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This lyrical memoir of late motherhood reconstructs the lost history of a Black American family, defying erasure, intergenerational trauma, and racist violence.

In this evocative memoir, now a foundational text in postcolonial studies, an acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in a post-9/11 world.

A revolutionary depiction of the American working poor and environmental degradation by a nineteenth-century proletarian feminist.

Historically and culturally, various social groups such as women and people of colour have been excluded from inheritance. More recently advances in reproductive technology have also complicated notions of inheritance and genealogy. In this issue, scholars and writers reveal the multiplicity and power relations underlying inheritance while considering the broader role of feminist and reconstructionist efforts in redefining lineages of literary and intellectual inheritance.

The first of a new range of Drag Queen Story Hour books, authored and illustrated by a range of queer and feminist writers and artists. Each book is looked over by a sensitivity reader to ensure authentic, educational content.

Scholars examine the possibilities and limits of collective action, in the context of contemporary calls to mobilize against oppressive structures.

A pedagogical primer on integrating Black feminist thought, critical race studies, and America's most beloved pop star.

A debut story collection of darkly humorous, feminist speculative fiction from the Balkans.

A dynamic celebration of trans male culture, this essential collection makes visible a decade of FTM and transmasculine experiences.

Both on and off the rez, interlinked characters contend with history and identity as contemporary members of the Seneca Nation. Debut writer Melissa Michal weaves together an understated and contemplative collection exploring what it means to be Native. In these stories, the longing for intergenerational memory slips into everyday life: a teenager struggles to understand her grandmother''s silences, a family seeks to reconnect with a lost sibling, and a young woman searches for a cave that''s called to her family for generations.

In this surrealist novel, a woman’s feminist awakening drives a hypocritical village to madness in rural Uruguay.

In these stories, characters navigate fate via deft sleights of hand: a grandfather gambles on the monsoon rains; a consort finds herself a new assignment; a religious man struggles to keep his demons at bay. Central to the book is Isabella Sin, a smalltown girl transformed into a prisoner of conscience in Malaysia''s most notorious detention camp.

Structured like a Creole quadrille, this lyrical novel is a rich ethnography bearing witness to police violence in French Guadeloupe. Narrators both living and dead recount the racial and class stratification that led to a protest-turned-massacre. While Dambury''s English debut is a memorial to a largely forgotten atrocity, it is also a celebration of the vibrancy and resilience of Guadeloupeans.

A candid and encouraging guidebook about creating art as political upheaval, censorship, and oppression become normal.

Insidious assumptions of sex and violence poison a small-town family, resulting in a daughter taking survival to the extreme.

After two decades in prison, an ex-radical navigates reentry in New York by walking a series of high-strung, wealthy pooches.

This account of faith and solidarity excavates the forgotten radical activism that confronted race and gender in pre–Civil War America.

An outsider within her Jersey Shore family, Chef Rossi finds a home for her punk sensibilities inside the kitchen.

¿One of the most entertaining, excellently sustained and consistently developed novels of the season.";¿New York Times (1941)

Raised by immigrants and raising a brown son, Ana Castillo finds herself as a writer, feminist, and mother.

The son of Holocaust survivors promises he’ll marry Jewish—but life intervenes when he meets Cleo, an African American activist.

This beloved, groundbreaking collection created the necessary coursework to develop the field of black women's studies in the US.

A forty-three-year-old Latina stumbles her way to spiritual self-rescue through sexual adventures and small-time hustles.

The coming-of-age of a wide-eyed punk rocker and her delightful tribute to London and the voices in her head.

The electrifying story of the woman who wrote SCUM Manifesto and shot Andy Warhol.

Breaking news on Muslim women post Arab Spring.

A novel about sisters, the legacy of the Black Power Movement, and the troubled bond between African Americans and Africans.