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Casey Plett's 2018 novel "Little Fish" won a Lambda Literary Award, the Firecracker Award for Fiction, and the Amazon First Novel Award. Her latest work, "A Dream of a Woman", is her first book of short stories since her seminal 2014 collection"A Safe Girl to Love". Centering transgender women seeking stable, adult lives, "A Dream of a ....
Autor_innen: Plett, Casey
By the author of Little Fish and A Dream of a Woman: eleven unique short stories featuring young trans women stumbling through loss, sex, harassment, and love in settings ranging from a rural Mennonite town to a hipster gay bar in Brooklyn. These stories, shiny with whiskey and prairie sunsets, rattling subways and neglected cats, show ....
Autor_innen: Plett, Casey
Spanning three continents, Butter Honey Pig Bread tells the interconnected stories of three Nigerian women: Kambirinachi and her twin daughters, Kehinde and Taiye. Kambirinachi believes that she is an Ogbanje, or an Abiku, a non-human spirit that plagues a family with misfortune by being born and then dying in childhood to cause a human ....
Autor_innen: Ekwuyasi, Francesca
Dreaming Disability Justice
In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and ....
Autor_innen: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid
In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to acknowledge the power and resilience of the disabled community, and to call out ableist culture wherever it appears.Crip Kinship explores the art activism of Sins Invalid, a San Francisco Bay Area-based performance project, and its radical ....
Autor_innen: Kafai, Shayda
In 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. She ended up in Toronto, where she was welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet she remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. ....
Autor_innen: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
Ivan E. Coyote and Rae Spoon are accomplished, award-winning writers, musicians, and performers; they are also both admitted "gender failures." In their first collaborative book, Ivan and Rae explore and expose their failed attempts at fitting into the gender binary, and how ultimately our expectations and assumptions around traditional ....
Autor_innen: Spoon, Rae; Coyote, Ivan E.
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?In a heartbreaking yet hopeful collection of personal essays and prose poems, blending the confessional, political, and literary, ....
Autor_innen: Thom, Kai Cheng
A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I’ve Learned About Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way
Being a parent is enormously joyful, but it is also an enormous amount of work. Parenting requires you to make dozens of decisions a day, every one of which in some way shapes the person your child will grow into. It can be difficult to know in these moments whether you're on the right track. Progressive parents especially can feel adrift ....
Autor_innen: Bergman, S. Bear
Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health
What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive? What if the health system honored and valued queer and trans people’s lives, bodies and expertise? What if LGBTQ+ communities led and organized our own health care as a form of mutual aid? What if every aspect of our health care was ....
Autor_innen: Sharman, Zena
Prophecies, Love Notes, and Mourning Songs
In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled - and what if that's not a bad thing? And what if disability justice and disabled wisdom are crucial to creating a future in which it's possible to survive fascism, climate ....
Autor_innen: Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
