{"title":"Queer","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"the-radical-roots-of-divers-cite","title":"The Radical Roots of Divers\/Cité","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1990 police attacked the Sexgarage party in Montreal’s warehouse district. In retrospect, the subsequent political mobilization looks like the \"coming out\" of queer politics in Montreal, and as such is commemorated every year in that city’s LGBTA march, \"Divers\/Cité\". This short pamphlet looks at the context and previous political mobilizations which laid the basis for people feeling empowered to fight back against police violence—the Mohawk Nation's conflict with the Canadian state, the AIDS activist movement, and previous responses to homophobic violence in Montreal. A previous version of this text appeared on my blog, \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/sketchythoughts.blogspot.com\/2007\/07\/roots-of-diverscite.html\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eSketchy Thoughts\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sketchy Thoughts\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175003402333,"sku":null,"price":2.8,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_66_diverscite3_0.jpg?v=1654986705"},{"product_id":"free-comrades-anarchism-and-homosexuality-in-the-united-states-1895-1917","title":"Free Comrades: Anarchism and Homosexuality in the United States, 1895-1917","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy investigating public records, journals, and books published between 1895 and 1917, Terence Kissack expands the scope of the history of LGBT politics in the United States. The anarchists Kissack examines—such as Emma Goldman, Benjamin Tucker, and Alexander Berkman—defended the right of individuals to pursue same-sex relations, often challenging the conservative beliefs of their fellow anarchists as well as those outside the movement—police, clergy, and medical authorities—who condemned LGBT people. In his book, Kissack examines the trial and imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, the life and work of Walt Whitman, periodicals including Tucker's \u003cem\u003eLiberty\u003c\/em\u003e and Leonard Abbott's \u003cem\u003eThe Free Comrade\u003c\/em\u003e, and the frank treatment of homosexual relations in Berkman's \u003cem\u003ePrison Memoirs of an Anarchist\u003c\/em\u003e. By defending the right to enter into same-sex partnerships free from social and governmental restraints, the anarchists posed a challenge to society still not met today. Terence Kissack is a former Executive Director of San Francisco's Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Historical Society, and he currently serves on the board. His writings have appeared in \u003cem\u003eRadical History Review\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eJournal of the History of Sexuality\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Terence Kissack\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781904859116\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 183 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2008\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175007891549,"sku":"9781904859116","price":25.13,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_142_freecom3_0.jpg?v=1654986736"},{"product_id":"queen-of-the-bolsheviks-the-hidden-history-of-dr-marie-equi","title":"Queen of the Bolsheviks: The Hidden History of Dr. Marie Equi","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow forgotten, Dr. Marie Equi was a physician for working-class women and children, a lesbian, and a dynamic and flamboyant political activist. Spanning the period from the consolidation of northern industrial capitalism to the emergence of the U.S. as the dominant imperialist power, Equi's life serves as a chronicle of her times and illuminates how one person was affected by and sought to change world events. Active alongside the IWW, imprisoned for her anti-war activities during World War I, this is her story.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Nancy Krieger\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Saddle-stitched pamphlet\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 1-894946-30-8\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 30 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2009\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175025815645,"sku":"1894946308","price":4.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/large_258_equi3_0.jpg?v=1654986860"},{"product_id":"normal-life-administrative-violence-critical-trans-politics-and-the-limits-of-law","title":"Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (Revised \u0026 Expanded)","description":"\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eWait—what's wrong with rights?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and \"equality\" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions. But is this strategy effective?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to \"pinkwash\" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003ci\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0cm;\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"With \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Spade has succeeded in reframing the terms of LGBT politics by building a far-reaching vision for queer and trans politics that is rooted in community work that has already begun. . . . [It] lay[s] out a road map for queer and trans activists that leads neither to the altar nor to war, but guides us to resist state power by building community and returning to our radical roots.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWendy Elisheva Somerson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBitch\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Dean Spade’s much-anticipated book is a rich tapestry of critical inquiry, interventions into legal and transgender studies, and strategies for transformative resistance. . . . The strength of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e lies in Spade’s commitment to accessibility as a matter of political and ethical principle. This principle is evident in the way Spade skillfully articulates theoretical concepts in common parlance, enabling critical trans politics to inform political struggles beyond the academy. Moreover, his concrete discussions of administrative governance and transformative political interventions position radical change within our reach rather than demarcate it to the realm of speculative futures.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eDan Irving\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGLQ\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNormal Life\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e] makes an important contribution to a new and emerging critical trans politic. It is provocative, comprehensive, and engaging. It should be widely discussed as an important strategic framework for work within the LGBTQ movement.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJennifer Levi and Giovanna Shay\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eWomen's Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Spade's book is personal, practical, and theoretical. It lays out a framework for a critical trans politics, and gives fresh analyses of immigration, legal reform, wealth distribution, and lesbian and gay politics—all buoyantly and optimistically aimed at a repaired world.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eKate Clinton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eProgressive\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Spade] provides an eminently teachable text for courses on power in society, social movements, and community organizing—in the university, and outside. . . .We will have to take Spade's proposals very seriously to build a movement centered on those most affected by administrative violence.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMarcia Ochoa\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSocial Justice\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"This street-smart and theoretically sophisticated little book should be required reading for all would-be radicals looking for practical ways to build a better future.\" Susan Stryker author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eTransgender History\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-extend-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"overflow: hidden;\"\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003eDean Spade is an Assistant Professor at the Seattle University School of Law. In 2002, Spade founded the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a nonprofit law collective that provides free legal services to transgender, intersex, and gender non-conforming people who are low-income and\/or people of color. For more writing by Dean Spade, see \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca class=\"a-link-normal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.deanspade.net\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehttp:\/\/www.deanspade.net.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175070150749,"sku":"9780822360407","price":29.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/91zau6kq86L._SL1500.jpg?v=1718210812"},{"product_id":"resistance-behind-bars-the-struggles-of-incarcerated-women","title":"Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women (2nd ed.)","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1974, women imprisoned at New York’s maximum-security prison at Bedford Hills staged what is known as the August Rebellion. Protesting the brutal beating of a fellow prisoner, the women fought off guards, holding seven of them hostage, and took over sections of the prison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhile many have heard of the 1971 Attica prison uprising, the August Rebellion remains relatively unknown even in activist circles. Resistance Behind Bars is determined to challenge and change such oversights. As it examines daily struggles against appalling prison conditions and injustices, Resistance documents both collective organizing and individual resistance among women incarcerated in the U.S. Emphasizing women’s agency in resisting the conditions of their confinement through forming peer education groups, clandestinely arranging ways for children to visit mothers in distant prisons and raising public awareness about their lives, Resistance seeks to spark further discussion and research into the lives of incarcerated women and galvanize much-needed outside support for their struggles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis updated and revised edition of the 2009 PASS Award winning book includes a new chapter about transgender, transsexual, intersex, and gender-variant people in prison.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e's eight years of research and writing, inspired by her unflinching commitment to listen to and support women prisoners, has resulted in an illuminating effort to document the dynamic resistance of incarcerated women in the United States.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Wr\\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Written in regular English, rather than academese, this is an impressive work of research and reportage.\" Mumia Abu-Jamal, death row political prisoner and author of \u003cem\u003eLive From Death Row \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e\"Finally! A passionately and extensively researched book that recognizes the myriad ways in which women resist in prison, and the many particular obstacles that, at many points, hinder them from rebelling. Even after my own years inside, I learned from this book.” Laura Whitehorn, former political prisoner \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Excellently researched and well documented, Resistance Behind Bars is a long needed and much awaited look at the struggles, protests and resistance waged by women prisoners. Highly recommended for anyone interested in the modern American gulag.” —Paul Wright, former prisoner, author of \u003cem\u003ePrison Nation: The Warehousing of America’s Poor\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003ePrison Profiteers: Who Makes Money from Mass Incarceration \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Repression tries not only to crush but to quiet. But as Vikki Law shows in this multifaceted book, all that is unseen is not absent. Guided by years of anti-prison organizing and a palpable feminist practice, Law documents the many ways women challenge the twin forces of prison and patriarchy, each trying to render women invisible. In the face of attempts at erasure, women prisoners resist to survive and survive to resist. We would do well to pay attention.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzAifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dan-berger\" title=\"Dan Berger\"\u003eDan Berger\u003c\/a\u003e, co-editor, \u003cem\u003eLetters from Young Activists\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Resistance offers us a much-needed, much broader and nuanced definition of resistance—a woman's definition based on the real material conditions of women. I hope that when one reads about the experiences of women prisoners' organizing and resistance, the reader, both woman and man, will begin to glimpse the possibilities and necessity of such forms as we continue to struggle for a more just and equal world free from all forms of oppression. If women worldwide are unable to liberate themselves, human liberation will not be possible.” Marilyn Buck, anti-imperialist political prisoner, activist, poet and artist \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVictoria Law is a writer, photographer and mother. After a brief stint as a teenage armed robber, she became involved in prisoner support. In 1996, she helped start Books Through Bars-New York City, a group that sends free books to prisoners nationwide. In 2000, she began concentrating on the needs and actions of women in prison, drawing attention to their issues by writing articles and giving public presentations. Since 2002, she has worked with women incarcerated nationwide to produce the zine Tenacious: Art and Writings from Women in Prison and has facilitated having incarcerated women’s writings published in Clamor magazine, the website “Women and Prison: A Site for Resistance” and the upcoming anthology Interrupted Lives. In 1995, she became involved with ABC No Rio, a collectively-run arts center on New York’s Lower East Side, serving as Board Treasurer from 1997 to 2002. In 1997, she organized a group of activist photographers to transform one of No Rio’s upstairs tenement apartments into a black-and-white photo darkroom for community use. Since then, she has remained actively involved in coordinating (and sometimes co-teaching) free photography classes for neighborhood youth. In addition, she has participated in and curated numerous exhibitions at No Rio’s gallery, many with themes addressing social and political issues such as incarceration, grassroots efforts to rebuild New Orleans, Zapatista organizing, police brutality and squatting. In 2003, she began presenting “Don’t Leave Your Friends Behind,” a workshop addressing the specific (and often unacknowledged) needs of parents and children in radical movements. Sometimes with China Martens and sometimes with Jennifer Silverman, she has facilitated discussions in Baltimore, New York City, Providence, Montreal, Minneapolis and Boston. With Jessica Mills and China Martens, she is compiling a handbook for allies of radical parents by the same name. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175080112221,"sku":"9781604865837","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71fZXJRK6RL._SL1500.jpg?v=1718216724"},{"product_id":"sometimes-the-spoon-runs-away-with-another-spoon-coloring-book","title":"Sometimes the Spoon Runs Away with Another Spoon Coloring Book","description":"\u003cp\u003eWe have the power to change fairy tales and nursery rhymes so that these stories are more realistic. In \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e you will find anecdotes of real kids’ lives and true-to-life fairy tale characters. This book pushes us beyond rigid gender expectations while we color fantastic beasts who like pretty jewelry and princesses who build rocket ships. Celebrate sensitive boys, tough girls, and others who do not fit into a disempowering gender categorization. \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e…aids the work of dismantling the Princess Industrial Complex by moving us forward with more honest representations of our children and ourselves. Color to your heart's content. Laugh along with the characters. Write your own fairy tales. Share your own truths.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"As moving and funny as \u003cem\u003eWalter the Farting Dog\u003c\/em\u003e, with pictures you can color however your heart desires, \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e… is appropriate for children of all ages, especially those who grew up without it.\" Ayun Halliday, Chief Primatologist of \u003cem\u003eThe East Village Inky\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For some people the sky's the limit. For Jacinta Bunnell it's a place to put a rainbow. There are no limits in \u003cem\u003eSometimes the Spoon Runs Away With Another Spoon\u003c\/em\u003e—just fun and love. Jacinta Bunnell invites you to \"Step right up!\" to the wonderful world of you!\" World Famous *BOB*, \u003cem\u003eUltimate Self Confidence! Coach\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJacinta Bunnell\u003c\/strong\u003e is an artist and writer living in New York's Hudson Valley where she enjoys makes coloring books for a gender-defiant new world. Jacinta is a rehabilitated and reformed cheerleader who now has pep rallies for all sorts of freaks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen \u003cstrong\u003eNat Kusinitz\u003c\/strong\u003e was in 6th grade he saw a painting of Frida Kahlo with all of her hair chopped off and was never the same again. 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In queersexlife, memoir meets theory, meets sex, meets race, meets gay, meets masculinity, meets femininity, meets gender, implicating our desires and pleasures and then shining the light back on readers’ own queer sex lives. In this age of homonormativity and its disciplinary practices, Goldie requires us to think the messy pleasures of queer politics and practices again and again. Hurray for him!\" —RINALDO WALCOTT, Associate Professor, Centre for Media and Culture in Education, University of Toronto \"Unlike bestselling gay memoirs like Aiden Shaw's My Undoing and Augusten Burroughs' Running with Scissors, Goldie's queersexlife places snippets of autobiography within a larger context: a vast web of sociology, feminism, psychoanalysis, literary theory, and historical research.\" —Xtra! West and Xtra! \"Is bisexuality an identity? Does the penis always rule? How does the desiring anus work? Why do we still bother with sexual orientation? 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The words contained in this instant classic (and perhaps soon-to-be-seminal work) are for those willing to shed their heterosexual conditioning for a moment and delve into the dense and ever-evolving subculture that challenges the status quo at every turn.\" —EDGE New York \"Terry Goldie’s work is an important contribution to queer theory because it fills a need that is often missing in many theoretical works: a deeper knowledge of the writer. Besides Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, very few theoretical writers insert autobiographical information into their works, and I didn’t really notice this void until reading queersexlife. Whether sharing information about his childhood, photos of himself in drag, or his preference for anal passivity, Goldie lets the reader into his life with the sincere purpose of bring theory to life…. 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I hope this book is read widely, particularly by the people who will most disagree with it; in the tradition of the great political pamphleteers, this collection should spark debate around some of the key issues for our movement.\" Dennis Altman, author of Homosexual: Oppression \u0026amp; Liberation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Against Equality issues a radical call for social transformation. Against and beyond the \"holy trinity\" of pragmatic gay politics—marriage, militarism, and prison—the queer and trans voices archived in this collection offer a radical left critique of neoliberalism, capitalism, and state oppression. In a format accessible and enlivening, equally at home in the classroom and on the street, this book keeps our political imaginations alive. Prepare to be challenged, educated, and inspired.\" Margot Weiss, author of \u003cem\u003eTechniques of Pleasure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editor and Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRyan Conrad is an artist, activist, and scholar from central Maine. He cofounded Against Equality with Yasmin Nair in 2009, and is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD in Sexuality Studies at Concordia University in Montréal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors Include: Bill Andriette, Jack Aponte, Sébastien Barraud, \u003ca title=\"Kate Bornstein\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\" data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTQifQ==\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, John D’Emilio, James D’Entremont, Kenyon Farrow, La Gai, Larry Goldsmith, Imani Keith Henry, Jamal Rashad Jones, MJ Kaufman, Cecilia Cissell Lucas, Jason Lydon, Erica Meiners, Liam Michaud, Katie Miles, Yasmin Nair, Tamara K. 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As you add your own extraordinary colors to these pages, we hope you are left asking, “Isn't everything fabulous in this world just a little bit gay?” This notion is celebrated on every unique page, made up of inked and framed line drawings with beautiful typography, reminiscent of a handsomely designed vintage children's alphabet book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach day, we take another step toward a greater understanding of gender fluidity, gender diversity, and sexual orientation. Change does not come easily or unfold overnight. But together we are an unflappable squad of comrades staring down oppression while stopping to make art and find joy along the way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“With beautifully rendered moments of Queer life, The Big Gay Alphabet Coloring Book offers over fifty pages of inked and framed line drawings and typography for folks of all ages, a tool for education and inspiration.” —Cristy C. 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From Iowa to Compton to Venice Beach to Fairbanks, Alaska, Mead introduces you to poor America just trying to get by—and barely making it. When a thirteen-year-old Mead ends up in the Utah State Industrial School, a prison for boys, it is the first step in a story of oppression and revolt that will ultimately lead to the foundation of the George Jackson Brigade, a Seattle-based urban guerrilla group, and to Mead’s re-incarceration as a fully engaged revolutionary, well-placed and prepared to take on both his captors and the predators amongst his fellow prisoners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough his work organizing against conditions in solitary confinement, and then with queer prisoners in the legendary Men Against Sexism, followed by his exile from Washington to the dungeons at Marion, Brushy Mountain, and Florence, Ed Mead’s practice stands as a rebuke to the inhumanity and indifference which surround the world’s largest prison system.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the late Black Liberation Army soldier Safiya Bukhari observed, “we must at least write our history and point out the truth of what we did—the good, the bad, and the ugly.” Ed Mead has done that here, recounting his life’s story with unflinching honesty, providing a model of personal integrity and revolutionary creativity and determination for us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNote that if you purchase this book you will also receive the digital (ebook) files. If you only want the digital files, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/copy-of-lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead-ebook-mobi-and-epub\"\u003ethey are available separately here\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEd died on November 6, 2023. The following is from a statement produced by loved ones:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOn November 6, 2023, lifelong abolitionist, writer, fighter, and former political prisoner Ed Mead joined the ancestors. Ed died at home, on his 82nd birthday, after almost a decade of battling late stage lung cancer. Born in 1941, in Santa Monica, California, to Ramona (Ona) Irene Mead and Edward Leo Mead, Ed was the second oldest of six siblings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd Mead did not live a conventional life. As his lifelong friend and comrade, Mark Cook, is fond of saying, Ed spent his life “kicking ass for the working class.” After spending much of his youth in reform “schools” and detention centers along the Pacific coast, Ed became politicized in prison in the 1960s. He was a founding member of the George Jackson Brigade, a revolutionary guerilla underground organization based in the Pacific Northwest in the mid-to-late 1970s. Ed spent 35 years of his life in prisons, 18 of which were for his political actions as a member of the George Jackson Brigade.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA brief bio for an essay Ed wrote in the 2024 Certain Days: Freedom for Political Prisoners calendar reads, “I was once a young man doing life on the installment plan, well on my way to becoming just another crime statistic. Then something changed, I became rights conscious. I no longer identified as a criminal, instead I came to identify as a prisoner rights activist. With the passage of time and a lot of effort, I morphed again; I became class conscious—I became a communist. These changes were not sudden, they involved years of struggle and difficult study. The one thread throughout the years of change was political struggle on the inside and studying the writings of early revolutionaries. This is the path for those of you who will no longer accept the things you cannot change and are instead changing the things you cannot accept.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhile in prison for his part in armed struggle, Ed helped to form Men Against Sexism (MAS) at Walla Walla State Penitentiary in Washington. With other comrades, Ed helped to put an end to prisoner-on-prisoner sexual assault and other forms of abuse at Walla Walla. He also helped to form the Committee to Safeguard Prisoners’ Rights at Arizona State Prison. He was a seasoned jailhouse lawyer and a committed organizer within the prison walls. While imprisoned, Ed was a prodigious journalist. He co-founded and wrote for the\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRed Dragon\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1970s\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, The Abolitionist\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ein the 1980s (different from the contemporary newspaper of that name)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Legal News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, which still exists and is the longest running newspaper produced by and for current and former prisoners in the United States.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOnce released from prison in 1993, Ed worked tirelessly with revolutionary organizations and prisoner support groups, including but not limited to the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee, the Attica Brothers Legal Defense Committee, the Seattle chapter of the National Jericho Movement, All of Us or None, and the National Lawyers Guild. Ed created the Free Mark Cook Organizing Committee and worked relentlessly to free his comrade Mark Cook, who was finally released in 2000. He also founded Prison Art, a nonprofit website that provided a platform for prisoners to sell their crafts and artwork. And he continued to write about prison conditions and prisoner resistance. He wrote for\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCalifornia Prison Focus,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003efounded\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Rock\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eto support California prisoners on hunger strike, co-created the prison newsletter\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Kite\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e, and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePrison Covid\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enewsletter to track the pandemic in prison in 2020–2021. Ed believed changing prisons will come from the prisoners themselves. This belief motivated his work on publications featuring prisoner journalism and communications.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn 2016, Mead donated his papers to the University of Washington Libraries to be accessed by researchers, students, activists, and others. The collection, which forms the basis of something now called the Washington Prison History Project, includes several prisoner-run newsletters and lawsuits that Mead participated in. It also included the programming code for the Warden Game, a computer game Ed designed in prison in the mid-1980s after the Washington Department of Corrections introduced computers on a limited capacity in prisons. (A playable version of the game, based on Ed’s original code, is on the WPHP site.) Ed was later able to use the computer skills he taught himself inside to gain employment as a technical engineer for several different agencies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEd published the zine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Theory and Practice of Armed Struggle in the Northwest: A Historical Analysis\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2007), and the book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen: The Autobiography of Ed Mead\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Kersplebedeb, 2015). Some of his organizing in Washington prisons is also captured in the books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eConcrete Mama: Prison Profiles from Walla Walla\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(originally published by University of Missouri Press, 1981),\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGuerrilla USA: The George Jackson Brigade and the Anticapitalist Underground of the 1970s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(University of California Press, 2010), and\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCreating a Movement with Teeth: A Documentary History of the George Jackson Brigade\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(PM Press, 2010), as well as in dozens of talks and interviews he conducted over the years. He can be seen in the film\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Gentleman Bank Robber: The Story of Butch Lesbian Freedom Fighter rita bo brown\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2017). Along with Mark Cook, Ed also has an interview in the forthcoming book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRattling the Cages: Oral Histories of North American Political Prisoners\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(AK Press, due out in December 2023).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\n\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn the Postscript to\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\" data-preorder-handle=\"lumpen-the-autobiography-of-ed-mead\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLumpen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, Ed wrote, “Let me tell you what my mama told me. She said the Earth should be a better place to live as a result of you having passed through. It took me a long while to internalize that message, although I do think the world is a slightly better place as a result of my having been here.”\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWe agree with Ed—the world is a better place because of his lifetime of struggle and sacrifice. Ed Mead Presente!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrom\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:rattlingthecagesbook@gmail.com\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eEd Mead's support team\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eQuestions and comments may be sent to\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" href=\"mailto:info@freedomarchives.org\" target=\"_blank\"\u003einfo@freedomarchives.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a must-read for any radical that is serious about understanding how prisoners can struggle on the inside. Ed Mead mixes his personal story and political development in a compelling narrative. His time imprisoned makes mine look like a total picnic but its his rigorous interrogation of his own politics and practice that most impressed me. I could not put this book down!\" Daniel McGowan, former political prisoner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lumpen is a page-turning retelling of Ed Mead's life, from his early days growing up on the frontier of Alaska, to the frontiers of prisoner organizing from inside and later outside prison. The everydayness of his descriptions of how the George Jackson Brigade came to be, to the simple necessity to form Men Against Sexism while behind bars, reminds us that everyday justice can lead us to extraordinary places. In a mostly ahistorical queer left, this book is a must read!\" Ryan Conrad, editor of \u003cem\u003eAgainst Equality: Queer Revolution, Not Mere Inclusion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are many who talk the talk. Ed Mead is one who actually walked the walk. In fact, he's never stopped walking it, an example of commitment and integrity from which there's much to be learned. His autobiography should be read by everyone serious about the struggle for liberation.\" Ward Churchill\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175221276765,"sku":"9781894946780","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/lumpen_edmead.jpg?v=1654987923"},{"product_id":"persistence-all-ways-butch-and-femme","title":"Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 2009, butch writer and storyteller Ivan Coyote and gender researcher and femme dynamo Zena Sharman wrote down a wish-list of their favourite queer authors; they wanted to continue and expand the butch-femme conversation. The result is \u003cem\u003ePersistence: All Ways Butch and Femme\u003c\/em\u003e. The stories in these pages resist simple definitions. The people in these stories defy reductive stereotypes and inflexible categories. The pages in this book describe the lives of an incredible diversity of people whose hearts also pounded for some reason the first time they read or heard the words \"butch\" or \"femme.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eContributors such as Jewelle Gomez (\u003cem\u003eThe Gilda Stories\u003c\/em\u003e), Thea Hillman (\u003cem\u003eIntersex\u003c\/em\u003e), S. Bear Bergman (\u003cem\u003eButch is a Noun\u003c\/em\u003e), Chandra Mayor (\u003cem\u003eAll the Pretty Girls\u003c\/em\u003e), Amber Dawn (\u003cem\u003eSub Rosa\u003c\/em\u003e), Anna Camilleri (\u003cem\u003eBrazen Femme\u003c\/em\u003e), Debra Anderson (\u003cem\u003eCode White\u003c\/em\u003e), Anne Fleming (\u003cem\u003eAnomaly\u003c\/em\u003e), Michael V. Smith (\u003cem\u003eCumberland\u003c\/em\u003e), and Zoe Whittall (\u003cem\u003eBottle Rocket Hearts\u003c\/em\u003e) explore the parameters, history, and power of a multitude of butch and femme realities. It's a raucous, insightful, sexy, and sometimes dangerous look at what the words butch and femme can mean in today's ever-shifting gender landscape, with one eye on the past and the other on what is to come. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes a foreword by Joan Nestle, renowned femme author and editor of The Persistent Desire: A Femme-Butch Reader, a landmark anthology originally published in 1992. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow in its second printing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReading \u003cem\u003ePersistence: All Ways Butch \u003c\/em\u003eand Femme is like attending a dinner party with people you never got the chance to talk to before—fascinating, brave, insightful people—some of whom are very well known and others are simply the people you want to get to know. All of them talk frankly and with genuine courage about what it means to live outside the norms of society. From the introduction by Joan Nestle to the closing commentary by Ivan E. Coyote, these are entries that examine the daily lives of contemporary gender revolutionaries with reference to both the history and the myths of Femme\/Butch existence. It is a manifesto and an invitation. Read Persistence and look again at what you thought you knew and get to know some of the people that will be defining what it means to be revolutionary in the coming decades.\u003cbr\u003e\n—Dorothy Allison\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe butch\/femme dynamic is a conscious, loving binary of desire and trust ... it's a dance of love and outlawed romance. Butches and femmes share a sense of tribe, extended family and kinship—no matter what our genders might be. There is no doubt in my mind that this book will soon be recognized as a major contribution to the shelves of our queer literature. And it's totally gonna be a must-have bedside reader for many. This is a smart, loving book by some terrific writers. They all know what it means to live and love as butch\/femme beyond the stereotypes, and they've made their diesel femme Auntie Kate very proud of them.\u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\" title=\"Kate Bornstein\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eGender Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe death of butch-femme has been greatly exaggerated. This beautiful collection captures the intensity of gender variant communities now while continuing to make important links to pioneers from the past. Here we meet femme sharks and cowboys, faggy butches, studs and futches. This book is like a pocketknife, it is useful, sharp and in the right hands it can do anything.\u003cbr\u003e\n—Jack Halberstam, author of \u003cem\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/em\u003e (1998) and \u003cem\u003eIn A Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives\u003c\/em\u003e (2005)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWithout a doubt, Persistence: All Ways Butch and Femme is a community treasure. I predict that this is a book that will be seen as a touchstone for years to come by those of us who have found home within butch\/femme identities and community.This book has earned itself a special place on my bookshelf right next to that old loved and battered copy of \u003cem\u003eThe Persistent Desire\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eThe Femme's Guide\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePersistence\u003c\/em\u003e embodies what it means to be human among the fragments and fringes of identity. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eTelegraph Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA new collection of essays exploring the funny, messy, confusing, contradictory, liberating, confining, wet wild ride of gender from a powerhouse cross-section of the queer world's smartest and sexiest writers, poets, musicians, activists and scholars ... It's a must-have for the shelf of anyone who lives and loves and jams in this crazy world of mystical gendered bodies, and is a nice reminder that butch and femme are as past as they are present as they are future, and that there are as many ways to do masculinity and femininity and everything else as there are smart, freaky, quirky people walking around on this planet. \u003cbr\u003e\n—Autostraddle\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is thrilling both to see an incredible storyteller [Coyote] branching out in a new direction and to have another name [Sharman] added to the lexicon of top-notch queer thinkers. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eGay People's Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTouching on a wide range of colors in the prism of butch and femme sexuality and identity, this compilation is indispensable to the lesbian community as an emblem of how far the female gay community has come, and in what direction their mighty assembly is headed. It's the ultimate \"gift to those just discovering themselves.\"\u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eBay Area Reporter\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEditors Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman have produced an inclusive and balanced anthology that illuminates a wide array of issues surrounding gender and identity ... Persistence is a worthy read for those versed in contemporary gender identity issues, and for anyone with an interest in authentic documentation of human experience. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eQuill and Quire\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA poignant, defiant, sometimes amusing and often challenging exploration of the terms butch and femme. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eXtra\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersistence is an excellent follow-up to the book The Persistent Desire: a femme-butch reader by Joan Nestle. It is well written and a great primer for Women's Studies or for the lonely queer just coming out of the closet. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eEDGE Publications\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA thought-provoking, personal and powerful collection, and one which effectively illuminates the varied experiences and interpretations of butch and femme. \u003cbr\u003e\n—For Books' Sake blog (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rowdy, queer contributors to Persistence address the immediate, often loaded, topic of butch-femme from every angle, confirming once again just how central this label-and-experience is to queer history. This thick volume is so personal and comprehensive that it feels a bit like my most recent lesbian camping trip where butches, femmes, and the otherwise queerly-gendered made fires together, grilled up fine-grade tofu, and then spent hours bonding over our spontaneously-assembled archive of queer experience. With this same spirit of generosity, Persistence excels in the extreme sport of queer truth-telling, thanks to its ambitious editors Ivan E. Coyote and Zena Sharman. The book feels fresh and radical throughout. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLove it or hate it, the language of butch\/femme belongs to the lesbian community and speaks to the history that got us here. That's a pretty powerful thing. If you think these identities are limiting and outdated - if you suspect they're boring and, well, unsexy - then read Persistence. It might make you think again. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eIN Toronto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection is is a thing of beauty ... The result is an open space of negotiation and dialogue, a place to disclose, divulge, and sometimes even grapple and fumble with what those identities mean alongside the myriad of other identities and social positions and family histories we carry with us. \u003cbr\u003e\n—A Queer Family Grows in Redneckville blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEqual parts manifesto, thesis, coming-of-age tale, and love letter, Persistence breaks the reductive, sanitized gender stereotypes of what it is like to be a lesbian-especially ones who don't look like Ellen DeGeneres, Rachel Maddow, or a cast member of The L Word ... It's a worthy collection that brings nuance back to notions of dykes, femmes, butches, and lesbians all. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eThis Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of pieces that refutes the idea that butch and femme identities are outdated, and asserts the timelessness and importance of their vibrancy and complexity. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eBitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eForty essays in total will take you through a funny, touching, eye opening ride of the lives of women you'll want to meet personally by the time you're done. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eArt Threat\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwenty years after Joan Nestle's The Persistence Desire: A Butch-Femme Reader, this rambunctious, truth-telling, gender-confronting anthology both honors its antecedent and pulses with contemporary, assured, personal and provocative prose about the personas of femme and butch within the queer community.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eBook Marks\u003c\/em\u003e (\"Best Books of 2011\")\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersistence's strength is in the contradictions, clashes, moments of deep resonance among the contributions, a grab-bag of poetry, mainfestos, testimony, and fiction---the book's meaning exists in the conversations between pieces grounded in radically different histories. \u003cbr\u003e\n—subTerrain\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePersistence opens up the concepts of butch and femme identity, revealing a fluid and nuanced spectrum of gender experience and self-creation. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eShameless\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis anthology's strength - like the strength of the lives it chronicles - lies in its complexity and polyphony, in the range of perspectives it represents. Required reading for anyone interested in women's and gender studies (profs, put it on your syllabi, stat!), it will be an indispensable resource for the queer community and its allies, and for anyone who has ever been curious about the meaning of the words \"butch\" and \"femme.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—Prism international\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eI definitely recommend Persistence, even (especially?) if you're not butch or femme or know very little about butch and femme. It is an important part of the queer community as a whole today, and lesbian history as well. \u003cbr\u003e\n—The Lesbrary\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBooks like this one save lives ... literally, especially in the case of queer youth, they may possibly have found the courage to live when they find out there is someone else just like them. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eSynergy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe writers in Persistence share some essential traits with their predecessors [in A Persistent Desire], including a sense of otherness and a need to kick out the constraints of binary gender and find strength in one's \"deviance.\" \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eHerizons\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Ivan E. Coyote\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Zena Sharman\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781551523972\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2015\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175223046237,"sku":"9781551523972","price":21.94,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/persistence9781551523972.jpg?v=1654987931"},{"product_id":"butch-is-a-noun","title":"Butch Is a Noun","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eButch is a Noun\u003c\/em\u003e, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman,won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they have come home. From girls' clothes to men's haircuts, from walking with girls to hanging with young men, Butch is a Noun chronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living lifeoutside the gender binary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes a new afterword by the author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Butch is a Noun\u003c\/em\u003e is a book that a) should be required reading in any gender studies curriculum; b) femmes should read whenever they're feeling unloved, lonely, or misunderstood; c) butches should read; d) all of the above. The answer, of course, is d. Thank you, dear Bear.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\" title=\"Kate Bornstein\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eGender Outlaw\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175223275613,"sku":"9781551523699","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781551523699_butchisanoun.jpg?v=1654987932"},{"product_id":"the-nearest-exit-may-be-behind-you","title":"The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlternately unsettling and affirming, devastating and delicious, \u003cem\u003eThe Nearest Exit May Be Behind You\u003c\/em\u003e, is a new collection of essays on gender and identity by S. Bear Bergman that is irrevocably honest and endlessly illuminating. With humour and grace, these essays deal with issues from women's spaces to the old boys' network, from gay male bathhouses to lesbian potlucks, from being a child to preparing to have one; throughout, S. Bear Bergman shows us there are things you learn when you're visibly different from those around you―whether it's being transgressively gendered or readably queer. As a transmasculine person, Bergman keeps readers breathless and rapt in the freakshow tent long after the midway has gone dark, when the good hooch gets passed around and the best stories get told. Bear offers unique perspectives on issues that challenge, complicate, and confound the \"official stories\" about how gender and sexuality work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBear Bergman writes circles around most people—circles that enclose so many identities, and so much insight about all of them, that you're bound to see some of your own selves newly, and beautifully, reflected there. \u003cbr\u003e\n―Carol Queen, author of \u003cem\u003eReal Live Nude Girl\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLife having the unpredictable crossroads it does, I've often wondered how memoirists handle the problem of writing a second book. Thanks to Bear Bergman's The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, I know the answer: one goes about it with good-humored smarts, candid humility, and a queer and delightful generosity of spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\n—Hanne Blank, author of \u003cem\u003eVirgin: The Untouched History\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf we could just clone Bergman's brain and manners, the world would be a much better place, indeed. This new collection of meditations, essays, and stories about living visibly queer is complex in beautifully simple ways. \u003cbr\u003e\n—Helen Boyd, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Husband Betty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBear Bergman is an endearing, gallant, sexy fellow, the queer world's daddy, brother, and son. In Nearest Exit, he's writing it all down for us, today's transgender experience. This is a landmark book for both queer theory and literature, written by an accomplished teller of tales. It's a book that will be cherished by generations of queer youth and adults alike. My heart overflows the brim with love and pride when I read his words. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/kate-bornstein\" title=\"Kate Bornstein\"\u003eKate Bornstein\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eHello, Cruel World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is rare that I pick up a book and see my life reflected in the words inside it. Bear Bergman has written parts of my life down for me to look at from another direction—a funny, compassionate, nimble-tongued and Jewish direction. I want to give a copy of this book to everyone in my family, with love.\u003cbr\u003e\n—Ivan E. Coyote, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Slow Fix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAn intellectually whip-smart and engagingly personal collection of essays about gender and its assorted - and sometimes confounding - permutations and combinations.... a candid, self-effacing and generously instructive primer on proud transmasculine life. \u003cbr\u003e\n—Richard Labonte, \u003cem\u003eBook Marks\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's writing style is witty, razor sharp and super smart. Ze also writes about gender with a sensitivity that is hard to find. Bergman tackles the difficult intricacies of the terrain of gender with grace and humor. \u003cbr\u003e\n—Feministing.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA sweet and tender collection. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eCapital Xtra!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSelf-described gender-jammer S. Bear Bergman is an very courageous individual, though I suspect ze would react to that by turning red and looking down at hir shoes while muttering something self-deprecating. But The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, a collection of essays on being trans, negates any argument you might have about Bear's intestinal fortitude. Courage fairly drips off these pieces, but it's not the stern John Wayne type. It's a common sense, do-what-you-have-to-do type ballsiness leavened with humor. Oh yes. Bear is a very funny writer indeed. So funny you almost forget there's a point to be made. Almost.\u003cbr\u003e\n— Out in Print blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's elegantly written collection of essays chronicles life as a gender non-conformist with a laugh-out-loud sense of humor.... This engrossing memoir is highly recommended. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eGay and Lesbian Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBear continues to write about the subject [of gender] in hir funny, thoughtful, insightful and touching ways. Bear continues to give a voice to all the gender incongruent people who are flipping madly through the dictionary, trying to find the words to describe the gender mess they see in the mirror. Bear ... continues to be an absolutely vital voice in our queer community. \u003cbr\u003e\n—TLA Video\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's gift of storytelling illuminates the evolving nuances of queer and trans life, and one of the greatest elements of hir book is that ze has a way of making the personal not only political, but public and shared as well.... Few books discuss queer and trans topics in such a personal way, and this book does a great service to contributing to the growing canon of queer literature. By making hir experiences visible, Bergman provides yet another narrative within the LGBTQ discourse, and lengthens the spectrum of possibility even further, one essay at a time. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis collection reveals a passionate and captivating storyteller at work. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eBitch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSmart, provocative, accessible, and funny. \u003cbr\u003e\n—GCN (Ireland)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA second collection of autobiographical essays by Bergman, whose transmasculine gender identity is best described as \"post,\" and who writes unabashedly about everything from gay men's bathhouses to lesbian potlucks. This is gender theory at its most accessible. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eCurve\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eS. Bear Bergman is a natural storyteller. As a trans-Jewish writer, Bergman is navigating uncharted literary terrain, writing \"hirself\" (the pronoun used in the book) into the ever-expanding landscape of contemporary queer Canadian literature. Bergman writes about hir personal experience in day-to-day life in first person without the guise of fiction. With heartbreaking honesty, ferocious wit and humour, Bergman is the best thing since hir comrade Ivan Coyote came along. Some writers just translate a story, best kept to the bound and printed page, Bergman's work is meant to be read out loud. This collection of essays can coax readers into stitches as quickly as it can tears. \u003cbr\u003e\n—The Coast (Halifax)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBroadly appealing in presentation and penetrating in content, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You can stand its ground next to the defining works of Leslie Feinberg, Judith Halberstam, and Alison Bechdel in any queer, gender, or LGBTQ studies course... [It is] an enlightening and easily relatable examination of gender. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eCounterpoise\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrilliant, funny, poignant, this is an inspirational book for trans people and the ultimate educational tool for everybody else, including your favourite know-nothing. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eNOW Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlong with Kate Bornstein's Gender Outlaw, The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You is one of the best books I've read on transgender issues ... [It] helped me feel-in the very core of my being-just how complex and multifaceted gender identity is. \u003cbr\u003e\n—United Way Twin Cities blog\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs the title indicates, the book documents, interrogates, meditates on the experience of gender that does not, unlike (hopefully) an airplane flight, smoothly transition a person from point A to point B, from woman to man, as it were. Rather, Bergman opts for a gendered journey of hir own choosing, one that requires a parachute and a strong arm to unlock the emergency exit. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBergman's work is both hilarious and heartbreaking. The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You had me in stitches one paragraph, the next in tears. In our complicated, detached modern world, pure heart and sheer honesty goes a long way. \u003cbr\u003e\n—\u003cem\u003eXtra!\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: S. 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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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