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November 2024

Gender and elections : shaping the future of American politics book cover

4th edition, Edited by Susan J. Carroll, Rutgers University, New Jersey, Richard L. Fox, Loyola Marymount University, California.

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October 2024

Magic toyshop

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September 2024

The Worlds I See Book cover image

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August 2024

LGBTQ fiction and poetry from Appalachia_edited by Jeff Mann & Julia Watts

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July 2024

Mouths Of Rain- An Anthology Of Black Lesbian Thought

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June 2024

Pink book cover

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May 2024

Student_Resistance_a_history
Students protesting
Protestors

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April 2024

Cover of Kim Tallbear's book

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March 2024

Picture of The Women's House of Detention : a queer history of a forgotten prison

"The Women's House of Detention, a landmark that ushered in the modern era of women's imprisonment, is now largely forgotten. But when it stood in New York City's Greenwich Village, from 1929 to 1974, it was a nexus for the tens of thousands of women, transgender men, and gender-nonconforming people who inhabited its crowded cells. Some of these inmates--Angela Davis, Andrea Dworkin, Afeni Shakur--were famous, but the vast majority were incarcerated for the crimes of being poor and improperly feminine. Today, approximately 40 percent of the people in women's prisons identify as queer; in earlier decades, that percentage was almost certainly higher Historian Hugh Ryan explores the roots of this crisis and reconstructs the little-known lives of incarcerated New Yorkers, making a uniquely queer case for prison abolition--and demonstrating that by queering the Village, the House of D helped defined queerness for the rest of America. From the lesbian communities forged through the Women's House of Detention to the turbulent prison riots that presaged Stonewall, this is the story of one building and much more: the people it caged, the neighborhood it changed, and the resistance it inspired."-- Provided by publisher.

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February 2024

Unfree

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January 2024

The Life and Death of Latisha King
old magazine cover portraying someone in drag

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December 2023