{"title":"Children and Youth","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"my-baby-rides-the-short-bus-the-unabashedly-human-experience-of-raising-kids-with-disabilities","title":"My Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn lives where there is a new diagnosis or drama every day, the stories in this collection provide parents of “special needs” kids with a welcome chuckle, a rock to stand on, and a moment of reality held far enough from the heart to see clearly. Featuring works by “alternative” parents who have attempted to move away from mainstream thought—or remove its influence altogether—this anthology, taken as a whole, carefully considers the implications of parenting while raising children with disabilities. From professional writers to novice storytellers including Robert Rummel-Hudson, Ayun Halliday, and Kerry Cohen, this assortment of authentic, shared experiences from parents at the fringe of the fringes is a partial antidote to the stories that misrepresent, ridicule, and objectify disabled kids and their parents.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This is a collection of beautifully written stories, incredibly open and well articulated, complicated and diverse: about human rights and human emotions. About love, and difficulties; informative and supportive. Wise, non-conformist, and absolutely punk rock!\u003c\/em\u003e\" —China Martens, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"If only that lady in the grocery store and all of those other so-called parenting experts would read this book! These true-life tales by mothers and fathers raising kids with \"special needs\" on the outer fringes of mainstream America are by turns empowering, heartbreaking, inspiring, maddening, and even humorous. Readers will be moved by the bold honesty of these voices, and by the fierce love and determination that rings throughout. This book is a vital addition to the public discourse on disability.\"\u003c\/em\u003e —Suzanne Kamata, editor of\u003cem\u003e Love You to Pieces: Creative Writers on Raising a Child with Special Needs\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"This is the most important book I've read in years. Whether you are subject or ally, \u003c\/em\u003eMy Baby Rides the Short Bus \u003cem\u003ewill open you—with its truth, humanity, and poetry. Lucky you to have found it. Now stick it in your heart.\" \u003c\/em\u003e—Ariel Gore \u003cem\u003e\"Disability is a uniquely humbling and equal experience, sometimes expected, often striking without warning. These parents are honest about both the distressing and illuminating facts of their lives; the stories are caustic, exhilarating, fierce, funny, harrowing. Yet despite the intricate and often overwhelming challenges they face, these parents and children never succumb to maudlin stereotypes, because, as one contributor learns, 'it isn't saintly to take care of someone you love.'\"\u003c\/em\u003e —Bee Lavender, author of \u003cem\u003eLessons in Taxidermy: A Compendium of Safety and Danger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJennifer Silverman is an optimist in a pessimist’s clothing. She lives, writes and agitates in NYC, where she is raising two boys, one of whom is autistic. Jennifer has most recently been published in \u003cem\u003eOff Our Backs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHip Mama\u003c\/em\u003e, but has written for a variety of parenting publications and community newspapers. She has spoken about her experience raising her son while being an activist at conferences in Washington DC, Minneapolis, Providence and New York with m*a*m*a, a now defunct collective of radical mothers. Sarah Talbot has been raising an autistic deaf punk-rocker since 1994. She and the other five members of her family reside happily in Seattle, Washington where she makes a living as an Assistant Principal at a comprehensive High School. She has come to be comfortable embodying contradictions—pleading for more services while recognizing progress, advocating for inclusion and protecting teachers, being the mom and being the writer. Sarah has been published in \u003cem\u003eBreeder: Stories from the New Generation of Mothers\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eBest Books For High School Students\u003c\/em\u003e, among numerous alternative periodical publications. Yantra Bertelli is the mother of four children and an unlikely pet owner. 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That's a remarkable feat, because at birth he was given only three years to live. Miriam Edelson is his mother, a dedicated fighter for Jake and families in similar situations. Edelson poses some tough questions: How do parents cope with a child who has special needs? Are we failing, as a society, to care for children with disabilities? Whatever happened to the federal government's promise of a \"Children's Agenda\"? My Journey with Jake works on two levels. It's a poignant memoir by a devoted mother, and a hard-hitting, well-researched look at health care for Canada's children. Miriam Edelson, and the story of her son Jake, have appeared across Canada in newspapers and magazines, and on television and CBC Radio. She works as a trade-union and disability-rights activist.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Miriam Edelson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781896357355\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 197 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Between the Lines\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2000\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Between the Lines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175046754397,"sku":"9781896357355","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_503_jake3_0.jpg?v=1654987024"},{"product_id":"generation-v-the-complete-guide-to-going-being-and-staying-vegan-as-a-teenager","title":"Generation V: The Complete Guide to Going, Being, and Staying Vegan as a Teenager","description":"\u003cp\u003eGoing vegan is the single most important thing you can do if you want to get serious about animal rights. Yet, going vegan isn't always easy when you're young. You're living under your parents' roof, you probably don't buy your own groceries, and your friends, family, and teachers might look at you like you're nuts. So, how do you do it? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this essential guide for the curious, aspiring, and current teenage vegan, Claire Askew draws on her years of experience as a teenage vegan and provides the tools for going vegan and staying vegan as a teen. Full of advice, stories, tips, and resources, Claire covers topics like: how to go vegan and stay sane; how to tell your parents so they don't freak out; how to deal with friends who don't get it; how to eat and stay healthy as a vegan; how to get out of dissection assignments in school; and tons more. Whether you're a teenager who is thinking about going vegan or already vegan, this is the ultimate resource, written by someone like you, for you.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An essential guide that covers all bases…this first effort is a welcome surprise” —\u003cem\u003eVegNews\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e“A book that is genuine and heartfelt while also being funny, personal, and theoretically rigorous\u003c\/em\u003e” —Bob Torres in the \u003cem\u003eVegetarian Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003e“This book is motivational, inspiring, resourceful and practical.”\u003c\/em\u003e ” —Herbivoreclothing.com\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Askew was born in 1990 and went vegan a few days after her fifteenth birthday. After growing up in the Midwest, she is currently studying English and gender at a small liberal arts college in Portland, OR. She has been featured in \u003cem\u003eVegNews \u003c\/em\u003emagazine, the \u003cem\u003eVegetarian Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eKansas City Star\u003c\/em\u003e, and several podcasts, as well as the 2009 edition of \u003cem\u003eFiske Real College Essays That Work\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Both of these projects have pushed the conversation around fathering beyond the safe, apolitical focus most books and websites stick to; they have not been complacent but have worked hard to create a diverse, multi-faceted space in which to grapple with the complexity of fathering. Today more than ever, fatherhood demands constant improvisation, risk, and struggle. With grace and honesty and strength, \u003cem\u003eRad Dad’s\u003c\/em\u003e writers tackle all the issues that other parenting guides are afraid to touch: the brutalities, beauties, and politics of the birth experience, the challenges of parenting on an equal basis with mothers, the tests faced by transgendered and gay fathers, the emotions of sperm donation, and parental confrontations with war, violence, racism, and incarceration. \u003cem\u003eRad Dad\u003c\/em\u003e is for every father out in the real world trying to parent in ways that are loving, meaningful, authentic, and ultimately revolutionary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eContributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSteve Almond, Jack Amoureux, Mike Araujo, Mark Andersen, Jeff Chang, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Jeff Conant, Sky Cosby, Jason Denzin, Cory Doctorow, Craig Elliott, Chip Gagnon, Keith Hennessy, David L. Hoyt, Simon Knapus, Ian MacKaye, Tomas Moniz, Zappa Montag, Raj Patel, Jeremy Adam Smith, Jason Sperber, Burke Stansbury, Shawn Taylor, Tata, Jeff West, and Mark Whiteley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e gives voice to egalitarian parenting and caregiving by men in a truly radical fashion, with its contributors challenging traditional norms of what it means to be a father and subverting paradigms, while making you laugh in the process. With its thoughtful and engaging stories on topics like birth, stepfathering, gender, politics, pop culture, and the challenges of kids growing older, this collection of essays and interviews is a compelling addition to books on fatherhood.” \u003c\/em\u003e—Jennifer Silverman, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eMy Baby Rides the Short Bus: The Unabashedly Human Experience of Raising Kids with Disabilities\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“With a diverse, smart, and political collection of contributors, \u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad \u003cem\u003ewill be an instant classic among the new generation of parents whose parenting intersects with their politics. There's no way you can put this book down without feeling both inspired and entertained by the bold honesty and fierce love heard in these voices.”\u003c\/em\u003e —Jessica Mills, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Mother Wears Combat Boots: A Parenting Guide for the Rest of Us\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e“\u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad \u003cem\u003eis one of the most important voices on the planet—at once parental, political, feminist, humble, and full of heart. In \u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e, none of our assumptions about parenting, gender, or the way things ‘have to be’ in the world go unexplored.” \u003c\/em\u003e—Ariel Gore, author of \u003cem\u003eBluebird: On Women and Happiness \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eThe Hip Mama Survival Guide\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e is a rattlebag of the rough-hewn and the polished, the insightful and the infuriating, the comic and the sublime. But it’s always passionate, critical and, in moments, heart-stopping. In short: \u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e is fab.\"\u003c\/em\u003e —Raj Patel, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Value of Nothing\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eRad Dad\u003cem\u003e is a book about all the shapes and sizes that dads come in, united by the simple narrative thread of man and his children. Read the book and love your kids. It's that simple.\"\u003c\/em\u003e —Tom Matlack, co-founder of The Good Men Project\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJeremy Adam Smith is the founder of the acclaimed blog \u003cem\u003eDaddy Dialectic\u003c\/em\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Daddy Shift\u003c\/em\u003e, and coeditor of \u003cem\u003eAre We Born Racist?\u003c\/em\u003e His essays, short stories, and articles have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Nation\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eMothering\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Bay Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eUtne Reader\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWired\u003c\/em\u003e, and numerous other periodicals and books. He lives in San Francisco. Tomas Moniz is the founder, editor, and a writer for the award-winning zine \u003cem\u003eRad Dad\u003c\/em\u003e . He has helped raise three children and has been making zines since the late nineties. He teaches basic skills classes at Berkeley City College and works with the National Writing Project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Jeremy Adam Smith, Tomas Moniz\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-481-6\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 200 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175071297629,"sku":"9781604864816","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_806_raddad3_0.jpg?v=1654987205"},{"product_id":"dont-leave-your-friends-behind-concrete-ways-to-support-families-in-social-justice-movements-and-communities","title":"Don't Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Your Friends Behind\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection of concrete tips, suggestions, and narratives on ways that non-parents can support parents, children, and caregivers in their communities, social movements, and collective processes. \u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Your Friends\u003c\/em\u003e Behind focuses on issues affecting children and caregivers within the larger framework of social justice, mutual aid, and collective liberation. How do we create new, nonhierarchical structures of support and mutual aid, and include all ages in the struggle for social justice? There are many books on parenting, but few on being a good community member and a good ally to parents, caregivers, and children as we collectively build a strong all-ages culture of resistance. Any group of parents will tell you how hard their struggles are and how they are left out, but no book focuses on how allies can address issues of caretakers’ and children’s oppression. Many well-intentioned childless activists don’t interact with young people on a regular basis and don’t know how. Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind provides them with the resources and support to get started. Contributors include: The Bay Area Childcare Collective, Ramsey Beyer, Rozalinda Borcilă, Mariah Boone, Marianne Bullock, Lindsey Campbell, Briana Cavanaugh, CRAP! Collective, a de la maza pérez tamayo, Ingrid DeLeon, Clayton Dewey, David Gilbert, A.S. Givens, Jason Gonzales, Tiny (aka Lisa Gray-Garcia), Jessica Hoffman, Heather Jackson, Rahula Janowski, Sine Hwang Jensen, Agnes Johnson, Simon Knaphus, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, London Pro-Feminist Men’s Group, Amariah Love, Oluko Lumumba, mama raccoon, Mamas of Color Rising\/Young Women United, China Martens, Noemi Martinez, Kathleen McIntyre, Stacey Milbern, Jessica Mills, Tomas Moniz, Coleen Murphy, Maegan ‘la Mamita Mala’ Ortiz, Traci Picard, Amanda Rich, Fabiola Sandoval, Cynthia Ann Schemmer, Mikaela Shafer, Mustafa Shakur, Kate Shapiro, Jennifer Silverman, Harriet Moon Smith, Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, Darran White Tilghman, Jessica Trimbath, Max Ventura, and Mari Villaluna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book is mind-blowing, brilliant, and urgently needed! It is full of useful models and strategies for creating resistance that breaks down barriers to participation for children and people caring for children, and integrates deeply transformative commitments to building radically different activist culture and practice. This is a must-read for anyone trying to build projects based in collective action.” —Dean Spade, author of \u003cem\u003eNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law\u003c\/em\u003e “Don't Leave Your Friends Behind is an essential resource for the interdependence revolution in progress. As a queer, chronically ill woman of color who loves and needs the parents and kids in my communities, I am hungry for these on the ground stories of how parents, allies, comrades, fam and friends are rewriting the world by refusing to hold mamas, papis and kids anywhere but at the center of our movements and communities, where we're supposed to be.” —Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eThe Revolution Starts at Home: Confronting Intimate Violence in Activist Communities\u003c\/em\u003e “Activist mothers Law and Martens propose that radical movements interested in winning must welcome parents and their children—the youngest rabble rousers. They have created a practical guide for us all to do just that, but with zero guilt trips and moralizing. \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ3In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/ruj3ab8u9u5qod9j-56208261213.shopifypreview.com\/products\/dont-leave-your-friends-behind-concrete-ways-to-support-families-in-social-justice-movements-and-communities\" title=\"Don't Leave Your Friends Behind\"\u003eDon't Leave Your Friends Behind\u003c\/a\u003e puts teeth into the slogan, Another World is Possible by showing us what a healthy left might look like.” —James Tracy, co-author of \u003cem\u003eHillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlack Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times\u003c\/em\u003e \"A powerful mixture of self-help and literature, putting ‘family values’ in a new light and on the agenda of social justice movements. And it's not just self-help for radicals who are parents, but food for everyone who seeks to become their better, more compassionate selves.\" —Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, activist, teacher, author of\u003cem\u003e Outlaw Woman: A Memoir of the War Years: 1960-1975\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria Law is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) Award and earned her the 2011 Brooklyn College Young Alumna Award. Widely known as the grandma of the mama zine scene and a pioneer in the genre of radical parenting writing, China Martens raised her daughter as a single mother on welfare and working poor while continuing to put out The Future Generation, the longest-running parenting zine in the history of the Western world (1990 to the present). Her daughter is nearly 24 years old and her zine has been anthologized into the book The Future Generation: The Zine-book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others (Atomic Book Company 2007).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Victoria Law, China Martens\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-396-3\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175100231773,"sku":"9781604863963","price":25.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1100_dontleave3_0.jpg?v=1654987411"},{"product_id":"stay-solid-a-radical-handbook-for-youth","title":"Stay Solid! 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From dealing with the cops to dealing with your peers, from school and community to drugs and sex, from race and class to money and mental health, \u003cem\u003eStay Solid!\u003c\/em\u003e provides essential support for radically inclined teens who believe that it's possible for all of us to hang on to our values and build a life we believe in. Compiled and edited by radical urbanist and educator Matt Hern, with the assistance of the youth community at Vancouver's Purple Thistle Centre, \u003cem\u003eStay Solid!\u003c\/em\u003e is for kids everywhere, and for anyone who considers themselves an ally—parents, teachers, neighbors, friends, relatives, and beyond. Contributors include \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjEzNzQ4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/michelle-alexander\" title=\"Michelle Alexander\"\u003eMichelle Alexander\u003c\/a\u003e, Michael Hardt, The Guerilla Girls, Dan Savage, Pete Jordan, Lisa Gray-Garcia, Shira Tarrant, Lee Naught, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e, Geoff Mann, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, Dawn Paley, The Baltimore Algebra Project, CrimethInc, and many, many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Stay Solid! is essential reading! A beacon of light for youth around the world. This unique collage of voices helps inform, inspire, and uplift the next generation.”— MK Asante, author of \u003cem\u003eIt’s Bigger Than Hip Hop\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBuck \u003c\/em\u003e “Get this book! Get it for your children, for your nephews and nieces, and for your friends. And get it for yourself, whether you are a kid or not. The radical wisdom contained inside transcends age and the ages.”—Astra Taylor, director of Examined Life “I wish this book had been written when I was in high school, and that I'd somehow gotten my hands on it. The world needs so much from us right now, but more than anything, it needs the recognition that we, each of us, all of us, have the power to change our surroundings for the better. Stay Solid is a celebration of the limitless possibilities in our everyday world.”—Dave Oswald Mitchell, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eBeautiful Trouble: A toolbox for revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eFull List of Contributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEirlys Rhiannon, Kelsey Savage, Eldon Hay , Miriam Ching Yoon Louie, Walker Banerd, Ivan Coyote, Julie Flett, Zora Moniz, Tomas Moniz, David Maduli, René Antrop-González, Daniel Grego, Anthony Meza-Wilson, Mathew Davis , Jay Gillen, Carla Bergman, Mike Jo, Benito Miller Deale, Chris Mercogliano, Liz Lichtman, Fly , Michael Hardt , Yotam Marom , Geoff Mann, Anita Olson , Seth Tobocman, Hari Alluri , Gabriel Teodros , Nadia Chaney, Anna Hunter, Starla Blue David Disaster, Strangers In A Tangled Wilderness, Stephanie Mcmillan, Marisela B. Gomez, Diana Pei Wu, Pete Jordan, Mark Douglas, John Holt , Shawna Murray, Sevé Torres, Lee Naught, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dan Savage, Rj Maccani, Leroy Wan, Shira Tarrant, Kenneth W. Tupper, Chrystal Smith , Peggy Millson, Mark Haden, Dawn Paley, Isaac K. Oomen, Andrea Schmidt, Chris Carlsson, Andalusia Knoll , Corin Browne , Guerrilla Girls , Sassafras Lowrey, Ivan Illich, Ching-In Chen, Tieraney Carter, Romi Chandra-Herbert , Cindy Crabb, Melia Dicker , Wendy-O-Matik , Wwoof Canada , Cole Robertson, Bianca Bockman, Elise Boeur , S. Brian Willson, Eylem Korkmaz, Beast Hero, Tiny, Aka Lisa Gray-Garcia, Dave Markland, Dana Putnam, Autumn Brown, Michelle Alexander, Yvonne Yen Liu, Luam Kidane, Antonio Te Maioha, Alan Goodman, Ijeoma Madubata, Imani Oliver, Janelle Kelly, Alex Mah , Jamie Heckert , Reg Johanson, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Marty Fink, Josiane Anthony-H , Sunaura Taylor, Bethany Stevens, Aj Ivings, Carmen Papalia, Eli Clare, Mia Mingus, Sylvia Mcfadden , Melanie Yergeau, Taiaiake Alfred, Glen Coulthard, Gord Hil, Ward Churchill, Joi T. Arcand, Andrea Lee Smith , Andrew Curley , Angela Sterritt, Richard J.F. Day, Hilary Moore, Derrick Jensen, Jo-Anne McArthur, Oliver Kellhammer, Ben West, Madhu Suri Prakash , Alexandra Henao-Castrillon, Sozan Savehilaghi, Guillermo Verdecchia, Bushra Rehman , No Borders, Carmen Aguirre, Victoria Law, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, Marla Renn, Arlin Ffrench, Pamela Cross, Test Their Logik, Testament , Adam Lewis, Vikki Reynolds , Sarah Quinter, Angela “El Dia” Martinez Dy, Dan Bushnell, Aaron Munro, Peter Morin, Sascha Altman Dubrul, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Ben Holtzman, Kalamity Hildebrandt, Ana Ambroz, Buffie Irvine, Joe Biel, Fiona De Balasi Brown, Manisha Singh, Danny Mcguire, GaChing Kong, Gustavo Esteva, Tasnim Nathoo, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" title=\"Adrienne Maree Brown\"\u003eAdrienne Maree Brown\u003c\/a\u003e, Dan Chodorkoff, One Crimethinc Ex-Worker, Maia Ramnath, \u0026amp; Mike Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Matt Hern \u0026amp; the Purple Thistle Centre\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849350990\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 350 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175117959261,"sku":"9781849350990","price":36.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1192_staysolid3_0.jpg?v=1654987543"},{"product_id":"for-the-win","title":"For the Win: A novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePLEASE NOTE THAT THIS BOOK IS REMAINDERED — Remaindered books are usually marked with a dot or line on one edge to show they have been discounted\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the virtual future, you must organize to survive At any hour of the day or night, millions of people around the globe are engrossed in multiplayer online games, questing and battling to win virtual “gold,” jewels, and precious artifacts. Meanwhile, others seek to exploit this vast shadow economy, running electronic sweatshops in the world’s poorest countries, where countless “gold farmers,” bound to their work by abusive contracts and physical threats, harvest virtual treasure for their employers to sell to First World gamers who are willing to spend real money to skip straight to higher-level gameplay. Mala is a brilliant 15-year-old from rural India whose leadership skills in virtual combat have earned her the title of “General Robotwalla.” In Shenzen, heart of China’s industrial boom, Matthew is defying his former bosses to build his own successful gold-farming team. Leonard, who calls himself Wei-Dong, lives in Southern California, but spends his nights fighting virtual battles alongside his buddies in Asia, a world away. 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Disappointed by run-of-the-mill parenting books that didn't speak to her experience, she set out to write a book tackling the issues faced by a new generation of moms and dads. The result is a parenting guide like no other. Written with humor, extensive research, and much trial and error, My Mother Wears Combat Boots delivers sound advice for parents of all stripes. Amid stories of bringing kids (and grandparents) to women's rights demonstrations, taking baby on tour with her band, and organizing cooperative childcare, Jessica gives detailed nuts-and-bolts information about weaning, cloth vs. disposable diapers, the psychological effects of co-sleeping, and even how to get free infant gear. This book provides a clever, hip, and entertaining mix of advice, anecdotes, political analysis, and factual sidebars that will help parents as they navigate the first years of their child's life. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jessica Mills is a great writer with a lot to say and the heart, guts, brains, and perseverance it takes to do it. My Mother Wears Combat Boots is an instant classic, the latest in the evolution of punk sensibilities into sustainable community action: full of real life experience and well-researched inquiry. 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The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day. Oppressed mothers create a generous space for life in the face of life-threatening limits, activate a powerful vision of the future while navigating tangible concerns in the present, move beyond individual narratives of choice toward collective solutions, live for more than ourselves, and remain accountable to a future that we cannot always see. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include June Jordan, Malkia A. 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A radical vision, many radical visions of how to mother in a time of resistance and of pain.” Alice Walker, Pulitzer Prize-winning author and activist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This is the book for readers who know mothering is not just about a baby and a mother or parents in an isolated suburban nursery, but that mothering happens in a context of generations, a context of racial history, and in a spiritual context; that it takes place from the shore line to the front line, in times of scarcity and abundance; that it is queer and love-filled. 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Alexis’s work as co-creator of the Mobile Homecoming experiential archive and documentary project has been featured in Curve magazine, the Huffington Post, in Durham Magazine and on NPR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChina Martens is a writer, glamazon, and empty-nest low-income anti-racist white radical single mother. She is the author of\u003cem\u003e The Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends and Others\u003c\/em\u003e (Atomic Book Company, 2007), and coeditor of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/dont-leave-your-friends-behind-concrete-ways-to-support-families-in-social-justice-movements-and-communities\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (PM Press, 2012). 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She was a young anarchist punk rock mother who didn't feel that the mamas in her community had enough support, so she began publishing articles on radical parenting in an age before the internet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe anthology of her zine, \u003cem\u003eThe Future Generation: The Zine-Book for Subculture Parents, Kids, Friends \u0026amp; Others\u003c\/em\u003e, was first printed in 2007 and has been out of print for many years. Covering sixteen years, it uses individual issues as chapters, focusing on personal writing, and retaining the character of a zine that changed over the years—from her daughter’s birth to teenagehood and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe are proud to present a tenth-anniversary edition including a new afterword by China's grown daughter, Clover. \u003cem\u003eThe Future Generation \u003c\/em\u003eremains a timeless resource for parents, caregivers, and those who care about them. Though first published in the 1990s, many of the essays and observations—about parenting, children, and surviving in a hostile political climate—still ring true today. The next four years are going to be especially demanding for those trying to balance parenting, politics, and survival. 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I felt like I had a sister in all the complex things I was feeling as a new mother.” —Mariahadessa Ekere Tallie, author of \u003cem\u003eKarma’s Footsteps \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eDear Continuum: Letters to a Poet Crafting Liberation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe Future Generation \u003c\/em\u003eis deeply touching and eye-openingly intimate.” —Jordannah Elizabeth, author of \u003cem\u003eDon’t Lose Track\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChina Martens is a zinestress extraordinaire based in Baltimore, MD. Her first book, \u003cem\u003eThe Future Generation\u003c\/em\u003e, is a compilation of sixteen years of her first zine. 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Noguera, author of \u003cem\u003eCity Schools and the American Dream\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Trouble with Black Boys: . . . and Other Reflections on Race, Equity, and the Future of Public Education\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In \u003cem\u003eTeaching Resistance \u003c\/em\u003ean extraordinary collective of educators combines a sophisticated analysis with philosophical nuance and original theorization of radical educational practices. This is a great collection and one that we need to understand radical education at the ground level—and to do so for a wide range of purposes.” —Andrej Grubačić, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eWobblies and Zapatistas \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLiving at the Edges of Capitalism: Adventures in Exile and Mutual Aid\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“At a time when white supremacist fascism has (re)asserted its ascendancy in the U.S., the putrid effluent perpetually oozing from its gangrenous societal tissues having become a torrent threatening to drown us all, resistance of the most concrete and effective sorts is imperative. In this respect, a book like \u003cem\u003eTeaching Resistance \u003c\/em\u003ecouldn’t be more urgently needed.” —Ward Churchill, author of \u003cem\u003eWielding Words like Weapons: Selected Essays in Indigenism, 1995–2005\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJohn Mink is a social studies teacher who has worked at the high school and adult school levels, and who refuses to hide his political radicalism from his students. He has been a contributing writer and editor for underground publications and zines including \u003cem\u003eSlingshot\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAbsolutely Zippo: A Fanzine’s Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eCollapse Board\u003c\/em\u003e. Editor of the \u003cem\u003eMaximum Rocknroll \u003c\/em\u003emonthly column “Teaching Resistance” and a vocalist\/bassist for several internationally recognized punk bands, John lives in Berkeley, California, with his partner Megan March, who is also his bandmate in the truewave\/punk group Street Eaters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: John Mink\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629637099\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 416 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175304507485,"sku":"9781629637099","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/teachingresistance.jpg?v=1654988399"},{"product_id":"love-with-accountability-digging-up-the-roots-of-child-sexual-abuse","title":"Love with Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse","description":"\u003cp\u003eA group of diasporic Black child sexual abuse survivors and advocates use transformative storytelling to explore how we can end child sexual abuse without relying upon racist institutions that brutalize Black people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite the current survivor-affirming awareness around sexual violence, child sexual abuse, most notably when it’s a family member or friend, is still a very taboo topic. There are approximately 42 million child sexual abuse survivors in the U.S. and millions of bystanders who look the other way as the abuse occurs and cover for the harm-doers with no accountability. Documentary filmmaker and survivor of child sexual abuse and adult rape, Aishah Shahidah Simmons invites diasporic Black people to join her in transformative storytelling that envisions a world that ends child sexual abuse without relying on the criminal justice system. Love WITH Accountability features compelling writings by child sexual abuse survivors, advocates, and Simmons’s mother, who underscores the detrimental impact of parents\/caregivers not believing their children when they disclose their sexual abuse. This collection explores disrupting the inhumane epidemic of child sexual abuse, humanely.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2020 Lambda Literary Award winner for Best LGBTQ Anthology!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With this brave and healing anthology of truth-telling about sexual abuse within Black families, Aishah Shahidah Simmons sets an example for all families. If we could all raise just one generation of children without violence or the threat of violence, who knows what might be possible?\" —Gloria Steinem\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[Love WITH Accountability] suggests that we need to think about accountability as a radical form of love, one that gets at the root of our social ills and pushes us to think beyond our current reality—to imagine other ways of relating to each other, to recognize the role we all play in upholding a violent culture and work toward transformative justice. Love WITH Accountability envisions and offers us steps toward creating that more equitable and collectively oriented world.\" —Jamia Wilson, \u003cem\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Aishah Shahidah Simmons's Love WITH Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse is a book that is wonderfully and sadly timeless. Simmons and the courageously skilled authors she's assembled write their bodies, memories and imaginations into calcified cracks and bleeding silences. Each piece opens up the absolute terror and consequence of sexual abuse of children, but somehow the entire book is as interested in looking back as it is at looking forward. Love With Accountability reminds me that willful people make liberation happen and willful people and willful art can obliterate terror.\" —Kiese Laymon, author of \u003cem\u003eHeavy: An American Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Love with Accountability is an honoring of our ancestors who dared to struggle, a gift to our movements fighting to create thriving communities and a guide for future generations to continue this work. Through Simmons self-work and community of activists, leaders and scholars, they have produced a collection of writings to expose painful truths, while also providing a roadmap for accountability that is based on love, not more false solutions. This book is for anyone who is willing to do the difficult, yet necessary work to end the global epidemic of child sexual abuse.\" —Charlene A. Carruthers, author of \u003cem\u003eUnapologetic: A Black, Queer and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Aishah Shahidah Simmons is always on time. Her film NO! helped me understand myself as a survivor. Now she offers us Love WITH Accountability, a book that guides readers through a new terrain of healing from childhood sexual abuse.... We are not alone, and we don't have to abandon love in order to live in justice. We have each other, and we are claiming our lives and our families, our transformation, and our healing, together. Thank you for this sharp, tender, reshaping of a text.” —adrienne maree brown, author of \u003cem\u003ePleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"To say that this anthology is long overdue doesn’t even begin to cover it. For decades, and lifetimes, LGBTQIAA survivors of color have been the backbone of the anti-violence movement and frequently their voices have been pushed into the cracks of the mainstream. A fierce offering of complex, powerful, necessary narratives and critique, Love With Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse dreams a new future into being: one where survivors are centered, and where we can dare to believe that accountability and true justice is possible. This is a gift of a book and the ripples of it’s impact will be with us for decades to come.\" —Jennifer Patterson, \u003cem\u003eQueering Sexual Violence: Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Not only have the contributors to this anthology found the bravery to share their survival stories, they have also developed practical and urgent solutions to one of the of most pervasive forms of violence impacting our communities at this time in history. . . . This is a book that should be taught in all classes that address gender, violence, family structure, parenting, race, sexuality, disability and equality and read in organizations that address any of those issues as well. Thank you Aishah Simmons for once again revealing an urgent paradigm of healing, a new and necessary definition of love.\" —Alexis Pauline Gumbs PhD, author of \u003cem\u003eM Archive: After the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As a society, we’ve gravitated toward solutions to end sexual violence and child sexual abuse that are more about shortcut and hiding and less about compassion and truth. Through their own suffering, healing, thriving, and deep wisdom, Aishah Shahidah Simmons and her contributors to the Love With Accountability: Digging Up the Roots of Child Sexual Abuse anthology offer us a path forward that is real, compassionate, and true. This work fills me with hope!\" —Terri Poore, Policy Director, Raliance (National Alliance to End Sexual Violence)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With Love With Accountability, Aishah has done it yet again. And she brings an even greater team of radical powerhouses with her this time around. Let us rejoice in this gift of, as Darnell L. Moore notes in the Foreword, 'documented practices that might move survivors in the direction of healing' and 'critical and radical tools that … transform harm doers.' Let us rejoice. Love WITH Accountability is here.\" —Heidi R. Lewis, Ph.D., Director and Associate Professor of Feminist \u0026amp; Gender Studies at Colorado College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAishah Shahidah Simmons is an award-winning Black feminist lesbian documentary filmmaker, activist, cultural worker, and international lecturer. A child sexual abuse and adult rape survivor, she is the producer\/director of the film, NO! The Rape Documentary, and the creator of the #LoveWITHAccountability Project. 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Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. By focusing on the structural drivers of the social determinants of health, this book serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec, and demonstrates that inequalities in health care follow the fault lines of societal injustices. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the Canadian medical establishment’s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples — colonial genocide. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes committed against and medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children across the country for more than a century and a half: fomented smallpox epidemics and avoidable tuberculosis deaths; experiments and abuse in residential schools, Indian Hospitals, reserves, and communities; forced sterilization; child abduction and disappearances.  This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of a pervasive culture of systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system— and in capitalist settler society at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShaheen-Hussain’s unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, restitution (including land reclamation), and self-determination for Indigenous Peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is part of McGill-Queen's University Press's Indigenous and Northern Series. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll author royalties from sales of this book will be redirected to groups and initiatives that support Indigenous self-determination, and that are concerned with the health and wellness of Indigenous children and youth: Eagle Spirit Science Futures camp, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, Minnie’s Hope Social Pediatric Centre, Mohawk Language Custodian Association, and Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Proceeds from hand sales at public events will go to Indigenous land-defence initiatives and resurgence movements. Lux Éditeur will publish a French translation of the book in early 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor more infomation about this title see \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/fightingforahandtohold.ca\"\u003efightingforahandtohold.ca\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The memories of the Inuit children I attended as a young interpreter at the Montreal Children's Hospital came flooding back to me, the sad face of a child looking up at me. Nurses informed me that he was not speaking, but I immediately recognized the fear in his face, in his eyes. As soon as I spoke to him in Inuktitut, he looked at me in disbelief, but in the next moment his tears began to roll and I could only sound out the Inuit sound of love, 'mmph', and to tell him it will be alright, and that his mom or a relative would be arriving soon. I felt for that child, and as he began to relax and open up, we had a lovely conversation in Inuktitut. He did not feel so alone in this strange place he had just been deposited on, as if he was cargo. To this day, I still feel for him. Throughout all these years, we all have been made to believe that this is how things should work. It was one of those things we stayed quiet about for decades. But no longer. We Inuit, we are a people. We love our children. \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold -- Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, helps us understand the issues of colonization in the medical system that has vexed us as Indigenous peoples. Today, we Inuit are working to bring our health back to our communities.  Healthy communities and families mean self-governance to us and the de-colonization process will happen.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk, M.A., vice-president international affairs, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, Samir Shaheen-Hussain addresses different aspects of the healthcare system offered to indigenous people, always stressing that this is a field strongly marked by colonial power relations, historically perpetuated by the Canadian state. Starting from a harsh critique of the current health policies dispensed to indigenous children and their families, the book takes us to a profound reflection on how medical colonialism and systemic racism perpetuate themselves, and how movements for sovereignty and decolonial thinking are key pieces in changing diverse paradigms. The book shows that important changes in the health system offered to indigenous peoples have not yet been executed, which prevents an effective transformation of the healthcare system. This mismatch between the discourses and the reality is in tune with the maintenance of the colonial posture in relation to indigenous peoples is still in force in the Canadian State. While grounded firmly in the academic literature, the author uses language that will be easily accessible to a general audience and will incite the reader to engage in a profound examination of Canada's history and its relationship with Indigenous peoples. A moving and necessary book. A must-read for all who are interested in one of the most macabre faces of medical colonialism: its genocidal and eugenicist face.\" \u003cstrong\u003eQuebec Native Women (Femmes Autochtones du Québec)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Heartbroken. This is how I feel after reading \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e. It hurts to read about children suffering. Shaheen-Hussain's book does not relieve that pain. Yet his words hold the potential to help us create broader healing, if his insights are heeded.\" \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Borrows, Canada Research Chair in indigenous Law, University of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e School\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sick child is transported by plane to a hospital 1000 kilometres away \u003cem\u003ealone and without a parent to accompany the child\u003c\/em\u003e, a state practice without pity. No parent can read this and not feel a sharp pain yet so many managed to defend the practice even when the mothers of the children who died alone en route publicly grieved that they were never able to give comfort to their dying children. This is the racial terror that was aimed at Indigenous peoples in the province of Quebec. This book tells the story of the fight to change what so clearly springs from the annihilative impulse at the heart of settler colonialism. What can we learn from this book about the struggle to abolish the practice? This practice was no mere discriminatory residue of an old colonial system long gone. Instead it is a telling sign of an ongoing settler colonialism, one deeply structured to \"disappear Indians\"  and to declare Indigenous lives as worth less than white ones. Samir Shaheen-Hussain's clear-eyed account reminds us that we can change but not until we recognize this ugly truth.\" \u003cstrong\u003eSherene H. Razack, Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA. Author of \u003cem\u003eDying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold - Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain exposes the social, cultural, and historical structures that allow medical colonialism to hide in plain sight as it harms generations of Indigenous children and their families.  It is an unflinching analysis that should be required reading in every medical school in the country.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMaureen Lux. Professor and Chair, History Department, Brock University; author of \u003cem\u003eSeparate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Samir Shaheen-Hussain's \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing indictment of medical colonialism in Canada. This must-read book shatters the myth of universal and equitable healthcare as a pillar of this country's benevolent social democracy and, instead, forcefully exposes the active involvement of the medical system in upholding historic and ongoing settler-colonial power.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eUndoing Border Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e denounces with ferocity the utterly inhuman, decades-long practice of separating children from their families during emergency medevacs in northern and remote regions of Quebec. In a precise, compelling, and well-documented narrative, Samir Shaheen-Hussain challenges our collective understanding of systemic racism and social determinants of health applied to Indigenous communities most dependent on medevac airlifts and most impacted by the non-accompaniment rule. An eye-opening, tough, and essential book.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDr Joanne Liu, pediatric emergency physician and former international president of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A necessary and sobering read. Shaheen-Hussain's text masterfully exposes the ways in which the logics of settler colonialism and genocide are structurally embedded into Canada's healthcare system. It illuminates how egregious racial violence takes place -- \u003cem\u003ein plain sight \u003c\/em\u003e-- under the direction of a publicly-funded institution that is broadly understood, to most Canadians, as a social good. The book, meticulously researched, firmly centers Canada's medical system as a crucial site for ongoing anti-colonial struggle.\" \u003cstrong\u003eRobyn Maynard, author of \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from slavery to the present\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"An astonishing book. It begins with the anguished story of Cree and Inuit children from northern Quebec travelling alone by air, sick or injured, panic-stricken, to hospitals in the south, and becomes one of the most moving, ferocious, historically comprehensive narratives of medical colonialism and indigenous cultural genocide that I have ever read. It's a stunning piece of work. When I finally put it down, I was gasping ... an absolute tour-de-force.\" \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Lewis, Co-director \u003cem\u003eAIDS-Free World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Its clever framing, detailed research and frequent critical gems put \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e in the very good company of a small group of stellar books and articles about Indigenous health issues, all of them manifestos for change. It's a passionate and informed report from the medical frontlines that exposes some of the social determinants and racial subtexts that prevent us from improving and safe-guarding the lives of Indigenous peoples and other minorities in Canada.\" \u003cstrong\u003eGary Geddes, author of \u003cem\u003eMedicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields  of Indigenous Health Care\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Shaheen-Hussain argues that genuine reconciliation can't occur without reparations and restitution. Besides disclosure and acknowledgement of the harm done, this means a genuine demonstration of sorrow and regret, a promise to never do harm again, and action that ensures the harm will not be repeated. This book should be read by anyone who wants to meaningfully enter into reconciliation with Indigenous people.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMarie Wadden, author of \u003cem\u003eWhere the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author and Contributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSamir Shaheen-Hussain has been involved in social justice movements – including Indigenous solidarity, anti-police brutality and migrant-justice organizing – for almost two decades. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective, and has written or co-written several pieces about state violence and health care over the years. 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The personal has once more become political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, herself a scholar and birth justice organizer, provides a unique platform to explore the political dynamics of birth work, drawing connections between birth, reproductive labor, and the struggles of caregiving communities today. Articulating a politics of care work in and through the reproductive process, the book brings diverse voices into conversation to explore multiple possibilities and avenues for change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a moment when agency over our childbirth experiences is increasingly centralized in the hands of professional elites, Birth Work as Care Work presents creative new ways to reimagine the trajectory of our reproductive processes. 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Birth Work as Care Work forcefully and joyfully reminds us that the personal is political, a lesson we need now more than ever.” Adrienne Pine, author of \u003cem\u003eWorking Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“All we are doing in this world is living and dying, creating and destroying. We generate new life in our children and in our ideas. Becoming a birth supporter, getting to be an attendant to the miracle of childbirth, has transformed my social justice work. Our visions for justice are what we are birthing in this world. Learning to listen, learning to trust the body and the people, and learning to breathe will transform our movement work. Birth Work as Care Work demonstrates these lessons through showing us ways we can learn together to support the birth of new worlds.” Adrienne Brown, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eOctavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book places the doula—as a caring birth activist—at the heart of reproductive care work in our modern society. Doula, a new name for an ancient traditional role, reappears today as women daring to reclaim their power through birthing and caring for their children.” Valérie Dupin cofounder and cochair of the Association Doulas de France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Alana Apfel is an artist and a robust one. Weaving the logic behind birth, care, and reproduction together, \u003cem\u003eBirth Work as Care Work \u003c\/em\u003edocuments how caregivers and communities are marginalized in society on a daily basis whilst working to sustain themselves and ironically, to sustain life itself. Her thesis seeks to put the human back into being.” Chitra Subramaniam, editor in chief of \u003cem\u003eThe News Minute\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlana Apfel was born in the United States and raised in the UK. She holds graduate degrees in anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Edinburgh. Her writing engages the politics of care work with a focus on birth and activist birth communities. Alana teaches on ways to radicalize birth work and continues to support people through birth in Bristol, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLoretta J. Ross was a cofounder and National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She is one of the creators of the term “Reproductive Justice,” coined by African American women following the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eResistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women \u003c\/em\u003eand coeditor of \u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher. In 1972 she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the international campaign for Wages for Housework. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement. She is the author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MDE4In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle-second-edition\" title=\"Revolution at Point Zero\"\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/a\u003e: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Alana Apfel\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629631516\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 152 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175319777373,"sku":"9781629631516","price":20.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/birthwork.jpg?v=1654988524"},{"product_id":"the-people-s-republic-of-neverland-the-child-versus-the-state","title":"The People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere once was a time when teachers and communities were able to exercise democratic control over their schools. Now that power has been taken away, both centralised and privatised, under the guise of “reform.” There is a forgotten history of the time before reform, and within it a bright horizon is visible, reachable only if educators and society at large can learn the lessons of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobb Johnson entered the classroom as a new teacher in the 1980s and has spent a lifetime alongside his pupils encouraging both creativity and a healthy distrust of authority. This book is both memoir and polemic, a celebration of children’s innate desire to learn, share, cooperate, and play, as well as a critique of bureaucratic interference. Johnson details how we ended up with the contemporary mass education systems and why they continually fail to give children what they need. Combining practical experience as a teacher with detailed pedagogical knowledge, and a characteristic playful style, Johnson is both court chronicler and jester, imparting information and creatively admonishing the self-important figureheads of the reform agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book considers how schools and education relate to the wider society in which they are located and how they relate to the particular needs and abilities of the people who experience them. It shows that schools and education are contested spaces that need to be reclaimed from the state, and turned into places where people can grow, not up, not old, but as individuals. It offers alternative ways of running classrooms, schools, and perhaps even society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I have rarely seen a book that is so embedded in what education is for and that then directs the reader to how to pursue the goals, in practice and at all levels of school infrastructure so that the way schools are structured adds to the goodness of society.” Marcelo Staricoff, author of \u003cem\u003eStart Thinking\u003c\/em\u003e, fellow of the Chartered College of Teaching, and former headteacher\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eThe People’s Republic of Neverland: The Child versus the State \u003c\/em\u003eby Robb Johnson shows the stark reality of the current situation for education. Education is at a crossroads, and this book comes at an important time raising awareness and exposing the flaws in our current system. Read this, and then join the campaign to fight for a fairer, fully funded, comprehensive education system!” Louise Regan, ex-president of National Education Union (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The goals of the school systems in most countries have generally not had nothing to do with producing happy, creative, self-confident, autonomous children who will grow up to become happy, creative, self-confident, autonomous adults. But since schooling become mandatory in industrialized societies like the UK and the US, the schools have been an ideological battleground between those who want to produce obedient workers and soldiers, and those, like Robb Johnson, who would prefer to see a liberated humanity consisting of whole people, who are treated as such from birth, by their parents, by the schools, and all other social, political, and economic institutions. This book is a brilliant crash course in the roots of the problem, the devastation that has been done since the post-Thatcher\/Reagan austerity budgets and a return to Victorian (‘family’) values, and how we might address all of these complex challenges. And it is as captivating a read as any good memoir, because that’s exactly what it is. Robb Johnson lived through, and taught through, the backlash, working as a school teacher from 1980 until very recently.” David Rovics, musician and author of \u003cem\u003eSing for Your Supper: A DIY Guide to Playing Music, Writing Songs, and Booking Your Own Gigs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRobb Johnson was born in 1955, studied English lit at Sussex University, trained as a teacher, and then did an MA in English literature at Manchester University. He has worked as a classroom teacher by day and a songwriter by night since 1980. As a songwriter, he has received widespread critical acclaim. Robb has written songbooks; edited a book of stories, \u003cem\u003eJourneys Down Denbigh Road\u003c\/em\u003e, for use with young children in school assemblies; edited \u003cem\u003eA Navigator’s Tale\u003c\/em\u003e, a book collecting his father’s World War II memoir and poetry; and contributed regularly to the music magazine RNR.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Robb Johnson\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629637952\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 288 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175328723037,"sku":"9781629637952","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/republic_of_neverland_web.jpg?v=1654988594"},{"product_id":"raising-free-people-unschooling-as-liberation-and-healing-work","title":"Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. 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We need to reach behind our behaviors to seek and find our triggers; to examine and interrupt the ways that social issues such as colonization still wreak havoc on our ability to trust ourselves, let alone children. \u003cem\u003eRaising Free People \u003c\/em\u003eexplores examples of the transition from school or homeschooling to unschooling, how single parents and people facing financial challenges unschool successfully, and the ways unschooling allows us to address generational trauma and unlearn the habits we mindlessly pass on to children.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn these detailed and unabashed stories and insights, Richards examines the ways that her relationships to blackness, decolonization, and healing work all combine to form relationships and enable community-healing strategies rooted in an unschooling practice. This is how millions of families center human connection, practice clear and honest communication, and raise children who do not grow up to feel that they narrowly survived their childhoods.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This is an insightful, brilliant book by one of today’s most inspiring leaders in the realm of Self-Directed Education. We see here how respecting children, listening to them, and learning from them can revolutionize our manner of parenting and remove the blinders imposed by the forced schooling that we nearly all experienced. I recommend it to everyone who cares about children, freedom, and the future of humanity.” Peter Gray, research professor of psychology at Boston College, author of \u003cem\u003eFree to Learn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Akilah’s voice is so warm and personal that sometimes I don’t notice how seriously radical and impactful her words are—that is, until I catch myself speaking and listening to my own child with noticeably more humility, curiosity, and respect. \u003cem\u003eRaising Free People \u003c\/em\u003epulls off that rare miracle: it’s a book for everyone, offering fresh and significant insights to people like me who’ve spent decades learning about unschooling, while simultaneously welcoming and engaging the parent who has never previously stopped to question the validity or importance of school. And, Akilah’s vision is unsurpassed when it comes to drawing the connections between collective liberation and personal freedom. Her clarity on this and similar issues has already deepened the communal wisdom of the Self-Directed Education movement, and I hope that her book reaches millions of parents, so that millions of children may grow up knowing, trusting, and fully inhabiting their own unique gifts.” Grace Llewellyn, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Teenage Liberation Handbook \u003c\/em\u003eand founder of \u003cem\u003eNot Back to School Camp\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It is uplifting to experience this message delivered with such clarity and such a practical and inviting manner that would naturally encourage and draw families to want to take this first step toward living this. I want to thank Akilah for this and encourage any families that are thinking more about learning to raise free adults, to jump right in and take this journey of learning with Akilah. Her care, empathy, presence, and insight are at the very forefront of how families can experience living together in a healthy, integrated and harmonious manner where learning is an ongoing journey to deepening their connections.” George Kaponay, world traveler, storyteller, writer, social entrepreneur, and cofounder of the Family Adventure Academy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“It’s becoming more common for parents to recognize the inefficiencies and irrelevance of conventional schooling and to desire something better for their children. Yet, few have had the courage and the commitment to forge a new path for their family based on freedom, liberation, autonomy, and love like Akilah S. Richards. Even fewer have been able to share such deep insights and empowering narratives about reclaiming our lives and trusting our children to create their own.” Tomis Parker, Agile Learning Facilitator at ALC Mosaic and board member of The Alliance for Self-Directed Education\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRaising Free People \u003c\/em\u003eis the book that those of us navigating unschooling through a decolonisation and social justice lens have been waiting for. Akilah’s straight up rich and honest descriptions and insights on the many highs and lows of living with authenticity and in raising free people resonate completely. There are so many ‘What? How did I not notice that before?’ moments. It is priceless that we get to journey with the Richards as they navigate overcoming their schoolishness and fears towards liberation and community accompanied by the insight, guidance, and encouragement in constantly checking our mind-sets to do the inner liberation work to make the outer liberation a reality.” Zakiyya Ismail, convener of the Learning Reimagined Unschooling Conference, Johannesburg, South Africa\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAkilah S. 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I hope this isn’t Bezzus’ last book because I want to read more!” Jacinta Bunnell, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/a-more-graceful-shaboom\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA More Graceful Shaboom\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeezus B. Murphy\u003c\/strong\u003e, born 2004, is a Seattle based dyslexic, asexual, lesbian, feminist, writer, and activist. She lives in Seattle with her mother Shawna Murphy, father Christian Peetz, younger sister Minnow Murphy, three pugs, two Siamese cats, and one Chihuahua. Her hobbies include the creation and consumption of media, roller skating, and trying to keep up in school. Beezus struggled in school and didn’t learn how to read until she was 8 because of her learning disability, but her kindergarten teacher Jennifer Nieman always said that when she did the world would lose her to books. It did, in some ways, but Beezus was far more consumed in many worlds of her own creation. Thanks to the influence of a Christian-propaganda show disguising itself as a teen drama, put haphazardly on Netflix where anyone could find it, Beezus accidentally became anti-abortion for a few months. However, thanks to her pro-abortion feminist mom Shawna, she quickly recovered and sought to write a book about her journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTatiana Gill\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Seattle cartoonist drawing about social and reproductive justice, mental health and addiction, and body positivity. Creating comic books for 25 years, her recent books include \u003cem\u003eWombgenda\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBlackoutings\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Fat Positive Coloring Book\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRecovery\u003c\/em\u003e. She contributes to publications across the world and has illustrated several books. Her work appears in galleries and exhibits around Seattle. Tatiana creates comics for a number of local organizations including Seattle\/King County Health Department, Community Lunch, People’s Harm Reduction Alliance, and Shout Your Abortion. Find her online at @tatsgill on Instagram and Twitter, and tatianagill.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eShout Your Abortion\u003c\/strong\u003e is an organization working to normalize abortion through art, media, and community events across the US and beyond. \u003cem\u003eMy Mom Had an Abortion\u003c\/em\u003e is SYA’s second book published with PM Press. SYA’s eponymously titled first book—a collection of stories, art, and a tool kit for action—currently sits in the waiting and recovery rooms of hundreds of abortion clinics all over the country. Learn more about SYA and get involved at ShoutYourAbortion.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAmelia Bonow\u003c\/strong\u003e is the cofounder of Shout Your Abortion, an organization working to normalize abortion through art, media, and community events all over the country. Bonow’s writing has appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBUST\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, and in SYA’s self-titled book, which currently sits in the waiting and recovery rooms of nearly 300 abortion clinics. Bonow proudly serves on the Board of Directors of the Abortion Care Network and has been honored by Abortion Conversation Projects, the Webby Awards, and abortion clinics nationwide. Amelia wants everybody to talk about abortion and she believes that we are going to win.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40445161635933,"sku":"9781629639130","price":19.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1238_9781629639130_FC.jpg?v=1661174423"},{"product_id":"i-cried-you-didnt-listen-a-survivors-expose-of-the-california-youth-authority","title":"I Cried, You Didn't Listen: A Survivor's Exposé of the California Youth Authority","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"The author's well-written story comes at the reader fast and furiouslyshocking readers into an awareness of the inhumanity of America's juvenile penal institutions.\"-\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt age nine, a family tragedy forced Dwight Abbott into the California Youth Authority. 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Its essays explore the liberatory potential of consent and autonomy in relationships among children, youth, and the adults in their lives. They also trace how oppressive attitudes toward children, far from being “natural” forms of kinship with the youngest members of our families and communities, have identifiable social and historical roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eListen to a collaboration with the Time Talks podcast \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/timetalks.libsyn.com\/trust-kids-mixtape-ft-grouded-futures\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Trust Kids! is wild and playful and challenging and engaging. Like those playground conversations with other parents. Like stories children tell around kitchen tables. 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The particular challenges of queer parenting prove transformative as Moraga navigates her intersecting roles as mother, child, lover, friend, artist, activist, and more.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With an updated introduction and other additions, including an afterword by Rafael Angel Moraga, this revised 25th anniversary edition of \u003cem\u003eWaiting in the Wings\u003c\/em\u003e is thoughtful and emotive, with prose that is sharp and beautifully written, from the voice of a beloved and incomparable writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"other_contributors\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"body\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\"\u003e“Cherríe Moraga speaks directly, as a powerful voice of a pivotal generation, a generation that is aging and coming to terms with its urgent, collective story.” Joy Harjo\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Cherríe Moraga is a literary giant and spiritual genius whose visionary and courageous work and witness constitutes a prophetic light in our dark times of imperial decay!”\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eCornel West\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“When future generations look back at the first generation of Latino\/a literature, Cherríe Moraga's formative work will be one of the cornerstones of what by then will be American Literature. 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I take this book as a gift of love.” Dorothy Allison\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Cherríe Moraga's \u003ci\u003eWaiting in The Wings\u003c\/i\u003e is a powerful meditation on motherhood and creativity. With eloquence and intensity, it grapples with a number of elemental questions that we, as blood-gushing makers of babies and cultura, must face. It is also a passionate lesson on how to make \"familia from scratch,\" rendering a near-death experience and the enlightenment that follows without sentimentality. Just when we feel—as Chicanas\/writers\/mothers—that the needs of our children in this world \"full of enemy\" are too overwhelming, they step forward to renew our sense of outrage, rekindle our hope, and remind us, with a profound and refreshing breath, that this life is worth writing. 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Who raises us as children, is with us when we are ill, provides a place to sleep when we need one? We often rely on family for the care we all need. Yet even at their best families cannot carry the impossible demands placed on them, and for many the family is a place of private horror, of coercion and personal domination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM. E. O'Brien uncovers the long history of struggles to go beyond the private family. She traces the changing family politics of racial capitalism in the industrial cities of Europe and the slavery plantations and settler frontier of North America, through the rise and fall of the housewife family. From Marx to Black and queer insurrection to today's mass protest movements, O'Brien finds revolutionary movements seeking better ways of loving, caring, and living. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFamily Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e takes us through the past and present of family politics into a speculative future of the commune, imagining how care could be organised in a free society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eM. E. O'Brien writes on gender and communist theory. She co-edits two magazines, \u003cem\u003ePinko\u003c\/em\u003e, on gay communism, and \u003cem\u003eParapraxis\u003c\/em\u003e, on psychoanalytic theory and politics. Her work on family abolition has been translated into Chinese, German, Greek, French, Spanish, and Turkish. She received her PhD from NYU. She is the co-author of the novel\u003cem\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/everything-for-everyone-an-oral-history-of-the-new-york-commune-2052-2072\"\u003eEverything for Everyone: An Oral History of the New York Commune, 2052–2072\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e She tweets @genderhorizon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary 'beloved community' for an age of climate catastrophe and permanent pandemics. Spread this book around, and start communizing care!\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/sophie-lewis\" title=\"Sophie Lewis\"\u003eSophie Lewis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eAbolish the Family\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBringing impressive erudition to a vast subject, O’Brien takes a debate to new frontiers. From Oaxaca to Minneapolis, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFamily Abolition\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e shows 'insurgent reproduction' preparing a world of 'red love'.\u003c\/span\u003e\"\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Peter Drucker, author of \u003cem\u003eWarped: Gay Normality and Queer Anticapitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A bracing account of the crisis of the family and an important history of struggles to transcend it. O’Brien is a sensitive and astute guide to the material realities and the impossible ideal of the family--that site of dependency and love, intimacy and violence, coercion and care. This is an essential guide to the critique of the family form and a radical vision of care beyond it.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Katrina Forrester, Associate Professor of Social Sciences, Harvard University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"M. E. O'Brien has gifted us a stunningly urgent and timely book that not only sustains our \"freedom dreaming\", but also, our concrete efforts at enacting a world where the concept and mechanism of family does not have to be complicated by coercion, domination, and the privatization that creates untenable labor conditions. Through an exhilaratingly accessible narrative, O'Brien moves effortlessly between history, current sociopolitical specificities, and future possibilities to show that communized care is not a far-off fantasy, but rather, a vibrant necessity for current day life-making.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Lara Sheehi, Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, George Washington University\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An important work of queer theory which examines family abolition from a generative - not punitive - mindset, asking how can we create a future where we all receive the essential care that is currently doled out only to some of us by the crapshoot lottery of birth?\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Hugh Ryan, author of\u003cem\u003e When Brooklyn Was Queer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Incisively traces the warps and strictures of our embattled history and culture, unleashing a searing yet hopeful paean towards a different set of possibilities. A precious book for anyone trying to understand our current crises and how to transform ourselves and our communities towards justice and wholeness for all.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Hannah Baer, author of \u003cem\u003eTrans Girl Suicide Museum\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Compact but expansive, \u003cem\u003eFamily Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e is an incisive work of history, theory, and imagination. O'Brien locates family abolition as an insurgent tradition deep within revolutionary movements around the world. It is an inspired call to action and a call to community: Come, let us abolish the family--together.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eStayed on Freedom: The Long History of Black Power Through One Family's Journey\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An immensely useful book that will help us not just understand the violence of gender and family relations, but also take action to establish new methods of caring for one another and building survivable social relations... A tool for transformation, skillfully drawing on insurgent histories and contemporary struggles to increase our capacity to build new ways of being together.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Dean Spade, author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mutual-aid-building-solidarity-during-this-crisis-and-the-next\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"A vision for the future that draws on insights from both the history of the workers' and black liberation movements, and contemporary struggles worldwide. Both meticulous in its historical account of insurrectionary moments (that unsettled our assumptions about how to care for one another). And daring in providing a strategy for replacing private households with \"beloved community\", founded around Red Love. Highly recommended to anyone committed to both care and revolt, or bored of household chores.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Jules Gleeson, writer, comedian, historian, co-editor of \u003cem\u003eTransgender Marxism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"An incisive case for the transformative power of collective freeing ourselves from the invasion of kinship and care by capitalist social relations, state-mandated gender and sexuality, and racist hierarchies.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e Jules Gill-Peterson, author of \u003cem\u003eHistories of the Transgender Child\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"The family as we know it is a limitation to emancipation and imagination. \u003cem\u003eFamily Abolition\u003c\/em\u003e invites us to think about how community and care could be organized otherwise. It draws together the lessons from centuries of struggle to free the needs of life from the necessities imposed by state and capital.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MTY5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mckenzie-wark\" title=\"McKenzie Wark\"\u003eMcKenzie Wark\u003c\/a\u003e, Professor of Media and Culture, Eugene Lang College\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\"Shedding light on carceral, fascist logics that rule the institution of the nuclear family, this is a profound excavation of the family abolition debates of the 20th century. 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Communist Social Reproduction\u003cbr\u003e12. Around the People's Kitchen\u003cbr\u003e13. Communes to Come\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41042161238109,"sku":"9780745343822","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/familyabolition.jpg?v=1684778725"},{"product_id":"no-against-adult-supremacy","title":"NO!: Against Adult Supremacy","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"tab-description\" class=\"tab-content\" style=\"display: block;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA collection of articles and artwork from the zine of the same name, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNo! 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Don Lash reveals the system’s role in the regulation of family life under capitalism and details the deep and continuing consequences of what happens “when the welfare people come.” Including first-person vignettes of parents, children, and workers in the US child protection system, Lash also offers practical and cogent ideas for its improvement and transformation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book’s description and analysis of child welfare is terrific. Though I’ve worked in the field of child welfare for four decades, I learned not only new information but also found new, resonant analyses. The book is best when describing the operations of the child welfare system in New York City and the nation both recently and historically. The book critiques the neo-conservative view that blames the individual and punishes the victims of societal racism and income inequality. It is equally harsh, perhaps more so, in its critique of neo-liberalism that also blames the individual and provides treatment as the remedy. The book is written from a neo-Marxist perspective. And since we’ve seen the failure of both neo-conservative and neo-liberal thinking, we would be well served to try a new paradigm presented in this book.\" David Tobis, Ph.D, Author of \u003cem\u003eFrom Pariahs to Partners: How Parents and Their Allies Changed New York City’s Child Welfare System\u003c\/em\u003e; Senior Partner, Maestral International\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lash’s excellent overview of the child welfare system makes a compelling case for its role in the maintenance of capitalism as a social system. 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As seen through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl named Una, it takes place in northern England in 1977, as the Yorkshire Ripper, a serial killer of prostitutes, is on the loose and creating panic among the townspeople. As the police struggle in their clumsy attempts to find the killer, and the headlines in the local paper become more urgent, a once self-confident Una teaches herself to \"lower her gaze\" in order to deflect attention from boys.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter she is \"slut-shamed\" at school for having birth control pills, Una herself is the subject of violent acts for which she comes to blame herself. 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Portraits, family photographs, and candid images grace the pages, augmenting the emotional and physical journey each youth has taken. Each honest discussion and disclosure, whether joyful or heartbreaking, is completely different from the other because of family dynamics, living situations, gender, and the transition these teens make in recognition of their true selves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"[A] sorely needed resource for teens and, frankly, many adults... Downright revelatory. ... Kuklin captures these teenagers not as idealized exemplars of what it “means” to be transgender but as full, complex, and imperfect human beings. As Kuklin writes, “My subjects’ willingness to brave bullying and condemnation in order to reveal their individual selves makes it impossible to be nothing less than awestruck.” She isn’t wrong.\" \u003cem\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kuklin brings her intimate, compassionate and respectful lens to the stories of six transgender young people.... The collective portrait that emerges from these narratives and pictures is diverse, complex and occasionally self-contradictory — as any true story should be.Informative, revealing, powerful and necessary.\" \u003cem\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] strikingly in-depth examination of the sometimes clinical complexities of being transgender, even as Kuklin’s empathy-inducing pictures put a human face on the experience. ... Kuklin’s important new book brings welcome clarity to a subject that has often been obscure and gives faces—literally and metaphorically—to a segment of the teen population that has too long been invisible. Speaking with equal impact to both the reader’s heart and mind, Beyond Magenta is highly recommended.\u003cem\u003e\" Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e (starred review)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Readers [will] become immersed in these young adults’ voices and experiences. The youth interviewed here do not uniformly share It Gets Better-style happy endings, but their strength is nonetheless inspirational as they face ongoing challenges with families, sexual and romantic relationships, bullies, schools, transitions, mental health, and more. The level of detail about their lives, and the diversity of their identities–including gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religion, and geography–provide a powerful antidote to the isolation and stigma that some transgender youth experience. ... There is much here that will resonate with and hearten the kids who need it and will foster understanding and support among those who live and work with transgender teens.\" \u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Pain and possibility are juxtaposed in this groundbreaking book that by its very existence portends a better future.\" \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is a testament to Susan Kuklin's gifts as a listener and interviewer that her subjects describe their lives with such candor. ... Kuklin introduces each teen with a bit of background, and often (but not always) the teen's gender at birth. Kuklin treats her subjects with tenderness and respect. Her book provides both reassurance and answers to questions that teens may not even realize they have.\" \u003cem\u003eShelf Awareness Pro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The presentation of the spectrum of experiences is remarkably nuanced and sensitive... Kuklin also brings her skills as a photographer to the book’s design, using some pictures documentary-style interspersed throughout an individual’s interview, others grouped as breathtaking galleries that explore expression or isolation.\" Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Kuklin’s book is not just a lifeline for teens who are going through something similar and need to see themselves and their lives so openly portrayed—this book is an important read for the parents, friends, and loved ones who want to understand what a transgender teen might be going through. This book is worth having on any shelf in any library and will not linger there long. ... A highly informative resource that is powerful, respectful, honest, and most importantly, long overdue.\" VOYA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her edited transcriptions of the interviews, Kuklin lets her subjects speak wholly for themselves... Photographs (of most of the subjects) are candid and winning; and appended material, including Kuklin’s explanation of her interview process, a Q\u0026amp;A with the director of a clinic for transgendered teens, and a great resource list, is valuable.\" The Horn Book\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book examines a sensitive issue and explains the spectrum and diversity within the transgender community as well as defines the distinction between transgenders and individuals identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or queer. ... This book is a valuable resource for students desiring information on gender identity and the LGBTQ community.\" \u003cem\u003eLibrary Media Connection\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Riveting.\" \u003cem\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"While several books have illuminated the lives of LGBT youth, this is the first book to focus solely on trans subjects, in an attractive collection that's perfect for a coffee table or your favorite pre-teen's bookshelf.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/em\u003e (\"The Year's 10 Best Transgender Non-Fiction Books\")\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An eye-opener. ... Through extensive interviews, Susan Kuklin has captured the thinking and personalities of each subject in this book. Her sensitive photographs shows them as interesting people who have struggled to understand themselves and how they each, in their own unique way, differ from the norm.\" \u003cem\u003eThe Huffington Post\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[A] candid, inspiring book. ... The teens are members of a group, but also distinct individuals, each with a unique, highly personal story. It goes without saying that their decision to share these stories is courageous. 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Here is a brilliant, beautifully readable, and above all practical expansion of the ideas this iconic author began to explore in her bestselling manifesto, \u003cem\u003eWe Should All Be Feminists.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking how to raise her new baby girl a feminist. Although she has written and spoken out widely about feminism, Adichie wasn't sure how to advise her friend Ijeawele. But as a person who'd babysat, had loved her nieces and nephews, and now, too, was the mother of a daughter herself, she thought she would try. So she sent Ijeawele a letter with some suggestions—fifteen in all—which she has now decided to share with the world. Compelling, direct, wryly funny, and perceptive, Dear Ijeawele offers specifics on how we can empower our daughters to become strong, independent women. Here, too, are ways parents can raise their children—both sons and daughters—beyond a culture's limiting gender prescriptions. This short, sharp work rings out in Chimamanda's voice: infused with deep honesty, clarity, strength, and above all love. She speaks to the important work of raising a girl in today's world, and provides her readers with a clear proposal for inclusive, nuanced thinking. 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They ended up in Toronto, where they were welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet they remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate, riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it is an intensely personal road map and an intersectional, tragicomic tale that reveals how a disabled queer woman of colour and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the not-so-distant past and, as the subtitle suggests, \"dreams their way home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The LGBTIQ community should lift its ears to receive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Their vision stands to rearrange the ways we approach community, creating art, and loving. Every time I've heard them read, I've come away new.\" Tara Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block-separator\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-6ef729a752be6e7ac4693048bb6eff40\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e will give you back the life you stole and saved: your own. In the tradition of June Jordan's \u003ci\u003eSoldier\u003c\/i\u003e, Audre Lorde's \u003ci\u003eZami\u003c\/i\u003e, Asha Bandele's \u003ci\u003eSomething Like Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, and Staceyann Chin's \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDirty River\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir that will make you itch all over while you read it and emerge having shed another layer of internalized doubt. You are brave enough to face this honest, transformative work, because you are brave enough to be who you are.\" Alexis Pauline Gumbs, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Mothering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e is a biracial-abuse-survivor-queer-femme-working-class-immigrant-anarchist-punk bomb that explodes the myth of LGBT sameness.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e goes above and beyond being a story of survival; it is a manifesto for those of us who have also been walking, scantily clad, down dark alleys for most of our lives.\" \u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e is a candid and comic view from the tattooed underbelly of contemporary life. There is no syrup in this survivor's tale, yet the sun does shine through these shadows, making you cheer for the hero(ine) in her odyssey to know her true self.\" Jewelle Gomez, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gilda Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In rapid fire, intensely felt and perfectly controlled prose, the activist\/poet\/survivor evokes the terrors and pleasures of life in the pockets of counter culture, gender rebellion and anti-racist groups she found in Toronto and details her painful process of reflection and eventual self acceptance. The authorial voice is propulsive, eloquent and absolutely persuasive. Piepzna-Samarasinha is particularly good at conveying what it is like to live in poverty and political enthusiasm in a marginalized subculture and generously invites the reader to participate in that experience.\" \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's newest book is the powerful, badass, and important story of a young queer femme of color's coming of age on her own terms. Intersectional and glittering and raw, this book has bite -- it's a kind of primal yell for all us survivors of abuse, as we pull together and howl and love and live.\" Randa Jarrar, author of \u003ci\u003eA Map of Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fierce and seductive. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the kind of writer who reminds us with every turn of phrase and every turn of the page that art exorcises trauma, running can be good medicine, and the freedom to be our very own freaks is the happiest ending we might ever hope for.\" Ariel Gore, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Eve\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtlas of the Human Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this transformative memoir, Piepzna-Samarasinha details being a queer, disabled woman of color coming of age among young queer punks in Toronto, running from the abuse of her past. This tragicomic tale is filled with what activists now call intersectionality, but in terms of literature, it's raw and passionate and wrenching -- and it belongs on shelves next to Audre Lorde's \u003ci\u003eZami\u003c\/i\u003e or the pioneering \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant book . .. Piepzna-Samarasinha challenges traditional narratives around gender, domesticity, and motherhood with a more specific focus on her journey to separate from her abusive mother and give birth to herself as a mixed brown, working class, disabled femme.\" \u003ci\u003eBitch Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you've been looking for more stories about badass queer women of color, get this book yesterday. 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She likens herself to a half-human fairy creature who does not belong in the earthly world; but in the cold light of day she is a psychiatric patient at a hospital, where she is being treated for anorexia--her sickness driven by the irrational need to undo nature and thwart the passage of time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLila tells the story of how she ended up on the Four East wing: we flashback to her childhood in the '80s, growing up in a small town as an overweight brown kid of Punjabi immigrant parents: her father, a literary scholar whom she idolizes, and her mother, a housewife--\"the most female of all females who found comfort in cooking. \" \u003ci\u003eFaerie\u003c\/i\u003e weaves these passages with Lila's downward spiral into life-threatening illness, her budding sexuality, and her complicated recovery in hospital that comes with a price. 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And what a good thing too - if anyone needs to read this, ultimately deeply hopeful book, it is queer youth and their allies.\"\u003ci\u003e Diva Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rae Spoon is definitely more than a songwriter to swoon for; I predict that \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e will be a curative for all the heartbroken kids in small towns trying to fight for their right to be who they are. This collection of tender-hearted coming-of-age stories is an impressive literary gem.\" Zoe Whittall, author of \u003ci\u003eHolding Still for as Long as Possible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The thing about Rae Spoon's storytelling style is that it sneaks up on you: powerful and plain-spoken, but sly and subtle as well. It wasn't until the end of many of Spoon's sentences that I realized I had justbeen emotionally stomach-punched, and from the side, too. This book is brave and blasphemous,and shines just like Rae Spoon's songwriting does: beautiful, haunting words delivered by a truly one-of-a-kind voice.\" Ivan E. Coyote, author of \u003ci\u003eMissed Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The writing itself is confident: spare but not cryptic, straightfoward but not blunt. There is none of the self-consciousness of a first-time author; \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is an effortless read.\" \u003ci\u003eAlberta Views\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Complete with themes of music and religion, First Spring Grass Fire is an honest, hopeful coming-of-age novel.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"First Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e will be meaningful to anyone who has struggled to fit in - and who hasn't? By telling these stories - of being different, queer, raised in a rigid belief system you didn't choose, trying to be yourself within circumstances you can't control - Rae Spoon illustrates the triumph in reclaiming and controlling your own identity. This moving collection is a story of what we do to find a place, physical or intangible, that we can call home.\" \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For anyone who has felt as though a silent revolution was burning inside of them, \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e will stoke those flames and, as Spoon so romantically puts it, leave behind a lush green landscape of refreshed vitality.\" \u003ci\u003eBeatroute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The prose is concise without ornamentation; emotionally moving because of its raw honesty. The book holds together because it is an amalgamation of all the little things in life which hurt us, binds us, and propel us to move forward. While issues of gender and sexuality certainly underline the majority of the narrator's existential despair, the book works because it pushes the reader to understand the humanity of the narrator rather than simply a trans or lesbian narrative. It demonstrates the commonality of grief, loss, fear, pain, love, and longing.\" \u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Transgender indie musician Rae Spoon has six albums under the belt, but this raw and beautifully lyrical new memoir-meets-novel about growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal famly with a schizophrenic father is the best contribution yet.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An intensely personal, darkly funny, and stunningly honest book, First Spring teeters on the border between fiction and memoir, oscillating between a 'real' past and an alternative history that might have been.\" \u003ci\u003eArt Threat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable debut novel.\" \u003ci\u003eRabble. ca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are moments of near-poetry in their work . .. [and] also a rawness and urgency. I highly, highly recommend this one.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Lesbrary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through plain but effective language and delicate, wry humour, this collection of linked short stories approaches coming of age as an act of incredible empowerment . .. Deceptively simple yet wise, \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e has a universal appeal because it gently draws attention to the sweetly unadorned details of being human.\" \u003ci\u003eIn Toronto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A personal narrative that is as sincere as it is pulverizing . .. As a coming-of-age novel, \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is one of the most honest and most brutal. With emotional passages about abuse and long-winded tales of attempts at safety and pride, it's one more well-suited for queers than the kind we grew up with; less about men in cars driving to their eventual emancipation and more about what it's like to be completely surrounded and stuck and make it out in one piece anyway. It's a unique story with a common heart.\" \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Spare and gorgeous as the prairies until it turns, wildly, into lushness in Spoon's capable strumming hands. I did not think we needed another \"growing up different\" book, but I've never been more delighted to be proved wrong. \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e cements Spoon's reputation as a master of the lively arts.\" S. Bear Bergman, author of \u003ci\u003eButch is a Noun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141340209245,"sku":"9781551524801","price":14.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/51vk8nWrHCL.jpg?v=1694109428"},{"product_id":"fragments-of-truth-indian-residential-schools-and-the-challenge-of-reconciliation-in-canada","title":"Fragments of Truth: Indian Residential Schools and the Challenge of Reconciliation in Canada","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"b-book-overview\"\u003e\n\u003carticle id=\"rmjs-1\" aria-expanded=\"true\" data-readmore=\"\" style=\"max-height: none; height: 490px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\"\u003eIn 2008, the Canadian government established a Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to review the history of the residential school system, a brutal colonial project that killed and injured many Indigenous children and left a legacy of trauma and pain. In \u003ci\u003eFragments of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e Naomi Angel analyzes the visual culture of reconciliation and memory in relation to this complex and painful history. In her analyses of archival photographs from the residential school system, representations of the schools in popular media and literature, and testimonies from TRC proceedings, Angel traces how the TRC served as a mechanism through which memory, trauma, and visuality became apparent. She shows how many Indigenous communities were able to use the TRC process as a way to claim agency over their memories of the schools. 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She is both agent and observer of a shift in relations of looking, offering a unique perspective on truth, memory, national identity, and the meaning of reconciliation.” Ronald Niezen, author of \u003ci\u003e#HumanRights: The Technologies and Politics of Justice Claims in Practice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/article\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141340307549,"sku":"9781478018575","price":36.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/978-1-4780-1857-5_pr.jpg?v=1694109442"},{"product_id":"hansel-and-greta","title":"Hansel and Greta","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIt takes a lot more time for anything to grow than it does for anything to be chopped down.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGreta lives with her brother Hansel on the edge of a great forest - a forest in danger of destruction. 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Yet, when police bring kids in for questioning, they use the same interrogation tactics they use for adults,\u003cbr\u003eincluding trickery, deception, and lying to elicit confessions or to produce incriminating evidence against the defendants.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eKids, Cops, and Confessions\u003c\/em\u003e, Barry Feld offers the first report of what actually happens when police question juveniles. Drawing on remarkable data, Feld analyzes interrogation tapes and transcripts, police reports, juvenile court filings and sentences, and probation and sentencing reports, describing in rich detail what actually happens in the interrogation room. Contrasting routine interrogation and false confessions enables police, lawyers, and judges to identify interrogations that require enhanced scrutiny, to adopt policies to protect citizens, and to assure reliability and integrity\u003cbr\u003eof the justice system. Feld has produced an invaluable look at how the justice system really works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBarry C. Feld \u003c\/b\u003eis Centennial Professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Minnesota. He is the author and editor of many books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Evolution of the Juvenile Court: Race, Politics, and the Criminalizing of Juvenile Justice \u003c\/i\u003e(NYU Press, 2019), \u003ci\u003eKids, Cops, and Confessions:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eInside the Interrogation Room\u003c\/i\u003e (NYU Press, 2014), and \u003ci\u003eBad Kids: Race and the Transformation of the Juvenile Court \u003c\/i\u003e(Oxford University Press (1999).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs__panel tabs__panel--reviews r-tabs-panel r-tabs-state-active\" id=\"tab-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs__content\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"A rich blend of top-notch empirical scholarship and doctrinal analysis, Feld's book is a significant contribution to our understanding of the dynamics of police interrogationsand a major step forward in achieving justice for juveniles . . . an empirical tour de force.\" \u003ccite\u003e ~Daniel S. Medwed, Criminal Law and Social Change \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"A well written and concise account that contributes constitutional measures afforded to youth.\" \u003ccite\u003e ~Patrick Webb, International Criminal Justice Review \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"Feld has done a masterful job of presenting the realities of the interrogation room to the reader. This work is important to scholars of all persuasions who seek to better understand the unique plight of juveniles faced with the inherently coercive circumstances involved in police questioning. The book is well-written and capably blends research-based observations with the perceptions of police and other legal actors. This combined perspective provides the reader with a unique appreciation of a system which often functions far from public view.\" \u003ccite\u003e ~Lisa S. Nored and Caitlin Carey, CLCJ Books \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"Investigatory questioning by law enforcement is understood to involve an unequal balance of power with an intrinsic opportunity for abuse. For this reason, Miranda warning rights and other constitutional protections exist in the United States. Nevertheless, Feld (law, Univ. of Minnesota; Juvenile Justice Administration in a Nutshell) warns in his latest book that these legal protections have failed miserably, particularly when juveniles are involved. Feld cautions that juvenile interrogations are ripe for inquisitorial abuse owing, first, to juveniles' incompetence to exercise their Miranda rights effectively; second, to police officers' skill in using psychological tools to gain a waiver; and third, to judicial inability to supervise interrogations as they happen. His research reveals that juvenile interrogation tactics and procedures have resulted in various injustices including the proliferation of false confessions. Feld also offers solutions, including the simple one of recording all custodial interrogations for possible review. Verdict: Recommended. Judges and attorneys as well as law enforcement agencies and juvenile advocates will find this book useful as they work toward the goal of fair treatment and justice for juveniles, both guilty and innocent.\" \u003ccite\u003e ~Reba Kennedy, San Antonio, Library Journal \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"Feld offers a dispassionate inside view of a social event that is largely hiddenthe interrogation room encountered by juvenile suspects. The result challenges our stereotypes, exposing us to crime investigators at their best and worst, kids at their most naïve and savvy, and policies that were meant to protect juveniles but sometimes grease the wheels for interrogators. This book offers new hypotheses for further research, as well as realities that reformers must take into account when forging better laws, policies and practices for police interrogation of young people.\" \u003ccite\u003e ~Thomas Grisso,author of Evaluating Juveniles' Adjudicative Competence \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"Feld takes us on a fascinating journey into that most private of public placesthe precinct interrogation room. There, kids prove no match for cops. Feld shows how minors are especially vulnerable, and why the protections we afford to adults do not suffice for kids, particularly younger juveniles. Kids, Cops, and Confessions is a careful and important account of our system, chock full of insights.\" \u003ccite\u003e ~Charles Weisselberg,Shannon C. Turner Professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"Feld has produced an invaluable exploration into how the criminal justice system really works. . . . 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Coyote's first book aimed at queer youth: stories about being true to yourself.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-c08b171081fcd8b12f0f59b1253133ee\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan E. Coyote is one of Canada's best-loved storytellers; their honest, wry, plain-spoken tales of growing up in the Yukon and living out loud on the west coast have attracted readers and live audiences around the world. For many years, Ivan has performed in high schools, where their talks have inspired and galvanized many young people to embrace their own sense of self and to be proud of who they are. \u003ci\u003eOne in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e, Ivan's eighth book with Arsenal Pulp Press, is their first specifically for queer youth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComprised of new stories and others culled from previous collections, \u003ci\u003eOne in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is for anyone who\u003cbr\u003e has ever felt different or alone in their struggle to be true to themselves. Included are stories about Ivan's\u003cbr\u003eown tomboy past in Canada's north, where playing hockey and wearing pants were the norm; and about their adult life in the big city, where they encounter both cruelty and kindness in unexpected places. Then there are the tales of family and friends who live their lives by example, like Francis, the curly-haired little boy who likes to wear dresses, and the brave kids she meets at queer youth camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFunny, inspiring, and full of heart, \u003ci\u003eOne in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is really for everyone; it's about embracing and celebrating difference and feeling comfortable in one's own skin, no matter what the circumstance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block-separator\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-e180dd6458e7c1893b230c5fdb381774\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block-separator\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-6ef729a752be6e7ac4693048bb6eff40\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-reviews\"\u003e\u003cheader class=\"section-header\"\u003e\n\u003ch1 class=\"h3\"\u003eReviews\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003c\/header\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sophisticated, earnest, plainspoken and intimate, this collection will speak to LGBTQ youth as well as straight youth, teens and adults.\"\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Queer storyteller Ivan E. Coyote has created a diverse and charming array of vignettes for anyone who has ever fought to find who they really are.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Coyote's kitchen-table style of storytelling is as lively on the page as at her in-person performances. Her vulnerability connects us to her story and helps us remember our own. Stories are a wonderful meeting place showing us where we're different and how we're the same. People of all ages will relate to finding the courage in being true to oneself while seeking acceptance and community.\" \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOne in Every Crowd\u003c\/em\u003e blends humour and heartbreak to relate the struggles of LGBT middle and high schoolers.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A funny and empathetic collection of more than forty stories . .. Teenagers confronting their sexuality, or who have otehrwise felt like outsiders, will feel as though they've gained an ally in Coyote . .. These tales of compassionate relatives, finding love, and even the insecurities that stretch into adulthood should provide reassurance that there is indeed life after high school.\" \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is meant for queer youth, but it will appeal to anyone who struggles to be themselves in a world that rejects difference. Coyote brings her usual wit and grace to stories of growing up as a tomboy, of living life as a butch . .. You'll also find a few great love stories and the distinct voice of a writer whose tales stick with you long after you've read them.\" \u003ci\u003eGeez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"One in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e hits all the bases ... The book's strengths lie in the way you, as a reader, become so connected to the stories and interested in the entire group of family and friends because you know these intimate details about all of their lives and the same characters come up over and over again. You empathize with Coyote's cousin Christopher as a clumsy, awkward kid, you become invested in their father's wellbeing, you worry about the way Francis might turn out - you honestly feel as though you are catching up with a friend over coffee who just happens to tell amazing stories and gesture wildly and gush about the woman they're going to marry. The level of connection this book forms with the reader is unique and not easily achievable, but Coyote does it effortlessly.\" \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The stories in this collection are stunning in every way: unaffected, compassionate, inspirational, and, as if that wasn't enough, achingly funny . .. Great writing has the power to enrich lives; not all writing has the power to save them.\" \u003ci\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e(STARRED REVIEW)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"One in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is Ivan E. Coyote's first book written specifically for queer youth, and, in typical fashion, Coyote's storytelling abilities shine brightly throughout . .. Ivan E. Coyote is a truly talented writer and her storytelling never ceases to amaze. Highly recommended.\" \u003ci\u003eCM Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Ivan E. Coyote knows the hearts of teenagers. \u003ci\u003eOne in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is an homage to the outsider: to the young boy who steals his mother's lipstick, to the girl who slip-slides in and out of gender identifications, to the ones who can't put themselves in boxes. To the ones who cannot abide by the binary. It is a love-touched and memory-soaked ballad to queer youth . .. \u003ci\u003eOne in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that belongs in the hands of queer youth and in the hands of their oppressors. It's a heartfelt and rich look at what it's like to be else, to be outside, to toe the lines and then step over them. It can teach, it can support. It's a book that will change readers, and leave them knowing that being changed by it is a privilege.\" \u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Coyote's \u003ci\u003eOne in Every Crowd\u003c\/i\u003e is to queer literature what Dan Savage's \"It Gets Better Project\" is to YouTube. This compilation of personal short stories delivers hope with a healthy dose of reality: you can't always choose your story but you can choose the role you play within it . .. Fortunately, Ivan E. Coyote has made a career out of seeking out all queer kids and providing living proof that we are everywhere. Even if it isn't safe to be yourself, you are never alone. Whether you live deep in the Yukon or on the streets of NYC, there will be a community of one or one million to welcome you.\" \u003ci\u003eEDGE Publications\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141344534621,"sku":"9781551524597","price":18.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/A1O5z7Ua3xL.jpg?v=1694109966"},{"product_id":"one-of-a-kind-like-me","title":"One of a Kind Like Me \/ Único Como Yo","description":"\u003cp\u003eBilingual edition \/ Edición bilingüe\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaanana es el desfile escolar, y Danny sabe exactamente lo que seraa: una princesa. Mamaa le apoya al 100%, y corren a la tienda de segunda mano para encontrar su traje. 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