontlines of an international movement of Black, Indigenous, popular, and mestiza women’s organizations fighting against violence—interpersonal, state sanctioned, and economic—that is both endemic to the global economy and the contemporary devalued status of racialized women, trans, and gender non-conforming communties in the Global South.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThese struggles against racism, capitalism, and patriarchy show how crucially linked the land, water, and other resource extraction projects that crisscross the planet are to devaluing labor and nature and how central Black and Indigenous women and trans leadership is to its resistance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is based on the first ever International Forum on Feminicide among ethnicized and racialized groups—which brought together activists and researchers from Colombia, Guatemala, Italy, Brazil, Iran, Guinea Bissau, Bolivia, Canada, the U.S., Ecuador, Spain, Mexico, among other countries in the world to represent different social movements and share concrete stories, memories, experiences and knowledge of their struggles against racism, capitalism and patriarchy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e reflects, in a collective fabric, the communitarian and enraged struggles of women, trans, and gender non-conforming communities who commit themselves to the transformation of their communities by directly challenging the murder and assassination of women and violence in all its forms.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/search\/content?f%5B0%5D=sm_field_author%3ASilvia%20Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e is a lauded feminist, Marxist theorist and author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/caliban-and-witch\"\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/revolution-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.leftwingbooks.net\/book\/content\/witches-witch-hunting-and-women\"\u003eWitches, Witch-Hunting, and Women\u003c\/a\u003e among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSusana Draper is an Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University and author of \u003cem\u003eAfterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Post-Dictatorship Latin America\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e1968 Mexico: Constellations of Freedom and Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLiz Mason-Deese is an editor of Viewpoint Magazine and a long-time participant and translator of women’s movements in Latin America. She is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Theorizing feminicide as the key epistemic violence at the heart of patriarchal, colonial, and capitalist relations of rule, this powerful text documents Black, Brown, and Indigenous trans and cis women’s ongoing resistance and insurgent dreams of bodily integrity and freedom. Weaving together memories, poetry, stories, analysis, art, and activist praxis, \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e charts a new and irresistible future for anticapitalist feminist struggle. A book that belongs on the bookshelves of all progressive, left, decolonial scholar-activists.” Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of \u003cem\u003eFeminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e tells stories of women reclaiming their histories, their dreams, their lives, and their bodies. It is a view from the ground up of the limitless greed of global corporations who want the last farm, the last seed, and the last mineral. Most importantly, it shows how violence against the Earth and violence against women are interconnected, and how feminicide and ecocide are intrinsic to the structures of global accumulation. Transforming the pain of feminicide into a fight for justice, women are showing how we can create new economies from the ground up, putting people and planet at the center to create buen vivir, the good life for all.” Vandana Shiva, author of \u003cem\u003eStaying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEarth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability, and Peace \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Drawing on concrete experiences and processes, \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e explains why feminicide is a political category. It shows why social movements are the ones that have made feminicide into a term for naming patriarchal violence in relation to the capitalist and colonial system as a machine of exploitation and cruelty over certain bodies and territories; why struggles have installed the term in the media and in legal classifications at the same time as they use it to denounce patriarchal justice and counter-insurgent strategies. Speaking of feminicide and transfeminicide in relation to global processes of accumulation, as \u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e proposes, makes it possible both to grieve and to refuse its normalization, to create a systematic account of how violence explodes and extracts collective wealth, as well as to connect sexual violence to histories of conquest and genocide.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\"Feminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e arises from a collective encounter in Colombia in 2016 that has been vital for conceptualizing and sharing experiences from voices across Abya Yala, of Black, Indigenous, Afro-descendant and Afro-Indigenous women, and non-heteronormative bodies. Thus it is a book that is heard and written in many tongues. It is theory produced in the thickness of a poem, concepts woven into conversation, lines of argument that echo inherited histories, philosophies that carry memories. The effort of its translation and publication in English does justice to the task of introducing a vocabulary that emerges from the struggles of body-territories in their untiring strategies of re-existence.” Verónica Gago, author of \u003cem\u003eFeminist International: How to Change Everything\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely and necessary book on one of the most urgent issues facing trans and cis women globally. Centering the voices of Black and Indigenous women, this collection presents rare and much needed insight into the ways that racial capitalism and heterosexism exacerbate the politics of violence against women transnationally. From Colombia to Guinea-Bissau, these reflections dialogically, poetically and passionately demonstrate why Black and Indigenous women matter and why we must do everything in our power to stop racialized gender violence now.” Christen A. Smith, author of \u003cem\u003eAfro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence and Performance in Brazil \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing, unflinching indictment and analysis of gender-based violence and its embeddedness in extant structures of colonialism, modern patriarchy, racism, and capital accumulation. In their own riveting words and voices, Black, Afro-descendant, trans, and Indigenous women, activists, and researchers from across the Americas and the Global South offer stories and theories of the living experiences and memories of the racist, feminicidal violence they and their communities have endured and resisted, and never forgotten, despite the imposed silence of dominant histories. Through them we see the monstrous and intimate scales of the punitive powers women face. But we also see the enormous powers women themselves wield—powers of rebellion, resistance, and re-existence—which are the radical capacities for transformation we can put our hopes in. Harrowing and heartening, moving, humbling, and inspiriting, these are powerful and empowering calls for collective resistance and joy, and renewed life-making against the pedagogies of cruelty directed against the truth of women’s rebellion. This book is more than a glimpse of what it will take to remake the world. It shows us that those who now defend life, land, culture, and community are who will lead us into a different future.\" Neferti X. M. Tadiar, author of \u003cem\u003eThings Fall Away: Philippine Historical Experience and the Makings of Globalization\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eFeminicide and Global Accumulation\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of the heart and mind, of spirit and memory, and of truth and resistance. By amplifying the voices of Black, Indigenous and women of color living on the frontlines of colonialism and imperialism, this book offers an alarming exposition of the horrors and terrain of contemporary racialized, capitalist accumulation and dispossession—who it targets, under what historical conditions, and the staggering and multiple forms of patriarchal violence necessary for its reproduction. The narratives move through past, present, and future—drawing on ancestral wisdom of place, speaking to the everyday political interventions of feminist freedom fighters in the here and now, and ultimately shaping future feminist resistors rising up from the earth and demanding change. There is no hiding from the haunting accounts of colonial, capitalist violence courageously shared in these pages, or the questions about international solidarity that float to the surface as you read. The transformative power, analytic precision, and deep and uncompromising indictment of our current world captured in the book’s pages—and showcased in such painful and beautiful ways— is what we desperately need to think with, to teach, to understand, and to mobilize for collective liberation across the globe. Reading it is like standing on the precipice of change.” Jaskiran Dhillon, author of \u003cem\u003ePrairie Rising: Indigenous Youth, Decolonization and the Politics of Intervention\u003c\/em\u003e and Associate Professor of Global Studies, The New School\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"From the spread of new forms of witch-hunting and the worldwide escalation in the number of women murdered daily, there is mounting evidence of what some feminists have called “a low-intensity war against women.” This chapter starts with the question: What are the motivations and logic behind this phenomenon? I try to answer this question by placing the specific forms of violence in a historical context and examining the impact of capitalist development, past and present, in women’s lives and gender relations. In this context, I also explore the relation between different forms of violence—familial, extra-domestic, and institutional—and the strategies for resistance that women around the world are creating to put a stop to it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Since the beginning of the feminist movement, violence against women has been a key issue in feminist literature and organization, inspiring the formation of the first International Tribunal on Crimes against Women, held in Brussels in March 1976. Since then, feminist antiviolence initiatives have multiplied, as have laws passed by governments following the UN World Conferences on Women. But, far from diminishing, violence against women has increased in every part of the world, to the point where feminists now describe it as “feminicide.” Not only has the violence represented by the number of women killed and abused continued to increase, but its character has also changed. It is increasingly more public, more brutal, and it frequently takes forms that are typical of times of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"What are the causes of this phenomenon and what does it tell us about transformations that are occurring in the global economy and women’s social position? Answers to these questions have varied, but it is clear that the root causes of this escalation are found in the new forms of capital accumulation, which involve broad processes of land dispossession, the destruction of communitarian relations, and an intensification in the exploitation of natural resources and labor. What still needs to be clarified, however, are the concrete ways in which this violence is a consequence and\/or instrument of the advance of capitalist relations. In this chapter, I address the question both by providing a historical perspective, and by discussing the relation between domestic and public violence and policies at the institutional level that have been adopted to discipline women. My goal is to demonstrate that while this new wave of violence adopts different forms, its common denominator is the devaluation of women’s lives and labor promoted by globalization. In other words, the new violence against women is rooted in structural trends that are constitutive of capitalist development and state power in all times. This means that the construction of alternatives to capitalism must be an essential part of the struggle against this violence against women, in order to eradicate its causes.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Silvia Federici\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Susana Draper\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Liz Mason-Deese\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173441\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 240 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175374893149,"sku":"9781942173441","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/feminicide_and_global_accumulation_9781942173441_fc.jpg?v=1654988967"},{"product_id":"the-care-we-dream-of-liberatory-and-transformative-approaches-to-lgbtq-health","title":"The Care We Dream Of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? 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The book also includes interviews with activists, health care workers and researchers whose work offers insights into what liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health can look like in practice. Interviewees include Anita \"Durt\" O'Shea (of St. James Infirmary), Dawn Serra, Hannah Kia, Ronica Mukerjee, and Sean Saifa Wall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e offers possibilities - grounded in historical examples, present-day experiments, and dreams of the future - for more liberatory and transformative approaches to LGBTQ+ health and healing. It challenges readers to think differently about LGBTQ+ health and asks what it would look like if our health care were rooted in a commitment to the flourishing and liberation of all LGBTQ+ people. This book is a calling out, a out, a calling in, and a call to action. It is a spell of healing and transformation, rooted in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e instills the reminder that queers do, in fact, deserve better health care and are worthy of wholeness - an audacious and galvanizing guide for us to reclaim and reimagine our well beings.\" Vivek Shraya, author of \u003cem\u003eDeath Threat\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e I'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I feel a kinship with everyone whose most relevant health care information comes, not from doctors, but through word-of-mouth. What I've learned about my diagnosis, medications and ongoing wellness, I've learned by talking with other disabled and ill queer and trans friends. \u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e is like one of these vital conversations. Accessible and justice-minded health information is offered throughout these pages, most assuredly. There's also humour, front-line wisdom, hot takes, hard-earned truths, dreams and possibilities, and a lot of love.\" Amber Dawn, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSodom Road Exit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e conjures a bouquet of defiant, brilliant pieces that are provocative and profound, perverse and poignant. There's a powerful alchemy at play here that gave me glimpses of a tantalizing future where my friends, my loves, my chosen family, and myself get the lush, thriving care we deserve. I adore this urgent, unfettered book.\" Hazel Jane Plante, author of \u003cem\u003eLittle Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare thing: it weaves a beautiful account of what queer and trans flourishing might look like with a deeply pragmatic roadmap for how we might get there. Drawing on the wisdom of queer and feminist elders, doulas, harm reductionists, sex workers, femme geniuses, crip radicals, and intersex and trans activists, Sharman completely recalibrates our sense of what vibrant futures are possible when we divest from structures that perpetuate harm and dare to commit to an interdependent future where we live well, get old, and die surrounded by beloved community. This book provides a visionary blueprint for how we arrive at the multiple, collaborative, sexy, and radically just futures we deserve.\" Hil Malatino, author of \u003cem\u003eTrans Care and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Zena Sharman\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN:  9781551528601\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 352 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175380791389,"sku":"9781551528601","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/care_we_dream_of_9781551528601_cover1_rb_fullcover.jpg?v=1654989004"},{"product_id":"special-topics-in-being-a-human-a-queer-and-tender-guide-to-things-ive-learned-the-hard-way-about-caring-for-people-including-myself","title":"Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring For People, Including Myself","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eS. Bear Bergman's illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, among other things, a trans parent, with wit and aplomb. He also writes the advice column \"Asking Bear,\" in which he answers crucial questions about how best to make our collective way through the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing disarming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, Special Topics in Being a Human elaborates on \"Asking Bear\"'s premise: a gentle, witty, and insightful book of practical advice for the modern age. It offers Dad advice and Jewish bubbe wisdom, all filtered through a queer lens, to help you navigate some of the complexities of life - from how to make big decisions or make a good apology, to how to get someone's new name and pronouns right as quickly as possible, to how to gracefully navigate a breakup. With warmth and candor, \u003cem\u003eSpecial Topics in Being a Human\u003c\/em\u003e calls out social inequities and injustices in traditional advice-giving, validates your feelings, asks a lot of questions, and tries to help you be your best possible self with kindness, compassion, and humour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"For many years the insight, compassion, and humor of S. Bear Bergman's writing has been an ever-tender roadmap to my own becoming. I find it truly impossible to read anything he writes and not feel my own heart double in size, and Special Topics in Being Human is an especially transformative gift to our precious lives. Bergman's pages on \"how to love\" shook me like very few pieces of writing ever have. From beginning to end this book is a wildly thoughtful and beautifully honest guide to honoring ourselves, each other, and our world.\" Andrea Gibson, author of \u003cem\u003eLord of the Butterflies \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSpecial Topics in Being a Human\u003c\/em\u003e is one of those rare books that is, indeed, essential reading for all humans. We all mess up. We all feel overwhelmed sometimes. We're all trying to do better at caring for ourselves and those around us with compassion, boundaries, justice, allyship and grace. S. Bear Bergman offers his trademark tender, thoughtful wisdom in such accessible, bite-sized, pieces that you can literally take them with you. He's the queer older sibling, mentor and bubbe you've always needed; get a copy for yourself and a copy for every other human in your life who's also out there trying to do their best.\" Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg, author of \u003cem\u003eSurprised By God and Nurture the Wow \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sweet, soulful, and deeply humane. Bear at his best.\" Alison Bechdel, author of \u003cem\u003eFun Home\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"S. Bear Bergman is the fantastic gay uncle you always wished you had, ready and able to help steer you - with gentle pragmatism and good humor - toward being a better, kinder, more compassionate and thoughtful human being. Heaven knows we could all use it.\" Hanne Blank, author of \u003cem\u003eStraight: The Surprisingly Short History of Heterosexuality\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"S. Bear Bergman and Saul Freedman-Lawson offer us a gentle guide to belonging. They challenge us to navigate our relationship to ourselves, our community at large, and the home we create with our friends and loved ones.\" Archie Bongiovanni, author of \u003cem\u003eA Quick \u0026amp; Easy Guide to They\/Them Pronouns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I've been receiving nothing but good life advice from S. Bear Bergman for just about thirty years now. With this book on your shelf, so can you. At every crossroad in your life, you'll have loving guidance from a smart, kind big brother, a fun and funny uncle, and a best-ever daddy.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\" title=\"Kate Bornstein\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eGender Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book allows the reader to spend quality time with the internet's wise, friendly uncle-dad, who is here to teach you how to avoid making the same mistakes he did and how to be gentle with yourself when you inevitably make some new ones of your own. The charming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson expand upon the text in charming and often hilarious ways, and Bergman's advice manages to be truthful and direct without ever feeling didactic, as he delivers even the toughest love with maximum compassion and maximum love for humans, in all our frailty and weirdness.\" Jennifer Peepas, writer of CaptainAwkward.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A delightful, neatly intersectional graphic compendium of advice tailored to a variety of situations lands as so down-to-earth that few readers will mind that it's telling them what to do. Bergman approaches his mission with humility, humor, and practicality . .. Delivered with more than a spoonful of kindness, this medicine goes down easy and has the potential to facilitate real healing.\" \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: S. Bear Bergman\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eArtist: Saul Freedman-Lawson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN:  9781551528540\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 272 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175381020765,"sku":"9781551528540","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/special_topics_image-front-cover1_rb_fullcover.jpg?v=1654989006"},{"product_id":"on-microfascism-gender-war-and-death","title":"On Microfascism: Gender, war, and death","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRooted in an understanding of how the fascist body is constructed, we can develop the collective power to dismember it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFascist and reactionary populist forces have undeniably swelled in the US in recent years. To effectively counter fascist movements, we need to understand them beyond their most visible and public expressions. To do this, Jack Bratich asserts, we must dig deeper into the psyche and body that gives rise to fascist formations. There we will find microfascism, or the cultural ways in which a fascist understanding of the world is generated from the hatreds that suffuse everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy highlighting the misogyny at fascism’s core, we are able to observe a key process in the formation of a fascist body. Recognizing the microfascism behind appeals to recover the past glory of white male subjects created by earlier foundational wars, we see how histories of settler colonialism, genocide, and domination are animating the deadly mission of fascism today. By focusing on the variety of ways the resurgent fascist tendency courts its own destruction (and demands the destruction of others), we can trace how fascism refines and expands the death and annihilation that underpins capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe implications of \u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e are far-reaching and unsettling. Still, Bratich insists, the new fascism is not as powerful as its adherents wish us to believe. To defeat it, we must develop and defend a “micro-antifascism” grounded in the ethics of mutual aid and care in the everyday. Rooted in an understanding of how the fascist body is constructed, we can develop the collective power to dismember it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJack Z. Bratich\u003c\/strong\u003e is professor in the Journalism and Media Studies Department at Rutgers University. He is author of \u003cem\u003eConspiracy Panics: Political Rationality and Popular Culture\u003c\/em\u003e and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eFoucault, Cultural Studies, and Governmentality. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eListen to an interview with the author:\u003ciframe allow=\"autoplay\" frameborder=\"no\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1245356917\u0026amp;color=%23ff5500\u0026amp;auto_play=false\u0026amp;hide_related=false\u0026amp;show_comments=true\u0026amp;show_user=true\u0026amp;show_reposts=false\u0026amp;show_teaser=true\u0026amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv style=\"font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;\"\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freecityradio\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Free City Radio\"\u003eFree City Radio\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/freecityradio\/104-jack-z-bratich-on-the-book-on-microfascism-gender-death-and-war\" style=\"color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"104. Jack Z. Bratich on the book, On Microfascism, Gender, Death, and War\"\u003e104. Jack Z. Bratich on the book, On Microfascism, Gender, Death, and War\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e stands out as a uniquely important offering, in which Bratich goes further and deeper than most every text dedicated to naming and understanding the fascism(s) of today. In this rigorous and righteous book, Bratich rightly insists on the insufficiency of seeing fascism only when it arises in State regime form. Through which subjectivities, practices, hierarchies and cultural forms do fascistic constellations permeate and grow? Bratich's razor-sharp analysis provides invaluable answers, and in so doing, offers a crucial tool for antifascist praxis.\" Natasha Lennard, author of \u003cem\u003eBeing Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e is a profoundly original and compelling analysis of fascism's deep roots in Western traditions of patriarchy. By pinpointing the foundational role of the concept of autogenetic sovereignty and charting its many implications for how we live and die, Bratich equips readers with the intellectual framework necessary to wage not only an anti-fascist struggle, but an anti-microfascist struggle.” Mark Bray, author of \u003cem\u003eAntifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It was hard to miss the wake-up call: fascism is back, no doubt about it, but in the novel formations of a micro-fascist culture that is directing the contemporary production of subjectivity. Jack Bratich not only undertakes a probing analysis of the mechanisms of the misogynistic, racist death-style of the self-affirming sovereign micro-fascist subject, but he most importantly proposes a number of welcome responses for living, to paraphrase Foucault, a micro-anti-fascist life. This book puts its readers on the path to such an art of living.” Gary Genosko, Professor of Communication and Digital Media Studies at Ontario Tech University in Oshawa, Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e provides crucial insight into the gendered dynamics and libidinal binds of everyday fascisms. In a devastating analysis of the necropolitical drive and militarized infatuations of fascist subjectivity, Bratich highlights the concerted authoritarian desire for the restoration and renewal of white supremacist heteropatriarchy. \u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism \u003c\/em\u003eis a generative companion to such significant and varied studies as Ewa Majewska’s and Natasha Lennard’s writing on antifascist feminism and Klaus Theweleit’s classic analysis of the misogynistic psychopathologies of the German Freikorps.” Alyosha Goldstein, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eFor Antifascist Futures: Against the Violence of Imperial Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOn Microfascism\u003c\/em\u003e unpacks the deeply disturbing gender narratives that underskirt our societies and create an insurgent cruelty that corrodes our human relationships. This is an incredible intervention in the crisis we are living through and calls for us to collectively look deeper when responding to the growth of misogynist, white supremacist movements.\" Shane Burley, author of \u003cem\u003eWhy We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jack Bratich has written a compelling and original discourse on how microfascism presents itself nowadays and how this is imbued with misogyny, the cult of death, and violence in many forms, war included. A must-read for all scholars and activists concerned with the historical, political, and social need to understand in time the real nature and the more or less weak signs of the emergent dimensions of this political phenomenon.” Leopoldina Fortunati, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Arcane of Reproduction: Housework, Prostitution, Labor and Capital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFrom the Book\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDaryush “Roosh V” Valizadeh is an award-winning misogynist. It was perhaps too early (February) in a year (2014) that saw the rise of Gamergate and Milo Yiannapolis to dub him the “Web’s most infamous misogynist,” but he didn’t let his competitors take the spotlight so easily.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoosh V is a self-made man. Not that he has cultivated an independent livelihood nor even lived the good neoliberal life by taking responsibility for his entrepreneurial self. Instead, and perhaps counter to the commonsensical notion of the self-made man, Roosh V’s life trajectory in the 2010s encapsulates a microfascist masculinity, or what I am calling \u003cem\u003eautogenetic sovereignty. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoosh V rose to prominence as an early pick-up artist (PUA) with a global orientation and a series of sex tourism books on how to get laid in different nations. This could be seen as microfascist performance art, since it was unlike any modern, plebian variation of dating con-artistry but, like his website, Return of Kings, heralded his self-ordained royal lineage. The newness of what he dubbed “neomasculinity” resulted from rummaging through the past (reactionary Christianity, ideological evolutionary biology, and Stoic philosophy) to find “old ways of helping men” restore a lost patriarchal order. His mission: to renew and spread a \u003cem\u003emonarchical masculinity. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLike any good traditional hero Roosh V has faced some existential ordeals, which in his case could all be conveyed in one word: women. His entire PUA project is founded on the notion that female consent is a “barrier to be surpassed or sidestepped.” Roosh V needed women as an obstacle to overcome and renew the sovereignty he always innately had anyway. Feminists were especially an obstacle, as they were the “reason that the ‘masculine man’ has apparently disappeared from the world.” His response to this crisis, a blog post titled “How to Turn a Feminist Into your Sex Slave,” was to remind everyone of his sovereign power by reasserting mastery over them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDespite being a self-made man, Valizadeh relied on women as objects to blame and instruments to renew his status. Valizadeh’s rallying cry was that “women forced him to act in a certain manner.” Men were sovereigns but under constant threat. Feminists in particular were so perniciously clever that he even blamed them for misogynistic killings, calling Elliot Rodger “the First Feminist Mass Murderer.” Classicist Donna Zuckerberg has pointed out that, for all Valizadeh’s claimed affiliation with Stoicism, “it is difficult to imagine a less Stoic pastime than ridiculing and attacking feminist writers for their ideas and physical appearances.” The self-made man, always on the brink of losing his subjective kingdom, must remake himself. This is done again and again through the reduction of women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eValizadeh’s sovereign acts include edicts to: repeal women’s suffrage and for men to pass pro-men laws; redefine rape according to his own standards (“All Public Rape Allegations Are False”); and revive more traditional forms of the sexual traffic in women (by giving men absolute control over their female kin). Perhaps tired of providing so much nuance in his proclamations, he issued a blog-decree in language even non-sovereigns could understand: “Women Must Have Their Behavior and Decisions Controlled by Men.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSovereigns have often found themselves under attack, needing safe spaces like forts and castles. In 2016, Valizadeh faced his own grand battle, as his valiant attempt to hold court off the Internet was ruined by the threats of marauding hordes of women. Valizadeh had issued a call for nationwide in-real-life meetups for the many kings and kinglets in training. After hearing that women were going to show up with the intent of disrupting these men’s assemblies and squad roundtables, he canceled the event, declaring that he had been victimized by feminist harassment. His claim of victimhood only fueled his royal renewal project since it’s embedded in “the dynamic of masculine injury and capacity—the injury is that masculinity has been lost, and the role of popular misogyny is to find and restore it.”The king never fully arrives—his “return” is a renewal of capacities at the expense of women’s capacities, via the further injuries visited upon them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHowever, at least one woman provides something other than epic ordeals for Roosh V: his mother. The self-made Roosh-man makes himself thanks to the supportive infrastructure of his mom. His version of MGTOW (Men Going Their Own Way) involves going his own way down the stairs to his mother’s basement. His man cave—in good necrophilic fashion—is a simulated womb, now filled with things hostile to the bearer of its predecessor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe self-made man is obviously impossible. Moreover, it is a \u003cem\u003eredundant\u003c\/em\u003e phrase. Valizadeh embodies—in a distorted simulated way—what I’m calling autogenetic sovereignty. This might seem like a more convoluted way of saying self-made man and to some degree that is correct. But the “self-made man” phrase has a contemporary sociological connotation that limits its explanatory power. “Self-making” goes much deeper into the history of social power than the modern entrepreneur or success story can convey. And it has to do with the long history of microfascism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAutogenetic sovereignty harkens back to an idea that a subject can create itself \u003cem\u003eex nihilo\u003c\/em\u003e, disconnected from material connections and contexts. This very separation, as well see, is part of a long-standing patriarchal form of masculinity that distinguishes itself from women, turns to abstraction, and grounds itself in its own fabulations \u003cem\u003eall at once\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMasculinity as such, traced through notions of sovereignty, is defined by autogenesis, a sovereign act of power to define and create oneself. The self-made sovereign is the primary sovereign act. The phrase “self-made man” is thus redundant, as to be a man is already to have the claimed power to make itself. This is key to our understanding of microfascism as autogenetic sovereignty only exists as a process of renewal (rebirth) and elimination (of women).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRoosh might be an exemplar but it’s the regularity and norm of masculine subjectivity that is under investigation here. Why are self-made men so adamant about their separation? Why do they incessantly have to assert sovereignty rather than just be sovereigns? Why does the repeated recreation of sovereignty depend so much on managing others, and more specifically, on depleting the capacities of others?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jack Z. 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It honors trans ancestors and contemporary activists, artists, and writers fighting for trans liberation.\u003c\/span\u003e There Are Trans People Here is a testament to the healing power of community and the beauty of trans people, history, and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDownload a study guide for There Are Trans People Here: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/pdfs\/14\" class=\"underlined-link\" download=\"ThereAreTransPeopleHere_StudyGuide.pdf\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.haymarketbooks.org\/pdfs\/14\"\u003eDownload\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“H. Melt’s matter-of-fact, precise, cartographic poems perform necessary care work for the trans people and places they attend to and yearn toward. 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In a time of great uncertainty, fear, and isolation, queer activists organized for health equity, prison abolition, racial justice, and more. Nobody who lived through the COVID-19 pandemic will soon forget the challenges, sacrifices, and incredible loss felt during such an uncertain time in history. \u003cem\u003eCrisis and Care\u003c\/em\u003e addresses not what happened during COVID-19, or why it happened, but rather how queer activists responded in real time. It considers the need to memorialize resiliency as well as loss, hope as well as pain, to remember the strides forward as well as the steps back. Activist contributors Zephyr Williams, Mark Travis Rivera, Jamie Gliksberg, Denise Spivak, Emmett Patterson, Omar Gonzales-Pagan, Kenyon Farrow, and more provide a radical lens through which future activists can consider effective strategies to make change, even or perhaps especially, during periods of crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Adrian Shanker has emerged in recent years as an urgent and prescient voice on matters concerning queer health. \u003cem\u003eCrisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic\u003c\/em\u003e is timely, important and shares a message we ignore at our own peril. The response to COVID-19 from LGBTQ communities is informed by our own experience with a deadly pandemic made vastly worse by poor presidential leadership. Our lived experience over the past 40 years has valuable lessons for how we should be addressing today’s viral threats.” Sean Strub, author of \u003cem\u003eBody Counts: A Memoir of Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“How did we respond? That is the central question in \u003cem\u003eCrisis and Care\u003c\/em\u003e. Lots of books will look at COVID-19, but this book looks at how LGBTQ activists responded to one of the most challenging moments of our lives.” Igor Volsky, author of \u003cem\u003eGuns Down: How to Defeat the NRA and Build a Safer Future with Fewer Guns\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eCrisis and Care\u003c\/em\u003e, Adrian Shanker and the contributing authors make the bold case that we are defined not by the bad things that happen in our society, but by how our community responds.” Robyn Ochs, editor of \u003cem\u003eBi Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eCrisis and Care\u003c\/em\u003e tells stories about Queer people’s experiences during COVID-19 that needs to be memorialized as another example of our community’s resiliency in times of crisis. This book presents the stories of how LGBTQ community members came together to help one another not only survive the pandemic, but also our determination to thrive despite the failures of the federal government’s response.” David Heitstuman, executive director of the Sacramento LGBT Community Center\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAdrian Shanker\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e (he\/him) is editor of the critically acclaimed anthology \u003ci\u003eBodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health\u003c\/i\u003e (PM Press, 2020) and the new anthology \u003ci\u003eCrisis and Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic\u003c\/i\u003e.  He is executive director of the Spahr Center, serving Marin County, California’s LGBTQ+ and HIV communities. He previously founded and led Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, Pennsylvania. A specialist in LGBTQ+ health policy, he has developed leading-edge health promotion campaigns to advance health equity through behavioral, clinical, and policy changes. Adrian is also a Biden-Harris appointee to the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV\/AIDS. He lives on unceded Coast Miwok land in the San Francisco Bay Area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRea Carey\u003c\/b\u003e served as the National LGBTQ Task Force’s executive director from 2008 to 2021 and has advanced a vision of freedom for LGBTQ people and their families that is broad, inclusive, and progressive. She grounds her work solidly in racial, economic, gender and social justice. Currently, Rea is the principal of Carey Forward consulting, providing executive coaching and working with executives and boards to provide strategic advice, succession and transition planning, crisis management, and to sharpen their leadership skills.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445161996381,"sku":"9781629639352","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1260_9781629639352_FC.jpg?v=1661174460"},{"product_id":"we-wont-be-here-tomorrow-and-other-stories","title":"We Won't Be Here Tomorrow, and Other Stories","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSpaceships, man-eating mermaids, swords, demons, ghouls, thieves, hitchhikers, and life in the margins.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMargaret Killjoy’s stories have appeared for years in science fiction and fantasy magazines both major and indie. Here, we have collected the best previously published work along with brand new material. Ranging in theme and tone, these imaginative tales bring the reader on a wild and moving ride. They’ll encounter a hacker who programs drones to troll CEOs into quitting; a group of LARPers who decide to live as orcs in the burned forests of Oregon; queer, teen love in a death cult; the terraforming of a climate-changed Earth; polyamorous love on an anarchist tea farm during the apocalypse; and much more. Killjoy writes fearless, mind-expanding fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Killjoy is an exciting, radical gust of freshness and anarchic energy that leaves you seeing the world with new eyes. These stories showcase Killjoy's electrifying range, and lets us into the genuine warmth of characters who are often sidelined by the world at large.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTobias Buckell, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times Bestseller Halo: The Cole Protocol\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"With indelible characters, unruly worlds, and lively wry prose, the stories in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Won't Be Here Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e insist on motivations, desires, actions, and affinities unbound by conventional expectations.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMadeline Ffitch, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStay and Fight: A Novel\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"This book puts the punk back into punk. Margaret Killjoy knows about resistance and solidarity, about spellcasting and hitchhiking; she also knows about that one ghost whispering to you. Margaret has a singularly principled approach that comes through every story: read this collection to help orient yourself in quiet forests and in near-future battlegrounds alike. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Won’t Be Here Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e is the rare book that is both knife-sharp and empathetic, that shows you how to fight and also makes you consider why. Read it, tell your friends—your enemies will scramble to catch up.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBogi Takács, editor of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranscendent 2\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranscendent 3\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"I always feel such relief and recognition reading one of Margaret Killjoy's stories. Here there are punks and monsters and orcs and the always-approaching apocalypse, and none of the alienating niceties of middle-class aspirations. She's not writing nice stories about nice people. It's all hope and hunger and dirt under your fingernails instead. Thank fuck.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNino Cipri, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFinna \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHomesick: Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Whistling sweetly toward the gallows, Margaret Killjoy’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Won’t Be Here Tomorrow\u003c\/em\u003e really is all about the friends (and many missteps) we’ll make along the way.\"\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Future Fire\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Suspenseful and thought-provoking, this collection moves skillfully from humor to horror, depicting human strength and determination against forces both supernatural and all too real. We might not be here tomorrow, but we’ll fight like hell today.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRadon Journal\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMargaret Killjoy\u003c\/strong\u003e is a transfeminine author born and raised in Maryland who was spent her adult life traveling with no fixed home. A 2015 graduate of Clarion West, Margaret’s short fiction has been published by \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTor.com\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eStrange Horizons\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVice’s Terraform\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFireside Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e, amongst others. She is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/en-us\/products\/a-country-of-ghosts\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-href=\"https:\/\/www.akpress.org\/countryofghosts.html\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Country of Ghosts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Barrow Will Send What it May\u003c\/em\u003e. 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This is a collective story of trans women of color, who were sex workers and radical political organizers, who created shared housing to ensure that young people had safe places to sleep. It is the story of clean syringes, \"liberated\" from empathetic doctors’ offices by activists who were punk women of color who distributed them among injection drug users in squats in the East Village, and the early AIDS activists who made sure that everyone knew how to use them. It is the story of Black Panthers and the Young Lords taking over Lincoln Park Hospital in the Bronx to demand and ultimately create community-accessible drug treatment programs; and of bad date sheets passed between sex workers in Portland, who created a data collection tool that changed how prison abolitionists track systemic violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt a political moment when Liberatory Harm Reduction and mutual aid are more important than ever, this book serves as an inspiration and a catalyst for radical transformation of our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e. Introduction by Tourmaline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Saving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is rooted in Shira Hassan’s extensive experience and commitment to harm reduction as a liberatory practice. This is a book grounded in deep love for those who are most marginalized in our society and respectfully documents their stories and emancipatory analyses. This open-hearted book is illuminating, informative and inspiring. It will have a forever place on my bookshelf.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mariame-kaba\"\u003eMariame Kaba\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe Do This 'Til We Free Us\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"This vital book is a spark, a balm, an agitation, a blessing, a celebration. Through narrative and research and conversation and reflection, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e tears down the myths perpetuated by the medical-industrial complex and prison-industrial complex, and shows us how communities have been building ways to survive and heal in spite of--and against--these systems. Shira Hassan’s book is at once expansive and personal, far-reaching and like coming home. I'm going to return to it again and again, and you will too.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMaya Schenwar, co-author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison by Any Other Name \u003c\/em\u003eand editor-in-chief\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, Truthout\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"Grounded, brilliant, and generous - \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives: A Liberatory Practice of Harm Reduction\u003c\/em\u003e offers key tools, histories, testimony and analysis to deepen our everyday work to support ourselves and our beloved communities. As always, deep gratitude to the visionary Shira Hassan for this luminescent collection, resplendent with the power to shift hearts and minds. A must read for organizers, educators and all of us working to do more than struggle and survive.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/erica-r-meiners\"\u003eErica R. Meiners\u003c\/a\u003e, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolition-feminism-now\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition. Feminism. Now.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"This brilliantly moving book - at once a generous love letter to our freedom movements and an urgent demand for radical transformative work - will inspire readers not only to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethink\u003c\/em\u003e about harm reduction differently, but to actually \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elive\u003c\/em\u003e in ways that reflect a commitment to its liberatory potential. Shira Hassan has brought together an amazing chorus of voices that includes freedom fighters, political educators, cultural workers, BIPOC leaders and disability justice activists whose analyses and reflections offer exactly the kind of collective wisdom and encouragement that we need right now. Indeed, the possibility of a radical queer abolitionist future is closer because of Shira Hassan has so beautifully helped us understand the potential for freedom when we engage in a process of saving our own lives.\"\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eBeth Richie, co-author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/abolition-feminism-now\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbolition. Feminism. Now.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Saving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the most important books that I have read in a long time. Shira Hassan defines and emphasizes the necessary intersections of multiple growing movements for reproductive justice, transformative justice, disability justice, anti-criminalization of sex work, healing justice, and abolition. This is the first book that has explicitly brought our movements together to highlight the importance of our shared analyses and commitments. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is also a tribute to leaders, organizers, care workers, and icons who have long been at the forefront of liberatory struggles, but have been historically neglected or deemed disposable by mainstream and leftists movements. This book weaves together painful stories, astute political insights, research, theory, and lived experiences to remind readers of the importance of community and our commitments to one another. For those of us who have been at the outskirts of multiple spaces and places, this is a guide, an affirmation book, a welcomed mirror, an entire embrace. This book reminds us that the power has always been with us and it welcomes everyone else to learn from and to join us.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConnie Wun, co-founder of AAPI Women Lead\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e“With \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e, Shira Hassan has yet again provided an immensely practical, grounded, inspiring, indispensable tool for our struggles. This book will introduce a whole new generation of organizers who got involved in anti-police mobilizing and COVID mutual aid projects to the history, principles and practices of liberatory harm reduction, which are essential for ensuring this work resists paternalistic charity dynamics, brings everyone along, and actually builds the new world we need rather than just tinkering with the broken institutions that currently dominate us. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is packed with compelling stories that show what liberatory harm reduction is and what it can do, and what tensions surround its practice that need to be attended to with care by its practitioners. Shira shares her particular wisdom, gleaned from years of practice in communities most harmed by policing and coercive social services and healthcare models, showing paths forward that generate community-based solutions that we can all start working on right now. This book is easy to read, and ready to inspire us all as we take the difficult and urgent next steps confronting the unfolding crises of our times.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e is a courageous, insightful, and vulnerable offering from Shira Hassan, pulled from three decades of her life and movement history. Part narrative of how she saved her own life along with many others, part handbook on how practicing harm reduction creates liberatory and resilient movements, and part history lesson illustrating the role that harm reduction has played for decades past and decades to come. This book is an essential read, as oppressed communities are co-figuring how to survive these times together.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEjeris Dixon, Executive Director of Vision Change Win\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\"As someone who has had the privilege of learning from Shira Hassan and her community of liberatory harm reductionists, I know what an incredible gift it is that now the rest of the world can too. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e fiercely reclaims the roots of harm reduction in disabled, Indigenous, Black, queer, trans, sex working, drug using, and migrant communities, and challenges conventional wisdoms around treatment, service provision, violence, trauma, survival, resilience, empowerment, and change in ways that are absolutely essential in the current moment, and to build the futures we want. Whether we are looking for lessons on how to tackle the opioid crisis, interrupt and heal from violence, or ensure reproductive justice for all, the chorus of voices gathered in this volume offer incisive, insightful, and practical real talk from the frontlines. Simultaneously irreverent and serious as a heart attack, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSaving Our Own Lives\u003c\/em\u003e tells it like it is and as it needs to be if we are all going to survive what is unfolding now and what is to come.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAndrea J. Ritchie, Interrupting Criminalization and co-author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo More Police: A Case for Abolition\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Saving Our Own Lives \u003c\/em\u003eis truly a priceless gift to the world. Each chapter or revolutionary love note recounts the beautiful, brilliant, and, at times, painful histories of the family of Black, Indigenous and People of Color organizers, people in the sex trade, sex workers, young people, queer people, trans people, and those whose street-based strategies for survival and love created what we now know as 'harm reduction.' There are so many lessons on each and every page, all exquisitely written to document stories that we should already know and principles of liberation that we should be practicing every day. This book should be read page by page by everyone and held close at hand for constant reminders of those to whom we owe so much. Shira Hassan in collaboration with her revolutionary harm reduction family has created an incredible book that has such relevance to our continued co-creation of a liberatory abolitionist future.\u003ci\u003e\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMimi Kim, founder of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/creative-interventions\"\u003eCreative Interventions\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40640237011037,"sku":"9781642598414","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/savingourownlives9781642598414-f_medium-a2a959ebbdc14bb9f352fb250c742d62.jpg?v=1666804172"},{"product_id":"the-transgender-issue-trans-justice-is-justice-for-all","title":"The Transgender Issue: Trans Justice Is Justice for All","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn incisive case for trans justice from a powerful new voice.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn this brilliant introduction to trans politics, journalist Shon Faye gives an incisive overview of systemic transphobia and argues that the struggle for trans rights is necessary to any struggle for social justice.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e So often, Faye argues, trans people are understood as a “side issue,” the subjects of a toxic and increasingly polarized debate which generates reliable controversy for newspapers and talk shows. This media frenzy conceals a simple fact: that we are having the wrong conversation, a conversation in which trans people themselves are reduced to a talking point and denied a meaningful voice.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e With skill, rigor, and heart, Faye uncovers the reality of what it means to be trans in a transphobic society. In this compellingly readable study, she explores issues of class, family, housing, healthcare, sex work, the prison system, and trans participation in the LGBTQ+ and feminist communities. What she finds, ultimately, is that when we fight for trans liberation, we fight for a better world for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“My god, this book couldn’t be more timely here in the USA. I hope that all of my trans family come to understand from this book that no matter how hard others try to make us an issue, we are first and always people, individuals, and brave ones at that.” \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eGender Outlaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Writing with astonishing patience, clarity, and ethical force, Shon Faye has gifted us an essential primer for our times. The Transgender Issue calls us into a much-needed solidarity, and makes the project of constructing and inhabiting a more free and just world for everyone feel urgent, possible, and exhilarating.” Maggie Nelson, author of \u003cem\u003eOn Freedom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Shon Faye has written a book that models clarity in its writing and its moral vision... One learns here how to distinguish between arguments that merit a response and those which should be refused because they are either cruel or stupid. This is a monumental work and utterly convincing - crystal clear in its understanding of how the world should be.” \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/judith-butler\"\u003eJudith Butler\u003c\/a\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A powerful new call for trans liberation.” Amia Srinivasan, \u003cem\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Shon Faye makes a compelling case that transgender issues are inexorably linked with other social justice causes. The result is a bold and pragmatic guide for challenging societal transphobia comprehensively and intersectionally.” Julia Serano, author of \u003ci\u003eSexed Up\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“A clear, intelligent, experience-based explanation of why the scapegoating of trans people must stop, while enthusiastically encouraging more trans people to join feminist, anti-racist movements for economic and social change.” \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sarah-schulman\"\u003eSarah Schulman\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"edition-single--book-reviews-header\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShon Faye\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer based in London. She was an editor-at-large at Dazed, and her writing has been published by the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVice\u003c\/em\u003e, among others. Faye recently launched an acclaimed podcast series, \u003cem\u003eCall Me Mother\u003c\/em\u003e, interviewing trailblazing LGBTQ elders. This is her first book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689673699421,"sku":"9781839768392","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781839768392-e6ca06bc4a994acdc0d943a7f5632d5c.jpg?v=1669135206"},{"product_id":"gender-outlaw-on-men-women-and-the-rest-of-us","title":"Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e***This book is remaindered. Remaindered books normally are marked on the edge to show they have been discounted.***\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“I know I’m not a man ... and I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m probably not a woman, either.... The trouble is, we’re living in a world that insists we be one or the other.” \u003c\/strong\u003eWith these words, Kate Bornstein ushers readers on a funny, fearless, and wonderfully scenic journey across the terrains of gender and identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith a new introduction by the author\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn one level, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGender Outlaw\u003c\/i\u003e details Bornstein’s transformation from heterosexual male to lesbian woman, from a one-time IBM salesperson to a playwright and performance artist. But this particular coming-of-age story is also a provocative investigation into our notions of male and female, from a self-described nonbinary transfeminine diesel femme dyke who never stops questioning our cultural assumptions.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGender\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003csmall data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e Outlaw\u003c\/i\u003e was decades ahead of its time when it was first published in 1994. 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[She offers us] an abundance of questions—thoughtful, disarming, revelatory questions. \u003ci\u003eGender Outlaw \u003c\/i\u003eis an invitation to a dialogue, and it’s a conversation well worth having.” \u003ci\u003eMs.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kate Bornstein argues eloquently and passionately for scrapping the categories of women and men. Agree. Disagree. Read it!” Leslie Feinberg, author of \u003ci\u003eStone Butch Blues\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The first book of gender theory written by a transgendered person . . . includes countless insights, trenchant cultural analysis, and generous wit. . . . [It] will surely become a classic.” \u003ci\u003eWashington Blade\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kate Bornstein celebrates the power of claiming an identity without getting mired in the tarpits of identity politics. A breath of fresh air, the best of both worlds, strong enough for a man, yet made for a woman.” Holly Hughes, performance artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kate is an orgasm on two legs. Reading this book gives me a heart orgasm, and it could give you one too! \u003ci\u003eGender Outlaw \u003c\/i\u003eis a great work of love.” Annie Sprinkle, performance artist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kate Bornstein is a fierce and funny voice on the front lines of gender and sexual identity. Her wise heart and wild imagination challenge us to really own our bodies, our desires, our dreams.” Tim Miller, performance artist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKate Bornstein divides their time between New York City and the Rhode Island shore. 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She's at her very best here.\" \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Sketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful firecracker of a novel; it's not just one of the best books of the year, it's an instant classic of queer literature.\" NPR (\"Best Books of 2018\")\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Sycamore has always been a passionate and keen-eyed chronicler of the life and death of American cities, but here she's doing the best work of her life, and for good reason: she's writing for her life. With \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e, she's an avenging angel.\" \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSeattle Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"As stupefying and white-hot as the drugs coursing through Alexa's veins, Sycamore's latest is a love letter to and a formal complaint about the glitter and horror of the 1990s.\" \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"If there's any justice in this world, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e will become the definitive novel of life in Boston . .. It slyly trades 1990s nostalgia for a queer narrative that is mesmerizing and heartbreaking all at once.\" \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Millions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Descending into Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore's writing is like diving into a lake and submerging yourself into a more authentically emotional world . .. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e unveils like a spiraling phone message from someone you love, moving at the timeless pace of a high you keep rolling through to prevent crashing.\" \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The prose is the star of this novel, and the prose is a meticulously crafted simulation of a consciousness at work in real time. Often, that consciousness is drunk or high, up until the point where the speaker starts attending AA meetings, but while grammar might fracture, the rhythm of thinking is continuous. What in another writer's hands might be a straightforward recovery narrative is, here, a portrait of the non-linearity of all experience, including healing, and of the relentless pursuit of political and emotional truth, moment to moment.\" \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"h3\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMattilda Bernstein Sycamore is the author of two non-fiction titles and three novels, and the editor of five non-fiction anthologies. Her latest title, \u003ci\u003eThe Freezer Door\u003c\/i\u003e, is a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Editors' Choice, one of \u003ci\u003eO - The Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e's Best LGBTQ Books of 2020, and a finalist for both the PEN\/Jean Stein Book Award and a Lambda Literary Award. Her memoir, \u003ci\u003eThe End of San Francisco\u003c\/i\u003e, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2014, and her novel \u003ci\u003eSketchtasy\u003c\/i\u003e was one of NPR's Best Books of 2018. Her anthology \u003ci\u003eWhy Are Faggots So Afraid of Faggots?: Flaming Challenges to Masculinity, Objectification, and the Desire to Conform\u003c\/i\u003e was an American Library Association Stonewall Honor Book. Her latest anthology (her sixth) is \u003ci\u003eBetween Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis\u003c\/i\u003e, publishing in fall 2021. Her nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eTouching the Art\u003c\/i\u003e will be published by Soft Skull in 2023. She lives in Seattle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40743367606365,"sku":"9781551527291","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/sketchtasy.jpg?v=1669325576"},{"product_id":"exile-and-pride-disability-queerness-and-liberation","title":"Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1999, the groundbreaking\u003cem\u003e Exile and Pride\u003c\/em\u003e is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist\/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation. With a poet's devotion to truth and an activist's demand for justice, Clare deftly unspools the multiple histories from which our ever-evolving sense of self unfolds. His essays weave together memoir, history, and political thinking to explore meanings and experiences of home: home as place, community, bodies, identity, and activism. Here readers will find an intersectional framework for understanding how we actually live with the daily hydraulics of oppression, power, and resistance. At the root of Clare's exploration of environmental destruction and capitalism, sexuality and institutional violence, gender and the body politic, is a call for social justice movements that are truly accessible to everyone. With heart and hammer, Exile and Pride pries open a window onto a world where our whole selves, in all their complexity, can be realized, loved, and embraced.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003carticle style=\"max-height: none; height: 592px;\" data-readmore=\"\" aria-expanded=\"true\" id=\"rmjs-2\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Eli Clare's\u003ci\u003e Exile and Pride\u003c\/i\u003e . . . challenge[s] us to think beyond identity politics. This set of nine interconnected essays defies categorization in its exploration not only of queerness and disability but also of class, race, urban-rural divides, gender identity, sexual abuse, environmental destruction, and the meaning of home. . . . Clare gives us a vision of a broad-based and intersectional politics that can move us beyond the current divisions of single-issue movements.\" Rachel Rosenbloom, \u003ci\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"hide-endorsements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Eli Clare writes with the spirit of a poet and the toughness of a construction worker. The passion and skill of [his] writing will draw you inside a complex life and more deeply inside yourself.\" Jewelle Gomez, author of \u003ci\u003e The Gilda Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eExile and Pride\u003c\/i\u003e is a call to awareness, an exhortation for each of us to examine our connection to and alienation from our environment, our sexuality, and each other.\" Kenny Fries, author of \u003ci\u003e Body, Remember: A Memoir\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The books that move us most are the ones that help us make sense of our experience, that take pieces of what we already know and put it together with new insights, new analysis, enabling us to form a fresh vision of ourselves and our lives. For me, Audre Lorde's \u003ci\u003eSister Outsider\u003c\/i\u003e and Adrienne Rich's \u003ci\u003eOn Lies, Secrets and Silence\u003c\/i\u003e were such books, and there were significant others along the way. And now there's Eli Clare's \u003ci\u003eExile and Pride\u003c\/i\u003e.\" Suzanne Pharr, author of \u003ci\u003e Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEli Clare is a poet, essayist, activist, and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Marrow's Telling: Words in Motion\u003c\/i\u003e. He speaks regularly at universities and conferences throughout the United States about disability, queer identities, and social justice, and his writing has appeared in numerous periodicals and anthologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword to the 2015 Edition \/ Aurora Levins Morales  xi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Preface tot he 2009 Edition. A Challenge to Single-Issue Politics: Reflections from a Decade Later  xxi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Note About Gender, or Why is this White Guy Writing about Being a Lesbian?  xxvii\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Mountain  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part I: Place\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clearcut: Explaining the Distance  17\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Losing Home  31\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clearcut: Brutes and Bumper Stickers  51\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Clear Cut: End of the Line  61\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Casino: An Epilogue  71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Bodies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Freaks and Queers  81\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Reading Across the Grain  119\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Stones in My Pickets, Stones in My Heart  143\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments to the 1999 Edition  161\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Afterword to the 2009 Edition \/ \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e  165\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Notes  173\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Index  179\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40763920842845,"sku":"9780822360315","price":32.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/978-0-8223-6031-5_pr.jpg?v=1671468587"},{"product_id":"magodiz","title":"Magodiz","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMagodiz (Anishinabe language): a person who refuses allegiance to, resists, or rises in arms against the government or ruler of their country.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEverything that was green and good is gone, scorched away by a war that no one living remembers. The small surviving human population scavenges to get by; they cannot read or write and lack the tools or knowledge to rebuild. The only ones with any power are the mindless Enforcers, controlled by the Madjideye, a faceless, formless spiritual entity that has infiltrated the world to subjugate the human population.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA'tugwewinu is the last survivor of the Andwanikadjigan. On the run from the Madjideye with her lover, Bel, a descendant of the Warrior Nation, they seek to share what the world has forgotten: stories. In Pasakamate, both Shkitagen, the firekeeper of his generation, and his life's heart, Nitawesi, whose hands mend bones and cure sickness, attempt to find a home where they can raise children in peace without fear of slavers or rising waters. In Zhong yang, Riordan wheels around just fine, leading xir gang of misfits in hopes of surviving until until the next meal. However, Elite Enforcer H-09761 (Yun Seo, who was abducted as a child, then tortured and brainwashed into servitude) is determined to arrest Riordan for theft of resources and will stop at nothing to bring xir to the Madjideye. In a ruined world, six people collide, discovering family and foes, navigating friendship and love, and reclaiming the sacredness of the gifts they carry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWith themes of resistance, of ceremony as the conduit between realms, of transcending gender, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMagodiz\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful and visionary reclamation that Two-Spirit people always have and always will be vital to the cultural and spiritual legacy of their communities.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40861407182941,"sku":"9781551528991","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/magodiz9781551528991_cover1_rb_fullcover.jpg?v=1673459410"},{"product_id":"queer-little-nightmares-an-anthology-of-monstrous-fiction-and-poetry","title":"Queer Little Nightmares: An Anthology of Monstrous Fiction and Poetry","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe fiction and poetry of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e reimagines monsters old and new through a queer lens, subverting the horror gaze to celebrate ideas and identities canonically feared in monster lit. Throughout history, monsters have appeared in popular culture as stand-ins for the non-conforming, the marginalized of society. Pushed into the shadows as objects of fear, revulsion, and hostility, these characters have long conjured fascination and self-identification in the LGBTQ+ community, and over time, monsters have become queer icons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-c08b171081fcd8b12f0f59b1253133ee\" dir=\"ltr\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e, creatures of myth and folklore seek belonging and intimate connection, cryptids challenge their outcast status, and classic movie monsters explore the experience of coming into queerness. The characters in these stories and poems - the Minotaur camouflaged in a crowd of cosplayers, a pubescent werewolf, a Hindu revenant waiting to reunite with her lover, a tender-hearted kaiju, a lagoon creature aching for the swimmers above him, a ghost of Pride past - relish their new sparkle in the spotlight. Pushing against tropes that have historically been used to demonize, the queer creators of this collection instead ask: What does it mean to be (and to love) a monster?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eContributors include Amber Dawn, David Demchuk, Hiromi Goto, jaye simpson, Eddy Boudel Tan, Matthew J. 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If this groundbreaking anthology doesn't make your skin tingle, your mind pulse, and your heart expand, you may already be dead!” Daniel Scott Tysdal, author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe End Is in the Middle: Mad Fold-In Poems\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\"\u003e“These queer little nightmares kept me up all night, because I could not put them down. Energizing, thrilling, poetic and gorgeous, this anthology sparks and it singed me to my emotional core. I'm not scared of how deeply I fell in love with every monster and creature, every story and poem. I want to horror-heroine scream from the rooftops that everyone should read this book. Embrace your inner monster with this impeccable collection of stories and poems that will haunt and heal.” Dina Del Bucchia, author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDon't Tell Me What to Do\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"margin-left: 0cm; background: transparent;\"\u003e“Editors David Ly and Daniel Zomparelli have created a wondrous space for writers to explore monstrous impulses in poetry and prose. \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eQueer Little Nightmares\u003c\/i\u003e is a fantastical examination of where we are at this moment in time and a celebration of who we may become if we embrace our shadow selves with love. 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Revisiting basic concepts such as the people, the law, and sovereignty, Lorey derives an account of democracy in the present. Less a utopian manifesto than an experimentation with the means and time of politics, this work shows us in persuasive terms how enduring and persistent experimentation constitutes our present struggle.” Judith Butler, author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Force of Nonviolence\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Insightfully weaving together the best of European political philosophy (from Rousseau to Negri, from Benjamin to Foucault), queer-feminist thinking about care and debt, and the practices of radical democracy that occupy the streets and the squares in recurring waves, Isabell Lorey convokes a democracy in present tense that is up to the challenges of these turbulent times. Not to be missed.” Marta Malo, member of Precarias a la deriva\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIsabell Lorey\u003c\/b\u003e is a political theorist and a Queer Studies Professor at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) in Cologne and works for transversal texts (transversal.at), the publication platform of the European Institute for Progressive Cultural Policies (eipcp). 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