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Girls are thinkers, creators, fighters, healers and superheroes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An ingeniously subversive coloring book.\"\u003c\/em\u003e Heather Findlay, Editor in Chief, \u003cem\u003eGirlfriends\u003c\/em\u003e magazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Get this cool feminist coloring book even if you don't have a kid\"\u003c\/em\u003e Jane Pratt, \u003cem\u003eJane \u003c\/em\u003emagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Jacinta Bunnell and Julie Novak\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJacinta Bunnell is an artist and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley where she enjoys makes coloring books for a gender-defiant new world. Jacinta is a rehabilitated and reformed cheerleader who now has pep rallies for all sorts of freaks. She aspires to someday have friends like Jo Polniaczek from \u003cem\u003eFacts of Life\u003c\/em\u003e, Leroy Johnson from \u003cem\u003eFame\u003c\/em\u003e,and Red Fraggle. You can find her artwork at: \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.parthenialoyal.etsy.com\/\"\u003ewww.parthenialoyal.etsy.com\u003c\/a\u003e Julie Novak is an actor, writer, musician, and artist who is committed to teaching tolerance. She believes that the wisdom of young people can change the world. She received her BS in Graphic Design from SUNY New Paltz, and is now serving as the art director for \u003cem\u003eNew York House Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e, a publication focused on green living and sustainability. She contributed her design talents to the N.O.W. Foundation's \"Love Your Body Day\" campaign and helped plan SUNY New Paltz's first Transforming Feminism Conference. In 2006 she released a pop-punk CD with her band Guitars \u0026amp; Hearts which\u003cem\u003e Bitch Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e recommended in it's \"suggested listening\" column. Hear a sample at: www.myspace.com\/guitarsandhearts She lives in New York's Hudson Valley where she works on musical projects and improvisational theater performances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Jacinta Bunnell\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Julie Novak\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: saddle stitched paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-60486-076-4\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 32 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175075885149,"sku":"9781604860764","price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_898_girls3_0.jpg?v=1654987246"},{"product_id":"resistance-behind-bars-the-struggles-of-incarcerated-women","title":"Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2nd ed.)","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist circles. Resistance Behind Bars is determined to challenge and change such oversights. As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, Resistance documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. Emphasizing women’s agency in resisting the conditions of their confinement through forming peer education groups, clandestinely arranging ways for children to visit mothers in distant prisons and raising public awareness about their lives, Resistance seeks to spark further discussion and research into the lives of incarcerated women and galvanize much-needed outside support for their struggles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis updated and revised edition of the 2009 PASS Award winning book includes a new chapter about transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender-variant people in prison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e's eight years of research and writing, inspired by her unflinching commitment to listen to and support women prisoners, has resulted in an illuminating effort to document the dynamic resistance of incarcerated women in the United States.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wr\\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Written in regular English, rather than academese, this is an impressive work of research and reportage.\" Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row political prisoner and author of \u003cem\u003eLive From Death Row \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"Finally! A passionately and extensively researched book that recognizes the myriad ways in which women resist in prison, and the many particular obstacles that, at many points, hinder them from rebelling. Even after my own years inside, I learned from this book.” Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Excellently researched and well documented, Resistance Behind Bars is a long needed and much awaited look at the struggles, protests and resistance waged by women prisoners. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the modern American gulag.” —Paul Wright, former prisoner, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePrison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Repression tries not only to crush but to quiet. But as Vikki Law shows in this multifaceted book, all that is unseen is not absent. Guided by years of anti-prison organizing and a palpable feminist practice, Law documents the many ways women challenge the twin forces of prison and patriarchy, each trying to render women invisible. In the face of attempts at erasure, women prisoners resist to survive and survive to resist. We would do well to pay attention.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eLetters from Young Activists\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Resistance offers us a much-needed, much broader and nuanced definition of resistance—a woman's definition based on the real material conditions of women. I hope that when one reads about the experiences of women prisoners' organizing and resistance, the reader, both woman and man, will begin to glimpse the possibilities and necessity of such forms as we continue to struggle for a more just and equal world free from all forms of oppression. If women worldwide are unable to liberate themselves, human liberation will not be possible.” Marilyn Buck, anti-imperialist political prisoner, activist, poet and artist \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. After a brief stint as a teenage armed robber, she became involved in prisoner support. In 1996, she helped start Books Through Bars-New York City, a group that sends free books to prisoners nationwide. In 2000, she began concentrating on the needs and actions of women in prison, drawing attention to their issues by writing articles and giving public presentations. Since 2002, she has worked with women incarcerated nationwide to produce the zine Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison and has facilitated having incarcerated women’s writings published in Clamor magazine, the website “Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance” and the upcoming anthology Interrupted Lives. In 1995, she became involved with ABC No Rio, a collectively-run arts center on New York’s Lower East Side, serving as Board Treasurer from 1997 to 2002. In 1997, she organized a group of activist photographers to transform one of No Rio’s upstairs tenement apartments into a black-and-white photo darkroom for community use. Since then, she has remained actively involved in coordinating (and sometimes co-teaching) free photography classes for neighborhood youth. In addition, she has participated in and curated numerous exhibitions at No Rio’s gallery, many with themes addressing social and political issues such as incarceration, grassroots efforts to rebuild New Orleans, Zapatista organizing, police brutality and squatting. In 2003, she began presenting “Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind,” a workshop addressing the specific (and often unacknowledged) needs of parents and children in radical movements. Sometimes with China Martens and sometimes with Jennifer Silverman, she has facilitated discussions in Baltimore, New York City, Providence, Montreal, Minneapolis and Boston. With Jessica Mills and China Martens, she is compiling a handbook for allies of radical parents by the same name. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175080112221,"sku":"9781604865837","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71fZXJRK6RL._SL1500.jpg?v=1718216724"},{"product_id":"sometimes-the-spoon-runs-away-with-another-spoon-coloring-book","title":"Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon Coloring Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe have the power to change fairy tales and nursery rhymes so that these stories are more realistic. In \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e you will find anecdotes of real kids’ lives and true-to-life fairy tale characters. This book pushes us beyond rigid gender expectations while we color fantastic beasts who like pretty jewelry and princesses who build rocket ships. Celebrate sensitive boys, tough girls, and others who do not fit into a disempowering gender categorization. \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e…aids the work of dismantling the Princess Industrial Complex by moving us forward with more honest representations of our children and ourselves. Color to your heart's content. Laugh along with the characters. Write your own fairy tales. Share your own truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As moving and funny as \u003cem\u003eWalter the Farting Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, with pictures you can color however your heart desires, \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e… is appropriate for children of all ages, especially those who grew up without it.\" Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist of \u003cem\u003eThe East Village Inky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For some people the sky's the limit. For Jacinta Bunnell it's a place to put a rainbow. There are no limits in \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e—just fun and love. Jacinta Bunnell invites you to \"Step right up!\" to the wonderful world of you!\" World Famous *BOB*, \u003cem\u003eUltimate Self Confidence! Coach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacinta Bunnell\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley where she enjoys makes coloring books for a gender-defiant new world. Jacinta is a rehabilitated and reformed cheerleader who now has pep rallies for all sorts of freaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cstrong\u003eNat Kusinitz\u003c\/strong\u003e was in 6th grade he saw a painting of Frida Kahlo with all of her hair chopped off and was never the same again. He currently resides in New Orleans, where he spends his time riding the streetcar around and staring wistfully out of windows.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175082831965,"sku":"9781604863291","price":14.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_940_spoon3_0.jpg?v=1654987289"},{"product_id":"the-military-strategy-of-women-and-children","title":"The Military Strategy of Women and Children","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Now, in this exploration, we are moving onto the ground of meta-politics. Wild, vast and more primal than the little, fenced-in suburban plots of what amerikkka calls “politics”. From the rape bordellos of the Balkans to the mass murder by AIDS in Afrika, women are being pushed to understand men’s society and, most importantly, ourselves, in a different way. The longest Amazon journey begins today.\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003efrom the Introduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Military Strategy of Women and Children\u003c\/em\u003e lays out the need for an autonomous and independent women's revolutionary movement, a revolutionary women's culture that involves not only separating oneself from patriarchal imperialism, but also in confronting, opposing, and waging war against it by all means necessary. Of particular interest is the Lee's critique of reformist \"feminism\", and her examination of how genocide, colonialism and patriarchy are intertwined, not only historically but also in the present.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe three main essays in this book appeared in slightly different form in the 1980s in the underground feminist newspaper \u003cem\u003eBottomfish Blues\u003c\/em\u003e, while the postscript (\"There's Fighting in Iraq but the Real Women'sWar is in Afrika\") was written in 2003. They are the first parts of an ongoing work in progress—part four is published separately in the book \u003cem\u003eJailbreak Out of History\u003c\/em\u003e. More writings by Butch Lee are available \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\"\u003eonline on the Kersplebedeb website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/mystuff\/books\/tmsowac\/index.html\"\u003eButch Lee\u003c\/a\u003e was a longtime revolutionary, and co-author of \u003cem\u003eNight-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Butch Lee\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175084339293,"sku":"9780973143232","price":16.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_950_tmsowac3_0.jpg?v=1654987299"},{"product_id":"sex-race-and-class-mdash-the-perspective-of-winning-a-selection-of-writings-1952-2011","title":"Sex, Race, and Class; The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings 1952-2011","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1972 Selma James set out a new political perspective. Her starting point was the millions of unwaged women who, working in the home and on the land, were not seen as “workers” and their struggles viewed as outside of the class struggle. Based on her political training in the Johnson-Forest Tendency, founded by her late husband C.L.R. James, on movement experience South and North, and on a respectful study of Marx, she redefined the working class to include sectors previously dismissed as “marginal.” For James, the class struggle presents itself as the conflict between the reproduction and survival of the human race, and the domination of the market with its exploitation, wars, and ecological devastation. She sums up her strategy for change as “Invest in Caring not Killing.” This selection, spanning six decades, traces the development of this perspective in the course of building an international campaigning network. It includes the classic The Power of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjIifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Women and the Subversion of the Community\"\u003eWomen and the Subversion of the Community\u003c\/a\u003e which launched the “domestic labor debate,” the exciting Hookers in the House of the Lord which describes a church occupation by sex workers, an incisive review of the C.L.R. James masterpiece The Black Jacobins, a reappraisal of the novels of Jean Rhys and of the leadership of Julius Nyerere, the groundbreaking Marx and Feminism, and “What the Marxists Never Told Us About Marx,” published here for the first time. The writing is lucid and without jargon. The ideas, never abstract, spring from the experience of organising, from trying to make sense of the successes and the setbacks, and from the need to find a way forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"It's time to acknowledge James’s path-breaking analysis: from 1972 she re-interpreted the capitalist economy to show that it rests on the usually invisible unwaged caring work of women.\" —Dr. Peggy Antrobus, feminist, author of The Global Women’s Movement: Origins, Issues and Strategies “For clarity and commitment to Haiti’s revolutionary legacy…Selma is a sister after my own heart.” —Danny Glover, actor and activist “The publication of these essays reflects in concentrated form the history of the new society struggling to be born. Their appearance today could not be timelier. As the fruit of the collective experience of the last half-century, they will help to acquaint a whole new generation with not only what it means to think theoretically, but, more importantly, the requirement of organization as the means of testing those ideas. In this respect, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMjMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/selma-james\" title=\"Selma James\"\u003eSelma James\u003c\/a\u003e embodies in these essays the spirit of the revolutionary tradition at its most relevant.” —Dr. Robert A. Hill, Literary Executor of the estate of C.L.R. James, University of California, Los Angeles, Director, Marcus Garvey Papers Project “In this incisive and necessary collection of essays and talks spanning over five decades, Selma James reminds us that liberation cannot be handed down from above. This is a feminism that truly matters.” —Dr. Alissa Trotz, Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies, Director of Caribbean Studies, University of Toronto “With her latest book, Selma James reaffirms what has been evident for some time: she is—quite simply—not only one of the most outstanding feminist thinkers of her generation but, as well, an insightful and exceedingly intelligent political analyst.” —Dr. Gerald Horne, historian and author, John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelma James is a women's rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. From 1958 to 1962 she worked with C.L.R. James in the movement for West Indian federation and independence. In 1972 she founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign, and in 2000 helped launch the Global Women's Strike whose strategy for change is \"Invest in Caring not Killing\". She coined the word “unwaged” which has since entered the English language. In the 1970s she was the first spokeswoman of the English Collective of Prostitutes. She is a founding member of the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. She co-authored the classic The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community which launched the “domestic labour debate.” Other publications include A Woman’s Place (1952), Women, the Unions and Work, or what is not to be done (1972), Sex, Race and Class (1974), Wageless of the World (1974), The Rapist Who Pays the Rent (1982), The Ladies and the Mammies—Jane Austen and Jean Rhys (1983), Marx and Feminism (1983), Hookers in the House of the Lord (1983), Strangers \u0026amp; Sisters: Women, Race and Immigration (1985), The Global Kitchen—the Case for Counting Unwaged Work (1985 and 1995), and The Milk of Human Kindness—Defending Breastfeeding from the AIDS Industry and the Global Market (2005).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout Marcus Rediker (Foreword)\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMarcus Rediker is a an activist and Distinguished Professor of Atlantic History at the University of Pittsburgh. 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Now, at forty-one, she no longer believes that life begins at conception, but knows that hers certainly ended with it. Still, she loves her kids, and she's finally working on a college degree. She's been happily married twenty-three years. Happily enough. Until her professor, Faye, asks her for coffee and kisses her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThree very different women. All forty-one. With the same birthday. With the same birthmark. As the parallel lines of their lives converge, we realize what connects them: they were all once the same seventeen-year-old girl on an April morning, wondering whether she would be brave.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Three is the novel I've been waiting for. It's a story as steady and true as a heartbeat, building slowly to a wild storm where utopias turn dystopian and then back again. It's both a cautionary tale of courage and cowardice and a battle call where the personal and the political shatter and mend each other. And Three is a book of such beauty that it could change the world.\" — Derrick Jensen, author of Endgame\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Three is a novel for the radical heart. It's a story for both the brave and the weary, lush with our passions, poignant with loss. It's a map through the territory we must travel to find that shining world of our dreams, a world that a tiny few refuse to abandon despite our endless defeats. If you have longed to hear Eliot's mermaids singing, ached for the courage to eat that peach, Three will show you how. What Monahan has written is, finally, Woolf's trip to the lighthouse. It may be an abandoned oil rig at this point in the destruction of the planet, but the unrelenting beauty of Three is enough to make it bloom.” — Lierre Keith, author of The Vegetarian Myth: Food, Justice, and Sustainability\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout Annemarie Monahan\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnnemarie Monahan has been published in numerous lesbian and feminist journals. 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A change of such magnitude would require the development of much more advanced global transportation and commodity markets and a tremendous reorganization of labor. It would require a major overhaul of political systems everywhere. It would be a sea-change in capitalism.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThat sea-change is what's happening now. Traditional rural patriarchy based on family farming is finally, steadily, decisively, being crushed by global capital. It's impossible to overstate the consequences of this process for working-class women and for capitalism. The world's most profitable reservoir of productive labor—-the basic working class, mostly women—-is essentially being re-deployed in a radically new configuration.\"\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e\"Whatever radicals in the metropolisdecide to do, or not do, capitalism has moved on. Its current incarnation demands the thorough commodification and internationalization of agriculture, industry, commerce and services. It needs rapid access to mobile and flexible pools of workers, especially working-class women. To make this happen, capitalists are rolling the dice, scrambling to extend their domination even as they allow some of capitalism's deepest social moorings to slip free. In desperation, under duress, capitalism has found it necessary to socialize the labor of working-class women on a whole new basis, to essentially remake the working class in a more advanced and cosmopolitan form. In the process, the central role of working-class women in the world economy is being pushed rapidly out of the shadows.\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003e New capitalism is here, bringing with it new politics. At the most fundamental level, this politics is not about oil. It's not about religion. It's not about imperialist men versus anti-imperialist men. It's about women and women's labor: women at the heart of a transformed global proletariat.\"\u003c\/em\u003e The complete text is also \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.kersplebedeb.com\/exodus.html\"\u003eavailable online on the Kersplebedeb website\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Bromma\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-894946-42-1\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 37 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175100559453,"sku":"9781894946421","price":4.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1092_exodus3_0.jpg?v=1654987415"},{"product_id":"revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle","title":"Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle","description":"\u003cp\u003eWritten between 1974 and the present,\u003cem\u003e Revolution at Point Zero\u003c\/em\u003e collects forty years of research and theorizing on the nature of housework, social reproduction, and women’s struggles on this terrain—to escape it, to better its conditions, to reconstruct it in ways that provide an alternative to capitalist relations. Indeed, as Federici reveals, behind the capitalist organization of work and the contradictions inherent in “alienated labor” is an explosive ground zero for revolutionary practice upon which are decided the daily realities of our collective reproduction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with Federici’s organizational work in the Wages for Housework movement, the essays collected here unravel the power and politics of wide but related issues including the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, the development of affective labor, and the politics of the commons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Finally we have a volume that collects the many essays that over a period of four decades \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e has written on the question of social reproduction and women’s struggles on this terrain. While providing a powerful history of the changes in the organization of reproductive labor,\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\u003c\/em\u003e documents the development of Federici’s thought on some of the most important questions of our time: globalization, gender relations, the construction of new commons.” Mariarosa Dalla Costa, coauthor of \u003cem\u003eThe Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e Our Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“As the academy colonizes and tames women’s studies, Silvia Federici speaks the experience of a generation of women for whom politics was raw, passionately lived, often in the shadow of an uncritical Marxism. She spells out the subtle violence of housework and sexual servicing, the futility of equating waged work with emancipation, and the ongoing invisibility of women’s reproductive labors. Under neoliberal globalization women’s exploitation intensifies—in land enclosures, in forced migration, in the crisis of elder care. With ecofeminist thinkers and activists, Federici argues that protecting the means of subsistence now becomes the key terrain of struggle, and she calls on women North and South to join hands in building new commons.” Ariel Salleh, author of \u003cem\u003eEcofeminism as Politics: Nature, Marx, and the Postmodern\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The zero point of revolution is where new social relations first burst forth, from which countless waves ripple outward into other domains. For over thirty years, Silvia Federici has fiercely argued that this zero point cannot have any other location but the sphere of reproduction. It is here that we encounter the most promising battlefield between an outside to capital and a capital that cannot abide by any outsides. This timely collection of her essays reminds us that the shape and form of any revolution are decided in the daily realities and social construction of sex, care, food, love, and health. Women inhabit this zero point neither by choice nor by nature, but simply because they carry the burden of reproduction in a disproportionate manner. Their struggle to take control of this labor is everybody’s struggle, just as capital’s commodification of their demands is everybody’s commodification.” Massimo De Angelis, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beginning of History: Values, Struggles, and Global Capital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In her unfailing generosity of mind, Silvia Federici has offered us yet another brilliant and groundbreaking reflection on how capitalism naturalizes the exploitation of every aspect of women’s productive and reproductive life. Federici theorizes convincingly that, whether in the domestic or public sphere, capital normalizes women’s labor as ‘housework’ worthy of no economic compensation or social recognition. Such economic and social normalization of capitalist exploitation of women underlies the gender-based violence produced by the neoliberal wars that are ravaging communities around the world, especially in Africa. The intent of such wars is to keep women off the communal lands they care for, while transforming them into refugees in nation-states weakened by the negative effects of neoliberalism. Silvia Federici’s call for ecofeminists’ return to the Commons against Capital is compelling. Revolution at Point Zero is a timely release and a must read for scholars and activists concerned with the condition of women around the world.” Ousseina D. Alidou, Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa (CAFA), Director of the Center for African Studies at Rutgers University and author of\u003cem\u003e Engaging Modernity: Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout Silvia Federici \u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972, she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective, which launched the Wages for Housework campaign internationally. 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She is one of the cofounders of the Committee for Academic Freedom in Africa, an organization dedicated to generating support for the struggles of students and teachers in Africa against the structural adjustment of African economies and education systems. From 1987 to 2005, she also taught international studies, women’s studies, and political philosophy courses at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer decades of research and political organizing accompanies a long list of publications on philosophy and feminist theory, women’s history, education, culture, international politics, and more recently on the worldwide struggle against capitalist globalization and for a feminist reconstruction of the commons. Her steadfast commitment to these issues resounds in her focus on autonomy and her emphasis on the power of what she calls self-reproducing movements as a challenge to capitalism through the construction of new social relations.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175103377501,"sku":"9781604863338","price":22.33,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_1099_revpointzero3_0.jpg?v=1654987436"},{"product_id":"sister-of-the-road-the-autobiography-of-boxcar-bertha","title":"Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Boxcar Bertha","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnother raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. 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That the choices, experiences, and consequences of women's sexual lives became fodder for such poorly informed national \"conversations\" is evidence of the pressing need for thoughtful, sex-positive scholarship which centers on women's sexual agency. The Feminist Porn Book is just such a contribution, and I predict this volume is going to find its way onto the bedside tables of several generations of American women. This volume brings together academics, activists, and porn entrepreneurs who have a startling array of interactions with pornography as an experience, a business, and a field of inquiry. This text is straightforward and informative in ways that are unfortunately rare in the multi-decade feminist struggle over porn. It's also fun and sometimes a bit naughty to read. The authors do not assume that the porn industry as it exists is the one essential and only possible incarnation of porn. Instead, they assume that when feminists engage, intervene in, produce, and study pornography, they can radically alter its formations and meanings. At the core of the book is the question: Can porn coexist with the principles of feminism? No matter how one ultimately adjudicates this question, The Feminist Porn Book leaves no doubt about the inherent value in the inquiry itself.”— Melissa Harris-Perry, host of MSNBC's \"Melissa Harris-Perry,\" author of Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America, and professor of political science at Tulane University \"Finally the time is right for feminist porn! This stunning collection by academics and artists in dialogue accounts for the massive changes in technology, erotics, modes of spectatorship, and embodied identities which impact the world of pornography. As this volume demonstrates, we are now far from the sex wars of the 1980s, the sex panics of the 1990s, and well into a new era of erotic representation. In order to make sense of new and emergent worlds of desiring bodies, trans-femininities and trans-masculinities, transgressive racial performance, and the erotics of disabled bodies, read The Feminist Porn Book , and when you are finished, go out and make some porn!\"—Jack Halberstam, author of Gaga Feminism: Sex, Gender and the End of Normal “The Feminist Porn Book is a knockout! If this doesn’t sway antiporn feminists to the pro-porn feminist side, I’ll eat my bra. Let’s come together right now!” — Annie Sprinkle, feminist pornographer and eco-sex activist “This thrilling anthology brings together scholars, producers, and fans of feminist pornography to define an emerging movement of gender and sexual visionaries, working at the radically inclusive and egalitarian edges of sexual representation. The authors explore an ever-widening range of body types, and a proliferating variety of images, sensations, and feelings. They examine the conditions of production as well as the politics of representation. They show us the new feminist porn as deep play—challenging, exciting, and important.” —Lisa Duggan, professor of American studies and gender and sexuality studies, Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University \"This is the book that feminist scholars, teachers, students, and activists have been waiting for! Eloquent, smart, passionate, and engaging—each page of the The Feminist Porn Book offers a timely reminder of the continued importance of feminist interventions into the politics and production of pornography.\"—Carol Stabile, director of the Center for the Study of Women in Society at the University of Oregon \"Finally: academics are actually talking to sex industry workers, pornographers are doubling as theorists, and feminists have grabbed the cameras. The Feminist Porn Book sets the agenda for new ways of thinking about the sticky social relations of dirty pictures.\" —Laura Kipnis, author of Bound and Gagged: Pornography and the Politics of Fantasy in America “In this breakthrough collection, scholars, artists, and producers from across a spectrum of identities serve up profound new insights on making, consuming, and studying porn. This book advances my understanding of how porn works, when it doesn’t, and why it matters. The short essay format makes this book ideal for teaching, but it’s essential reading for anyone insterested in sexual politics or contemporary culture.” —Richard Fung, video artist and professor, Ontario College of Art and Design “The Feminist Porn Book is a readable and smart must-have for any classroom dealing with sexual representations.” —Chuck Kleinhans, co-editor of JUMP CUT: a review of contemporary media “To have writings from so many of the most important creators in feminist porn in one anthology is wonderful. It captures the past, present, and future pioneering of this important film genre.” —Shine Louise Houston, director and CEO of Pink and White Productions “This impressive volume of essays shows that thirty years after the feminist sex wars first erupted, porn is still a hot topic for the women’s movement, and for the scholarly study of gender and sexuality. 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In which analysis, tentative strategic understanding, new tactics \u0026amp; practice, criticism of results, and then the emergence of new strategy, all flow in a continuous dialectical circle of struggle. And those partial women’s struggles \u0026amp; victories, great as they were, underline the reality that if you don’t have a strategy to end a war then someone else will usually end it for you. But you won’t like it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"All these earlier battles throughout the New Afrikan nation still throw light for us on the latest battlefield. And on battles certain to come.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eButch Lee (1940–2021) was an Amazon theorist. 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This lucid, engaging book explicitly challenges Canadians to take up their responsibilities as treaty partners, to reconsider their history and to hold their government to account for its treatment of Indigenous peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Karen Stote\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781552667323\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 192 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Fernwood\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175210299485,"sku":"9781552667323","price":24.79,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/anactofgenocide.jpg?v=1654987889"},{"product_id":"mind-the-gaps","title":"Mind the Gaps","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe gender gap refers to the differences in public opinion and political participation between men and women: the proportion of seats held by women in Canadian legislatures appears to have plateaued or even declined at all levels of government, and gendered differences in political behaviour and participation impact public policy, political outcomes and democratic fairness in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMind the Gaps\u003c\/em\u003e provides a multifaceted examination of the role of gender in traditional politics, social movement politics and the media in Canada. This edited collection provides an interdisciplinary examination of the gender gap in Canada, and brings together knowledge, viewpoints and case studies on gender and politics, providing readers with a greater understanding of the various gender gaps that exist in Canada politics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Roberta Lexier\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Tamara Small\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781552665534\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 160 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Fernwood\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175212757085,"sku":"9781552665534","price":23.71,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/mindthegaps.jpg?v=1654987899"},{"product_id":"our-mother-ocean-enclosure-commons-and-the-global-fishermen-s-movement","title":"Our Mother Ocean: Enclosure, Commons, and the Global Fishermen’s Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe ocean today is a central protagonist in the ongoing battle for life on earth. It is the site of a violent clash between the right to live and the right to profit, as corporate interests enclose the ocean’s vast common of living riches through tourism and industrial fishing—distorting landscapes, depleting fish stocks, and destroying barriers to protection against climate disaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of the Fisherman’s Movement from its beginnings in Southern India to its central role in the struggle against neoliberal globalization. Since the 1970s, the Fisherman’s Movement has been one of the ocean’s closest and most impassioned protectors, raising key questions concerning the relationship between work and the safeguarding of common resources, the provision of community needs and environmental limits of the devastating industrialization of our oceans. While a remarkable political awareness has spread over the last 40 years around questions of food, agriculture and land, the issues of the sea have remained concealed, despite the protracted struggles between fish workers and those who oversee the sector and the exploitation of the ocean’s resources.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this crucial intervention, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese offer the ocean to the land-locked history of food sovereignty movements led primarily workers in the global South against dispossession.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDalla Costa and Chilese draw attention to the polyvalent functions of the ocean as a source of food, medicine, raw materials, biodiversity and culture—and as a site of human labour and livelihood threatened by vast enclosures through industrial fishing and tourism. This book is an urgent reminder that the ocean is today the site of a heroic struggle for the preservation of life on earth. It points crucially to impassioned sectors of the movement of movements that endure in the global South, and details the stakes of the struggles and its outcomes on land and at sea as central for the future of life on earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e has for decades been a central figure in the development of autonomy in a wide range of anticapitalist\u003cbr\u003e\nmovements. Her seminal coauthored book The Power of Women and the Subversion of the Community, has been\u003cbr\u003e\ntranslated into six languages.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMonica Chilese is a political sociologist at the University of Padua, where she devotes her study to the question of ecology,\u003cbr\u003e\ngiving special attention to the marine environment, the impoverishment of the fisheries, and the analysis of social problems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The emergence of [the] fisher as part of the movement against neoliberal globalization is beautifully understood in this book. I applaud the authors’ passionate portrayal of workers on the sea as an organic part of those of us who wish to protect Nature against the rapacious excesses of capitalism.\" —George Katsiaficas, activist and author, \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/the-antifa-comic-book-100-years-of-fascism-and-antifa-movements\" title=\"The Subversion of Politics\"\u003eThe Subversion of Politics\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAsia’s Unknown Uprisings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There is no apocalyptic randiness in this amazing account of the horror. Instead, we get a call as rigorous as passionate for what we all need to do now. The authors distill for the reader the almost overwhelming documentation they used in their very solid exploration of the subject, covering almost every aspect of it, and share their insights in an elegant and direct style. The World Fishers Movement, brilliantly described here, the biggest fishers movement in history, begins to do for Mother Ocean what Via Campesina, the biggest farmers movement in history, is doing for Mother Earth. In resisting the new enclosures, hundreds of millions of people are thus attempting to stop the devastating activity of corporate capital, in order to sustain their ways of life and ours. They need both our awareness and our action. This is the book we need for both.\" —Gustavo Esteva, author of \u003cem\u003eGrassroots Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"This book is indeed a timely one. With climate change and the exhaustion of natural resources the patriarchal\/capitalist civilisation seems to be coming to an end. The authors remind us that Mother Earth and Mother Ocean are indeed the source of all life on our planet. Without earth no life; without oceans and water, no life. The authors criticize that the vital connection between humans and the sea, between humans and the earth has been disrupted by capitalist\/patriarchal exploitation. The victims of this explotation are among others all the small coastal fishermen who lose their livelihood. However, the authors do not stop by only analysing these problems but show how people everywhere fight against this destruction. I warmly recommend this book to all who are concerned about future life on this planet.\" —Maria Mies, author of \u003cem\u003ePatriarchy and Accumulation on a World-Scale\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Subsistence Perspective\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese sound an eloquent warning about the precarious state of not only the planet’s fisheries but of the health of the world’s oceans themselves. They foreground the dilemmas facing fishermen’s movements in various continents, caught as they are between economic imperatives, the need to fish sustainably, and the pressures of multinational capitalism. This book is a thoughtful and necessary call to action.\" —David Gullette, Simmons College\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Through overfishing, industrial aquaculture, and poisoning, capitalism is killing ocean life—upon which all of life on Earth depends—but the people who are most directly threatened by this destruction are fighting back, and the rest of us urgently need to join their struggles. That is the story that unfolds in this remarkably detailed but compact book by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese. To date, awareness of the killing has been mostly limited to the environmental movement. At the same time, awareness of the ways in which capitalism has been slowly destroying traditional communities of those who live by, on, and with the seas has been mostly limited to the peoples of those communities and, in the case of indigenous fishing communities, a few anthropologists. This book not only illuminates the interrelationships between these two patterns of destruction, but also highlights the emergence of a worldwide movement of resistance on the part of some of those most directly threatened.\" —Harry Cleaver, author of \u003cem\u003eReading Capital Politically\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eOur Mother Ocean\u003c\/em\u003e is an engaging and critical effort by \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/women-and-the-subversion-of-the-community-a-mariarosa-dalla-costa-reader\" title=\"Mariarosa Dalla Costa\"\u003eMariarosa Dalla Costa\u003c\/a\u003e and Monica Chilese, who bring attention to the concerns, questions, and struggles relating to the seas and their remarkable social, economic, cultural, and ecological importance to human beings. This appealing book not only questions our relation with the sea but aims to raise consciousness about the way we live our lives and the ecologic problematic we all face globally. Stressing the ‘polyvalence of the vital functions which the ocean represents,’ the authors explore how the relation of humans with the sea has become one of depredation and destruction for commercial purposes. The book deals with the implications of industrial fishing, aquaculture, aquafarming, and marine pollution, thus exploring not only the appalling consequences and damage for the marine and coastal ecosystems, but for the small communities all over the world whose livelihoods depend on the sea and who have been affected by this approach to the sea as a ‘usable object.’ It is in this context that the authors brilliantly relate the path of the movement of fishermen, a movement born in the seventies in India that has now spread all over the world. 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Cyril, Esteli Juarez, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Fabiola Sandoval, Sumayyah Talibah, \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e, Tara Villalba, Lola Mondragón, Christy NaMee Eriksen, Norma Angelica Marrun, Vivian Chin, Rachel Broadwater, Autumn Brown, Layne Russell, Noemi Martinez, Katie Kaput, alba onofrio, Gabriela Sandoval, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Ariel Gore, Claire Barrera, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Fabielle Georges, H. Bindy K. Kang, Terri Nilliasca, Irene Lara, Panquetzani, Mamas of Color Rising, tk karakashian tunchez, Arielle Julia Brown, Lindsey Campbell, Micaela Cadena, and Karen Su.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This collection is a treat for anyone that sees class and that needs to learn more about the experiences of women of color (and who doesn’t?!). There is no dogma here, just fresh ideas and women of color taking on capitalism, anti-racist, anti-sexist theory-building that is rooted in the most primal of human connections, the making of two people from the body of one: mothering.” Barbara Jensen, author of \u003cem\u003eReading Classes: On Culture and Classism in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“For women of color, mothering—the art of mothering—has been framed by the most virulent systems, historically: enslavement, colonialism, capitalism, imperialism. We have had few opportunities to define mothering not only as an aspect of individual lives and choices, but as the processes of love and as a way of structuring community. Revolutionary Mothering arrives as a needed balm.” Alexis De Veaux, author of \u003cem\u003eWarrior Poet: A Biography of Audre Lorde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Although it is primarily written for mothers of all ages, the issues that are raised—about family, love, struggle, sacrifice, and acceptance—are universal as they speak to the revolutionary that exists within all of us.” Karsonya Wise Whitehead, PhD, assistant professor of communication and African and African American studies, Loyola University Maryland\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is juicy, gutsy, vulnerable, and very brave. These women insist on having their children in a society that does not welcome them, in a world that is rapidly falling apart. Their dream for their children, based on their love of them, encompasses the sorrow and the joy that mothers everywhere, whether human, animal, or plant, feel at this time. 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. Here, revolution, love, and mothering are an inseparable unity.” Faith Holsaert, coeditor of\u003cem\u003e Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts of Women in SNCC\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs was the first person to dig through the archives of several radical black feminist mothers including June Jordan, Audre Lorde, Lucille Clifton, and Toni Cade Bambara while writing her dissertation We Can Learn to Mother Ourselves: The Queer Survival of Black Feminism, a 500-page work. Alexis was named one of UTNE Reader’s 50 Visionaries Transforming the World in 2009, a Reproductive Reality Check Shero, and a Black Woman Rising nominee in 2010, and was awarded one of the first ever Too Sexy for 501c3 trophies in 2011! 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). Since 2003, China has cofacilitated numerous workshops to create support for parents and children in activist and radical communities at universities, conferences, and healing spaces across the United States and Canada including the Civil Liberties and Public Policy Conference, Allied Media Conference, and book fairs from Montreal to New Orleans; Minneapolis to Santa Fe; and New York City to San Francisco. She also was a cofounder of Kidz City, a radical childcare collective in Baltimore (2009–2013) and is connected to a national circle of radical childcare collectives established at the 2010 US Social Forum in Detroit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMai’a Williams is the creator and director of Water Studio, which supports and co-creates with underground community artists and revolutionaries in Cairo, Egypt, and she organizes with the Revolutionary Youth Councils of Cairo, which were among the leading forces during the 2011 ouster of Mubarak. It was her living and working with Palestinian, Congolese, and Central American indigenous mothers in resistance communities, that initially inspired her to become a mother and continues to guide her as she practices this life-giving work called radical mothering. Her essays, short stories and poetry have been published in\u003cem\u003e make\/shift, Mamaphiles, Tenacious, Popshot, Woman’s Work, Lilith Devotional\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eColored Girls\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the instigator of the Outlaw Midwives movement, zines, and blog, which shifts the discourse around birth, life, death, and healing by offering a vision of radical empowerment and accountability. In 2008, she published the anthology \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Motherhood\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of writing and visual art about mothering on the margins, which became the inspiration for \u003cem\u003eRevolutionary Mothering\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Publisher: PM Press\u003cbr\u003e ISBN:\u003cbr\u003e Published: 03\/2016\u003cbr\u003e Format: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e Size: 9x6\u003cbr\u003e Page count: 272\u003cbr\u003e Subjects: Women's Studies\/Family-Parenting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Alexis Pauline Gumbs\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: China Martens\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Mai’a Williams\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 978-1-62963-110-3\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 272 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Between the Lines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175230386269,"sku":"9781629631103","price":24.23,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/revolutionary_mothering.jpg?v=1654987961"},{"product_id":"the-spitboy-rule-tales-of-a-xicana-in-a-female-punk-band","title":"The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band","description":"\u003cp\u003eMichelle Cruz Gonzales played drums and wrote lyrics in the influential 1990s female hardcore band Spitboy, and now she’s written a book—a punk rock herstory. 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Briskly told in clean, conversational prose, The Spitboy Rule is an entertaining read and functions as an important historical, critical, and sociopolitical document of pre-internet DIY music.” \u003cbr\u003e\n—Jesse Michaels, vocalist for Operation Ivy and author of \u003cem\u003eWhispering Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMichelle Cruz Gonzales played drums and wrote lyrics for three bands during the 1980s and 1990s: Bitch Fight, Spitboy, and Instant Girl. Her writing has been published in anthologies, literary journals, and \u003cem\u003eHip Mama\u003c\/em\u003e magazine. Michelle teaches English and creative writing at Las Positas College, and lives with her husband, son, and their three Mexican dogs in Oakland, California.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMartín Sorrondeguy was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, raised in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago, and has called San Francisco home for the last ten years. 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She is the author of \u003cem\u003eThe Gift of Freedom: War, Debt, and Other Refugee Passages\u003c\/em\u003e (Duke University Press, 2012) and has also published in \u003cem\u003eSigns\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCamera Obscura\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWomen \u0026amp; Performance\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003epositions\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRadical History Review\u003c\/em\u003e. Nguyen has made zines since 1991, including \u003cem\u003eSlander\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRace Riot\u003c\/em\u003e. She is a former \u003cem\u003ePunk Planet\u003c\/em\u003e columnist and \u003cem\u003eMaximumrocknroll\u003c\/em\u003e volunteer. 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Here is the editors' introduction to this issue, followed by the table of contents:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDear readers, family, fans, and haters,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThank you for your sustained love, resistance, and solidarity. We’ve been working hard to bring you some really exciting and thought provoking material to keep you coming back for more! It is with much pleasure and gratitude that we bring you Issue 18 of Upping the Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIt has been an exciting few months of editing articles and working on production. This past spring, we saw two important occupations in the city of Toronto. In April 2016, members of Black Lives Matter-Toronto (BLM-TO) and allies completed a 15-day occupation at the police headquarters demanding justice for murdered Black people. Andrew Loku, Jermaine Carby, and many others have been killed as a result of police brutality. The occupation occurred during the coldest weather in Toronto – yet they managed to hold the space for two weeks as communities across the country rallied to support them.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA few weeks later, we then saw a militant occupation of the Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) office as the Attawapiskat First Nation called a state of emergency in response to the nation’s suicide crisis. Allied with Black Lives Matter, Indigenous activists and other allies demonstrated cross-community support bridging anti-Black racism with colonization. In both occupations, various organizations, unions, and individuals rallied to support activists holding down the space. People provided hot meals, warm clothing and supplies, performances, numbers, letters of support, and on-site medical care. The connections forged during the weeks at BLM-TO Tent City and the INAC occupation show how cross-political and community alliances can be developed and maintained through direct action. With those Toronto specific actions, the editors continue to engage with and publish the lessons and histories of radical social movements, especially as activists experiment with different models of organizing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eSince our last issue, Canada has experienced a young, fresh-faced, Trudeau-style welcome to tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. Their presence has influenced a liberal settler-patriotism and compassion, as well as provoked the ire of many fascist elements of this society. While state massacres rage on in Syria, many borders across Europe have closed their gates in the face of an unprecedented movement of migrants from the all regions of the global south. Global upheavals have also occurred in growing numbers. In March 2016, approximately 7 million Brazilians marched in protest of the Rousseff government’s corruption amidst the country’s dwindling economic state. Thousands of students at Jawaharlal Nehru University mobilized against the growing Hindu nationalist movement that sought to try student union comrades under charges of sedition for their demands for Kashmiri azadi, dismantling the caste system, and freedom to political prisoners. Comrades, there is much to rage against!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this issue, we address some of the rage-inducing issues facing today’s social justice movements. Because we recognize the toll of these struggles as well as the need to fight for something instead of always fighting against, we start off with our editorial on self care. After many engrossing discussions on this hot topic, members of the editorial committee all seem to agree on the need for our circles to (continue to) talk about both self care and community care to build, strengthen, and sustain our movements. It’s not easy to keep the struggle going, let alone do it without radical care, affection, and mutual aid.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn our interviews section, we start off with an interview with OmiSoore H. Dryden and Suzanne Lenon on their recent book entitled, Disrupting Queer Inclusion: Canadian Homonationalisms and the Politics of Belonging. This interview raises some important questions with how capitalist nationalism is reproduced in LGBT communities and how queer activists can disrupt these logics. We then have an interview with one of the founding members of Upping the Anti. In Chris Dixon’s interview with Sharmeen Khan on 10 years of UTA, she reflects on the successes and on-going struggles of maintaining an alternative, political publication. Finally, Salmaan Khan interviews Sandy Hudson, one of the spokespeople and founders of BLM-TO. In this interview, Hudson discusses the history of anti-Black racism and rise of Black Lives Matter in Toronto – from the murder of Jermaine Carby to the occupation of the police station in downtown Toronto.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOur articles section kicks off with Kris Hermes’ “Collective Action Behind Bars.” With the current year holding two national conventions for the Republican and Democratic parties, Hermes’ article looks back to different jail solidarity tactics during mass convergences. We also feature a piece by John Huot on “Autonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Ontario in the 1970s,” which focuses on the struggles of rank and file workers against union the bureaucracy. Looking at how the New Tendency influenced the Canadian postal workers union, we see both the influence as well as the limitations to their organizing. We conclude our articles section with a piece by Annelies Cooper entitled, “The Interpersonal is Political.” In this piece Cooper unpacks the relationships of solidarity and mutual aid between settlers and Indigenous activists and pushes readers to think through what meaningful relationships could look like across settler-Indigenous activism.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNext up we feature a roundtable on “Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition” conducted by Niloofar Golkar. Featuring Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard, and Monica Forrester, this conversation challenges liberal-feminist approaches to sex work and insists on centering a prison abolitionist framework in sex worker organizing.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFinally, in our book reviews section, Karl Gardner reviews Umair Muhammad’s book Confronting Injustice: Social Activism in an Age of Indivdualism. This review is focused on the importance of critiquing individual “lifestyle” activism and its replacement with collective organizing efforts. Then, Bob Eastman reviews The City is Ours, outlining the importance of squatting movements in Europe and North America. Lastly, Shane Burley looks at the rise of fascism by reviewing two books: Militant Anti-Fascism and Physical Resistance. Here Burley offers insight into how activists can understand the emergence of fascism and incorporate a diversity of tactics in their struggles against it.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter you get through some or all of this content, please consider writing us a letter about any topic that piques your interest or inspires great disagreement. If you are interested in submitting an article, book review, roundtable, or interview pitch for Issue 19, please do so by September 30, 2016. Thank you again for your continued readership and support. If you’re not already a subscriber or sustainer, please offer us some of your capital through one or both of those methods, or a one time larger than life donation. You can do so at uppingtheanti.org where you will also find submission guidelines and material from previous issues. If you’d like to join the editorial committee or advisory board or if you’d like to help out with the project in any way, please email us at uppingtheanti@gmail.com.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe are sad to say goodbye (for now) to former editors Robyn Letson and Amelia Spedaliere (who both remain involved on the advisory board) but are so overjoyed to welcome Karl Gardner, Niloofar Golkar, and Salmaan Khan to the editorial collective. As always, without the ongoing support and labour of our former and current editors and advisory board members, this work would not be possible. We are also saying goodbye and a heartfelt thank you to some long-time advisory board members who are moving on from the project: Irina Ceric, Mandy Hiscocks, Karl Kersplebedeb, Thomas Nail, and Adrie Naylor. Their involvement has been invaluable! Finally, we would also like to give a shoutout to folks who came by Sharmeen’s apartment to help with proofing and those who gave feedback on our editorial. Thanks to: Adrie Naylor, Kieran Hart, Tom Keefer, Gita Madan, Andrew Stokes, Thania Vega, and Shayla Chilliak. Also much gratitude to Daryl Vocat for illustrating this issue’s cover art (write us a letter about it!) and Simon Black for our ad art because the beauty of our movements should be reflected by beautiful art. We hope you enjoy Issue 18!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eIn struggle and solidarity,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eJasmine, Devin Clancy, Karl Gardner,\u003cbr\u003e\nNiloofar Golkar, Sharmeen Khan, and Salmaan Khan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eToronto, August 2016\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eplease note that the contents of Upping the Anti \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.uppingtheanti.org\/journal\/uta\/eighteen\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ecan be read online on their website here\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eTABLE OF CONTENTS\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eInterviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnpacking Inclusion and Building Queer(er) Alliances: An interview with OmiSoore H. Dryden \u0026amp; Suzanne Lenon\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eRobyn Letson \u0026amp; Jasmine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding Community, building resistance: Black Lives Matter-Toronto, an interview with Sandra Hudson \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eSalmaan Khan\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrassroots Theory: 10 Years of Upping the Anti: An interview with Sharmeen Khan \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eChris Dixon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eArticles\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCollective Action Behind Bars: A history of jail solidarity and its importance for today's social change movements\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eKris Hermes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAutonomist Marxism and Workplace Organizing in Canada in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eJohn Huot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Interpersonal is Political: Lessons from Indigenous Solidarity Organizing: Reflections on Union Activism and Indigenous Solidarity Work\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eAnnelies Cooper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eRoundtables\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Roundtable on Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition : \u003cem\u003ewith Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard and Monica Forrester\u003cbr\u003e\nNiloofar Golkar\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Reviews\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eConfronting Injustice\u003cbr\u003e\nFrom Individual Activists to Collective Organizers\u003cbr\u003e\nUmair Muhammad\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eREVIEW BY Karl Gardner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA Lasting Influence\u003cbr\u003e\nAsk Katzeff, Bart van der Steen, and Leender van Hoogenhuize\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eREVIEW BY Bob Eastman\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnti Fascism: 100 Years in the Streets\u003cbr\u003e\nM. Testa and Dave Hann\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cem\u003eREVIEW BY Shane Burley\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: journal\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 160 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Upping the Anti\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2016\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Upping the Anti","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175235858525,"sku":"UTA 18","price":8.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/uta_18_cover.jpg?v=1654987987"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/collections\/everything_know_feminism_31.jpg?v=1651432943","url":"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/en-us\/collections\/feminism\/beyond-the-pale.oembed","provider":"Leftwingbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}