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We then bring to you a roundtable with Karin Baqi, Shireen Soofi, Khaoula Bengezi, Josee Oliphant, Amy Darwish, and Rosalind Wong, organizers for migrant justice in Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, and Hamilton, who discuss Sanctuary\/Solidarity City campaigns and the successes, changes, and challenges within this movement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUTA 16’s book reviews section starts off with Patrick Dedauw’s analysis of Safe Space: Gay Neighbourhood History and the Politics of Violence by Christina Hanhardt, in which he assesses Hanhardt’s history of urban LGBTQ activist movements and applies some lessons from the book to current LGBTQ organizing in Montreal. Next, Jannie Wing-sea Leung delves into the anthology Comrades In Health: US Health Internationalists Abroad and at Home to examine its importance to the work of radical health practitioners. 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For the first time, we have decided not to include one in order to focus on production. This does not mean that we do not have an editorial direction or that we have lost the principles of non-sectarianism and connecting anti-oppression, anti-capitalism, and anti-imperialism. We anticipate that readers will note our political direction from the pieces we’ve chosen to publish this issue. We continue to have involved political discussions and will include the editorial absent this time around in the next issue.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe are grateful to the people who collaborated on different parts of this issue. Rita Kamacho has joined the Publishing Committee as our graphic designer. Geordie Dent has helped us with our finances and much needed fundraising. Judith Muster translated the French portion of the O-platz interviews. Lastly, we want to thank the people who helped us with copyediting and proofreading: Rita Camacho, Leslie Muñoz, Amy Saunders, Sarah Miller, Nate Prior, Elizabeth Farries, Tristan Sturm, Élise Thorburn, Nicole Leach, Jody Smith and Robyn Hartley.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAs usual, we have pushed the authors, interviewees, and participants in roundtables to connect forms of oppression with capitalism and imperialism. We hope that the pieces they have produced will be useful in articulating larger demands and building the overarching and coordinating organizations that we lack and urgently need. We welcome criticism in this context, as well as your pitches for articles, roundtables, interviews, and book reviews for Issue 17 of Upping the Anti. 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In \u003cem\u003eBeyond the Periphery of the Skin\u003c\/em\u003e, lifelong activist and best-selling author \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e examines these complex processes, placing them in the context of the history of the capitalist transformation of the body into a work-machine, expanding on one of the main subjects of her first book, \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding on three groundbreaking lectures that she delivered in San Francisco in 2015, Federici surveys the new paradigms that today govern how the body is conceived in the collective radical imagination, as well as the new disciplinary regimes state and capital are deploying in response to mounting revolt against the daily attacks on our everyday reproduction. In this process she confronts some of the most important questions for contemporary radical political projects. What does “the body” mean, today, as a category of social\/political action? What are the processes by which it is constituted? How do we dismantle the tools by which our bodies have been “enclosed” and collectively reclaim our capacity to govern them?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Federici’s attempt to draw together the work of feminists and activists from different parts of the world and place them in historical context is brave, thought-provoking, and timely. Federici’s writing is lucid and her fury palpable.” \u003cem\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Real transformations occur when the social relations that make up everyday life change, when there is a revolution within and across the stratifications of the social body. . . . Silvia Federici offers the kind of revolutionary perspective that is capable of revealing the obstacles that stand in the way of such change.” \u003cem\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading Federici empowers us to reconnect with what is at the core of human development, women’s labor-intensive caregiving—a radical rethinking of how we live.” \u003cem\u003eZ Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“It is good to think with Silvia Federici, whose clarity of analysis and passionate vision come through in essays that chronicle enclosure and dispossession, witch-hunting, and other assaults against women, in the present, no less than the past. It is even better to act armed with her insights.” Eileen Boris, Hull Professor of Feminist Studies, University of California–Santa Barbara\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Silvia Federici’s theoretical capacity to articulate the plurality that fuels the contemporary movement of women in struggle provides a true toolbox for building bridges between different features and different people.” Massimo De Angelis, professor of political economy, University of East London\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilvia Federici is a feminist writer, teacher, and militant. In 1972 she was cofounder of the International Feminist Collective that launched the Wages for Housework campaign. Her books include\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/witches-witch-hunting-and-women\"\u003e \u003cem\u003eWitches, Witch-Hunting, and Women\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/caliban-and-the-witch\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e; \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/re-enchanting-the-world-feminism-and-the-politics-of-the-commons\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRe-enchanting the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e; and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/revolution-at-point-zero-housework-reproduction-and-feminist-struggle\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRevolution at Point Zero\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. She is a professor emerita of social sciences at Hofstra University in Hempstead, New York. She worked as a teacher in Nigeria for many years and was also the cofounder of the Committee for Academic Freedom for Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Between the Lines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175305818205,"sku":"9781629637068","price":21.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/beyond_periphery_skin_web.jpg?v=1654988408"},{"product_id":"bodies-and-barriers-queer-activists-on-health","title":"Bodies and Barriers: Queer Activists on Health","description":"\u003cp\u003eLGBT people pervasively experience health disparities, affecting every part of their bodies and lives. Yet many are still grappling to understand the mutually reinforcing health care challenges that lead to worsened health outcomes. \u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003einforms health care professionals, students in health professions, policymakers, and fellow activists about these challenges, providing insights and a road map for action that could improve queer health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough artfully articulated, data-informed essays by twenty-six well-known and emerging queer activists—including Alisa Bowman, Jack Harrison-Quintana, Liz Margolies, Robyn Ochs, Sean Strub, Justin Sabia-Tanis, Ryan Thoreson, Imani Woody, and more—\u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003eilluminates the health challenges LGBT people experience throughout their lives and challenges conventional wisdom about health care delivery. It probes deeply into the roots of the disparities faced by those in the LGBT community and provides crucial information to fight for health equity and better health outcomes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe contributors to \u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003elook for tangible improvements, drawing from the history of HIV\/AIDS in the U.S. and from struggles against health care bias and discrimination. At a galvanizing moment when LGBT people have experienced great strides in lived equality, but our health as a community still lags, here is an indispensable blueprint for change by some of the most passionate and important health activists in the LGBT movement today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Now, more than ever, we need \u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003eto shine a spotlight on how and why good healthcare for LGBTQ people and our families is such a challenge. Bodies and Barriers provides a road map for all who are ready to fight for health equity—in the doctor’s office, in the halls of government, or in the streets.” —Rea Carey, executive director National LGBTQ Task Force\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003ehelps LGBT community members understand the way people in the U.S. health services market erect barriers to anyone who is not the source of easy and immediate profit, and helps us all confront and break down these barriers. It helps families of LGBT people understand these obstacles and options for getting around them. And it helps health professionals hear the voices of all their patients, so that we learn to listen, and learn how to care for everyone.” —Michael Fine, MD, former director, Rhode Island Department of Health, author of \u003cem\u003eHealth Care Revolt: How to Organize, Build a Health Care System, and Resuscitate Democracy All at the Same Time\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Adrian Shanker and the contributing authors highlight the need for clinicians to up their game when it comes to caring for sexual and gender minority people in their practices. \u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003eserves as a guide with concrete suggestions for developing knowledge, awareness, and skills to provide holistic care for LGBT people from the cradle to the grave. This book is a gem in that it centers LGBT people’s voices telling providers exactly how they want to be treated. It’s time providers listen to and act on these recommendations.” —Jonathan Mathias Lassiter, PhD; coeditor of \u003cem\u003eBlack LGBT Health in the United States: The Intersection of Race, Gender, and Sexual Orientation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003eis truly a must-read for anyone working in medical care, social services, or public health. This book brings us closer to the goal of patient-centered care, not only for LGBT communities, but for everyone.” —Kristen Emory, PhD; director and advisor, Undergraduate Program at San Diego State University School of Public Health\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“These patient and caregiver experiences ring so loudly in today’s environment, when we have compelling evidence of a need for widespread practice change, yet the medical establishment remains slow to respond to the calls from those patients and their caregivers who are asking so boldly—and rightfully—for those changes. \u003cem\u003eBodies and Barriers \u003c\/em\u003eis a call to action for learners at all levels, in all health fields, to start now, creating a future where health equity is the norm, and no one is denied the opportunity to thrive.” —Scott Nass, MD, MPA, president GLMA: Health Professionals Advancing LGBTQ Equality\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAdrian Shanker is an award-winning activist and organizer whose career has centered on advancing progress for the LGBT community. He has worked as an arts fundraiser, labor organizer, marketing manager, and served as President of Equality Pennsylvania for three years before founding Bradbury-Sullivan LGBT Community Center in Allentown, PA, where he serves as executive director. An accomplished organizer, Adrian has led numerous successful campaigns to advance LGBT progress through municipal nondiscrimination and relationship recognition laws and laws to protect LGBT youth from conversion therapy. A specialist in LGBT health policy, he has developed leading-edge health promotion campaigns to advance health equity through behavioral, clinical, and policy changes.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRachel L. Levine, MD, is the secretary of health for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Professor of Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the Penn State College of Medicine. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine, and the Academy for Eating Disorders. She is a member of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health. She is also a board member and executive committee member of the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Dr. Levine joined Governor Tom Wolf’s administration in January 2015 as the physician general of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and, upon her appointment, became the first transgender person to hold a cabinet position in Pennsylvania. In 2017, she was named the acting secretary of health and in 2018 was confirmed by the Pennsylvania Senate as the Secretary of Health. She leads the LGBTQ Policy Workgroup and advocates for LGBT rights for the Wolf Administration. Dr. Levine is also an accomplished regional and international speaker and author on the opioid crisis, medical marijuana, adolescent medicine, eating disorders, and LGBT medicine. Dr. Levine graduated from Harvard College and the Tulane University School of Medicine. She completed her training in pediatrics and adolescent medicine at the Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKate Kendell led the National Center for Lesbian Rights, a national legal organization advancing the civil and human rights of LGBT people and their families, for twenty-two years. Kate grew up Mormon in Utah and received her JD degree from the University of Utah College of Law in 1988. After a few years as a corporate attorney, she was named the first staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union of Utah. In 1994 she accepted the position as legal director with the National Center for Lesbian Rights and made the move to San Francisco. In 1996 Kate was named NCLR’s executive director. Under Kate’s leadership, NCLR won custody and family law cases, achieved victories on behalf of LGBT athletes, won protections for LGBT students and elders, and secured asylum for over three hundred clients. NCLR was lead counsel on the California marriage equality case in 2008 and was later part of the team of attorneys to secure national marriage equality in the 2015 U.S. Supreme Court case Obergefell v. Hodges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Adrian Shanker\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629637846\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: PM Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175305850973,"sku":"9781629637846","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/bodies_and_bariers_web.jpg?v=1654988413"},{"product_id":"fighting-for-a-hand-to-hold-confronting-medical-colonialism-against-indigenous-children-in-canada","title":"Fighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn exploration of anti-Indigenous systemic racism in Canadian health care, medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children, and the medical establishment’s role in colonial genocide.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\nLaunched by healthcare providers in January 2018, the #aHand2Hold campaign confronted the Quebec government’s practice of separating children from their families during medical evacuation airlifts, which disproportionately affected remote and northern Indigenous communities. Pediatric emergency physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain’s captivating narrative of this successful campaign, which garnered unprecedented public attention and media coverage, seeks to answer lingering questions about why such a cruel practice remained in place for so long. By focusing on the structural drivers of the social determinants of health, this book serves as an indispensable case study of contemporary medical colonialism in Quebec, and demonstrates that inequalities in health care follow the fault lines of societal injustices. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e exposes the Canadian medical establishment’s role in the displacement, colonization, and genocide of Indigenous Peoples — colonial genocide. Through meticulously gathered government documentation, historical scholarship, media reports, public inquiries, and personal testimonies, Shaheen-Hussain connects the draconian medevac practice with often-disregarded crimes committed against and medical violence inflicted upon Indigenous children across the country for more than a century and a half: fomented smallpox epidemics and avoidable tuberculosis deaths; experiments and abuse in residential schools, Indian Hospitals, reserves, and communities; forced sterilization; child abduction and disappearances.  This devastating history and ongoing medical colonialism prevent Indigenous communities from attaining internationally recognized measures of health and social well-being because of a pervasive culture of systemic anti-Indigenous racism that persists in the Canadian public health care system— and in capitalist settler society at large. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eShaheen-Hussain’s unique perspective combines his experience as a frontline pediatrician with his long-standing involvement in anti-authoritarian social justice movements. Sparked by the indifference and callousness of those in power, this book draws on the innovative work of Indigenous scholars and activists to conclude that a broader decolonization struggle calling for reparations, restitution (including land reclamation), and self-determination for Indigenous Peoples is critical to achieve reconciliation in Canada. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFighting for A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is part of McGill-Queen's University Press's Indigenous and Northern Series. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAll author royalties from sales of this book will be redirected to groups and initiatives that support Indigenous self-determination, and that are concerned with the health and wellness of Indigenous children and youth: Eagle Spirit Science Futures camp, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, Groundswell Community Justice Trust Fund, Minnie’s Hope Social Pediatric Centre, Mohawk Language Custodian Association, and Native Women's Shelter of Montreal. Proceeds from hand sales at public events will go to Indigenous land-defence initiatives and resurgence movements. Lux Éditeur will publish a French translation of the book in early 2021.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFor more infomation about this title see \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/fightingforahandtohold.ca\"\u003efightingforahandtohold.ca\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The memories of the Inuit children I attended as a young interpreter at the Montreal Children's Hospital came flooding back to me, the sad face of a child looking up at me. Nurses informed me that he was not speaking, but I immediately recognized the fear in his face, in his eyes. As soon as I spoke to him in Inuktitut, he looked at me in disbelief, but in the next moment his tears began to roll and I could only sound out the Inuit sound of love, 'mmph', and to tell him it will be alright, and that his mom or a relative would be arriving soon. I felt for that child, and as he began to relax and open up, we had a lovely conversation in Inuktitut. He did not feel so alone in this strange place he had just been deposited on, as if he was cargo. To this day, I still feel for him. Throughout all these years, we all have been made to believe that this is how things should work. It was one of those things we stayed quiet about for decades. But no longer. We Inuit, we are a people. We love our children. \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold -- Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, helps us understand the issues of colonization in the medical system that has vexed us as Indigenous peoples. Today, we Inuit are working to bring our health back to our communities.  Healthy communities and families mean self-governance to us and the de-colonization process will happen.\" \u003cstrong\u003eLisa Qiluqqi Koperqualuk, M.A., vice-president international affairs, Inuit Circumpolar Council Canada\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold: Confronting Medical Colonialism against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e, Samir Shaheen-Hussain addresses different aspects of the healthcare system offered to indigenous people, always stressing that this is a field strongly marked by colonial power relations, historically perpetuated by the Canadian state. Starting from a harsh critique of the current health policies dispensed to indigenous children and their families, the book takes us to a profound reflection on how medical colonialism and systemic racism perpetuate themselves, and how movements for sovereignty and decolonial thinking are key pieces in changing diverse paradigms. The book shows that important changes in the health system offered to indigenous peoples have not yet been executed, which prevents an effective transformation of the healthcare system. This mismatch between the discourses and the reality is in tune with the maintenance of the colonial posture in relation to indigenous peoples is still in force in the Canadian State. While grounded firmly in the academic literature, the author uses language that will be easily accessible to a general audience and will incite the reader to engage in a profound examination of Canada's history and its relationship with Indigenous peoples. A moving and necessary book. A must-read for all who are interested in one of the most macabre faces of medical colonialism: its genocidal and eugenicist face.\" \u003cstrong\u003eQuebec Native Women (Femmes Autochtones du Québec)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Heartbroken. This is how I feel after reading \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e. It hurts to read about children suffering. Shaheen-Hussain's book does not relieve that pain. Yet his words hold the potential to help us create broader healing, if his insights are heeded.\" \u003cstrong\u003eJohn Borrows, Canada Research Chair in indigenous Law, University of \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e School\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A sick child is transported by plane to a hospital 1000 kilometres away \u003cem\u003ealone and without a parent to accompany the child\u003c\/em\u003e, a state practice without pity. No parent can read this and not feel a sharp pain yet so many managed to defend the practice even when the mothers of the children who died alone en route publicly grieved that they were never able to give comfort to their dying children. This is the racial terror that was aimed at Indigenous peoples in the province of Quebec. This book tells the story of the fight to change what so clearly springs from the annihilative impulse at the heart of settler colonialism. What can we learn from this book about the struggle to abolish the practice? This practice was no mere discriminatory residue of an old colonial system long gone. Instead it is a telling sign of an ongoing settler colonialism, one deeply structured to \"disappear Indians\"  and to declare Indigenous lives as worth less than white ones. Samir Shaheen-Hussain's clear-eyed account reminds us that we can change but not until we recognize this ugly truth.\" \u003cstrong\u003eSherene H. Razack, Distinguished Professor and Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Gender Studies, UCLA. Author of \u003cem\u003eDying From Improvement: Inquests and Inquiries into Indigenous Deaths in Custody\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand To Hold - Confronting Medical Colonialism Against Indigenous Children in Canada\u003c\/em\u003e physician Samir Shaheen-Hussain exposes the social, cultural, and historical structures that allow medical colonialism to hide in plain sight as it harms generations of Indigenous children and their families.  It is an unflinching analysis that should be required reading in every medical school in the country.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMaureen Lux. Professor and Chair, History Department, Brock University; author of \u003cem\u003eSeparate Beds: A History of Indian Hospitals in Canada, 1920s-1980s\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Samir Shaheen-Hussain's \u003cem\u003eFighting For A Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e is a searing indictment of medical colonialism in Canada. This must-read book shatters the myth of universal and equitable healthcare as a pillar of this country's benevolent social democracy and, instead, forcefully exposes the active involvement of the medical system in upholding historic and ongoing settler-colonial power.\" \u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eUndoing Border Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e denounces with ferocity the utterly inhuman, decades-long practice of separating children from their families during emergency medevacs in northern and remote regions of Quebec. In a precise, compelling, and well-documented narrative, Samir Shaheen-Hussain challenges our collective understanding of systemic racism and social determinants of health applied to Indigenous communities most dependent on medevac airlifts and most impacted by the non-accompaniment rule. An eye-opening, tough, and essential book.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDr Joanne Liu, pediatric emergency physician and former international president of Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"A necessary and sobering read. Shaheen-Hussain's text masterfully exposes the ways in which the logics of settler colonialism and genocide are structurally embedded into Canada's healthcare system. It illuminates how egregious racial violence takes place -- \u003cem\u003ein plain sight \u003c\/em\u003e-- under the direction of a publicly-funded institution that is broadly understood, to most Canadians, as a social good. The book, meticulously researched, firmly centers Canada's medical system as a crucial site for ongoing anti-colonial struggle.\" \u003cstrong\u003eRobyn Maynard, author of \u003cem\u003ePolicing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from slavery to the present\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"An astonishing book. It begins with the anguished story of Cree and Inuit children from northern Quebec travelling alone by air, sick or injured, panic-stricken, to hospitals in the south, and becomes one of the most moving, ferocious, historically comprehensive narratives of medical colonialism and indigenous cultural genocide that I have ever read. It's a stunning piece of work. When I finally put it down, I was gasping ... an absolute tour-de-force.\" \u003cstrong\u003eStephen Lewis, Co-director \u003cem\u003eAIDS-Free World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\"Its clever framing, detailed research and frequent critical gems put \u003cem\u003eFighting for a Hand to Hold\u003c\/em\u003e in the very good company of a small group of stellar books and articles about Indigenous health issues, all of them manifestos for change. It's a passionate and informed report from the medical frontlines that exposes some of the social determinants and racial subtexts that prevent us from improving and safe-guarding the lives of Indigenous peoples and other minorities in Canada.\" \u003cstrong\u003eGary Geddes, author of \u003cem\u003eMedicine Unbundled: A Journey Through the Minefields  of Indigenous Health Care\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Shaheen-Hussain argues that genuine reconciliation can't occur without reparations and restitution. Besides disclosure and acknowledgement of the harm done, this means a genuine demonstration of sorrow and regret, a promise to never do harm again, and action that ensures the harm will not be repeated. This book should be read by anyone who wants to meaningfully enter into reconciliation with Indigenous people.\" \u003cstrong\u003eMarie Wadden, author of \u003cem\u003eWhere the Pavement Ends: Canada's Aboriginal Recovery Movement and the Urgent Need for Reconciliation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eAbout the Author and Contributors\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSamir Shaheen-Hussain has been involved in social justice movements – including Indigenous solidarity, anti-police brutality and migrant-justice organizing – for almost two decades. He is a member of the Caring for Social Justice Collective, and has written or co-written several pieces about state violence and health care over the years. He is an assistant professor in the Faculty of Medicine at McGill University and works as a pediatric emergency physician in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, serves as the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada and is a professor in the School of Social Work at McGill University. Her interests are culturally based equity, Indigenous child rights and systemic advocacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKatsi’tsakwas Ellen Gabriel is a Kanien’kehá:ka human rights and environmental activist-artist. She was chosen by the People of the Longhouse and her community of Kanehsatà:ke to be their spokesperson during the 1990 “Oka” Crisis. 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Frances Ryan forensically exposes the scandalous politics that have left so many disabled people cold, hungry, living in poverty and pain and often suicidal. It’s a cry from the heart but more importantly it’s a determine demand for change.” John McDonnell\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Ryan is an expert in her field. Furthermore, as a disabled person writing about disabled peopleąs rights and issues, her voice is a vital addition to the debate. Essential reading.” Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“No one has done more to shed light on how austerity is harming disabled peoples lives. This book is so important, it should be read at least by every policy maker in the country.” Jess Phillips, Member of Parliament\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A fascinating insight into the harsh realities of living as a disabled person in the 21st century. 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The personal has once more become political, and birth workers, supporters, and doulas now find themselves at the fore of collective struggles for freedom and dignity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe author, herself a scholar and birth justice organizer, provides a unique platform to explore the political dynamics of birth work, drawing connections between birth, reproductive labor, and the struggles of caregiving communities today. Articulating a politics of care work in and through the reproductive process, the book brings diverse voices into conversation to explore multiple possibilities and avenues for change.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt a moment when agency over our childbirth experiences is increasingly centralized in the hands of professional elites, Birth Work as Care Work presents creative new ways to reimagine the trajectory of our reproductive processes. Most importantly, the contributors present new ways of thinking about the entire life cycle, providing a unique and creative entry point into the essence of all human struggle—the struggle over the reproduction of life itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I love this book, all of it. The polished essays and the interviews with birth workers dare to take on the deepest questions of human existence.” Carol Downer, cofounder of the Feminist Women’s Health Centers of California and author of \u003cem\u003eA Woman’s Book of Choices\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This volume provides theoretically rich, practical tools for birth workers and other care workers to collectively and effectively fight capitalism and the many intersecting processes of oppression that accompany it. Birth Work as Care Work forcefully and joyfully reminds us that the personal is political, a lesson we need now more than ever.” Adrienne Pine, author of \u003cem\u003eWorking Hard, Drinking Hard: On Violence and Survival in Honduras\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“All we are doing in this world is living and dying, creating and destroying. We generate new life in our children and in our ideas. Becoming a birth supporter, getting to be an attendant to the miracle of childbirth, has transformed my social justice work. Our visions for justice are what we are birthing in this world. Learning to listen, learning to trust the body and the people, and learning to breathe will transform our movement work. Birth Work as Care Work demonstrates these lessons through showing us ways we can learn together to support the birth of new worlds.” Adrienne Brown, coeditor of \u003cem\u003eOctavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This book places the doula—as a caring birth activist—at the heart of reproductive care work in our modern society. Doula, a new name for an ancient traditional role, reappears today as women daring to reclaim their power through birthing and caring for their children.” Valérie Dupin cofounder and cochair of the Association Doulas de France\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Alana Apfel is an artist and a robust one. Weaving the logic behind birth, care, and reproduction together, \u003cem\u003eBirth Work as Care Work \u003c\/em\u003edocuments how caregivers and communities are marginalized in society on a daily basis whilst working to sustain themselves and ironically, to sustain life itself. Her thesis seeks to put the human back into being.” Chitra Subramaniam, editor in chief of \u003cem\u003eThe News Minute\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Authors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlana Apfel was born in the United States and raised in the UK. She holds graduate degrees in anthropology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and the University of Edinburgh. Her writing engages the politics of care work with a focus on birth and activist birth communities. Alana teaches on ways to radicalize birth work and continues to support people through birth in Bristol, UK.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLoretta J. Ross was a cofounder and National Coordinator of the SisterSong Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective. She is one of the creators of the term “Reproductive Justice,” coined by African American women following the International Conference on Population and Development in Cairo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNjcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/victoria-law\" title=\"Victoria Law\"\u003eVictoria Law\u003c\/a\u003e is a mother, photographer, and writer. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eResistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women \u003c\/em\u003eand coeditor of \u003cem\u003eDon’t Leave Your Friends Behind: Concrete Ways to Support Families in Social Justice Movements and Communities\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e is a feminist activist, writer, and teacher. In 1972 she was one of the cofounders of the International Feminist Collective, the organization that launched the international campaign for Wages for Housework. In the 1990s, after a period of teaching and research in Nigeria, she was active in the anti-globalization movement and the U.S. anti–death penalty movement. 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These projects operate in fierce resistance to austerity, state violence and abandonment, and the neoliberal structure of the healthcare industry that are failing people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor Health Autonomy \u003c\/em\u003eis a powerful collection of first-hand accounts of those who join together to build new possibilities of care and develop concrete alternatives based on the collective ability of communities and care workers to replace our dependency on police and prisons. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eABOUT CARENOTES COLLECTIVE \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIntensifying inequality and violence have heightened the need to deepen our capacity to resist, offer concrete alternatives, and reproduce ourselves in the process. CareNotes Collective organizes directly on this terrain and seeks to record and amplify the experiences of those struggling for health autonomy in their own communities. 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Indigenous women have long recognized that their intersectional realities were not represented in mainstream feminism, which was principally white, middle-class, and often ignored realities of colonialism. As Indigenous feminist ideals grew, Indigenous women became increasingly multi-vocal, with multiple and oppositional understandings of what constituted Indigenous feminism and whether or not it was a useful concept. Emerging from these dialogues are conversations from a new generation of scholars, activists, artists, and storytellers who accept the usefulness of Indigenous feminism and seek to broaden the concept. In Good Relation captures this transition and makes sense of Indigenous feminist voices that are not necessarily represented in existing scholarship. There is a need to further Indigenize our understandings of feminism and to take the scholarship beyond a focus on motherhood, life history, or legal status (in Canada) to consider the connections between Indigenous feminisms, Indigenous philosophies, the environment, kinship, violence, and Indigenous Queer Studies. Organized around the notion of \"generations,\" this collection brings into conversation new voices of Indigenous feminist theory, knowledge, and experience. Taking a broad and critical interpretation of Indigenous feminism, it depicts how an emerging generation of artists, activists, and scholars are envisioning and invigorating the strength and power of Indigenous women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"tabs__panel tabs__panel--authors r-tabs-panel r-tabs-state-active\" id=\"tab-3\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs__content\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Nickel is a Tk'emlupsemc Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at the University of Saskatchewan. Her first book,Assembling Unity: Pan-Indigenous Politics, Gender, and the Union of BC Indian Chiefs was published in 2019. Her next project explores Indigenous women’s political work in the twentieth-century west.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmanda Fehr is a white settler from Saskatoon. She completed her PhD in History at the University of Saskatchewan in 2018. Her doctoral research included community engaged oral history work in the predominantly Metis community of Ile-a-la-Crosse and with the English River First Nation. She works as an educator, researcher, and public engagement consultant.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction The Uninvited Us \u003cbr\u003eCh. 1 Making Matriarchs at Coqualeetza: Stó:lō Women’s Politics and Histories across Generations \u003cbr\u003eCh. 2 Sami Feminist Moments: Decolonization and Indigenous Feminism \u003cbr\u003eCh. 3 “It Just Piles On, and Piles On, and Piles On:” Young Indigenous Women and the Colonial Imagination \u003cbr\u003eCh. 4 “Making an honest effort”: Indian Homemakers’ Clubs and Complex Settler Engagements \u003cbr\u003eCh. 5 Reclaiming Traditional Gender Roles: A Two-spirit Critique \u003cbr\u003eCh. 6 Reading Chrystos for Feminisms that Honour Two-Spirit Erotics \u003cbr\u003eCh. 7 Naawenangweyaabeg Coming In: Intersections of Indigenous Sexuality and Spirituality \u003cbr\u003eCh. 8 Morning Star, Sun, and Moon Share the Sky: (Re)membering Two-spirit Identity through Culture-Centered HIV Prevention Curriculum for Indigenous Youth \u003cbr\u003eCh. 9 Honouring our Great-Grandmothers: Or, an Ode to the Urban Indigenous Feminists “who didn't take shit from nobody!” \u003cbr\u003eCh. 10 on anishinaabe parental kinship with black girl life: 21st century ([de]colonial) turtle island \u003cbr\u003eCh. 11 Towards an Indigenous Relational Aesthetics: Making Native Love \u003cbr\u003eCh. 12 Conversations on Indigenous Feminism\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"tabs__panel tabs__panel--reviews r-tabs-panel r-tabs-state-active\" id=\"tab-4\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"tabs__content\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“This well-researched and highly readable volume is a collection of broad and historically underrepresented voices of artists, activists and scholars in an attempt to Indigenize feminism in necessary and critical ways.\" \u003ccite\u003e Karla Strand, Ms. Magazine \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"In Good Relation: History, Gender, and Kinship in Indigenous Feminisms is held together by the felt relevance of its critical affinities and intersecting concerns. This ambitious anthology, co-edited by Sarah A. Nickel (Tk’emlupsemc\/French Canadian\/Ukrainian) and Amanda Fehr, sets out to diversify understandings of Indigenous feminisms, recentre 2SQ (Two-Spirit and queer) perspectives, and sustain cross-generational and Indigenous transnational conversations.\" \u003ccite\u003e Mylène Gamache, Canadian Journal Of Native Studies \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"This writing is so necessary in encouraging us to take up a culture-based practice that does not contribute to further oppression. […] _In Good Relation_ is a dynamic read for anyone wishing to learn more about Indigenous feminisms.\" \u003ccite\u003e Kim Anderson, Herizons \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e“One of the strengths of this volume is its inclusion of diverse time periods, geographic locations, topics, perspectives, audiences, and styles. The inclusion of nonbinary and Two-Spirit voices—perspectives that are often missing in feminist anthologies—adds to this volume’s uniqueness and success.” \u003ccite\u003e Karla J. Strand, Canadian Journal of History \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\"[In Good Relation] defies simple dichotomies and compartmentalisations, with contributors' different backgrounds and positions highlighting diverse ways to engage with Indigenous feminisms today, inside and outside of academia. This book poses important questions and offers insightful reflections on a topic that is gaining powerful momentum in Canada. Its nuanced treatment of the complexities involved in thinking about Indigenous feminisms renders it valuable to a variety of readers interested in feminist, queer, and decolonial studies.\" \u003ccite\u003e Valentina de Riso, British Journal of Canadian Studies \u003c\/cite\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175350186077,"sku":"9780887558511","price":27.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/in_good_relation.jpg?v=1654988777"},{"product_id":"the-echoing-ida-collection","title":"The Echoing Ida Collection","description":"\u003cp\u003eRooted in reproductive justice, Echoing Ida harnesses the power of media for social justice-amplifying the struggles and successes of contemporary freedom movements in the US.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFounded in 2012, Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who—like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett—believe the way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them. Their community reporting spans a wide variety of topics: reproductive justice and abortion politics; new and necessary definitions of family; trans visibility; stigma against Black motherhood; Black mental health; and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis anthology collects the best of Echoing Ida for the first time, and features a foreword by Michelle Duster, activist and great-granddaughter of Ida B. Wells-Barnett. Imagining a gender-expansive and liberated future, these essays affirm the powerful combination of #BlackGirlMagic and the hard, unceasing labor of Black people to reimagine the world in which we live.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCynthia R. Greenlee is a writer, editor, and historian of the African-American experience. 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She is the founder of Babecamp, started the hashtag campaign #LoseHateNotWeight, and edited the groundbreaking anthology \u003cem\u003eHot \u0026amp; Heavy: Fierce Fat Girls on Life, Love and Fashion \u003c\/em\u003e(Seal Press 2012). 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I will reread this book for the sense it gives me that new ways of making one another and the world new might, in fact, be possible. Its verve and wit make me feel sure that Lewis’ reproductive commune will be fun.” Moira Weigel, author of \u003cem\u003eLabor of Love: The Invention of Dating\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An extraordinary book, as nuanced as it is provocative. Lewis delivers an incisive analysis, combining sensitivity to the material conditions faced by gestational laborers with a radical utopian vision for what surrogacy might become. It’s an exhilarating read and is likely to have a substantial influence on the field. I cannot recommend it highly enough.” Helen Hester, author of \u003cem\u003eXenofeminism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“An instructive and moving book about the work of babymaking and the best possible future for birthing and raising children. 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Preciado, author of \u003cem\u003eTesto Junkie\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sophie Lewis and her expansive vision of feminism are desperately needed right now. She makes the work of undoing what ‘womanhood’ has come to mean look possible and irresistible.\" Melissa Gira Grant, author of \u003cem\u003ePlaying the Whore: The Work of Sex Work\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Pregnancy. Babies. Families. Nature itself. Like capitalism, communism knows no bounds. Relentless in the task of seizing of the means of reproduction, Sophie Lewis is the Right’s worst nightmare.” George Ciccariello-Maher, author of \u003cem\u003eBuilding the Commune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Full Surrogacy Now makes a significant contribution to the pressing political project of advocating for the rights of those workers whose labour is so often delegitimised, exploited and criminalised … join[ing] such texts as Juno Mac and Molly Smith’s \u003cem\u003eRevolting Prostitutes\u003c\/em\u003e in combating the white, liberal, trans-exclusionary, whorephobic, ‘feminist’ discourse which is currently dominating conversations around sex work and gestational labour.”\u003cem\u003e Vector\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Lewis is attempting to do for pregnancy what the Wages for Housework movement did in reconceptualizing the unpaid labor done by women in the home as work. And recognizing surrogacy as work and surrogates as workers is a necessary first step, for if surrogacy is work, then isn’t, by extension, every pregnancy?” Esther Wang, \u003cem\u003eJezebel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The radical openness of these dreams is alluring … [Full Surrogacy Now] leaves one with the beautiful, liquid possibility of a world that recognizes ‘our inextricably surrogated contamination with and by everybody else.’” \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A thrilling new intervention … by placing reproductive labour at the centre of her vision in Full Surrogacy Now, Lewis confronts a central issue that continues to be sidelined in the male-dominated field of futurism.” —New Humanist “Theoretical, devious, a mix of manifesto and memoir.” Jessica Weisberg, \u003cem\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Dazzling.” Jenny Turner, \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Incisive and exciting … a must-read for those interested in queer feminist engagements with family, reproductive labour and global class relations. ” \u003cem\u003eLSE Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sophie Lewis\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781786637307\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 224 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Verso\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175356182621,"sku":"9781786637307","price":30.98,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/full_surrogacy_now.jpg?v=1654988829"},{"product_id":"the-cancer-journals","title":"The Cancer Journals","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMoving between journal entry, memoir, and exposition, Audre Lorde fuses the personal and political as she reflects on her experience coping with breast cancer and a radical mastectomy. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFirst published over forty years ago, \u003cem\u003eThe Cancer Journals\u003c\/em\u003e is a startling, powerful account of Audre Lorde's experience with breast cancer and mastectomy. Long before narratives explored the silences around illness and women's pain, Lorde questioned the rules of conformity for women's body images and supported the need to confront physical loss not hidden by prosthesis. Living as a \"black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet,\" Lorde heals and re-envisions herself on her own terms and offers her voice, grief, resistance, and courage to those dealing with their own diagnosis. Poetic and profoundly feminist, Lorde's testament gives visibility and strength to women with cancer to define themselves, and to transform their silence into language and action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAudre Lorde (1934-1992) published nine volumes of poetry and five works of prose. She was a recipient of many distinguished honors and awards, including honorary doctorates from Hunter, Oberlin, and Haverford Colleges, and was named New York State Poet (1991-1993).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“This empowering compilation is heartbreaking, beautiful, and timeless...Lorde’s big heart and fierce mind are at full strength on each page of this deeply personal and deeply political collection.” \u003cem\u003eKirkus\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Grief, terror, courage, the passion for survival and far more than survival, are here in the personal and political searchings of a great poet. Lorde is the Amazon warrior who also knows how to tell the tale of battle: what happened, and why, what are the weapons, and who are the comrades she found. More than this, her book offers women a new and deeply feminist challenge.” Adrienne Rich\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Audre Lorde’s \u003cem\u003eThe Cancer Journals\u003c\/em\u003e has helped me more than I can say. It has taken away some of my fear of cancer, my fear of incompleteness, my fear of difference. This book teaches me that with one breast or none, I am still me. That the sum total of me is infinitely greater than the number of my breasts. Should cancer of the breast be in my future, as it is in the future of thousands of American women each year, Lorde’s words of love and wisdom and courage will be beside me to give me strength. The Cancer Journals should be read by every woman.” Alice Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Audre Lorde’s courageous account of her breast cancer defies how women are expected to deal with sickness, accepting pain and a transformed sense of self. 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A perfect tool for families, schools, and libraries to facilitate conversations about disability, accessibility, social justice and community building. Includes a kid-friendly glossary (for ages 6–9).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"The detailed and charming illustrations in \u003cem\u003eWe Move Together\u003c\/em\u003e show us a world of cooperation, equality, community, love and friendship, which I believe is a world we all would be happy to live in.” Brian Selznick author\/illustrator of \u003cem\u003eThe Invention of Hugo Cabret \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Brightly illustrated and with a helpful glossary, We Move Together is a sensitive and joyful jumping-off point to begin the vital conversation about accessibility.\" Saleema Nawaz, author of \u003cem\u003eSongs for the End of the World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWe Move Together \u003c\/em\u003eis full of practical magic. It’s grounded in a world children will recognize—full of ice cream, public transit, parks, and play—but it opens up possibilities of worlds and futures we dream of. It invites us to think and talk about disability and difference with love and respect. The best kind of book about changing the world, \u003cem\u003eWe Move Together \u003c\/em\u003edoesn’t tell us how we should change things, it just reminds us that we can.\" Cory Silverberg, educator and author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Makes a Baby\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSex Is a Funny Word\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWe Move Together\u003c\/em\u003e is full of gorgeous illustrations and stories of our communities in all of their varied differences. Rooted in disability justice, this book offers ways of practicing interdependence, collective care, and transformative justice. As a Black, Mad, and disabled parent, I am eager to read this book in our family—finally a book in which we can see ourselves reflected! \u003cem\u003eWe Move Together\u003c\/em\u003e is essential reading for all bookshelves!\" Syrus Marcus Ware, Co-Founder, Black Lives Matter–Canada\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWe Move Together\u003c\/em\u003e is a love letter to the next generation of disabled kids, and a provocation for their nondisabled peers to rethink an ableist society's assumptions about how our bodies should move, what they should look like, and how our brains should work ... This gorgeously illustrated book offers a powerful message rooted in the Disability Justice movement—we care for and love each other, and we move together, with nobody left behind.\" Lydia X. Z. Brown, disability justice advocate and founder\/director of Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, Survival, \u0026amp; Empowerment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eWe Move Together\u003c\/em\u003e makes me want to move with joy! Finally there is a book I can share with my kiddo that expresses the joy of disability community; the playfulness of different ways of moving; and the fun of creating access—while also showing the challenges of ableism. This book can grow with my daughter as she goes from asking questions about the beautifully illustrated pictures and engaging words, to when she can grapple with the many key ideas of disability justice provided at the end of the book. A delightful and much needed celebration of disability community, and most importantly, as my daughter says, it's fun! \" Sunaura Taylor, disability studies scholar and author of Beasts of Burden\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kelly Fritsch\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Anne McGuire\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Eduardo Trejos\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eArtist: Eduardo Trejos\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Hardcover\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849354042\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 24 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: AK Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175356706909,"sku":"9781849354042","price":21.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/we_move_together_0.jpg?v=1654988837"},{"product_id":"rebellious-mourning-the-collective-work-of-grief","title":"Rebellious Mourning: The Collective Work of Grief","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This intimate, moving, and timely collection of essays points the way to a world in which the burden of grief is shared, and pain is reconfigured into a powerful force for social change and collective healing.” Astra Taylor, author of \u003cem\u003eThe People’s Platform\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe can bear almost anything when it is worked through collectively. Grief is generally thought of as something personal and insular, but when we publicly share loss and pain, we lessen the power of the forces that debilitate us, while at the same time building the humane social practices that alleviate suffering and improve quality of life for everyone. Addressing tragedies from Fukushima to Palestine, incarceration to eviction, AIDS crises to border crossings, and racism to rape, the intimate yet tenacious writing in this volume shows that mourning can pry open spaces of contestation and reconstruction, empathy and solidarity. With contributions from Claudia Rankine, Sarah Schulman, David Wojnarowicz, Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, David Gilbert, and thirty-two others. Also includes a 32-page color insert featuring artists like Jet Chalk, Oree Originol, Melanie Cervantes and Jesus Barraza, and more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzgifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cindy-milstein\" title=\"Cindy Milstein\"\u003eCindy Milstein\u003c\/a\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eAnarchism and Its Aspirations\u003c\/em\u003e, co-author of \u003cem\u003ePaths toward Utopia: Graphic Explorations of Everyday Anarchism\u003c\/em\u003e, and editor of the anthology \u003cem\u003eTaking Sides: Revolutionary Solidarity and the Poverty of Liberalism\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A primary message here is that from tears comes the resolve for the struggle ahead.” Ron Jacobs, author of \u003cem\u003eDaydream Sunset\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eRebellious Mourning \u003c\/em\u003euncovers the destruction of life that capitalist development leaves in its trail. But it is also witness to the power of grief as a catalyst to collective resistance.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5ODMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/silvia-federici\" title=\"Silvia Federici\"\u003eSilvia Federici\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCaliban and the Witch\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In a time when so many lives are considered ungrievable (as coined by Judith Butler), grieving is a politically necessary act. This evocative collection reminds us that vulnerability and tenderness for each other and public grievability for life itself are some of the most profound acts of community resistance.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/harsha-walia\" title=\"Harsha Walia\"\u003eHarsha Walia\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eUndoing Border Imperialism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Our current political era is filled with mourning and loss. This powerful, intimate, beautiful book offers a transformative path toward healing and resurgence.” Jordan Flaherty, author of \u003cem\u003eNo More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“The great Wobbly agitator, Joe Hill, famously told us, “Don’t mourn, organize!” But he was talking about the loss of hope and confidence that we can contribute to the struggles for justice, that it is a way of life, a culture of resistance. These essays by some of the most dedicated organizers among us today show that honoring and remembering—yes, mourning—actually strengthens our solidarity and vision. Cindy Mil- stein has created an essential and dynamic work.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTcifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/roxanne-dunbar-ortiz\" title=\"Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\"\u003eRoxanne Dunbar-Ortiz\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkzNTYifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/an-indigenous-peoples-history-of-the-united-states\" title=\"An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\"\u003eAn Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Grief is often regarded as one of those ‘negative emotions’ we simply have to ‘get through.’ But can it also be a process of sharing and learning, motivating us to make the world a better place? This book’s answer is a resounding yes!” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwMDQifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/gabriel-kuhn\" title=\"Gabriel Kuhn\"\u003eGabriel Kuhn\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003ePlaying as If the World Mattered: An Illustrated History of Activism in Sports\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Political organizers, whose lives are devoted to ending the injustice that causes inordinate grief in others, too often dismiss our own grief as shameful or self-indulgent. But this beautiful collection of essays is a clarion call to turn and face the truth of our own sorrow—and its power, as editor Cindy Milstein writes, to “open up cracks in the wall of the system.” Here, thinkers, organizers, and artists, from Ferguson to Appalachia to Fukushima to Oaxaca to maximum-security prisons, share their lives, their work, and the various ways in which acknowledging grief—that unavoidable leveler of souls—can allow despairing, isolated peoples to rise together as one.” Susie Day, author of \u003cem\u003eSnidelines: Talking Trash to Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“This groundbreaking anthology offers access to diverse experiences of what it feels like to grieve for those we’ve lost, within the context of all-too-often-deadly systems of global hegemonic control.... \u003cem\u003eRebellious Mourning \u003c\/em\u003erepresents an indispensable road map by which those of us grieving many kinds of losses might find our way back to generative struggle, during a time when the Left so urgently needs new sites for building connection.” Kathleen McIntyre, editor of \u003cem\u003eThe Worst\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Like songs of sorrow sung together, or laughing in pain and survival around a campfire, this book leaves us whole, grounded, ready for movement, as grief shared in connection should.” Cindy Crabb, author of \u003cem\u003eLearning Good Consent: On Healthy Relationships and Survivor Support \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"AK Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175357427805,"sku":"9781849352840","price":27.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/rebellious_mourning_rgb_1.jpg?v=1654988841"},{"product_id":"pandemic-solidarity-mutual-aid-during-the-covid-19-crisis","title":"Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the COVID-19 Crisis","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" aria-expanded=\"true\" data-mce-style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e“Helps us to rethink and re-imagine an egalitarian society where no one is left behind”\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eLondon School of Economics Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePandemic Solidarity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the global crisis of COVID-19.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe world's media was quick to weave a narrative of selfish individualism, full of empty supermarket shelves and con-men. However, if you scratch the surface, you find a different story of community and self-sacrifice.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLooking at thirteen countries and regions, including India, Rojava, China and the US, the personal accounts in the book weave together to create a larger picture, revealing a universality of experience - a housewife in Istanbul supports her neighbor in the same way as a punk in Portland, and a grandmother in Italy does. Moving beyond the present, these stories reveal what an alternative society could look like, and reflect the skills and relationships we already have to create that society, challenging institutions of power that have already shown their fragility. Chapters include:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*Capitalism Kills, Solidarity Gives Life\": A Glimpse of Solidarity Networks from Turkey \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* Solidarity Network in Iraq During Covid-19: This Time the Enemy is Invisible \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e* Sharing Spaces and Crossing Borders: Voices from Taiwan \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*Rethinking Minority and Mainstream in India \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*Confronting State Authoritarianism: Civil Society and Community-Based Solidarity in Southern Africa \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*On Intersectional Solidarity in Portugal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*Solidarity Networks in Greece \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*Argentina: Injustices Magnified; Memories of Resistance Reactivated \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e*On Grassroots Organizing: Excerpts from Brazil\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspa\u003e \\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat happens to society when we are not held back by the neoliberal narrative? What can we do, to protect ourselves and one another, when we organize and act collectively? From the stories told here, maybe more than we expect.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003ch5\u003e\\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003eJust what we need so desperately in this moment. How we come out of this pandemic will shape the future of humanity. Now, as never before, we have to break the deadly logic of capital. A beautiful and important book.”\u003c\/span\u003e John Holloway, author of \u003ci\u003eChange the World Without Taking Power\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e“In the midst of a global crisis, we must listen, learn, and build with people from around the world - the essays and insights collected here help us do just that. A crisis is a turning point, and this valuable book can serve as a guide to a better future.” Astra Taylor, director of \u003ci\u003eWhat Is Democracy?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e'These stories teach us of the enormous potential for love and resistance in a world threatened by apocalyptic capitalism.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mike-davis\" title=\"Mike Davis\"\u003eMike Davis\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Quartz\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\\n\u003cp\u003e“Mutual aid, solidarity and commoning become most visible during periods of deep crises. 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It is a spell of healing and transformation, rooted in love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e instills the reminder that queers do, in fact, deserve better health care and are worthy of wholeness - an audacious and galvanizing guide for us to reclaim and reimagine our well beings.\" Vivek Shraya, author of \u003cem\u003eDeath Threat\u003c\/em\u003e and\u003cem\u003e I'm Afraid of Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I feel a kinship with everyone whose most relevant health care information comes, not from doctors, but through word-of-mouth. What I've learned about my diagnosis, medications and ongoing wellness, I've learned by talking with other disabled and ill queer and trans friends. \u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e is like one of these vital conversations. Accessible and justice-minded health information is offered throughout these pages, most assuredly. There's also humour, front-line wisdom, hot takes, hard-earned truths, dreams and possibilities, and a lot of love.\" Amber Dawn, author of \u003cem\u003eHow Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSodom Road Exit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e conjures a bouquet of defiant, brilliant pieces that are provocative and profound, perverse and poignant. There's a powerful alchemy at play here that gave me glimpses of a tantalizing future where my friends, my loves, my chosen family, and myself get the lush, thriving care we deserve. I adore this urgent, unfettered book.\" Hazel Jane Plante, author of \u003cem\u003eLittle Blue Encyclopedia (for Vivian)\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eThe Care We Dream Of\u003c\/em\u003e is a rare thing: it weaves a beautiful account of what queer and trans flourishing might look like with a deeply pragmatic roadmap for how we might get there. Drawing on the wisdom of queer and feminist elders, doulas, harm reductionists, sex workers, femme geniuses, crip radicals, and intersex and trans activists, Sharman completely recalibrates our sense of what vibrant futures are possible when we divest from structures that perpetuate harm and dare to commit to an interdependent future where we live well, get old, and die surrounded by beloved community. This book provides a visionary blueprint for how we arrive at the multiple, collaborative, sexy, and radically just futures we deserve.\" Hil Malatino, author of \u003cem\u003eTrans Care and Queer Embodiment: Monstrosity, Medical Violence, and Intersex Experience\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eEditor: Zena Sharman\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN:  9781551528601\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 352 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Arsenal Pulp Press\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175380791389,"sku":"9781551528601","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/care_we_dream_of_9781551528601_cover1_rb_fullcover.jpg?v=1654989004"},{"product_id":"crip-kinship-the-disability-justice-art-activism-of-sins-invalid","title":"Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice \u0026 Art Activism of Sins Invalid","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eCrip Kinship\u003c\/em\u003e explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical imaginings of what disabled, queer, trans, and gender-nonconforming bodyminds of colour can do: how they can rewrite oppression, and how they can gift us with transformational lessons for our collective survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGrounded in the disability justice framework, \u003cem\u003eCrip Kinship\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the revolutionary survival teachings that disabled, queer of colour community offers to all our bodyminds. 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A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the origins of disability justice.\" Alice Wong, editor of \u003cem\u003eDisability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"As a scholar of belonging, it has taken me so long to let my own disabled bodymind belong - to feel the holy connective power in my pain, the ways I need help, my healing story - and to let myself belong in community as I truly am. Sins Invalid opened a portal that so many of the people who have taught me to live fully into the wholeness of my present have both held wide and come thru. This book invites a new generation through that portal of disability justice, to feel the powerful nature of us in our miraculous biodiversity and symbiosis, the love ethic in practice, the creative reclamation of our dignity, and the future that will unfold from our orgasmic yes. 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Usually we hear about two generations - the first, coming of age in the era of gay liberation, and then watching entire circles of friends die of a mysterious illness as the government did nothing to intervene. And now we hear about younger people growing up with effective treatment and prevention available, unable to comprehend the magnitude of the loss. But there is another generation between these two, one that came of age in the midst of the epidemic with the belief that desire intrinsically led to death, and internalized this trauma as part of becoming queer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBetween Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis\u003c\/em\u003e offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This wide-ranging collection includes 36 personal essays on the ongoing and persistent impact of the HIV\/AIDS crisis in queer lives. Here you will find an expansive range of perspectives on a specific generational story - essays that explore and explode conventional wisdom, while also providing a necessary bridge between experiences. These essays respond, with eloquence and incisiveness, to the question: How do we reckon with the trauma that continues to this day, and imagine a way out?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat Are People Saying\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"An exciting and important collection that reconvenes community and brings our hidden feelings and experiences of HIV again to light and to consciousness.\" Sarah Schulman, author of \u003cem\u003eConflict Is Not Abuse \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eLet the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987-1993\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"For decades, Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore has been putting together anthologies that transform the field of queer politics and let us understand ourselves and each other in new ways. \u003cem\u003eBetween Certain Death and a Possible Future\u003c\/em\u003e is just such a book. It is a must-read for this moment, yet another juncture where we face the collision of brutal inequality, right-wing resurgence, and pandemic. This book is deeply personal, moving, and evocative, and at the same time has an enormous amount to teach us about the political and social conditions that have produced the social meanings of AIDS and sex that have shaped our lives.\" \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eMutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eTo be queer is to learn about yourself - your identity, your history, your community - in fragments. Mattilda has been painstakingly helping us put our pieces together for decades, and defiantly does it again in \u003cem\u003eBetween Certain Death and a Possible Future\u003c\/em\u003e. Formally an anthology, this book is actually a bildungsroman, unlike any you've read before - this one doesn't take coming of age for granted.\" Vivek Shraya, author of \u003cem\u003eDeath Threat\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eI'm Afraid of Men \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eI thought I knew everything about how the queer generation after mine was impacted by AIDS, but Sycamore's eye-opening anthology pierced my naive cockiness. I remember my life and sexual coming out before the AIDS crisis, but what if AIDS is all you've ever known? How did that define your queerness? 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