{"title":"Poetry","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"red-at-the-bone-9780525535287","title":"Red at the Bone","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA\u003ci\u003e NEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eNOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAn unexpected teenage pregnancy pulls together two families from different social classes and explores their histories - reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre of 1921 -- and exposes the private hopes, disappointments, and longings that can bind or divide us from each other, from the \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e-bestselling and National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnother Brooklyn\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrown Girl Dreaming\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving forward and backward in time, Jacqueline Woodson's taut and powerful new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of the new child.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs the book opens in 2001, it is the evening of sixteen-year-old Melody's coming of age ceremony in her grandparents' Brooklyn brownstone. Watched lovingly by her relatives and friends, making her entrance to the music of Prince, she wears a special custom-made dress. But the event is not without poignancy. Sixteen years earlier, that very dress was measured and sewn for a different wearer: Melody's mother, for her own ceremony-- a celebration that ultimately never took place.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUnfurling the history of Melody's family - reaching back to the Tulsa race massacre in 1921 -- to show how they all arrived at this moment, Woodson considers not just their ambitions and successes but also the costs, the tolls they've paid for striving to overcome expectations and escape the pull of history. As it explores sexual desire and identity, ambition, gentrification, education, class and status, and the life-altering facts of parenthood, \u003ci\u003eRed at the Bone\u003c\/i\u003e most strikingly looks at the ways in which young people must so often make long-lasting decisions about their lives--even before they have begun to figure out who they are and what they want to be.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"A spectacular novel that only this legend can pull off.\"\u003c\/em\u003e --Ibram X. Kendi, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times-\u003c\/i\u003ebestselling author of \u003ci\u003eHOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"An exquisite tale of family legacy.... The power and poetry of Woodson's writing conjures up Toni Morrison.\"\u003c\/em\u003e --\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"In less than 200 sparsely filled pages, this book manages to encompass issues of class, education, ambition, racial prejudice, sexual desire and orientation, identity, mother-daughter relationships, parenthood and loss.... With Red at the Bone, Jacqueline Woodson has indeed risen -- even further into the ranks of great literature.\"\u003c\/em\u003e --NPR\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"This poignant tale of choices and their aftermath, history and legacy, will resonate with mothers and daughters.\"\u003c\/em\u003e --Tayari Jones, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAN AMERICAN MARRIAGE\u003c\/i\u003e, in \u003ci\u003eO Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e","brand":"Jacqueline Woodson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44707548135707,"sku":"9780525535287","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/red-at-the-bone-sapphic-society-41387.jpg?v=1751759922"},{"product_id":"if-not-winter-fragments-of-sappho-9780375724510","title":"If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this \"gorgeous translation\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e), one of our most fearless and original poets provides a tantalizing window onto the genius of a woman whose lyric power spans millennia. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOf the nine books of lyrics the ancient Greek poet Sappho is said to have composed, only one poem has survived complete. The rest are fragments. In this miraculous new translation, acclaimed poet and classicist Anne Carson presents all of Sappho's fragments, in Greek and in English, as if on the ragged scraps of papyrus that preserve them, inviting a thrill of discovery and conjecture that can be described only as electric--or, to use Sappho's words, as \"thin fire... racing under skin.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Carson is in many ways [Sappho's] ideal translator.... Her command of language is hones to a perfect edge and her approach to the text, respectful yet imaginative, results in verse that lets Sappho shine forth.\" \u003ci\u003e--Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sappho","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44758277062939,"sku":"9780375724510","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/if-not-winter-fragments-of-sappho-sapphic-society-85332.jpg?v=1751738373"},{"product_id":"girl-woman-other-a-novel-booker-prize-winner-9780802156983","title":"Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"A must-read about modern Britain and womanhood... An impressive, fierce novel about the lives of black British families, their struggles, pains, laughter, longings and loves... Her style is passionate, razor-sharp, brimming with energy and humor. There is never a single moment of dullness in this book and the pace does not allow you to turn away from its momentum.\" --Booker Prize Judges\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBernardine Evaristo is the winner of the 2019 Booker Prize and the first black woman to receive this highest literary honor in the English language. \u003cem\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/em\u003e is a magnificent portrayal of the intersections of identity and a moving and hopeful story of an interconnected group of Black British women that paints a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and looks back to the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives: Amma is a newly acclaimed playwright whose work often explores her Black lesbian identity; her old friend Shirley is a teacher, jaded after decades of work in London's funding-deprived schools; Carole, one of Shirley's former students, is a successful investment banker; Carole's mother Bummi works as a cleaner and worries about her daughter's lack of rootedness despite her obvious achievements. From a nonbinary social media influencer to a 93-year-old woman living on a farm in Northern England, these unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSparklingly witty and filled with emotion, centering voices we often see othered, and written in an innovative fast-moving form that borrows technique from poetry, \u003cem\u003eGirl, Woman, Other\u003c\/em\u003e is a polyphonic and richly textured social novel that shows a side of Britain we rarely see, one that reminds us of all that connects us to our neighbors, even in times when we are encouraged to be split apart.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Man Booker Prize - Winner\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bernardine Evaristo","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44758180364571,"sku":"9780802156983","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/girl-woman-other-a-novel-booker-prize-winner-sapphic-society-74983.jpg?v=1751738400"},{"product_id":"nightwood-9780811216715","title":"Nightwood","description":"\u003cem\u003eNightwood\u003c\/em\u003e, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch (\u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/em\u003e). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna--a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction--there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions. Barnes' depiction of these characters and their relationships (Nora says, A man is another persona woman is yourself, caught as you turn in panic; on her mouth you kiss your own) has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Most striking of all is Barnes' unparalleled stylistic innovation, which led T. S. Eliot to proclaim the book so good a novel that only sensibilities trained on poetry can wholly appreciate it. Now with a new preface by Jeanette Winterson, \u003cem\u003eNightwood\u003c\/em\u003e still crackles with the same electric charge it had on its first publication in 1936.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Djuna Barnes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44758869049627,"sku":"9780811216715","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/nightwood-sapphic-society-47931.jpg?v=1751738403"},{"product_id":"funeral-diva-9780872868113","title":"Funeral Diva","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003ci\u003eFuneral Diva\u003c\/i\u003e is the Winner of the Lambda Award for Lesbian Poetry!\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Sneed is an acclaimed reader of her own poetry, and the book has the feeling of live performance.... Its strength is in its abundance, its desire for language to stir body as well as mind.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--Parul Sehgal, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"She is a writer for the future, in that she defies genre.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--Hilton Als\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This notable achievement, traveling from youth to adulthood, is a harrowing account of how Sneed transforms violence and pain into an artist's life.\"--\u003cstrong\u003eClaudia Rankine\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eCitizen: An American Lyric\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"There's an eerie sense of timeliness to this book, which features prose and poetry by the writer and teacher Pamela Sneed and is largely -- though not entirely -- about mourning Black gay men killed too soon by a deadly virus.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eTomi Obaro, \u003cem\u003eBuzzfeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"OH MY GOODNESS, it was amazing. I was in tears by the end. What starts off as beautiful memoir evolves into incredibly moving poetry, painful and sweet and lovely.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--Marie Cloutier, Greenlight Bookstore, Brooklyn, NY\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Balancing and mixing, with rhyme and reason, love and anger, good and bad, memory and the created present, all to tell the story of a life, a memoir unrestrained, devoid of artificial forms. Honest. Free.\" --\u003cstrong\u003eAnjanette Delgado, \u003cem\u003eNew York Journal of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of personal essays and poetry, acclaimed poet and performer Pamela Sneed details her coming of age in New York City during the late 1980s. \u003cem\u003eFuneral Diva\u003c\/em\u003e captures the impact of AIDS on Black Queer life, and highlights the enduring bonds between the living, the dying, and the dead. Sneed's poems not only converse with lovers past and present, but also with her literary forebears--like James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Audre Lorde--whose aesthetic and thematic investments she renews for a contemporary American landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOffering critical focus on matters from police brutality to LGBTQ+ rights, \u003cem\u003eFuneral Diva \u003c\/em\u003econfronts today's most pressing issues with acerbic wit and audacity. The collection closes with Sneed's reflections on the two pandemics of her time, AIDS and COVID-19, and the disproportionate impact of each on African American communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Riveting, personal, open-hearted, risky and wise.\" --Sarah Schulman, author of \u003cem\u003eConflict Is Not Abuse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"... a tour de force about the collision between a coalescing 1980s 'Black lesbian and gay literary and poetic movement' in New York and the onslaught of AIDS.\" --Donna Seaman, \u003cem\u003e Booklist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Pamela Sneed's \u003cem\u003eFuneral Diva\u003c\/em\u003e is deft, defiant, and devastating.\" --Tommy Pico, author of \u003cem\u003eFeed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eFuneral Diva\u003c\/em\u003e is urgent and necessary reading to live by. This is writing at its finest. Keep this book close to your heart and soul.\" --Karen Finley, author of \u003cem\u003eShock Treatment\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Reminiscent of Audre Lorde's \u003cem\u003eZami\u003c\/em\u003e, Pamela Sneed's memoir is, in itself, a healing balm, affirming in its truths and honesty. I cannot remember ever reading a book that illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on our community more poignantly than \u003cem\u003eFuneral Diva\u003c\/em\u003e.\" --Nicole Dennis-Benn, author of \u003cem\u003ePatsy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Pamela Sneed takes enormous risks in this book. She tells the truth with fierce concentration and an abiding sense of purpose.\" --Dorothy Allison, author of \u003cem\u003eBastard Out of Carolina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Pamela Sneed","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44758169911579,"sku":"9780872868113","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/funeral-diva-sapphic-society-11462.jpg?v=1751738407"},{"product_id":"build-yourself-a-boat-9781608466115","title":"Build Yourself a Boat","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2019 National Book Award Longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"With \u003cem\u003eBuild Yourself a Boat\u003c\/em\u003e, Camonghne Felix heralds a thrillingly new form of storytelling.\" \u003cstrong\u003e--Morgan Parker, author of \u003cem\u003eMagical Negro\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is about what grows through the wreckage. This is an anthem of survival and a look at what might come after. A view of what floats and what, ultimately, sustains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eBuild Yourself a Boat \u003c\/em\u003eredefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Nominee\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Camonghne Felix","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44744616247579,"sku":"9781608466115","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/build-yourself-a-boat-sapphic-society-17953.jpg?v=1751738443"},{"product_id":"time-9781643620046","title":"Time","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the INTERNATIONAL GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the BEST TRANSLATED BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST for the 2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn October 27, 2003, Adnan received a post card of a palm tree from the poet Khaled Najar, who she had met in the late seventies in Tunisia, sparking a collection of poems that would unspool over the next decade in a continuous discovery of the present moment. Originally written in French, these poems collapse time into single crystallized moments then explode outward to take in the scope of human history. In \u003ci\u003eTime, \u003c\/i\u003e we see an intertwining of war and love, coffee and bombs, empathetic observation and emphatic detail taken from both memory and the present of the poem to weave a tapestry of experience in non-linear time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Etel Adnan","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44762509574427,"sku":"9781643620046","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/time-sapphic-society-14988.jpg?v=1751738464"},{"product_id":"hull-9781643620084","title":"Hull","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the JUDITH A. MARKOWITZ AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED for the HEARTLAND BOOKSELLERS AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this debut collection by African American poet Xandria Phillips, \u003ci\u003eHULL\u003c\/i\u003e explores emotional impacts of colonialism and racism on the Black queer body and the present-day emotional impacts of enslavement in urban, rural, and international settings. HULL is lyrical, layered, history-ridden, experimental, textured, adorned, ecstatic, and emotionally investigative.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xandria Phillips","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44758334734619,"sku":"9781643620084","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/hull-sapphic-society-33585.jpg?v=1751738466"},{"product_id":"the-sunflower-cast-a-spell-to-save-us-from-the-void-9781643620367","title":"The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us from the Void","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR POETRY\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJackie Wang's magnetic and spellbinding debut collection of poetry that attempts to speak in the language of dreams.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eThe Sunflower Cast A Spell To Save Us From The Void\u003c\/i\u003e read like dispatches from the dream world, with Jackie Wang acting as our trusted comrade reporting across time and space. By sharing her personal index of dreams with its scenes of solidarity and resilience, interpersonal conflict and outlaw jouissance, Wang embodies historical trauma and communal memory. Here, the all-too-familiar interplay between crisis and resistance becomes first distorted, then clarified and refreshed. With a light touch and invigorating sense of humor, Wang illustrates the social dimension of dreams and their ability to inform and reshape the dreamer's waking world with renewed energy and insight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e National Book Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Jackie Wang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44762528973083,"sku":"9781643620367","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/the-sunflower-cast-a-spell-to-save-us-from-the-void-sapphic-society-37545.jpg?v=1751738467"},{"product_id":"all-the-rage-9781643620718","title":"All the Rage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 HOUSATONIC BOOK AWARDS FINALIST!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2021 BIG OTHER BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY FINALIST!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA new collection of poems by Lambda Award winner, Rosamond S. King, conceptualizing state violence, racism, and the persistence of black desire, resistance, and joy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll the Rage\u003c\/i\u003e addresses everyday pleasure as well as the persistent condition of racism in the USA--a time marked both by recurring police violence and intense artistic creativity. At its core dwells the 'Living in the Abattoir' series, set in an alternate yet familiar world, in which people of color live in an abattoir as both workers and meat. All the Rage addresses the contemporary realities of life in the USA from a variety of perspectives: being a black person, an immigrant, a woman, and queer. The title All the Rage simultaneously invokes both anger at ongoing, systemic violence and the frivolity of something that is, perhaps temporarily, \"trending.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rosamond S. King","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44730272153883,"sku":"9781643620718","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/all-the-rage-sapphic-society-23404.jpg?v=1751738468"},{"product_id":"imagine-us-the-swarm-9781643620732","title":"Imagine Us, the Swarm","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER of the 2022 Four Quartets Prize!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2022 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARDS FINALIST!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Nightboat Books Poetry Prize, \u003ci\u003eImagine Us, The Swarm\u003c\/i\u003e offers seven powerful texts that form a constellation of voices, forms, and approaches to confront loneliness, silence, and death.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the death of the poet's father, \u003ci\u003eImagine Us, The Swarm\u003c\/i\u003e contemplates vengeance, eschews forgiveness, and cultivates a desire for healing beyond the reaches of this present life. In this collection of essays in verse, Leung reconciles a familial history of violence and generational trauma across intersections of Asian American, queer, and gendered experiences. Moving between the past and the present, Leung imbues memories with something new to alter time and design a different future.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Muriel Leung","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44758410232091,"sku":"9781643620732","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/imagine-us-the-swarm-sapphic-society-40130.jpg?v=1751738470"},{"product_id":"cnto-othered-poems-9781908906489","title":"C+nto: \u0026 Othered Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2021\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE POLARI BOOK PRIZE 2022\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe female body is a political space.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eC+nto\u003c\/i\u003e enters the private lives of women from the butch counterculture, telling the inside story of the protests they led in the '90s to reclaim their bodies as their own - their difficult balance between survival and self-expression. History, magic, rebellion, party and sermon vibrate through Joelle Taylor's cantos to uncover these underground communities forged by women.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePart-memoir and part-conjecture, Taylor explores sexuality and gender in poetry that is lyrical, expansive, imagistic, epic and intimate. \u003ci\u003eC+nto\u003c\/i\u003e is a love poem, a riot, a late night, and an honouring.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joelle Taylor","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44744650391835,"sku":"9781908906489","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/c-nto-and-othered-poems-sapphic-society-63503.jpg?v=1751738473"},{"product_id":"pet-sounds-9781937658946","title":"Pet Sounds","description":"\u003cp\u003eA book of unruly love poems about complicated sexuality, precarity, and kinship Working from the sticky interface of property and sex, Stephanie Young takes up the question of passing when narrow definitions of family on offer by the law and capitalist social relations leave out so much. With a cast of characters that includes lovers and exes, Troilus and Cressida, Van Morrison and the Grateful Dead, Steph Curry and Andre Iguodala, Pat Parker and Judy Grahn, the orca Tilikum and his captors, Pet Sounds is at once a book of confessional economics, music criticism disguised as poetry, and a complicated coming out story. These poems pulse with the pleasures and grief of making a home inside structures that don't fit--on land whose value climbs ever upward in the frenzy of speculation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stephanie Young","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44761243517211,"sku":"9781937658946","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/pet-sounds-sapphic-society-42046.jpg?v=1751738477"},{"product_id":"odes-to-lithium-9781948579032","title":"Odes to Lithium","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCaptivating poems and visual art seek to bring comfort and solidarity to anyone living with Bipolar Disorder.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this remarkable debut, Shira Erlichman pens a love letter to Lithium, her medication for Bipolar Disorder. With inventiveness, compassion, and humor, she thrusts us into a world of unconventional praise. From an unexpected encounter with her grandmother's ghost, to a bubble bath with Bjӧrk, to her plumber's confession that he, too, has Bipolar, Erlichman buoyantly topples stigma against the mentally ill. These are necessary odes to self-acceptance, resilience, and the jagged path toward healing. With startling language, and accompanied by her bold drawings and collages, she gives us a sparkling, original view into what makes us human.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Shira Erlichman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44758885761307,"sku":"9781948579032","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/odes-to-lithium-sapphic-society-53841.jpg?v=1751738480"},{"product_id":"a-burst-of-light-and-other-essays-9780486818993","title":"A Burst of Light: And Other Essays","description":"\u003cp\u003eLorde's words -- on race, cancer, intersectionality, parenthood, injustice -- burn with relevance 25 years after her death. -- \u003ci\u003eO, The Oprah Magazine \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWinner of the 1988 Before Columbus Foundation National Book Award, this path-breaking collection of essays is a clarion call to build communities that nurture our spirit. Lorde announces the need for a radical politics of intersectionality while struggling to maintain her own faith as she wages a battle against liver cancer. From reflections on her struggle with the disease to thoughts on lesbian sexuality and African-American identity in a straight white man's world, Lorde's voice remains enduringly relevant in today's political landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThose who practice and encourage social justice activism frequently quote her exhortation, Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. In addition to the journal entries of A Burst of Light: Living with Cancer, this edition includes an interview, Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation, and three essays, I Am Your Sister: Black Women Organizing Across Sexualities, Apartheid U. S. A., and Turning the Beat Around: Lesbian Parenting 1986, as well as a new Foreword by Sonia Sanchez.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou don't read Audre Lorde, you feel her. -- \u003ci\u003eEssence\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLorde's timeless prose in this collection provides contemporary social justice warriors the language, strategies, and lessons around resistance, through the power of intersectionality, a Pan-African vision, and -- ultimately -- through the power of love and radical self-care. -- NBC News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen I don't know what to do, I turn to the Lorde. -- Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Bitch Media \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\nWhenever my mind is heavy with questions and my heart thirsts for nourishment, I turn to the writing of Audre Lorde. Every time I revisit the words of Audre Lorde, I marvel over how relevant they continue to be. -- AfterEllen.com\n\u003cp\u003eThe self-described black feminist lesbian mother poet used a mixture of prose, theory, poetry, and experience to interrogate oppressions and uplift marginalized communities. She was one of the first black feminists to target heteronormativity, and to encourage black feminists to expand their understanding of erotic pleasure. She amplified anti-oppression, even as breast cancer ravaged her ailing body. -- Evette Dionne, \u003ci\u003eBustle Magazine \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was my first time reading Audre Lorde (finally) and now I can't wait to devour everything she ever wrote. This was the kind of book that you end up highlighting so many great quotes, words you want to memorize, apply, breathe. Empowering read. -- Litsy\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Audre Lorde","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45173106180379,"sku":"9780486818993","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/a-burst-of-light-and-other-essays-sapphic-society-54125.jpg?v=1751738558"},{"product_id":"antiman-a-hybrid-memoir-9781632062802","title":"Antiman: A Hybrid Memoir","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Restless Books Prize for New Immigrant Writing, Rajiv Mohabir's \u003ci\u003eAntiman\u003c\/i\u003e is an impassioned, genre-blending memoir that navigates the fraught constellations of race, sexuality, and cultural heritage that have shaped his experiences as an Indo-Guyanese queer poet and immigrant to the United States.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up a Guyanese Indian immigrant in Central Florida, Rajiv Mohabir is fascinated by his family's stifled Hindu history and the legacy of his ancestors, who were indentured laborers on British sugarcane plantations. In Toronto he sits at the feet of Aji, his unlettered grandmother, listening to her stories and songs in her Caribbean Bhojpuri. By now Aji's eleven children have immigrated to North America and busied themselves with ascension, Christianity, and the erasure of their heritage and Caribbean accents. But Rajiv wants to know more: where did he come from, and why does he feel so out of place?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmbarking on a journey of discovery, he lives for a year in Varanasi, on the banks of the Ganges, perfecting his Hindi and Bhojpuri and tracing the lineage of his Aji's music. Returning to Florida, the cognitive dissonance of confederate flags, Islamophobia, and his father's disapproval sends him to New York, where finds community among like-minded brown activists, work as an ESL teacher, and intoxication in the queer nightlife scene. But even in the South Asian paradise of Jackson Heights, Rajiv feels like an outsider: \"Coolie\" rather than Desi. And then the final hammer of estrangement falls when his cousin outs him as an \"antiman\"--a Caribbean slur for men who love men--and his father and aunts disown him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut Rajiv has learned resilience. Emerging from the chrysalis of his ancestral poetics into a new life, he embraces his identity as a poet and reclaims his status as an antiman--forging a new way of being entirely his own. Rapturous, inventive, and devastating in its critique of our own failures of inclusion, \u003ci\u003eAntiman\u003c\/i\u003e is a hybrid memoir that helps us see ourselves and relationships anew, and announces an exciting new talent in Rajiv Mohabir.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards - Gold Medal Winner\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Rajiv Mohabir","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47582680449307,"sku":"9781632062802","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/antiman-a-hybrid-memoir-sapphic-society-39859.jpg?v=1751738567"},{"product_id":"man-who-would-marry-susan-sontag-and-other-intimate-literary-portraits-of-the-bohemian-era-9780299213244","title":"Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era","description":"More mounds were built by ancient Native Americans in Wisconsin than in any other region of North America--between 15,000 and 20,000, at least 4,000 of which remain today. Most impressive are the effigy mounds, huge earthworks sculpted in the shapes of thunderbirds, water panthers, and other forms, not found anywhere else in the world in such concentrations. This second edition is updated throughout, incorporating exciting new research and satellite imagery. Written for general readers, it offers a comprehensive overview of these intriguing earthworks. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCiting evidence from past excavations, ethnography, the traditions of present-day Native Americans in the Midwest, ground-penetrating radar and LIDAR imaging, and recent findings of other archaeologists, Robert A. Birmingham and Amy L. Rosebrough argue that effigy mound groups are cosmological maps that model belief systems and relations with the spirit world. The authors advocate for their preservation and emphasize that Native peoples consider the mounds sacred places. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis edition also includes an expanded list of public parks and preserves where mounds can be respectfully viewed, such as the Kingsley Bend mounds near Wisconsin Dells, an outstanding effigy group maintained by the Ho-Chunk Nation, and the Man Mound Park near Baraboo, the only extant human-shaped effigy mound in the world.","brand":"Edward Field, Amy L. Rosebrough","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270572699931,"sku":"9780299213244","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/man-who-would-marry-susan-sontag-and-other-intimate-literary-portraits-of-the-bohemian-era-sapphic-society-29384.jpg?v=1751738733"},{"product_id":"iron-john-a-book-about-men-9780306824265","title":"Iron John: A Book about Men","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe 25th anniversary edition of the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, with a new afterword by the author--which offers a new vision of what it is to be a man\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it means to be a man. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Bly's vision is based on his ongoing work with men, as well as on reflections on his own life. He addresses the devastating effects of remote fathers and mourns the disappearance of male initiation rites in our culture. Finding rich meaning in ancient stories and legends, Bly uses the Grimm fairy tale \"Iron John\"-in which a mentor or \"Wild Man\" guides a young man through eight stages of male growth-to remind us of ways of knowing long forgotten, images of deep and vigorous masculinity centered in feeling and protective of the young. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e At once down-to-earth and elevated, combining the grandeur of myth with the practical and often painful lessons of our own histories, \u003ci\u003eIron John\u003c\/i\u003e is an astonishing work that will continue to guide and inspire men-and women-for years to come.","brand":"Robert Bly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52189142679835,"sku":"9780306824265","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/iron-john-a-book-about-men-sapphic-society-43755.jpg?v=1751738763"},{"product_id":"what-is-the-grass-walt-whitman-in-my-life-9780393070224","title":"What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eMark Doty has always felt haunted by Walt Whitman's bold, perennially new American voice, and by his equally radical claims about body and soul and what it means to be a self. In \u003cem\u003eWhat Is the Grass\u003c\/em\u003e, Doty--a poet, a New Yorker, and an American--keeps company with Whitman and his \u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e, tracing the resonances between his own experience and the legendary poet's life and work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eWhat is it then between us?\u003c\/em\u003e Whitman asks. In search of an answer, Doty explores spaces--both external and internal--where he finds the poet's ghost. He meditates on desire, love, and the mysterious wellsprings of the poet's enduring work: a radical experience of transformation and enlightenment, queer sexuality, and an obsession with death, as well as unabashed love for a great city and for the fresh, rowdy character of American speech. In riveting close readings threaded with personal memoir and illuminated by awe, Doty reveals the power of Whitman's persistent presence in his life and in the American imagination at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHow does a voice survive death? \u003cem\u003eWhat Is the Grass\u003c\/em\u003e is a conversation across time and space, a study of the astonishment one poet finds in the accomplishment of another, and an attempt to grasp Whitman's deeply hopeful vision of human possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mark Doty","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52189144449307,"sku":"9780393070224","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/what-is-the-grass-walt-whitman-in-my-life-sapphic-society-33834.jpg?v=1751738871"},{"product_id":"on-lies-secrets-and-silence-selected-prose-1966-1978-9780393312850","title":"On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt issue are the politics of language; the uses of scholarship; and the topics of racism, history, and motherhood among others called forth by Rich as part of the effort to define a female consciousness which is political, aesthetic, and erotic, and which refuses to be included or contained in the culture of passivity.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adrienne Rich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270571651355,"sku":"9780393312850","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/on-lies-secrets-and-silence-selected-prose-1966-1978-sapphic-society-91983.jpg?v=1751738875"},{"product_id":"essential-essays-culture-politics-and-the-art-of-poetry-9780393355130","title":"Essential Essays: Culture, Politics, and the Art of Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdrienne Rich was an award-winning poet, influential essayist, radical feminist, and major intellectual voice of her generation.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssential Essays\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003egathers twenty-five of her most renowned essays into one volume, demonstrating the lasting brilliance of her voice, her prophetic vision, and her revolutionary views on social justice. Rich's essays unite the political, personal, and poetical like no other.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssential Essays\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eis edited and includes an introduction by leading feminist scholar, literary critic, and poet Sandra M. Gilbert. Emphasizing Rich's lifelong intellectual engagement, the essays selected here range from the 1960s to 2008. The volume contains one of Rich's earliest essays,\"When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-Vision,\" which discusses the need for female self-definition, along with excerpts from her ambitious, ground-breaking\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eOf Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution\u003c\/em\u003e. As the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewrote, Rich \"brought the oppression of women and lesbians to the forefront of poetic discourse,\" as evidenced in her 1980 essay, \"Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Existence.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso among these insightful and forward-thinking works are: \"Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity\"; excerpts from\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhat Is Found There\u003c\/em\u003e, about the need to reexamine the literary canon; \"Why I Refused the National Medal for the Arts\"; \"Poetry and the Forgotten Future\"; and other writings that profoundly shaped second-wave feminism, each balanced by Rich's signature blend of research, theory, and self-reflection.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Adrienne Rich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45338615185691,"sku":"9780393355130","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52270571585819,"sku":"9780393652369","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/essential-essays-culture-politics-and-the-art-of-poetry-sapphic-society-58767.jpg?v=1751738885"},{"product_id":"eminent-outlaws-9780446563130","title":"Eminent Outlaws","description":"\u003cp\u003eFascinating...fun to read and will be the standard text of the defining era of gay literati. -- Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the years following World War II a group of gay writers established themselves as major cultural figures in American life. Truman Capote, the enfant terrible, whose finely wrought fiction and nonfiction captured the nation's imagination. Gore Vidal, the wry, withering chronicler of politics, sex, and history. Tennessee Williams, whose powerful plays rocketed him to the top of the American theater. James Baldwin, the harrowingly perceptive novelist and social critic. Christopher Isherwood, the English novelist who became a thoroughly American novelist. And the exuberant Allen Ginsberg, whose poetry defied censorship and exploded minds. Together, their writing introduced America to gay experience and sensibility, and changed our literary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut the change was only beginning. A new generation of gay writers followed, taking more risks and writing about their sexuality more openly. Edward Albee brought his prickly iconoclasm to the American theater. Edmund White laid bare his own life in stylized, autobiographical works. Armistead Maupin wove a rich tapestry of the counterculture, queer and straight. Mart Crowley brought gay men's lives out of the closet and onto the stage. And Tony Kushner took them beyond the stage, to the center of American ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith authority and humor, Christopher Bram weaves these men's ambitions, affairs, feuds, loves, and appetites into a single sweeping narrative. Chronicling over fifty years of momentous change-from civil rights to Stonewall to AIDS and beyond.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEminent Outlaws is an inspiring, illuminating tale: one that reveals how the lives of these men are crucial to understanding the social and cultural history of the American twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Lambda Literary Awards - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Triangle Awards - Winner\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Christopher Bram","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45317831295259,"sku":"9780446563130","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/eminent-outlaws-sapphic-society-13168.jpg?v=1751738899"},{"product_id":"coconut-milk-volume-76-9780816530526","title":"Coconut Milk: Volume 76","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCoconut Milk\u003c\/i\u003e is a fresh, new poetry collection that is a sensual homage to place, people, love, and lust. The first collection by Samoan writer and painter Dan Taulapapa McMullin, the poems evoke both intimate conversations and provocative monologues that allow him to explore the complexities of being a queer Samoan in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcMullin seamlessly flows between exposing the ironies of Tiki kitsch-inspired cultural appropriation and intimate snapshots of Samoan people and place. In doing so, he disrupts popular notions of a beautiful Polynesia available for the taking, and carves out new avenues of meaning for Pacific Islanders of Oceania. Throughout the collection, McMullin illustrates various manifestations of geopolitical, cultural, linguistic, and sexual colonialism. His work illuminates the ongoing resistance to colonialism and the remarkable resilience of Pacific Islanders and queer-identified peoples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMcMullin's Fa'a Fafine identity--the ability to walk between and embody both the masculine and feminine--creates a grounded and dynamic voice throughout the collection. It also fosters a creative dialogue between Fa'a Fafine people and trans-Indigenous movements. Through a uniquely Samoan practice of storytelling, McMullin contributes to the growing and vibrant body of queer Indigenous literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dan Taulapapa McMullin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45297921917211,"sku":"9780816530526","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/coconut-milk-volume-76-sapphic-society-33379.jpg?v=1751739126"},{"product_id":"the-gloria-anzalda-reader-9780822345640","title":"The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader","description":"Born in the Río Grande Valley of south Texas, independent scholar and creative writer Gloria Anzaldúa was an internationally acclaimed cultural theorist. As the author of \u003ci\u003eBorderlands \/ La Frontera: The New Mestiza\u003c\/i\u003e, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano\/a and lesbian\/queer theories and identities. As an editor of three anthologies, including the groundbreaking \u003ci\u003eThis Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color\u003c\/i\u003e, she played an equally vital role in developing an inclusionary, multicultural feminist movement. A versatile author, Anzaldúa published poetry, theoretical essays, short stories, autobiographical narratives, interviews, and children's books. Her work, which has been included in more than 100 anthologies to date, has helped to transform academic fields including American, Chicano\/a, composition, ethnic, literary, and women's studies.\u003cp\u003eThis reader-which provides a representative sample of the poetry, prose, fiction, and experimental autobiographical writing that Anzaldúa produced during her thirty-year career-demonstrates the breadth and philosophical depth of her work. While the reader contains much of Anzaldúa's published writing (including several pieces now out of print), more than half the material has never before been published. This newly available work offers fresh insights into crucial aspects of Anzaldúa's life and career, including her upbringing, education, teaching experiences, writing practice and aesthetics, lifelong health struggles, and interest in visual art, as well as her theories of disability, multiculturalism, pedagogy, and spiritual activism. The pieces are arranged chronologically; each one is preceded by a brief introduction. The collection includes a glossary of Anzaldúa's key terms and concepts, a timeline of her life, primary and secondary bibliographies, and a detailed index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gloria Anzaldua","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52189155492123,"sku":"9780822345640","price":28.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/the-gloria-anzaldua-reader-sapphic-society-26349.jpg?v=1751739132"},{"product_id":"the-weather-in-proust-9780822351580","title":"The Weather in Proust","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Weather in Proust \u003c\/i\u003egathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked toward a book on Proust. This book takes its title from the first essay, a startlingly original interpretation of Proust. By way of Neoplatonism, Buddhism, and the work of Melanie Klein, Sedgwick establishes the sense of refreshment and surprise that the author of the \u003ci\u003eRecherche\u003c\/i\u003e affords his readers. Proust also figures in pieces on the poetry of C. P. Cavafy, object relations, affect theory, and Sedgwick's textile art practices. More explicitly connected to her role as a pioneering queer theorist are an exuberant attack against reactionary refusals of the work of Guy Hocquenghem and talks in which she lays out her central ideas about sexuality and her concerns about the direction of US queer theory. Sedgwick lived for more than a dozen years with a diagnosis of terminal cancer; its implications informed her later writing and thinking, as well as her spiritual and artistic practices. In the book's final and most personal essay, she reflects on the realization of her impending death. Featuring thirty-seven color images of her art, \u003ci\u003eThe Weather in Proust\u003c\/i\u003e offers a comprehensive view of Sedgwick's later work, underscoring its diversity and coherence.","brand":"Jonathan Goldberg, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52189155557659,"sku":"9780822351580","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/the-weather-in-proust-sapphic-society-82252.jpg?v=1751739133"},{"product_id":"king-of-shadows-9780872864900","title":"King of Shadows","description":"\u003cp\u003eBased on the author's life as a gay man and a poet, \u003ci\u003eKing of Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of twenty-one autobiographical essays that circle in and around San Francisco since the 1960s. The three longest pieces deal with Aaron Shurin's coming into poetry and gay identity via a high school production of \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night's Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, his deep relationships with poets Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan, and his personal history of venturing into San Francisco gay bars, starting in 1965 and ending just before Stonewall.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAaron Shurin\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of fifteen books, including \u003ci\u003eInvoluntary Lyrics\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Paradise of Forms\u003c\/i\u003e, named a \u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of the Year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Aaron Shurin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270561558811,"sku":"9780872864900","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/king-of-shadows-sapphic-society-83634.jpg?v=1751739155"},{"product_id":"not-just-another-pretty-face-9780970831064","title":"Not Just Another Pretty Face","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe stories, poems, and essays in this collection have a single common element uniting their wide range of literary styles and genres: they all spring directly from photographs of go-go boys. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The ideal go-go boy is the perfect erotic object. We imagine him as lost or broken so that we might rescue him, or as potent and aggressive so that we might be the focus of his desire. But the images captured here suggest deeper, more complex realities. These dancers are whimsical, haunting, satiric, playful, ominous. They are not objects, not icons, but stories waiting to be told.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eNot Just Another Pretty Face\u003c\/em\u003e plays with the interface of projections: what these young men project in their poses and expressions, and what we project on them in return. It explores assumptions, prejudices, fantasies, and revelations. It looks beyond the archetype, beneath the skin.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Louis Flint Ceci","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270560968987,"sku":"9780970831064","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/not-just-another-pretty-face-sapphic-society-32642.jpg?v=1751739187"},{"product_id":"more-shibari-you-can-use-passionate-rope-bondage-and-intimate-connection-9780977872756","title":"More Shibari You Can Use: Passionate Rope Bondage and Intimate Connection","description":"\u003cb\u003eSexually curious adults can learn how to enjoy bedroom bondage in an easy step-by-step fashion while still being tasteful, playful, and authentic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRope bondage is not just about tying someone up; it is an opportunity for sensuality, creativity, playfulness, connection, and passion. Bondage artist and educator Lee Harrington takes you on a journey through easy step-by-step ties and exercises for bringing you and your partner closer together through this beautiful art form. The second book in the Shibari You Can Use series, \u003ci\u003eMore Shibari You Can Use\u003c\/i\u003e picks up where the first book left off, with all new ties in a playful, down-to-earth, and engaging voice. But it's about more than the bondage. This time you also get a chance to connect more with your partner through a variety of exercises that explore touch, dominance and submission, intimacy, and trust. With beautifully shot images by RiggerJay, this guide offers intermediate techniques for those ready for a challenge, broken down into clear directions for new and experienced \"riggers\" alike. Find techniques for learning rope bondage negotiation, speed restraint (Texas handcuffs and speed-release corsets), intricate confinement (the reverse box tie and the woven head cage), beautiful erotic rope (from the Triskelion crotch rope to the floral chest harness), and much more. Are you ready to have fun? To deepen your connection with your partner? To create beautiful artwork woven on the human form? To add some spice to your erotic life? Now is your chance. Set aside your concerns about tying someone up, grab this book and some rope, and learn passionate rope bondage for an intimate connection.","brand":"Lee Harrington","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270560903451,"sku":"9780977872756","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/more-shibari-you-can-use-passionate-rope-bondage-and-intimate-connection-sapphic-society-93123.jpg?v=1751739191"},{"product_id":"leaving-holes-selected-new-writing-9780983305224","title":"Leaving Holes \u0026 Selected New Writing","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection of poetry by Joe Dale Nevaquaya has come in its own time, exactly when we need it. These poems range from star messages tapped out on silver cords ascending from the death dreams of a dying country, to tribute poems in the form of shields, giving protection to those whom they are addressed, to reports from the edge of brokenness. It is time to celebrate the arrival of these poems, acknowledge the visions and give them their place in the circle. -Joy Harjo Mvskoke poet, musician, performer and playwright\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joe Dale Tate Nevaquaya","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270560837915,"sku":"9780983305224","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/leaving-holes-and-selected-new-writing-sapphic-society-75857.jpg?v=1751739195"},{"product_id":"hold-me-gorilla-monsoon-9780997304817","title":"Hold Me Gorilla Monsoon","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe worlds we occupy ourselves with\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eare not real. The Russians in the ring\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eare not Russian; their pal, mincing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003earound with his silk scarves and boas,\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ehas never taken another man's penis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003einto his mouth. The act is convincing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethough there's nothing worth taking\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eshame in. We revel in the same things.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWe know the secret language of flesh\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eand musculature. Some of us speak\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eit in tongues of sweat and oil.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHold Me Gorilla Monsoon\u003c\/em\u003e collects poems and comic strips about sex and gender as viewed through the lens of professional wrestling. In poems written to or about wrestlers like Junkyard Dog, Roddy Piper, Ox Baker, The Ultimate Warrior, The Rock, and CM Punk, Colette Arrand teases out the homoerotic roots of wrestling and how its warped, cartoon masculinity plays itself out over the course of a fan's life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Colette Arrand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039551013147,"sku":"9780997304817","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/hold-me-gorilla-monsoon-sapphic-society-63588.jpg?v=1751739219"},{"product_id":"housewife-home-remaking-in-a-transgender-marriage-9780997790108","title":"Housewife: Home-remaking in a Transgender Marriage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKristin Collier and her husband struggle to decide whether and how to stay together after it becomes apparent that he is transgender. As her husband transitions to live the rest of his life as a woman, Collier leans into her garden, community, and new romantic interests while she transforms in her own right, evolving as a woman, mother, and housewife.\u003c\/strong\u003e With honesty, humor, and grounded in her practice of Compassionate Communication, Collier redefines homemaking as she and her former husband continue to live and parent as partners in the same household. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eHousewife\u003c\/em\u003e is an exceptionally rare personal account of a partner's response to gender transition.\u003c\/strong\u003e Including poetry, blog posts, and four pictures from before and after transition, Collier tells her story from the perspective of a woman and mother as her family breaks out of the box.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kristin K. Collier","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47031717134619,"sku":"9780997790108","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/housewife-home-remaking-in-a-transgender-marriage-sapphic-society-46427.jpg?v=1751739221"},{"product_id":"cataloguing-pain-9781936919925","title":"Cataloguing Pain","description":"\u003cp\u003eCataloguing Pain by Allison Blevins explores motherhood, sexuality, and queerness as it juxtaposes the author's diagnosis of MS with her partner's gender transition. As one body moves toward unfamiliarity, a state of chronic pain, a sense of being caged, the other is escaping pain, emerging into its true self, becoming free. Cataloguing Pain chronicles both trauma and hope through marriage, illness, and motherhood as the author learns how to live in a disabled body.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Allison Blevins","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47764360495387,"sku":"9781936919925","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/cataloguing-pain-sapphic-society-21487.jpg?v=1751739255"},{"product_id":"the-abyss-is-staring-back-9781959118244","title":"The abyss is staring back","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"in their exemplary confessional style, nat raum consults the void in \u003cem\u003ethe abyss is staring back\u003c\/em\u003e. this collection is an invitation into raum's personal gravity-a space exploring monotony, queerness, and disability with a stream-of-consciousness type spirit. however, raum is also just as gifted with precision. the result: words that are as raw and real as they are beautiful, and writing that is truly for anybody...even a black hole.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-arden will, eic of \u003cem\u003ethe winnow\u003c\/em\u003e and author of \u003cem\u003eacts of performative newness\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nat Raum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45534043603227,"sku":"9781959118244","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45534051402011,"sku":"9781959118367","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/the-abyss-is-staring-back-sapphic-society-24579.jpg?v=1751739274"},{"product_id":"not-ghosts-but-spirits-i-art-from-the-womens-queer-trans-enby-communities-9781959118114","title":"Not Ghosts, But Spirits I: art from the women's, queer, trans, \u0026 enby communities","description":"\u003cp\u003eArt from 92 contributors from the women, queer, trans, \u0026amp; enby communities\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAll proceeds from this issue are being donated to Saving Our Sisters\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-Edited by Emily Perkovich\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Emily Perkovich","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45298734924059,"sku":"9781959118114","price":28.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52270551073051,"sku":"9781959118190","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/not-ghosts-but-spirits-i-art-from-the-women-s-queer-trans-and-enby-communities-sapphic-society-18061.jpg?v=1751739275"},{"product_id":"the-matadors-wife-9798986838908","title":"The Matador's Wife","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Matador's Wife is a chapbook of poetry + prose. This compelling collection introduces the reader to a poetic character known as the Matador's Wife, as well as an introspective undertone that readers are sure to identify with. With undercurrents of what the Author calls \"quiet violence\", we follow the journey through the mind of the Matador's Wife as she explores femininity, domestic turbulence, past and present traumas, and a desperate search of self. Perhaps we are each the Matador's Wife, or perhaps the Matador?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Andrés Colón","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52189165256987,"sku":"9798986838908","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/the-matador-s-wife-sapphic-society-40960.jpg?v=1751739383"},{"product_id":"youthi-issue-1-9780646808772","title":"YOUth\u0026I Issue 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eYOUth\u0026amp; I is an intersex youth anthology that shares the stories and experiences of young intersex people. YOUth\u0026amp; I is an Australian-based publication that actively seeks contributions from around the world and welcomes contributions in languages other than English.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steph Lum","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45473441218843,"sku":"9780646808772","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/youthandi-issue-1-sapphic-society-97569.jpg?v=1751739637"},{"product_id":"like-a-hurricane-9781459835238","title":"Like a Hurricane","description":"\u003cp\u003e★\u003cstrong\u003e\"Immediately takes one's breath away with its poetry and power... Deeply affecting. An ideal tool to illustrate poetic elements or emphasize stories of sharing scary yet necessary truths.\"--\u003cem\u003eSchool Library Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, starred review\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA young teen's secret is tearing him apart.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eHe knows he is gay but is afraid to share this knowledge with his parents or his friends. What if they reject him? And what can he do with the feelings he has for his childhood friend when he knows his friend does not feel the same way? The turmoil continues to rise with the force of a hurricane--total destruction seems almost certain.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTold in beautiful, evocative prose with its unique design, \u003cem\u003eLike A Hurricane\u003c\/em\u003e is a visually stunning exploration of what it means to be true to one's self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jonathan Bécotte","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270531510555,"sku":"9781459835238","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/like-a-hurricane-sapphic-society-85890.jpg?v=1751739739"},{"product_id":"redwood-and-ponytail-novels-for-preteen-girls-childrens-fiction-on-social-situations-fiction-books-for-young-adults-lgbtq-books-stori-9781452172880","title":"Redwood and Ponytail: (Novels for Preteen Girls, Children's Fiction on Social Situations, Fiction Books for Young Adults, LGBTQ Books, Stori","description":"\u003cb\u003e2020 Odyssey Honor Award\u003cbr\u003e2020 Rainbow Booklist Title\u003cbr\u003eNCTE 2020 Notable Poetry Book\u003cbr\u003eALSC Notable Children's Recordings\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA universal story of finding a way to be comfortable in your own skin: \u003c\/b\u003e Kate and Tam meet, and both of their worlds tip sideways. At first, Tam figures Kate is your stereotypical cheerleader; Kate sees Tam as another tall jock. And the more they keep running into each other, the more they surprise each other. Beneath Kate's sleek ponytail and perfect façade, Tam sees a goofy, sensitive, lonely girl. And Tam's so much more than a volleyball player, Kate realizes: She's everything Kate wishes she could be. It's complicated. Except it's not. When Kate and Tam meet, they fall in like. It's as simple as that. But not everybody sees it that way. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- A novel in verse about two girls discovering their feelings for each other in a sincere and relatable way that helps young reader connect to the storyline\u003cbr\u003e- Features a unique presentation of text that beautifully merges together two first-person narratives\u003cbr\u003e- K. A. Holt is the author of \u003ci\u003eRhyme Schemer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHouse Arrest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eKnockout\u003c\/i\u003e, and several other books for young people. She lives in Austin, Texas \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A glowing, heartfelt addition to the middle-grade LGBTQ genre.\" \u003c\/b\u003e--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The free verse narration is totally accessible, flowing quick and clear, and Holt plays with form, beautifully highlighting the parallel internal journeys, often achieving something akin to a musical duet. Ultimately, this is a... moving story well-told.\" \u003c\/b\u003e-- \u003ci\u003eBooklist, \u003c\/i\u003e starred review \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e- A great chapter book for middle school students\u003cbr\u003e- Novels for preteens and teenagers ages 10-14","brand":"K. a. Holt","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":52270528266523,"sku":"9781452172880","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/redwood-and-ponytail-novels-for-preteen-girls-children-s-fiction-on-social-situations-fiction-books-for-young-adults-lgbtq-books-stori-sapphic-society-17382.jpg?v=1751739925"},{"product_id":"honeypot-black-southern-women-who-love-women-9781478006534","title":"Honeypot: Black Southern Women Who Love Women","description":"E. Patrick Johnson's \u003ci\u003eHoneypot\u003c\/i\u003e opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that he has been chosen to collect and share the stories of her people. With little explanation, she whisks the reluctant Dr. EPJ away to the women-only world of Hymen, where she serves as his tour guide as he bears witness to the real-life stories of queer Black women throughout the American South. The women he meets come from all walks of life and recount their experiences on topics ranging from coming out and falling in love to mother\/daughter relationships, religion, and political activism. As Dr. EPJ hears these stories, he must grapple with his privilege as a man and as an academic, and in the process he gains insights into patriarchy, class, sex, gender, and the challenges these women face. Combining oral history with magical realism and poetry, \u003ci\u003eHoneypot\u003c\/i\u003e is an engaging and moving book that reveals the complexity of identity while offering a creative method for scholarship to represent the lives of other people in a rich and dynamic way.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"E. Patrick Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47039142265115,"sku":"9781478006534","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/honeypot-black-southern-women-who-love-women-sapphic-society-68393.jpg?v=1751739955"},{"product_id":"sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches-9781580911863","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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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":"Audre Lorde","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52189178396955,"sku":"9781580911863","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/sister-outsider-essays-and-speeches-sapphic-society-45497.jpg?v=1751740146"},{"product_id":"crossfire-a-litany-for-survival-9781642590258","title":"Crossfire: A Litany for Survival","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE AMERICAN BOOK AWARD\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePowerhouse, world-renowned LGBTQ poet and spoken-word artist Staceyann Chin curates the first full-length collection of her poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eCrossfire\u003c\/i\u003e collects Staceyann Chin's empowering, feminist-LGBTQ-Caribbean, activist-driven poetry for the first time in a single book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, Chin is \"sassy, rageful and sometimes softly self-mocking.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Advocate\u003c\/i\u003e says that her poems, \"combine hilarious one-liners with a refusal to conform\" and note \"Chin is out to confront more than just the straight world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Staceyann Chin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47879979106587,"sku":"9781642590258","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/crossfire-a-litany-for-survival-sapphic-society-80240.jpg?v=1751740370"},{"product_id":"beautiful-aliens-a-steve-abbott-reader-9781643620152","title":"Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader","description":"Beautiful Aliens: A Steve Abbott Reader is a landmark collection representing the visionary life's work of beloved Bay Area luminary Steve Abbott. It brings together a broad cross-section of literary and artistic work spanning three decades of poetry, fiction, collage, comics, essays, and autobiography, including underground classics like, Lives of the Poets and Holy Terror, rare pieces of treasured ephemera, and previously unpublished material, representing a survey of Abbott's multivalent practice, as well as reinforcing his essential role within the contemporary canon of queer arts.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Steve Abbott","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47670163046683,"sku":"9781643620152","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/beautiful-aliens-a-steve-abbott-reader-sapphic-society-45358.jpg?v=1751740385"},{"product_id":"staring-down-the-tiger-stories-of-hmong-american-women-9781681341507","title":"Staring Down the Tiger: Stories of Hmong American Women","description":"Tsov tom, or tiger bite--an insult in Hmong culture--means you were stupid enough to approach a tiger and get bitten. In this remarkable new book, Hmong American women reclaim that phrase, showing in prose and poetry that they are strong enough and brave enough to stare down the tiger. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Contributors celebrate the power of bonds between daughter and mother, sister and sister, and grandmother and granddaughter. Only after climbing a mountain in Nepal can Kia M. Lor finally understand her mother's life. Pa Xiong provides a recipe for squirrel stew, remembering in telling detail the gender roles that mark each step--and how her mother broke those rules. Kao Kalia Yang sketches the extraordinary everyday achievements of a Hmong leader, her older sister, Dawb. Contributors to this volume bring life and character to the challenges of maintaining identity, navigating changes in gender roles, transitioning to American culture, and breaking through cultural barriers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These pieces were brought together through the work of Hnub Tshiab: Hmong Women Achieving Together, an organization founded in St. Paul to be a catalyst for lasting cultural, institutional, and social change to improve the lives of Hmong women. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cem\u003eContributors\u003c\/em\u003e: MayKao Y. Hang, Npaus Baim Her, Gaosong V. Heu, Linda Vang Kim, Dee Kong, BoNhia Lee, Duabhav BJ Lee, Tou SaiKo Lee, Kia M. Lor, Kia Moua, Mai Neng Moua, Mainhia Moua, Douachee Vang, Gao Vang, Maly Vang, Talee Vang, MaiThao Xiong, Pa Xiong, Renee Ya, Boonmee Yang, Kao Kalia Yang, Lyncy Yang, Nou Yang, Song Yang","brand":"Pa Der Vang","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270518534427,"sku":"9781681341507","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/staring-down-the-tiger-stories-of-hmong-american-women-sapphic-society-75010.jpg?v=1751740395"},{"product_id":"a-girls-magic-the-journey-into-a-girls-life-changes-9781732868809","title":"A Girl's Magic: The Journey Into A Girl's Life Changes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Girl's Magic \u003c\/em\u003eis an empowering approach to educating girls about their bodies. It helps open those\u003cem\u003e tough conversations\u003c\/em\u003e with symbolism, colorful images, and poetry that allow daughters to gain a deeper understanding of what it is to be a girl. This book assists parents to prepare daughters for physical changes, teach about menstruation from an age-appropriate, creative perspective, inspire confidence about natural bodily development and empower girls to feel magical.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEmbracing and celebrating a girl's physical changes as a rite of passage imparts self-love, self-acceptance, and self-esteem during her formative years. These values build confidence, empowering and preparing girls at a young age to be ready for what's ahead\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book answers many parents' question, \"But how do I tell her about the \u003cem\u003eother\u003c\/em\u003e stuff?\" Teaching young girls about reproductive anatomy is far different from teaching them about the many other changes that occur. \u003cem\u003eA Girl's Magic\u003c\/em\u003e is packed with information that will help parents give a fresh perspective on sex education.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Heather Hillenbrand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45252803854619,"sku":"9781732868809","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/a-girl-s-magic-the-journey-into-a-girl-s-life-changes-sapphic-society-93713.jpg?v=1751740432"},{"product_id":"nilling-prose-essays-on-noise-pornography-the-codex-melancholy-lucretiun-folds-cities-and-related-aporias-9781897388891","title":"Nilling: Prose Essays on Noise, Pornography, the Codex, Melancholy, Lucretiun, Folds, Cities and Related Aporias","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eI have tried to make a sketch or a model in several dimensions of the potency of Arendt's idea of invisibility, the necessary inconspicuousness of thinking and reading, and the ambivalently joyous and knotted agency to be found there. Just beneath the surface of the phonemes, a gendered name rhythmically explodes into a founding variousness. And then the strictures of the text assert again themselves. I want to claim for this inconspicuousness a transformational agency that runs counter to the teleology of readerly intention. Syllables might call to gods who do and don't exist. That is, they appear in the text's absences and densities as a motile graphic and phonemic force that abnegates its own necessity. Overwhelmingly in my submission to reading's supple snare, I feel love. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNilling\u003c\/i\u003e is a sequence of 6 loosely linked prose essays about noise, pornography, the codex, melancholy, Lucretius, folds, cities and related aporias: in short, these are essays on reading. Lisa Robertson applies an acute eye to the subject of reading and writing--two elemental forces that, she suggests, cannot be separated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor Robertson, a book is an intimacy, and with keen and insightful language, \u003ci\u003eNilling\u003c\/i\u003e's essays build into a lively yet close conversation with Robertson's \"masters\" past writers, philosophers, and idealists who have guided her reading (and writing) practice to this point.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIf a reader is a beginner, then even regular readers of Robertson's kind of deep thinking will delight in the infinite folding together of concepts--the codex, pornography, melancholy, cities--that on their own may seem banal, but in their twisting intertextuality, make for a scintillating study of reading as a deep engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lisa Robertson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270516830491,"sku":"9781897388891","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/nilling-prose-essays-on-noise-pornography-the-codex-melancholy-lucretiun-folds-cities-and-related-aporias-sapphic-society-32889.jpg?v=1751740515"},{"product_id":"this-assignment-is-so-gay-lgbtiq-poets-on-the-art-of-teaching-9781937420420","title":"This Assignment Is So Gay: Lgbtiq Poets on the Art of Teaching","description":"\u003cp\u003eAbout \"it gets better,\" they were never wrong, the path-forgers, the ground-breakers. How it gets better is another question, for a new century has brought changing minds, but also new hardships. That is why this extraordinary book matters. Teaching is such a sacred office, and we who teach today know the attentiveness that must be brought to the profession. These poems track, record, memorialize, and meditate on that office. There are poems of the student one lost, the student who reached out at last, of the daily commitment that teaching who you are requires, of why it matters. There is nothing like this thoughtful collection of trenchant, witty, poignant, blunt, and luminous poems on the art of teaching by LGBTIQ poets assembled with judicious vision by Megan Volpert. This assignment is so gay is a beautiful and necessary book, not just for teaching, but for us all. - Cynthia Hogue on This assignment is so gay: LGBTIQ Poets on the Art of Teaching\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Megan Volpert","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270516240667,"sku":"9781937420420","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/this-assignment-is-so-gay-lgbtiq-poets-on-the-art-of-teaching-sapphic-society-27833.jpg?v=1751740557"},{"product_id":"bruce-boone-dismembered-selected-poems-stories-and-essays-9781937658588","title":"Bruce Boone Dismembered: Selected Poems, Stories, and Essays","description":"A comprehensive collection of nearly five decades of writing by one of the founding writers and theorists of New Narrative\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBruce Boone is a critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing. Dismembered is the long overdue collection that spans nearly five decades of Boone's life, from the early 1970s to the present. Collecting published and fugitive works alike, from poems and narratives to reviews and essays, this volume is crucial for anyone moved by writing that is at once sexy and political, gossipy and militant, scholarly and aesthetic.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bruce Boone","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47638739091739,"sku":"9781937658588","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/bruce-boone-dismembered-selected-poems-stories-and-essays-sapphic-society-83348.jpg?v=1751740561"},{"product_id":"qda-a-queer-disability-anthology-9781941960028","title":"QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology","description":"Featuring fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and comics by 48 writers from around the world, QDA: A Queer Disability Anthology proves that intersectionality isn't just a buzzword. It's a penetrating and unforgettable look into the hearts and souls of those defiant enough to explore their own vulnerabilities and demonstrate their own strengths. Here is a gathering of people with the transformative-and political-power of love that transcends gender and ability. Ignorance is the biggest barrier. \"An anthology often creates a community. In this respect, QDA is truly groundbreaking because it brings two wonderful communities together. There is not a single style, genre, or opinion in the book, but an orchestra of voices. Their seminal works mirror-and do not mirror-each other. Taken together, they light a brilliant path of honesty.\" -Jennifer Bartlett, co-editor of Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Raymond Luczak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47084089671963,"sku":"9781941960028","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/qda-a-queer-disability-anthology-sapphic-society-83043.jpg?v=1751740588"},{"product_id":"assembly-required-notes-from-a-deaf-gay-life-updated-9781941960127","title":"Assembly Required: Notes from a Deaf Gay Life (Updated)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNo one gives you a manual on how to be a Deaf gay man.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Raymond Luczak shares stories from his days growing up as a Deaf gay man in Michigan's Upper Peninsula and learning signs in secret, trying to follow music on the radio in order to be cool like his hearing classmates, and feeling clueless whenever gay cultural icons like the Village People, Queen, and Bette Midler were promoted in his small hometown. After he graduated from high school and enrolled at Gallaudet University, he discovered gay literature and came out soon after. Luczak eventually got involved with Deaf theater collaborators, educators, and sign language interpreters, from which his worldview is substantially reshaped on issues of identity, literacy, technology, and family.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eAssembly Required\u003c\/em\u003e offers a rare in-depth glimpse into what it means to be a Deaf gay man living between the Deaf and hearing worlds. This edition incorporates Luczak's new observations from the last ten years since it appeared in 2009.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"One of the great virtues of \u003cem\u003eAssembly Required\u003c\/em\u003e is its accessibility. Not only is it written in clear prose divided into comfortable segments, but there is little academic jargon to provide a stumbling block to the reader who might be venturing into Deaf or gay literature for the first time... There may be no better introduction to the Deaf gay life.\" --\u003cem\u003eWordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Raymond Luczak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46547524911387,"sku":"9781941960127","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/assembly-required-notes-from-a-deaf-gay-life-updated-sapphic-society-56991.jpg?v=1751740589"},{"product_id":"insideout-9781943977444","title":"Inside\/Out","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"I wish I'd had this book when I was 22 and making mistakes all over the world. I might have made fewer, might have made more, but I might have loved myself better the whole time. Bold, wise, percussive delight--Joseph Osmundson brings to the page the candor of the empty bed, and the full one, too. \u003cem\u003eInside\/Out\u003c\/em\u003e is like if Maggie Nelson had written \u003cem\u003eBluets\u003c\/em\u003e about fucking men.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Alexander Chee, author of \u003cem\u003eQueen of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e, a\u003cem\u003e New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e Editors' Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In tracking an obsessive relationship that treads the devastating line between dysfunction and abuse, Joseph Osmundson explores how vulnerability, need, and shame echo across a life, and meditates on the complexities, both emotional and ethical, of writing that life. \u003cem\u003eInside\/Out\u003c\/em\u003e is a beautiful and brave book.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Garth Greenwell, author of \u003cem\u003eWhat Belongs to You, \u003c\/em\u003ea \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003eTop 10 Book of 2016\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Joseph Osmundson's \u003cem\u003eInside\/Out\u003c\/em\u003e is a haunting meditation on longing and making sense of lost love through the lens of a perpetual outsider. Osmundson explores what it means to have our physical body betray our psychic one, to have our silences and misdeeds recorded long after what has transpired, to have, finally, found our way outside.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Tanwi Nandini Islam, author of \u003cem\u003eBright Lines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I don't know that there is a writer in this country doing as much with queer theory, narrative momentum, whiteness, sexual identity, and the literal outside as Joseph Osmundson. Somehow, while welcoming readers into so many folds of his life, he manages to obliterate spectacle and really demands we ask ourselves who and what we are, and who and what we want to hide, from the inside out.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e- Kiese Laymon, author of \u003cem\u003eLong Division\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Joseph Osmundson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":52270515650843,"sku":"9781943977444","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/files\/insideout-sapphic-society-48348.jpg?v=1751740594"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0723\/8392\/2459\/collections\/poetry-sapphic-society.jpg?v=1715570866","url":"https:\/\/sapphicsociety.com\/en-ca\/collections\/poetry.oembed?page=12","provider":"Sapphic Society","version":"1.0","type":"link"}