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Alive at the End of the World

Pierced by grief and charged with history, this new poetry collection from the award-winning author of Prelude to Bruise and How We Fight for Our Lives confronts our everyday apocalypses.

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Hijab Butch Blues

A queer hijabi Muslim immigrant survives her coming-of-age by drawing strength and hope from stories in the Quran in this daring, provocative, and radically hopeful memoir.

When fourteen-year-old Lamya…

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One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.

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I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl's Notes from the End of the World

What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith?…

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Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justi…

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All the Birds in the Sky

Childhood friends Patricia Delfine, a witch, and Laurence Armstead, a mad scientist, parted ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. But as adults they both wind up in near-future San…

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Butter Honey Pig Bread

Longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize

Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and T…

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The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World

The hidden story of the wanton slaughter -- in Indonesia, Latin America, and around the world -- backed by the United States.

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Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement

In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throu…

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Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender

A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity 

Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or …

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Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

This tour de force of investigative journalism—in the vein of The Next Civil War and Why We’re Polarized—depicts the United States of America as a country at a crossroads with the battle between the r…

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Our Work Is Everywhere: An Illustrated Oral History of Queer and Trans Resistance

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Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls

What happens when we imagine loving the people--and the parts of ourselves--that we do not believe are worthy of love?

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