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    • Fiction
      April 2022 - May 2022

      Wonder World

      A Novel

      by K.R. Byggdin

      “What this town has done, it’s like pickling people. Taking us when we’re young and fresh and vulnerable, sticking us in a jar and filling us with all these rules they hope will preserve us from the rotting decay of worldliness. But you can’t brine someone in that much guilt and shame their whole lives and expect them not to change. Shrivel into mere husks of their former selves, sour as vinegar.” Twenty-seven-year-old Isaac Funk is broke, drifting, and questioning his lonely existence on the East Coast. Having left his conservative hometown of Newfield, Manitoba full of piss and vinegar, Isaac’s dreams of studying music and embracing queer culture in Halifax have gradually fizzled out. When his grandfather dies and leaves him a substantial inheritance, Isaac is pulled back to the Prairies for the first time in ten years. Finding his father Abe just as enigmatic and unreachable as always and his extended family more fragmented than ever, Isaac begins to wonder if there will ever be a place for him in Newfield. Is the prodigal son home for good, or is it time to cut and run once more?

    • Fiction
      July 2022

      Bloodbook

      by Kim de l'Horizon

      A Book to Shake Perceptions and Certitudes – a Book that Will Change You The book’s unnamed protagonist, who feels neither male nor female, is prompted by their grandmother’s slide into dementia to investigate their family history. The more their grandmother forgets, the more the narrator tries to remember: what was it in their childhood that prompted them to feel so alienated from their body? Does it have something to do with the family’s hushed-up history of incest? Why is their grandmother struggling to differentiate between herself and her sister who died young? And what happened to their youngest great aunt who disappeared when she was young? Tracking down answers to these questions proves difficult because the family has a habit of keeping quiet about such matters. At the heart of it all is the question of self-determination: how to exist when your own body is never a given, but is instead constantly having to be negotiated? Singular in its style and form, Bloodbook deals with our intangible heritage, the things we carry without being asked: stories, genders, identities, trauma, languages, class affiliations. Kim de l’Horizon searches for other kinds of knowledge and traditions, other stories and ways of becoming: feminist, witchy, bought with blood, and those that leave a hole in their wake. De l’Horizon leaves the linear, monotonous form of family stories behind and opts for a fluid, streaming form of writing which softens instead of pinning down.

    • September 2023

      Claude Cahun

      A Graphic Biography

      by Kaz Rowe

      Presents the fascinating life and career of this photographer and writer who challenged gender norms and carved out a singular path This book will explore the life and work of the French artist and writer Claude Cahun (1894–1954). Cahun’s compelling, subversive photographs; rejection of gender norms; creative and romantic partnership with fellow artist Marcel Moore (1892–1972); experiences with anti-Semitism; participation in the French Surrealist movement; and resistance against the Nazis make the artist a particularly captivating biographical subject for contemporary audiences. Beginning with Cahun’s childhood in France, the biography will cover the entirety of the artist's life, with a particular emphasis on the creative collaboration with their romantic partner, Moore, and a discussion of the legacy of their influence today.

    • Humanities & Social Sciences

      Clinical Interventions for Internalized Oppression

      by Jan E. Estrellado, Lou S. Felipe, and Jeannie E. Celestial

      Recognizing that many marginalized communities experience the damaging mental health impacts of oppression and discrimination, Clinical Interventions for Internalized Oppression offers practitioners with theoretical frameworks, treatment recommendations, and practice guidelines for addressing bias in their own work, as well as specific interventions for treating the deleterious impacts of inequity.The book introduces readers to conceptual frameworks for internalized oppression and the interactive nature of systems of privilege, power, and oppression within individual and collective experiences. Later chapters identify where different facets of internalized oppression may present themselves in broad clinical domains. Readers explore the ways in which internalized negative beliefs emerge from historic oppression and how they present and manifest.Throughout, queer and/or Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) practitioner spotlights, clinical vignettes, somatic reflections, self-reflection, and discussion questions deepen readers’ learning experiences and promote real-world application.Clinical Interventions for Internalized Oppression is part of the Cognella Series on Advances in Culture, Race, and Ethnicity. The series, co-sponsored by Division 45 of the American Psychological Association, addresses critical and emerging issues within culture, race, and ethnic studies, as well as specific topics among various multicultural groups.Chapters and contributors include:Chapter 1: IntroductionJan E. Estrellado, Ph.D., Lou Collette S. Felipe, Ph.D., and Jeannie Estella Celestial, Ph.D., M.S.W.Chapter 2: An Intersectional ApproachLou Collette S. Felipe, Ph.D., Tamba-Kuii M. Bailey, Ph.D., and Niyeli Herrera, B.A.Chapter 3: Therapeutic AllianceJan E. Estrellado, Ph.D., and Lou Collette S. Felipe, Ph.D.Chapter 4: Issues in SupervisionJeannie Estella Celestial, Ph.D., M.S.W., and Jan E. Estrellado, Ph.D.Chapter 5: Case ConceptualizationJeannie Estella Celestial, Ph.D., M.S.W., and Jan E. Estrellado, Ph.D.Chapter 6: Treatment PlanningKenedy Ramos, M.A., Keali’i Kauahi, M.A., Jan E. Estrellado, PhD, Julii M. Green, Ph.D., and Jeannie Estella Celestial, Ph.D., M.S.W.Chapter 7: Internalized Racism: Manifestations, Mental Health, Implications, and Clinical InterventionsEmilie Loran, M.S., and E. J.R. David, Ph.D.Chapter 8: Internalized SexismMarli Corbett-Hone, M.Ed., Morgan J. Benner, B.S., Natania S. Lipp, B.S., and Nicole L. Johnson, Ph.D.Chapter 9: Internalized Homophobia, Biphobia, and TransphobiaAmy Prescott, M.S., Rose K. Dhaliwal, M.S., Samantha LaMartine, Psy.D., and Nadine Nakamura, Ph.D.Chapter 10: Exploring the Impact of Internalized Ableism in Clinical PracticeAnthea A. Gray, Psy.D., Katlin R. Schultz, Psy.D., Rebecca P. Cameron, Ph.D., Linda R. Mona, Ph.D., and Kristina M. Moncrieffe, Psy.D.Chapter 11: Internalized ClassismWilliam Ming Liu, Ph.D., and Klaus E. Cavalhieri, Ph.D.Chapter 12: ConclusionLou Collette S. Felipe, Ph.D., Jeannie Estella Celestial, Ph.D., M.S.W., and Jan E. Estrellado, Ph.D.

    • September 2024

      More Than Two, Second Edition

      by Eve Rickert, Andrea Zanin

      “Can you love more than one person?” A lot of conversations about nonmonogamy start this way. When we discuss “opening” relationships, contemplate whether we want to be exclusive with our partners, or introduce multiple partners to friends and family, we are asking the people in our lives, and ourselves, to contend with this question. The answer is obvious, and misleading. The love one feels in their heart and the love one expresses through daily acts of care and affection are both “love” in the true sense, but they have different requirements, present different options and produce different outcomes. More Than Two can’t promise outcomes, but it is a guide to the paths—from anchor or nesting partnerships to relationship anarchy—possible within nonmonogamy. This long-awaited second edition bridges emerging theories on attachment and relationship diversity with authors Eve Rickert and Andrea Zanin’s insight and experience. The arcs of nonmonogamous partnerships bend towards complexity, introspection and compromise—or at least they can, if we work at it.

    • Health & Personal Development
      March 2023

      In It Together

      Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family

      by JoEllen Notte

      Millions of people worldwide are coping with depression. Whether it’s you, a family member, a friend or a partner — odds are depression affects your life. Even so, many of us don’t know what to do when it hits someone we care about. JoEllen Notte challenges the preconceived ideas that keep us from showing up for each other in a meaningful way and offers strategies for supporting each other and ourselves when depression comes calling. Challenging the notions that tell us "that's not my business" or "they probably don't want to talk about that," In It Together equips readers to navigate depression alongside the people they care about. Informed by interviews with over 200 people coping with depression and featuring practical tips and real-life examples, In it Together is an insightful and much-needed guidebook for people with depression and those who love them.

    • The Arts
      April 2019

      The Art of Feminism

      Images that shaped the Fight for Equality

      by Helena Reckitt, Consultant Editor, Authors Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson, and Amy Tobin

      Curated and written by leading authorities on art and art history, The Art of Feminism is a comprehensive survey of the ways in which feminists have shaped art and visual culture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Featuring more than 350 works of art, illustration, photography, performance, graphic design and public protest, this stunning volume showcases the vibrancy and daring of the feminist aesthetics over the last 150 years. The book has helped redefine the very canon of art history - a landmark publication. https://shop.tate.org.uk/the-art-of-feminism-images-that-shaped-the-fight-for-equality/22015.html

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