Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
By: E. Patrick Johnson
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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1. Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City
By: Elijah Anderson
3.84
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.―Jonathan Yardley, Was… read more
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2. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
By: Audre Lorde
4.65
Format: 16 pages, Paperback
"There are many kinds of power, used and unused, acknowledged or otherwise." Thus begins this power… read more
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- lgbt
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"The aim of each thing which we do is to make our lives and the lives of our children richer and more possible."-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be ca…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"And that deep and irreplaceable knowledge of my capacity for joy comes to demand from all of my life that it be lived within the knowledge that such satisfaction is possible, and does not have to be …"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
"We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. But, once recognized, those which do not enhance our future lose their power and can be altered. The fear of our desires ke…"-Audre Lorde, Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power
3. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches
By: Audre Lorde
3.63
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
A collection of fifteen essays written between 1976 and 1984 gives clear voice to Audre Lorde's lit… read more
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4. Butch Queens Up in Pumps: Gender, Performance, and Ballroom Culture in Detroit
By: Marlon M. Bailey
4.33
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Butch Queens Up in Pumpsexamines Ballroom culture, in which inner-city LGBT individuals dress, danc… read more
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- history
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- queer
5. Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics
By: bell hooks
4.18
Format: None pages,
Acclaimed cultural critic bell hooks offers an open-hearted and welcoming vision of gender, sexuali… read more
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6. Orlando
By: Virginia Woolf , Sandra M Gilbert
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
Virginia Woolf's Orlando 'The longest and most charming love letter in literature', playfully const… read more
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- feminism
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"Life and a lover"-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Thoughts are divine."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"All extremes of feeling are allied with madness."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."-Virginia Woolf, Orlando
7. Stone Butch Blues
By: Leslie Feinberg
4.43
Format: 230 pages, Hardcover
Woman or man? This internationally acclaimed novel looks at the world through the eyes of Jess Gold… read more
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8. The Fire Next Time
By: James Baldwin
3.54
Format: None pages, Paperback
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Timegalvanized the nation and g… read more
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- nonfiction
- race
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9. Feminism without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity
By: Chandra Talpade Mohanty
3.76
Format: None pages, Paperback
Bringing together classic and new writings of the trailblazing feminist theorist Chandra Talpade Mo… read more
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10. The Twilight of Equality: Neoliberalism, Cultural Politics, and the Attack on Democracy
By: Lisa Duggan
4.31
Format: 1056 pages, Paperback
By now we've all heard about the shocking redistribution of wealth that's occurred during the last … read more
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11. Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
By: Judith Butler
3.81
Format: None pages,
Since its publication in 1990, Gender Troublehas become one of the key works of contemporary femini… read more
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12. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
By: Cornel West , Angela Y. Davis , Frank Barat
3.78
Format: None pages, Paperback
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Ange… read more
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13. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
By: bell hooks
3.46
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes ab… read more
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14. This Is How You Lose the Time War
By: Amal El-Mohtar
3.88
Format: 209 pages, Kindle Edition
Among the ashes of a dying world, an agent of the Commandant finds a letter. It reads: Burn before … read more
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"Atlantis sinks. Serves it right."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
"And everyone is alive, somewhere in time."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
"All the stars are eyes here, always seeking."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
"I would rather break the world than lose you."-Amal El-Mohtar, This Is How You Lose the Time War
15. A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Monk & Robot, #1)
By: Becky Chambers
None
Format: 160 pages, Kindle Edition
ASIN B08H831J18 moved to the more recent edition Centuries before, robots of Panga gained self-a… read more
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16. Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
By: Saidiya Hartman
4.46
Format: 441 pages, Paperback
A breathtaking exploration of the lives of young black women in the early twentieth century. In … read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- nonfiction
- queer
"No, Kropotkin never described black women's mutual aid societies or the chorus in Mutual Aid, although he imagined animal society in its rich varieties & the forms of cooperation & mutuality found am…"-Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals
17. The Creative Act: A Way of Being
By: Rick Rubin
4.04
Format: 406 pages, Hardcover
From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their… read more
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"Find the sustainable rituals that best support your work."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"In terms of priority, inspiration comes first. You come next. The audience comes last."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"When it comes to the creative process, patience is accepting that the majority of the work we do is out of our control."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
"Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both."-Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being
18. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
By: Becky Chambers
4.41
Format: 152 pages, Kindle Edition
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robo… read more
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"It's one thing to be told about the world that was. It's another to see a piece of it."-Becky Chambers, A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
19. A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
By: Freya Marske
3.96
Format: 377 pages, Kindle Edition
Set in an alternative Edwardian England, this is a comedy of manners, manor houses, and hedge mazes… read more
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" Off administering a country seat, indeed. Robin had nothing against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town and let it administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" Off administering a country seat,> indeed. Robin had nothing at all against the country, but could never shake the impression that it would rather everyone buggered off to town an administer itself …"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
"You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fist to whoever taught you t…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
" You look like a Turner painting and I want to learn your textures with my fingertips. You are the most fascinating thing in this beautiful house. I'd like to introduce my fists to whoever taught you…"-Freya Marske, A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding, #1)
20. The Color Purple
By: Alice Walker
4.27
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and … read more
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"Time moves slowly, but passes quickly."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"Tea to the English is really a picnic indoors."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"I am an expression of the divine, just like a peach is, just like a fish is."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
"Everything want to be loved. Us sing and dance and holler, just trying to be loved."-Alice Walker, The Color Purple
21. Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology
By: E. Patrick Johnson
4.29
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
While over the past decade a number of scholars have done significant work on questions of black le… read more
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