Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood
10 best books like Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood (Cherríe L. Moraga): The Meaning of Birds, How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom, D-Day Girls: The Spies Who Armed the Resistance, Sabotaged the Nazis, and Helped Win World War II, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity, Scars Tell Stories: A Queer and Trans (Dis)ability Zine, Making Face, Making Soul/Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Feminists of Color, Methodology of the Oppressed, ... y no se lo tragó la tierra ... and the Earth Did Not Devour Him, Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability
| Author | Jaye Robin Brown |
| ISBN | 0062824449 |
Before, Jessica has always struggled with anger issues, but come sophomore year that all changes when Vivi crashes into her life. As their relationship blossoms, Vivi not only helps Jess deal with her pain, she also encourages her to embrace her talent as an artist. And for the first time, it feels like...
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
| Author | Jenny Odell |
| ISBN | 1612197493 |
This thrilling critique of the forces vying for our attention re-defines what we think of as productivity, shows us a new way to connect with our environment and reveals all that we’ve been too distracted to see about our selves and our world.
When the technologies we use every day collapse...
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
| Author | bell hooks |
| ISBN | 0415908086 |
In Teaching to Transgress, bell hooks--writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual--writes about a new kind of education, educations as the practice of freedom. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual, and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for...
The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain's elite spy agency to sabotage the Nazis and pave the way for Allied victory in World War II.
In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was fighting. Churchill believed...
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896085813 |
South End Press sent out a call for manuscripts to selected writers in late 1997 or early 1998. I was in the middle of finishing my book Remedios, and consulted my other and collaborator about whether to take it on. She said to do it, but not worry, to write a B+ book not strive for A+. As a result, I wrote it easily,...
| Author | Colin Kennedy Donovan |
Through poetry, art, and essays, this zine tells our stories—funny, sexy, and complex—as a radical act of resistance, and prioritizes the work of trans people and people of color working for radical social change.
Featuring artwork, poetry, and essays by Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán, Sarain...
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 1879960109 |
A bold collection of creative pieces and theoretical essays by women of color. New thought and new dialogue: a book that will teach in the most multiple sense of that word: a book that will be of lasting value to many diverse communities of women as well as to students from those communities. The authors...
| Author | Chela Sandoval |
| ISBN | 0816627371 |
In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity.What...
Tomas Rivera's original Spanish-language novel plus a new translation into English by Evangelina Vigil-Pinon. ...y no se lo trago la tierra won the first national award for Chicano literature in 1970 and has become the standard literary text for Hispanic literature classes throughout the country....
| Author | Robert McRuer |
| ISBN | 0814757138 |
Crip Theory attends to the contemporary cultures of disability and queerness that are coming out all over. Both disability studies and queer theory are centrally concerned with how bodies, pleasures, and identities are represented as "normal" or as abject, but Crip Theory is the first book to analyze...
| Author | Elena Avila |
| ISBN | 1585420220 |
I finished this book over a week trip to Fresno, CA. I was astonished by the intro to the book written by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Ph.D. Her prose was poetry and she is a poet, psychoanalyst and cantadora. Let me share a few sentences I found most enchanting. "One takes into account not only the stories of...
The Gloria Anzaldúa Reader
| Author | Gloria E. Anzaldúa |
| ISBN | 0822345641 |
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 Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Anzaldúa played a major role in shaping contemporary Chicano/a and lesbian/queer...
Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About
Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. "CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries,...
500 Years of Chicana Women's History/500 Años de la Mujer Chicana
| Author | Elizabeth Martínez |
| ISBN | 0813542243 |
Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction
The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to...
How to Love a Woman: On Intimacy and the Erotic Life of Women
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
For all men and women who thirst to love and be loved by a woman, these words and stories of guidance from Clarissa Pinkola Estés are aqua vitae, the water of life for the soul.
Dr. Estés teaches that in love relationships, each partner challenges, nourishes, and transforms the other. To achieve...
Seeing in the Dark: Myths & Stories to Reclaim the Buried, Knowing Woman
| Author | Clarissa Pinkola Estés |
| ISBN | 1591799694 |
Buried into all of us is what Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Est�s refers to as "the one who knows"--the instinctive, intuitive nature. This, she teaches, is the source of creativity and understanding that lies out of sight in darkness, often called the unconscious.
On Seeing in the Dark, we join the...
