First Person Queer

Edited by Richard Labone & Lawrence Schimel
Categories: Anthologies, LGBTQ+, Lesbian Literature, Biography & Memoir, Social Issues, Cultural Studies, Gay Literature

Winner, Lambda Literary Award, LGBT Anthologies

Winner, Independent Publisher Award (GOLD), Gay/Lesbian

In this amazing, wide-ranging anthology of non-fiction essays, contributors write intimate and honest ...

The Company of Others

By Sandra Shields
By (photographer) David Campion
Preface by Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network (PLAN)
Categories: Social Issues, Photography, Health

An extraordinary and moving book about the transforming power of family and community on "vulnerable" individuals--the mentally challenged, the mentally ill, the elderly--and how these efforts enrich ...

Only a Beginning

Edited by Allan Antliff
Categories: Social Issues, History, Visual Arts, Canada, Cultural Studies

Drawing on a wide-range of anarchist publications, Only a Beginning is the first comprehensive overview of anarchist theory and practice in North America from 1976 to the present. Compiled and edited by ...

The Last Pentacle of the Sun

Edited by M.W. Anderson & Brett Alexander Savory
Categories: Anthologies, Social Issues, Fiction

On May 5, 1993, in West Memphis, Arkansas, three eight-year-old boys were brutally murdered. They were found bound ankle to wrist with their own shoelaces, severely beaten, and dumped in a nearby stream. ...

Spree

By Pamela Klaffke
Categories: History, Social Issues, Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, Humour

Ten years ago, Faith Popcorn declared "the end of shopping" in her bestselling book The Popcorn Report. But from the looks of things, shopping is as pervasive as ever; we are a culture obsessed and beguiled ...

Out of the Darkness

By Marion Crook
Categories: Social Issues, Youth Culture, Health, Cultural Studies

The fearless monsters we think are our kind
The changes we take, the evil we love
The insane things we have all done
No one has won.
-Megan

Teen suicide has long been considered one of society's darkest ...

Stan Douglas: Every Building on 100 West Hastings

Edited by Reid Shier
By Stan Douglas
Categories: Visual Arts, British Columbia, Social Issues, Photography, Cultural Studies, History

The 100 block of Vancouver's West Hastings Street is the gateway to one of the most contested and controversial inner-city neighborhoods in North America--Vancouver's infamous and impoverished downtown ...

Where Fire Speaks

By (photographer) David Campion
By Sandra Shields
Categories: Social Issues, Photography, Cultural Studies

On the wild river that divides Namibia from Angola, members of the Himba tribe herd cattle as they have done for hundreds of years. The women wear thick coils of jewelry and skirts of animal skin; there ...

In a Queer Country

Edited by Terry Goldie
Categories: LGBTQ+, Gay Literature, Lesbian Literature, Social Issues, Anthologies, Canada, Cultural Studies

In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing if not ...

The Face in the Mirror

By Marion Crook
Categories: Social Issues, Cultural Studies, Youth Culture

"When I look in the mirror, I don't know who I am. "
-Kerri
Being a teenager in today's complex world is a difficult enough task, but adopted teens have a unique struggle: to discover their identity and ...