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“Ten years ago, Samantha Allen was a suit-and-tie-wearing Mormon missionary who cited the Bible to denounce homosexuality. Now she’s a senior Daily Beast reporter happily married…
“A heartrending immigrant memoir and a uniquely intersectional coming-of-age story of a life lived in duality and the in-between, and how one navigates through race, gender, and…
“Fearful of violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson’s Black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her…
“When a stack of pulpy paperback novels written by her long-dead father landed on Julia McKenzie Munemo’s kitchen table, she - a white woman - had been married to a Black man from…
“Asian Americans inhabit a purgatorial status: neither white enough nor Black enough, unmentioned in most conversations about racial identity. In the popular imagination, Asian…
“When Paul Lisicky arrived in Provincetown in the early 1990s, he was leaving behind a history of family trauma to live in a place outside of time. In this idyllic haven, known…
“Traveling across the country, journalist Karla Cornejo Villavicencio risked arrest at every turn to report the extraordinary stories of her fellow undocumented Americans. Her…
“In this wide-ranging collection of thought-provoking interviews -- including her first and last -- Toni Morrison (whom President Barrack Obama called a ‘national treasure’)…
“In Happy Fat, comedian Sofie Hagen shares how she removed fatphobic influences from her daily life and found self-acceptance in a world where judgement and discrimination are…
“One of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her personal story of fighting for the right to receive an education, have a job, and just be human. A…