The Nightlife of Jacuzzi Gaskett

The Nightlife of Jacuzzi Gaskett
Author: Brontez Purnell
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 2019
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781948340021

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At night, Jacuzzi cares for his baby brother, makes a blender cyclone, ponders life, and waits for mama's arrival home.

Intersectionallies

Intersectionallies
Author: Carolyn Choi
Publisher:
Total Pages: 56
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781948340083

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A handy book about intersectionality that depicts the nuances of identity and embraces difference as a source of community.

Pass with Care

Pass with Care
Author: Cooper Lee Bombardier
Publisher:
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2020-05-12
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781948340212

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A funny, lyrical, and piercingly insightful essay collection about gender and sexuality, by trans writer and artist Cooper Lee Bombardier.

How Mamas Love Their Babies

How Mamas Love Their Babies
Author: Juniper Fitzgerald
Publisher: Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2021-08-17
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1558613412

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Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their children—piloting airplanes, washing floors, or dancing at a strip club—this book is the first to depict a sex-worker parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good parenting. We’re reminded that, while every mama’s work looks different, every mama works to make their baby’s world better.

Since I Laid My Burden Down

Since I Laid My Burden Down
Author: Brontez Purnell
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Total Pages: 81
Release: 2017-05-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 155861432X

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An uninhibited portrait of growing up gay in 1980s Alabama: exploring art and sex with “more layered insight than the page count should allow” (Hanif Abdurraqib, MTV News). DeShawn lives a high, creative, and promiscuous life in San Francisco. But when he’s called back to his cramped Alabama hometown for his uncle’s funeral, he’s hit by flashbacks of handsome, doomed neighbors and sweltering Sunday services. Amidst prickly reminders of his childhood, DeShawn ponders family, church, and the men in his life, prompting the question: Who deserves love? A modern American classic, Since I Laid My Burden Down is a raw and searing look into the intersections of memory, Blackness, and queerness. “Performance artist Purnell beautifully captures a personality through introspection and memory in this slim novel . . . a compelling portrait of a particular disaffected kind of gay youth caught between religion, culture, and desire.” —Publishers Weekly “It’s a true novel, chaptered, and bound, that not only holds its own as queer literature, with its unapologetically misanthropic narrative, but also expands upon it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “An antidote to the rigamarole of gay lit.” —Mask Magazine “Slim yet potently realized, with a lot to ponder.” —The Bay Area Reporter “Since I Laid My Burden Down has a fearless (sometimes reckless) humor as Brontez Purnell interrogates what it means to be black, male, queer; a son, an uncle, a lover; Southern, punk, and human. An emotional tightrope walk of a book and an important American story rarely, if ever, told.” —Michelle Tea, author of Castle on the River Vistula

Not My Idea

Not My Idea
Author: Anastasia Higginbotham
Publisher: Ordinary Terrible Things
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2018-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781948340007

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People of color are eager for white people to deal with their racial ignorance. White people are desperate for an affirmative role in racial justice. Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness helps with conversations the nation is, just now, finally starting to have.

Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces

Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces
Author: Abusaada, Hisham
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 290
Release: 2021-05-14
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1799870065

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Public places are places where all citizens, irrespective of their race, age, religion, or class level (social or economic), cannot be excluded. It serves to improve the lifestyle experience of its inhabitants, as well as promote social connections. All citizens are responsible for it and are interested in it, and the intervention for change must be the responsibility of all without exception. As such, bottom-up urban planning is essential for urban environments and for transforming nightlife in public places in order to create more meaningful experiences and instill a greater sense of identity and community. Transforming Urban Nightlife and the Development of Smart Public Spaces analyzes the patterns of transformations of nightlife in public life. The book investigates urban nightlife transformations and the challenge of enhancing the sense of belonging in sensitive areas such as local communities and historical sites. The chapters present new insights to control the chaotic intervention related to the elements of traditional or digital technology, whether from citizens themselves or local authorities. The objective also is to document urban nightlife transformations that enhance the sense of belonging in historical sites. Important topics covered include urban-gamification, digital urban art, urban socio-ecosystems, and reimagining space in the urban nightlife. This book is ideal for urban planners, developers, social scientists, technologists, civil engineers, architects, policymakers, government officials, practitioners, researchers, academicians, and students who are interested in urban nightlife and nightscape and the smart technologies used for transformation.

What If My Dog Had Thumbs?

What If My Dog Had Thumbs?
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2019-09-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781948340090

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A whimsical, silly children's book in which the narrator imagines what life would be like for his dog if his dog suddenly had thumbs, accompanied by funky fluorescent drawings.

Aftershocks

Aftershocks
Author: Auour Jonsdottir
Publisher:
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781948340168

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Nominated for the Icelandic Literary Prize, Aftershocks is a haunting novel-in-translation about Saga, a woman who comes to after an epileptic seizure on a sidewalk along busy Miklabraut Street. Her three-year-old son is gone. The last thing she remembers is a double-decker bus that no one else can confirm seeing. Over the following days, Saga's mind is beset by memories and doubts. What happened before her seizure? Who can she trust? And how can she make any sense of her emotions when her memory is so fragmented? Hailed as Audur Jonsdottir's "best-written novel so far," Aftershocks is a shocking and revelatory exploration of the blurred lines between fact and fiction, reality and imagination, and where mother ends and child begins.

This Is Major

This Is Major
Author: Shayla Lawson
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2020-06-30
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0062890603

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A National Book Critics Circle Finalist in Autobiography * Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award * Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by USA Today, Bitch Magazine, Parade, Salon and Ms. Magazine From a fierce and humorous new voice comes a relevant, insightful, and riveting collection of personal essays on the richness and resilience of black girl culture—for readers of Samantha Irby, Roxane Gay, Morgan Jerkins, and Lindy West. Shayla Lawson is major. You don’t know who she is. Yet. But that’s okay. She is on a mission to move black girls like herself from best supporting actress to a starring role in the major narrative. Whether she’s taking on workplace microaggressions or upending racist stereotypes about her home state of Kentucky, she looks for the side of the story that isn’t always told, the places where the voices of black girls haven’t been heard. The essays in This is Major ask questions like: Why are black women invisible to AI? What is “black girl magic”? Or: Am I one viral tweet away from becoming Twitter famous? And: How much magic does it take to land a Tinder date? With a unique mix of personal stories, pop culture observations, and insights into politics and history, Lawson sheds light on these questions, as well as the many ways black women and girls have influenced mainstream culture—from their style, to their language, and even their art—and how “major” they really are. Timely, enlightening, and wickedly sharp, This Is Major places black women at the center—no longer silenced, no longer the minority.