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    • Trusted Partner
      Humanities & Social Sciences
      November 2024

      Queer beyond London

      by Matt Cook, Alison Oram

    • 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
      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.

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • 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).

    • 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

    • 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.

    • 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.

    • My White

      by Ksenia Burzhskaya

      A sensational and highly anticipated novel by Ksenia Burzhskaya, a Russian renowned journalist, writer, and co-host of the YouTube channel White Noise, together with the famous Russian writer, Tatyana Tolstaya. Ksenia is also a speechwriter for Alisa (a voice assistant and Yandex’s alternative to Alexa) and the winner of the literary competition My First Pain (2008) organized by another great Russian author, Ludmila Ulitskaya. My White is set in the modern day. Throughout the book, the main character, sixteen-year-old girl Jane (Zhenya) is preparing for a New Year school performance. Zhenya was brought up by her two moms, artist Alexandra and doctor Vera. But despite that, she faces the same problems every other teenager does: she studies, meets up with friends, falls for a boy, and tries her best to get over an unrequited love and her parents’ divorce. Zhenya’s ultimate goal and destination in the novel, the concert, has two purposes: to gather her mothers and hopefully make them change their mind about the divorce, and to give her a chance to confess to Lyonya, head of their music club and the guy she is secretly in love with. The novel has two central story lines. The first is a constant rehearsal, anticipation and premonition, that may be more important than the event itself. The second is memories, regrets, attempts to find your own way and answer the eternal questions: what is love? can it last forever? why do we love at all?

    • Personal & social issues: self-awareness & self-esteem (Children's/YA)

      LIFE AFTER

      My Journey from Starvation to Salvation

      by Ariana Aboulafia

      Ariana Aboulafia was twenty-one years old when she was told by the physician that she had six weeks left to live, if she could not survive from the disturbing and mysterious symptoms, especially the devastating nausea and drastic weight. But three months earlier, Ariana just graduated from college, fond of hiking and gym, enjoying the energetic youth like the others and moved from Los Angeles to Miami to start law school. How did this happen? In this compelling and reflecting memoir, Ariana chronicles her stories and struggle to find the right diagnosis and her fight against a rare disease that almost caused her to starve to death. Told in an accessible and engaging manner, it is not just a journey to get through what Ariana was suffering and experiences, to fully reveal a patient’s physical, psychological and emotional statuses that are hard to be recognized by around, but a compelling and inspiring story about the healing power derived from family, love, friendship and faith, as well as her reflection and meditation about the society, philosophy, religion, marriage, life and the national healthcare systems. This page-tuner manuscript is completed with approximately 93,000 words, and has a similar tone with the New York Times bestseller Paul Kalanithi’s “When Breath Becomes Air”.

    • Fiction

      Todos mis padres

      by Fernando Yacamán

      This book is a gay-themed novel, set in Mexico City between the eighties of the last century and the present decade. Through its pages we observe the search for the identity of Luis Habib, a young man who lives the gay night of the city, with all its temptations and all its dangers. Luis has several sexual and affective relationships, among them with “El Centauro”, a university professor of Geography, who is married and has a son, and always keeps Luis at a distance. Luis's relationships are almost always with older men, men who in many ways are also cruel and violent, a bit like his father, like "El Coyote".

    • Literature & Literary Studies
      October 2020

      Savage West

      The Life and Fiction of Thomas Savage

      by O. Alan Weltzien

      Thomas Savage (1915--2003) was one of the intermountain West's best novelists. His thirteen novels received high critical praise, yet he remained largely unknown by readers. Although Savage spent much of his later life in the Northeast, his formative years were spent in southwestern Montana, where the mountain West and his ranching family formed the setting for much of his work. O. Alan Weltzien's insightful and detailed literary biography chronicles the life and work of this neglected but deeply talented novelist. Savage, a closeted gay family man, was both an outsider and an insider, navigating an intense conflict between his sexual identity and the claustrophobic social restraints of the rural West. Unlike many other Western writers, Savage avoided the formula westerns-- so popular in his time-- and offered instead a realistic, often subversive version of the region. His novels tell a hard, harsh story about dysfunctional families, loneliness, and stifling provincialism in the small towns and ranches of the northern Rockies, and his minority interpretation of the West provides a unique vision and caustic counternarrative contrary to the triumphant settler-colonialism themes that have shaped most Western literature. Savage West seeks to claim Thomas Savage's well-deserved position in American literature and to reintroduce twenty-first-century readers to a major Montana writer.

    • Cultural studies
      February 2021

      Identity Capitalists

      The Powerful Insiders Who Exploit Diversity to Maintain Inequality

      by Nancy Leong

      Nancy Leong reveals how powerful people and institutions use diversity to their own advantage and how the rest of us can respond—and do better. Why do people accused of racism defend themselves by pointing to their black friends? Why do men accused of sexism inevitably talk about how they love their wife and daughters? Why do colleges and corporations alike photoshop people of color into their websites and promotional materials? And why do companies selling everything from cereal to sneakers go out of their way to include a token woman or person of color in their advertisements? In this groundbreaking book, Nancy Leong coins the term "identity capitalist" to label the powerful insiders who eke out social and economic value from people of color, women, LGBTQ people, the poor, and other outgroups. Leong deftly uncovers the rules that govern a system in which all Americans must survive: the identity marketplace. She contends that the national preoccupation with diversity has, counterintuitively, allowed identity capitalists to infiltrate the legal system, educational institutions, the workplace, and the media. Using examples from law to literature, from politics to pop culture, Leong takes readers on a journey through the hidden agendas and surprising incentives of various ingroup actors. She also uncovers a dire dilemma for outgroup members: do they play along and let their identity be used by others, or do they protest and risk the wrath of the powerful? Arming readers with the tools to recognize and mitigate the harms of exploitation, Identity Capitalists reveals what happens when we prioritize diversity over equality.

    • Individual film directors, film-makers
      November 2017

      Pro Bernal Anti Bio

      by Ishmael Bernal, Jorge Arago, Angela Stuart-Santiago

      Four years before his death in 1996, National Artist for Film Ishmael Bernal started writing a journal for what he envisioned is a unique biography that would tell all. The goal was an anti-biography that refused to be hagiography or tribute, and instead would be Bernal unexpurgated and uncensored. His biographer was his closest friend and constant collaborator, Jorge Arago, who worked on Pro Bernal Anti Bio until his death in 2011. He then passed the task of completing the book to his friend, Angela Stuart-Santiago. Working towards the goal of a tell-all, and with new research and additional interviews, the final product is a memoir unlike any other in the Philippines. Pro Bernal Anti Bio brings in a cast of actors, scholars, colleagues, and peers who speak from the margins of the book, while Bernal and Arago tell this personal-political history in their own words, sometimes gay, often irreverent, but always revealing an intellect and spirit that was ahead of its time.

    • Children's & YA
      September 2019

      How To Be Remy Cameron

      by Julian Winters

      Everyone on campus knows Remy Cameron. He’s the out-and-proud, superlikable guy who friends, faculty, and fellow students alike admire for his cheerful confidence. The only person who isn’t entirely sure about Remy Cameron is Remy himself. Under pressure to write an A+ essay defining who he is and who he wants to be, Remy embarks on an emotional journey toward reconciling the outward labels people attach to him with the real Remy Cameron within.

    • December 2021

      Queering Chinese Kinship

      Queer Public Culture in Globalizing China

      by Lin Song

      What does it mean to be queer in a Confucian society in which kinship roles, ties, and ideologies are of such great importance? This book makes sense of queer cultures in China—a country with one of the largest queer populations in the world—and offers an alternative to Euro-American blueprints of queer individual identity. This book contends that kinship relations must be understood as central to any expression of queer selfhood and culture in contemporary cultural production in China. Using a critical approach—“queering Chinese kinship”—Lin Song scrutinizes the relationship between queerness and family relations, and questions Eurocentric queer culture’s frequent assumption of the separation of queerness from blood family. Offering five case studies of queer representations across a range of media genres, this book also challenges the tendency in current scholarship on Chinese and East Asian queerness to understand queer cultures as predominantly counter-mainstream, marginal, and underground. Shedding light on the representations of queerness and kinship in independent and subcultural as well as commercial and popular cultural products, the book presents a more comprehensive picture of queerness and kinship in flux and highlights queer politics as an integral part of contemporary Chinese public culture.

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