Making knots into rainbows.
Ideas: alternative education, neurodiversity, non-violence, cultural studies, collaborative parenting, HAES, anti-racism, permaculture. Interests: memoir, BIPOC fiction, Palestine, California, Ireland, DCP stories, nature writing, creative geography, cookbooks, graphic novels, picture books, poetry, guidebooks. About: White cis woman. Unschooling parent. PhD in English/Feminist Theory, specializing in 19th-20th century California domestic fiction. Volunteer support group moderator at "Unschooling Every Family." Podcaster at "Untangling Oursleves." Healing CPTSD. Bagel maker and haphazard gardener.
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This striking collection of more than 200 full-color infographics is a vivid portrait of Israeli settler colonialism and the Palestinian …
A brave and captivating graphic memoir about the power of therapy to heal anxiety and generational trauma
When Sacha …
A brave and captivating graphic memoir about the power of therapy to heal anxiety and generational trauma
When Sacha …
Iris, a young woman turning eighteen in early 1990s Manchester, England, is slowly losing her tenuous grip on her world …
In this engrossing and timely journey to the crossroads of food and identity award-winning writer Anya von Bremzen explores six …
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by …
From the acknowledgements:
"I wish my words would turn into clouds that could protect you and all our neighbors and friends from the bombs.
To the souls who remain stuck under the rubble of their houses for weeks or blocked by clouds of smoke from continuing the journey.
To Gaza, I will continue to search for my books under your rubble, for my shadows in your bombed streets and fields of corn and strawberry, and for humanity in your razed graveyards." (80)
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by …
This book is full of poems about life in Palestine, longing for home, and grief when there's no moment to grieve because the cruelty keeps expanding and sucking in more and more of what you love. The poems are funerals interrupted mid sentence by bulldozers ripping up the grave on livestreams.
This book is full of poems about life in Palestine, longing for home, and grief when there's no moment to grieve because the cruelty keeps expanding and sucking in more and more of what you love. The poems are funerals interrupted mid sentence by bulldozers ripping up the grave on livestreams.
A candid, horrific, and deeply touching new collection of poems about life in Gaza by an award-winning Palestinian poet.Barely thirty …
At an early age, Rachel Sontag realized there was something deeply wrong with her father. On the surface, he was …
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to …
In The Lost Family, journalist Libby Copeland investigates what happens when we embark on a vast social experiment with little …
There was only one thing on her mind.
'I must start a bookshop.'
Yeongju did everything she was …
First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino’s How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic …
As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, …
We all have the public, achievement, visible side of our lives. And then the parts of our life that may or may not be visible, but that's how we are really doing. That's what we really want to talk about. That's where the heartbreak is. This book is a guide to the heartbreak parts, to how we are really doing. Not a self-help book about how to get through school or your first job, but about how to get through the heartbreak and feelings of rejection or the true friendships or how to take steps toward what makes your heart soar. It's like the essential oil of advice columnists, the part where they reflect back to you what your real concerns and priorities are.
I want to gift this book as a sweet 16 present, a graduation present, a 40th birthday present, to just about everyone as well as …
We all have the public, achievement, visible side of our lives. And then the parts of our life that may or may not be visible, but that's how we are really doing. That's what we really want to talk about. That's where the heartbreak is. This book is a guide to the heartbreak parts, to how we are really doing. Not a self-help book about how to get through school or your first job, but about how to get through the heartbreak and feelings of rejection or the true friendships or how to take steps toward what makes your heart soar. It's like the essential oil of advice columnists, the part where they reflect back to you what your real concerns and priorities are.
I want to gift this book as a sweet 16 present, a graduation present, a 40th birthday present, to just about everyone as well as myself. It's one of those books where you don't really read it, you work through a page and then let that page ferment in your mind for a month.
It helps with some of the trickiest things. How to know when your instincts are telling you no versus when your conditioning or that critical voice in your head is undermining your dreams. How to thrive where there is no time, no money, no rest. How to apologize. How to argue. How to receive a compliment or criticism. Not just "you should accept compliments" but how to actually do these things, step by step, with illustrations and bullet points. Like "how to be a better human for dummies." Without universalizing, without skirting over the our entanglement in imperialist white supremacist heteropatriarchy.
I need my own copy to refer to and another to cut out and make posters for my wall.
As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as, among other things, a trans …
