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    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      February 2022

      "I am Jugoslovenka!"

      Feminist performance politics during and after Yugoslav Socialism

      by Jasmina Tumbas, Amelia Jones, Marsha Meskimmon

      "I am Jugoslovenka" argues that queer-feminist artistic and political resistance were paradoxically enabled by socialist Yugoslavia's unique history of patriarchy and women's emancipation. Spanning performance and conceptual art, video works, film and pop music, lesbian activism and press photos of female snipers in the Yugoslav wars, the book analyses feminist resistance in a range of performative actions that manifest the radical embodiment of Yugoslavia's anti-fascist, transnational and feminist legacies. It covers celebrated and lesser-known artists from the 1970s to today, including Marina Abramovic, Sanja Ivekovic, Vlasta Delimar, Tanja Ostojic, Selma Selman and Helena Janecic, along with music legends Lepa Brena and Esma Redzepova. "I am Jugoslovenka" tells a unique story of women's resistance through the intersection of feminism, socialism and nationalism in East European visual culture.

    • Trusted Partner
      February 2022

      Alle Tiere einsteigen!

      by Sandra Grimm, Pina Gertenbach

      Sandra Grimms "Alle Tiere einsteigen!" entführt junge Leserinnen und Leser auf eine farbenfrohe und abenteuerliche Busfahrt durch die Stadt, begleitet von einer Vielzahl von Tieren mit ganz individuellen Wünschen und Zielen. Die Geschichte beginnt mit einer Giraffe als Busfahrerin, die verschiedene Tiere zu ihren persönlichen Erledigungen fährt: ein Schaf zum Friseur, ein Chamäleon, das seinen Großvater besuchen möchte, und Fredi Fuchs, der auf dem Weg zu einer Hochzeit ist. Die Reise wird durch die Teilnahme weiterer einzigartiger Charaktere wie der Glucke Gusti mit ihren Eiern und Pinguinen, die zu einem Fußballspiel unterwegs sind, bereichert. Die Rückfahrt bringt neue Wendungen mit dem Hinzukommen von Fredis Bräutigam und den geschlüpften Küken von Gusti, was die Fahrt noch bunter und vielfältiger gestaltet. Die lebendige Erzählung wird durch Reime und farbenfrohe Illustrationen im charakteristischen Stil von Pina Gertenbach ergänzt, die die Geschichte lebendig und humorvoll machen. Dieses Buch bietet nicht nur eine unterhaltsame Geschichte, sondern vermittelt auch wichtige Botschaften über Vielfalt und Toleranz. Die spannenden Gucklöcher sorgen für zusätzliche Überraschungsmomente beim Umblättern, was das Buch zu einem interaktiven Erlebnis für Kinder ab 2 Jahren macht. Vereint die Lieblingsthemen von Kindern – Tiere und Fahrzeuge – in einer einzigen, humorvollen Geschichte. Interaktive Gucklöcher auf jeder Seite sorgen für spannende Überraschungen und halten die Aufmerksamkeit der Kinder. Vermittelt eine klare und verständliche Botschaft über Vielfalt und Toleranz, was es zu einem wichtigen Buch für die Erziehung offener und respektvoller Kinder macht. Beinhaltet heitere und schwungvolle Reime, die Spaß beim Vorlesen machen und die sprachliche Entwicklung fördern. Wunderschöne, bunte und humorvolle Illustrationen von Pina Gertenbach, die die Vorstellungskraft anregen und zum wiederholten Betrachten einladen. Robustes Pappbuch-Format, ideal für kleine Hände und zur Förderung der Feinmotorik. Bietet neben Unterhaltung auch lehrreiche Inhalte, indem es ein modernes Bild von Gesellschaft und Familie präsentiert. Erwiesenermaßen ein "Immer-wieder-bitte-vorlesen-Buch", das bei Kindern und Eltern gleichermaßen beliebt ist.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      December 2022

      The cinema of Pedro Almodóvar

      by Ana María Sanchez-Arce

      This book offers a comprehensive film-by-film analysis of Spain's most famous living director, Pedro Almodóvar. It shows how Almodóvar's films draw on various national cinemas and genres, including Spanish cinema of the dictatorship, European art cinema, Hollywood melodrama and film noir. It also argues that Almodóvar's work is a form of social critique, his films consistently engaging with and challenging stereotypes about traditional and contemporary Spain in order to address Spain's traumatic historical past and how it continues to inform the present. Drawing on scholarship in both English and Spanish, the book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of film studies and Hispanic studies, scholars of contemporary cinema and general readers with a passion for the films of Pedro Almodóvar.

    • Trusted Partner
      The Arts
      October 2024

      Queer cinema in contemporary France

      Five directors

      by Todd Reeser

      Jacques Martineau, Olivier Ducastel, Alain Guiraudie, Sébastien Lifshitz and Céline Sciamma. The films of these five major French directors exemplify queer cinema in the twenty-first century. Comprehensive in scope, Queer cinema in contemporary France traces the development of the meaning of queer across these directors' careers, from their earliest, often unknown films to their later, major films with wide international release. Whether having sex on the beach or kissing in the high school swimming pool, these cinematic characters create or embody forward-looking, open-ended and optimistic forms of queerness and modes of living, loving and desiring. Whether they are white, beur or black, whether they are lesbian, gay, trans* or queer, they open up hetero- and cisnormativity to new ways of being a gendered subject.

    • Trusted Partner
      August 2020

      Schamlos schön

      Klartext über Pubertät, wirre Gefühle und den Mut, du selbst zu sein

      by Nina Brochmann, Ellen Støkken Dahl, Magnhild Winsnes, Maike Dörries

      "Schamlos schön" ist ein mutiges und wegweisendes Aufklärungsbuch von den jungen Ärztinnen und Erfolgsautorinnen Nina Brochmann und Ellen Støkken Dahl, das sich speziell an Mädchen und junge Frauen richtet. Mit einer Mischung aus Humor, Empathie und fachlicher Expertise brechen die Autorinnen Tabus rund um die Themen Pubertät, Sexualität und Körperbewusstsein. Von den körperlichen Veränderungen bis hin zu den emotionalen Wirbelstürmen der Pubertät – dieses Buch steht jungen Leserinnen als vertrauensvolle Freundin zur Seite, die klare Antworten und verlässlichen Rat bietet. Illustriert von der preisgekrönten Künstlerin Magnhild Winsnes, ist "Schamlos schön" ein visuell ansprechendes und inhaltlich tiefgreifendes Werk, das junge Mädchen dabei unterstützt, ihren Körper zu verstehen, zu schätzen und selbstbewusst durch die Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens zu navigieren. "Schamlos schön" ist mehr als nur ein Aufklärungsbuch; es ist eine Einladung an junge Mädchen, sich selbst zu erkunden, zu lieben und stolz auf die Person zu sein, die sie werden. Mit diesem Buch in der Hand sind sie für die Herausforderungen des Erwachsenwerdens bestens gerüstet. Umfassende Aufklärung: Behandelt alle wichtigen Themen der Pubertät und Sexualerziehung auf eine zugängliche und informative Weise. Empowerment und Selbstakzeptanz: Stärkt das Selbstbewusstsein junger Mädchen und fördert ein positives Körperbild. Vielfältige und inklusive Perspektiven: Berücksichtigt eine breite Palette von Erfahrungen und Identitäten, einschließlich LGBTQ+ und Gender-Vielfalt. Tabufreie und ehrliche Diskussion : Bietet eine offene Plattform für Themen, die oft als peinlich oder tabu angesehen werden. Expertenwissen: Geschrieben von medizinischen Fachkräften, die komplexe Themen verständlich und ansprechend vermitteln. Wunderschön illustriert: Die einzigartigen Illustrationen ergänzen den Text perfekt und machen schwierige Themen zugänglich. Ratgeber und Freundin: Dient als vertrauensvolle Quelle für Rat und Unterstützung während der turbulenten Jahre der Pubertät. Perfektes Geschenk: Ideal für Mädchen ab 12 Jahren, die in die Pubertät kommen, sowie für Eltern, die das Gespräch mit ihren Kindern suchen. Unterstützung in der Identitätsfindung: Hilft jungen Leserinnen, ihre Identität zu verstehen und zu akzeptieren. Förderung von Toleranz und Verständnis: Ermutigt zu einem offenen Dialog über Vielfalt und Akzeptanz.

    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      February 2025

      Red closet

      by Rustam Alexander

    • Affirming LGBTQ+ Stuudents in Higher Education

      by David P. Rivera, Roberto L. Abreu, Kirsten A. Gonzalez

      This book will guide institutions of higher learning in making practical and effective changes at many levels to better support LGBTQ+ students and, ultimately, improving the campus climate for all. For college students with marginalized gender identities and sexual orientations, simply getting through a day of study—not to mention work, exercise, and social life—can be taxing in the extreme, due to the additional weight of minority stress.However, there are many steps higher education leaders can take, both to boost students’ resilience and to dismantle the very structures that create minority stress. These steps may involve changes to facilities, student health and resource centers, housing, administrative policy, faculty training, curriculum, and other areas. This book presents research-based needs assessment frameworks and best practices for integrating a broad array of institutional changes to improve LGBTQ+ students’ higher education experience. Chapters describe student populations with multiple intersecting identities: transgender students, students of color, students with disabilities, student athletes, international students, and first-generation college students. The authors also address issues unique to different settings, including community colleges, religious institutions, and historically Black colleges and universities.

    • Inverted Triangles

      by Karen Fagan

      Set between Dublin and London in 2006/7, INVERTED TRIANGLES is where Tales of the City meets Sex in the City for the LGBTQ+ community. Exploring love and its loss, gay relationships and friendships, and the deception of self and others, the story follows the crises and triumphs of four increasingly interlinked lives. Filled with comedy, warmth and memorable characters, INVERTED TRIANGLES has the potential to break through commercially as few LGBT novels have done before.

    • Plays, playscripts
      October 2018

      SwanSong

      by Nathan Evans

      A gentleman called Joan lands in a subdued, suburban care home like a colourful, combustible cocktail. A veteran of Gay Lib, he dons battle dress and seeks an ally in the young, gay but disappointingly conventional care assistant Craig for his assault on the heteronormativity of the care system. Then, in this most unlikely of settings, Joan is offered love by a gentleman called Jim… This bittersweet play explores issues surrounding care and LGBT elders. It premiered at King's Head Theatre in 2017, was funded by the Arts Council in 2018 and shortlisted for the Carlo Annoni Playwrighting Prize 2020.

    • Crime & mystery
      March 2005

      Desert Blood

      The Juárez Murders

      by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

      An incisive and thrilling mystery that delves into the violent deaths of young women plaguing the U.S. / Mexico border.

    • Erotic fiction

      Blond Boy; Red Lipstick

      by Geoff Bunn

      This is a love story, deliberately pitched at a mainstream audience and at a level far removed from the dark and often sordid world of transsexual prostitution on Bois de Boulogne in Paris. The idea is to subtly lead the reader into this setting and give them an insight into the life of a transsexual. In this first book, we meet the Narrator and Alley – a vivacious young boy with bleach blonde hair and red lipstick. The two begin a gentle romance. Issues such as homophobia are only touched upon, rather than explored fully. By the time readers finish the book, they will know the characters, be interested in them, and they will have some empathy towards and a little more understanding of transsexuals. Blond Boy; Red Lipstick is the first of two, where the sequel, already planned out, will be a darker story (albeit with a happy ending).

    • September 2020

      The Summer of Everything

      by Julian Winters

      Wes Hudson’s summer has gotten complicated. His job at the local indie bookstore is threatened by a coffeeshop franchise looking to buy it. His family is pestering him about college majors. And he can’t stop pining over his best friend, Nico. When all three problems converge, Wes comes face-to-face with the thing he fears most— adulthood.

    • The World Doesn't Work that Way, but It Could

      Stories

      by Yxta Maya Murray

      The gripping, thought-provoking stories in Yxta Maya Murray’s latest collection find their inspiration in the headlines. Here, ordinary people negotiate tentative paths through wildfire, mass shootings, bureaucratic incompetence, and heedless government policies with vicious impacts on the innocent and helpless. A nurse volunteers to serve in catastrophe-stricken Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria and discovers that her skill and compassion are useless in the face of stubborn governmental inertia. An Environmental Protection Agency employee, whose agricultural-worker parents died after long exposure to a deadly pesticide, finds herself forced to find justifications for reversing regulations that had earlier banned the chemical. A Department of Education employee in a dystopic future America visits a highly praised charter school and discovers the horrific consequences of academic failure. A transgender trainer of beauty pageant contestants takes on a beautiful Latina for the Miss USA pageant and brings her to perfection and the brink of victory, only to discover that she has a fatal secret.The characters in these stories grapple with the consequences of frightening attitudes and policies pervasive in the United States today. The stories explore not only our distressing human capacity for moral numbness in the face of evil, but also reveal our surprising stores of compassion and forgiveness. These brilliantly conceived and beautifully written stories are troubling yet irresistible mirrors of our time.

    • Combat sports & self-defence

      Self-defense pocket manual

      by Helô D'Angelo (author)

      During the pandemic, comic artist Helô D'Angelo became very afraid of walking down the street alone. So, she decided to do the self-defense workshop focused on the LGBTQIAP+ population and women. Print in special color purple, and fluor orange (cover), handsewn.

    • Education

      A Soul has no Gender

      Love and acceptance through the eyes of a mother of sexual and gender minority children

      by Ajeto, D. M.

      What would you do if your child told you that he or she had something “very difficult” to tell you? How would you respond? Would you sit down and try to understand what your child was trying to communicate to you? Would you respond in anger, judgment, or irritation? Would you even give your child your full attention? And after listening to your child, would you attempt to ignore, dismiss, or even deny what your child was trying to tell you? These are important questions for all parents to ask—and answer—because it is vitally important that parents understand how to respond to the significant questions that our children present to us with care and consideration. This understanding is especially critical for parents who are faced with the additional—and unexpected—challenge of how to respond when what is so “very difficult” for their child to tell them is that he or she is lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or questioning their identity (LGBTQ). Given the strong societal stigma against the LGBTQ population, as well as the lack of education with respect to parenting skills, sexuality, gender, and identity development, many parents feel overwhelmed, ashamed, and isolated. As a result, despite coming out in increasing numbers, almost half of LGBTQ youth face an uncertain future due to parental and societal rejection. A Soul Has No Gender is the story of one mother’s inquiry into her experience of coming to accept the sexual and gender identities of her fraternal twins, who are lesbian and female-to-male transgender, and how the experience transformed not only her relationships with her children, but with herself as well.

    • Fiction

      The Membranes

      by Chi Ta-Wei

      It is the late twenty-first century, and Momo is the most celebrated dermal care technician in all of T City. Humanity has migrated to domes at the bottom of the sea to escape devastating climate change. The world is dominated by powerful media conglomerates and runs on exploited cyborg labor. Momo prefers to keep to herself, and anyway she’s too busy for other relationships: her clients include some of the city’s best-known media personalities. But after meeting her estranged mother, she begins to explore her true identity, a journey that leads to questioning the bounds of gender, memory, self, and reality. First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes―heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies―into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for self-understanding. Predicting everything from fitness tracking to social media saturation, this visionary and sublime novel stands out for its queer and trans themes. The Membranes reveals the diversity and originality of contemporary speculative fiction in Chinese, exploring gender and sexuality, technological domination, and regimes of capital, all while applying an unflinching self-reflexivity to the reader’s own role.

    • FREEDOM STORIES

      freedom stories for boys and girls chasing big dreams

      by GIOVANNI MOLASCHI

      An engaging collection of biographies of present-day heroes: women and men who stand out for struggling for love and freedomFrom Rudol’f Nureev to Tiziano Ferro, from Christian Andersen to Keith Haring, a collection of 12 biographies of famous people who have distinguished themselves in thht against sexual and gender discriminatioe computer was invented by Alan Turing; Darla, a famous character from the cartoon Nemo, owes its name to the Pixar producer who invented it; the captain of the American national football team that won the women’s World Cup is Megan Rapinoe, who with her charisma has enchanted men and women all over the world. If recently the editorial proposal on the LGBTQ theme has focused on “coming out”, this book - through compelling stories of courage - conveys a message completely indipendent from the sexual orientation of the reader, and focuses on the exemplarity of the actions that make these personalities prominent and true examples for future generations.

    • 2019

      Sexual Orientation

      Understanding Gender & Sexuality Series

      by Taryn McKenna

      Find out how sexual orientation differs from gender identity. Students learn that finding congruence between gender identity and sexual orientation is an ongoing process. Understand that sexual orientation is interpersonal—it is how we feel towards others. Learn about the different layers of sexual orientation, including LGBTQ+. Finally, students explore the history of human sexuality and how it has been perceived throughout time.To learn more about this publisher, click here: http://bit.ly/2Y3o3VL

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