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Cover of "You Just Need to Lose Weight": And 19 Other Myths about Fat People
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Aubrey Gordon
“The pushback that shows up in conversations about fat justice takes exceedingly predicable form. Losing weight is easy--calories in, calories out. Fat people are unhealthy. We’re…
Cover of Stamped from the Beginning: A Graphic History of Racist Ideas in America
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Ibram X. Kendi, Joel Christian Gill
“A comprehensive history of anti-Black racism in graphic-novel format focuses on the lives of five major players in American history and highlights the debates that took place…
Cover of Side Affects: On Being Trans and Feeling Bad
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Hil Malatino
“In Side Affects, Malatino opens a new conversation about trans experience that acknowledges the reality of feeling fatigue, envy, burnout, numbness, and rage amid the ongoing…
Cover of Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
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Tarana Burke
“From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the Me Too movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about…
Cover of We Are Not the Others: Reflections of a Transgender Activist
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Kalki Subramaniam
“We Are Not the Others is a strikingly moving book that touches the heart of its readers, and takes them on a furious and empathetic journey into the personal lives of transgender…
Cover of Gay Bar: Why We Went Out
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Jeremy Atherton Lin
“Strobing lights and dark rooms, drag queens on counters, first kisses, last call; the gay bar has long been a place of solidarity and sexual expression. Now they are closing, a…
Cover of Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts
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Rebecca Hall, Hugo Martínez, Sarula Bao
“Part graphic novel, part memoir, Wake is an imaginative tour de force that tells the story of women-led slave revolts and chronicles scholar Rebecca Hall’s efforts to uncover the…
Cover of The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage
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Sasha Issenberg
“On June 26, 2015, the United States Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal throughout the United States. But the…
Cover of Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine
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Diana Allan
“During the 1948 war more than 750,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were violently expelled from their homes by Zionist militias. The legacy of the Nakba - which translates to ‘…
Cover of Heir to the Crescent Moon
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Sufiya Abdur-Rahman
“From age five, Sufiya Abdur-Rahman, the daughter of two Black Power-era converts to Islam, feels drawn to the faith even as her father, a devoted Muslim, introduces her to and,…