{"title":"Lesbian","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"the-disappearing-l","title":"The Disappearing L: Erasure of Lesbian Spaces and Culture","description":"explores the rise and fall of the hugely popular women-only concerts, festivals, bookstores, and support spaces built by and for lesbians in the era of woman-identified activism. Through the stories unfolding in these chapters, anyone unfamiliar with the Michigan festival, Olivia Records, or the women's bookstores once dotting the urban landscape will gain a better understanding of the era in which artists and activists first dared to celebrate lesbian lives. This book offers the backstory to the culture we are losing to mainstreaming and assimilation. Through interviews with older activists, it also responds to recent attacks on lesbian feminists who are being made to feel that they've hit their cultural expiration date.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46156370903217,"sku":"9781438461762","price":48.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46156370935985,"sku":"9781438461779","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46156370968753,"sku":"870e1996-caf4-3ca3-9caf-25bddb40e397","price":40.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1e549233-aa10-4b69-9458-729ea396c6dc.jpg?v=1763223774"},{"product_id":"we-walk-alone","title":"We Walk Alone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe 1950s queer-life groundbreaker by “a literary pioneer . . . [who] forever changed perceptions of same-sex love and desire” (Advocate.com).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAnn Aldrich flung a provocative assertion at her readers in 1955 when she opened her landmark account of lesbian life in New York City by saying this book was the “result of fifteen years of participation in society as a female homosexual.”\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eAfter the release of \u003cem\u003eWe Walk Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, Aldrich became both a heroine and a scapegoat in some of the period’s most contentious public debates over what exactly “lesbian culture” was. Her non-fiction pulp literally transformed the landscape overnight, and “the effect on women was electric. From every corner of creation, they wrote wrenching letters of relief and gratitude” (Ann Bannon, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beebo Brinker Chronicles).\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003ePart Kinsey-esque portraits of real people, part you-are-there reports on the scene in bars and offices and at clubs and house parties, \u003cem\u003eWe Walk Alone\u003c\/em\u003e is revealing and compelling composite of an alienated yet amazingly self-aware community—one that Aldrich would revisit three years later in \u003cem\u003eWe, Too, Must Love\u003c\/em\u003e. Today, “these essential cultural artifacts” (\u003cem\u003eUTNE Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e), as Stephanie Foote explains in her afterword, are “as rich and conflicted a look at the formation of lesbian urban culture as that of any contemporary queer historian.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46157025378481,"sku":"9781558615250","price":23.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46157025411249,"sku":"39823975-806a-3341-9fcc-1ab911a471c6","price":17.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_15a781a7-54de-4af3-9aa9-c084417122a6.jpg?v=1763407381"},{"product_id":"we-too-must-love","title":"We, Too, Must Love","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA literary lesbian landmark that “will transport today’s readers . . . to the 1950s homosexual scene” (\u003cstrong\u003eMarcia M. Gallo, author of \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eDifferent Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThree years after the publication of her groundbreaking 1955 bestseller, \u003cem\u003eWe Walk Alone\u003c\/em\u003e, Ann Aldrich expanded on her journalistic portraits of lesbian subcultures in and around New York, in \u003cem\u003eWe, Too, Must Love\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eInspired by the hundreds of letters she received by women from around the country (many reprinted here), Aldrich tackled questions of class division; explored the diverse careers lesbians held; guided readers through the social cliques and bar scenes; set the record straight on gay stereotypes; observed the differences among the “Village,” “Uptown,” and Brooklyn lesbian communities; and hinted at the growing consciousness that would fuel later lesbian and gay rights movements. \u003cem\u003eWe Walk Alone\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eWe, Too, Must Love\u003c\/em\u003e are, in effect, “indispensable guides to a hidden world” (Advocate.com).\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e“Simultaneously intimate and investigative, subjective and discerning” (\u003cem\u003eUTNE Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e), “Aldrich touched innumerable lives and gave hope to lesbians mired in a harsh and ignorant era. Read these books to learn what it was like back then, what we believed and how we made a start in the struggle against prejudice.” —Ann Bannon, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Beebo Brinker Chronicles\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46157034291377,"sku":"9781558615274","price":23.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46157034324145,"sku":"66a569ef-1801-3e34-9d5d-f908bda7b7a4","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_23dd0856-b3f3-462f-84d9-18e1eec3416c.jpg?v=1763407374"},{"product_id":"radical-relations","title":"Radical Relations: Lesbian Mothers, Gay Fathers, and Their Children in the United States since World War II","description":"In \u003ci\u003eRadical Relations\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Winunwe Rivers offers a previously untold story of the American family: the first history of lesbian and gay parents and their children in the United States. Beginning in the postwar era, a period marked by both intense repression and dynamic change for lesbians and gay men, Rivers argues that by forging new kinds of family and childrearing relations, gay and lesbian parents have successfully challenged legal and cultural definitions of family as heterosexual. These efforts have paved the way for the contemporary focus on family and domestic rights in lesbian and gay political movements.\u003cbr\u003eBased on extensive archival research and 130 interviews conducted nationwide, \u003ci\u003eRadical Relations\u003c\/i\u003e includes the stories of lesbian mothers and gay fathers in the 1950s, lesbian and gay parental activist networks and custody battles, families struggling with the AIDS epidemic, and children growing up in lesbian feminist communities. Rivers also addresses changes in gay and lesbian parenthood in the 1980s and 1990s brought about by increased awareness of insemination technologies and changes in custody and adoption law.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46163590316209,"sku":"9781469626451","price":47.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46163590348977,"sku":"9781469607184","price":49.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46163590381745,"sku":"cd8db124-5304-34ce-a110-fe03388981dc","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_a876b337-4347-40e9-9520-e1d2271a540a.jpg?v=1763632163"},{"product_id":"thank-you-for-calling-the-lesbian-line","title":"Thank You for Calling the Lesbian Line","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize for Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA narrative blend of history, cultural criticism, and memoir in celebration of everyday queer women, based on a lesbian helpline that existed in North London in the nineties, and \"a clear-eyed and moving addition to the still-expanding record of lesbian lives\" (Publishers Weekly). \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith warmth and humour, Elizabeth Lovatt reimagines the women who called and volunteered for the Lesbian Line in the 1990s, whilst also tracing her own journey from accidentally coming out to disastrous dates to finding her chosen family. With callers and agents alike dealing with first crushes and break-ups, sex and marriage, loneliness and illness, this is a celebration of the ordinary lives of queer women.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThrough these revelations of the complexities, difficulties and revelries of everyday life, Lovatt investigates the ethics of writing about queer 'sheros' and the role living-history plays in the way we live today. What do we owe to our lesbian forebears? What can we learn from them when facing racism, transphobia and ableism in the community today?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSteeped in pop culture references and feminist and queer theory, \u003ci\u003eThank You for Calling the Lesbian Line \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely and vital exploration of how lesbian identity continues to remake and redefine itself in the 21st century, and where it might lead us in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46167969398961,"sku":"9781538774496","price":39.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46167969431729,"sku":"1e8fce9e-e03c-3873-b03c-deb50a4483ec","price":19.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_a9689f45-f927-4c1d-9189-034f7612a9ce.jpg?v=1763680122"},{"product_id":"the-womens-house-of-detention","title":"The Women's House of Detention: A Queer History of a Forgotten Prison","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis singular history of a prison, and the queer women and trans people held there, is a window into the policing of queerness and radical politics in the twentieth century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Women’s House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women’s imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City’s Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates—Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur—were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women’s prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition—and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women’s House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner, 2023 Stonewall Book Award—Israel Fishman Non-Fiction Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrimeReads, Best True Crime Books of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46168239636657,"sku":"9781645036654","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46168239669425,"sku":"9781645036661","price":38.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46168239702193,"sku":"3cdb5fd7-79b7-3e1b-8bce-f4a161d57ccc","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_d6412ae7-409f-4801-becc-0fc76340da46.jpg?v=1763197394"},{"product_id":"sister-outsider","title":"Sister Outsider: Essays And Speeches","description":"\u003cb\u003ePresenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, \u003ci\u003eSister Outsider \u003c\/i\u003ecelebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“[Lorde's] works will be important to those truly interested in growing up sensitive, intelligent, and aware.”—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde-scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to “never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is . . . ”","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46168028807345,"sku":"9781580911863","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46168028840113,"sku":"f8afe3e1-6970-4693-9361-806f028a08b3","price":10.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b83ccdbd-b6ef-461e-b94a-d24c8cc59bb7.jpg?v=1763715741"},{"product_id":"citizen-invert-queer","title":"Citizen, Invert, Queer: Lesbianism and War in Early Twentieth-Century Britain","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn late nineteenth-century England, \"mannish\" women were considered socially deviant but not homosexual. A half-century later, such masculinity equaled lesbianism in the public imagination. How did this shift occur? \u003ci\u003eCitizen, Invert, Queer\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates that the equation of female masculinity with female homosexuality is a relatively recent phenomenon, a result of changes in national and racial as well as sexual discourses in early twentieth-century public culture.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIncorporating cultural histories of prewar women's suffrage debates, British sexology, women's work on the home front during World War I, and discussions of interwar literary representations of female homosexuality, Deborah Cohler maps the emergence of lesbian representations in relation to the decline of empire and the rise of eugenics in England. Cohler integrates discussions of the histories of male and female same-sex erotics in her readings of New Woman, representations of male and female suffragists, wartime trials of pacifist novelists and seditious artists, and the interwar infamy of novels such as Radclyffe Hall's \u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e and Virginia Woolf's \u003ci\u003eOrlando\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBy examining the shifting intersections of nationalism and sexuality before, during, and after the Great War, this book illuminates profound transformations in our ideas about female homosexuality.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46177339146417,"sku":"9780816649761","price":38.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46177339179185,"sku":"9780816649754","price":97.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_3cd93133-ab98-49d8-a287-811d5f39bd21.jpg?v=1763925036"},{"product_id":"blind-to-sameness","title":"Blind to Sameness: Sexpectations and the Social Construction of Male and Female Bodies","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat is the role of the senses in how we understand the world? Cognitive sociology has long addressed the way we perceive or imagine boundaries in our ordinary lives, but Asia Friedman pushes this question further still. How, she asks, did we come to blind ourselves to sex sameness?\u003cbr\u003e\nDrawing on more than sixty interviews with two decidedly different populations—the blind and the transgendered— \u003cem\u003eBlind to Sameness\u003c\/em\u003e answers provocative questions about the relationships between sex differences, biology, and visual perception. Both groups speak from unique perspectives that magnify the social construction of dominant visual conceptions of sex, allowing Friedman to examine the visual construction of the sexed body and highlighting the processes of social perception underlying our everyday experience of male and female bodies. The result is a notable contribution to the sociologies of gender, culture, and cognition that will revolutionize the way we think about sex.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46179158818993,"sku":"5a0cd6fc-d3d9-3eaa-bc78-0db94b88c819","price":17.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_9bfa8d25-118f-4003-a0a0-3dc092b9060b.jpg?v=1762360052"},{"product_id":"disturbing-practices","title":"Disturbing Practices: History, Sexuality, and Women's Experience of Modern War","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor decades, the history of sexuality has been a multidisciplinary project serving competing agendas. Lesbian, gay, and queer scholars have produced powerful narratives by tracing the homosexual or queer subject as continuous or discontinuous. Yet organizing historical work around categories of identity as normal or abnormal often obscures how sexual matters were known or talked about in the past. Set against the backdrop of women's work experiences, friendships, and communities during World War I, \u003cem\u003eDisturbing Practices\u003c\/em\u003e draws on a substantial body of new archival material to expose the roadblocks still present in current practices and imagine new alternatives.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn this landmark book, Laura Doan clarifies the ethical value and political purpose of identity history—and indeed its very capacity to give rise to innovative practices borne of sustained exchange between queer studies and critical history. \u003cem\u003eDisturbing Practices\u003c\/em\u003e insists on taking seriously the imperative to step outside the logic of identity to address questions as yet unasked about the modern sexual past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46179154002097,"sku":"91fe4805-7193-3949-9893-19bfa6598a1a","price":17.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_2199e85c-8c70-4b57-8950-e02bd6f96069.jpg?v=1763048756"},{"product_id":"homosexuality-and-psychoanalysis","title":"Homosexuality and Psychoanalysis","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking analysis of the troubled relationship between homosexuality and psychoanalysis, including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Why has homosexuality always fascinated and vexed psychoanalysis? This groundbreaking collection of original essays reconsiders the troubled relationship between same-sex desire and psychoanalysis, assessing homosexuality's status in psychoanalytic theory and practice, as well as the value of psychoanalytic ideas for queer theory. The contributors, each distinguished clinicians and specialists, reexamine works by Freud, Klein, Reich, Lacan, Laplanche, and their feminist and queer revisionists. Sharing a commitment to conscious and unconscious forms of homosexual desire, they offer new perspectives on pleasure, perversion, fetishism, disgust, psychosis, homophobia, AIDS, otherness, and love. Including two previously untranslated essays by Michel Foucault, \u003ci\u003eHomosexuality and Psychoanalysis\u003c\/i\u003e will interest cultural theorists, psychoanalysts, and anyone concerned with the fate of sexuality in our time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Contributors:\u003cbr\u003e Lauren Berlant\u003cbr\u003e Leo Bersani\u003cbr\u003e Daniel L. Buccino\u003cbr\u003e Arnold I. Davidson\u003cbr\u003e Tim Dean\u003cbr\u003e Jonathan Dollimore\u003cbr\u003e Brad Epps\u003cbr\u003e Michel Foucault\u003cbr\u003e Lynda Hart\u003cbr\u003e Jason B. Jones\u003cbr\u003e Christopher Lane\u003cbr\u003e H. N. Lukes\u003cbr\u003e Catherine Millot\u003cbr\u003e Elizabeth A. Povinelli\u003cbr\u003e Ellie Ragland\u003cbr\u003e Paul Robinson\u003cbr\u003e Judith Roof\u003cbr\u003e Joanna Ryan\u003cbr\u003e Ramón E. Soto-Crespo\u003cbr\u003e Suzanne Yang \u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46179177005233,"sku":"9780226139371","price":65.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_c5f01a69-49cd-45ea-b02e-0750b60cd15f.jpg?v=1762380758"},{"product_id":"a-desired-past","title":"A Desired Past: A Short History of Same-Sex Love in America","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eWith this book, Leila J. Rupp accomplishes what few scholars have even attempted: she combines a vast array of scholarship on supposedly discrete episodes in American history into an entertaining and entirely readable story of same-sex desire across the country and the centuries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Most extraordinary about Leila J. Rupp's indeed short, two-hundred-page history of 'same-sex love and sexuality' is not that it manages to account for such a variety of individuals, races, and classes or take in such a broad chronological and thematic range, but rather that it does all this with such verve, lucidity, and analytical rigor. . . . [A]n elegant, inspiring survey.\" —John Howard, \u003ci\u003eJournal of American History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46179233300657,"sku":"9780226731568","price":48.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46179233333425,"sku":"04cdcab9-8988-3bbb-b59e-8710074d5837","price":28.79,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_acfd31f7-ee09-4a45-ad0b-cb0b2882111a.jpg?v=1762380756"},{"product_id":"impossible-desires","title":"Impossible Desires: Queer Diasporas and South Asian Public Cultures","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e By bringing queer theory to bear on ideas of diaspora, Gayatri Gopinath produces both a more compelling queer theory and a more nuanced understanding of diaspora. Focusing on queer female diasporic subjectivity, Gopinath develops a theory of diaspora apart from the logic of blood, authenticity, and patrilineal descent that she argues invariably forms the core of conventional formulations. She examines South Asian diasporic literature, film, and music in order to suggest alternative ways of conceptualizing community and collectivity across disparate geographic locations. Her agile readings challenge nationalist ideologies by bringing to light that which has been rendered illegible or impossible within diaspora: the impure, inauthentic, and nonreproductive. \u003cp\u003e Gopinath juxtaposes diverse texts to indicate the range of oppositional practices, subjectivities, and visions of collectivity that fall outside not only mainstream narratives of diaspora, colonialism, and nationalism but also most projects of liberal feminism and gay and lesbian politics and theory. She considers British Asian music of the 1990s alongside alternative media and cultural practices. Among the fictional works she discusses are V. S. Naipaul's classic novel \u003ci\u003eA House for Mr. Biswas\u003c\/i\u003e, Ismat Chughtai's short story \"The Quilt,\" Monica Ali's \u003ci\u003eBrick Lane\u003c\/i\u003e, Shyam Selvadurai's \u003ci\u003eFunny Boy\u003c\/i\u003e, and Shani Mootoo's \u003ci\u003eCereus Blooms at Night\u003c\/i\u003e. Analyzing films including Deepa Mehta's controversial \u003ci\u003eFire\u003c\/i\u003e and Mira Nair's \u003ci\u003eMonsoon Wedding\u003c\/i\u003e, she pays particular attention to how South Asian diasporic feminist filmmakers have reworked Bollywood's strategies of queer representation and to what is lost or gained in this process of translation. Gopinath's readings are dazzling, and her theoretical framework transformative and far-reaching. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46181034819761,"sku":"9780822335139","price":36.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46181034852529,"sku":"c257210b-b981-39c0-be7c-24543c57b5ff","price":30.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_02deb062-2cc6-429f-8937-5007cac3e339.jpg?v=1762663633"},{"product_id":"an-archive-of-feelings","title":"An Archive of Feelings: Trauma, Sexuality, and Lesbian Public Cultures","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eIn this bold new work of cultural criticism, Ann Cvetkovich develops a queer approach to trauma. She argues for the importance of recognizing-and archiving-accounts of trauma that belong as much to the ordinary and everyday as to the domain of catastrophe. \u003ci\u003eAn Archive of Feelings \u003c\/i\u003econtends that the field of trauma studies, limited by too strict a division between the public and the private, has overlooked the experiences of women and queers. Rejecting the pathologizing understandings of trauma that permeate medical and clinical discourses on the subject, Cvetkovich develops instead a sex-positive approach missing even from most feminist work on trauma.\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eShe challenges the field to engage more fully with sexual trauma and the wide range of feelings in its vicinity, including those associated with butch-femme sex and aids activism and caretaking. \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Archive of Feelings \u003c\/i\u003ebrings together oral histories from lesbian activists involved in act up\/New York; readings of literature by Dorothy Allison, Leslie Feinberg, Cherríe Moraga, and Shani Mootoo; videos by Jean Carlomusto and Pratibha Parmar; and performances by Lisa Kron, Carmelita Tropicana, and the bands\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eLe Tigre and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eTribe 8. Cvetkovich reveals how activism, performance, and literature give rise to public cultures that work through trauma and transform the conditions producing it. By looking closely at connections between sexuality, trauma, and the creation of lesbian public cultures, Cvetkovich makes those experiences that have been pushed to the peripheries of trauma culture the defining principles of a new construction of sexual trauma-one in which trauma catalyzes the creation of cultural archives and political communities. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46181025710257,"sku":"9780822330882","price":38.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46181025743025,"sku":"a55773ee-a8c6-37c2-b8e6-3c76d7c4fc54","price":32.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_6e0aa8d1-947e-4f44-8730-80be2e1be0c7.jpg?v=1763637352"},{"product_id":"different-daughters","title":"Different Daughters: A History of the Daughters of Bilitis and the Rise of the Lesbian Rights Movement","description":"\u003cp\u003eNearly fifteen years before the Stonewall Rebellion and the birth of gay liberation came the Daughters of Bilitis (DOB). Like its predominantly gay male counterparts, the Mattachine Society and ONE, Inc., DOB was launched in response to the oppressive antihomosexual climate of the McCarthy era, when lesbian and gay people were arrested, fired from jobs, and had their children taken away simply on the basis of their sexual orientation. It was against this political backdrop that in 1955 a circle of San Francisco women formed a private club where lesbians could meet other lesbians in a safe, affirming setting. A year later, they produced \u003cem\u003eThe Ladder\u003c\/em\u003e, the first ongoing monthly magazine for lesbians. Over the next two decades, what began as a small social group evolved into a national women's organization that counted more than a dozen chapters.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nIn \u003cem\u003eDifferent Daughters\u003c\/em\u003e, Marcia Gallo draws on interviews with former members of DOB, many of whom have never spoken on record before, as well as extensive research in both archival and personal collections. She chronicles how through its leaders, magazine, and international network of activists, the Daughters played a crucial role in creating lesbian identity, visibility, and political strategies in Cold War America-–and in the process laid the foundation for today's lesbian and feminist movements.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46190635450545,"sku":"9781580052528","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_87573a6f-9438-4901-859d-df36a41c6f84.jpg?v=1762857822"},{"product_id":"intimate-friends","title":"Intimate Friends: Women Who Loved Women, 1778-1928","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eIntimate Friends\u003c\/i\u003e explores the fascinating history of the erotic friendships of educated English and American women over the 150-year period leading up to the 1928 publication of Radclyffe Hall’s landmark novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e. Distinguished scholar Martha Vicinus explores all-female communities, liaisons between younger and older women, the female rake, and even mother-daughter affection. Women, she reveals, drew upon a rich religious vocabulary to describe elusive and complex erotic feelings. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing upon diaries, letters, and other archival sources, Vicinus brings to life a variety of well-known and historically less recognized women, ranging from the predatory Ann Lister (who documented her sexual activities in code); to Mary Benson (the wife of the Archbishop of Canterbury); to the coterie of wealthy Anglo-American lesbians living in Paris. In vivid and colorful prose, \u003ci\u003eIntimate Friends\u003c\/i\u003e offers a remarkable picture of women navigating the uncharted territory of same-sex desire.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46193477320881,"sku":"9780226855646","price":59.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_ef5b7cb4-e1f0-426b-8d5c-514d06b80db0.jpg?v=1763048781"},{"product_id":"hidden-from-history","title":"Hidden from History: Reclaiming the Gay and Lesbian Past","description":"\u003cb\u003eWinner of two Lambda Rising Awards\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past. Such notable researchers as John Boswell, Shari Benstock, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg, Jeffrey Weeks and John D’Emilio illuminate gay and lesbian life as it evolved in places as diverse as the Athens of Plato, Renaissance Italy, Victorian London, jazz Age Harlem, Revolutionary Russia, Nazi Germany, Castro’s Cuba, post-World War II San Francisco—and peoples as varied as South African black miners, American Indians, Chinese courtiers, Japanese samurai, English schoolboys and girls, and urban working women. Gender and sexuality, repression and resistance, deviance and acceptance, identity and community—all are given a context in this fascinating work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A landmark of a book and a landmark of ideas that will shatter ignorance and delusion.\"—\u003cb\u003eCatharine Stimpson, \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity Professor and Dean Emerita of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at New York University\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Ground-breaking.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The juxtaposition of diverse perspectives and research crossing boundaries of race, gender, culture, and time encourages a lively dialogue. Highly recommended for history collections, and especially gay studies.”—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46192947921073,"sku":"9780452010673","price":57.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e2333bdc-5ad5-4393-aabf-bf7ac8f26498.jpg?v=1763714276"},{"product_id":"butch-is-a-noun","title":"Butch Is a Noun","description":"Butch is a Noun, the first book by activist, gender-jammer, and performer S. Bear Bergman,won wide acclaim when published by Suspect Thoughts in 2006: a funny, insightful, and purposely unsettling manifesto on what it means to be butch (and not). In thirty-four deeply personal essays, Bear makes butchness accessible to those who are new to the concept, and makes gender outlaws of all stripes feel as though they\r\nhave come home. From girls' clothes to men's haircuts, from walking with girls to hanging with young men, Butch is a Noun chronicles the perplexities, dangers, and pleasures of living lifeoutside the gender binary.This new edition includes a new afterword by the author.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46196187037873,"sku":"9781551523699","price":19.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46196187070641,"sku":"8c1e6aa9-b834-302f-b5cd-63a81bcfab9e","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4822eb1e-52bf-4da2-9dac-211ceaad4905.jpg?v=1764392116"},{"product_id":"jewcy","title":"Jewcy: Jewish Queer Lesbian Feminisms for the Twenty-First Century","description":"encourages readers both inside and outside the academy to rethink narrow conceptions of Jewishness.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46197114077361,"sku":"9781438496269","price":44.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46197114110129,"sku":"9781438496276","price":135.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46197114142897,"sku":"f1d21750-1de6-34c0-a48d-cfaaa924227e","price":36.89,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_16dac74c-c479-4dc6-ba87-0fff1967a8d8.jpg?v=1763136240"},{"product_id":"lesbian-and-gay-rights-in-canada","title":"Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada: Social Movements and Equality-Seeking, 1971-1995","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo the expanding literature on lesbian and gay rights in Canada, Miriam Smith contributes this fascinating analysis of trends in the movement toward equality for sexual minorities in the last quarter of a century.  Using archival material that has largely been ignored, as well as interviews with Canadian activists, Smith investigates the ways in which the lesbian and gay movement has changed in response to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmith demonstrates that equality-seeking was well entrenched as a strategy and ideology in lesbian and gay rights networks prior to the existence of the Charter.  However, in the wake of the Charter, the movement has shifted from a strategy primarily based on building a social movement to one is based on achieving concrete legal and policy victories. Rather than focusing on win\/loss ratios before the courts under the Charter or on the analysis of legal cases, the work centres on the impact of the Charter from the perspective of the experience of those within the movement itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnlike the existing literature on the lesbian and gay rights movement in Canada, Smith's study presents an analysis of the evolution of federal-level social organizing based on primary sources. Into the discussion Smith also introduces Quebec politics as a unique cultural entity and one that is often overlooked in the context of lesbian and gay activism in Canada. Lesbian and Gay Rights in Canada is an excellent analysis of an important and rising social movement in Canadian politics.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46197844803761,"sku":"9780802081971","price":39.94,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46197844836529,"sku":"9780802043917","price":84.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_79980181-36e8-4d39-b82b-ec756f76130e.jpg?v=1764394202"},{"product_id":"sapphistries","title":"Sapphistries: A Global History of Love Between Women","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the ancient poet Sappho to \u003cem\u003etombois\u003c\/em\u003e in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. \u003cem\u003eSapphistries\u003c\/em\u003e tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLeila Rupp reveals how, from the time of the very earliest societies, the possibility of love between women has been known, even when it is feared, ignored, or denied. We hear women in the sex-segregated spaces of convents and harems whispering words of love. We see women beginning to find each other on the streets of London and Amsterdam, in the aristocratic circles of Paris, in the factories of Shanghai. We find women’s desire and love for women meeting the light of day as Japanese schoolgirls fall in love, and lesbian bars and clubs spread from 1920s Berlin to 1950s Buffalo. And we encounter a world of difference in the twenty-first century, as transnational concepts and lesbian identities meet local understandings of how two women might love each other. \u003cem\u003eSapphistries\u003c\/em\u003e combines lyrical narrative with meticulous historical research, providing a uniquely sweeping story of desire, love, and sex between women around the globe from the beginning of time to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46197990949041,"sku":"9780774817820","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_1194f9e1-f678-4745-ad3f-abdcbd5e4cb8.jpg?v=1763436806"},{"product_id":"the-domain-matrix","title":"The Domain-Matrix: Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"This book demonstrates Case's continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies. . . . Case's dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for performance studies and queer theory. All readers interested in what the future might hold for scholarship in the humanities should study Case's thought-provoking work, which is an essential addition to any college or university's collection.\" —Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\". . . this is a book that is enormously provocative, that will make you think and feel connected with the latest speculation on the implications of the electronic age we inhabit.\" —Lesbian Review of Books\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\". . . definitely required reading for any future-thinking lesbian.\" —Lambda Book Report\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Domain-Matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organized to emulate, in a printed book, the reader's experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46197965815985,"sku":"002fb730-5b49-3dd9-84e1-3ed3f28e4086","price":17.59,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_030d2de8-e3a8-4494-8428-6ea2fb8338ad.jpg?v=1762358367"},{"product_id":"true-secrets-of-lesbian-desire","title":"True Secrets of Lesbian Desire: Keeping Sex Alive in Long-Term Relationships","description":"\u003cp\u003eRenate Stendhal sweeps out the old myths about bed death, the notion that lesbian couples tend to be too close to maintain sexual desire. Her own story and her talks with counseling clients prove the contrary. Stendhal shows that sex is the natural and continuous outcome of a closeness generated by bold honesty and the capacity to speak and hear intimate secrets. Sharing \"shameful\" desires and vulnerable fears is what love and sexual passion are made of. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStendhal teaches simple, effective and thought-provoking lessons for any committed or married couple who wants to keep passion alive beyond the honeymoon phase. Her message: The art of intimate truth-telling is the most effective aphrodisiac of all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46197299708081,"sku":"9781556434754","price":18.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46197299740849,"sku":"41900e05-f6d7-4008-9527-39619fc0a497","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_9ccd48a8-7a87-4e0b-93cc-a8eb161c54af.jpg?v=1762834546"},{"product_id":"awfully-devoted-women","title":"Awfully Devoted Women: Lesbian Lives in Canada, 1900-65","description":"The lives of many lesbians who grew up before 1965 remain cloaked in mystery. Historians have turned the spotlight on upper-middle-class “romantic friendships” and on working-class lesbian bars, but the lives of the lower-middle-class majority remain in the shadows. \r\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on a rich collection of archival sources and interviews, \u003cem\u003eAwfully Devoted Women\u003c\/em\u003e offers a nuanced portrait of middle-class lesbianism in English Canada in the decades before the gay rights movement. Accounts and explorations of these women’s sexual practices, thoughts on same-sex desire, and relations with friends and family unveil a world of private relationships, house parties, and discreet social networks. This intimate study of the lives of women forced to love in secret not only challenges the idea that lesbian relationships in the past were asexual, it also reveals the courage it took for women to explore desire in an era when they were supposed to know little about sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46198273212593,"sku":"9780774817394","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46198273245361,"sku":"9780774817387","price":95.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e50a32b6-04c9-4103-997a-e4d5446eb0c0.jpg?v=1763436805"},{"product_id":"you-can-tell-just-by-looking","title":"\"You Can Tell Just By Looking\": And 20 Other Myths about LGBT Life and People","description":"\u003cb\u003e2014 Lambda Literary Award Finalist: LGBT Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBreaks down the most commonly held misconceptions about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and their lives\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003e“You Can Tell Just by Looking”\u003c\/i\u003e three scholars and activists come together to unpack enduring, popular, and deeply held myths about lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people, culture, and life in America. Myths, such as “All Religions Condemn Homosexuality” and “Transgender People Are Mentally Ill,” have been used to justify discrimination and oppression of LGBT people. Others, such as “Homosexuals Are Born That Way,” have been embraced by LGBT communities and their allies. In discussing and dispelling these myths—including gay-positive ones—the authors challenge readers to question their own beliefs and to grapple with the complexities of what it means to be queer in the broadest social, political, and cultural sense.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46202066469074,"sku":"9780807042458","price":22.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46202066501842,"sku":"5f9eb8d0-1227-3244-8d55-e69e9d418b17","price":14.39,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e18e1dee-e3d3-4ee9-98ad-c53745c63428.jpg?v=1763406339"},{"product_id":"how-poetry-saved-my-life","title":"How Poetry Saved My Life: A Hustler's Memoir","description":"Vancouver Book Award winner; Lambda Literary Award finalistA memoir about sex work and sexuality, and how writing became the author's lifeline.Amber Dawn's acclaimed first novel Sub Rosa, a darkly intoxicating fantasy about a group of magical prostitutes who band together to fend off bad johns in a fantastical underworld, won a Lambda Literary Award in 2011. How Poetry Saved My Life, Amber Dawn's sophomore book, reveals an even more poignant and personal landscape--the terrain of sex work, queer identity, and survivor pride. This story, told in prose and poetry, offers a frank, multifaceted portrait of the author's experiences hustling the streets of Vancouver, and how those years took away her self-esteem and nearly destroyed her; at the crux of this autobiographical narrative is the tender celebration of poetry and literature, which--as the title suggests--acted as a lifeline during her most pivotal moments.As raw and fiery as its author, How Poetry Saved My Life is a powerful account of survival and the transformative power of literature.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46201695830226,"sku":"9781551525006","price":17.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2020)","offer_id":46201695862994,"sku":"8a519d4a-1528-37f8-87b4-b258a6d04805","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2019)","offer_id":46201695895762,"sku":"aefd4ddb-ea13-370a-98a4-327a304ad5c9","price":10.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook (2013)","offer_id":46201695928530,"sku":"f5eab4dc-c0e6-3e98-9640-ee2e5a8277bc","price":12.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_595ee053-33d7-4249-b672-eb150a401b73.jpg?v=1763635938"},{"product_id":"a-woman-like-that","title":"A Woman Like That: Lesbian And Bisexual Writers Tell Their Coming Out Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe act of \"coming out\" has the power to transform every aspect of a woman's life: family, friendships, career, sexuality, spirituality. An essential element of self-realization, it is the unabashed acceptance of one's \"outlaw\" standing in a predominantly heterosexual world. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese accounts -- sometimes heart-wrenching, often exhilarating -- encompass a wide breadth of backgrounds and experiences. From a teenager institutionalized for her passion for women to the mother who must come out to her young sons at the risk of losing them -- from the cautious academic to the raucous liberated femme -- each woman represented here tells of forging a unique path toward the difficult but emancipating recognition of herself. Extending from the 1940s to the present day, these intensely personal stories in turn reflect a unique history of the changing social mores that affected each woman's ability to determine the shape of her own life. Together they form an ornate tapestry of lesbian and bisexual experience in the United States over the past half-century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46200488820913,"sku":"9780380802470","price":25.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46200488853681,"sku":"f5179032-3d81-43d5-a142-78e94cc1e8fd","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4a09cbcf-08d2-41f9-95a7-83f6149908e0.jpg?v=1763229323"},{"product_id":"confessions-of-the-other-mother","title":"Confessions of the Other Mother: Nonbiological Lesbian Moms Tell All!","description":"\u003cb\u003eOne of the few books to explore lesbian parenting, these “hilarious, heart-wrenching, painfully honest tales of mommyhood” celebrate the ups and downs of being an LGBTQIA+ parent in the 21st century (Joey Solloway, creator of \u003ci\u003eTransparent\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e After author Harlyn Aizley gave birth to her daughter, she watched in unanticipated horror as her partner scooped up the baby and said, “I'm your new mommy!” While they both had worked to find the perfect sperm donor, Aizley had spent nine months carrying the baby and hours in labor, so how could her partner claim to be their child's mommy?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Many diapers later, Aizley began to appreciate the complexity of her partner’s new role as the other mother. Together, they searched for stories about families like their own, in which a woman has chosen to forgo her own birth experience so that she might support her partner in hers. They found very few. Now, in \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Other Mother,\u003c\/i\u003e Aizley has put together an exciting collection of personal stories by women like her partner who are creating new parenting roles, redefining motherhood, and reshaping our view of two-parent families. Contributors include Hillary Goodridge, who was one of the lead plaintiffs in the case for same-sex marriage in Massachusetts, stand-up comedian Judy Gold, and psychologist and author Suzanne M. Johnson.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This candid peek into a previously unexamined side of lesbian parenting is full of stories that are sometimes humorous, sometimes moving, but at all times celebratory. Each parenting tale sheds light on the many facets of motherhood, offering gay and straight readers alike a deeper understanding of what it means to love and parent in the twenty-first century.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46200096555185,"sku":"9780807079638","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46200096587953,"sku":"e6228e7e-6a41-4df9-81ce-2810a79f324c","price":16.79,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_62bec88f-0b5b-4a67-8d65-398644b1f630.jpg?v=1763406342"},{"product_id":"ask-a-queer-chick","title":"Ask a Queer Chick: A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Z Word\u003c\/i\u003e, this guide to sex, love and life for girls who like girls is useful whether you’re a lady-dating veteran or still trying to come out to yourself. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Fresh and authentic…[King-Miller] combine[s] the ‘directness’ of Dan Savage with the ‘compassion and gentleness’ of Cheryl Strayed.”—BITCH magazine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSeasoned advice columnist and queer chick Lindsay King Miller cuts through all of the bizarre conditioning imparted by parents, romantic comedies, and \u003ci\u003eThe L Word\u003c\/i\u003e to help queer readers live authentic, safe, happy, sexy lives. With advice on every aspect of life as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer woman—from your first Pride to confronting discrimination in the workplace—there is guidance for some of the most major parts of living in a world that can vacillate between supportive and cruel.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e“Lindsay King-Miller is the cool, queer aunt you never had but always wanted—she is unrelentingly kind, totally funny, and no subject is off limits. \u003ci\u003eAsk a Queer Chick\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading.”—Jolie Kerr, author of \u003ci\u003eMy Boyfriend Barfed In My Handbag...And Other Things You Can't Ask Martha\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46205881680082,"sku":"9780147516787","price":23.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46205881712850,"sku":"208aa03f-5e92-3db7-8d72-7137944e0648","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5cc3d4af-63c1-4ec9-92c9-2a5ab260303d.jpg?v=1763678675"},{"product_id":"making-a-scene-1","title":"Making a Scene: Lesbians and Community across Canada, 1964-84","description":"\u003cp\u003eStarting in the mid-1960s, Canadian lesbians started leaving their closets en masse to find each other and build community. After decades of being pathologized or erased from public view, lesbians were ready to make a scene – both by bringing attention to themselves and by creating physical spaces and opportunities where they could meet to form relationships, debate politics, and forge their own culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMaking a Scene\u003c\/em\u003e documents the lesbian movement that emerged in Canada between 1964 and 1984. Not just a story of big-city life, it chronicles the range of spaces lesbians created across rural and urban Canada, from physical locations, such as lesbian and gay centres, bookstores, and private members’ clubs, to ephemeral sites of encounter, such as conferences, festivals, and Dykes in the Streets marches.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEnriched by interviews and excerpts from letters, club meeting minutes, diaries, and more, \u003cem\u003eMaking a Scene\u003c\/em\u003e brings to life the exuberance and determination of these young women.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46205741498578,"sku":"9780774830676","price":32.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46205741531346,"sku":"9780774830669","price":95.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46205741564114,"sku":"9f958006-d9d7-3ead-ac4d-92b3735ea983","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_ab21a2d0-b8f8-4877-867f-6d185613d37d.jpg?v=1763442032"},{"product_id":"blood-marriage-wine-glitter","title":"Blood, Marriage, Wine \u0026 Glitter","description":"Lambda Literary Award finalistThe celebrated essayist sheds necessary (and humorous) light on gender, sexuality, and family.S. Bear Bergman is an acclaimed writer and lecturer who travels regularly across North America to speak on trans issues. Bear's first two books, Butch Is a Noun and The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You, are considered essential texts on the subject of trans life. In his third essay collection, Bear enters, describes, and rearranges our ideas about family as a daughter, husband, father, and friend. In Bear's extended family \"orchard,\" drag sisters, sperm-donor's parents, Sparkles and other relations provide more branches of love, support, and sustenance than a simple family tree.Defiantly queer yet full of tenderness and hilarity, Blood, Marriage, Wine \u0026amp; Glitter is a beautifully thought-provoking book that redefines the notion of what family is and can be.Bear is also co-author of Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation and author of the groundbreaking trans-positive children's books Backwards Day and The Adventures of Tulip, Birthday Wish Fairy.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46204400894162,"sku":"9781551525112","price":22.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46204400926930,"sku":"72789247-9fdd-355a-8924-6119657249ba","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_9e7b93b4-1edf-4e2e-a059-3aa4164e72cb.jpg?v=1762336611"},{"product_id":"lesbian-love-addiction-1","title":"Lesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong","description":"Love addiction for lesbians comes in many forms. Some struggle by sexually acting out and others are serial relationship junkies, jumping from one relationship into the next. Some are addicted to the high of falling in love and once that wears off don't know how to handle the day-to-day realities of a committed relationship. Some are even addicted to fantasy and intrigue, while others are love avoidants and sexual anorexics. Love avoidants may be able to get into a relationship but once they are fully committed, struggle with feeling smothered. Others may avoid intimate or sexual relationships all together, becoming sexually anorexic. Some may even vacillate between all of these. The underlying component and common denominator in all of these scenarios is the \"Urge to Merge.\" \u003ci\u003eLesbian Love Addiction: Understanding the Urge to Merge and How to Heal When Things go Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e is designed to help ameliorate at least part of this problem. It will give those who struggle with and suffer from love addiction ways to understand, cope, and heal from this debilitating addiction. It will give those who work with this population new tools to use to do this more effectively. Mostly, it will help lesbians understand their relationship failures and how to heal from problems associated with them, so they may grow and cultivate happier, more fulfilling connections in the future.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook (2024 A)","offer_id":46221905461458,"sku":"9798228345553","price":51.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Audiobook (2024 B)","offer_id":46221905494226,"sku":"9798228345560","price":59.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e4fd7316-a293-4160-b5b3-ee99238f86be.jpg?v=1762337150"},{"product_id":"disidentifications-1","title":"Disidentifications: Queers Of Color And The Performance Of Politics","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eThere is more to identity than identifying with one’s culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process “disidentification,” and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eDisidentifications\u003c\/i\u003e is also something of a performance in its own right, an attempt to fashion a queer world by working on, with, and against dominant ideology. By examining the process of identification in the work of filmmakers, performance artists, ethnographers, Cuban choteo, forms of gay male mass culture (such as pornography), museums, art photography, camp and drag, and television, Muñoz persistently points to the intersecting and short-circuiting of identities and desires that result from misalignments with the cultural and ideological mainstream in contemporary urban America.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMuñoz calls attention to the world-making properties found in performances by queers of color—in Carmelita Tropicana’s “Camp\/Choteo” style politics, Marga Gomez’s performances of queer childhood, Vaginal Creme Davis’s “Terrorist Drag,” Isaac Julien’s critical melancholia, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s disidentification with Andy Warhol and pop art, Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s performances of “disidentity,” and the political performance of Pedro Zamora, a person with AIDS, within the otherwise artificial environment of the MTV serialThe Real World.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46223064170706,"sku":"9780816630158","price":32.01,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46223064203474,"sku":"a033cd5c-e70d-3f84-be58-f28841d8ce02","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_9b42ac99-c474-4c3d-ad72-c938083d5ee4.jpg?v=1763166500"},{"product_id":"out-takes","title":"Out Takes: Essays on Queer Theory and Film","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThis collection brings together the work of both film scholars and queer theorists to advance a more sophisticated notion of queer film criticism. While the \"politics of representation\" has been the focus of much previous gay and lesbian film criticism, the contributors to \u003ci\u003eOut Takes\u003c\/i\u003e employ the approaches of queer theory to move beyond conventional readings and to reexamine aspects of the cinematic gaze in relation to queer desire and spectatorship.\u003cp\u003eThe essays examine a wide array of films, including \u003ci\u003eCalamity Jane\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRear Window,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Hunger\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHeavenly Creatures\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBound\u003c\/i\u003e , and discuss such figures as Doris Day, Elizabeth Taylor, and Alfred Hitchcock. Divided into three sections, the first part reconsiders the construction of masculinity and male homoerotic desire-especially with respect to the role of women-in classic cinema of the 1940s and 1950s. The second section offers a deconstructive consideration of lesbian film spectatorship and lesbian representation. Part three looks at the historical trajectory of independent queer cinema, including works by H.D., Kenneth Anger, and Derek Jarman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy exploring new approaches to the study of sexuality in film, \u003ci\u003eOut Takes\u003c\/i\u003e will be useful to scholars in gay and lesbian studies, queer theory, and cinema studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eContributors.\u003c\/i\u003e Bonnie Burns, Steven Cohan, Alexander Doty, Lee Edelman, Michelle Elleray, Jim Ellis, Ellis Hanson, D. A. Miller, Eric Savoy, Matthew Tinkcom, Amy Villarejo, Jean Walton\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46237164044498,"sku":"9780822323099","price":207.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46237164077266,"sku":"b17e45f8-2b11-3a60-8faa-86c62381be5a","price":43.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_5e1d7f31-2499-4a6c-a217-f62b6051ee5d.jpg?v=1763684781"},{"product_id":"classics-in-lesbian-studies","title":"Classics in Lesbian Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003eClassics in Lesbian Studies takes a major step in giving the lesbian experience its own unique voice within scholarship and the larger world society. Thus, it is devoted exclusively to the lesbian experience and serves as a vehicle for the promotion of scholarship and commentary on lesbianism from an international perspective. Not only does it ensure that “classic” pieces are not forgotten by new generations of students and scholars, it also spurs further lesbian research, writing, theory, and scholarship.In Classics in Lesbian Studies, you are introduced to descriptive, theoretical, empirical, applied, and multicultural perspectives in the field of lesbian studies. Interdisciplinary, the book presents pieces from various academic areas in multiple formats, including personal accounts, poetry, editorials, debates, and commentaries. For your convenience, the chapters are organized primarily across four categories: identity, history and literature, physical and social sciences, and “back to lesbian politics.” You will find the discussions of the following issues and subjects provocative and insightful:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eways black women in the diaspora construct and name their sexual and romantic feelings for other women\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elesbian identity formation in a changing social environment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ehow lesbians maneuver in the dominant culture and their own subculture\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elesbianism as a political movement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe experiences of lesbian adolescents\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eteaching lesbian studies\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003elesbians and societal institutions, including the work place, the media, the political arena, the legal system, and religion\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eusing lesbian-feminist scholarship to reexamine women's lives in the pastStudents, scholars, lesbian feminists, and others interested in lesbian studies will find Classics in Lesbian Studies a vital examination of lesbianism since its grass roots. Not only does it consider the progress made since the initial days of fighting for liberation, it also explores a more distant, repressed past and anticipates future possibilities lying before us. This powerful, insightful collection is sure to become a classic as it grapples with virtually all aspects of lesbianism, from its inception as a political movement to its identity as a lifestyle choice to its implications of community.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46236261220562,"sku":"9ca0e7e2-41b0-3f27-9f92-38ed85aa2ece","price":94.81,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_2059fc46-a555-4345-a639-0c60da89e7b2.jpg?v=1762665394"},{"product_id":"female-masculinity-1","title":"Female Masculinity","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eMasculinity without men. In \u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.\u003cbr\u003eThrough detailed textual readings as well as empirical research, Halberstam uncovers a hidden history of female masculinities while arguing for a more nuanced understanding of gender categories that would incorporate rather than pathologize them. She rereads Anne Lister’s diaries and Radclyffe Hall’s \u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e as foundational assertions of female masculine identity. She considers the enigma of the stone butch and the politics surrounding butch\/femme roles within lesbian communities. She also explores issues of transsexuality among “transgender dykes”—lesbians who pass as men—and female-to-male transsexuals who may find the label of “lesbian” a temporary refuge. Halberstam also tackles such topics as women and boxing, butches in Hollywood and independent cinema, and the phenomenon of male impersonators. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFemale Masculinity\u003c\/i\u003e signals a new understanding of masculine behaviors and identities, and a new direction in interdisciplinary queer scholarship. Illustrated with nearly forty photographs, including portraits, film stills, and drag king performance shots, this book provides an extensive record of the wide range of female masculinities. And as Halberstam clearly demonstrates, female masculinity is not some bad imitation of virility, but a lively and dramatic staging of hybrid and minority genders. \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46237162766546,"sku":"9780822322436","price":38.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46237162799314,"sku":"acfb8512-73a2-3e77-a83b-2f66cae2af15","price":32.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_8e4fb235-088d-4765-b44c-cdad09e191eb.jpg?v=1763105273"},{"product_id":"are-the-kids-all-right","title":"Are the Kids All Right?: Representations of LGBTQ Characters in Children's and Young Adult Literature","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eEpstein explores why sex, sexuality and gender non-conformity is something that many writers and publishers of children's and young adult lit appear to shy away from. She demonstrates that the information children get from literature matters, and that so called 'difficult' topics can be communicated in entertaining and informative ways.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eUses ideas from queer theory and other research to interrogate the ways LGBTQ characters are portrayed in books for children and young people, and to analyse what messages readers of such books might receive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIncludes detailed analysis of over 60 picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels by authors such as Nancy Garden, Julie Ann Peters, Alex Sanchez, David Levithan, Lesléa Newman, Marcus Ewart, Cris Beam and many others.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together literary studies, sociology, queer studies and other academic fields in an accessible manner, where the research supports the detailed analyses of over 50 books for children and young adults. Epstein looks at a range of topics, such as the lack of diversity in many of these works, how same-sex marriage is portrayed, the relative absence of bisexual and transgender characters, the way that many of these books are marketed and intended as 'issue books', and more.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA practical and informative book to inspire writers and publishers to produce better LGBTQ literature for young readers.\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46239097716946,"sku":"9780956450739","price":25.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46239097749714,"sku":"bebc6633-c9ca-3500-b2d3-3c87868f1a1c","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_dc7bda3b-ff35-45cb-9743-5bc1ce714fc8.jpg?v=1762810708"},{"product_id":"zami-a-new-spelling-of-my-name","title":"Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Biomythography","description":"\u003cb\u003eZami: A Carriacou name for women who work together as friends and lovers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eZami\u003c\/i\u003e is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eOff Our Backs\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Among the elements that make the book so good are its personal honesty and lack of pretentiousness, characteristics that shine through the writing bespeaking the evolution of a strong and remarkable character.”\u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46239037554898,"sku":"9780895941220","price":23.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46239037587666,"sku":"d5e66f89-30d0-461e-9df1-815c2537cd99","price":1.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_ebb264d5-89bc-42df-af19-46492bec5280.jpg?v=1763680114"},{"product_id":"lesbian-death","title":"Lesbian Death: Desire and Danger between Feminist and Queer","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEngaging with fears of lesbian death to explore the value of lesbian beyond identity\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe loss of lesbian spaces, as well as ideas of the lesbian as anachronistic has called into question the place of lesbian identity within our current culture. In \u003ci\u003eLesbian Death,\u003c\/i\u003e Mairead Sullivan probes the perception that lesbian status is in retreat, exploring the political promises—and especially the failures—of lesbian feminism and its usefulness today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLesbian Death\u003c\/i\u003e reads how lesbian is conceptualized in relation to death from the 1970s onward to argue that lesbian offers disruptive potential. \u003ci\u003eLesbian Death \u003c\/i\u003eexamines the rise of lesbian breast cancer activism in San Francisco in conversation with ACT UP, the lesbian separatist manifestos “The C.L.I.T. Papers,” the enduring specter of lesbian bed death, and the weaponization of lesbian identity against trans lives. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy situating the lesbian as a border figure between feminist and queer, \u003ci\u003eLesbian Death \u003c\/i\u003eoffers a fresh perspective on the value of lesbian for both feminist and queer projects, even if her value is her death. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46250028237010,"sku":"9781517910020","price":35.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46250028269778,"sku":"9781517910013","price":145.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46250028302546,"sku":"d7699366-7d7c-3545-a3a4-87584a3134c9","price":28.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_4f5f36b6-df5f-4c44-9d10-6a3b3b94d53a.jpg?v=1763924105"},{"product_id":"now-you-see-her-5","title":"Now You See Her: How Lesbian Culture Won Over America","description":"\u003cp\u003eOver the past thirty years, queer women have been coming out of the media closet to enter the mainstream consciousness. This book explores the rise of lesbian visibility since the 1990s with in-depth historical analyses of representation in sports, music, photography, comics, television and cinema. Each chapter is complemented by an interview: soccer player and coach Saskia Webber, singer-songwriter Gretchen Phillips, photographer Lola Flash, cartoonist Alison Bechdel and filmmakers Jamie Babbit and Anna Margarita Albelo discuss the societal transformations that shaped their careers. From the \"riot grrrl\" movement of the early 1990s punk scene to screen representations of queer culture (\u003cem\u003eThe L Word, Orange Is the New Black\u003c\/em\u003e), this book discusses how lesbian presence successfully infiltrated several patriarchal strongholds, and was transformed in return.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46248751136978,"sku":"c6e23a0c-eb7f-3944-879c-a31e7047213d","price":43.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_7e27d340-154a-489f-9cbd-994a2f74edda.jpg?v=1762857850"},{"product_id":"unconditional-1","title":"Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eProviding Support if Your Child is Transgender or LGBTQ+\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Sixth Annual Bisexual Book Award for Non-fiction, 2017\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 Bestseller in Lesbian Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnconditional\u003c\/em\u003e is a parenting guide book that provides parents of an LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning) child with a framework for helping their LGBT child navigate a world that isn’t always welcoming. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTips from a mother with experience.\u003c\/b\u003e In \u003cem\u003eUnconditional\u003c\/em\u003e, author Telaina Eriksen, a professor at Michigan State University, explains what she and her husband have learned through the experience of parenting a gay child. She covers topics like how to handle kids coming out, being an advocate for LGBTQ+ children, how to help your child deal with stress unique to LGBTQ+ kids, and finding a LGBTQ+ family. This book is a must read for anyone who thinks their child is transgender or otherwise LGBTQ+.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA guide for supporting your LGBT child. \u003c\/b\u003eWhat if my child is transgender? Eriksen covers the science of gender, understanding gender dysphoria, and how to help a transgender child through the stages of development. What if I have more general LGBTQ+ family needs? Throughout the book, both parents and kids share their stories, and Eriksen directs parents to various resources online for help. This LGBT family book teaches the principles of unconditional parenting, love, and learning.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside, learn:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to advocate for policies that protect your child\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWays to educate well-meaning, but misguided friends or family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStrategies keep your kid talking if your child is transgender or LGBTQ+\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigns of unhealthy relationships\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWhen to consider therapy for your child or your family\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow to find an LGBTQ+ community (including inclusive churches)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you liked LGBT books, best sellers like \u003cem\u003eThe Gender Identity Guide for Parents\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Savvy Ally\u003c\/em\u003e, or \u003cem\u003eThe End of Gender\u003c\/em\u003e, you’ll love\u003cem\u003e Unconditional\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46256443392210,"sku":"9781642509458","price":26.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e92199ee-4914-4767-ad56-115ac56befa7.jpg?v=1763681038"},{"product_id":"simple-human-dignity","title":"Simple Human Dignity: My Life, My Wife, Our Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Arlene Goldberg grew up in post-World War II New York, she couldn't have imagined one day becoming known as a pioneer and history maker credited with changing same-sex marriage laws in Florida. Young Arlene was a typical girl. She had a loving relationship with her family, did fine in school, dated boys, and enjoyed all the milestones of youth. Then she met Carol and fell in love. That's when destiny stepped in and began to shape the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the years that followed, Arlene loved Carol with a ferocity and devotion many people only dream about. And that love drove them both into hiding and into the proverbial closet, where they lived in secret for decades. No marriage license could have made their bond more solid or enduring-and yet without that piece of paper, they were denied basic spousal rights.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough tragic illness and terrible loss, the love of Arlene and her wife Carol would go on to shape history, free many to marry those they love, and make our heroine a beloved and revered pioneer in the LGBTQ+ community.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46257079025874,"sku":"9781662904035","price":17.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_b095f586-6b34-4799-b8e3-e54c0b98af37.jpg?v=1764392898"},{"product_id":"dirty-river","title":"Dirty River: A Queer Femme of Color Dreaming Her Way Home","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA transformative memoir by a queer disabled person of colour and abuse survivor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLambda Literary Award and Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction finalist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1996, poet Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, carrying only two backpacks, caught a Greyhound bus in America and ran away to Canada. They ended up in Toronto, where they were welcomed by a community of queer punks of colour offering promises of love and revolution, yet they remained haunted by the reasons she left home in the first place. This passionate, riveting memoir is a mixtape of dreams and nightmares, of immigration court lineups and queer South Asian dance nights; it is an intensely personal road map and an intersectional, tragicomic tale that reveals how a disabled queer woman of colour and abuse survivor navigates the dirty river of the not-so-distant past and, as the subtitle suggests, \"dreams their way home.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"The LGBTIQ community should lift its ears to receive Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha. Their vision stands to rearrange the ways we approach community, creating art, and loving. Every time I've heard them read, I've come away new.\"\u003cbr\u003e -Tara Hardy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46254338638034,"sku":"9781551526003","price":21.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46254338670802,"sku":"fbc471ca-a152-31cd-9b52-7a28c59e27b0","price":9.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_fa842b5c-8a37-4779-b0b4-694a75097613.jpg?v=1764391678"},{"product_id":"starving-in-search-of-me","title":"Starving In Search of Me: A Coming-of-Age Story of Overcoming An Eating Disorder and Finding Self-Acceptance (Eating Disorder Recovery and Gay Rights)","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrue Confessions of an Eating Disorders Survivor\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"…for anyone who has ever struggled with food or themselves.\" ─\u003cb\u003eLindsey Smith\u003c\/b\u003e, award-winning author of Food Guilt No More\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e#1 Bestseller in Lesbian Studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis book is a confessional self-help guide from an outspoken advocate for gay rights and women’s health issues. It explores the complex emotional truth of what it’s like when food, weight, and body image take priority over every other human impulse or action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnorexia and bulimia health crisis.\u003c\/b\u003e Many young women and girls struggle with the body image issues that engender eating disorders by developing elaborate rituals around food, binging, and purging; and hiding it all while trying to maintain a face of normalcy to the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStory of a woman battling for self-esteem.\u003c\/b\u003e Now relate to the coming-of-age story of a young woman confronting some of life’s major issues while living, for a time, in two closets: one to hide her eating disorder and one to hide her sexuality and very identity. Activist author Marissa LaRocca's revelatory tale of her struggle with her secrets is an intimate account of courage and the search for truth and meaning. It will have you rooting for Marissa as she unravels the emotional layers of her own battle with food, body image, and sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eInside learn about:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\"Life issues\" that are being masked by \"food issues\" or another addiction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDisempowering compulsive behaviors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHealing your relationship with food\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEscaping the victim role\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConnecting with your life’s purpose\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eImproving your body image and self-esteem\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEliminating the need to be perfect\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIf you have read \u003cem\u003eLife Without Ed\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003e8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder\u003c\/em\u003e, you will want to read \u003cem\u003eStarving in Search of Me\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46255901409490,"sku":"9781633537125","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_45f926de-9fc2-4b5e-acac-5d5a070da4bb.jpg?v=1763137647"},{"product_id":"lesbian-widows","title":"Lesbian Widows: Invisible Grief","description":"The unseen issues of grief and discrimination—lesbians becoming widows\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe death of a life partner poses unique challenges for lesbians. Lesbian Widows: Invisible Grief reveals the touching and very personal stories of twenty-five women, including the author, who were widowed at a young age and forced to create a new life without their life partners. The book follows the widows from the time the couple met, to the time when one of the partners died, and beyond, to show how the surviving partner coped with her loss.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMany lesbians feel that the intimacy felt between two women in love goes deeper than what can be experienced by heterosexual partners. Lesbian Widows: Invisible Grief reveals themes common to all these women\u0026amp;s experiences while offering practical advice about coping techniques and resources for support. The widows discuss their efforts to create funerals and memorial services, give their accounts of the overwhelming grief throughout the first two years, and explain the legal and financial discrimination they encountered. The author provides a chapter specifically for caring family and friends, another chapter for professionals working with this sensitive population, and a bibliography of helpful coping resources.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLesbian Widows: Invisible Grief explores the topics of:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ecaregivers\/caretaking\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003edeath and dying\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egrief journeys\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe similarities and differences between lesbian and married widows\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe lack of support services for lesbian widows\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe legal and financial discrimination against lesbian widows\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe effect of being \"in\" or \"out\" on grief recovery\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ethe issues faced by widows in starting new relationships\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003espirituality\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003egay marriage\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003eLesbian Widows: Invisible Grief provides an insightful look into the grieving and recovery process, inspiring hope with the knowledge that others have survived this tragedy. This moving book is an essential resource for lesbians, friends and family of lesbians, mental health professionals, medical professionals, psychiatrists, LGBT health providers, feminist and lesbian organizations, and anyone involved with grief training programs such as hospice.","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46683655209170,"sku":"9781560233305","price":304.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46254410989778,"sku":"9781560233312","price":93.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46254411022546,"sku":"441041ba-0a69-326d-9af6-fc19ef3d0276","price":86.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/1_e0ca21b2-a959-4107-bcee-42018ee0ae30.jpg?v=1757177136"},{"product_id":"midlife-lesbian-relationships","title":"Midlife Lesbian Relationships: Friends, Lovers, Children, and Parents","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhat awaits lesbians at middle age?Midlife Lesbian Relationships explores the rich world of lesbian relationships at midlife, from dating through the loss of parents, and describes the central relationship between who we are as adults and our connections with friends, lovers, parents, and children.Midlife Lesbian Relationships will help lesbians and the professionals who counsel them navigate and understand the midlife transition. Offering both theoretical and descriptive material, this timely work discusses the difficulties of stigma and the strengths of female same-sex relationships, providing insight into the challenges lesbians find at middle age.Midlife Lesbian Relationships provides insight into the challenges and solutions of middle age for lesbians, discussing:\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cul\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003efriendships\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003edating and courtship\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ecouple relationships and the key ingredients that strengthen and deepen them\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003eparenting young children and the influence of lesbian midlife maturation on confidence and satisfaction in mothering\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003esubstance abuse and the road to recovery\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ethe evolution of the bonds between these women and their biological families\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003cli\u003ewhat many lesbians in middle age go through when their parents pass away, including the easing of internalized homophobia\u003c\/li\u003e\r\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMidlife Lesbian Relationships illustrates the commonalities and differences between lesbians and other women at midlife, and illuminates how the interplay between middle age and relationships can contribute to midlife development. Make this valuable volume part of your collection!\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46683657208018,"sku":"9781560231417","price":144.5,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46254390902994,"sku":"cac94c57-2d08-3231-914f-cb9ade90fc8b","price":61.82,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_f48ae276-0da6-4db6-87f5-0050cdb97aa9.jpg?v=1757704265"},{"product_id":"una-homosexualidad-propia","title":"Una homosexualidad propia: Una reivindicación de la identidad lésbica a través de sus referentes culturales","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUn testimonio valiente y decidido de lo nunca contado. El relato del descubrimiento de la orientación sexual propia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e«Este es el texto que hubiera querido leer antes de juzgarme sin conocerme.»\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCon estas palabras describe su autora este testimonio valiente, fruto del compromiso y la responsabilidad, en el que relata el descubrimiento de su orientación sexual. Un camino a tientas, si no a oscuras, hasta que pudo darse la oportunidad de saber quién era. De la imposición de la normalidad, siempre normativa, consecuencia de una sociedad heteropatriarcal, a la búsqueda de referentes lésbicos en un mundo, cultural y social, carente de ellos. La historia de lo silenciado, lo estigmatizado, lo oculto. Porque los derechos pueden perderse, y es precisamente en los momentos críticos cuando hay que dar un paso al frente. Sin miedo. Con orgullo.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46270988517586,"sku":"305b62bc-5927-3721-8091-9c40af50b742","price":13.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_06480074-a79e-45f6-bd51-f1b10b36c970.jpg?v=1763029462"},{"product_id":"cronicas-maricas","title":"Crónicas maricas","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVicios,  flores y secretos gays del siglo XX en el Perú\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\"¿Qué ocurrió en el siglo XX para que los homosexuales pasáramos del pecado al crimen, del crimen a la patología y de la patología a estar de moda? ¿Cuándo dejamos de ser perseguidos para bailar libremente en cientos de discotecas gays en todo el Perú? En \u003cem\u003eCrónicas maricas\u003c\/em\u003e repaso los episodios de esa historia que permanecía escondida bajo la alfombra.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEn esta Maricopedia conocerás cómo nos refugiamos en las alcantarillas y, con un vasito de plástico como tiara y el excremento como maquillaje, sobrevivimos a la peste y el escarnio. Celebraremos a las travestis que invadieron la Asamblea Constituyente, a una peluquera pobre que murió aferrada al zapato de Madeleine Hartog-Bel y a personajes como Jossie Tassi, Javier Temple y Coco Marusix, quienes, en lugar de sentirse víctimas, se abocaron a convertir los despojos en opulencia.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eDesabróchate el cinturón, porque este es el Perú que nunca te contaron. Pero si buscas a Marica Rostworowski, cambia de vereda que no soy historiador. Solo soy un impúdico que abre la escotilla de ese sótano que insistió en transformarse, hasta que Mario Vargas Llosa exclamó: «¡Cómo estará el Perú, que la mujer más famosa es hombre!»\".\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eJavier Ponce Gambirazio\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46282863640786,"sku":"d54d70b9-8a3c-3b5b-96ef-3fcf5493b6ed","price":21.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_df873f20-1851-4f1d-9848-4b0c596a90f7.jpg?v=1763073235"},{"product_id":"confundidas-indecisas-promiscuas","title":"Confundidas, indecisas, promiscuas: Bisexualidad, identidad y deseo en un mundo monosexista","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDaniel  Valero, periodista, divulgador y activista LGTBIQ+, expone la historia y los mitos y prejuicios que rodean a la bisexualidad, combinando el análisis crítico y la experiencia personal, en una obra que sacude las bases del pensamiento monosexista.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfundidas, indecisas, promiscuas\u003c\/em\u003e es una exploración audaz y profunda de la bisexualidad en un mundo que insiste en encasillar el deseo y la identidad dentro de etiquetas rígidas. Con gran destreza narrativa, Daniel Valero confronta el monosexismo y las barreras que dificultan la visibilidad de las personas bisexuales y defiende esta orientación como una identidad fluida, válida y transformadora.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eValero combina sus experiencias personales con un análisis social para desvelar cómo la bisexualidad ha sido sistemáticamente invisibilizada y malinterpretada. En este poderoso testimonio de resistencia y autoafirmación que nos descubre la bisexualidad como una identidad política con el potencial de romper las normas impuestas por el sistema sexo-género, ahondaremos en temas como el borrado bisexual, la bifobia interiorizada y la lucha por la visibilidad.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEn un contexto en el que la conversación sobre diversidad sexual es más relevante que nunca, \u003cem\u003eConfundidas, indecisas, promiscuas\u003c\/em\u003e se presenta como una obra imprescindible para quienes buscan entender mejor la bisexualidad y para quienes desean desafiar los estereotipos que persisten.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46283520049362,"sku":"e0bb57e2-4fc4-3a23-ae48-d277d9556fff","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_cfa48538-bad8-4e7b-a2d4-6af18dc28ab2.jpg?v=1763029469"},{"product_id":"maricas-malas","title":"Maricas malas: Construir un futuro colectivo desde la disidencia","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eUn  texto brillante en favor de la libertad y las disidencias en el que descubriremos cómo lucha LGTBIQ+ es una reivindicación que nos concierne a todos, una verdadera contienda social y de clase para construir un futuro colectivo desde la disidencia.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e«Pero, si ya podéis casaros, ¿qué más queréis?» ¿Qué se puede desear más allá de formar una familia productiva, traer nuevos trabajadores y trabajadoras al mundo, obtener alguna rebaja fiscal y asegurarse de que, al morir, será la sangre de nuestra sangre la que herede lo poco que hayamos acumulado con el sudor de nuestra frente? ¿Acaso hay algo mejor, promesa más esperanzadora, que la ansiada, reivindicada y al fin conquistada normalidad?\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eLa quimera de la normalidad, entendida como una manera concreta de consumo, se ha convertido en un obstáculo para las luchas sociales y de clase. El deseo de asimilarse a aquello «normal», de pasar desapercibidas, ha silenciado en el debate las disidencias y los modos de vida alejados del sistema productivo y reproductivo capitalista. En contraposición, deberíamos poder reivindicar más que nunca otros modos de vida que inviten a toda la sociedad a transformarse desde los márgenes, a amariconarse, a revolucionar los afectos, los cuidados y, también, los placeres. Una vía alternativa, un horizonte colectivo que no descarte las realidades discordantes con una sociedad cuyo epicentro es la familia nuclear y cishetero.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eChristo Casas, periodista y antropólogo, presenta en \u003cem\u003eMaricas malas\u003c\/em\u003e un texto a medio camino entre el ensayo y el relato personal en el que descubriremos que las luchas queer son una reivindicación que nos concierne a todos, una verdadera contienda social y de clase para construir un futuro colectivo desde la disidencia. Un ensayo lúcido que constituye una verdadera invitación a toda la sociedad a bucear en sus propias prácticas disidentes y a enorgullecerse de ellas.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRESEÑAS:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e«La cultura LGTBIAQ+, callejera, furtiva, incómoda, carnal, desafiante, perversa, nocturna, enferma y profundamente hermosa ha sufrido un proceso de gentrificación, a medias académico, a medias institucional, que nos ha restado potencia y nos ha hurtado nuestros antes poderosísimos modos de colectivizarnos. Desde Paco Vidarte nos ha faltado un asidero que estructure ese amor y esa violencia poética para vindicarnos como una maravillosa otredad. Christo Casas ha venido a solucionar esa carencia con sus \u003cem\u003eMaricas malas\u003c\/em\u003e.»\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAlana S. Portero, autora de \u003cem\u003eLa mala costumbre\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e« \u003cem\u003eMaricas malas\u003c\/em\u003e es un desplazamiento que nos hace ver el potencial útil, revolucionario y gozoso de amariconar el mundo, no solo para las personas LGTBI. Un argumento honesto, descarnado y generoso del potencial destructivo para las cadenas que atan a todo el mundo.»\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIgnacio Elpidio Domínguez, autor de \u003cem\u003eSe vende diversidad\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e«Christo Casas ha escrito una (in)digna continuación para aquella \u003cem\u003eÉtica marica\u003c\/em\u003e que vino a agitar la comodidad asimilacionista en la que el activismo LGTBI ha acostumbrado a instalarse tras la aprobación de leyes, mas movilizando la esperanza de que esta vez la historia puede escribirse de otra forma. Retomando las propuestas utópicas y radicales de los frentes de liberación de los setenta, al tiempo que declara una guerra de clases y sin cuartel a la normalidad, este libro redistribuye el mariconeo como una promesa emancipadora en la que todas las personas hallarán un resquicio de libertad por manosear.»\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIra Hybris, militante marxista queer\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n","brand":"None","offers":[{"title":"Kobo eBook","offer_id":46283521753298,"sku":"cf1b224d-5c76-3f95-a8d4-41c2bf6c7b60","price":15.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/8980\/5233\/files\/image_23900d3c-9a26-494d-9747-a6ec8e04cb7e.jpg?v=1763029468"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.indigo.ca\/collections\/social-science-lgbtq2-lesbian.oembed","provider":"Indigo","version":"1.0","type":"link"}