Posts tagged Social Justice
Selected Poems
Selected Poems

Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world. This edition also includes a special PS section with insights, interviews, and more—including a short piece by Nikki Giovanni entitled "Remembering Gwen."

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdConsciousness, Self Love, Love & Relationships, Social Justice, Race
Zami A New Spelling of My Name
Zami A New Spelling of My Name

A writer, activist, and mother of two, Audre Lorde grew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State’s Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including ZAMI and THE BLACK UNICORN. Lorde died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight in 1992.

Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdConsciousness, Self Love, Love & Relationships, Social Justice, Race
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the eyes of sex workers. These tales are brought to life by Whores of Yore creator Kate Lister’s witty and authoritative text, and illuminated by a rich archive of photographs, artworks, and objects offering insight into sex workers’ lives, challenging assumptions about this age-old trade.

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Sex, Consciousness, HistoryThe Sex EdSex, Health, Consciousness, Desire & Libido, Parenting, Self Love, Love & Relationships, Stress, Overcoming Trauma, Sex Work, Consent, Social Justice
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work.

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Sex, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdSelf Love, Sex, Masturbation, Desire & Libido, Sex Tips, Reproductive Health, Social Justice, Consciousness
Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide
Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide

There is still a shocking lack of accurate, accessible information about pussies and many esteemed medical sources seem to contradict each other. Pussypedia solves that with extensive reviews of peer-reviewed science that address old myths, confusing inconsistencies, and the influence of gender narratives on scientific research–always in simple, joyful language.

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Sex, HealthThe Sex EdSelf Love, Sex, Health, Masturbation, Desire & Libido, Sex Tips, Reproductive Health, Social Justice
Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women
Some Men: Feminist Allies and the Movement to End Violence Against Women

Some Men explores the promise of men's violence prevention work with boys and men in schools, college sports, fraternities, and the U.S. military. It illuminates the strains and tensions of such work-including the reproduction of male privilege in feminist spheres-and explores how men and women navigate these tensions.

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdMasculinity, Feminism, Social Justice, Love & Relationships, Gender & Sexual Identity
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement

Unbound is the story of an inimitable woman’s inner strength and perseverance, all in pursuit of bringing healing to her community and the world around her, but it is also a story of possibility, of empathy, of power, and of the leader we all have inside ourselves. In sharing her path toward healing and saying "me too," Tarana reaches out a hand to help us all on our own journeys.

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdOvercoming Trauma, Self Love, Social Justice, Feminism
The Big Questions Book of Sex & Consent
The Big Questions Book of Sex & Consent

A journey into the Big Questions that will turn you into a thinking person about sex and consent, with the ability to wrestle towards the answers that work for YOU and continue to wrestle towards them for the rest of your life. What is the meaning and purpose of sex? How does it intersect with who I am? Why are people so afraid of it? What does a healthy and joyful approach to sex look like for me? Why is consent so much more than a yes or no question?

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SexThe Sex EdConsent, Desire & Libido, Love & Relationships, Sex Tips, Social Justice
Men's Work: How to Stop The Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart
Men's Work: How to Stop The Violence That Tears Our Lives Apart

In a world that thrives on aggression and physical force, male violence has become an all-too-frequent response to the frustrations and anxieties that fill men's lives. Men's Work gives back to men the power and responsibility they need to unlearn the lessons of control and aggression. Going beyond the mythology of the current men's movement, this revolutionary work identifies and develops the social and political framework on which to place men's individual efforts to recover their humanity.

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdMasculinity, Self Love, Overcoming Trauma, Love & Relationships, Gender & Sexual Identity, Social Justice, Feminism
Reproductive Justice (An Introduction) by Loretta Ross
Reproductive Justice (An Introduction) by Loretta Ross

Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics.

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Sex, Consciousness, Health, HistoryThe Sex EdSex, Health, Consciousness, History, Social Justice, Race, Reproductive Health, Pregnancy & Postpartum
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues.

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Consciousness, Health, HistoryThe Sex EdHealth, Consciousness, History, Social Justice, Race, Reproductive Health, Feminism
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies. From slave masters’ economic stake in bonded women’s fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas.

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Sex, Health, Consciousness, HistoryThe Sex EdHistory, Sex, Health, Consciousness, Social Justice, Race, Reproductive Health, Pregnancy & Postpartum
A for Activist by Innostanto Nagara
A for Activist by Innostanto Nagara

A is for Activist is an ABC board book written and illustrated for the next generation of progressives: families who want their kids to grow up in a space that is unapologetic about activism, environmental justice, civil rights, LGBTQ rights, and everything else that activists believe in and fight for.

Ages: 3-5

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Consciousness, Kids, HistoryThe Sex EdConsciousness, Social Justice, Feminism, History, Race, Kids, Sex, Health, Parenting
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez
Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library by Carole Boston Weatherford, illustrated by Eric Velasquez

In luminous paintings and arresting poems, two of children’s literature’s top African-American scholars track Arturo Schomburg’s quest to correct history. Where is our historian to give us our side? Arturo asked. Amid the scholars, poets, authors, and artists of the Harlem Renaissance stood an Afro–Puerto Rican named Arturo Schomburg. This law clerk’s life’s passion was to collect books, letters, music, and art from Africa and the African diaspora and bring to light the achievements of people of African descent through the ages.

Ages: 9-12

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Consciousness, Kids, HistoryThe Sex EdRace, Social Justice, History, Kids, Consciousness