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30/08/2024

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29/08/2024

𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓í𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐆𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐲⁣
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Preorder your copy of Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez’s forthcoming book, Tías and Primas (09.10.24) then submit your receipt to receive a limited edition 5” x 5” sticker of artist Josie Del Castillo’s original illustration of the author’s abuela.⁣
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This giveaway begins on 7/30/24 at 12:01am ET and ends 9/10/24 at 11:59pm ET⁣
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Open to U.S. residents only. Must be 18+ to enter.⁣
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29/08/2024

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's TÍAS AND PRIMAS "is a gift of understanding, and loving one’s family, even when our families are complicated and painful. It’s a beautiful reminder of the power of storytelling and the profound connection of kinship.” —Paola Mendoza

Available September 10! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3AeRlEK

28/08/2024

“Sometimes feminists have to take off their earrings and throw down. Kali Nicole Gross, one of our nation's most formidable historians, certainly throws down here...deeply researched and engaging book.” —Brittney C Cooper, Ph.D.

Available September 24. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3Xg42rR

27/08/2024

Will Tosh's STRAIGHT ACTING is Engrossing, enlightening and hugely entertaining."—Sarah Waters

Available September 17! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3MoZHw9

26/08/2024

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's TÍAS AND PRIMAS is "a love letter to the fierce and the outcast women who sacrificed and fought so we could be liberated. This is an important read for any woman seeking to live life on her terms.” —Saraciea J. Fennell

Available September 10! Learn more: https://bit.ly/3AeRlEK

22/08/2024

Will Tosh's STRAIGHT ACTING is a dazzling and "highly readable" (The Guardian) portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich and complex q***r life informed the plays and poems we treasure today

Available 09.17. Learn more ⤵️

A dazzling and "highly readable" (Guardian) portrait of Shakespeare as a young artist, revealing how his rich and complex q***r life informed the p...

21/08/2024

Fearlessly grappling with the effects of intergenerational trauma, centuries of colonization, and sexism, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez attempts to heal the pain that is so often embodied in female family lines.

Available September 10. Learn more ⤵️

From the author of For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts, a celebration of the women at the heart of Latine families Born into a lar...

20/08/2024

June Thomas' A PLACE OF OUR OWN "presents a rich portrait of the sapphic community…”

Read more on AudioFile Magazine ⤵️

AudioFile Audiobook Review: Journalist June Thomas narrates in a clear and authoritative voice. Her focus is the development of q***r women's culture as seen through the lens of

19/08/2024

Kellie Carter Jackson's WE REFUSE is one of "UATL’s summer reading list of great Black-authored books"

"From armed revolts to sit-ins and property destruction, historian Kellie Carter Jackson examines the variety of tactics that once shaped the Black struggle and made way for freedom..."

Read more on The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ⤵️

Several books have popped up in the last year that pose interesting reads for summer. With this in mind, UATL has comprised a list of great reads from respected Black authors to line your home library’s bookshelves, spanning a myriad of genres from young adult fiction to thrillers, children’s li...

14/08/2024

KALI NICOLE GROSS' VENGEANCE FEMINISM “is sharp, and the subject merits attention. Explosive and compelling.“

Available September 24. Read more on Kirkus Reviews ⤵️

An examination of Black women taking the law into their own hands in late-19th- and early-20th-century Philadelphia.

13/08/2024

Will Tosh “ambition is to present this rich material to a general readership, imagined here as consisting of the thousands of passionate enthusiasts who flock to the Globe each year, expecting to be educated and entertained in equal measure. It’s an expectation that he meets magnificently.“

STRAIGHT ACTING, available September 17. Read more on The Guardian ⤵️

A rich study of q***r desire in Shakespeare, from cosplay in The Merchant of Venice to gender fluidity in Twelfth Night

12/08/2024

“Each chapter focuses on a different real embodiment of Latina womanhood that, thanks to Mojica Rodríguez’s love of these women, doesn’t come across as reducing them to labels. Instead, she portrays Latinas as multidimensional, with traits to emulate.“

TÍAS AND PRIMAS, available September 10. Read more on Library Journal ⤵️

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08/08/2024

On September 16 historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss WE REFUSE with Zinn Education Project Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler Jones.

Carter reframes the past and present of Black resistance — both nonviolent and violent — to white supremacy.

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On Sept. 16, 2024, historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss We Refuse, which is a reframing of the past and present of Black resistance — both nonviolent and violent — to white supremacy. This session is part of the Zinn Education Project’s Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online people’...

08/08/2024

Preorder your copy of Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez's forthcoming book, TÍAS AND PRIMAS (09.10.24) then submit your receipt to receive a limited edition 5" x 5" sticker of artist Josie Del Castillo's original illustration of the author's abuela.

Giveaway ends 9/10/24 at 11:59pm ET.

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07/08/2024

Author, journalist and podcaster June Thomas’ new book, A PLACE OF OUR OWN,” tells the stories of six spaces that helped define q***r women’s culture

Read all about it on Xtra ⤵️

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Author, journalist and podcaster June Thomas’ new book, “A Place of Our Own,” tells the stories of six spaces that helped define q***r women’s culture

06/08/2024

Kellie Carter Jackson's WE REFUSE is "effective in unearthing the stories of little-known, everyday rebellions, especially from the lives of Black women.”

Read more on The New York Times ⤵️

Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

05/08/2024

Will Tosh, author of STRAIGHT ACTING, says “Same-sex desire was particularly evident in Shakespeare’s sonnets and the Elizabethan society he moved in as a young man was much q***rer than you might think."

Listen to the interview on ABC Radio National ⤵️

A new biography of William Shakespeare looks at the world’s greatest playwright through a q***r lens. According to author Will Tosh, “Same-sex desire was particularly evident in Shakespeare’s sonnets and the Elizabethan society he moved in as a young man was much q***rer than you might think."...

29/07/2024

"Dating Expert and Host of the Dates & Mates Podcast Damona Hoffman joins Kennedy to toast her new book, F THE FAIRY TALE. Damona gives the inside scoop on how to best ‘market’ yourself on dating apps and why the communication crisis in our country is leading to a ghosting epidemic..."

Listen to interview on FOX News Radio ⤵️

Dating Expert and Host of the Dates & Mates Podcast Damona Hoffman joins Kennedy to toast her new book, F the Fairy Tale: Rewriting the Dating Myths and Live Your Own Love Story. Damona gives the inside scoop on how to best 'market' yourself on dating apps and why the communication crisis in our c

22/07/2024

"In the Black experience, leaving is one of the most common forms of resistance to White supremacy." Click below to read Kellie Carter Jackson's opinion piece on CNN ⤵️

WE REFUSE, available now!

The 2024 presidential election shines a light on the enduring legacy of Black resistance through flight as a form of defiance against oppression and a quest for freedom, writes historian Kellie Carter Jackson.

18/07/2024

Kellie Carter Jackson's “WE REFUSE goes a long way to helping us understand an important part of our national past, slavery, racism and resistance.”

Available now! Read more on New York Journal of Books ⤵️

We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson book review. Click to read the full review of We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance in New York Journal of Books. Review written by Elayne Clift.

17/07/2024

"The way people are using dating apps today and the speed of communication. It's swipe, swipe, swipe, onto the date. Getting ghosted, getting frustrated, being burned out. Wash, rinse and repeat," said dating coach Damona Hoffman, who is also the author of F THE FAIRYTALE"

Sick of swiping? Read more on CBS News ⤵️

Dating coach Damona Hoffman discusses what she calls "dating app burnout," and gives tips on how you can better utilize the apps in your love life.

15/07/2024

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's TIAS AND PRIMAS was included in The Next Big Idea Club’s September 2024 Must-Read Books.

Available September 10! Read more on Next Big Idea Club ⤵️

These titles make up our final group of nominees for Season 25 of the Next Big Idea Club.