Customer Review: Not since the early 1980s has there been a book that literally takes one's breath away. Prof. Alexander's new volume is profoundly spiritual at the same time it's grounded in a unique materialist feminism. Its signifiance also lies in the book's manifestations of a real hope. Being alive and... more info
Pedro and Me from Henry Holt and Co. (BYR) Price: $11.53
Customer Review: What I enjoyed about writer/cartoonist Judd Winick's Pedro and Me is reality style of this graphic novel. Winick book talks frankly about AIDS without beating the reader over the head with a PSA type message. He explores his friendship with his Real World co-star Pedro...and his death and... more info
Customer Review: This book was required reading for a class on countering oppressions. It is a beautiful story of the mixity of living with multiple marginalized ways of being in the world. In particular, it relays the story of oppression through looking at embodied ways of existence. What does it mean to live in... more info
Customer Review: The title Fear of a Queer Planet is a play on the famous essay on race, Fear of a Black Planet;only readers deaf to history would fail to make the connection. This is a pioneering book, with essays by Eve Sedgewick, Henry L. Gates, and Michael Warner, among others, the first to push gay identity... more info
Customer Review: For those of us who were fortunate enough to be in Washington on that cold morning in October, 1987 and see the entire AIDS Memorial Quilt unfurled for the first time, we should thank Cleve Jones for both his idea of the quilt as a memorial to those who died of AIDS and this wonderful book he has... more info
Customer Review: Like many others involved in the struggles of the Sixties and thereafter, I was aware of Bettina Aptheker: plaintiff in the famous lawsuit that finally validated the legality of the CPUSA; "red diaper baby" of the famous Herbert Aptheker; and participant in many organizations and campaigns. Also... more info
Customer Review: Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian/Pacific American Activists edited by Kevin R. Kumashiro is an anthology consisting of seventeen autobiographical essays by queer APA activists, this collection offers just a small sample of the experiences faced by individuals, as well as by queer APA... more info
