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Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could by Adam Schiff
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever... -
![I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money by Madeline Pendleton]()
I Survived Capitalism and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt: Everything I Wish I Never Had to Learn About Money by Madeline Pendleton
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A big-hearted, no-bullshit memoir from the TikTok superstar about her journey from living paycheck to paycheck to creating a multi-million-dollar business that offers a compassionate alternative to capitalism • Includes no-nonsense life and money advice, from negotiating pay and building credit to putting home ownership within reach"Madeline's life is unique yet...Categorized as:
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![Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride, Joe Biden]()
Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality by Sarah McBride, Joe Biden
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsA timely and captivating memoir about gender identity set against the backdrop of the transgender equality movement, by a leading activist and the National Press Secretary for the Human Rights Campaign, the nation's largest LGBTQ civil rights organization. Sarah McBride is on a mission to fight for transgender rights around the world...Categorized as:
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![Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell]()
Wordslut: A Feminist Guide to Taking Back the English Language by Amanda Montell
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 24 ratings“I get so jazzed about the future of feminism knowing that Amanda Montell’s brilliance is rising up and about to explode worldwide.”—Jill SolowayA brash, enlightening, and wildly entertaining feminist look at gendered language and the way it shapes us.The word bitch conjures many images, but it is most often meant to describe an unpleasant woman...Categorized as:
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![Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates]()
Fix the System, Not the Women by Laura Bates
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratings'Get your daughters to read this, but only after your partners and sons have finished it’ Jo Brand'An astute and persuasive page-turner' Observer'A blistering manifesto for change' Dr Pragya Agarwal_____________________________________________________Too often, we blame women. For walking home alone at night. For not demanding a seat at the table... -
![Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter]()
Building a Movement to End the New Jim Crow: an organizing guide by Daniel Hunter
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsExpanding on the call to action in Michelle Alexander's acclaimed best-seller, The New Jim Crow, this accessible organizing guide puts tools in your hands to help you and your group understand how to make meaningful, effective change... -
![Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson]()
Black Marxism: The Making of the Black Radical Tradition by Cedric J. Robinson
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn this ambitious work, first published in 1983, Cedric Robinson demonstrates that efforts to understand black people's history of resistance solely through the prism of Marxist theory are incomplete and inaccurate. Marxist analyses tend to presuppose European models of history and experience that downplay the significance of black people and black communities as agents of change and resistance... -
![They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh]()
They Came for the Schools: One Town's Fight Over Race and Identity, and the New War for America's Classrooms by Mike Hixenbaugh
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody Award–winning and Pulitzer Prize finalist Southlake podcast... -
![Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire]()
Pedagogy of Freedom: Ethics, Democracy, and Civic Courage by Paulo Freire
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book displays the striking creativity and profound insight that characterized Freire's work to the very end of his life-an uplifting and provocative exploration not only for educators, but also for all that learn and live... -
![Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis by Dean Spade]()
Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity in This Crisis by Dean Spade
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMutual aid is the radical act of caring for each other while working to change the world.Around the globe, people are faced with a spiralling succession of crises, from the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, racist policing, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and severe wealth inequality... -
![Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare, Aurora Levins Morales]()
Exile and Pride: Disability, Queerness, and Liberation by Eli Clare, Aurora Levins Morales
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsFirst published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics... -
![The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates]()
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![When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones]()
When We Rise: My Life in the Movement by Cleve Jones
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe partial inspiration for the forthcoming ABC television mini-series from Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black, executive producer Gus Van Sant, and starring Guy Pearce, Mary-Louise Parker, Carrie Preston, and Rachel Griffiths.Born in 1954, Cleve Jones was among the last generation of gay Americans who grew up wondering if there were others out there like himself. There were...Categorized as:
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![The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten, Stefano Harney]()
The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning & Black Study by Fred Moten, Stefano Harney
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn this series of essays Fred Moten and Stefano Harney draw on the theory and practice of the black radical tradition as it supports, inspires, and extends contemporary social and political thought and aesthetic critique...Categorized as:
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![The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed]()
The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA bold exploration of the relationship between emotions and politics, through case studies on international terrorism, asylum, migration, reconciliation and reparation. Develops a theory of how emotions work and their effects on our daily lives...Categorized as:
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![Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis]()
Nobody Needs to Know: A Memoir by Pidgeon Pagonis
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsFrom intersex activist Pidgeon Pagonis comes a candid and life-affirming true story of identity, lies, family secrets, and the healing power of truth.Pidgeon Pagonis always felt like their life was a constant attempt to fit in with other girls—a feeling that was only exacerbated when puberty failed to hit. They never understood why…until they uncovered the secret that had haunted their childhood... -
![Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek, Major Griffin-Gracy]()
Miss Major Speaks: Conversations with a Black Trans Revolutionary by Toshio Meronek, Major Griffin-Gracy
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratings2024 Stonewall Honor Award for NonfictionThe future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist Miss 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... -
![After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau]()
After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America by Jessica Goudeau
Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSimply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion --The New York Times Book Review The story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in AmericaThe welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees have been central to America's identity for centuries--yet America has periodically turned its back in times of the...Categorized as:
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![When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan]()
When Brooklyn Was Queer by Hugh Ryan
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe groundbreaking, never-before-told story of Brooklyn’s vibrant and forgotten queer history, from the mid-1850s up to the present day.When Brooklyn Was Queer is a groundbreaking exploration of the LGBT history of Brooklyn, from the early days of Walt Whitman in the 1850s up through the women who worked at the Brooklyn Navy Yard during World War II, and beyond... -
![Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders]()
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag by Rob Sanders
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe very first picture book about the remarkable and inspiring story of the Gay Pride Flag!In this deeply moving and empowering true story, young readers will trace the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings in 1978 with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today’s world...Categorized as:
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![The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini]()
The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe secret history of the fight for gay rights that began a generation before Stonewall.In 1957, Frank Kameny, a rising astronomer working for the U.S. Defense Department in Hawaii, received a summons to report immediately to Washington, D.C... -
![Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey J. Selingo]()
Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeffrey J. Selingo
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom award-winning higher education journalist and New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Selingo comes a revealing look from inside the admissions office—one that identifies surprising strategies that will aid in the college search. Getting into a top-ranked college has never seemed more impossible, with acceptance rates at some elite universities dipping into the single digits... -
![The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid]()
The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care by T.R. Reid
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn The Healing of America, New York Times bestselling author T. R. Reid shows how all the other industrialized democracies have achieved something the United States can’t seem to do: provide health care for everybody at a reasonable cost... -
![The Courage of Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 by Michel Foucault, الزواوي بغوره]()
The Courage of Truth: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1983-1984 by Michel Foucault, الزواوي بغوره
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Courage of the Truth is the last course that Michel Foucault delivered at the Collège de France. Here, he continues the theme of the previous year's lectures in exploring the notion of "truth-telling" in politics to establish a number of ethically irreducible conditions based on courage and conviction...Categorized as:
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![It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery]()
It Was Vulgar and It Was Beautiful: How AIDS Activists Used Art to Fight a Pandemic by Jack Lowery
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas PrizeThe story of art collective Gran Fury—which fought back during the AIDS crisis through direct action and community-made propaganda—offers lessons in love and grief.In the late 1980s, the AIDS pandemic was annihilating queer people, intravenous drug users, and communities of color in America, and disinformation about the disease ran rampant... -
![The Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms]()
The Riot Grrrl Collection by Lisa Darms
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsArchival material from the 1990s underground movement "preserves a vital history of feminism" (Ann Cvetkovich, author of Depression: A Public Feeling).For the past two decades, young women (and men) have found their way to feminism through Riot Grrrl...Categorized as:
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![Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson]()
Being Seen: One Deafblind Woman's Fight to End Ableism by Elsa Sjunneson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA deafblind writer and professor explores how the misrepresentation of disability in books, movies, and TV harms both the disabled community and everyone else.As a deafblind woman with partial vision in one eye and bilateral hearing aids, Elsa Sjunneson lives at the crossroads of blindness and sight, hearing and deafness—much to the confusion of the world around her... -
![From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen]()
From Here to Equality: Reparations for Black Americans in the Twenty-First Century by William A. Darity Jr., A. Kirsten Mullen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRacism and discrimination have choked economic opportunity for African Americans at nearly every turn. At several historic moments, the trajectory of racial inequality could have been altered dramatically. Perhaps no moment was more opportune than the early days of Reconstruction, when the U.S... -
![Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas]()
Because of Sex: One Law, Ten Cases, and Fifty Years That Changed American Women's Lives at Work by Gillian Thomas
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratings“Meticulously researched and rewarding to read…Thomas is a gifted storyteller.” —The New York Times Book ReviewBest known as a monumental achievement of the civil rights movement, the 1964 Civil Rights Act also revolutionized the lives of America’s working women. Title VII of the law made it illegal to discriminate “because of sex... -
![Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond]()
Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Pulitzer Prize–winning, bestselling author of Evicted reimagines the debate on poverty, making a new and bracing argument about why it persists in America: because the rest of us benefit from it...Categorized as:
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