{"title":"Mental Health","description":"\u003cp\u003eTil Nov. 17, get 20% off books in this collection with code MH20 at checkout!\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-primal-screamer","title":"The Primal Screamer","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Gothic Horror novel about severe mental distress and punk rock. The novel is written in the form of a diary kept by a psychiatrist, Dr. Rodney H. Dweller, concerning his patient, Nathaniel Snoxell, brought to him in 1979 because of several attempted suicides. Snoxell gets involved in the nascent UK anarcho-punk scene, recording EPs and playing gigs in squatted Anarchy Centers. In 1985, the good doctor himself “goes insane” and disappears.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis semi-autobiographical novel from Rudimentary Peni singer, guitarist, lyricist, and illustrator Nick Blinko, plunges into the worlds of madness, suicide, and anarchist punk. Lovecraft meets Crass in the squats and psychiatric institutions of early ‘80s England. This new edition collects Blinko's long sought after artwork from the three previous incarnations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Dense, haunted, shot through with black humour.” —Raw Vision\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Nick Blinko is a madman. That’s not intended as pejorative opinion but rather a statement of plain fact.” —Maximum RocknRoll\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The insights it offers into the punk scene and into the unsettling landscapes of its author’s mind are fascinating. The whole book has a distinct sense of coming from a mind unlike most we are used to.” —The Big Issue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An intensely written and authentically Gothic look at the life of a man suffering extreme mental distress.” —Detour\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Fascinating and compelling.” —Kerrang\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eNick Blinko was born in 1961. His band, Rudimentary Peni, whose records include Death Church, Cacophony, and Pope Adrian 37th, enjoy international acclaim in punk and avant-garde circles. A legendary figure in the “outsider art” scene, his paintings are exhibited across the world. 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How many times a week do we hear or say these words? If we all took the time to care for ourselves, how much stronger would we be? More importantly, how much stronger would our communities be?”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eTake Care of Your Self\u003c\/em\u003e, Sundus Abdul Hadi turns a critical and inventive eye to the notion of care and how it relates to social justice. In contrast to the billion-dollar industry of self-care, Abdul Hadi identifies care as a necessary practice—rooted in self, community, and the world—in the collective process of decolonization, empowerment, and liberation. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAbdul Hadi explores the role of art in building regenerative narratives to confront and undo systemic oppression and trauma. Weaving in the work of visionary transcultural artists who engage the liberatory intersections of struggle and care, Abdul Hadi centers the voices of those most-often relegated to the margins and emphasizes the importance of creating brave spaces for their stories and art. The transformative power of care exists in these spaces, building a foundation for a world in desperate need of healing and change. \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\u003eTake Care of Your Self \u003c\/em\u003eturns upside down and inside out the meanings of self-care, illuminating for us decolonial futures through our collective healing. Sundus Abdul Hadi invites us into the most intimate valleys of her own healing journey—taking us gently by the hand to show us the visionary work of artists while rooting us in the fertile soils nurtured by Black, Indigenous, anticolonial, and feminist thinkers—and pointing to the revolutionary potential of transnationalism. \u003cem\u003eTake Care of Your Self \u003c\/em\u003eleft me elated, floating a bit with the buoyancy that hope offers.” Noura Erakat, author of \u003cem\u003eJustice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSundus Abdul Hadi is an Iraqi-Canadian multimedia artist and writer. Born in the UAE, she was raised and educated in Montreal, where she earned a BFA in Studio Arts and Art History and a Masters in Media Studies. Her work critically engages the concepts of  care, community and struggle. Her artistic practice is a subversive and sensitive reflection on war, trauma and representation, using manipulated photographic imagery,  mixed-media painting, artist books and sound. She is the author-illustrator of Shams,  an illustrated book about trauma, transformation and healing (\u003cem\u003eWe are the Medium\u003c\/em\u003e, 2020). Complimenting her studio practice, Abdul Hadi curates exhibitions as artist-curator, most recently with the research-creation exhibit project featured in her  book of the same name, \u003cem\u003eTake Care of Your Self\u003c\/em\u003e. She is the cofounder of We Are The Medium, a global multidisciplinary artist collective, publishing house, and cultural hub.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHer work has been exhibited in Palestine, UAE, Canada, USA, France, New Zealand and the UK. She has given workshops in Australia, Iraq and Kuwait, and has been a speaker at Nuqat, the Nobel Peace Prize Forum, the Aga Khan Museum (Toronto), Telfair Museum (Savannah GA), NYU New York, and multiple universities in Canada and the US. Abdul Hadi is a two time recipient of the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec (CALQ) Vivacite grant, and received the Makers Muse award from Kindle Project (2018). Her work is part of the Barjeel Art Foundation collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Sundus Abdul Hadi\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781942173182\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 144 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Common Notions\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175331049565,"sku":"9781942173182","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/abdulhadi_takecare.jpg?v=1654988614"},{"product_id":"remembering-the-armed-struggle-my-time-with-the-red-army-faction","title":"Remembering the Armed Struggle: My Time with the Red Army Faction","description":"\u003cp\u003eMargrit Schiller was an early member of the Red Army Faction, the West German urban guerrilla group. In 1971 she was captured and charged with a murder she did not commit, and upon her release she returned to the underground, being captured again in early 1974. She would spend most of the 1970s in prison, enduring isolation conditions meant to break the human spirit, and participating hunger strikes and other acts of resistance along with other political prisoners from the RAF.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eRemembering the Armed Struggle\u003c\/em\u003e, Schiller recounts the process through which she joined her generation’s revolt in the 1960s, going from work with drug users to joining the antipsychiatry political organization the Socialist Patients’ Collective and then the RAF. She tells of how she met and worked alongside the group’s founding members, Ulrike Meinhof, Andreas Baader, Jan-Carl Raspe, Irmgard Möller, and Holger Meins; how she learned the details of the May Offensive and other actions while in her prison cell; about the struggles to defend human dignity in the most degraded of environments, and the relationships she forged with other women in prison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAlso included are a foreword by Ann Hansen, who situates the draconian prison conditions inflicted on the RAF within the context of a global counterinsurgency program that would help spawn the plague of mass incarceration we still face today, an afterword by the late Osvaldo Bayer, and an appendix by J. Smith and André Moncourt summarizing the politics and history of the RAF throughout the group's existence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003eListen to an Interview with Margrit Schiller by the Prison Radio Show\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe allowfullscreen=\"\" height=\"90\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" msallowfullscreen=\"\" oallowfullscreen=\"\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/18659531\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/forward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/000000\/\" style=\"border: none\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e \u003c\/h3\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Margrit Schiller’s life story Remembering the Armed Struggle, is not meant to mark a hard break with the Red Army Faction, but is more of a critical reflection in the spirit of solidarity. Even those who do not share Schiller’s perspective well find it interesting to join her as she looks back on her years underground and in prison.” diesseits\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Schiller’s recollections are profoundly honest and to the point. She neither glorifies the Red Army Faction nor does she repent or distance herself from her past.” \u003cem\u003etaz\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“I am moved by the honesty of this story, showing the limits, doubts, and uncertainties. Margrit is far from pretending to be a hero or providing a heroic tale. May Margrit’s experiences and those of her comrades help us to continue the battle for the freedom of political prisoners in any corner of the world. May they also allow us to radically question the prison system, which is used as a space to discard the excluded and to criminalize poverty. . . . Memory, freedom, and desire are part of the experience of resistance of our bodies, of our lives. And Margrit, stripping away her own history in this book, with pain but with courage, helps us to continue spinning colors, flavors, sounds and aromas in this mild time of attempts.” Claudia Korol, author of \u003cem\u003eLas Revoluciones de Berta \u003c\/em\u003e(2019) from the Prologue to the Spanish edition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“The book challenges prejudices and dares to address subjects that are taboo, especially in these latitudes so plagued by silences about the human aspects that mark the reality of the struggle to free ourselves. This story is the story of hundreds of antisystem militants . . . [It] contains that old but not perished left-wing argument from the 1960s about how words should have some connection to actions . . .” Grupo de ex presas politicas: Memoria v testimonios\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMargrit Schiller was a member of the Red Army Faction in the early 1970s, and as a result spent most of the decade in West German prisons. Released in 1979, she moved to Cuba in 1985, and then to Uruguay in 1993. After ten years in Montevideo she returned in Germany. She is now living in Berlin. She described her experiences in Cuba and Uruguay in her memoir So siehst du gar nicht aus! (2011).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAnn Hansen served seven years of a life sentence in federal prisons for acts carried out as part of the group Direct Action in Canada. She is a prison abolition activist and author of \u003cem\u003eDirect Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eTaking the Rap: Women Doing Time for Society’s Crimes\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOsvaldo Bayer (1927–2018) was an author, journalist, and scriptwriter who was exiled from Argentina during the years of military dictatorship. His works include \u003cem\u003eThe Anarchist Expropriators\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eAnarchism \u0026amp; Violence\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRebellion in Patagonia\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJ. Smith and André Moncourt are the coeditors of the Red Army Faction Documentary History series, comprising \u003cem\u003eProjectiles for the People\u003c\/em\u003e (Vol. 1) and \u003cem\u003eDancing with Imperialism \u003c\/em\u003e(Vol. 2), with a third volume forthcoming.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Margrit Schiller\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781629638737\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 256 pages\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003ePublisher: Kersplebedeb Publishing\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Kersplebedeb Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175345172573,"sku":"9781629638737","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/remembering_the_armed_struggle.jpg?v=1654988732"},{"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. 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With an intellect that supersedes social boundaries through sheer insistence, Sycamore chronicles the paradox of inhabiting a fluid life in a rigid world.\" \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"I really love Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore’s \u003cem\u003eThe Freezer Door\u003c\/em\u003e. In a happy paradox common to great literature, it’s a book about not belonging that made me feel deeply less alone. I so admire its appetite to get down and dirty, to wield non sequitur with grace and power, to ponder the past while sticking with the present, to quest unceasingly. I stand deeply inspired and instructed by its great wit, candor, inventiveness, and majesty.\" Maggie Nelson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore puts sex and gender, suffering and gentrification, encounter and solitude, at the center of a book that defies borders and uses language to dive directly into mystery. 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Editors Valerie Michaelson and Joan Durrant have brought together diverse voices to respond to this call and to consider the ways that colonial Western interpretations of Christian theologies have been used over centuries to normalize violence and rationalize the physical discipline of children. Theologians, clergy, social scientists, and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis leaders and community members explore the risks that corporal punishment poses to children and examine practical, non-violent approaches to discipline. The authors invite readers to participate in shaping this country into one that does not sanction violence against children. The result is a multifaceted exploration of theological debates, scientific evidence, and personal journeys of the violence that permeated Canada's Residential Schools and continues in Canadian homes today. Together, they compel us to decolonize discipline in Canada.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValerie Michaelson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Sciences at Brock University. Her current projects focus on violence, spirituality, mental health, and decolonization and reconciliation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoan Durrant is a Professor in the Department of Community Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. For three decades, she has studied the psychological, cultural and legal dimensions of corporal punishment of children, and the global movement to abolish it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart I. Setting the Stage: Indian Residential Schools, Canadian Churches, and Corporal Punishment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. A Prophetic Call to Churches in Canada\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. ‘I was Spanked and I’m OK’: Examining Thirty Years of Research Evidence on Corporal Punishment \u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Corporal Punishment: The Child’s Experience \u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Lies that have Shaped Us: Racism, Violence and Ageism in Canadian Churches\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart II. Examining Sacred Texts: Christian Theological Reflections on Corporal Punishment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Acculturation, Enculturation and Social Imaginaries: The Complex Relationship between the Gospel and Culture \u003cbr\u003eChapter 6. Reading the Bible Redemptively \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7. What do we do with Proverbs? \u003cbr\u003eChapter 8. The Significance of Robust Theologies of Childhood for Honouring Children’s Full Humanity and Rejecting Corporal Punishment\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart III. Seeking Further Wisdom: Indigenous Parenting, Positive Approaches to Discipline and Spiritual Practices\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. The Circle of Courage: Raising Respectful, Responsible Children through Indigenous Child Rearing Practices \u003cbr\u003eChapter 10. “Inunnguiniq” (The Making of a Human Being): Inuit Traditional Values and Child Rearing Practices \u003cbr\u003eChapter 11. Rethinking Christian Theologies of Discipline and Discipleship \u003cbr\u003eChapter 12. Walking the Path Toward Reconciliation: One Mother’s Transformative Journey from Parenting with Punishment to Parenting with Positive Discipline \u003cbr\u003eChapter 13. Whole Person Discipline: The Spiritual Nurture of Children\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart IV. Moving Toward Reconciliation: Reflections on the Theological Statement and (re)Imagining our Shared Future Chapter\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e14. Developing a Theological Position Statement on Corporal Punishment: The Process Chapter\u003cbr\u003e15. An International Perspective on the Canadian Theological Statement: Context, Tools and Encouragement Chapter\u003cbr\u003e16. “On Sparing the Rod and Spoiling the Child:” Preaching on Call to Action Number 6, and the Repeal of Section 43 of the Criminal Code of Canada Chapter\u003cbr\u003e17. An Opportune Time: Corrupt Imagination and Distorted Lives Chapter\u003cbr\u003e18. Hiding, Finding and Breaking: One Man’s Journey to Breaking the Intergenerational Cycle of Violence\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 19. Let these be Hands that Bless\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDecolonizing Discipline\u003c\/em\u003e transcends disciplinary boundaries and advocates for all Canadians — academics, theologians, and readers alike — to push toward improved standards of compassion and care for our children. \"\u003ccite\u003e\u003cem\u003e Alex Gagne\u003c\/em\u003e, BC Studies \u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Manitoba Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40175371092061,"sku":"9780887558658","price":31.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/decolonizingdiscipline.jpg?v=1654988932"},{"product_id":"damaged-like-me-essays-on-love-harm-and-transformation","title":"Damaged Like Me: Essays on Love, Harm, and Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003ePeople who have been damaged, thrown away, marginalized, or traumatized are more capable of apprehending social patterns, precisely because they’ve needed to be aware and vigilant about how the world works. For too long, those who rely on long-held rights and entitlement have claimed that others are biased about the very topics on which they have expertise. \u003cem\u003eDamaged Like Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a series of essays and stories that reveal a complex social landscape. It shows how possible and vital it is to build roads to a more equitable and loving collective culture that includes body sovereignty, racial justice, gender equity\/liberation, and much more. It does so by relying on the insights and approaches to knowledge production of those on the receiving end of inequity and violence, those whose “objectivity” on issues of oppression has been consistently maligned despite their having the most to teach us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Kimberly Dark has forever transformed the way I understand sex, gender, and the notion of 'damage.' The patriarchy should be terrified of this book. The rest of us can stick it in our hearts—emboldenment for the revolution.” Ariel Gore, author of \u003cem\u003eHexing the Patriarchy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Kimberly's writing is intimate and haunting—she kicks you in the gut while holding your emotions in the palm of her hand.\"Jessamyn Stanley, author of \u003cem\u003eEvery Body Yoga \u0026amp; Yoke: My Yoga of Self-Acceptance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Like a topo map that transcends our known meridians toward expansiveness and allows us to sit with the past to create a livable future, Kimberly Dark's Damaged Like Me invites us, from our 'stigmatized positions,' to step closer to our damage as sites of knowledge indispensable to our healing and our knowing.Through personal storytelling and intellectual inquiry, Dark generously restories these locations of damage as places of hope and regrowth, all while asking us to speak aloud how we come to love and let ourselves be loved. This book is an act of queer abundance.\" Cooper Lee Bombardier, author of \u003cem\u003ePass With Care: Memoirs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are few spaces outside of Disability Justice where the mess and mayhem of trauma is allowed to exist alongside abiding dignity. \u003cem\u003eDamaged Like Me\u003c\/em\u003e is one of them. Kimberly Dark has handed us a shame free template for telling all our shifting truths. A spell, in fact. We, the damaged, are emboldened to show up for ourselves and each other. We are given tools for blunting the stab of bias. We are re-routed from the deceptive road-map that has us hell-bent on triumph. Together we will be traitors to silence and we will survive this too. These are stories of the ways trauma shapes us and stays with us. Of the broken-into body and just how much language matters. They detail the inter-related thought systems that perpetuate child abuse, racism, fat bias, and misogyny.\" Dr. Lucy Aphramor, Dietitian, Founder of Well Now, co-author of \u003cem\u003eBody Respect\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Kimberly Dark profoundly understands the power of storytelling to create change. \u003cem\u003eDamaged Like Me\u003c\/em\u003e begins with her body and reaches out toward new meaning-making in a burst of resilience and imagination. Each dazzling essay asks what we might learn from the tensions, contradictions, erasures and difficulties we have inhabited at the edges of culture, and how we may yet reinvent ourselves and new communities. These brilliant insights will illuminate new paths even through the troubled dark.” Lidia Yuknavitch, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Chronology of Water\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"In \u003cem\u003eDamaged Like Me\u003c\/em\u003e, Kimberly Dark weaves together philosophical thoughts, sociopolitical commentary, and personal narrative with writing so evocative that at times I felt I was Kimberly. Riveting, honest, and haunting truth-telling.\" Lindo Bacon, PhD, scientist and author of \u003cem\u003eRadical Belonging\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eDamaged Like Me\u003c\/em\u003e is a sociology rooted in the self—in a queer body, a woman’s body, a fat body, a sexualized body, a body defined into or out of whiteness or motherhood or lovability. Bringing to mind the works of Tressie McMillan Cottom and José Muñoz, Kimberly Dark skillfully employs scene, moments of bodies touching bodies, poetry, yearning, and structural complexity to unveil her theses. This memoir is a love letter to outsiders, in a way, but the kind of love that offers both tenderness and accountability. A demand for the best self that can show up on any given day—because best selves create better worlds.\" Erin Kate Ryan, author of \u003cem\u003eQuantum Girl Theory\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003eBook Details\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eAuthor: Kimberly Dark\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eFormat: Paperback\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eISBN: 9781849354141\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eSize: 230 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":40175372501085,"sku":"9781849354141","price":25.2,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/damaged_like_me_0.jpg?v=1654988943"},{"product_id":"gadget-consciousness-collective-thought-will-and-action-in-the-age-of-social-media","title":"Gadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"pp-book__the-summary\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e Investigates how electronic devices we use affect our consciousness, both as individuals and classes.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat impact does our relentless fixation on gadgets have on the struggle for new kinds of solidarity, political articulation and intelligence? In this groundbreaking study, Joss Hands explores the new political and social forces that are emerging in the age of social media.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e Gadget Consciousness\u003c\/em\u003e examines the transformation of our consciousness as a historical political force in two senses: as individual consciousness - in terms of sentience and will - and also as class consciousness. Exploring a range of manifestations in the digital commons, he investigates what forms digital solidarity can take, and asks whether we can learn from the communisms of the past and how might solidarity be manifested in the future?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, the ubiquity of networked gadgets offers exciting new opportunities for social and political change, but also significant dangers of alienation and stupefaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoss Hands is Reader in Critical Theory at Newcastle University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eGadget Consciousness: Collective Thought, Will and Action in the Age of Social Media\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003e@ is For Activism: Dissent, Resistance and Rebellion in Digital Culture\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\"Our obsession with gadgets is a key token of how deeply computer-based connection is now embedded in everyday life and consciousness. Joss Hands offers a highly thoughtful and theoretically astute reading of the possibilities for human reflexivity and agency that still remain.\" Nick Couldry, Professor of Media, Communications and Social Theory, London School of Economics\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\"A Swiss army knife of a book, unfolding tools to convert digital devices from exploitation and isolation to meaning and connection. Joss Hands gives us a handheld manifesto for gadget communism.\" Sean Cubitt, Goldsmiths University of London\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\"Takes the seemingly apolitical and trivial concept of 'the gadget' and transforms it into a fascinating path to explore not only the most recent phase of capitalist techno-fetishism, but also, with exemplary radical experimentalism, the blasphemous idea of 'gadget communism.'\" Nick Dyer-Witheford, University of Western Ontario\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"endorsements\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"sp__the-reviews\"\u003eSeries Preface \u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgements \u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. The Question Concerning Gadgets \u003cbr\u003e2. Gadget Materialism \u003cbr\u003e3. Gadget Brain \u003cbr\u003e4. Gadget Consciousness \u003cbr\u003e5. Gadget Action \u003cbr\u003e6. Gadget Futures \u003cbr\u003eBibliography \u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40239853863005,"sku":"9780745335346","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9780745335346.jpg?v=1656388667"},{"product_id":"a-profession-without-reason-the-crisis-of-contemporary-psychiatry-untangled-and-solved-by-spinoza-freethinking-and-radical-enlightenment","title":"A Profession Without Reason: The Crisis of Contemporary Psychiatry—Untangled and Solved by Spinoza, Freethinking, and Radical Enlightenment","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-info-main product-details left-section\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"product attribute description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"value\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThere is today a crisis in psychiatry. Even the former director of the National Institute of Mental Health has said: “Whatever we’ve been doing for five decades, it ain’t working.” The field of psychiatry requires a completely fresh look, and Bruce E. Levine finds that needed perspective in the seventeenth-century works of Baruch Spinoza. Readers unfamiliar with Spinoza will be intrigued by his life and the modern relevance of his radical philosophical, psychological, and political ideas. 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At the same time, it explores a much grander theme: what does it mean to be a ‘free thinker?’ And the final reward for readers is this: by book’s end, they will have ‘fallen in love’ with Baruch Spinoza.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRobert Whitaker, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnatomy of an Epidemic\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMad in America\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Deep into the twenty-first century, philosophizing about the power of psychiatry remains arduous, because the doublespeak of mental health suffocates clear thinking. What an exhilarating antidote therefore does Bruce Levine deliver to our weary minding, stimulating it with the ideas and examples of the great freethinker Baruch Spinoza. While many good books assault the fortress of dogmas protecting organized psychiatry, this unique work, by illustrating with wit, graciousness and erudition the power of reason that each of us might employ to dispel obfuscation, inspires.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Cohen, co-author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMad Science\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"This ingenious book uses the insights of Spinoza to address some of the tangled issues in mental health. Spinoza's wisdom or 'Reason' reveals how our modern, medicalised approach to mental health problems is riddled with misconceptions and ethical conflicts and points the way to more effective and humane ways of helping people.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoanna Moncrieff, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Myth of the Chemical Cure\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"\u003c\/em\u003eWe find ourselves living in a world in which our healthcare systems, our political systems, and our mainstream media have become heavily dominated by corporate power and corruption; and we find those daring to challenge the mainstream narratives becoming increasingly censored, vilified, or otherwise silenced. The psychiatric-pharmaceutical industry has played a particularly pernicious role in all of this, contributing greatly to an increasingly tangled web of controversy, confusion and suffering. In this book, we follow freethinkers Dr. Bruce Levine and seventeenth-century Baruch Spinoza as they partner up to bravely face this tangle head-on—and what an insightful and enjoyable journey it is! This delightful duo not only succeeds in untangling much of this mess, but they leave us feeling much more confident and inspired as we continue to untangle the knots of this troubled world on our own.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParis Williams, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRethinking Madness\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"This book could have been a simple damning indictment of psychiatry, filled with tables and statistics. Instead, it is a brilliant illumination of its subject. The interweaving of the modern with the philosophical assessments of Spinoza is a masterstroke, making it far easier, not to mention exciting, to digest both. It is a one accomplishment by Levine. For psychiatry to have yet to catch up to a young philosopher 350 years ago should be controversial enough. But A Profession Without Reason has made it far more.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Wineberg, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Straight Dope\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBruce E. Levine\u003c\/strong\u003e is a practicing clinical psychologist and author. 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He is a regular contributor to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCounterPunch\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTruthout\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMad in America\u003c\/em\u003e, and his articles have been published in the \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSkeptic\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSalon\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlterNet\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAdbusters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Ecologist\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHigh Times\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYes!\u003c\/em\u003e. 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Inspired by the writers who documented American life during the Great Depression and World War II for the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the editors asked twenty-first-century historians and legal experts to focus on the parallels, convergences, and differences between the exceptional \"long 2020\", while it unfolds, and earlier eras in U.S. History.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProviding context for the entire volume, After Life’s Introduction explains how COVID-19 and America's long history of inequality, combined with a corrupt and unconcerned federal government, produced one of the darkest times in our nation’s history. Discussing the rise of the COVID-19 death toll in the United States, eventually exceeding the 1918 flu, the AIDS epidemic, and the Civil War, it ties public health, immigration, white supremacy, elections history, and epidemics together, and provides a short history of the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020 and the beginnings of a Third Reconstruction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter Life documents how Americans have dealt with grief, pain, and loss, both individually and communally, and how we endure and thrive. The title is an affirmation that even in our suspended half-living during lockdowns and quarantines, we are a nation of survivors—with an unprecedented chance to rebuild society in a more equitable way.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors include: Gwendolyn Hall, Heather Ann Thompson, Jacquelyn Dowd Hall, Keith Ellison, Keri Leigh Merritt, Martha Hodes, Mary Kathryn Nagle, Mary L. Dudziak, Monica Muñoz Martinez, Peniel E. Joseph, Philip J. 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Taylor, and, Yohuru Williams.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"section-title\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e \u003cmeta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"content-type\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ca data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-encoded-attr-content=\"dGV4dCUyRmh0bWwlM0IlMjBjaGFyc2V0JTNEdXRmLTg=\" data-encoded-attr-http-equiv=\"Y29udGVudC10eXBl\" data-encoded-tag-value=\"\" data-encoded-tag-name=\"meta\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Breathtakingly refreshing in scope and content, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan color=\"#1a1a1a\" face=\"Arial\" style=\"color: #1a1a1a; font-family: Arial;\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis history the way history should be written. Bringing together an incredibly diverse group of scholars, this book walks us through the worst days of the pandemic but offers us tools to create a better future.\" \u003cb\u003eIbram X. Kendi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-encoded-attr-content=\"dGV4dCUyRmh0bWwlM0IlMjBjaGFyc2V0JTNEdXRmLTg=\" data-encoded-attr-http-equiv=\"Y29udGVudC10eXBl\" data-encoded-tag-value=\"\" data-encoded-tag-name=\"meta\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\"Sometimes, you don’t know what you really need until you read it. In \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e, some of America’s most searching minds sift through the wreckage of the pandemic to provide us precious shards of light, so that the unfathomable loss of life—more than all the Americans who died in the Civil War or in World War II—will not be in vain.\" \u003cb\u003eNancy MacLean, author of \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right’s Stealth Plan for America\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-encoded-attr-content=\"dGV4dCUyRmh0bWwlM0IlMjBjaGFyc2V0JTNEdXRmLTg=\" data-encoded-attr-http-equiv=\"Y29udGVudC10eXBl\" data-encoded-tag-value=\"\" data-encoded-tag-name=\"meta\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\"These essays seek to understand how we got here, document the pandemic’s impact on the lives of regular Americans, and write early drafts of the history of such cataclysmic pandemic-era events as June 2020’s Black Lives Matter rallies and January 2021’s white nationalist uprising at the U.S. Capitol. \u003cspan\u003e\u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e is timely, compassionate, and necessary.\" \u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-encoded-attr-content=\"dGV4dCUyRmh0bWwlM0IlMjBjaGFyc2V0JTNEdXRmLTg=\" data-encoded-attr-http-equiv=\"Y29udGVudC10eXBl\" data-encoded-tag-value=\"\" data-encoded-tag-name=\"meta\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Do nations have souls? Has America lost its soul? Loss and redemption are two deeply human and American ideas; generally we like the second one better. In this amazing collection of perspectives, loss takes its proper place as genuine tragedy. Largely by tapping historians, Barnes, Merritt and Williams have found a gold mine of reflection on the moral, medical, racial, and political condition of the American experiment. These pieces show, darkly but beautifully, how thoughtful people have been hurt, or destroyed, past and present; but they also inspire paths forward not to a promised land, but to a functional, honest society and a new republic.\" \u003cstrong\u003eDavid W. Blight, Yale University, author of Pulitzer-prize winning Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-encoded-attr-content=\"dGV4dCUyRmh0bWwlM0IlMjBjaGFyc2V0JTNEdXRmLTg=\" data-encoded-attr-http-equiv=\"Y29udGVudC10eXBl\" data-encoded-tag-value=\"\" data-encoded-tag-name=\"meta\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e“Rhae Lynn Barnes, Keri Leigh Merritt, and Yohuru Williams have ring-mastered an excellent book of powerful thinkers mourning all the unnecessary losses of the past few years—and pointing, possibly, toward American redemption.\" \u003cb\u003eBrad DeLong, author of \u003ci\u003eSlouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Long 20th Century, 1870-2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\u003ca data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-encoded-attr-content=\"dGV4dCUyRmh0bWwlM0IlMjBjaGFyc2V0JTNEdXRmLTg=\" data-encoded-attr-http-equiv=\"Y29udGVudC10eXBl\" data-encoded-tag-value=\"\" data-encoded-tag-name=\"meta\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"press_clippings\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cul style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cli style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"body\" style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: inline !important;\"\u003e\"How do we make sense of the senseless? This remarkable collection begins to answer that question for the tragedy that was America's politicized response to a lethal pandemic and everything that happened alongside it, including an attempted coup. As daring in scope as it is diverse in voice, \u003ci\u003eAfter Life\u003c\/i\u003e can help us heal with a fuller understanding of the reach of this formative and often disastrous time. The editors tell us that the early 2020s will define our lives --the sooner we understand that time, the sooner we'll understand ourselves. This book is an indispensable guide.\" \u003cb\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAndrew L. Seidel, author of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Founding Myth\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAmerican Crusade\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-sanitized-data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"title\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40640175767645,"sku":"9781642598292","price":34.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/afterlife9781642598292-f_medium-227d591a093bb3d504d677ec39b0a3cf.jpg?v=1666802071"},{"product_id":"combat-trauma-imaginaries-of-war-and-citizenship-in-post-9-11-america","title":"Combat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9\/11 America","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-info\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-teaser\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA rigorous and incisive study of combat trauma and American militarism\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Americans have long been asked to support the troops and care for veterans’ psychological wounds. Who, though, does this injunction serve?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As acclaimed scholar Nadia Abu El-Haj argues here, in the American public’s imagination, the traumatized soldier stands in for destructive wars abroad, with decisive ramifications in the post-9\/11 era. Across the political spectrum the language of soldier trauma is used to discuss American warfare, producing a narrative in which traumatized soldiers are the only acknowledged casualties of war, while those killed by American firepower are largely sidelined and forgotten.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this wide-ranging and fascinating study of the meshing of medicine, science, and politics, Abu El-Haj explores the concept of post-traumatic stress disorder and the history of its medical diagnosis. While antiwar Vietnam War veterans sought to address their psychological pain even as they maintained full awareness of their guilt and responsibility for perpetrating atrocities on the killing fields of Vietnam, by the 1980s, a peculiar convergence of feminist activism against sexual violence and Reagan’s right-wing “war on crime” transformed the idea of PTSD into a condition of victimhood. In so doing, the meaning of Vietnam veterans’ trauma would also shift, moving away from a political space of reckoning with guilt and complicity to one that cast them as blameless victims of a hostile public upon their return home. This is how, in the post-9\/11 era of the Wars on Terror, the injunction to \"support our troops,\" came to both sustain US militarism and also shields American civilians from the reality of wars fought ostensibly in their name.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this compelling and crucial account, Nadia Abu El-Haj challenges us to think anew about the devastations of the post-9\/11 era.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"A bracing, riveting, and vitally important critique of American empire and the ideological mechanisms for normalizing permanent warfare. Few authors have considered the psychosocial and ethical instruments of imperial warfare with such clarity or looked so directly at US culpability in the War on Terror. Every single US taxpayer should read this book.” Joseph Masco, author of The Future of Fallout\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e “In this path-breaking book, Abu El-Haj examines changes in the understanding of combat trauma to demonstrate that psychiatry, operating in tandem with imperial interventions, helps create the political conditions necessary for the reproduction of U.S. militarism. With her finger on the pulse of American political life, she shows how perpetrators become victims, while the primary casualties of American military violence are ignored, dismissed, and forgotten.” Lisa Wedeen, author of Authoritarian Apprehensions\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-reviews js-isReadmoreized\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40689671143517,"sku":"9781788738422","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/Combat_Trauma-4d80707f5bbbfd565007d094bcee44ea.jpg?v=1669135069"},{"product_id":"heroes-mass-murder-and-suicide","title":"Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat is the relationship between capitalism and mental health? In his most unsettling book to date, Franco “Bifo” Berardi embarks on an exhilarating journey through philosophy, psychoanalysis and current events, searching for the social roots of the mental malaise of our age.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Spanning an array of horrors – the Aurora “Joker” killer; Anders Breivik; American school massacres; the suicide epidemic in Korea and Japan; and the recent spate of “austerity” suicides in Europe – \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHeroes\u003c\/i\u003e dares to explore the darkest shadow cast by the contemporary obsession with relentless competition and hyper-connectivity. In a volume that crowns four decades of radical intellectual work, Berardi develops the psychoanalytical insights of his friend Félix Guattari and proposes dystopian irony as a strategy to\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e disentangle ourselves from the deadly embrace of absolute capitalism.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“An exquisite reading of our historical situation.” \u003cb\u003eMichael Robbins, \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Does more than merely scratch the surface...ultimately, Bifo advocates for the limitless power of imagination and irony as the only antidotes in a world urging to be rebuilt from scratch\u003cb\u003e.\" \u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “The sting of this hollow present is felt most acutely in our emotional life, a point driven home by Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi in \u003ci\u003eHeroes\u003c\/i\u003e … a densely packed work of political theory.” \u003cb\u003eMichael Schapira, \u003ci\u003eFull Stop\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Bifo is a master of global activism in the age of depression. His mission is to understand real existing capitalism. Sense the despair of the revolt, enjoy this brilliant ‘labour of the negative’!” \u003cb\u003eGeert Lovink, Founding Director of the Institute of Network Cultures \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“As a diagnostician, Berardi is among the sharpest.” \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"contributors-single--info-bio\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6Ijg5OTUifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/franco-bifo-berardi\" title=\"Franco “Bifo” Berardi\"\u003eFranco “Bifo” Berardi\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e was the founder of the pirate radio station Radio Alice in 1976. One of the most prominent members of the Italian movement Autonomia, Berardi worked closely with the French psychoanalyst Félix Guattari throughout the 1980s. Since the early 1990s, much of his theoretical work has focused on the relationship between psychopathology, information technology and capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHis latest books in English are \u003cem\u003eAnd: Phenomenology of the End\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHeroes: Mass Murder and Suicide\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Uprising: On Poetry and Finance\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40744840953949,"sku":"9781781685785","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/Berardi_Heroes-84f10ecf1266ba6a874291e9cb693568.jpg?v=1669405423"},{"product_id":"power-and-resistance-foucault-deleuze-derrida-althusser","title":"Power and Resistance: Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, Althusser","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eProposes a provocative reinterpretation of poststructuralist theory of power\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe “structuralist” theories of power show that the subject is produced and reproduced by the investment of power: but how then can we then think of the subject’s resistance to power? Based on this fundamental question, Power and Resistance interprets critically the (post-)structuralist theory of power and resistance, i.e., the theories of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, Derrida and Althusser. It analyses also the mechanism of power and the strategies of resistance in the era of neoliberalism. This meticulous analysis that completely renewed the theory of power is already published in French, Japanese, and Korean with success.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Sato has taken on the impressive task of isolating, with analytical precision, the sources of resistance within generally conceived structuralist theory. His thesis offers a masterful and erudite reading of Foucault, Freud, Deleuze, Lacan, Derrida, and Althusser, among others. His explanation of a sample of texts by these authors is quite illuminating. Indeed, Sato succeeds in showing that the theory of the subject, if understood in its relation to a constitutive death drive, carries with it the possibility of resisting the cruelty of the law and providing the basis for a general theory of resistance. He further shows that structuralism should not be seen as a ‘static’ description of social and linguistic structures, and that what is needed is rather a diachronic view of structures that takes into account—without domesticating—the forces of contingency. Starting from the death drive and the contingency of structures, and through an argument that is as erudite as it is enlightening, Sato constructs an explanation of resistance in structuralism (but also for it and its future), thus reviving a debate that has unfortunately been bogged down for some time in clichés and misconceptions.” Judith Butler\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"display: block;\" class=\"edition-single--readmoreized-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Conceptually dense and philosophically masterful, Yoshiyuki Sato's \u003ci\u003ePower and Resistance\u003c\/i\u003e ranges widely across the work of Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida, and Althusser (with Lacan as the 'silent partner' of the text), in pursuit of how the structuralist (non)dialectic of power and resistance comes to be underpinned by this aporetic subject that must be both the product of the social structure, yet also that which furnishes the force of resistance to its reproduction, demonstrating precisely that the \"thought of the subject\" is nothing other than a theory of how the 'outside' relates to the interiority of the structure. Refusing the now-widespread reception of post-68 French thought as having 'done away with' the category of the subject, Sato shows ably and with real mastery of the literature, why we must instead consider these thinkers to be precisely 'theoreticians of the subject'. In our current conceptual conjuncture, this important book has reemerged in English after its French and Japanese editions to provide the thought of a transformation beyond that dialectic of subjection and resistance which merely reinforces the social closure, giving proof positive for the politicality and living force of this set of figures so crucial to twentieth century thought.” Gavin Walker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“Sato's book brilliantly testifies to the acuteness, depth and originality of the readings of French philosophy of the twentieth century which are carried out today by young foreign philosophers, especially Japanese. Through them is brought a new freshness, a re-perspective and re-questioning, and therefore these are the conditions for a relaunch of previously passionate debates which reaches us at the opportune moment. As a participant, along with some others, in these debates in which I - quite wrongly - believed to have travelled all avenues, it is with great pleasure that I welcome this critical return and this relaunch.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzUifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/etienne-balibar\" title=\"Etienne Balibar\"\u003eEtienne Balibar\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"edition-single--book-review\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e“With unusual clarity, Yoshiyuki Sato reconstructs the relations of appropriation, exclusion and interaction that allow us to speak of a structuralist moment defined by the conjunction of Foucault, Deleuze, Derrida and Althusser. He explores the encounters that took place around the notion of power and, with it, the forms of its internalization: the subject, subjection and subjectivity. Sato shows us the multiple dialogues that took place between these very different thinkers, not in spite of their divergent lexicons, but because of them, and how the questions surrounding power led to an examination of the concept of resistance and its functions in fields as diverse as physics, biology, psychoanalysis and politics. Sato's rigor, his refusal to blur the distinctions between the philosophers in question and his insistence on staying close to their actual texts, sets this study apart from the common interpretations of structuralism and the structuralist moment. It provides a new foundation for the study of French philosophy of the sixties and seventies.” Warren Montag\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"byline\"\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"byline\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eYoshiyuki Sato\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor at the University of Tsukuba. His recent publications are \u003cem\u003ePhilosophy of Abandoning Nuclear Power\u003c\/em\u003e (in Japanese, co-authored with Takumi Taguchi) and \u003cem\u003eThree Revolutions\u003c\/em\u003e (in Japanese, co-authored with Jun Fujita Hirose).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40775375618141,"sku":"9781839763519","price":53.93,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/products\/9781839763519-c5d1301ab5e5d541d4fb79c4e2713d09.jpg?v=1671472502"},{"product_id":"sana-sana-latinx-pain-and-radical-visions-for-healing-and-justice","title":"Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice","description":"\u003cem\u003eSana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e is a witness to the multiple wounds etched into the landscape of Latinx experience and a testimonial to community efforts to heal them. A multi-genre anthology rooted in the deep desire to not only acknowledge and name the various forms of pain and trauma Latinx people experience regularly, but to do so in the service of imagining new futures and ways of being that prioritize healing and justice not just for Latinx people, but for Queer BIPOC communities and, ultimately, for all people. \n\u003cp\u003eThe book’s vision and understanding of Latinidad is broad and expansive. It centers Black, Indigenous, Queer, Trans, and Feminist Latinidades. By advancing an unapologetically radical antiracist, anticapitalist, feminist, and queer politic \u003cem\u003eSana Sana\u003c\/em\u003e holds creative and defiant space for identifying economic, social, political, emotional, and spiritual strategies to forge individual and collective healing and justice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\"Praise forever to the warrior healers who transform the world by opening their hearts. This anthology models the self-compassion that we need to live as our complex evolving selves. These writers are now my teachers forever. May we understand our healing as creation, reclamation, and multi-generational love. This book is here to bless you in all directions.\" \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlexis Pauline Gumbs\u003c\/strong\u003e, PhD, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUndrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDub: Finding Ceremony\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“With Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice\u003c\/em\u003e, editors David Luis Glisch-Sanchez and Nic Rodriguez Villafane have ushered forth a timely, biting anthology of Latinx perspectives on contemporary social and historical culture; as the social and the historical are framed by settler colonialism, capitalism, the violence of individual and collective trauma, antihuman phobias and other structures of dominance. The question raised here, grounded in Latinx, feminist and queer thought, in the idea that ‘healing requires witness,’ is, simply put, how can those of us who have been harmed intergenerationally and across worlds, across time, create and define what we mean by reparation(s). \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e arrives at a critical moment in twenty-first century abolitionist practice.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlexis De Veaux\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJesusDevil: The Parables\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e“Sana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e is a transformative anthology that mixes raw emotions, trauma, self-awareness, politics, spirituality, and sometimes even humor. Shared narratives of pain and collective transformation are expressed through poetry, storytelling, and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003etestimonios\u003c\/em\u003e, envisioning a different kind of world. It is a manual for Latinx hope.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLawrence La Fountain-Stokes\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTranslocas: The Politics of Puerto Rican Drag and Trans Performance\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“First you have to name it. Say it. Unearth it. Then stomp it. And scream. Twirl it. Open to the Sky and howl it. Cry. Step into the Circle. It’s ritual. Sacred Openings that beckon us to dance and laugh and Love and feel and heal anyway. This is what \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana \u003c\/em\u003egives us. Mirrors. Pathways. Shimmering Light. All of this and so much more. Now is the perfect time to read Sana. And Receive.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSharon Bridgforth, \u003c\/strong\u003ewriter, performing artist, and author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebull-jean \u0026amp; dem\/dey back\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"\" style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e“Without apology, the voices in this anthology reveal the complexities of living with pain while simultaneously pursuing healing and justice. Whether exploring the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, or class, these works remind us that we are never alone in our pain and do not have to be alone in our healing. These stories are rooted in the power of community, connection—and ultimately love. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana\u003c\/em\u003e demonstrates that we all have healing tools at our disposal whether that be music, prayer, Vicks VapoRub, sewing, or simply taking shots with a friend over Facetime. The poems and essays in this collection define the reclamation of our power to heal ourselves and our communities as holy work. This work is necessary, bold, unflinching, and a timely addition to contemporary Latinx literature.” \u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eElisabet Velasquez\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhen We Make It:\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA Nuyorican Novel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDavid Luis Glisch-Sánchez\u003c\/strong\u003e (Editor) is a queer feminist antiracist healer, and is the founder of Soul Support Life Coaching, an individual and organizational coaching practice rooted in the queer Black and Latinx feminist tradition. They are also an interdisciplinary sociologist working in the areas of emotion, race, genders, and sexualities. They currently teach in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo (SUNY).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNic Rodriguez-Villafañe\u003c\/strong\u003e (Editor) is a non-binary transmasculine Boricua poet, writer, and DJ. They are currently an adjunct professor of American Studies and Writing Arts at Jefferson University in Philadelphia. They have been an organizer for over 15 years and are a researcher with the Philadelphia Participatory Research Collective (PPRC). Their poems have been described as an \"eclectic blend of spanglish hip hop rhythms and Puerto Rican jabería, born out of the southern swamps of Florida.\" Their writing has been featured in The Gordian Review, Philly Inquirer and N.A.S.W Journal. They are a 2012 Leeway Foundation Arts \u0026amp; Change grant recipient and hold an MFA in Creative Writing from Rutgers Newark. Like most writers they have three jobs to pay bills and six side hustles to stay busy but their main love is always the poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eChristian A. Bracho\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Associate Professor of Teacher Education at the University of La Verne, and previously worked as a high school teacher and teacher trainer. His passions are teaching, learning, traveling, writing, exploring, and laughing. He dedicates his essay to his queridos papás, Leonor Gonzalez Bracho and Marco Antonio Bracho.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eClaude M Bonazzo-Romaguera \u003c\/strong\u003ereceived his B.S. in Applied Sociology at Southwest Texas State University in 2001 and his M.A. in Sociology at Texas State University in 2004. He completed his Ph.D. in Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin in 2015. Claude currently teaches as a senior lecturer at Texas State University and as an adjunct associate professor at Austin Community College. Most recently they were appointed Director of  the Latina\/o\/x Studies Minor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAmaris Castillo\u003c\/strong\u003e is a journalist, writer, and the creator of Bodega Stories, a series featuring real stories from the corner store. Her writing has appeared in La Galería Magazine, Spanglish Voces and PALABRITAS. Her short story, “El Don,” was shortlisted for the 2022 Elizabeth Nunez Caribbean-American Writers’ Prize by the Brooklyn Caribbean Literary Festival. Amaris lives in Florida with her family. You can read her stories from the colmado at bodegastories.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDr. Marcela Rodriguez-Campo\u003c\/strong\u003e is an interdisciplinary immigration and education community scholar. She is a formerly undocumented Colombian immigrant and first-generation college graduate. Her scholarship examines the relationship between Latinx immigrant experiences with family separation and their educational trajectories. Her work seeks to develop supportive school climates for students from historically marginalized communities. Her writings have been featured in Childhood Geographies, Latinx Talk, Latino Book Review, and Huizache. Marcela is a roller skater, gardener, and poet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEdyka Chilomé\u003c\/strong\u003e is a queer child of migrant activists from the occupied lands of the Zacateco (Mexico) and Lenca (El Salvador) people. She was raised in migrant justice movements grounded in the tradition of spiritual activism. You can find her in the u.s. and global South sitting at the feet of elders, recovering blood memories, and making way for a new world. Learn more about her work at Edykachilome.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaniel Shank Cruz\u003c\/strong\u003e (he\/they) is a queer disabled boricua who grew up in New York City and Lancaster, Pennsylvania. He has an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Hunter College, CUNY. Cruz is the author of Queering Mennonite Literature: Archives, Activism, and the Search for Community (Penn State University Press, 2019). Their writing has also appeared in venues such as Crítica Hispánica, Modern Haiku, the New York Times, Your Impossible Voice, and numerous essay collections.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSinai Cota\u003c\/strong\u003e is the defiant daughter of Mexican immigrants, a first-generation college student and a Chicana poet who grew up in Barrio Logan (San Diego, CA). She has roots extending into Tijuana, Mexico where her family currently resides. Sinai is also author of: \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePink Poems Tan Thoughts\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePan Dulce for the Latinx Soul\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMujeres in Movement\u003c\/em\u003e- a series of colorful poems and bilingual short stories that promote healing and self-love through storytelling. Sinai is also an educator and doctoral student at UC San Diego, and plans to include and celebrate underrepresented student voices in higher education through her research. You can follow Sinai on Instagram @PinkChicanaPoet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLysz Flo\u003c\/strong\u003e is an AfroCaribbean Latine, polyglot, spoken word artist, indie author, member of The Estuary Collective, Creatively Exposed podcast host, Voodoonauts Summer 2020 Fellow and Obsidian Black Listening 2022 Fellow. She released her poetry novel Soliloquy of an Ice Queen, March 2020. Online Crystal and Spiritual wellness shop owner at Astrolyszics.com\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eKate Foster\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, writer, and proud Brooklyn native. She is of Puerto Rican and Salvadorian descent. Her work has been published in Region(es) Central magazine Vol. II 2020 issue. As well as in Harvard Palabritas Spring 2020 issue. Kate's poems explore themes of spirituality, self-discovery, local and international social issues and navigates through the waters of human emotion. Her latest work can be found in the forthcoming Alebrijes Review anthology, titled VOZ. She is also currently working on her debut collection of poetry and prose.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDr. Cynthia Estremera Gauthier\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, educator, humanist, expert facilitator, and equity practitioner. She holds a B.A. and a M.A. from Penn State University and Villanova University both in English and a PhD.in English and Africana Studies from Lehigh University. Cynthia has authored pieces published in blogs, journals, and edited collections. Cynthia leads regional and national racial equity and community engagement work and remains a lifelong advocate for strategies of self-care to combat white supremacist systems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJennifer Hernandez Lankford\u003c\/strong\u003e is an Alpha Latina seeking to spread radical self-love with her writing. After years of hiding from her true self she has chosen a journey to embrace the soul work to embody her inner Diosa. Jennifer’s uses her writing as a way to heal and influence other young BIPOC to do the same. As she transitions into writing more and worrying less, you can follow her on instagram @jennthewriter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDafne Faviola Luna\u003c\/strong\u003e is a fat brown queer from California. She is the eldest of a small Mexican-American border dwelling migrant farm worker family. After years of therapy, she has a lovely relationship with her a mom and brother rooted in body positivity and queer allyship. Her piece was written in 2017 and now in 2022 she’s made a career change and lives in Virginia with her dogs Molly and Sebastian. She’s a Capricorn, video gamer, and nerd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEsperanza Luz\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in the Chihuahuan Desert and raised by a small pack of undocumented coyotes. After living in Massachusetts, Brazil, Peru, and Colorado, she returned to southern New Mexico to reconnect to the place she calls home. Today, Esperanza grows flowers and vegetables on borrowed land, plays capoeira, and continues to write, sew and heal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAja Y. Martinez\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of English at University of North Texas. Her scholarship, published nationally and internationally, makes a compelling case for counterstory as methodology through the well-established framework of critical race theory (CRT). She is the author of the award-winning book \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCounterstory: The Rhetoric and Writing of Critical Race Theory.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAna Miramontes\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in Chihuahua, Mexico. She holds a double BA in Theatre Performance and Media Advertising from The University of Texas at El Paso and is currently pursuing an MFA in Acting from the University of Arkansas. She has participated in the New Play Lab at the William Inge Festival, the Arkansas New Play Festival at TheaterSquared, and the Process Series in North Carolina. Actors Equity Association (EMC). https:\/\/www.anamiramontes.com\/.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDaisy Muñoz\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Mexican writer and artist raised in Hawthorne, on the outskirts of the Greater Los Angeles Area. The eldest daughter of immigrant parents, she frequently addresses race, gender, mental health, and cultural identity in the U.S through her writing. Daisy graduated from UC Davis with B.A degree in History and Spanish. Her work has been featured in Raising Mothers and Hispanicdotes. She currently resides in San Francisco.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGabriella Navas\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Puerto Rican writer hailing from Jersey City, NJ. Her work has previously appeared or is forthcoming in [PANK], GASHER, and Storm Cellar. Gabriella is currently pursuing her MFA in Fiction at The Ohio State University. She is easily distracted, frequently smitten, and always willing to talk about the healing powers of Chavela Vargas’s discography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYulissa Emilia Nunez Severino\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Dominican-American high school English teacher and amateur writer. She believes everyone has a story to share and enjoys helping people strengthen their writer’s voice to do so. Yulissa also enjoys reading and holds a bachelor's degree in English from the College of the Holy Cross and a master's degree from the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English. She dreams of living and working in the Dominican Republic with her loving cat, Luna.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSusana Victoria Parras\u003c\/strong\u003e (she\/her\/hers) is the daughter of Guatemalan immigrants, mother, friend, partner and a mental health therapist of color committed to generating healing, justice and care through non-carceral practices. Before she found ethnic studies, social justice, abolition and transformative justice she found safety, hope and guidance in imperfect, spacious and loving spaces and relationships. She currently provides anti-carceral mental health therapy through her practice Heal Together, building and growing Heal Together's Anti Carceral Care Collective and organizes with CAT 911 (Community Alternatives To\/Community Action Teams 911) in South Central Los Angeles where she also lives, loves, and works. Susana dedicates her life to healing as a central component for justice, resistance, and activism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBiany Pérez\u003c\/strong\u003e, (she\/they) is a Bronx-born Queer Black Dominican holistic psychotherapist, intuitive coach, brujx, writer, and proud parent of three. Biany works with high achievers and survivors, both individually and in groups, guiding them on their journey to overcome self-doubt, increase self-awareness, and reconnect to their inner wisdom so that they can thrive in love and life. Check them out at www.bianyperez.com.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSofia Quintero\u003c\/strong\u003e is a self-proclaimed Ivy League homegirl, GenX Afro-Latina author, screenwriter and hypnotherapist. To date she has published seven books including the critically acclaimed YA novels EFRAIN’S SECRET and SHOW AND PROVE (Knopf Books for Young Readers.) Her latest novel YA novel is inspired by #SayHerName will be published in 2024.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRaquel Reichard\u003c\/strong\u003e (she\/her\/ella) is a journalist and editor. Currently the Deputy Director of Somos, Refinery29's channel by and for Latines, her work has been published in The New York Times, Cosmopolitan, Teen Vogue, Vibe, and more. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism and political science from the University of Central Florida and a master's degree in Latine media studies from New York University. She currently lives in Puerto Rico's 79th municipality, Orlando, Fla.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHector Luis Rivera\u003c\/strong\u003e has been performing poetry since 1990, inspired by the intersectional poetry, music, and political movements of the 1970s in NYC, where he grew up. You can hear Hector’s poetry and song in the first two Welfare Poets’ albums, Project Blues (2000) and Rhymes for Treason (2005), and in Bomba con Buya’s album “Southern Sessions”(2019). Hector is the founder of Peace Inside Out, personal and community transformation through Arts, Restoration, Community, and Health.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFrankie A. Soto\u003c\/strong\u003e is a 2x winner of the Multicultural Poet of the year award from the National Spoken Word Poetry Awards in Chicago. The New York Times called his Hispanic Heritage Month performance an absolute force. He’s been featured on ABC news and has traveled all across the country featuring at Universities, Colleges \u0026amp; high schools. His HIV poem Guessing Game was nominated \u0026amp; selected for A3C Atlanta Festival. His manuscript 'Petrichor' was a semi-finalist for the 2021 Hudson Prize with Black Lawrence Press \u0026amp; was a finalist for the 2022 Sexton Prize with Black Spring Press in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGisselle Yepes\u003c\/strong\u003e is a Puerto Rican and Colombian storyteller from the Bronx. Currently, they are an MFA candidate in poetry at Indiana University. Gisselle is a Letras Boricuas 2022 Fellowship Recipient and a 2022 Tin House Scholar. Their nonfiction piece “On Her Waters Summoning Us to Drown” won December magazine’s 2022 Curt Johnson Prose Award in Creative Nonfiction. They are an alum of Tin House Summer Workshop, Juniper Summer Writing Institute, and Anaphora Writing Residency.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eQueridx:  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThank you for witnessing. As a sacred part of healing, witnessing allows us to see ourselves as whole and healthy–an act of pure rebellion in a world so titillated by our constant subjugation and conquest. We hope that you will find that this anthology listens as well as it poses questions and strives for answers, and just when we seem to find the rhythm of peace, something else arises. As we know, healing is not linear. Each voice in this anthology uses the pages to \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edesahogar, \u003c\/em\u003ea direct translation says to vent, but the literal meaning is to undrown. Here in this anthology, you will find writers who release that which keeps their throats on fire. Letting go of secrets and burdens, unraveling our \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epapelitos guardados.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn1\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn1\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e May we no longer drown from the memories of pain left unsaid. As many have experienced trauma, our instinct is to silence ourselves, to swallow our pain. We know this is one way how generational legacies of trauma continue to exist. What if the one way to interrupt this legacy of pain, is to begin with the honest sharing of our stories?  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe idea for \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSana, Sana \u003c\/em\u003ewas birthed from the experiences that David (co-editor) had in interviewing queer and trans Latinxs about their encounters with social harm and learning the narratives they created and responded to around pain, trauma, and healing. In the dozens of hours of recorded conversations, it was clear: Latinx folx not only had a lot to say about pain and healing, but each, in their own way, \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eyearned \u003c\/em\u003eto talk about, share, and express these hard truths.  Although the method was collaborative, this initial project was singularly driven and conceived of by David. All the while the collective need that was expressed repeatedly in the process was simply that Latinx folx needed their own space where a multitude of voices, testimonios, and knowledges could be expressed, heard, and engaged. An anthology seemed like the most appropriate vehicle to hold and nurture this need. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eFrom the beginning, it was apparent that this effort required more than one pair of guiding hands:  enter Nic (coeditor). Nic’s experience as an organizer, gifts as a poet, calling as a healer, and depth as an intellectual made them an ideal and desired co-conspirator and collaborator.  Unbeknownst to David at the time, Nic was wrestling with some of the very same questions that would become the core of this anthology. It would seem the Universe had plans for us all along.  We share the genesis of this project, queridx reader, to articulate and underscore the fact that this anthology is more than just a book filled with pages of writing. Rather, it is best understood as ritual, ceremony, and technology, an invitation to enter your individual and our collective wounds communally and not alone. Through our writing and your reading, and the multitude of exchanges that undoubtedly will transpire, we catalyze our healing and call forth visions of and roadmaps for justice. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe project was introduced to the wider public via social media in January 2021, and within hours, hundreds of people had begun to share the call for submissions. During a time when collectively so many of us were in isolation (almost a year into the COVID-19 pandemic) and hungry for connection, the call for this anthology served as a bridge for folks to share stories and histories, parts of their pain and healing, as a process of collective witness. In this age we find ourselves. So many are searching to find a true set of customs that belong rightfully to self. In this time of feeling lost in the braided storylines of conqueror and conquered, it might just be that participating together in the ritual of storytelling is the most fundamental act of living. In reclaiming this birthright, we take back our humanity. It is about saying and doing what we need\/want to imagine and heal. Each voice in this anthology offers a space to talk and feel pain, while also offering the hope of what it means to imagine, heal, and make promises to a more just world. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eWe take as our title, the beginning words of the popular Latinx, Caribbean, and Latin American children’s folk saying “Sana, sana colita de rana ponte buena para mañana…,” \u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn2\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftn2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e a common refrain given to children when they get hurt. In fact, the opening words “Sana, sana” provide a calm but firm command to heal. The saying operates as an emotional and spiritual salve to reassure the hurt child that despite whatever pain they might be feeling and experiencing in that moment, healing is a technology and process that is open and available to them. In this same way, it is our intention that the anthology be a reminder to all people that healing is not a commodity for the few, but a resource for the many, and that justice is just another name for healing the collective body. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003eThe anthology is divided into three general themes. It can be read from beginning to end, or as individual sections. As a reader you have the freedom to choose which section feels most aligned with your own present journey. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref1\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref1\"\u003e[1]\u003c\/a\u003e We draw on the idea of \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epapelitos guardados \u003c\/em\u003eas presented by The Latina Feminist Group in \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTelling to Live: Latina Feminist Testimonios \u003c\/em\u003e(Duke University Press, 2001). They write, “\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePapelitos guardados \u003c\/em\u003eevokes a process by which we contemplate thoughts and feelings, often in isolation and through difficult times. We keep them in our memory, write them down, and store them in safe places waiting for the appropriate moment when we can return to them for review and analysis, or speak out and share them with others” (p. 1).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\" data-mce-style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003ca data-mce-fragment=\"1\" title=\"\" href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref2\" data-mce-href=\"applewebdata:\/\/6888E40A-536F-426F-85FF-0C1C30D10126#_ftnref2\"\u003e[2]\u003c\/a\u003e The folk saying as written here is how it was communicated within David’s Cubanx familia. We recognize that each region, country, island, and family might have slight variations, but all begin with the  words “Sana, sana culito de rana…” whose intent and purpose is similar, if not identical.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41053399122013,"sku":"9781942173786","price":28.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173786_FC.jpg?v=1695851303"},{"product_id":"phenomenologie-queer-orientations-objets-et-autres","title":"Phénoménologie queer: Orientations, objets et autres","description":"\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"main__presentation-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"main__presentation-book\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEn se concentrant sur l’aspect « orientation » de l’« orientation sexuelle », Sara Ahmed examine ce que signifie pour les corps le fait d’être situés dans l’espace et le temps. Les corps prennent forme lorsqu’ils se déplacent dans le monde en se dirigeant vers ou loin des objets et des autres. Être « orienté » signifie se sentir chez soi, savoir où l’on se trouve, ou avoir certains objets à portée de main. Les orientations affectent ce qui est proche du corps ou ce qui peut être atteint. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSelon Sara Ahmed, une phénoménologie queer révèle comment les relations sociales sont organisées dans l’espace, comment la queeresse perturbe et réordonne ces relations en ne suivant pas les chemins acceptés, et comment une politique de désorientation met à portée de main d’autres objets, ceux qui pourraient, à première vue, sembler dérangeants. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDans cet ouvrage fondateur de la réflexion sur le genre écrit en 2006, Sara Ahmed propose qu’une phénoménologie queer puisse étudier non seulement comment le concept d’orientation est informé par la phénoménologie, mais aussi l’orientation de la phénoménologie elle-même. En développant un modèle queer d’orientation, elle combine des lectures de textes phénoménologiques – de Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty et Fanon – avec des idées tirées des études queer, de la théorie féministe, de la théorie critique des races, du marxisme et de la psychanalyse. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGrâce à Sara Ahmed, la phénoménologie queer a orienté la théorie queer dans de nouvelles directions audacieuses qui éclosent aujourd’hui. Née en 1969,\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"section__separator\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\" class=\"main__presentation-author\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSara Ahmed \u003c\/b\u003eest une écrivaine féministe et chercheuse indépendante de nationalité britannico-australienne. Elle travaille à l’intersection des études féministes, queer et raciales, notamment sur la façon dont le pouvoir est assuré et remis en question dans la vie quotidienne et les institutions. Elle a démissionné en 2016 de l’université Goldsmiths de Londres, où elle enseignait les études raciales et culturelles, pour protester contre l’inaction de l’administration vis-à-vis du harcèlement sexuel. Elle a publié de nombreux ouvrages, dont \u003c\/em\u003eLiving a Feminist Life\u003cem\u003e (2017), également à paraître aux Éditions de la rue Dorion.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecension\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003ch4\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecension dans le magazine \u003cem\u003eFugues \u003c\/em\u003epar Benoit Migneault\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"press-article__content\" style=\"max-height: 390px;\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOuvrage marquant de Sara Ahmed, initialement publié en langue anglaise en 2006, Phénoménologie queer reçoit pour la toute première fois les honneurs d’une traduction française. La phénoménologie se définit comme l’observation et l’étude des faits de l’expérience humaine en faisant abstraction de tout jugement de valeur.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eL’analyse de la réalité se veut donc purement objective, en s’affranchissant de tout concept philosophique ou dictat social, et vise à déterminer pourquoi l’espace est tel qu’il est et comment il affecte les personnes qui y évoluent. L’ouvrage se divise en trois sections : la première se penche sur le concept même de phénoménologie, la seconde applique l’analyse à la question féminine queer et la troisième l’oriente vers la question raciale.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eL’autrice révèle ainsi comment notre façon de vivre et d’entrer en relation les un.e.s avec les autres n’est pas le fruit d’une démarche désincarnée, mais s’est au contraire façonnée au fil du temps, tant au regard de notre expérience personnelle que de celle des générations précédentes, par la répétition de certains gestes et structures sociales. En ce sens, la réalité queer vient perturber et réordonner cette perception de la réalité, permettant ainsi de lui jeter un regard neuf. L’autrice s’efforce de dégager de nouvelles avenues qu’il est possible d’emprunter afin de s’écarter des chemins trop fréquentés, de sortir de la ligne droite et de façonner une nouvelle réalité. Il ne faut pas se leurrer, Phénoménologie queer s’adresse à un public averti puisque la matière est à la fois complexe et dense. On ne peut par ailleurs que saluer la prouesse de la traduction de maitre réalisée par Laurence Brottier.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Éditions de la rue Dorion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41053400793181,"sku":"9782924834367","price":31.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/phenomenologie-queer-couvert-lowres.webp?v=1698951733"},{"product_id":"miss-major-speaks-conversations-with-a-black-trans-revolutionary","title":"Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary","description":"\u003cp\u003eMiss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV\/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America’s first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van. Miss Major Speaks is both document of her brilliant life–told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of ‘representation,’ the politics of 'self-care,' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle. Miss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"To sit at Miss Major Griffin-Gracy’s feet is a gift. I’ve experienced it firsthand, with her fixed, embracing gaze, her mischievous, generous laugh, and her sharp tongue lashing unfiltered truth without the ache to impress or perform.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eJanet Mock\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eOut Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"The extraordinary insights in this book, always punctuated by Miss Major's razor-sharp wit, allow us to understand how liberation movements for trans, queer and other routinely marginalized people can hold the most emancipatory potential for all.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eAngela Davis, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE5NzEyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/freedom-is-a-constant-struggle-ferguson-palestine-and-the-foundations-of-a-movement\" title=\"Freedom Is a Constant Struggle\"\u003eFreedom Is a Constant Struggle\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"Miss Major has shaped the world in countless ways from Stonewall to today by being her unruly, fabulous self, leading communities, making time, and caring for and keeping her girls going. Lucky us to live in a moment where she is radiantly shining her light unto us all through this book!\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eTourmaline, artist, writer, and filmmaker\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"Though she has faced many struggles in her eight decades on Earth, Major's resilience, optimism, and often bawdy humor shine through...a powerful and enlightening read.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003ePax Ahimsa Gethen\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eTrans Writes \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"[Miss Major's] most vital and resonant message is around self-hood: a continual creation and a journey to be enjoyed.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eDinyar Godrej\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eNew Internationalist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003ccite\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003eWhen a figure such as Major speaks, you cannot help but eat each and every single word up.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eTara Okeke\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eThe Skinny \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"Miss Major is an icon of Black trans womanhood.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjM0MTY5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/mckenzie-wark\" title=\"McKenzie Wark\"\u003eMcKenzie Wark\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eLIBER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"Miss Major has been a crucial source of hope and support to many trans people ... In some ways, this book is a new version of the community building and emotional support that is Miss Major's life's work.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eVic Parsons\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eHuck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"Major has played the role of lifeline and saviour to countless trans daughters ... [\u003ci\u003eMiss Major Speaks\u003c\/i\u003e] tracks her frontline learnings from community work, sex work, and her experiences of incarceration both in prison and in mental health facilities.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eAmelia Abraham\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eDazed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"Miss Major speaks with such profound wisdom, highlighting the realities for Black trans women and how much the mainstream LGTBQ+ movement has left the most vulnerable behind…If there is a book to read and someone to listen and learn from, it's Miss Major.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eElliot Page\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eOprah Daily\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Miss Major Speaks\u003c\/i\u003e is part biography, part interview and is full of Miss Major spitting truths and laying it down like it is....Change-making seems possible and even easy after reading Miss Major's words.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eDr. Syrus Marcus Ware\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eXtra Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"c-section-title c-section-title--large c-section-title--accent\"\u003e\"Major's personality shines through unfiltered ... Her perspective has never been more pertinent.\" \u003ccite\u003e\u003cspan class=\"c-product-reviews__author\"\u003eFelix Moore\u003c\/span\u003e,  \u003ci\u003eopenDemocracy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/cite\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41122512830557,"sku":"9781839763342","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/getimage_77274691-e483-4640-9332-d2bcfada4281.jpg?v=1691082880"},{"product_id":"dirty-river-a-queer-femme-of-color-dreaming-her-way-home","title":"Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-c08b171081fcd8b12f0f59b1253133ee\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA transformative memoir by a queer disabled person of colour and abuse survivor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction finalist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. They ended up in Toronto, where they were welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet they remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate, riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it is an intensely personal road map and an intersectional, tragicomic tale that reveals how a disabled queer woman of colour and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the not-so-distant past and, as the subtitle suggests, \"dreams their way home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The LGBTIQ community should lift its ears to receive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Their vision stands to rearrange the ways we approach community, creating art, and loving. Every time I've heard them read, I've come away new.\" Tara Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block-separator\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-6ef729a752be6e7ac4693048bb6eff40\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-reviews\"\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e will give you back the life you stole and saved: your own. In the tradition of June Jordan's \u003ci\u003eSoldier\u003c\/i\u003e, Audre Lorde's \u003ci\u003eZami\u003c\/i\u003e, Asha Bandele's \u003ci\u003eSomething Like Beautiful\u003c\/i\u003e, and Staceyann Chin's \u003ci\u003eThe Other Side of Paradise\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDirty River\u003c\/i\u003e is a memoir that will make you itch all over while you read it and emerge having shed another layer of internalized doubt. You are brave enough to face this honest, transformative work, because you are brave enough to be who you are.\" Alexis Pauline Gumbs, co-editor of \u003ci\u003eRevolutionary Mothering\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e is a biracial-abuse-survivor-queer-femme-working-class-immigrant-anarchist-punk bomb that explodes the myth of LGBT sameness.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e goes above and beyond being a story of survival; it is a manifesto for those of us who have also been walking, scantily clad, down dark alleys for most of our lives.\" \u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"Dirty River\u003c\/i\u003e is a candid and comic view from the tattooed underbelly of contemporary life. There is no syrup in this survivor's tale, yet the sun does shine through these shadows, making you cheer for the hero(ine) in her odyssey to know her true self.\" Jewelle Gomez, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gilda Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In rapid fire, intensely felt and perfectly controlled prose, the activist\/poet\/survivor evokes the terrors and pleasures of life in the pockets of counter culture, gender rebellion and anti-racist groups she found in Toronto and details her painful process of reflection and eventual self acceptance. The authorial voice is propulsive, eloquent and absolutely persuasive. Piepzna-Samarasinha is particularly good at conveying what it is like to live in poverty and political enthusiasm in a marginalized subculture and generously invites the reader to participate in that experience.\" \u003ci\u003eVancouver Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha's newest book is the powerful, badass, and important story of a young queer femme of color's coming of age on her own terms. Intersectional and glittering and raw, this book has bite -- it's a kind of primal yell for all us survivors of abuse, as we pull together and howl and love and live.\" Randa Jarrar, author of \u003ci\u003eA Map of Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Fierce and seductive. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha is the kind of writer who reminds us with every turn of phrase and every turn of the page that art exorcises trauma, running can be good medicine, and the freedom to be our very own freaks is the happiest ending we might ever hope for.\" Ariel Gore, author of \u003ci\u003eThe End of Eve\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAtlas of the Human Heart\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this transformative memoir, Piepzna-Samarasinha details being a queer, disabled woman of color coming of age among young queer punks in Toronto, running from the abuse of her past. This tragicomic tale is filled with what activists now call intersectionality, but in terms of literature, it's raw and passionate and wrenching -- and it belongs on shelves next to Audre Lorde's \u003ci\u003eZami\u003c\/i\u003e or the pioneering \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back.\" \u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A brilliant book . .. Piepzna-Samarasinha challenges traditional narratives around gender, domesticity, and motherhood with a more specific focus on her journey to separate from her abusive mother and give birth to herself as a mixed brown, working class, disabled femme.\" \u003ci\u003eBitch Media\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"If you've been looking for more stories about badass queer women of color, get this book yesterday. No really -- go back in time and get it so you can already be reading it right now. (Okay, maybe just pick it up ASAP. ) Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha tells the tale of running away to Canada with what she could stuff into two backpacks and discovering queer anarchopunk while grappling with her past. She's relatable, funny, and brave; we need more of these stories.\" \u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003c\/section\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141339291741,"sku":"9781551526003","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/91kP9qTvK4L.jpg?v=1694109290"},{"product_id":"first-spring-grass-fire","title":"First Spring Grass Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe trials of growing up queer in a strict pentecostal family, written by transgender Canadian musician Rae Spoon.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-c08b171081fcd8b12f0f59b1253133ee\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLambda Literary Award Finalist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTransgender indie electronica singer-songwriter Rae Spoon has six albums to their credit, including 2012's \u003ci\u003eI Can't Keep All of Our Secrets\u003c\/i\u003e. This first book by Rae (who uses \"they\" as a pronoun) is a candid, powerful story about a young person growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal family in Alberta.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrator attends church events and Billy Graham rallies faithfully with their family before discovering the music that becomes their salvation and means of escape. As their father's schizophrenia causes their parents' marriage to unravel, the narrator finds solace and safety in the company of their siblings, in their nascent feelings for a girl at school, and in their growing awareness that they are not the person their parents think they are. With a heart as big as the prairie sky, this is a quietly devastating, heart-wrenching coming-of-age book about escaping dogma, surviving abuse, finding love, and risking everything for acceptance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI would stare at the slivers of the Rocky Mountains that I could see from my bunk bed and imagine crawling over them like they were tiny pebbles to the ocean. 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And what a good thing too - if anyone needs to read this, ultimately deeply hopeful book, it is queer youth and their allies.\"\u003ci\u003e Diva Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e (UK)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rae Spoon is definitely more than a songwriter to swoon for; I predict that \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e will be a curative for all the heartbroken kids in small towns trying to fight for their right to be who they are. This collection of tender-hearted coming-of-age stories is an impressive literary gem.\" Zoe Whittall, author of \u003ci\u003eHolding Still for as Long as Possible\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The thing about Rae Spoon's storytelling style is that it sneaks up on you: powerful and plain-spoken, but sly and subtle as well. It wasn't until the end of many of Spoon's sentences that I realized I had justbeen emotionally stomach-punched, and from the side, too. This book is brave and blasphemous,and shines just like Rae Spoon's songwriting does: beautiful, haunting words delivered by a truly one-of-a-kind voice.\" Ivan E. Coyote, author of \u003ci\u003eMissed Her\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The writing itself is confident: spare but not cryptic, straightfoward but not blunt. There is none of the self-consciousness of a first-time author; \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e is an effortless read.\" \u003ci\u003eAlberta Views\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Complete with themes of music and religion, First Spring Grass Fire is an honest, hopeful coming-of-age novel.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"First Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e will be meaningful to anyone who has struggled to fit in - and who hasn't? By telling these stories - of being different, queer, raised in a rigid belief system you didn't choose, trying to be yourself within circumstances you can't control - Rae Spoon illustrates the triumph in reclaiming and controlling your own identity. This moving collection is a story of what we do to find a place, physical or intangible, that we can call home.\" \u003ci\u003eNational Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"For anyone who has felt as though a silent revolution was burning inside of them, \u003ci\u003eFirst Spring Grass Fire\u003c\/i\u003e will stoke those flames and, as Spoon so romantically puts it, leave behind a lush green landscape of refreshed vitality.\" \u003ci\u003eBeatroute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The prose is concise without ornamentation; emotionally moving because of its raw honesty. The book holds together because it is an amalgamation of all the little things in life which hurt us, binds us, and propel us to move forward. While issues of gender and sexuality certainly underline the majority of the narrator's existential despair, the book works because it pushes the reader to understand the humanity of the narrator rather than simply a trans or lesbian narrative. It demonstrates the commonality of grief, loss, fear, pain, love, and longing.\" \u003ci\u003eLambda Literary\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Transgender indie musician Rae Spoon has six albums under the belt, but this raw and beautifully lyrical new memoir-meets-novel about growing up queer in a strict Pentecostal famly with a schizophrenic father is the best contribution yet.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An intensely personal, darkly funny, and stunningly honest book, First Spring teeters on the border between fiction and memoir, oscillating between a 'real' past and an alternative history that might have been.\" \u003ci\u003eArt Threat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A remarkable debut novel.\" \u003ci\u003eRabble. ca\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There are moments of near-poetry in their work . .. 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The book is an effort to provide a perspective on how the forces around him impacted his life, and how he took control of what he could achieve in an intractable situation. The book is interspersed with Wasseem's own reflections as a mixed-race Palestinian, and as someone who has lived under occupation in Gaza.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWasseem El Sarraj is a British\/Palestinian writer and psychologist, living in London. He is the son of the late Eyad El Sarraj, the Palestinian pioneering psychiatrist and founder of the Gaza Community Mental Healthcare Programme.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eForeword by Ruchama Marton MD,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePreface,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrologue,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Empires and Tribes,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2. 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The rationality of revolt,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEpilogue,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfterword by Yasser Abu Jamei, Director of the GCMHP\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Daraja Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41141341225053,"sku":"9781990263378","price":29.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/Palestine_cover-scaled.jpg?v=1694109571"},{"product_id":"i-dare-to-say-african-women-share-their-stories-of-hope-and-survival","title":"I Dare to Say: African Women Share Their Stories of Hope and Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFeaturing the real-life experiences of contemporary African women who tell of atrocities, pain, motherhood, marriage, love, and courage in their daily life, this gripping collection brings greater awareness to a continuing struggle. Denied a voice by their own culture for centuries, these women speak out for the first time, sharing poignant tales of abuse and womanhood robbed, revealing their methods of survival, and divulging their dreams for themselves and their children. A girl describes hiding under a blanket from the Lord’s Resistance Army in search of child brides; a woman speaks of her family abuse and rejection followed by the deaths of her child and partner only to learn later that the father of her child was already married with eight children and had AIDS. 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But the fact remains that teen suicide is an issue that refuses to go away so long as young people in crisis have nowhere to turn. But now, in this age of frank discussions about bullying, peer pressure, and issues of \"difference,\" there is a growing sense that teen suicide is no longer a taboo subject, and that talking about it can help us to identify and acknowledge the kind of problems that lead teens to make such drastic and tragic decisions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBased on interviews with teen suicide survivors, parents, and professionals, Marion Crook sensitively explores all aspects of teen suicide, in particular the reasons why certain young people are driven to it. The motives are far-ranging, but central to all is a sense of desperation: Bruce was habitually ignored and unaccepted by his family as he grew up; he hit the streets at the age of ten and ended up in jail at the age of eighteen. Rena was sexually abused at the age of eight, then taunted about her physical appearance throughout high school. Helen was constantly belittled by her father, completely eroding her self-esteem. 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She is the author of numerous books for adults and teens, including three published by Arsenal Pulp Press: \u003ci\u003eThicker Than Blood: Adoptive Parenting in the Modern World\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Face in the Mirror: Teens and Adoption\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eOut of the Darkness: Teens Talk About Suicide\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-e180dd6458e7c1893b230c5fdb381774\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"block-separator\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"address-49fffee468493025b85ca244bd55e9ac-6ef729a752be6e7ac4693048bb6eff40\"\u003e\n\u003csection class=\"section section-reviews\"\u003e\u003cheader class=\"section-header\"\u003e\n\u003ch5 class=\"h3\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"h3\"\u003e\". . . [\u003ci\u003eOut of the Darkness\u003c\/i\u003e] is very insightful and explains, from the teen point of view, what leads teens into depression and thoughts of suicide . . . . 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In a different world, how might we transform the ways that we think about mental health, diagnosis and treatment?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese are some of the big questions Micha Frazer-Carroll asks as she reveals mental health to be an urgent political concern that needs deeper understanding beyond today's 'awareness-raising' campaigns.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of care; \u003cem\u003eMad World\u003c\/em\u003e is a radical and hopeful antidote to pathologisation, gatekeeping and the policing of imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMicha Frazer-Carroll is a columnist at the \u003cem\u003eIndependent\u003c\/em\u003e. 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She is invested in using journalism to challenge systems of power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-style: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAn inquisitive and nuanced look at a topic that we talk so much about and yet still don’t really have much of a holistic grasp on.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003egal dem\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eA radical antidote to the constraints of our current conceptualisation of mental health.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDazed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eReally brilliant...this is by far the best introduction to mad politics I've ever read.”\u003c\/span\u003e Robert Chapman, Senior Lecturer in Education at Sheffield Hallam University\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eIn these urgent times, activists are often seeking guidance on radical approaches to mental health. Mad World offers a welcome and refreshing guide to a progressive politics of mental health – an indispensable resource for activists today.”\u003c\/span\u003e Hel Spandler, Editor, \u003ci\u003eAsylum: the radical mental health magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eWow! An honest, urgent and lovingly researched invitation to rethink our assumptions about madness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eMad World\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e is an invaluable toolkit, not just for dismantling oppressive health structures, but for building the systems of care we desperately need. This book is a gift and that gift is hope.”\u003c\/span\u003e Aisha Mirza, founder of Misery mental health collective\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAn urgent introduction to a new radical politics of mental health which embraces the messy, unruly nature of our collective vulnerability and interdependence. Frazer-Carroll exposes the underlying truth that capitalism is fundamentally incompatible with our wellbeing. Mad World teaches us how to transform the ways we understand madness, illness, and disability to build a better world.”\u003c\/span\u003e Beatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE0MDU5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/health-communism-a-surplus-manifesto\" title=\"Health Communism\"\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/a\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFrazer-Carroll takes on the politics of mental health with accessibility, compassion and curiosity. She calls for critical, progressive thinking and radical change to systems that have been tools of oppression for far too long.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMs. \u003c\/i\u003eMagazine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eFrazer-Carroll takes aim at the individualisation of mental health, arguing for radical, political change.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHu\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eThis incredibly thought-provoking debut shows the need for new, deeper, and more radical mental health conversations. This book doesn’t just think outside the box, it rips the box wide open.”\u003c\/span\u003e Rhys Thomas, \u003ci\u003eWoo \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAn accessible and in-depth tool for thinking radically and politically about mental health in the 21st century.”\u003c\/span\u003e Adele Walton, journalist and \u003ci\u003eDazed\u003c\/i\u003e book columnist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eAn incredibly well-written and clear-thinking introduction to the issues at stake in the mad movement. It offers a contemporary and forward-thinking analysis of how mental well-being is both damaged and politicised in capitalist society.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNational Survivor User Network\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41230768767069,"sku":"9780745346717","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9780745346717.jpg?v=1697653799"},{"product_id":"the-man-who-closed-the-asylums-franco-basaglia-and-the-revolution-in-mental-health-care","title":"The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhen the wind of the 1960s blew through the world of psychiatry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded, redolent of Basaglia’s own wartime experience inside a fascist gaol. Patients were frequently restrained for long periods, and therapy was largely a matter of electric and insulin shocks. The corridors stank, and for many of the interned the doors were locked for life. This was a concentration camp, not a hospital.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBasaglia, the new Director, was expected to practise all the skills of oppression in which he had been schooled, but he would have none\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e of this. The place had to be closed down by opening it up from the inside, bringing freedom and democracy to the patients, the nurses and the psychiatrists working in that “total institution.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eInspired by the writings of authors such as Primo Levi, R.D. Laing, Erving Goffman, Michel Foucault and Frantz Fanon, and the practices of experimental therapeutic communities in the UK, Basaglia’s seminal work as a psychiatrist and campaigner in Gorizia, Parma and Trieste fed into and substantially contributed to the national and international movement of 1968. In 1978 a law was passed (the “Basaglia law”) which sanctioned the closure of the entire Italian asylum system.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first comprehensive study of this revolutionary approach to mental health care, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Closed the Asylums\u003c\/i\u003e is a gripping account of one of the most influential movements in twentieth-century psychiatry, which helped to transform the way we see mental illness. Basaglia’s work saved countless people from a miserable existence, and his legacy persists, as an object lesson in the struggle against the brutality and ignorance that the establishment peddles to the public as common sense.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Peopled by a cast of extraordinary characters—patients, colleagues, friends and enemies—revolving around the charismatic and now legendary psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, John Foot’s sympathetic account de-mythologises the reform by uncovering little-known precedents, distancing Basaglia from anti-psychiatry and situating his work within Italian radical politics of the late 1960s. 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John Foot’s richly documented and revealing study of this movement and its pioneer figure, the charismatic radical psychiatrist Franco Basaglia, adds immeasurably to our understanding of the troubled history of mental health care in modern times.” Barbara Taylor, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Last Asylum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A brilliant historical reconstruction of the work and ideas of one of the world’s leading exponents of critical psychiatry.” David Forgacs, author of \u003ci\u003eItaly’s Margins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “It is fashionable in some quarters to laugh at the radical left of the 1960s. \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Closed the Asylums\u003c\/i\u003e feels refreshing in that regard—as a portrait of imperfect people who had the passion and pragmatism to put an end to a brutal and broken system.” Sarah Wise, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In Italy, the literature on Basaglia tends towards either idealisation or demonisation—he’s considered either a secular saint or a dangerous radical. John Foot gives a much more rounded, and fair, portrait of a complicated, committed man.” Tobias Jones, \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “John Foot stresses throughout his exemplary account [that] myth and reality aren’t easily separated in Basaglia’s story … Foot restores a critical distance that makes it possible to present Basaglia’s achievements as part of a wider story. In Italy, it took more than one man to close the asylums.” Mike Jay, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “A scholar steeped in the twists and turns of Italian history of the 20th century … Foot has made wonderful use of [the materials of the Basaglia archive] … exploring them through the lens of the politics and fractured nature of the country itself.” Helen Bynum, \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Brings this diversity, richness and complexity to life in an exemplary fashion, illuminating all its different manifestations and contradictions … A triumph of committed scholarship.” \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Foot’s impassioned story reminds us that the future is neither immutable nor ordained, and that small groups of people in peripheral places can change.” \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “However strong the spirit of 1968, it will not eradicate the institutional impulse from human societies.” Peter J. Leithart, \u003ci\u003eFirst Things\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “An excellent book” Melissa Reynolds, \u003ci\u003eFrugal Creativity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41230770765917,"sku":"9781784784164","price":39.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781784784164.jpg?v=1697653840"},{"product_id":"warp-and-weft-psycho-emotional-health-politics-and-experiences","title":"Warp \u0026 Weft: Psycho-emotional Health, Politics and Experiences","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWarp \u0026amp; Weft\u003c\/em\u003e gathers together ideas, radical frameworks and reference points to explore consciousness, and ways of understanding experiences of distress as they occur within our social and systemic contexts. It looks at what gets called ‘mental health’ and challenges the idea that our experiences of distress, struggle or variable consciousness are only ‘mental’. It also challenges the way biomedicine splits mind from body and soul, and names that we are embodied beings, who are shaped by and unfold within the contexts we have inherited and live 30tinues to be used as a colonial force. The notion of trauma is also reframed in this book; looking at the effects of trauma in the bodymindsoul, acknowledging the intersection of personal and collective trauma, and exploring ways we might move towards healing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWarp \u0026amp; Weft\u003c\/em\u003e considers how we are given cultural ‘scripts’ for experience, and how we might relanguage experience on our own non-medical terms. Terms which address root causes of distress and point towards holistic approaches in order to foster liberatory personal and collective transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Active Distribution","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41230774501469,"sku":"9781914567001","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/41rgDOZCdRS.jpg?v=1697653911"},{"product_id":"the-self-devouring-society-capitalism-narcissism-and-self-destruction","title":"The Self-Devouring Society: Capitalism, Narcissism, and Self-Destruction","description":"\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRenowned theorist Anselm Jappe explains how contemporary capitalism has turned everyone into a narcissist.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe Greek myth of Erysichthon describes the fate of a king whose hunger drove him to eat until the only thing left to devour was himself. 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In conversation with Marx as well as Freud, Erich Fromm, Herbert Marcuse, and Christopher Lasch, Jappe probes the ways in which the churning of the capitalist machine, ceaseless and yet devoid of real purpose, creates an endless hunger that increasingly ends in spectacular violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eEveryone can feel that the world is getting angrier. \u003cem\u003eThe Self-Devouring Society\u003c\/em\u003e provides an original and rigorous explanation of why.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e About the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAnselm Jappe\u003c\/strong\u003e is a philosopher and social critic who explores the intersection between contemporary capitalism, art, and subjectivity. He currently teaches aesthetics at the Accademia di Belle Arte in Rome. His books have been translated into several languages. Books in English include \u003cem\u003eGuy Debord\u003c\/em\u003e (University of California Press\/PM Press) and \u003cem\u003eThe Writing on the Wall: On the Decomposition of Capitalism and Its Critics\u003c\/em\u003e (Zero Books). In 2015, \u003cem\u003eLe Magazine Littéraire\u003c\/em\u003e listed Jappe as one of “Thirty Names in French Thought to Watch Out For.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEric-John Russell\u003c\/strong\u003e (Translator) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institut für Philosophie, Universität Potsdam. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eSpectacular Logic in Hegel and Debord: Why Everything Is as it Seems\u003c\/em\u003e and an editor of \u003cem\u003eCured Quail\u003c\/em\u003e. He lives in Berlin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Anselm Jappe has written a most insightful book. It is about the critique of value as a social practice of reified individuals. He develops narcissism as a subjective form of social indifference, cruelty, and violence. Disenchanted by its own madness, it runs amok in late capitalism.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Werner Bonefeld, author of \u003cem\u003eA Critical Theory of Economic Compulsion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“An absolutely remarkable essay on the links between narcissism and ultra-capitalism. It should be read with a solid reserve of coffee and silence at your disposal: its analysis is as fascinating as it is sharp.”—\u003cstrong\u003eMaïa Mazaurette, \u003cem\u003eGQ France\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e “Anselm Jappe describes the slow development of capitalism through the growing narcissism of the subject. The indifference and cruelty of capitalism, obsessed with quantitative value...is mirrored in the narcissist's indifference and cruelty to others.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Romaric Godin, \u003cem\u003eMediapart\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“...Capitalism creates a profound anthropological mutation, according to the author, by destroying all the symbolic and material limits to its expansion.... The globalization of capitalism being practically complete today, the modern subject ends up internalizing the ‘“death drive’” of this fetishized world, the crucible for the outbursts of extreme violence that strike at the very heart of the most developed countries.”—\u003cstrong\u003eMehdi Benallal, \u003cem\u003eLe Monde Diplomatique\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for previous work:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“A clear-headed account … far and away the best we have so far.” —\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“The only book on Debord in either French or English that can be unreservedly recommended. … particularly useful for its extensive treatment of the Marxian connection that is usually ignored in culture-oriented accounts of the Situationists.”—\u003cstrong\u003eKen Knabb, editor of \u003cem\u003eSituationist International Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Jappe successfully gets to grips with the content of Debord’s and the SI’s activity in a way that is accessible and doesn’t require a vast amount of prior knowledge or an extensive vocabulary of obscure jargon in order to understand it.”—\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDo or Die\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e“Political writing is always instrumental as well as utopian. Debord’s is no exception. Only sometimes writing has to reconcile itself to the idea that its time of instrumentality—its time as a weapon—lies a little in the future. Jappe’s book is true to its subject, above all, because it reads Debord, and helps us read him, with that future in mind.”—\u003cstrong\u003eT.J. Clark\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePrologue: A King Who Devoured Himself\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1: On the Fetishism That Rules This World\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eLessons from the Critique of Value · A Bad Subject · It’s Descartes’ Fault · Excursus: Descartes the Musicologist and the Acceleration of History · Kant, a Theorist of Freedom? · The Marquis de Sade and the Moral Law · Enough Philosophy, Time for Action · Narcissism as a Consolation for Impotence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2: Narcissism and Capitalism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eWhat is Narcissism? · Narcissism and Fear of Separation · Psychoanalysis and Revolution: Erich Fromm and Herbert Marcuse · Christopher Lasch: Narcissism as a Critical Category · A Short History of Narcissism · The Fetishist-Narcissist Paradigm · Return to Nature, Conquer Nature, or Overcome Capitalist Regression?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3: Contemporary Thought in the Face of Fetishism\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eA Loss of Limits? · Evoking Authority to Escape the Market? · On Idealism and Materialism · New Forms, Old Woes? · New Discourse on the Miseries of Our Time · A Transformation Older Than Digital Technology\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4: The Crisis of the Subject-Form\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe Death Drive of Capitalism · \u003cem\u003eRunning Amok\u003c\/em\u003e and Jihad · Understanding \u003cem\u003eRunning Amok\u003c\/em\u003e · No Reason to Be Found · Capitalism and Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEpilogue: What Is to Be Done with This Bad Subject?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAppendix: Some Essential Points of the Critique of Value\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExcerpt\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Chapter 1:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eOur approach is to think together the concepts of “narcissism” and “commodity fetishism” and to indicate their simultaneous development; or, more precisely, to demonstrate that they are two sides of the same social form. As we will see in more detail in the next chapter, the narcissist, following Freud, is essentially a person who remains, despite appearances, at a primitive stage of their psychic development: they perceive, like the newborn, the whole world as an extension of their own ego. Or, to put it better, narcissists do not conceive of a separation between the self and the world—since they cannot accept the original separation from the maternal figure. In order to “magically” deny this painful separation, and the feelings of impotence and distress it entails, the narcissist experiences the entire world, including their fellow human beings, as an extension of their ego. Obviously, this is accomplished unconsciously. Behind an appearance of normality, the adult narcissist hides the inability of recognizing “objects,” in the broadest sense, in their autonomy and accepting their separation. The egocentrism of the narcissist—its most visible aspect—is only a consequence of this process. The external world is perceived as a \u003cem\u003eprojection\u003c\/em\u003e: objects and people are not perceived for what they are, but as extensions of the subject’s inner world. Faced with the feeling of omnipotence of the narcissistic ego—which resorts, if necessary, at least in the case of a small child, to forms of hallucinatory satisfaction of its desires—the world is only an object to be manipulated, or even an obstacle for the effective realization of desires so easily to satisfied within the sphere of the imagination. The physical body of the narcissistic subject is also part of this potentially hostile and refractory external world. In the division between the narcissistic self and the world, the boundaries of the external world begin with one’s own body. The latter can resist the self and painfully remind it of its limits, as well as the irreducibility of the external world to its desires. As for the ego, it does not immediately identify with the body and its sensations, but only with the inner world and the subject’s impulses—what Freud called the “primary process.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eOf course, the narcissism referred to here does not consist merely in an excess of self-love, vanity, and the cult of the body, nor even in the cult of the ego or in egoism, as the more common use of the term suggests. Narcissism, in the psychoanalytic sense, is on the contrary a weakness of the ego: the individual remains confined to a primitive phase of psychic development. It does not even reach the stage of Oedipal conflict, which gives access to “object relations.” It is the opposite of a strong and glorified self: impoverished and empty because it is unable to flourish in true relations with external objects and people. It limits itself to reliving the same primitive impulses over and over again.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41230775779421,"sku":"9781942173793","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/712V4ykGBfL._SL1000.jpg?v=1697653928"},{"product_id":"mindfulness-and-its-discontents-education-self-and-social-transformation","title":"Mindfulness and Its Discontents: Education, Self, and Social Transformation","description":"\u003cp\u003eMindfulness, a way to alleviate suffering by realizing the impermanence of the self and our interdependence with others, has been severed from its Buddhist roots. In the late-stage-capitalist, neoliberal, solipsistic West, it becomes McMindfulness, a practice that instead shores up the privatized self, and is corporatized and repackaged as a strategy to cope with our stressful society through an emphasis on self-responsibility and self-promotion. Rather than a way to promote human development and social justice, McMindfulness covertly reinforces neoliberalism and capitalism, the very self-promoting systems that worsen our suffering. In Mindfulness and Its Discontents, David Forbes provides an integral framework for a critical, social, moral mindfulness that both challenges unmindful practices and ideas and provides a way forward. He analyzes how education curricula across North America employ mindfulness: to help students learn to succeed in a neoliberal society by enhancing the ego through emphasizing individualistic skills and the self-regulation of anger and stress. Forbes argues that mindfulness educators instead should uncover and resist the sources of stress and distress that stem from an inequitable, racist, individualistic, market-based (neoliberal) society and shows how school mindfulness programs can help bring about one that is more transformative, compassionate and just.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Forbes is the co-editor of Handbook of Mindfulness: Culture, Context, and Social Engagement and author of Boyz 2 Buddhas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eForbes’s trenchant analysis of mindfulness in American culture will appeal to readers interested in the intersection of market forces and spirituality. - Publishers Weekly; Extending and deepening the McMindfulness critique, David Forbes takes a fearless stance by peeling away the self-centered, hedonic façade and rhetorical muddle of the Minefulness Industrial Complex. - Ron E. Purser, author of Handbook of Mindfulness and McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality.; David Forbes develops a much-needed focus on a range of misuses of mindfulness in Western culture that distort education and personal development and consequently inhibit social and cultural change. - Deborah Orr, York University; Forbes then makes the case that our current political, ecological and economic realities require kids and teachers who’re able to critically engage at a civic level. He lays out a mindfulness curriculum that includes a strong, socially engaged practice teachers can introduce. - The London Free Press\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch5\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Non\/Song of My Non\/Self\u003cbr\u003e  A Fateful Deal\u003cbr\u003e  McMindfulness and Neoliberalism: A Prophetic Critique\u003cbr\u003e  The Mindfulness Industrial Complex: The Happy Self\u003cbr\u003e  Seeing Things “As They Are”: Relative and Absolute\u003cbr\u003e  Mind, Self, and Transformation\u003cbr\u003e  Smile, Anger, Judgement\u003cbr\u003e  What Water? 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The journal includes recent essays by IAS-supported writers and translators, features with anarchist views on contemporary issues, book reviews, updates, and more. We highly recommend checking out \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePerspectives\u003c\/em\u003e—its editors assemble a solid range of pieces exploring a different topic with each issue. Always worth reading and considering how these topics play out in our struggles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNumber 32 is titled \"Power\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eThe \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePerspectives\u003c\/em\u003e collective collaborates with Kai Lumumba Barrow who provides art from Gallery of the Streets in the new 208-page “Power” issue. Gallery of the Streets is a network of autonomous artists, activists, and scholars committed to abolitionist movement building. Led by queer Black feminist politics, their work is created by people who live, love, fight, work, and play in the margins of racial and gendered capitalism, carceral control, and environmental violence. Lovingly laid out with full color art and design by Eberhardt Press, this is an impressive publication, produced despite the pandemic and amidst the Uprising. This issue features essays on surrealism and climate change; Rojava and anarchism; solidarity and mutual aid from Puerto Rico to the embattled streets of Minneapolis and Portland; building online power, raising money, lessons in organizing, working out, building community; police abolition, and insights into George Floyd Square; organizing amidst this age of protest and pandemic; David Graeber and the power of imagination; building another world of communalism against Covid capitalism; surviving the pandemic, what to do if you’re teargassed; recovering from trauma; successfully organizing revolution; and new book reviews!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction to Power - Theresa Warburton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe World is Dying, Darling - Vera Rubin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiving Your Life in a State of War - Shane Burley\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBuilding Online Power - Cayden Mak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Power of Solidarity and Mutual Aid: Decolonizing Puerto Rico - Pedro Anglada Cordero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTime Under Tension: Lessons in Organizing from a Kettleball Gym - Lara Messersmith-Glavin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFundraising Anarchy - Lake (Chelsea) Roberts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDavid Graeber \u0026amp; the Power of Imagination - James Anderson\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePopular Power in an Age of Protest and Pandemic - Enrique Geurrero-López \u0026amp; Cameron Hughes\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo You Got Teargassed - Missy Rohs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePower Within - Cindy Crabb\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnarchist Cybernetics - Thomas Swann\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is How We Heal - Susan Anglada Bartley and Lexi Kahn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLiving Communism: Theory and Practice of Autonomy and Attack - Spencer Beswick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrganizing Disruption: Review of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/after-the-revolution\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAfter the Revolution\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/begin-the-world-over\"\u003eBegin the World Over\u003c\/a\u003e - \u003c\/em\u003eDylan Clymer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho's Processing Whom? Digital Commons, Digital Blinders, and a Fraught Social Future - Chris Carlsson\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Institute for Anarchist Studies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339300839517,"sku":"9781939202369","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/PATn32.png?v=1700768639"},{"product_id":"perspectives-on-anarchist-theory-no-33-2023-transformations","title":"Perspectives on Anarchist Theory, no. 33 (2023): Transformations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product attribute description\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"value\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" itemprop=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePerspectives on Anarchist Theory\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential journal published by the Institute for Anarchist Studies (an organization established to support the development of anarchism, and copublishers with us of the \"Anarchist Interventions\" series). 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Always worth reading and considering how these topics play out in our struggles.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew issue, number 33, is \"Transformations\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\" data-mce-style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePerspectives on Anarchist Theory\u003c\/em\u003e, N.33, on the theme of \"Transformations,\" is over 200 beautiful pages and features the Abolitionist Tarot art of Kai Lumumba Barrow throughout. Describing what ties the thirteen essays in this issue together, Lara Messersmith-Glavin, in the introduction explains, “It is (the) push and pull of the old and the new that we see in this issue, a collection of investigations into both our histories and our futures, inquiries into the symbols and memories that have shaped the world in which we find ourselves, and visions for the ones we hope to create. We are also honored to share the work of a new set of archetypes, the Abolitionist Tarot, from which we may draw the clear understanding of the moment in which we find ourselves.” The issue features Jesse Cohn’s “Demodernizing Anarchism,” as well as articles on consensus decision-making in the intentional community of Christiania; anarchist cybernetics; communicating climate catastrophe through performance; and explorations of how major social change happens and why. Using tarot as a guide, Messersmith-Glavin explains, “Our hope is that these works will help provide a path for us as we grow from fools to abolitionists and beyond.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003e Table of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: Transformations - Lara Messersmith-Glavin\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDemodernizing Anarchism - Jesse Cohn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSingle Mother - Emily Schwartig\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow to Tan a Hide - Mattie Ecklund\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePlace as Message: Anarchist Climate Change Communication Through Performance - Taiga Christie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLove \u0026amp; Rage: The Eros Effect and Spontaneous Combustion - Paul Messersmith-Glavin and Hillary Lazar\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Response to \u003cem\u003eSpontaneous Combustion \u003c\/em\u003e- George Katsiaficas\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilence in Perpetual Noise - Alayne Ballentine\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConsensus Decision-Making in Christiania - Tauno Biltsted\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Institute for Anarchist Studies","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41339303886941,"sku":"9781939202413","price":22.4,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/PATn33.png?v=1700769057"},{"product_id":"more-sure","title":"More Sure: poems and interruptions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA book of poems and augmentations, recording instances of love, self-realization, and recovery in non-binary, queer, and autistic lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn their stunning debut collection, A. 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Weaving deftly through classic texts and pop culture references, from sharply political to deeply personal, \u003ci\u003eMore Sure\u003c\/i\u003e is a haunting love song to those who live in the shadows. Zachary is a master of their craft and a virtuoso talent, and they balance acute emotion with subtle wit. These are poems that will make you think and feel for a long time.\" Kai Cheng Thom, author of \u003ci\u003ea place called No Homeland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Even among the major queer poets of our age like Ocean Vuong and Saeed Jones, Zachary holds their own, dialling into places where common language fails us and only poetry can correct the injustices of language that we suffer without a vocabulary for our experiences.\" S. Bear Bergman, \u003ci\u003eXtra\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Zachary's debut collection is a vivid, playful celebration of trans complexity, queer fluidity, and gleeful uncertainty. In poems that are by turns lyrical, incendiary, and formally inventive, they explore gender, wildness, becoming and unbecoming, family, the power of language, the sacredness of trans bodies, and most poignantly, change.\" \u003ci\u003eBuzzFeed\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this introspective debut collection, the Toronto poet, who grew up in New Brunswick, reflects on being transgender and their struggle for self-acceptance and a sense of belonging. ... The \"interruptions\" in the title refer to a sequence of poems in which Zachary disrupts quotations from ancient Greek and Roman thinkers, to establish a queer presence in history, as in this wryly altered line from Juvenal's ‘Satires,’ ‘Pray for a sound mind in (another) body.’\" \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Easily one of my favourite poetry collections of the year. Zachary reimagines quotes from ancient philosophers as queer life advice; they write from the perspective of a coyote; they play with form in delightful, surprising ways. This collection is exuberant, defiant, and tender.\" \u003ci\u003eBook Riot\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Reading this collection is like discovering classified research on how to forge a new life for yourself.\" \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In this introspective debut collection, the poet reflects on being transgender and their struggle for self-acceptance and a sense of belonging.\" \u003ci\u003eToronto Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Arsenal Pulp Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41457038098525,"sku":"9781551529172","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/71a7M-o9zsL._SL1500.jpg?v=1704988749"},{"product_id":"storming-bedlam-madness-utopia-and-revolt","title":"Storming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt","description":"\u003cdiv id=\"block-d9133e279bbbf251dd05\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e reimagines mental health care and its radical possibilities in the context of its global development under capitalism.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1688608279054_15847\" data-border-radii='{\"topLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"topRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomLeft\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0},\"bottomRight\":{\"unit\":\"px\",\"value\":0.0}}' data-block-type=\"2\" class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\"\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eThe contemporary world is oversaturated with new psychiatric programs, methods, and reforms promising to address any number of \"crises\" in mental health care. When they fail, alternatives to the alternatives simply pile up and seem to lead nowhere. In \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam: Madness, Utopia, and Revolt\u003c\/em\u003e, Sasha Warren suggests that the intense contradictions that animate psychiatric care can only be conceptualized by situating its technical composition in its actual social, political, and economic conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eIn a radical rereading of the history, theory, and practice of psychiatry, \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e emphasizes the utopian origins of the psychiatric revolution and its roots in the political and economic revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. Warren traces a double movement in the global development of mental health services from its origins through the 20th century: a radical current pushing totalizing and idealistic visions of care to their practical limits and a reactionary one content with managing or eliminating chronically idle surplus populations. In an original and compelling account of radical experimentation in psychiatry, moral treatment is read in the light of the utopian socialist movement; the theory of communication in the French Institutional Psychotherapy of Félix Guattari is put into conversation with the Brazilian art therapy of Nise da Silveira; the Mexican anti-psychiatry movement’s reflections on violence are thought together with theories of violence developed in Argentinian psychoanalysis and Frantz Fanon’s anticolonial therapeutic practice; while the social form of the Italian Democratic Psychiatry and Brazilian anti-institutional movements are contrasted with the anti-psychiatry factions of the 1960s–70s North American counterculture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eChronicling and comparing these movements, \u003cem\u003eStorming Bedlam\u003c\/em\u003e argues that long standing divisions between social and biological approaches or between psychiatry and anti-psychiatry as discrete positions are tenuous and circular. Instead of avoiding these binaries, Warren travels through them, using their own internal logics to expose their hidden presuppositions in search of an approach to mental health care grounded in common struggles against conditions of scarcity, poverty, isolation, and exploitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSasha Durakov Warren\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer based in Minneapolis. His experiences within the psychiatric system and commitment to radical politics led him to cofound the group Hearing Voices Twin Cities, which provides an alternative social space for individuals to discuss often stigmatized extreme experiences and network with one-another. Following the George Floyd Uprising in 2020, he founded the project Of Unsound Mind to trace the histories of psychiatry, social work, and public health's connections to policing, prisons, and various disciplinary and managerial technologies. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\" class=\"\"\u003eChapter 1. The White Rat\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Barefoot Therapeutics\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Demolition Psychiatry\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. Dreams of Escape\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5. Violence and the Ward\u003cbr\u003eConclusion. Illness and Economy\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41613138591837,"sku":"9781942173892","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781942173892_FC.jpg?v=1708957451"},{"product_id":"anxiety-modern-society-and-the-critical-method","title":"Anxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method: Toward a Theory and Practice of Critical Socioanalysis","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn innovative, interdisciplinary assessment of the origins and operations of anxiety in modern life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAnxiety, Modern Society, and the Critical Method\u003c\/em\u003e interrogates the historical intersections of political economy, technology, and anxiety. By analyzing and building upon the tools developed by critical theorists to diagnose the symptoms of modern life—such as alienation, anomie, the Protestant ethic, and repression—Joel Michael Crombez convincingly argues for a revitalization of critical social science to better confront the anxiety of life in modern societies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhile anxiety typically falls under the purview of psychology and its biomedical approach to treatment, here anxiety is situated within the totalizing logics of modern society. As such, Crombez provides a compelling, interdisciplinary roadmap to diagnose and treat anxiety—which he calls critical socioanalysis—that accounts for the psychosocial complexity of its production.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42007838392413,"sku":"9781642597691","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/81sV5F7GshL._SL1500.jpg?v=1713552399"},{"product_id":"they-call-it-love","title":"They Call It Love: The Politics of Emotional Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eThe work of love is a feminist problem, and it demands feminist solutions\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComforting a family member or friend, soothing children, providing company for the elderly, ensuring that people feel well enough to work; this is all essential labour. Without it, capitalism would cease to function.\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e investigates the work that makes a haven in a heartless world, examining who performs this labor, how it is organised, and how it might change. In this groundbreaking book, Alva Gotby calls this work “emotional reproduction,” unveiling its inherently political nature. It not only ensures people’s well-being but creates sentimental attachments to social hierarchy and the status quo. Drawing on the thought of the feminist movement Wages for Housework, Gotby demonstrates that emotion is a key element of capitalist reproduction. To improve the way we relate to one another will require a radical restructuring of society.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Intellectually nourished my thinking and language on gender.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Raymond Antrobus, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBest Books of 2023\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eGranta\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A fascinating and exhaustive explanation as to why emotions are a political issue.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Brit Dawson, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAnOther Magazine\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shines a light on the invisible labour involved in love, examining who is responsible for performing it, how it can blossom, and why we do it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Adele Walton, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eDazed\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gotby makes clear our emotional lives are inherently political. Her analysis of the politics of reproductive labour is a cogent criticism of the bourgeois capitalist logics of feeling, of the free labour of intimacy and of normative femininity.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Adele Cassigneul, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eMai\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gotby's narrative masterfully outlines how emotions, feelings and their manifestations tend to be portrayed, and understood, as a feminine domain of expertise ... Gotby brilliantly dismantles the silences and abuses surrounding this invisible work by naming it and showing its societal (and capital) worth\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Patrycja Sosnowska-Buxton, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSociological Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a very fine book – one that balances polemical force with careful and rigorous research. In advancing its account of emotional reproduction, it brings together existing bodies of work on unwaged social reproduction and remunerated emotional labour to great effect, shining a light upon a too often overlooked (and heavily gendered) form of work. It is sharp, thoughtful, and well-written, and represents a substantial scholarly achievement. Alva Gotby is a writer and thinker to watch out for.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Helen Hester, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eXenofeminism, co-author of After Work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This thorough book sheds new light on the critics of the political economy on emotional life. It is a welcome addition to the studies on the social meaning of the immaterial production that takes place in the domestic sphere.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e The Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a fascinating insider's account of the hidden, economic dimension of our emotional lives whose subject matter will make for passionate arguments and conversations among feminists and scholars in general.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Leopoldina Fortunati, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Arcane of Reproduction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gotby's book importantly attempts to underscore and theorise the role of emotions within social reproduction theory. Her concept of 'emotional reproduction' is a reminder that fife-making work is not devoid of affect.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Sara Farris, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eIn the Name of Women's Rights\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a call to attention: Alva Gotby astutely maps the work of emotional support and care that is done day in and day out and across everyday life. Gotby not only insists that more value be attributed to emotional reproduction, but makes a sophisticated and compelling case for a radical repurposing of emotions, needs, and desires in the struggle for change - a struggle that is necessarily also a struggle for new ways of being together.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e—Emma Dowling, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Care Crisis\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\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 class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAlva Gotby\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of West London and an MA in Philosophy and Contemporary Critical Theory from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University. Her writing has been published in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaI: Feminism and Visual Culture, Blindfield: A Journal of Cultural Inquiry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eFeminist Review\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as well as in outlets in Sweden, Norway and Denmark. She frequently speaks at conferences related to Marxism, feminism and queer politics.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177172865117,"sku":"9781839767043","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781839767043.jpg?v=1715780115"},{"product_id":"burnout","title":"Burnout: The Emotional Experience of Political Defeat","description":"\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to maintain hope in the face of despair\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the struggle for a better world, setbacks are inevitable. Defeat can feel overwhelming at times, but it has to be endured. How then do the people on the front line keep going? To answer that question and to help readers roll with the punches, Hannah Proctor draws on historical resources to find out how revolutionaries and activists of the past kept a grip on hope.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e considers former Communards exiled to a penal colony in the South Pacific; a young Bolshevik fleeing the city in despair; an ex-militant on the analyst’s couch relating dreams of ruined landscapes; a trade union organiser seeking advice from a spiritual healer; and a group of feminists padding a room with mattresses to scream about the patriarchy. Jettisoning therapy talk and its stranglehold on our language, Proctor offers a different way forward - neither denial nor despair. Her cogent exploration of the ways militants make sense of their own burnout demonstrates that it is possible to mourn and organise at once, and to do both without compromise.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5 aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv aria-expanded=\"true\" class=\"a-expander-content a-expander-partial-collapse-content a-expander-content-expanded\" style=\"padding-bottom: 20px;\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\"Hannah Proctor is one of the best writers on the left today, and this is an extraordinary and extremely timely book – a kaleidoscopic work of revolutionary history on what happens when our day doesn’t come and we have to cope with the consequences. Refusing both the easy temptations of left melancholia and forced ‘just another push, comrades!’ optimism, this is a book full of unromantic communist longing, deadpan humour and hard-won wisdom.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOwen Hatherley, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Ministry of Nostalgia\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Not since Freud first described war neurosis have we been treated to such an astonishing taxonomy of the human mind. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Hannah Proctor takes that feeling we all have, and names it again and again, helping us to resee the past and present of revolutionary struggle. A must-read.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eHannah Zeavin, Founding Editor,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eParapraxis\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Achieves commendable synthesis between its argument and sources ... The more people are writing books like \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBurnout\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the better we might overcome our pains, and remain in the struggle.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJuliet Jacques, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eArtReview\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Brilliant ... an invigorating reader experience. 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She is a member of the editorial collective behind Radical Philosophy, and has been published in \u003cem\u003eJacobin, Tribune, The New Inquiry\u003c\/em\u003e and elsewhere.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42177186529373,"sku":"9781839766053","price":33.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781839766053.jpg?v=1715780280"},{"product_id":"foucault-live","title":"Foucault Live","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date, including every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s until his death in 1984.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCurrently in its fourth printing, Foucault Live is the most accessible and exhaustive introduction to Foucault's thought to date. Composed of every extant interview made by Foucault from the mid-60s until his death in 1984, Foucault Live sheds new light on the philosopher's ideas about friendship, the intent behind his classical studies, while clarifying many of the professional and popular misinterpretations of his ideas over the course of his career. As Gilles Deleuze noted, \"the interviews in this book go much further than anything Foucault ever wrote, and they are indispensable in understanding his life work.\" Most notably,\u003cem\u003e Foucault Live\u003c\/em\u003e includes interviews he made with the gay underground press during his stays in America during the 1970s. In them, Foucault suggests that homosexuality presents a new paradigm for ways of living beyond the predictable, binary couple. All of the philosopher's interests, from madness and delinquency to film and sexuality, and their resultant writings, are probed by knowledgeable critics and journalists. After reading this book, the reader can explore key notions such as episteme, savoir and connaissance, archeology, and archive, without the knitted brow that plagued Foucault's public when he was alive. 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Thus, after a brief commentary on Freud's \u003cem\u003eNew Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis\u003c\/em\u003e, the present book provides the reader with a chapter-by-chapter analysis of \u003cem\u003eCivilisation and Its Discontents\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eGroup Psychology and the Analysis of the Ego.\u003c\/em\u003e Freud's views, according to Rozitchner's original reading, offer a striking contribution to a materialist theory and history of subjectivity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book was first published in Spanish as \u003cem\u003eFreud y los límites del individualismo burgués\u003c\/em\u003e by Siglo XXI Editores, 1972.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42370134900829,"sku":"9781642597851","price":35.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781642597851-us.jpg?v=1719432426"},{"product_id":"empire-of-normality-neurodiversity-and-capitalism","title":"Empire of Normality: Neurodiversity and Capitalism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis is the rise of the anti-capitalist neurodiversity movement\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"pp-book__right--tab-content show\" data-tab=\"overview\"\u003e\n\u003cp element-id=\"89\"\u003e\"Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most oppressive tools of capitalism. To read it is to see the world more clearly.\" Steve Silberman, author of \u003cem element-id=\"88\"\u003eNeuroTribes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp element-id=\"89\"\u003eNeurodiversity is on the rise. Awareness and diagnoses have exploded in recent years, but we are still missing a wider understanding of how we got here and why. Beyond simplistic narratives of normativity and difference, this groundbreaking book exposes the very myth of the 'normal' brain as a product of intensified capitalism. \u003cbr element-id=\"85\"\u003e\u003cbr element-id=\"84\"\u003eExploring the rich histories of the neurodiversity and disability movements, Robert Chapman shows how the rise of capitalism created an 'empire of normality' that transformed our understanding of the body into that of a productivity machine. \u003cbr element-id=\"83\"\u003e\u003cbr element-id=\"82\"\u003eNeurodivergent liberation is possible - but only by challenging the deepest logics of capitalism. \u003cem element-id=\"81\"\u003eEmpire of Normality\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential guide to understanding the systems that shape our bodies, minds and deepest selves - and how we can undo them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 element-id=\"89\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp element-id=\"89\"\u003eRobert Chapman is a neurodivergent philosopher, writing on neurodiversity theory, madness and disability. They have taught at King’s College London, the University of Bristol, Sheffield Hallam and Durham University where they are currently an Assistant Professor in Critical Neurodiversity Studies. They blog at \u003cem\u003ePsychology Today\u003c\/em\u003e and at \u003cem\u003eCritical Neurodiversity\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 element-id=\"89\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"This groundbreaking book fills a crucial gap in the discourse about neurodiversity, providing a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one of the most damaging and oppressive tools of capitalism, while not succumbing to the myths of the 'anti-psychiatry' movement. To read it is to see the world more clearly.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Steve Silberman, author of \u003ci\u003eNeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eEmpire of Normality\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003eargues that a radical politics of neurodiversity needs to be central to the struggle against capitalism. Chapman explains why this is necessary, not only for neurodivergent folk, but for our collective liberation. Thought provoking, challenging and compelling.\" \u003c\/span\u003eProfessor Hel Spandler, Editor, \u003ci\u003eAsylum: the radical mental health magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"Engaging, impeccably researched, and a vital step in the emergence of a new social paradigm. Chapman uncovers the origins of the stifling norms that limit our collective potentials, and points the way toward a better and more creative future.\"\u003c\/span\u003e Nick Walker, author of \u003ci\u003eNeuroqueer Heresies \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: normal;\" data-mce-style=\"font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\"A vital book that kindles the flames of a Marxist neurodivergent revolution. Chapman boldly challenges us to envision a world liberated from neuronormative oppression, where dismantling capitalism is central to disabled, Mad, and neurodivergent liberation—a new radical approach to neurodiversity that is explicitly anti-capitalist.\" \u003c\/span\u003eBeatrice Adler-Bolton, co-author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjE0MDU5In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/health-communism-a-surplus-manifesto\" title=\"Health Communism\"\u003eHealth Communism\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"An instant seminal text, \u003cem\u003eEmpire of Normality\u003c\/em\u003e takes on the huge task of crafting a coherent, radical, Marxist approach to neurodivergence. Chapman impressively and critically assembles disparate philosophical, scientific and activist currents across time to carve out a new politics that pushes beyond liberal rights-based approaches, and guides us towards a liberated future.\" Micha Frazer-Carroll, author of \u003ci\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTAyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mad-world-the-politics-of-mental-health\" title=\"Mad World\"\u003eMad World\u003c\/a\u003e: The Politics of Mental Health \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Outstanding\" \u003ci\u003eForbes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A vitally needed theoretical framework for neurodivergent anti-capitalism.\" \u003ci\u003eRed Pepper\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePreface \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 Rise of the machines \u003cbr\u003e2 The invention of normality \u003cbr\u003e3 Galton’s paradigm \u003cbr\u003e4 The eugenics movement \u003cbr\u003e5 The myths of anti-psychiatry \u003cbr\u003e6 Fordist normalisation \u003cbr\u003e7 The return of Galtonian psychiatry \u003cbr\u003e8 Post-Fordism as a mass disabling event \u003cbr\u003e9 The neurodiversity movement \u003cbr\u003e10 Cognitive contradictions \u003cbr\u003e11 After normality\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eNotes \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBibliography \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eIndex\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Pluto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42744691687517,"sku":"9780745348667","price":27.1,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9780745348667.jpg?v=1727369142"},{"product_id":"autism-is-not-a-disease-the-politics-of-neurodiversity","title":"Autism Is Not A Disease: The Politics of Neurodiversity","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to build a fairer, more neuro-inclusive society\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNeurodiversity is one of the most urgent political issues of our time. As the number of diagnoses of autism, ADHD, and other types of neurodivergence rises, we are starting to understand that there is no such thing as a 'normal' brain. But society is still organised around neuronormativity, and autism is treated as a disease.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJodie Hare, diagnosed with autism at twenty-three, argues it is time to redefine the politics of who we are. She calls for the recognition of diversity as part of natural variation, rather than a departure from sameness. This will have an impact on the places where we learn, work, and socialise - and Hare shows how these can be adapted to be more inclusive and accessible. She shows how we might commit to building a world where we can all thrive, one that works to combat discrimination based on race, class, gender, and disability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A fascinating exploration of the politics of neurodiversity. Hare has delivered a persuasive and inspiring manifesto that calls on us all to rethink what it really means to be 'normal'.\" Grace Blakeley, author of \u003cem\u003eVulture Capitalism\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A formidable contribution to neurodiversity movement. Sharp, accessible and unflinchingly radical, this book is perfect for those who are looking for a political introduction to neurodiversity. It also makes a unique contribution to the conversation in its own right. Thoroughly cited, Hare makes links between a wide range of revolutionary thinkers and movements to politicise an issue that is being increasingly co-opted under neoliberal capitalism. It is the perfect book to meet this political moment, and helps us see that neurodiversity is connected to all of our liberation struggles.\" Micah Frazer-Carroll, author of \u003cem\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI2OTAyIn0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/products\/mad-world-the-politics-of-mental-health\" title=\"Mad World\"\u003eMad World\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"A perfect foundational book encouraging us to challenge misconceptions we have on neurodiversity.\" Beauty Dhlamini, \u003cem\u003e Red Pepper\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cb\u003eodie Hare\u003c\/b\u003e was diagnosed with autism at twenty-three years old. She has an MA in Modern Languages, Literature, and Culture from King’s College, London. She has written for publications such as \u003ci\u003eNovara Media\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eHuffington Post\u003c\/i\u003e. She works as a copywriter. She tweets at @jodslouise\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42767406104669,"sku":"9781804291535","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/614BqUVijSL._SL1500.jpg?v=1728146459"},{"product_id":"taking-the-state-out-of-the-body","title":"Taking the State Out of the Body: A Guide to Embodied Resistance to Zionism","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTaking the State out of the Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a guidebook in deconstructing nationalism through trauma-informed praxis. Embedded in the political theory and practice of Jewish anti-Zionism, it invites readers of all backgrounds to build an embodied sense of safety that has the power to make militarized borders, policing, and nation-states obsolete. We need the resources offered in this book: from understanding geopolitical impacts of intergenerational trauma, to self-regulation in conflict, to transformative approaches to harm, to cultivating long-haul relationships, to building solidarity across our movements. The book’s framework is situated in the lineages of healing justice and politicized healers including many antifascist Ashkenazi Jewish practitioners in 1930s Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday, as the terms “somatics” and “trauma” have been mainstreamed, \u003cem\u003eTaking the State out of the Body\u003c\/em\u003e is a timely offer to move from individual awareness to collective action. Weaving anti-imperialist orientations to historical events with embodiment theory, each chapter opens with a connection to a plant or body part and closes with a guide to practices that fuel resistance and resilience. This book will equip you with the tools you need to move from rugged individualist models of self-help\/preservation to liberatory frameworks of collective care and joint struggle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTaking the State out of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly illuminates exactly how cultural patterns of individualism fuel and uphold fascism, zionism, racism, ableism, and the other forces that shape the current structures of war and extraction we are so desperately trying to survive and resist. Eliana Rubin skillfully shows how radical frameworks like somatic healing and transformative justice can help us understand how the infrastructure of violence—the State itself—is implanted in our very psyches and bodies, and what it takes to root it out so that we can become the people we need to be to fight back and build a new world. This book is an immense contribution to resistance movements, which are in great need of politicized healing approaches as we face ecological crisis and collapse.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNzMifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/dean-spade\" title=\"Dean Spade\"\u003eDean Spade\u003c\/a\u003e, author of\u003ci\u003e Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During this Crisis (and the next)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“An important and on time contribution to the somatic field. In \u003ci\u003eTaking the State out of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e Rubin takes readers through the intricate landscape of embodied resistance and the intersections of identity. Rooted in their experience of Jewish identity and faith and community organizing, this book shows the impact of colonization, trauma and ethno-nationalism on our bodies and reminds us that the way to liberation is always through feeling and towards each other.” Prentis Hemphill, founder of the Embodiment Institute, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Wracked by its spectacular violence, we don’t always think about how the State intercedes in our mundane embodiment, severing our necessary interdependence. With a queer anti-Zionist Jewish approach, \u003ci\u003eTaking the State out of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e helps us train our minds towards doykeit, or hereness, where we can inhabit an iterative practice of resistance and repair through coregulation and care. This book is so necessary right now as we grapple with new and old generational trauma and face the seeming impossibility of exiting the cycles of violence. As Eliana Rubin shows us, we won’t be ready for liberation until we find our way back to each other in our bodies in healing relationship. In this book, we learn so many models of worldly, spiritual, and more-than-human survival and thriving.” Shuli Branson, author of \u003ci\u003ePractical Anarchism: A Guide for Daily Life\u003c\/i\u003e, host of \u003cem\u003eThe Breakup Theory \u003c\/em\u003epodcast\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“What an incredible resource Eliana has given us with \u003ci\u003eTaking the State out of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e. While it takes us intimately through the experience of a Jewish embodied experience of moving beyond Zionism, it is also so clear how this text can help everyone with a body think beyond the boundaries of the State and into deep relationship with the earth.” \u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjkwNjkifQ==\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/adrienne-maree-brown\" title=\"adrienne maree brown\"\u003eadrienne maree brown\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEmergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eTaking the State Out of the Body\u003c\/i\u003e is a passionate treatise on the revolutionary power of healing and Jewish identity. Instead of turning to the world of states, prisons, and militaries, Eliana Rubin shows us how the only solution to our shared history of trauma is a politics of mutual liberation, a battle by everyone for everyone.” Shane Burley, co-author of \u003ci\u003eSafety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEliana\u003c\/strong\u003e builds transgressive relationships with bodies, land, and lineage through their work as a somatic practitioner, politicized facilitator, anti-Zionist organizer, and full-spectrum doula. Their practice centers queer and trans organizers in developing embodied leadership as well as Jewish organizers in healing intergenerational trauma for the sake of collective liberation. They were born and raised by the dramatic landscapes and freaks of the San Francisco Bay Area, and are now rooted in the red clay of Durham, North Carolina.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42781619257437,"sku":"9798887440620","price":26.53,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/811Gb2uQyLL._AC_UF1000_1000_QL80.jpg?v=1728673816"},{"product_id":"how-to-break-an-addiction-a-method-in-a-manifesto-for-quitting-capitalism","title":"How to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"product-excerpt\" data-content-field=\"excerpt\" id=\"yui_3_17_2_1_1731333331239_135\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat the opioid epidemic teaches us about the addiction at the root of our social life—and how we free ourselves from it.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Break An Addiction\u003c\/em\u003e paints an original and dynamic portrait of the nature of the opioid crisis while offering original commentary on what the crisis portends about the present historical conjuncture. Interrogating long- and short-run, macro and micro, national and global, structural and personal factors, it takes the ongoing US opioid crisis as a jumping off point to illustrate the profound conclusion: capitalism at its core is an addiction.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eIn a blend of memoir, historical record, original research, and theoretical and cultural analysis, critical geographer and harm reduction activist Annie Spencer argues against a dominant ‘progressive’ presumption of the need to reform (or ‘save’) capitalism, demonstrating instead the imperative to think, organize, and enact new ways of being and provisioning together on a living Earth. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\" style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow To Break An Addiction \u003c\/em\u003erenders visible the extent to which the world we inhabit today is made by addiction—in capital’s image—and against life and well-being. Spencer calls for redress of the deepening crisis of addiction and the so-called ‘epidemic’ of pain at its root; for a paradigm shift away from the dominant economic logic in favor of new kinds of ecosystemic social practice and provision. We must innovate a new way of being human together in the here and now. Spencer’s first-person narration anchors rigorous and far-reaching research and theory, making for an original and impactful tour through capital’s addiction to crisis and our ability—and need—to break from it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5 style=\"white-space: pre-wrap;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #000000;\"\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"a-section a-spacing-small a-padding-small\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Annie Spencer’s bravery to speak the truth offers us a model and path forward, away from both the ‘suffering addict’ and victim-blaming discourses that surround the opioid crisis, and reminds us that there is so much more behind the death and destruction of illicit opioid use and accidental overdose in the United States. Weaving together personal experiences, socioeconomic analysis, and historical insight, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e invites us to look at this whole mess differently and reframes addiction and chaotic substance use as a consequence of systemic, calculated, and intentional choices. I hope every classroom across the country reads this book and I hope every harm reductionist embraces it. With its publication, we finally have a book that represents us degenerates, drug users, sex workers, queer people in a way that honors our experiences and celebrates our wisdom.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eZoe Odlin-Platz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Director of Operations, Church of Safe Injection\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is brilliant, gutting, miraculous, uncategorizable. It will crowbar-open neglected parts of your brain and set your heart on fire. It is not so much a book about addiction or the opioid crisis, as a book about our pain under capitalism and what it means to be an Earthling. Annie Spencer guides us gently through the centuries, the science, the Marxist theory, the contours of the precipice otherwise known as our times in poetic prose that is easy to understand, that sings, that transports, that reminds us about the best aspects of ourselves, that we have purpose and we have possibility.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eOwen Toews\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIsland Falls\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eStolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“An essential corrective to overdetermined narratives of addiction that locate the opioid crisis in either the damaged brains of users or in the unscrupulous hands of doctors, dealers, and pharma reps, Annie Spencer centers a capitalist logic that alienates us from forms of solidarity and violently clears ground for extractive profit. Clear-eyed in their outrage and grief, Spencer promiscuously moves between form, discipline and context in this essential indictment of a global system that keeps us in pain in order to sell us the fix.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBenjamin Haber\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Wesleyan University \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“As a mutual aid and harm reduction project committed to sharing resources and redistributing wealth throughout the Kensington community, we think \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break An Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is essential reading for anyone involved in similar work. This book humanizes our community members through its analysis, compellingly arguing that addiction is not a moral failing but a failure of a society reliant on capitalism. Dr. Spencer expertly identifies the pernicious ways the capitalist mode of production accumulates wealth through dispossession, especially for those that capital must fail in order to grow.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCommunity Action Relief Project\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a mutual aid organization in Philadelphia, PA \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “Annie Xibos Spencer, whose prose indicates that she could have just as likely been a rapper than a geographer, gives us a scholarly and accessible map of the people, policies, and corporations behind the opioid epidemic as well as our collective social pain. Our space-age materialist tour guide reveals the economic causes of chronic pain and morbidity and reveals that our recovery is predicated on a revolution that is more powerful than the chemicals. Substance users of the world, unite! We have nothing to lose but our chronic existential and physical pain!” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCassie Thornton\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Hologram: Feminist, Peer-to-Peer Health for a Post-Pandemic Future\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “This beautiful, forcefully argued book wrestles our understanding of addiction away from pathology and punishment, placing it exactly where it must be: in a history of capital, an extractive economic system which is fundamentally against life. Across these pages, Spencer argues that if our social movements strive, on the other hand, to be for life, then we must without question be on the side of those who have been treated as disposable and discarded as ‘addicts.’ Far from a call to rescue people from drug use, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow To Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reveals that understanding the political economy of the opioid epidemic’s devastation is a necessary step to saving ourselves from the death-making and deadening forces of capitalism today.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eCraig Willse\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Value of Homelessness\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a stellar analysis on the unavoidable poisons in the framework of survival. The wiring of our consciousness, our access to wellness, and our cognitive ability to separate truth from trauma, deteriorates under capitalism, destroying our voice and our purpose. In \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, studying the opioid epidemic becomes the axis between surviving systemic abuse and accessing self-care.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003ca data-lwsa=\"eyJhdXRvbGluayI6dHJ1ZSwiYXV0b19pZCI6IjI3Mjk0In0=\" href=\"https:\/\/leftwingbooks.net\/collections\/all\/cristy-c-road\" title=\"Cristy Road Carrera\"\u003eCristy Road Carrera\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author, artist; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eNext World Tarot, Spit \u0026amp; Passion\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “We know that capitalism is about the reign of abstractions, of surplus value over life, of abstract labor over the laboring body. These abstractions are codified and reified in the discipline of economics, which abstract itself from the lives that are wrecked in the wake of the pursuit of profit. What would it mean to think concretely? How can we locate thought in our bodies, in our struggle, and this moment? Annie Xibos Spencer’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction: A Method-in-a-Manifesto for Quitting Capitalism\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is not just a book on the opioid epidemic and its situation with late-capitalist strategies of exploitation and extraction, but a demonstration of how one can think in-and-through the specificity of one’s situation, one’s struggles, and even one’s pain to produce a common strategy for struggle and liberation.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eJason Read\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eThe Double Shift: Spinoza and Marx on the Politics of Work\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “This book isn’t just a story about the so-called ‘addict,’ the demon drug of OxyContin, or, even, the most evil people in the pharmaceutical industry (meet the Sacklers!). It is, at its core, a crime story about capitalism: how capitalism makes addicts of all of us but how the true addict is capital itself; how this dead but dominant paradigm destroys personal lives, but also planetary life. Damning as it is, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHow to Break an Addiction\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also deeply funny, generous, personal, moving—and, dare I say, healing! In short: this is the book about the opioid epidemic you want to hold in your hand to make sense of the world and the book you want holding your hand too as you break free.” Mikkel Frantzen, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eGoing Nowhere, Slow: The Aesthetics and Politics of Depression\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “Spencer’s work is a tour de force that effortlessly moves between the personal and the structural and thereby evokes the best of critical theory while at the same time producing an altogether novel approach to the most pressing societal issues of our time.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eBjörn Karlsson\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, organizer and scholar activist, IT University of Copenhagen\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e “The ongoing opioid ‘epidemic’ is a racialized class war. It is capitalism feeding on the misery it has created, presenting a gory scene full of murderous contradictions. What would an epic detective story read like if the victim were a whole society, if the killer were a system, and if the sleuth was not a cop but a comrade? This remarkable book offers us a model. It moves with precision, grace, and compassion between theory, testimony, political economy, history, biography, science, and vision. File it under a radical forensics, but rippling with a quiet, queer hope. It not only shows us the bodies, the motive, and the method of this monumental crime. Like the best of such stories, this one invites us to see the glint of solidarity in the grit and darkness, and by that light to find our way through the long night back to day.” \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eMax Haiven\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eRevenge Capitalism: The Ghosts of Empire, the Demons of Capital, and the Settling of Unpayable Debts\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\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\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eAnnie Xibos Spencer\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in North Philadelphia and grew up in Venice, Florida. They studied economics and international studies at New College of Florida and Latin American political economy at La Universidad de Belgrano in Buenos Aires. Their undergraduate honors thesis on the role of the IMF in the Argentine Peso Crisis earned them a job at the World Bank Institute where they worked as a writer and program evaluator while obtaining a MA in International Trade and Investment Policy at George Washington University. Spencer spent two summers in Dhaka, Bangladesh on a fellowship where she studied Bengali language and culture at the Independent University of Bangladesh and learned from feminist-Marxist agrarian movement, Naya Krishi Andolon. Spencer was an active participant in Occupy Wall Street and a founding member of the Occupy Student Debt Campaign and STRIKE Debt.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSpencer has worked extensively in mutual-aid harm reduction and organized on the opioid epidemic and against state abandonment of people who use drugs in Maine. In 2020 they completed a PhD in human geography from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, where they won the 2017 Provost’s Award for Scholarship in the Public Interest and the 2016 Revolutionizing American Studies dissertation award. Spencer was a doctoral fellow with the Center for Place, Culture and Politics and the Mellon Committee on Globalization and Social Change. They have taught economic geography, economics and cultural studies at Hunter College CUNY, the University of Southern Maine, and Bates College. They live in Sweden.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Common Notions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42865988010077,"sku":"9781945335198","price":33.6,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781945335198_FC.jpg?v=1731334556"},{"product_id":"sick-and-tired","title":"Sick and Tired: Health and Safety Inequalities","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing together a multidisciplinary group of experts from the fields of labour studies, public health, ergonomics, epidemiology, sociology and law, Sick and Tired examines the inequalities in workplace health and safety. Using an anti-oppressive framework, chapters interrogate a wide range of issues, including links between precarious employment and mental health, the inverse relationship between power and occupational health through the experiences of women, immigrants and older workers, and the need for creative strategies that promote health and safety in ways that support empowerment and equity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout the Editor\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStephanie Premji is an assistant professor at the School of Labour Studies and the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"collapsing-block-content\" style=\"display: block;\"\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eIntroduction: Causes and Expressions of Inequalities (Stephanie Premji) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Changing Nature of Work in Canada: Impact on the Health of Workers (Peter Smith)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eAre Millennials Being Stiffed? Work and Mental Health in a Neoliberal World (Wayne Lewchuk \u0026amp; Jeffrey Martin)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Aging Population and Workforce: Implications for Occupational Health and Safety (Harry Shannon, Lauren Griffith \u0026amp; Parminder Raina) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eWorkers’ Compensation in Ontario: Legislative and Policy Changes (Andrew King)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eOccupational Disease Recognition: The Science and Politics in Workers’ Compensation (Katherine Lippel)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eThe Dominant Breast Cancer Causation Paradigm: Challenging It Through the Lens of Media Discourses (Jane McArthur)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: Making Occupational Health Compatible with Gender Equality (Karen Messing)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eImmigrant Men and Women’s Occupational Health: Questioning the Myths (Stephanie Premji)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eHotel and Hospital Cleaning: Occupational Health and Safety Risks in the Neoliberal Era (Dan Zuberi \u0026amp; Melita Ptashnick) \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eCompounded Vulnerabilities and Creative Strategies: Occupational Health of Temporary Foreign Agricultural Workers (Janet McLaughlin, Michelle Tew \u0026amp; Eduardo Huesca)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eScience, Politics and Advocacy: The Fight to Ban Asbestos (Kathleen Ruff)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cspan class=\"toc-title\"\u003eReferences\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Fernwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42932653457501,"sku":"9781773630366","price":30.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781773630366_300_450_90-1.jpg?v=1733872403"},{"product_id":"my-teaching","title":"My Teaching","description":"\u003cp\u003eBringing together three previously unpublished lectures presented to the public by Lacan at the height of his career, and prefaced by Jacques-Alain Miller, \u003cem\u003eMy Teaching\u003c\/em\u003e is a clear, concise introduction to the thought of the influential psychoanalyst after Freud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"What does one discover in this book? First of all a language which, far from being jargon-heavy, has the ring of luminous clarity. Next, a sense of humour which delights in paradoxes, hops from one subject to another and takes the reader from the most elementary level to the most complex. A thought, of course, which cannot be easily summarized. A benevolence too, which reassures the layperson and helps when following the course of the talk. Finally, an immense fidelity which never ceases to invite us to reread Freud\u003ci\u003e.\" Elle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is certainly a book to recommend to all those who want to have a look at what Lacan has to say but who are reluctant to tackle his \u003ci\u003eÉcrits\u003c\/i\u003e or his \u003ci\u003eSeminars\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003ci\u003e\" Sciences humaines\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42954767499357,"sku":"9781804296011","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781804296011.jpg?v=1734635857"},{"product_id":"spectres-of-fascism","title":"Spectres of Fascism: Historical, Theoretical, and International Perspectives","description":"\u003cp\u003eConcerns over the rise of fascism have been preoccupied with the Trump presidency and the Brexit vote in the UK, yet, globally, we are witnessing a turn towards anti-democratic and illiberal forces. From the tragic denouement of the Egyptian Revolution to the consolidation of the so-called Gujarat Model in India under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the consolidation of the power of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to the recent election of Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, fascist ideology, aesthetics, and personalities appear across the globe. \u003ci\u003eSpectres of Fascism\u003c\/i\u003e makes a significant contribution to the unfolding discussion on whether what we are witnessing today is best understood as a return to classic twentieth-century fascism or some species of what has been called “post-fascism.” Applying a uniquely global perspective, it combines analyses of historical contexts, theoretical approaches, and contemporary geopolitics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-primary-col\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-panels\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"book-panel\" id=\"contents\"\u003e\n\u003ctable class=\"toc\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamir Gandesha\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePART I: HISTORY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e2. The “Hope of the Hopeless”: Contemporary Lessons from Marxist Struggles Against Hitler and Mussolini\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIngo Schmidt\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e3. The Future of Futurism: From the Avant-Garde to the Neo-Avant-Garde, or, How to Imagine Communism by Other Means\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJaleh Mansoor\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e4. The Aesthetics of Totalitarian Salvation\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlec Balasescu\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e5. Are the Alt-Right and French New Right Kindred Movements?\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTamir Bar-On\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePART II: THEORY\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e6. The Post-Democratic Horizon: Friend and Enemy in the Age of New Authoritarianism\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAm Johal\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e7. Which Came First, Fascism or Misogyny? Reading Klaus Theweleit’s Male Fantasies\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura U. Marks\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e8. “A Composite of King Kong and a Suburban Barber”: Adorno’s “Freudian Theory and the Pattern of Fascist Propaganda”\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSamir Gandesha\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e9. So, You Want a Master? Psychoanalytic Considerations on the Intellectual’s Responsibility in Light of Traumatic Repetition\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHilda Fernandez-Alvarez\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e10. Micro-Fascism in the Age of Trump\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Genosko\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e\u003ci\u003ePART III: THE CONTEMPORARY HORIZON\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e11. Fascist Neoliberalism and Preventive Counter-Revolution: The Second Round of the Latin American Laboratory\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVladimir Safatle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e12. Decolonizing the “Contemporary Left”?: An Indigenous Reflection on Justice in the New World Order\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePatricia M. Barkaskas\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e13. The Outsider as Insider: Steve Bannon, Fourth Turnings, and the Neofascist Threat\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoan Braune\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e14. Populism, Fascism, Neoliberalism: Theorizing Contemporary India\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAjay Gudavarthy and Vijay Gudavarthy\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e15. Art Contra Politics: Liberal Spectacle, Fascist Resurgence\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJohan F. Hartle\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes on Contributors\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-label\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eIndex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"toc-value\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch5\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat People Are Saying\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h5\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm;\"\u003e\n\u003cem\u003e“Spectres of Fascism\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates the terrifying resurgence of right-wing populist politics around the world, examining a variety of case studies from different critical theoretical perspectives. Essential reading for anyone interested in the uncanny return of fascistic tendencies within contemporary capitalist democracies.” John Abromeit, author of \u003cem\u003eMax Horkheimer and the Foundations of the Frankfurt School\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm;\"\u003e“This timely book provides profound insights into the rise of fascism that is currently taking hold, once again, in our world. Anyone seeking a deeper understanding of fascist populist rhetoric will find in this intelligent work a satisfying richness of thought that gives us hope in these times of darkness.” David Morgan, Psychoanalyst\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm;\"\u003e“Like a specter, fascism is protean in form yet more than a return of the past. Spanning from history to critical theory, from aesthetics to politics, and approaching fascism on a global scale, this book argues for a mindful commitment to the struggles of the present.\" Enzo Traverso, author of \u003cem\u003eThe New Faces of Fascism: Populism and the Far Right\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cblockquote style=\"margin-left: 0cm;\"\u003e“Drawing on a variety of disciplines and theoretical foundations, this volume offers a profound and multifaceted account of political formations marked by perplexing and paradoxical sets of motives, commitments and aims.” Ato Sekyi-Otu, author of \u003cem\u003eLeft Universalism, Africacentric Essays\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Between the Lines","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43025511579741,"sku":"9781771135016","price":34.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781771135016.jpg?v=1737147552"},{"product_id":"psychoanalysis-politics-and-utopia","title":"Psychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia: Five Lectures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn impassioned plea for overcoming capitalism, whose urgency is more timely today than when it was first published fifty years ago.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAnalysing the work of Freud and Marx, and taking in topics like automation, work, postcapitalism, utopia, and technology, \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia \u003c\/i\u003eexcavates the psychic roots of the current crisis of capitalist civilisation, and gives us a blueprint for the emancipation of humanity from the toils of capitalism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a world reeling from the ongoing collapse of the neoliberal consensus, coupled with the accelerating pace of catastrophic climate change wrought by capitalism, Marcuse’s radical insights\u003cspan class=\"atm_keep-reading-flag\"\u003e\u003csmall\u003e\u003ci class=\"fa fa-arrow-down\"\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e in \u003ci\u003ePsychoanalysis, Politics, and Utopia\u003c\/i\u003e are as urgently relevant today as they were in 1970. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Repeater","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43057355620445,"sku":"9781914420405","price":16.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0826\/1213\/files\/9781914420405.jpg?v=1738780946"},{"product_id":"feeling-at-home","title":"Feeling at Home: Transforming the Politics of Housing (Hardcover)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003eOur feelings about housing are political, and a grasp of them is essential to solving the housing crisis – from the author of \u003ci\u003eThey Call It Love\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHousing is more than bricks and mortar. The home is where our hopes and dreams play out, and it lies at the heart of our lives. This is where we rest, eat, and relax. The home we enjoy can determine our health, life expectancy, and day-to-day well-being. In contrast, the lack of a stable residence can lead to mental and physical illness and often premature death. This is central to how we conceive of a good and dignified life.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFeeling at Home\u003c\/i\u003e grapples with the practical and emotional questions of housing – domestic labour, privacy, security, ownership, and health. Is it possible to imagine success without home ownership? Alva Gotby makes clear that solving the housing crisis is about much more than housing stock. 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The stratagems in this book put rational logic and utopia back in the mix.\" Holly Pester, \u003ci\u003eFrieze\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A radical and refreshingly thoughtful study of housing, its effects on health and wellbeing, and the extent to which a home can dictate the quality of our lives.\" Foyles, \u003ci\u003eTop Ten Reads for January 2025\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This is an insightful and necessary book by one of the most promising feminist thinkers working today. The analysis is sharp, accessible, and timely. The short, punchy chapters never outstay their welcome, and there is a wonderful diversity of approach which is impressive in such a short book. Feeling at Home is a vital resource for anybody interested in the ways we organise our domestic lives.\" Helen Hester, author of \u003ci\u003eXenofeminism\u003c\/i\u003e, co-author of \u003ci\u003eAfter Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFeeling At Home\u003c\/i\u003e makes a compelling political case for something housing movements seem to forget: more homes, even very affordable ones, will not dismantle a fundamentally harmful and exploitative system. Gotby points toward a new horizon where housing can be a means of radically reshaping family, care, and society.\" Leslie Kern, author of \u003ci\u003eFeminist City\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In the best traditions of Marxism and feminism, Alva Gotby insists on asking far better questions. The result is this sophisticated, humane and exciting book.Feeling at Homeis a multi-point perspective that reveals everything that ‘home’ means, and - more importantly - ought to mean. It makes the radical seem obvious, and the impossible seem essential\" Nick Bano, author of \u003ci\u003eAgainst Landlords\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important focus on the complex and multi-layered nature of home and the housing question, and why we still need to fight for it.\" Andrea Gibbons, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Segregation\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her riveting new book, formidable scholar and organiser Alva Gotby tackles the personal and social calamities created by our continuing housing crisis. With elegant precision, Gotby shows how we can and must help restore the hope and vision necessary for the collective struggle for better homes for all, eliminating the widespread sense of powerlessness generated by housing precarity and instability. \u003ci\u003eFeeling at Home\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential resource for winning that struggle.\" The Care Collective, authors of \u003ci\u003eThe Care Manifesto\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important contribution to debates around social reproduction, care, the family and home. 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