{"title":"Biography \u0026 Memoir","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"transland-by-mx-sly-pb","title":"Transland by Mx. Sly PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eA memoir of transformation and self-discovery that explores fetish communities from a gender diverse perspective. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTransland \u003c\/i\u003eis a fiery and revealing memoir that explores what happens when a non-binary person goes looking for self-worth and a sense of belonging in fetish subculture, only to find that fetish communities come with just as many problematic rules, expectations, and hierarchies as mainstream ones.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoving from wide-eyed optimism that the fetish community is the promised land to realizing the ways fetish communities--even queer ones--reinforce the commodification of bodies, Mx. Sly examines how BDSM helped them understand and articulate their gender, how kink helped them turn shameful experiences into liberating ones, and how they became disillusioned with the BDSM scene--without rejecting the lessons fetish taught them. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe stories in \u003ci\u003eTransland\u003c\/i\u003e explore PTSD, intergenerational trauma, memory, consent, gender transition and diversity, queer relationships and subculture, and a lot of bondage. An odyssey of kinky hookups (including a charismatic Toronto femdomme, an Aussie rope bondage expert, and the queer sex tourism neighborhood of Bangkok), gender euphoria, and testing the limits of sensual experience, this memoir is a candid exploration of fetish communities and practices and a wandering quest through sensuality toward personal strength and self-reliance. Sexy, gutting, graphic, and existential, \u003ci\u003eTransland\u003c\/i\u003e is about finding oneself through intense sensations, reaching a point where being hit has diminishing returns, and coming out wiser on the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46592863338663,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0202.webp?v=1740645826"},{"product_id":"djuna-the-extraordinary-life-of-djuna-barnes-by-jon-macy","title":"Djuna: The Extraordinary Life of Djuna Barnes by Jon Macy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA graphic biography of Djuna Barnes: writer, artist, and queer radical of the Lost Generation in the Roaring 20s.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDjuna Barnes lived in a dazzling world filled with literary salons, innovative writing, and daring new art styles. But it didn't come easily. She managed to work her way out of an abusive childhood growing up in a polygamous rural utopian community on Long Island. She was determined to live an extraordinary life, and found herself socializing with the likes of James Joyce, Natalie Barney, Peggy Guggenheim, and T.S. Eliot in 1920s literary Paris. Called the most famous unknown of the century, Djuna Barnes stood out for her brilliant writing, her biting wit, and her unique style. Her novel, \u003cem\u003eNightwood\u003c\/em\u003e is considered by some to be one of the greatest lesbian love stories ever written. But as the stock market crashed and the Lost Generation left Paris, her life began to unwind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA fascinating window into the life of a woman whose enormous literary talent and provocative attitude were both celebrated and disdained by the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46593007616167,"sku":"","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0213.webp?v=1740647879"},{"product_id":"ugliness-by-moshtari-hilal-pb","title":"Ugliness by Moshtari Hilal PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A sweeping meditation on a subject rarely addressed . . . Hilal takes on our beauty-worshipping celebrity culture and the beauty industry for . . . keeping women in an expensive prison of self-doubt . . . \u003ci\u003eUgliness\u003c\/i\u003e makes a 'big picture' argument, panning outward from one young woman's life to some of the largest issues we confront globally--hence to all of our lives.\"--Rhonda Garelick in \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do power and beauty join forces to determine who is considered ugly? What role does that ugliness play in fomenting hatred? Moshtari Hilal, an Afghan-born author and artist who lives in Germany, has written a touching, intimate, and highly political book. Dense body hair, crooked teeth, and big noses: Hilal uses a broad cultural lens to question norms of appearance--ostensibly her own, but in fact everyone's. She writes about beauty salons in Kabul as a backdrop to the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan, Darwin's theory of evolution, Kim Kardashian, and a utopian place in the shadow of her nose. With a profound mix of essay, poetry, her own drawings, and cultural and social history of the body, Hilal explores notions of repulsion and attraction, taking the reader into the most personal of realms to put self-image to the test. Why are we afraid of ugliness?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594295529639,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0262.jpg?v=1740667931"},{"product_id":"we-both-laughed-in-pleasure-by-lou-sullivan-pb","title":"We Both Laughed In Pleasure by Lou Sullivan PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2020 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD WINNER\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PUBLISHING TRIANGLE AWARD \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDrawn from Lou Sullivan's meticulously kept journals, this landmark book records the life of arguably the first publicly gay trans man to medically transition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWe Both Laughed In Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e narrates the inner life of a gay man moving through the shifting social, political, and medical mores of the second half of the 20th century. Sullivan kept comprehensive journals from age 11 until his AIDS-related death at 39. Sensual, lascivious, challenging, quotidian and poetic, the diaries complicate and disrupt normative trans narratives. Entries from twenty-four diaries reveal Sullivan's self-articulation and the complexity of a fascinating and courageous figure.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594385281191,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0271.webp?v=1740669072"},{"product_id":"miss-major-speaks-by-toshiba-meronek-miss-major-griffin-gracy-pb","title":"Miss Major Speaks by Toshiba Meronek \u0026 Miss Major Griffin-Gracy PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e2024 Stonewall Honor Award for Nonfiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe future of Black, queer, and trans liberation explored by a legendary transgender elder and activist \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiss Major Griffin-Gracy is a veteran of the infamous Stonewall Riots, a former sex worker, and a transgender elder and activist who has survived Bellevue psychiatric hospital, Attica Prison, the HIV\/AIDS crisis and a world that white supremacy has built. She has shared tips with other sex workers in the nascent drag ball scene of the late 1960s, and helped found one of America’s first needle exchange clinics from the back of her van.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMiss Major Speaks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both document of her brilliant life–told with intimacy, warmth and an undeniable levity-and a roadmap for the challenges black, brown, queer and trans youth will face on the path to liberation today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer incredible story of a life lived and a world survived becomes a conduit for larger questions about the riddle of collective liberation. For a younger generation, she warns about the traps of ‘representation,’ the politics of 'self-care,' and the frequent dead-ends of non-profit organizing; for all of us, she is a strike against those who would erase these histories of struggle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMiss Major offers something that cannot be found elsewhere: an affirmation that our vision for freedom can and must be more expansive than those on offer by mainstream institutions.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594414674087,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0274.webp?v=1740669666"},{"product_id":"water-from-a-bucket-by-charles-henri-ford-pb","title":"Water From A Bucket by Charles Henri Ford PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis artist's artist and poet's poet has had a remarkably energetic, fecund and varied existence. By turns bizarre and sweetly domestic, this fractured, infinitely interesting diary begins with his father's illness and ends with the death of his lover Pavel Tchelitchev, the Russian painter with whom he lived for 23 years. Ranging from New York to Geneva to Paris, the diary presents an array of artists and their affiliates, from the Sitwells to Peggy Guggenheim (who had on her wall \"the messes signed Jackson Pollock\") and Djuna Barnes (with whom Ford had lived while she wrote \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e). Born in 1908, Ford made his first literary foray in the 1920s from his Mississippi home with Blues: A Magazine of New Rhythms, with work by Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein, Erskine Caldwell and Paul Bowles. When he moved to New York, he collaborated with film critic Parker Tyler on what has been called the first gay novel, The Young and Evil, published in 1933 and banned in the U.S. and England. At 21 he joined Paris's expatriate community. His poetry books include The Garden of Disorder, introduced by William Carlos Williams, and Sleep in a Nest of Flowers, with a foreword by Edith Sitwell. He launched View magazine in 1940, publishing Marcel Duchamp and the first translations of Andre Breton's poems. This diary offers richly observed details, both quotidian and unusual, constituting a delightful, moving, poetic portrait of a man and a subculture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594522349735,"sku":"","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0308.webp?v=1740674915"},{"product_id":"elseship-by-tree-abraham-pb","title":"Elseship by Tree Abraham PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen Tree Abraham falls in love with her housemate who does not reciprocate the feeling, instead of breaking up, they keep going. This story begins where most end. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eelseship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e deftly and courageously recounts the starts and stops of a transitioning relationship. Having recorded the experience in real time, Abraham combines personal entries with illustrations, photos, and mind maps all organized within eight ancient Greek categories of love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor readers of Maggie Nelson, Sheila Heti, and Carmen Maria Machado, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eelseship\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003edeconstructs the heteronormative canon to explore the bittersweet, lonely, uncharted territories of the heart. It is a deeply specific yet universal story of modern love that will accompany and enlighten anyone who’s been in any kind of complicated “ship\".\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594538668199,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0317.webp?v=1740675915"},{"product_id":"molly-by-blake-butler-pb","title":"Molly by Blake Butler PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBlake Butler and Molly Brodak instantly connected, fell in love, married and built a life together. Both writers with deep roots in contemporary American literature, their union was an iconic joining of forces between two major and beloved talents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNearly three years into their marriage, grappling with mental illness and a lifetime of trauma, Molly took her own life. In the days and weeks after Molly’s death, Blake discovered shocking secrets she had held back from the world, fundamentally altering his view of their relationship and who she was.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA masterpiece of autobiography, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMolly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a riveting journey into the darkest and most unthinkable parts of the human heart, emerging with a hard-won, unsurpassedly beautiful understanding that expands the possibilities of language to comprehend and express true love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUnrelentingly clear, honest and concise, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMolly \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eapproaches the impossible directly, with a total empathy that has no parallel or precedent. A supremely important work that will be taught, loved, relied on and passed around for years to come, Blake Butler affirms now beyond question his position at the very top rank of writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594603384999,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0339.webp?v=1740678793"},{"product_id":"happening-by-annie-ernaux-pb","title":"Happening by Annie Ernaux PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn 1963, Annie Ernaux, 23 and unattached, realizes she is pregnant. Shame arises in her like a plague: Understanding that her pregnancy will mark her and her family as social failures, she knows she cannot keep that child.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eHappening\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594611019943,"sku":"","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0341.webp?v=1740679054"},{"product_id":"being-sick-enough-by-jessica-graham-pb","title":"Being (Sick) Enough by Jessica Graham PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWise, visceral essays on navigating pain, sex, trauma, spirituality, addiction, recovery, and grief from queer, neurodivergent trauma-resolution guide Jessica Graham\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn an unapologetic look at living well with trauma and chronic illness, writer and meditation teacher Jessica Graham offers smart, funny, raw, and mindful insights on untangling—and embracing—the messy realities of being a human alive on this planet today.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGraham gives us permission to accept care—and accept that it’s okay to want care. They weave together personal stories and practical wisdom, offering their take on managing symptoms, getting creative, setting boundaries, and healing from ableist tropes like “you don’t look sick” and “we’re all a little ADHD.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGraham also shares vulnerable personal history: The adverse childhood experiences that wired their body and brain. The workaholism and addictions that kept their pain lying just below the surface. How illness and trauma intersect to obscure the knowledge that we’re each enough, wholly as we are.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis memoir explores the parts of chronic illness life that don’t get enough airtime: How can we center sex and pleasure when pain gets in the way? How can we live well while living through late-stage capitalist hell? How can we come into relationship with our pain without falling prey to self-blame, magical thinking, or toxic positivity?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWise and embodied, fearless and necessary, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeing (Sick) Enough\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is both a wild awakening and a love letter to your whole self: the pains and suffering, joys and brightness, and vital connections that hold each of us as we navigate what it means to be here, like this, right now.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594752381095,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-2935.jpg?v=1740685376"},{"product_id":"anti-boy-by-valentijn-hoogenkamp-hc","title":"Anti Boy by Valentijn Hoogenkamp HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA queer memoir that takes place at the messy intersection between gender and desire, challenging stereotypes and embracing the nuance of identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhen Valentijn must undergo a mastectomy because of a gene defect, he makes the decision not to have implants and adopts an in-between gender identity that feels more natural. He shaves his head and discards his wardrobe of women's clothes, even the perfect dress his mother was so fond of. But all of this causes friction: not only are Valentijn's doctors stumped, but friends, family, and lovers too. His trans ex helps him feel more comfortable in his new guise--not a girl, not a boy, but an antiboy--while his boyfriend draws away from the relationship. Encircled by grief and loss, Valentijn searches for the ultimate freedom to be allowed to be himself and tries to rebuild the relationships with those around him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA refined, poetic autobiographical essay about adopting a new and truer identity, Antiboy is poignant without ever being sentimental. Valentijn finds new emotional depth and complexity in his personal relationships, providing readers with a rich and empathetic reading experience. \u003ci\u003eAntiboy \u003c\/i\u003egoes beyond the author's own journey, becoming a nuanced exploration of human connections amid transformation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594776924327,"sku":null,"price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/FB4BAC3D-F333-4608-A6BC-729795C337EC.jpg?v=1740687103"},{"product_id":"your-john-the-letters-of-radclyffe-hall-by-joanne-glasgow-pb","title":"Your John: The Letters of Radclyffe Hall by Joanne Glasgow PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis landmark book represents the first publication of original writing by Radclyffe Hall, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in over 50 years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOne of the most famous and influential lesbian novelists of the twentieth century, Hall became a cause clbre in 1928, upon the publication of her novel \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, when the British government brought action on behalf of the Crown to declare the book obscene. Probably the most widely read lesbian novel ever written, the book has been continuously in print since its first publication and remains to this day an important part of the literary landscape.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExpertly deciphered and edited by Hall scholar and biographer Joanne Glasgow, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb\u003eYour John\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a selection of Hall's love letters to Evguenia Souline, a White Russian èmigrè with whom Hall fell completely and passionately in love in the summer of 1934. Written between this first meeting and the onset of Hall's last illness in 1942, these letters detail Hall's growing obsession, the pain to her life partner Una Troubridge of this betrayal, and the poignant hopelessness of a happy resolution for any of the three women. It was ultimately this relationship, Glasgow argues, which tragically precipitated the decline in Hall's creative work and her health. The letters also provide important new information about her views on lesbianism and take us well beyond the artistic limits she imposed on the characters in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Well of Loneliness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. They shed light on her views on religion, politics, war, and the literary and artistic scene. Illuminating both the nature of her relationships and her views on the current politics of the time, Your John will greatly extend the range of our knowledge about Radclyffe Hall.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594818080935,"sku":null,"price":36.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-2954.jpg?v=1740690081"},{"product_id":"reverse-cowgirl-by-mackenzie-wark","title":"Reverse Cowgirl by Mackenzie Wark","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMcKenzie Wark invents a new genre for another gender: not a memoir but an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnother genre for another gender.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat if you were trans and didn't know it? What if there were some hole in your life and you didn't even know it was there? What if you went through life not knowing why you only felt at home in your body at peak moments of drugs and sex? What if you expended your days avoiding an absence, a hole in being? \u003ci\u003eReverse Cowgirl\u003c\/i\u003e is not exactly a memoir. The author doesn't, in the end, have any answers as to who she really is or was, although maybe she figures out what she could become.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTraveling from Sydney in the 1980s to New York today, \u003ci\u003eReverse Cowgirl\u003c\/i\u003e is a comedy of errors, chronicling the author's failed attempts at being gay and at being straight across the shifting political and media landscapes of the late twentieth century. Finding that the established narratives of being transgender don't seem to apply to her, Wark borrows from the genres of autofiction, fictocriticism, and new narrative to create a writing practice that can discover the form of a life outside existing accounts of trans experience: an auto-ethnography of the opacity of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594850521255,"sku":null,"price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/480634DD-0AE8-475B-A890-8012AEA12432.jpg?v=1740692062"},{"product_id":"anything-that-moves-by-jamie-stewart-hc","title":"Anything That Moves by Jamie Stewart HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA one-of-a-kind exploration of abasement, depravity, joy, and cringe, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAnything That Moves\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Xiu Xiu singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart's memoir-in-hookups. It is funny, erotic, anti-erotic, honest, brave, icky, and sad, and demonstrates how love and forgiveness can percolate around the edges of even the most traumatic relationships.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594915238055,"sku":null,"price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/0393A964-9068-4B8A-B26A-0AF315582C4A.webp?v=1740695466"},{"product_id":"cytomegalovirus-a-hospitalization-diary-by-herve-guibert","title":"Cytomegalovirus: A Hospitalization Diary by Hervé Guibert","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy the time of his death, Herve Guibert had become a singular literary voice on the impact of AIDS in France. He was prolific. His oeuvre contained some twenty novels, including To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life and The Compassion Protocol. He was thirty-six years old. In Cytomegalovirus, Guibert offers an autobiographical narrative of the everyday moments of his hospitalization because of complications of AIDS. Cytomegalovirus is spare, biting, and anguished. Guibert writes through the minutiae of living and of death--as a quality of invention, of melancholy, of small victories in the face of greater threats--at the moment when his sight (and life) is eclipsed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis new edition includes an Introduction and Afterword contextualizing Guibert's work within the history of the AIDS pandemic, its relevance in the contemporary moment, and the importance of understanding the quotidian aspects of terminal illness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594972975271,"sku":null,"price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/B9919F9A-5A06-4B04-BE60-5B13B0471EFA.jpg?v=1740697960"},{"product_id":"blue-by-david-jarman-pb","title":"Blue by David Jarman PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDerek Jarman’s \u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“For \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e there are no boundaries or solutions.” —Derek Jarman\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOriginally released as a feature film in 1993, the year before the acclaimed artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s death due to an AIDS-related illness, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a daring and powerful work of art. The film and its script, as reproduced in this volume, serve as an impassioned response to the lack of political engagement with the AIDS crisis. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJarman’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e moves through myriad scenes, some banal, others fantastical. Stories of quotidian life––getting coffee, reading the newspaper, and walking down the sidewalk––escalate to visions of Marco Polo, the Taj Mahal, or blue fighting yellow. Facing death and a cascade of pills, Jarman presents his illness in delirium and metaphors. He contemplates the physicality of emotions in lyrical prose as he grounds this story in the constant return to Blue—a color, a feeling, a funk. Michael Charlesworth’s compelling introduction brings \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e into conversation with Jarman’s visual paintings.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46594993127591,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/3F1B4454-0843-4CCC-96E3-25C2888AAD4F.jpg?v=1740698223"},{"product_id":"george-sand-true-genius-true-woman-pb","title":"George Sand: True Genius, True Woman PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA graphic biography of female novelist George Sand, whose life and work championed women's rights, gender expression, and sexual liberation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Sand: True Genius, True Woman\u003c\/i\u003e is a scrupulously researched and tenderly revealing biography of one of the great pioneering figures of 19th-century French literature. Born in 1804--at a time when women were deprived of their civil rights (along with minors, criminals, and the insane)--Amantine Lucile Aurore Dupin grew up to defy those norms, both in her life and her writing. Adopting the gender-neutral pen name George Sand, and in a career lasting over forty years as a novelist and playwright, she is best remembered today for the affairs and friendships she enjoyed with men: the composer Chopin; the painter Delacroix; the novelist Balzac.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut this moving biographical portrait, written by award-winner Séverine Vidal and illustrated by Kim Consigny, restores her to the center stage she always commanded in her lifetime. Not just as the daring, scandalously cross-dressing, bisexual, cigarette-smoking divorcée novelist, but as the brilliant chronicler of her changing time--and therefore of ours.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46595054534823,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/9A2E81BD-6DC3-4F67-A4CF-6BD195B3CFA3.jpg?v=1740705957"},{"product_id":"walking-through-clear-water-in-a-pool-painted-black-by-cookie-mueller-pb","title":"Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black by Cookie Mueller PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first collected edition of legendary writer, actress, and adventurer Cookie Mueller's stories, featuring the entire contents of her 1990 book \u003ci\u003eWalking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black\u003c\/i\u003e, alongside more than two dozen others, some previously unpublished.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLegendary as an underground actress, female adventurer, and East Village raconteur, Cookie Mueller's first calling was to the written word: \"I started writing when I was six and have never stopped completely,\" she once confessed. Muellerís 1990 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the first volume of the Semiotext(e) Native Agents series, was the largest collection of stories she compiled during her life. But it presented only a slice of Mueller's prolific work as a writer. This new, landmark volume collects all of Mueller's stories: from the original contents of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eClear Water\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, to additional stories discovered by Amy Scholder for the posthumous anthology \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAsk Dr. Mueller\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, to selections from Mueller's art and advice columns for Details and the East Village Eye, to still \"new\" stories collected and published here for the first time. Olivia Laing's new introduction situates Mueller's writing within the context of her life—and our times.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThanks to recent documentaries like Mallory Curley's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Cookie Mueller Encyclopedia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Chloé Griffin's oral biography \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdgewise\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Mueller's life and work have been discovered by a new generation of readers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalking through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e returns essential source material to these readers, the archive of Mueller's writing itself. Mueller's many mise en scènes—the Baltimore of John Waters, post-Stonewall Provincetown, avant-garde Italy, 1980s New York, an America enduring Reagan and AIDS—patches together a singular personal history and a primer for others. As Laing writes in her introduction, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCollected Stories\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e amounts to \"a how-to manual for a life ricocheting joyously off the rails . . . a live corrective to conformity, conservatism, and cruelty.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46595062005927,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/74CD0B91-FCCF-4C49-8499-7479CFCF33E8.jpg?v=1740708051"},{"product_id":"alien-daughters-walk-into-the-sun-by-jackie-wang","title":"Alien Daughters Walk Into the Sun by Jackie Wang","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe early writings of renowned poet and critical theorist Jackie Wang, drawn from her early zines, indie-lit crit, and prolific early 2000s blog.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eCompiled as a field guide, travelogue, essay collection, and weather report, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlien Daughters Walk into the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e traces Jackie Wang’s trajectory from hard femme to Harvard, from dumpster dives and highway bike rides to dropping out of an MFA program, becoming a National Book Award finalist, and writing her trenchant book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCarceral Capitalism\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlien Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e charts the dream-seeking misadventures of an “odd girl” from Florida who emerged from punk houses and early Tumblr to become the powerful writer she is today. Anarchic and beautifully personal, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlien Daughters\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a strange intellectual autobiography that demonstrates Wang’s singular self-education: an early life lived where every day and every written word began like the Tarot’s Fool, with a leap of faith.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46595064987815,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/5C87D937-D3BA-4806-873F-F15D435DCE63.jpg?v=1740708560"},{"product_id":"preorder-a-perfect-turmoil-by-alex-green-pb","title":"A Perfect Turmoil by Alex Green PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe rise, fall, and redemption of the doctor behind America's first public school for mentally disabled people\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the moment he became superintendent of the nation's oldest public school for intellectually and developmentally disabled children in 1887 until his death in 1924, Dr. Walter E. Fernald led a wholesale transformation of our understanding of disabilities in ways that continue to influence our views today. How did the man who designed the first special education class in America, shaped the laws of entire nations, and developed innovative medical treatments for the disabled slip from idealism into the throes of eugenics before emerging as an opponent of mass institutionalization? Based on a decade of research, \u003ci\u003eA Perfect Turmoil\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a doctor, educator, and policymaker who was unafraid to reverse course when convinced by the evidence, even if it meant going up against some of the most powerful forces of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this landmark work, Alex Green has drawn upon extensive, unexamined archives to unearth the hidden story of one of America's largely forgotten, but most complex, conflicted, and significant figures.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46595475308711,"sku":"","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0392.webp?v=1740730968"},{"product_id":"food-school-by-jade-armstrong-pb","title":"Food School by Jade Armstrong PB","description":"\u003cp\u003eOlive's post-secondary education isn't what they'd planned. Instead of college, they spend five days a week, eight hours a day at what Olive calls \"Food School\" a full-time outpatient program for eating disorder recovery where they learn, talk, and cry about eating disorders as part of a survivor support group.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntensely committed to recovery, Olive confronts the secretive, self-destructive, and sometimes tragically comedic nature of their illness, while struggling with the complexities of modern mental health care. With support and perspective from their roommate, a fellow patient, and their partner, Olive learns to open up about their abusive relationship with food and exercise--and finds ways to cope with the reality of living in a society that actively encourages disordered eating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this fictional slice of life comic, Jade Armstrong (\u003ci\u003eScout Is Not a Band Kid\u003c\/i\u003e) explores the ways our relationships with food impact our connections with the people we love.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46597808193703,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/A6F4B852-7E82-4B20-BC18-D15E3424A100.jpg?v=1740822688"},{"product_id":"angela-davis-an-autobiography-by-angela-y-davis","title":"Angela Davis: An Autobiography by Angela Y. Davis PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThis beautiful new edition of Angela Davis's classic \u003cem\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/em\u003e features an expansive new introduction by the author.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I am excited to be publishing this new edition of my autobiography with Haymarket Books at a time when so many are making collective demands for radical change and are seeking a deeper understanding of the social movements of the past.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--Angela Y. Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAngela Davis has been a political activist at the cutting edge of the Black Liberation, feminist, queer, and prison abolitionist movements for more than 50 years. First published and edited by Toni Morrison in 1974, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Autobiography\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a powerful and commanding account of her early years in struggle. Davis describes her journey from a childhood on Dynamite Hill in Birmingham, Alabama, to one of the most significant political trials of the century: from her political activity in a New York high school to her work with the U.S. Communist Party, the Black Panther Party, and the Soledad Brothers; and from the faculty of the Philosophy Department at UCLA to the FBI's list of the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives. Told with warmth, brilliance, humor and conviction, Angela Davis's autobiography is a classic account of a life in struggle with echoes in our own time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46597838012583,"sku":"","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/B00557E1-3D45-4A70-AD32-C2360EBBE32A.jpg?v=1740826589"},{"product_id":"there-is-no-blue-by-martha-baillie-pb","title":"There Is No Blue by Martha Baillie PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMartha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThree essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author's mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body, the making of a death mask. The second considers the author's father, his remoteness, his charm, a lacuna at the centre of the family even before his death, earlier than her mother's. And then, the shocking death of the author's sister, a visual artist and writer living with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, who writes three reasons to die on her bedroom wall and then takes her life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this close observation of a family, few absolutes hold, as experiences of reality diverge. A memoir of cascading grief and survival from the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Incident Report.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Martha Baillie's novels are thrillingly, joyously singular, that rare combination of \u003ci\u003esui generis\u003c\/i\u003e and just plain generous. That \u003ci\u003eThere Is No Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, her memoir, is all of those things too, is no surprise; still, she has gone somewhere extraordinary. This triptych of essays, which exquisitely unfolds the \"disobedient tale\" of the lives and deaths of her mother, her father, and her sister, is a meditation on the mystery and wonder of grief and art making and home and memory itself. It made me think of kintsugi, the Japanese art of repair, in which the mending is not hidden but featured and beautifully illuminated. Baillie's variety of attention, carved out of language, is tenderness, is love.\" \u003cb\u003e- Maud Casey, author of \u003ci\u003eCity of Incurable Women\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46598355026087,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0428.jpg?v=1740844215"},{"product_id":"encounters-with-men-by-bob-ostertag-pb","title":"Encounters With Men by Bob Ostertag PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEncounters With Men is a searching memoir as only Bob Ostertag could tell it. In these pages are a lifetime of intimacies and distances, moments with fathers and teachers, friends and lovers, soldiers, cops, and criminals--even one of the great mass murderers of the late twentieth century. Bob Ostertag writes of the men he has known in stories shot through with deep love and deep violence, sex often at the core. Here, we encounter the worst of the AIDS epidemic and the best of human behavior. Fittingly, the final encounter occurs exclusively online, a stark yet compelling portrait of the new sex work in the digital age. Like encounters with bears, except with men.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46598359580839,"sku":"","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0431.jpg?v=1740845056"},{"product_id":"the-dead-are-arising-the-life-of-malcolm-x-pb","title":"The Dead Are Arising: The Life of Malcolm X PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLes Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to create an unprecedented portrait of Malcolm X, one that would separate fact from fiction. The result is this historic, National Book Award-winning biography, which interweaves previously unknown details of Malcolm X's life--from harrowing Depression-era vignettes to a moment-by-moment retelling of the 1965 assassination--into an extraordinary account that contextualizes Malcolm X's life against the wider currents of American history. Bookended by essays from Tamara Payne, Payne's daughter and primary researcher, who heroically completed the biography after her father's death in 2018, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Dead Are Arising\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e affirms the centrality of Malcolm X to the African American freedom struggle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46598368952487,"sku":"","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0434.jpg?v=1740845897"},{"product_id":"my-body-is-a-book-of-rules-by-eliza-washuta-pb","title":"My Body is A Book of Rules by Eliza Washuta PB","description":"\u003cp\u003eAs Elissa Washuta makes the transition from college kid to independent adult, she finds herself overwhelmed by the calamities piling up in her brain. When her mood-stabilizing medications aren’t threatening her life, they’re shoving her from depression to mania and back in the space of an hour. Her crisis of American Indian identity bleeds into other areas of self-doubt; mental illness, sexual trauma, ethnic identity, and independence become intertwined. Sifting through the scraps of her past in seventeen formally inventive chapters, Washuta aligns the strictures of her Catholic school education with Cosmopolitan‘s mandates for womanhood, views memories through the distorting lens of Law \u0026amp; Order: Special Victims Unit, and contrasts her bipolar highs and lows with those of Britney Spears and Kurt Cobain. Built on the bones of fundamental identity questions as contorted by a distressed brain, My Body Is a Book of Rules pulls no punches in its self-deprecating and ferocious look at human fallibility.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46600398405799,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0442.webp?v=1740971377"},{"product_id":"how-to-tell-when-we-will-die-by-johanna-hedva-hc","title":"How To Tell When We Will Die by Johanna Hedva HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our collective understanding of care and illness, showing us that sickness is a fact of life.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the wake of the 2014 Ferguson riots, and sick with a chronic condition that rendered them housebound, Johanna Hedva turned to the page to ask: How do you throw a brick through the window of a bank if you can't get out of bed? It was not long before this essay, \"Sick Woman Theory\", became a seminal work on disability, because in reframing illness as not just a biological experience but a social one, Hedva argues that under capitalism--a system that limits our worth to the productivity of our bodies--we must reach for the revolutionary act of caring for ourselves and others. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHow to Tell When We Will Die\u003c\/i\u003e expands upon Hedva's paradigm-shifting perspective in a series of slyly subversive and razor-sharp essays that range from the theoretical to the personal--from Deborah Levy and Susan Sontag to wrestling, kink, mysticism, death, and the color yellow. Drawing from their experiences with America's byzantine healthcare system, and considering archetypes they call The Psychotic Woman, The Freak, and The Hag in Charge, Hedva offers a bracing indictment of the politics that exploit sickness--relying on and fueling ableism--to the detriment of us all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith the insight of Anne Boyer's \u003ci\u003eThe Undying\u003c\/i\u003e and Leslie Jamison's \u003ci\u003eThe Empathy Exams\u003c\/i\u003e, and the wit of Samantha Irby, Hedva's debut collection upends our collective understanding of disability. In their radical reimagining of a world where care and pain are symbiotic, and our bodies are allowed to live free and well, Hedva implores us to remember that illness is neither an inconvenience or inevitability, but an enlivening and elemental part of being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46621932355751,"sku":"","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-3446.webp?v=1741503709"},{"product_id":"ill-feelings-by-alice-hattrick-pb","title":"Ill Feelings by Alice Hattrick PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn intrepid, galvanizing meditation on illness, disability, feminism, and what it means to be alive.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1995 Alice's mother collapsed with pneumonia. She never fully recovered and was eventually diagnosed with ME, or Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. Then Alice got ill. Their symptoms mirrored their mother's and appeared to have no physical cause; they received the same diagnosis a few years later. \u003cem\u003eIll Feelings\u003c\/em\u003e blends memoir, medical history, biography and literary nonfiction to uncover both of their case histories, and branches out into the records of ill health that women have written about in diaries and letters. Their cast of characters includes Virginia Woolf and Alice James, the poets Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Emily Dickinson, John Ruskin's lost love Rose la Touche, the artist Louise Bourgeois and the nurse Florence Nightingale. Suffused with a generative, transcendent rage, Alice Hattrick's genre-bending debut is a moving and defiant exploration of life with a medically unexplained illness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46624376488103,"sku":"","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-3500.webp?v=1741590149"},{"product_id":"the-years-by-annie-ernaux-pb","title":"The Years by Annie Ernaux PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLocal dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author's continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOn its 2008 publication in France, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Years\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir \"written\" by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the \"I\" for the \"we\" (or \"they\", or \"one\") as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents' generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents' generation (and could be writing of her own book): \"From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the \"we\" and impersonal pronouns.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46625179992231,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0472.webp?v=1741606231"},{"product_id":"red-paint-the-ancestral-autobiography-of-a-coast-salish-punk-by-sasha-lapointe-pb","title":"Red Paint: The Ancestral Autobiography of A Coast Salish Punk by Sasha Lapointe PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn Indigenous artist blends the aesthetics of punk rock with the traditional spiritual practices of the women in her lineage in this bold, contemporary journey to reclaim her heritage and unleash her power and voice while searching for a permanent home\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe has always longed for a sense of home. When she was a child, her family moved around frequently, often staying in barely habitable church attics and trailers, dangerous places for young Sasha.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith little more to guide her than a passion for the thriving punk scene of the Pacific Northwest and a desire to live up to the responsibility of being the namesake of her beloved great-grandmother—a linguist who helped preserve her Indigenous language of Lushootseed—Sasha throws herself headlong into the world, determined to build a better future for herself and her people.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSet against a backdrop of the breathtaking beauty of Coast Salish ancestral land and imbued with the universal spirit of punk, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Paint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is ultimately a story of the ways we learn to find our true selves while fighting for our right to claim a place of our own.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExamining what it means to be vulnerable in love and in art, Sasha offers up an unblinking reckoning with personal traumas amplified by the collective historical traumas of colonialism and genocide that continue to haunt native peoples. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRed Paint\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an intersectional autobiography of lineage, resilience, and, above all, the ability to heal.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46625210302631,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0475.webp?v=1741607004"},{"product_id":"the-life-and-times-of-butch-dykes-by-eloisa-aquino-hc","title":"The Life and Times of Butch Dykes by Eloisa Aquino HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePortraits of women throughout history who have defied society's expectations of feminine behavior and appearance in order to live a more authentic life. These short vignettes combine biographical sketches with evocative illustrations for an impact that is as bold, powerful, and inspirational as the brilliant artists, writers, and musicians they represent. The notable people profiled in this book include Audre Lorde (activist and poet), JD Sampson (artist, and musician known for Le Tigre and MAN), Jenny Shimizu (model and actress), Claude Cahun (photographer, performer, and writer who defied all gender expectations and wasn't any gender), Esther Eng (director), Gladys Bentley (singer and performer), Gertrude Stein (author and poet), Martina Navratilova (tennis champion), and Gloria Anzaldúa (scholar). Author and artist Eloisa Aquino presents these icons against heteronormativity in a good-humored homage, showing how the courage to be true to yourself can spark the sort of work that changes the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46627759718567,"sku":"","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0504.jpg?v=1741665232"},{"product_id":"in-exile-by-sadiya-ansari-pb","title":"In Exile by Sadiya Ansari PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eIn a deeply personal investigation, award-winning journalist Sadiya Ansari takes us across three continents and back a century as she seeks the truth behind a family secret. Why did her grandmother Tahira abandon her seven children to follow a man from Karachi to a tiny village in Punjab? And though she eventually left him, Tahira remained estranged from her children for nearly two decades. Who was she in those years when she was no longer a wife or mother? For Sadiya herself, uninterested in marriage and children, the question begets another: What space is available to women who defy cultural expectations?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThrough her inquiry, Sadiya discovers what her daadi's life was like during that separation and she confronts difficult historical truths: the pervasiveness of child marriage, how Partition made refugees of millions of families like hers, and how the national freedoms achieved in 1947 did not extend to women's lives. She sees the threads of this history woven through each generation after, and finds an unexpected sense of belonging in a culture that, at first blush, shuns women for wanting lives of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46635139399847,"sku":"","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0530.webp?v=1741855785"},{"product_id":"a-trans-man-walks-into-a-gay-bar-by-harry-nicholas-pb","title":"A Trans Man Walks Into A Gay Bar by Harry Nicholas PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the bookshelves, there was plenty of stuff on being gay, and much needed, joyous accounts of what it is to be trans, but nothing really that encapsulates what is it to be both - to exist in the hazy terrain between\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter his relationship with his girlfriend of 5 years ended, Harry realised he was a single adult for the first time - not only that, but a single, transmasculine and newly out gay man.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDespite knowing it was the right decision, the reality of his new situation was terrifying. How could he be a gay man, when he was still learning what it was to be a man? Would the gay community embrace him or reject him? What would gay sex be like? And most importantly, would finding love again be possible?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this raw, intimate and unflinchingly honest book, we follow Harry as he navigates the sometimes fraught and contradictory worlds of contemporary gay culture as a trans gay man, from Grindr, dating and gay bars, to saunas, sex and ultimately, falling in love. Harry's brave and uplifting journey will show you there is joy in finding who you are.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46635168923815,"sku":"","price":20.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0537.webp?v=1741857599"},{"product_id":"valerie-solanas-the-defiant-life-of-the-woman-who-wrote-scum-and-shot-andy-warhol-by-breanne-fahs-pb","title":"Valerie Solanas: The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote Scum (and Shot Andy Warhol) by Breanne Fahs PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe authoritative biography of the 60s countercultural icon who wrote \u003cem\u003eSCUM Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, shot Andy Warhol, and made an unforgettable mark on feminist history.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eValerie Solanas is one of the most polarizing figures of 1960s counterculture. A cult hero to some and vehemently denounced by others, she has been dismissed but never forgotten. Known for shooting Andy Warhol in 1968 and for writing the infamous \u003cem\u003eSCUM Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, Solanas became one of the most famous women of her era. But she was also diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and spent much of her life homeless or in mental hospitals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSolanas's \u003cem\u003eSCUM Manifesto\u003c\/em\u003e, a sui generis vision of radical gender dystopia, predicted ATMs, test-tube babies, the Internet, and artificial insemination long before they existed. It has sold more copies and been translated into more languages than nearly all other feminist texts of its time. And yet, shockingly little work has investigated the life of its author.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first biography about Solanas, including original interviews with family, friends (and enemies), and numerous living Warhol associates. It reveals surprising details about Solanas's life: the children nearly no one knew she had, her drive for control over her own writing, and her elusive personal and professional relationships.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eValerie Solanas\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the tragic, remarkable life of an iconic figure. It is \"not only a remarkable biographical feat but also a delicate navigation of an unwieldy, demanding, and complex life story\" (\u003cem\u003eBOMB Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46635173609639,"sku":"","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0538.webp?v=1741857879"},{"product_id":"queer-power-couples-by-billie-winter-hannah-murphy-winter-hc","title":"Queer Power Couples by Billie Winter \u0026 Hannah Murphy Winter HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis photographic celebration of queer love and excellence gathers fourteen LGBTQ+ power couples, offering a glimpse into the journeys that led to their meaningful relationships and thriving careers.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom designer Debbie Millman's ardent courtship of writer Roxane Gay to the romantic and creative relationship forged between Perfume Genius bandmates Mike Hadreas and Alan Wyffels on stage during their first world tour, this beautiful book offers a closer look into the lives of fourteen inspiring LGBTQ+ couples and the meet-cutes, success stories, and personal reflections that made them the role models they are today. These icons come from a range of backgrounds--they are trailblazers who lead research labs, kitchens, and news organizations; create life-giving art and music; and tell queer stories in award-winning books, films, and television shows. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith in-depth original interviews by journalist Hannah Murphy Winter and intimate photography by their wife, Billie Winter, this diverse collection is a jubilant celebration of queer love and an empowering reminder to younger LGBTQ+ generations of their limitless possibilities. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAMAZING PROFILES: This superlative collection features more than twenty-five queer leaders in film and TV, the music industry, journalism, academia, fine art, and nonprofits. Read about showrunner ND Stevenson and comic artist Molly Knox Ostertag, astrologer Chani Nicholas and nonprofit founder Sonya Passi, director Anthony Hemingway and actor Steven Norfleet, chefs Aisha Ibrahim and Samantha Beaird, and many more inspiring figures. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBEAUTIFUL IMAGES: Intimate, joyful, and moving, the photography of Billie Winter captures a diverse group of queer icons in the worlds they have built for themselves. Her candid, organic images of the couples share intimate moments of laughter, conversation, and comfortable silence. And at the end of every photoshoot, she asked the couples to photograph each other -- capturing the couples' love and connection with a vulnerability that only they could. This gorgeous book presents LGBTQ+ relationships in all their multiplicity. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOWN VOICES: This is a book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eabout \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003equeer power couples created \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eby\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e a queer couple. In-depth original interviews conducted by journalist Hannah Murphy Winter offer insightful context into the lives and careers of the LGBTQ+ changemakers, and photographs by her wife, Billie Winter, capture genuine, unscripted moments between the subjects. This is a meaningful gift for queer folks, allies who want to learn more about queer culture, and anyone who wants to uplift the stories of the LGBTQ+ community. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePerfect for: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eQueer young people and adults and their loved ones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAllies, advocates, and activists\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFans of portrait anthologies and storytelling projects like \u003ci\u003eHumans of New York\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFans of LGBTQ+ photography books like \u003ci\u003eLoving: a Photographic History of Men In Love 1850s-1950s\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWe Are Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eQueer Love In Color\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGift-giving for birthdays, weddings, anniversaries, Valentine's Day, Pride Month, and other special occasions\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636825903271,"sku":"","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-7905.jpg?v=1750612268"},{"product_id":"in-the-dream-house-by-carmen-maria-machado-pb","title":"In The Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eHer Body and Other Parties \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn the Dream House\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAnd it's that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope--the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman--through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMachado's dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46644543553703,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG_0559.gif?v=1742238540"},{"product_id":"the-magical-language-of-orheds-by-e-j-koh-pb","title":"The Magical Language of Orheds by E.J. Koh PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eer living in America for over a decade, Eun Ji's parents return to Korea for work, leaving fifteen-year-old Eun Ji and her brother behind in the family's new California home. Overnight, Eun Ji finds herself in a world made strange in her mother's absence. Her mother writes letters over the years seeking forgiveness and love-letters Eun Ji cannot understand until she finds them years later hidden in a box. The letters lay bare the impact of her mother's departure, as Eun Ji gets to know the woman who raised her and left her behind. Eun Ji is a student, a traveler, a dancer, a poet, and a daughter coming to terms not only with her parents' prolonged absence, but her family's history: her grandmother Jun's years as a lovesick wife in Daejeon, the horrors her grandmother Kumiko witnessed during the Jeju Island Massacre. Where, Koh asks, do the stories of our mothers and grandmothers end and ours begin? How do we find words-in Korean, Japanese, English, or any language-to articulate the profound ways that distance can shape love? The Magical Language of Others is a fearless and poetic mind grappling with forgiveness, reconciliation, legacy, and intergenerational trauma-conjuring an epic saga and love story between mothers and daughters spanning four generations\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46644590411943,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-3717.gif?v=1742240839"},{"product_id":"ace-what-asexuality-reveals-about-desire-society-and-the-meaning-of-sex-by-angela-chen-pb","title":"Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engaging exploration of what it means to be asexual in a world that's obsessed with sexual attraction, and what the ace perspective can teach all of us about desire and identity.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhat exactly is sexual attraction and what is it like to go through life not experiencing it? What does asexuality reveal about gender roles, about romance and consent, and the pressures of society? This accessible examination of asexuality shows that the issues that aces face--confusion around sexual activity, the intersection of sexuality and identity, navigating different needs in relationships--are the same conflicts that nearly all of us will experience. Through a blend of reporting, cultural criticism, and memoir, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eAce\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eaddresses the misconceptions around the \"A\" of LGBTQIA and invites everyone to rethink pleasure and intimacy. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJournalist Angela Chen creates her path to understanding her own asexuality with the perspectives of a diverse group of asexual people. Vulnerable and honest, these stories include a woman who had blood tests done because she was convinced that \"not wanting sex\" was a sign of serious illness, and a man who grew up in a religious household and did everything \"right,\" only to realize after marriage that his experience of sexuality had never been the same as that of others. Disabled aces, aces of color, gender-nonconforming aces, and aces who both do and don't want romantic relationships all share their experiences navigating a society in which a lack of sexual attraction is considered abnormal. Chen's careful cultural analysis explores how societal norms limit understanding of sex and relationships and celebrates the breadth of sexuality and queerness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46683839758503,"sku":"","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0709.jpg?v=1743214082"},{"product_id":"oscar-wilde-a-biography-by-andre-gide-pb","title":"Oscar Wilde: A Biography by Andre Gide PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGide, in this first English translation, defended a poet named Oscar Wilde when other poets threatened to wreck Wilde's life and attempted to show that Wilde was an honorable man. Gide's personal sketches are presented in this book that are in original form. This work was written during the prime of Oscar Wilde's life. André Gide (1869-1951), French writer, whose novels, plays, and autobiographical works are distinguished for their exhaustive analysis of individual efforts at self-realization and Protestant ethical concepts; together with his critical works they had a profound influence on French writing and philosophy. Gide was born November 22, 1869, in Paris into a strict Protestant family and educated at the École Alsacienne and the Lycée Henri IV. In his first book, Les cahiers d'Andre Walter (The Notebooks of Andre Walter, 1891), Gide described the religious and romantic idealism of an unhappy young man. He then became associated with the Symbolists, but in 1894 began to develop an individualistic approach and style. In Les nourritures terrestres (The Fruits of the Earth, 1897) he preached the doctrine of active hedonism. Thereafter his works were devoted to examining the problems of individual freedom and responsibility, from many points of view. The Immoralist (1902; trans. 1930) and Strait Is the Gate (1909; trans. 1924) are studies of individual ethical concepts in conflict with conventional morality. The Caves of the Vatican (trans. 1927 and also published in English as Lafcadio's Adventures), in which Gide ridiculed the possibility of complete personal independence, appeared in 1914. The idyll La symphonie pastorale (The Pastoral Symphony, 1919; produced as a motion picture, 1947) dealt with love and responsibility. Gide examined the problems of middle-class families and of adolescence in If It Die (1920; trans. 1935) and in the popular novel of youth in Paris, The Counterfeiters (1926; trans. 1928). Gide's preoccupation with individual moral responsibility led him to seek public office. After filling municipal positions in Normandy (Normandie), he became a special envoy of the colonial ministry in 1925-26 and wrote two books describing conditions in the French African colonies. These reports, Voyage au Congo (1927) and Retour du Tchad (1927), were instrumental in bringing about reforms in French colonial law. They were published together in English as Travels in the Congo (1929). In the early 1930s Gide had expressed his admiration and hope for the \"experiment\" in the USSR, but after a journey in the Soviet Union he reported his disillusionment in Return from the U.S.S.R. (1936; trans. 1937). Many of Gide's critical studies appeared in La Nouvelle Revue Française, a literary periodical that he helped to found in 1909 and that became a dominant influence in French intellectual circles. These essays are principally analyses of the psychology of creative artists.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e64 pages.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46685036347559,"sku":"","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0720.jpg?v=1743292145"},{"product_id":"cleavage-men-women-and-the-space-between-us-by-jennifer-finney-boylan-hc","title":"Cleavage: Men, Women, and the Space Between Us by Jennifer Finney Boylan HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhat is the difference between men and women? Jennifer Finney Boylan, bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eShe's Not There\u003c\/i\u003e and co-author of \u003ci\u003eMad Honey\u003c\/i\u003e with Jodi Picoult, examines the divisions--as well as the common ground--between the genders, and reflects on her own experiences, both difficult and joyful, as a transgender American.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJennifer Finney Boylan's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe's Not There\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was the first bestselling work written by a transgender American. Since its publication twenty years ago, she has become the go-to person for insight into the impact of gender on our lives, from the food we eat to the dreams we dream, both for ourselves and for our children. But \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleavage \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis more than a deep dive into gender identity; it's also a look at the difference between coming out as trans in 2000--when many people reacted to Boylan's transition with love--and the present era of blowback and fear. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHow does gender affect our sense of self? Our body image? The passage of time? The friends we lose--and keep? Boylan considers her womanhood, reflects on the boys and men who shaped her, and reconceives of herself as a writer, activist, parent, and spouse. With heart-wrenching honesty, she illustrates the feeling of liminality that followed her to adulthood, but demonstrates the redemptive power of love through it all. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWith Boylan's trademark humor and poignancy, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleavage \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a sharp, witty, and captivating look at the triumphs and losses of a life lived in two genders. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCleavage \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003eprovides hope for a future in which we all have the freedom to live joyfully as men, as women, and in the space between us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46685182787751,"sku":"","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0745.jpg?v=1743301585"},{"product_id":"special-topics-in-being-a-parent-a-queer-and-tender-guide-to-things-ive-learned-about-parenting-mostly-the-hard-way-by-bear-s-bergman-pb","title":"Special Topics in Being a Parent: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned about Parenting, Mostly the Hard Way by Bear S. Bergman PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn illustrated guide of practical parenting advice informed by queer experiences for anyone doing the work of parenting, from the author and the illustrator of\u003c\/i\u003e Special Topics in Being a Human\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBeing a parent is enormously joyful, but it is also an enormous amount of work. Parenting requires you to make dozens of decisions a day, every one of which in some way shapes the person your child will grow into. It can be difficult to know in these moments whether you're on the right track. Progressive parents especially can feel adrift when caregiving in ways that were not modelled for them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFrom S. Bear Bergman--advice columnist, educator, and queer dad with fifteen years of parenting under his belt--comes \u003ci\u003eSpecial Topics in Being a Parent\u003c\/i\u003e, a witty and insightful collection of child-rearing tips for those in search of realistic ideas about screens and lunches that don't come with a side order of judgment. Using his own choices--and errors--by way of example, Bergman offers suggestions for various stages of the parenting journey, from asking \"Are we ready to have a kid?\" to talking with children about diversity and difference, to questioning gender expectations placed on both kids and parents. With plenty of humor and compassion, and featuring charming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, this guide helps parents to live their parenting values while enabling their kids to grow their capacities, understand the world, and above all, feel connected and loved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46685182951591,"sku":"","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0746.jpg?v=1743301829"},{"product_id":"personal-score-sport-culture-identity-by-ellen-van-neervan-pb","title":"Personal Score: Sport, Culture, Identity by Ellen Van Neervan PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e* 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction -- Longlist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA vital and deeply personal testament to self, family, community, culture, and sport.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAward-winning writer Ellen van Neerven plays soccer from a young age, learning early on that while sport can lead to exhilarating experiences and community-building, it can also be a painful and exclusive world. The more they play, the more they realize about sport's troubled relationship with race, gender, and sexuality - and question what it means to play sport on stolen, sovereign land, especially in the midst of multiple environmental crises.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFormidable, poetic, and impassioned, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Score\u003c\/i\u003e is improbably many things at once, simultaneously a rumination on sport, relationship to land, Indigenous rights, trans inclusion, and race. Van Neerven weaves broad cultural touchstones, such as Zinedine Zidane's red card in the 2006 World Cup finals, with quiet moments playing soccer with their family, biking to and from practice, detailing a competitive and amorous relationship with a teammate, and simply enthralled by observing the landscape.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFierce, original, and also abundantly tender, \u003ci\u003ePersonal Score\u003c\/i\u003e is a ground-breaking book that demonstrates van Neerven's unrivalled talent and courage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46685184164007,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0748.jpg?v=1743302599"},{"product_id":"world-of-wonders-in-praise-of-fireflies-whale-sharks-and-other-astonishments-by-aimee-nezhukumatathil-pb","title":"World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments by Aimee Nezhukumatathil PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eBestseller\u003cbr\u003eBarnes \u0026amp; Noble Book of the Year\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBeloved author Aimee Nezhukumatathil's celebrated work of nonfiction, now including additional essays and illustrations. \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian father; and the chillier climes of western New York and Ohio. But no matter where she was transplanted--no matter how awkward the fit or forbidding the landscape--she was able to turn to our world's fierce and funny creatures for guidance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"What the peacock can do,\" she tells us, \"is remind you of a home you will run away from and run back to all your life.\" The axolotl teaches us to smile, even in the face of unkindness; the touch-me-not plant shows us how to shake off unwanted advances; the narwhal demonstrates how to survive in hostile environments. Even in the strange and the unlovely, Nezhukumatathil finds beauty and kinship. For it is this way with wonder: it requires that we are curious enough to look past the distractions in order to fully appreciate the world's gifts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWarm, lyrical, and gorgeously illustrated by Fumi Nakamura, \u003cem\u003eWorld of Wonders\u003c\/em\u003e is a book of sustenance and joy.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46685184426151,"sku":"","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0749.jpg?v=1743302913"},{"product_id":"octavia-e-butler-the-last-interview-and-other-conversations-edited-by-melville-house-pb","title":"Octavia E. Butler: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations edited by Melville House PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"I write about people who do extraordinary things. It just turned out that it was called science fiction.\" - Octavia E. Butler\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOctavia E. Butler's work broke innumerable barriers and helped open the field of science fiction to writers and readers it had never had before. As the first Black writer to win the coveted Nebula and Hugo Awards, her courage and vision left a peerless legacy for fans not just of science fiction, but of American literature. In this collection of 10 interviews, 3 of them never published, Butler speaks with candor and openness about her work, her imaginative mission, and the barriers she faced as a Black woman working in a genre dominated by white men. The book features an original introduction by science fiction legend Samuel R. Delany, in which he discusses his personal relation with Butler, providing unparalleled insight into her work and life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46687628787879,"sku":"","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0752.jpg?v=1743394078"},{"product_id":"bell-hooks-the-last-interview-and-other-conversations-pb","title":"Bell Hooks: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ebell hooks was a prolific, trailblazing author, feminist, social activist, cultural critic, and professor. Born Gloria Jean Watkins, bell used her pen name to center attention on her ideas and to honor her courageous great-grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehooks's unflinching dedication to her work carved deep grooves for the feminist and anti-racist movements. In this collection of 7 interviews, stretching from early in her career until her last interview, she discusses feminism, the complexity of rap music and masculinity, her relationship to Buddhism, the \"politic of domination,\" sexuality, and love and the importance of communication across cultural borders. Whether she was sparking controversy on campuses or facing criticism from contemporaries, hooks relentlessly challenged herself and those around her, inserted herself into the tensions of the cultural moment, and anchored herself with love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46687630917799,"sku":"","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0753.jpg?v=1743394259"},{"product_id":"prince-the-last-interview-and-other-conversations-pb","title":"Prince: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations PB","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"text\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA collection of the very first, the very last, and the very best interviews conducted with Prince over his nearly 40 year career.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\nThere is perhaps no musician who has had as much influence on the sound of contemporary American music than Prince. His pioneering compositions brought a variety of musical genres into a singular funky and virtuosic sound. In this remarkable collection, and with his signature mix of seduction and demur, the late visionary reflects on his artistry, identity, and the sacrifices and soul-searching it took to stay true to himself. \u003cb\u003eAn Introduction by Hanif Abdurraqib\u003c\/b\u003e offers astute, contemporary perspective and brilliantly contextualizes the collected interviews.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46687642288295,"sku":"","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0756.jpg?v=1743395098"},{"product_id":"rehearsals-for-dying-digressions-on-love-and-cancer-by-ariel-gore-pb","title":"Rehearsals for Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer by Ariel Gore PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn expansive, darkly funny, and deeply personal reflection on the reality of living with--and dying from--metastatic breast cancer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDeena stepped out of the shower and opened her towel in the steam. \"Does my breast look weird?\" These words irrevocably change the lives of writer Ariel Gore and her wife. As they descend into a world of doctors and tests, medications and insurance, sickness and treatments and hope and pain and more, they discover just how little they truly knew--despite the awareness campaigns and hyper-visible pink ribbons--about the reality of breast cancer. Over the four years following Deena's terminal diagnosis, Gore does what she always does, no matter how difficult or personal the subject: she writes about it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith keen insights, empathy, and humor, Ariel Gore braids together the story of Deena's experience, her own role as a caretaker, narratives from others living with breast cancer, literary reflections on illness, and reportage on the history of breast cancer and the $200 billion industry that capitalizes on and profits from breast cancer screenings and treatments. \u003cem\u003eRehearsals for Dying \u003c\/em\u003einvestigates and challenges everything we think we know about breast cancer. It goes beyond awareness to knowledge, presenting a rich, nuanced, heartbreaking, and hopeful portrait of what it is to be diagnosed with, treat, and live with breast cancer in the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46687656247463,"sku":"","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0762.jpg?v=1743396270"},{"product_id":"any-day-now-toward-a-black-aesthetic-by-larry-neal-pb","title":"Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic by Larry Neal PB","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates him from his community. Black Art is the aesthetic and spiritual sister of the Black Power concept. As such, it envisions an art that speaks directly to the needs and aspirations of Black America.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e--Larry Neal, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Drama Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 1968 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLarry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to produce work that was politically oriented, rooted in the Black experience, and written for the Black community. Engaging with fiction, music, drama, and poetry in his texts, he challenged the dominance of the Western art-historical canon and charged Black artists and writers with reshaping artistic traditions according to their own history. As he proclaimed in his essay \"The Black Writer's Role,\" written in 1966, \"Black writers must listen to the world with their whole selves--their entire bodies. Must make literature move people. Must want to make our people feel, the way our music makes them feel.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe writer Allie Biswas, who selected the texts Neal wrote from 1964 to 1978 included here, introduces the volume, illuminating the rich and varied context in which he produced his work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46689973272743,"sku":"","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0769.jpg?v=1743433866"},{"product_id":"desolation-peak-collected-writings-by-jack-kerouac-hc","title":"Desolation Peak: Collected Writings by Jack Kerouac HC","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn the summer of 1956, Jack Kerouac hitchhiked from Mill Valley, CA, to the North Cascades to spend two months serving as a fire lookout for the US Forest Service. Taking only the Diamond Sutra for reading material, he intended to spend his time in deep contemplation and to achieve enlightenment. He wrote in his journal that he planned \"to concentrate on emptiness of self, other selves, living beings, and universal self.\" In letters to friends he proclaimed, \"Something will happen to me on Desolation Peak...I can feel it.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKerouac's experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax of his novel \u003ci\u003eThe Dharma Bums\u003c\/i\u003e and has also been depicted in part 1 of \u003ci\u003eDesolation Angels\u003c\/i\u003e and a chapter in his nonfiction book \u003ci\u003eLonesome Traveler\u003c\/i\u003e. None of these versions offers a full, true picture, however; and for that reason, \u003ci\u003eDesolation Peak\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading. What separates Kerouac from all other writers is the depth that he went in exploring his own consciousness, and what will prove his most enduring legacy is the record he left of that exploration, revealing the psyche of a sensitive, tortured artist grappling with himself in the mid-20th Century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe highlight of \u003ci\u003eDesolation Peak\u003c\/i\u003e is the journal he kept, starkly revealing the depth of his poverty, the extremity of his mood swings, and the ongoing arguments with himself over the future direction of his life, his writing, and faith. Along with the journal, he worked on a series of projects, including \"\u003ci\u003eOzone Park\u003c\/i\u003e,\" another installment of the Duluoz Legend beginning in 1943, after his discharge from the Navy; \"\u003ci\u003eThe Martin Family\u003c\/i\u003e,\" an intended sequel to \u003ci\u003eThe Town and the City\u003c\/i\u003e, and \"\u003ci\u003eDesolation Adventure, \u003c\/i\u003e\" a series of sketches that became part 1 of \u003ci\u003eDesolation Angels\u003c\/i\u003e, . In writing it, Kerouac was re-committing himself to his more experimental, then-unpublishable style, declaring in the journal that \"the form of the future is no-form.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlso included in Collected Writings is \"\u003ci\u003eThe Diamondcutter of Perfect Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e,\" Kerouac's \"transliteration\" of the Diamond Sutra, his \"\u003ci\u003eDesolation Blues\u003c\/i\u003e\" and \"\u003ci\u003eDesolation Pops\u003c\/i\u003e\" poems, and assorted prose sketches and dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46689999814823,"sku":"","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0774.jpg?v=1743435261"},{"product_id":"punk-women-40-years-of-musicians-who-built-punk-rock-by-david-a-ensminger-pb","title":"Punk Women: 40 Years of Musicians Who Built Punk Rock by David A. Ensminger PB","description":"\u003ctable border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" align=\"center\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"In this exhaustive anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scene. There is a common thread of women being excluded and gatekept from the hardcore music scene but this anthology challenges that notion and shows that women have still been able to overcome, kick ass, and shred alongside the best of them. Biographies, interviews, band anecdotes, and never-before-published photos showcase the talent and artistry of bands like Bikini Kill, The Glittersluts, Bratmobile, Spitboy, the Germs, The Slits, and dozens more. Through its intimate aesthetic analysis and raw zine-like presentation, this is an essential resource for anyone looking to discover, rediscover, and cherish punk history\"--\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Indie Pub Salon","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46690014232743,"sku":"","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/files\/IMG-0776.jpg?v=1743435996"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4032\/5287\/collections\/595C4880-E9A9-4A78-B14A-20C98B88B717.png?v=1743582730","url":"https:\/\/indiepubsalon.com\/collections\/biography-memoir.oembed?page=18","provider":"Indie Pub Salon","version":"1.0","type":"link"}