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The Feminist Killjoy Handbook: The Radical Potential of Getting in the Way By Sara Ahmed Cover Image
$30.00
ISBN: 9781541603752
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Published: Seal Press - October 3rd, 2023

A renowned feminist thinker argues we need to get in the way of happiness, our own and other people’s, to build a more just world 

Do you refuse to laugh at offensive jokes? Have you ever been accused of ruining dinner by pointing out your companion’s sexist comment? Are you often told to stop being so “woke”?


Home Girls, 40th Anniversary Edition: A Black Feminist Anthology By Barbara Smith (Editor), Tania Abdulahad (Contributions by), Donna Allegra (Contributions by), Barbara A. Banks (Contributions by), Becky Birtha (Contributions by), Cenen (Contributions by), Professor Cheryl Clarke (Contributions by), Michelle Cliff (Contributions by), Michelle T. Clinton (Contributions by), Willi (Willie) M. Coleman (Contributions by), Toi Derricotte (Contributions by), Alexis De Veaux (Contributions by), Jewelle L. Gomez (Contributions by), Akasha (Gloria) Hull (Contributions by), Patricia Spears Jones (Contributions by), Professor June Jordan (Contributions by), Professor Audre Lorde (Contributions by), Raymina Y. Mays (Contributions by), Deidre McCalla (Contributions by), Chirlane McCray (Contributions by), Pat Parker (Contributions by), Linda C. Powell (Contributions by), Bernice Johnson Reagon (Contributions by), Spring Redd (Contributions by), Gwendolyn Rogers (Contributions by), Kate Rushin (Contributions by), Ann Allen Shockley (Contributions by), Barbara Smith (Contributions by), Beverly Smith (Contributions by), Shirley O. Steele (Contributions by), Luisah Teish (Contributions by), Jameelah Waheed (Contributions by), Alice Walker (Contributions by), Renita J. Weems (Contributions by) Cover Image
By Barbara Smith (Editor), Tania Abdulahad (Contributions by), Donna Allegra (Contributions by), Barbara A. Banks (Contributions by), Becky Birtha (Contributions by), Cenen (Contributions by), Professor Cheryl Clarke (Contributions by), Michelle Cliff (Contributions by), Michelle T. Clinton (Contributions by), Willi (Willie) M. Coleman (Contributions by), Toi Derricotte (Contributions by), Alexis De Veaux (Contributions by), Jewelle L. Gomez (Contributions by), Akasha (Gloria) Hull (Contributions by), Patricia Spears Jones (Contributions by), Professor June Jordan (Contributions by), Professor Audre Lorde (Contributions by), Raymina Y. Mays (Contributions by), Deidre McCalla (Contributions by), Chirlane McCray (Contributions by), Pat Parker (Contributions by), Linda C. Powell (Contributions by), Bernice Johnson Reagon (Contributions by), Spring Redd (Contributions by), Gwendolyn Rogers (Contributions by), Kate Rushin (Contributions by), Ann Allen Shockley (Contributions by), Barbara Smith (Contributions by), Beverly Smith (Contributions by), Shirley O. Steele (Contributions by), Luisah Teish (Contributions by), Jameelah Waheed (Contributions by), Alice Walker (Contributions by), Renita J. Weems (Contributions by)
$27.95
ISBN: 9781978838994
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Published: Rutgers University Press - October 13th, 2023

Home Girls, the pioneering anthology of Black feminist thought, features writing by Black feminist and lesbian activists on topics both provocative and profound. Since its initial publication in 1983, it has become an essential text on Black women's lives and contains work by many of feminism's foremost thinkers.


We Pursue Our Magic: A Spiritual History of Black Feminism By Marina Magloire Cover Image
$30.75
ISBN: 9781469674896
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Published: University of North Carolina Press - September 5th, 2023

The Sisterhood: How a Network of Black Women Writers Changed American Culture By Courtney Thorsson Cover Image
$28.95
ISBN: 9780231204729
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Published: Columbia University Press - November 7th, 2023

One Sunday afternoon in February 1977, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Ntozake Shange, and several other Black women writers met at June Jordan's Brooklyn apartment to eat gumbo, drink champagne, and talk about their work.


50 Years of Ms.: The Best of the Pathfinding Magazine That Ignited a Revolution By Katherine Spillar (Editor), Eleanor Smeal (Introduction by), Gloria Steinem (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Katherine Spillar (Editor), Eleanor Smeal (Introduction by), Gloria Steinem (Foreword by)
$50.00
ISBN: 9780593321560
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Published: Knopf - September 19th, 2023

The New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice A celebration of Ms.—the most startling, most audacious, most norm-breaking of the magazine's groundbreaking pieces on women, men, politics (sexual and otherwise), marriage, family, education, work, motherhood, and reproductive rights, as well as the best of the magazine’s fiction, poetry, and letters.


Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care By Mariame Kaba, Kelly Hayes, Maya Schenwar (Foreword by) Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9781642598278
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Published: Haymarket Books - May 16th, 2023

What fuels and sustains activism and organizing when it feels like our worlds are collapsing? Let This Radicalize You is a practical and imaginative resource for activists and organizers building power in an era of destabilization and catastrophe.


Women Who Change the World: Stories from the Fight for Social Justice (City Lights Open Media) By Lynn Lewis (Editor), Loretta Ross, Hilary Moore Cover Image
$17.95
ISBN: 9780872868748
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Published: City Lights Books - August 29th, 2023

Nine women who have dedicated their lives to the struggle for social justice--movement leaders, organizers, and cultural workers--tell their life stories in their own words.


Healing Justice Lineages: Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety By Cara Page, Erica Woodland, Aurora Levins Morales (Foreword by) Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781623177140
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Published: North Atlantic Books - February 7th, 2023

A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineages


Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma By Claire Dederer Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780525655114
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Published: Knopf - April 25th, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • NATIONAL BESTSELLER A timely, passionate, provocative, blisteringly smart interrogation of how we make and experience art in the age of cancel culture, and of the link between genius and monstrosity. Can we love the work of controversial classic and contemporary artists but dislike the artist?


Sisterhood Heals: The Transformative Power of Healing in Community By Joy Harden Bradford, PhD Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593497241
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Published: Ballantine Books - June 27th, 2023

From the licensed clinical psychologist behind the award-winning podcast Therapy for Black Girls comes “a roadmap for personal growth and improved connections with others, ultimately leading to a more fulfilling and joyful life” (Nedra Glover Tawwab, New York Times bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace and Drama Free)


All the Black Girls Are Activists: A Fourth Wave Womanist Pursuit of Dreams as Radical Resistance By EbonyJanice Moore Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9781955905466
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Published: Row House Publishing - July 11th, 2023

“Who would black women get to be if we did not have to create from a place of resistance?”

Hip Hop Womanist writer and theologian EbonyJanice’s book of essays center a fourth wave of Womanism, dreaming, the pursuit of softness, ancestral reverence, and radical wholeness as tools of liberation. 

All The Black Girls Are Activists is a lo


Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness By Moon Charania Cover Image
$28.55
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ISBN: 9781478019473
Published: Duke University Press - August 4th, 2023

In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother.


In Visible Archives: Queer and Feminist Visual Culture in the 1980s By Margaret Galvan Cover Image
$33.60
ISBN: 9781517903244
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Published: Univ Of Minnesota Press - September 26th, 2023

Analyzing how 1980s visual culture provided a vital space for women artists to theorize and visualize their own bodies and sexualities

In 1982, the protests of antiporn feminists sparked the censorship of the Diary of a Conference on Sexuality, a radical and sexually evocative image-text volume whose silencing became a symbol for the irresolvable feminist sex wars.


Deep Care: The Radical Activists Who Provided Abortions, Defied the Law, and Fought to Keep Clinics Open By Angela Hume Cover Image
$24.00
ISBN: 9781849355261
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Published: AK Press - November 14th, 2023

The story of the radical feminist networks who worked outside the law to defend abortion. Starting in the 1970s, small groups of feminist activists met regularly to study anatomy, practice pelvic exams on each other, and learn how to safely perform a procedure known as menstrual extraction, which can end a pregnancy, using equipment easily bought and assembled at home.


The Trouble with White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism By Kyla Schuller, Brittney Cooper (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Kyla Schuller, Brittney Cooper (Foreword by)
$18.99
ISBN: 9781645036876
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Published: Bold Type Books - May 2nd, 2023

An incisive history of self-serving white feminists and the inspiring women who’ve continually defied them

Women including Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Margaret Sanger, and Sheryl Sandberg are commonly celebrated as leaders of feminism. Yet they have fought for the few, not the many.


$15.95
ISBN: 9780807006474
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Published: Beacon Press - January 10th, 2023

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
AN INDIE BESTSELLER


“One of the great thinkers of our generation . . . I feel fresher and smarter and happier for sitting down with her.”—Jameela Jamil, iWeigh Podcast


Birthing Liberation: How Reproductive Justice Can Set Us Free By Sabia Wade Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781641607964
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Published: Chicago Review Press - March 7th, 2023

Birthing Liberation presents reproductive justice as the pathway to equity and the birthplace of liberation.

Sabia C.


So We Can Know: Writers of Color on Pregnancy, Loss, Abortion, and Birth By Aracelis Girmay (Editor) Cover Image
By Aracelis Girmay (Editor)
$21.95
ISBN: 9781642598391
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Published: Haymarket Books - February 7th, 2023

An anthology of nonfiction by writers of color that transcends form, So We Can Know is a record of varied and intricate relationships to pregnancy.


Twelve Feminist Lessons of War By Cynthia Enloe Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780520397675
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Published: University of California Press - September 19th, 2023

Renowned scholar-activist Cynthia Enloe lays out the lessons that women activists have drawn from their immediate experiences of war.
 
Twelve Feminist Lessons of War draws on firsthand experiences of war from women in places as diverse as Ukraine, Myanmar, Somalia, Vietnam, Rwanda, Algeria, Syria, and Northern Ireland to show how women's wars are not men's wa


Family Abolition: Capitalism and the Communizing of Care By M. E. O'Brien Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9780745343822
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Published: Pluto Press - June 10th, 2023

“An accessibly written distillation of two centuries worth of reproductive class struggle; a revived vision of revolutionary ‘beloved community’ for an age of climate catastrophe.


Gender Heretics: Evangelicals, Feminists, and the Alliance against Trans Liberation By Rebecca Jane Morgan Cover Image
$22.95
ISBN: 9780745349015
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Published: Pluto Press - September 20th, 2023

‘Compellingly explains the anti-trans alliance of radical feminists and conservative evangelicals. Intellectually rich yet accessible’ Pippa Catterall, Professor, University of Westminster and Chair of AIDS Memory UK

‘We live in a time when anti-trans politics is becoming increasingly dehumanising and dangerous.


The Everyday Feminist: The Key to Sustainable Social Impact Driving Movements We Need Now More Than Ever By Latanya Mapp Frett, Cecile Richards (Foreword by) Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9781119890461
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Published: Wiley - March 8th, 2023

An invigorating exploration of impactful feminist movements and strategies for replicating their success


In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial By Mona Chollet, Sophie R. Lewis (Translated by), Carmen Maria Machado (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Mona Chollet, Sophie R. Lewis (Translated by), Carmen Maria Machado (Introduction by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9781250894878
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - October 3rd, 2023

Mona Chollet's In Defense of Witches is a “brilliant, well-documented” celebration (Le Monde) by an acclaimed French feminist of the witch as a symbol of female rebellion and independence in the face of misogyny and persecution.


Men Who Hate Women: From Incels to Pickup Artists: The Truth about Extreme Misogyny and How it Affects Us All By Laura Bates Cover Image
$18.99
ISBN: 9781728290904
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Published: Sourcebooks - August 1st, 2023

The first comprehensive undercover look at the terrorist movement no one is talking about.

Delve into the gripping and eye-opening world of Men Who Hate Women, as acclaimed feminist writer Laura Bates presents an unflinching examination of the pervasive misogyny that plagues our society.


For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color By Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781541674882
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Published: Seal Press - October 11th, 2022

This “electrifying debut” (Los Angeles Times) arms women of color with the tools and knowledge they need to find success on their own terms  

For generations, Brown girls have had to push against powerful forces of sexism, racism, and classism, often feeling alone in the struggle. By founding Latina Rebels, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríg


Abolition. Feminism. Now. By Angela Y. Davis, Gina Dent, Erica R. Meiners Cover Image
$16.95
ISBN: 9781642592580
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Published: Haymarket Books - January 18th, 2022

As a politic and a practice, abolition increasingly shapes our political moment -- halting the construction of new jails and propelling movements to divest from policing.


The Trauma of Caste: A Dalit Feminist Meditation on Survivorship, Healing, and Abolition By Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Tarana Burke (Foreword by), Aishah Shahidah Simmons (Epilogue by), Cornel West (Afterword by) Cover Image
By Thenmozhi Soundararajan, Tarana Burke (Foreword by), Aishah Shahidah Simmons (Epilogue by), Cornel West (Afterword by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9781623177652
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Published: North Atlantic Books - November 15th, 2022

Instant Amazon Best Seller and Hot New Release

For readers of Caste and Radical Dharma, an urgent call to action to end caste apartheid, grounded in Dalit feminist abolition and engaged Buddhism.


Feelin: Creative Practice, Pleasure, and Black Feminist Thought By Bettina Judd Cover Image
$32.00
ISBN: 9780810145320
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Published: Northwestern University Press - December 15th, 2022

How creativity makes its way through feeling—and what we can know and feel through the artistic work of Black women
 
Feeling is not feelin.


Ride or Die: A Feminist Manifesto for the Well-Being of Black Women By Shanita Hubbard Cover Image
$27.00
ISBN: 9780306874673
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Published: Legacy Lit - November 8th, 2022

Cultural criticism and pop culture history intertwine in this important book, which dissects how hip hop has sidelined Black women's identity and emotional well-being.

A “ride-or-die chick” is a woman who holds down her family and community.


Bad Fat Black Girl: Notes from a Trap Feminist By Sesali Bowen Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780063111745
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Published: Amistad - September 13th, 2022

“Sesali Bowen is poised to give Black feminism the rejuvenation it needs. Her trendsetting writing and commentary reaches across experiences and beyond respectability. I and so many Black girls still figuring out who they are in this world will gain so much from whatever she has to say.”—Charlene A.


Black Trans Feminism By Marquis Bey Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781478017813
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Published: Duke University Press - February 25th, 2022

In Black Trans Feminism Marquis Bey offers a meditation on blackness and gender nonnormativity in ways that recalibrate traditional understandings of each.


The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century By Amia Srinivasan Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250858795
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Published: Picador - September 20th, 2022

“Laser-cut writing and a stunning intellect. If only every writer made this much beautiful sense.” —Lisa Taddeo, author of Three Women


Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change By Angela Garbes Cover Image
$25.99
ISBN: 9780062937360
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Published: Harper - May 10th, 2022

NATIONAL BESTSELLER

From the acclaimed author of Like a Mother comes a reflection on the state of caregiving in America, and an exploration of mothering as a means of social change.


The Story of Jane: The Legendary Underground Feminist Abortion Service By Laura Kaplan Cover Image
$18.00
ISBN: 9780593471081
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Published: Vintage - October 25th, 2022

The powerful story of the women who founded and ran the legendary Chicago reproductive rights organization Abortion Counseling Service, otherwise known as Jane, written by one of its members. A compelling testament to a woman's most essential freedom—control over her own body—and to the power of women helping women.


Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption By Rafia Zakaria Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781324035992
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 20th, 2022

A radically inclusive, intersectional, and transnational approach to the fight for women’s rights.


Misogynoir Transformed: Black Women's Digital Resistance (Intersections #18) By Moya Bailey Cover Image
$19.49
ISBN: 9781479878741
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Published: New York University Press - September 1st, 2022

Where racism and sexism meet--an understanding of anti-Black misogyny


Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. By Susan Raffo Cover Image
$22.00
ISBN: 9781849354653
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Published: AK Press - November 15th, 2022

A way to deepen our understanding of the relationship between social justice and the work of healing--healing as individuals, communities, and societies.


The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred By Chanda Prescod-Weinstein Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781541724686
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Published: Bold Type Books - May 10th, 2022

From a star theoretical physicist, a journey into the world of particle physics and the cosmos—and a call for a more liberatory practice of science.

Winner of the 2021 Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Science & Technology
Winner of the 2022 Phi Beta Kappa Book Award in Science
Winner of the 2022 PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Award
A Finali


This Bridge Called My Back, Fortieth Anniversary Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color By Cherríe Moraga (Editor), Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor) Cover Image
By Cherríe Moraga (Editor), Gloria Anzaldúa (Editor)
$42.49
ISBN: 9781438488288
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Published: State University of New York Press - November 1st, 2021

Fortieth anniversary edition of the foundational text of women of color feminism.


A Dirty South Manifesto: Sexual Resistance and Imagination in the New South (American Studies Now: Critical Histories of the Present #10) By L.H. Stallings Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9780520299504
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Published: University of California Press - December 10th, 2019

From the shutdown of Planned Parenthood clinics and rising rates of HIV to opposition to marriage equality and bathroom bills, the New South is the epicenter of the new sex wars.


Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation By Adrienne Maree Brown Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9781849354189
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Published: AK Press - May 25th, 2021

In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life?


Digital Black Feminism (Critical Cultural Communication) By Catherine Knight Steele Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781479808380
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Published: New York University Press - October 26th, 2021

Traces the longstanding relationship between technology and Black feminist thought


What's Up with White Women?: Unpacking Sexism and White Privilege in Pursuit of Racial Justice By Ilsa Govan, Tilman Smith Cover Image
$19.99
ISBN: 9780865719613
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Published: New Society Publishers - October 19th, 2021

As a white woman, ask yourself: are you upholding or fighting racism?

What's Up with White Women? is a practical guide for white women who are interested in becoming more effective in their cross-cultural, anti-racist practices.


Gender(s) (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series) By Kathryn Bond Stockton Cover Image
$15.95
ISBN: 9780262542609
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Published: The MIT Press - August 31st, 2021

Why gender is strange, even when it's played straight, and how race and money are two of its most dramatic ingredients.


The Soul of a Woman By Isabel Allende Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780593355626
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Published: Ballantine Books - March 2nd, 2021

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Long Petal of the Sea comes “a bold exploration of womanhood, feminism, parenting, aging, love and more” (Associated Press).

The Soul of a Woman is Isabel Allende’s most liberating book yet.”—Elle


Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot By Mikki Kendall Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780525560562
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Published: Penguin Books - February 23rd, 2021

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER


We Were There: The Third World Women's Alliance and the Second Wave By Patricia Romney Cover Image
$19.95
ISBN: 9781952177828
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Published: Feminist Press - October 12th, 2021

"Fifty years ago, the Third World Women's Alliance passionately insisted on interconnections among racism, sexism, and capitalism, inspiring radical analytical frameworks and organizing strategies associated with contemporary conceptions of feminism.


Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals By Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Adrienne Maree Brown (Foreword by) Cover Image
$15.00
ISBN: 9781849353977
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Published: AK Press - November 17th, 2020

Undrowned is a book-length meditation for social movements and our whole species based on the subversive and transformative guidance of marine mammals. Our aquatic cousins are queer, fierce, protective of each other, complex, shaped by conflict, and struggling to survive the extractive and militarized conditions our species has imposed on the ocean.


The Selected Works of Audre Lorde By Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Audre Lorde, Roxane Gay (Editor), Roxane Gay (Introduction by)
$16.95
ISBN: 9781324004615
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - September 8th, 2020

A definitive selection of Audre Lorde’s "intelligent, fierce, powerful, sensual, provocative, indelible" (Roxane Gay) prose and poetry, for a new generation of readers.