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Mixed-Race Superheroes

by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Eric L. Berlatsky, Gregory T. Carter, Chris Gavaler, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Nicholas E. Miller, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Jorge J. Santos, Kwasu David Tembo0, Corrine Esther Collins1, Jasmine Mitchell2, Adrienne Resha3 ...

American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the ... Read more

$23.99 USD

American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the
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Eating Disorders Don’t Discriminate

Stories of Illness, Hope and Recovery from Diverse Voices

by Nigel Owens, Dianne Buswell, Smriti Mundhra, Marilyn Okoro, Megan Jayne Crabbe, Dave Chawner, Selina Tossut, Sam Layton, Lindsey Holland, George Mycock, Lara Rebecca, Jessica Wilson, Afftene Ceri Taylor, Ryan Sheldon, Bobby Kasmire, Cynthia Bulik, Jasmine C. Leyva, Clare Steedman, Rachael Alder-Byrne, Hope Virgo, Ro Mitchell, Kristina Saffran, Hana Brannigan, James Downs, Molly Bartrip, Amalie Lee, Becky Excell, Eva Trujillo, Shannon Dymond, Laura Mae Ramsey, Lee Chambers, Sam Clark-Stone, Amanda Taylor, Bayadir Mohamed-Osman, Raffela Mancuso, Sophie Baverstock ...

Eating disorders know no boundaries. They don't discriminate.Every story of living with an eating disorder is unique. Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate brings together thirty-one of them, each tackling the stereotypes and misconceptions about what eating disorders look like and who they impact.Athletes, activists, directors, models, health professionals, and more share their experiences of ... Read more

$16.99 USD

Eating disorders know no boundaries. They don't discriminate.Every story of living with an eating disorder is unique. Eating Disorders Don't Discriminate brings together thirty-one of them, each tackling the stereotypes and misconceptions about what eating disorders look like and who they impact.Athletes, activists, directors, models, health professionals, and more share their experiences of
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VOICES: a sacred sisterscape

An Audioplay Presented by V-Day, Directed by aja monet, Composed by LeahAnn “Lafemmebear” Mitchell, Produced by Hollis Heath

by V-Day, aja monet, Bella Laia, Black Girls Glow ft. Anabel Rose, Kikie, Ms. Fu, Nana Adjoa Agyepong0, Pamm Takyiwaa2, Poetra Asantewa & Wendy4, Ceclia Faussart6, Chamari White-Mink8, Chelsea Williams9, Cynthia Manick0, Dalychia Saah1, Dorothy Randall Gray2, Flavia Diniz3, Frieda Ndeutala Mukufa5, Itohan Omolere Osaigbovo6, Jasmine Knowles7, Renee Wilson8, Roslyn Smith9, S. Pearl Sharp1, Toya Lillard2, Ursula Nyaboke Gisemba3, Vanessa Appiagyei4, Vangile Gantsho5, various authors7, Leahann “Lafemmebear” Mitchell8, Hollis Heath9 ...

Narrated by a full cast, Black Girls Glow ft. Anabel Rose, Kikie, Ms. Fu, Nana Adjoa Agyepong1, Pamm Takyiwaa3, Poetra Asantewa & Wendy5, Ceclia Faussart7, Flavia Diniz4, Roslyn Smith0, Vangile Gantsho6, Zonya Love Johnson0, Mumbi Kaigwa1, Liza Jessie Peterson2, Tyshawna Maddox3, Mars Rucker4, Stephanie Berry5, Liz Mikel6, Nyla Watson7, Staceyann Chin8, Carolyn Harrison9, Denise Burse0, Nila1, Rutina Wesley2, Bisserat Tseggai3 ...

Unabridged

1 hour

VOICES: a sacred sisterscape, spearheaded by Grammy-nominated poet aja monet (When The Poems Do What They Do), is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by, and centering Black women across the diaspora. It encourages radical listening for the sake of connection, compassion, and community and celebrates the interior lives Black women embody. “We seek to encourage and establish a ... Read more

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VOICES: a sacred sisterscape, spearheaded by Grammy-nominated poet aja monet (When The Poems Do What They Do), is an audio experience of stories written by, narrated by, and centering Black women across the diaspora. It encourages radical listening for the sake of connection, compassion, and community and celebrates the interior lives Black women embody. “We seek to encourage and establish a
... Read more
Imagining the Mulatta

Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media

by Jasmine Mitchell ...

Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and ... Read more

$14.39 USD

Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to have perfected racial representation—all the while ignoring the racialization, hypersexualization, and
... Read more
Invitational Education and Practice in Higher Education

An International Perspective

by Omar Garrett Wray, Jasmine Majkowski, John J. Ivers, Jane Ziebarth-Bovill, William Watson Purkey, Crystal M. Giddings, Mantak Yuen, Stathene Varvisotis, Antoinette C. Hollis, Amy Duncan, Jude Matyo-Cepero, Charles B. Pierre, Melissa A. Cain, Renee Collins, Michelle Jackson, Pattie Yuk Yee Luk-Fong, Gwendolyn Mitchell, Natalie M. Abell, Tina Allen, Kendall J. Richardson, Trevor Turner, Yiu Bun Chung, Betty Siegel, Wendy Tilton, Dee Dee Spraw, Chiu Woo Chow, Matthew R. Shupp, Emily Boersma, Julian Yat Cheong Leung, Jim O'Connor, Rhonda Chicone, Laura A. Mitchell, Hilary Brown, Julie McIntosh, Robert Lockwood, John F. Cindric, Jr., Ken Smith ...

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they have created inviting classrooms; established friendly educational experiences both within and ... Read more

$129.99 USD

This edited collection examines the means to create, maintain, and enhance welcoming colleges and universities in the United States and abroad with personal accounts, case studies, models, programs, and other frameworks written by practitioners in higher education. The contributors explain how they have created inviting classrooms; established friendly educational experiences both within and
... Read more
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Becoming Dangerous

Witchy Femmes, Queer Conjurers, and Magical Rebels

Narrated by Rebecca Mitchell ...

Unabridged

9 hours 53 min

The difference between the witch and the layperson is that witches already know they are powerful. The layperson may only suspect.Edgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. What they have in common is that they've created personal rituals to ... Read more

$24.99 USD

The difference between the witch and the layperson is that witches already know they are powerful. The layperson may only suspect.Edgy and often deeply personal, the twenty-one essays collected here come from a wide variety of writers. Some identify as witches, others identify as writers, musicians, game developers, or artists. What they have in common is that they've created personal rituals to
... Read more

Reel to Real

Race, Sex and Class at the Movies

by bell hooks ...

Series series Routledge Classics
Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks – one of America’s most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics – talks back to ... Read more

$31.99 USD

Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing us with unforgettable moments, even life-changing experiences and they can confront us, too, with the most profound social issues of race, sex and class. Here bell hooks – one of America’s most celebrated and thrilling cultural critics – talks back to
... Read more
How Not to Fit In

An Unapologetic Guide to Navigating Autism and ADHD

by Jess Joy, Charlotte Mia ...

’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.’ – Jess Joy and Charlotte MiaWritten by two late-diagnosed neurodivergent women and the founders of fast-growing online community @IAmPayingAttention, HOW NOT TO FIT IN is an handbook-meets-rallying cry ... Read more

$12.99 USD

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’The lack of information around how ADHD and autism shows up in adults means that many of us have been assuming we were anxious, not working hard enough, or just entirely failing altogether.’ – Jess Joy and Charlotte MiaWritten by two late-diagnosed neurodivergent women and the founders of fast-growing online community @IAmPayingAttention, HOW NOT TO FIT IN is an handbook-meets-rallying cry
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A Comics Studies Reader

Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...

A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

$17.99 USD

A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts,
... Read more
Spectrum Women

Walking to the Beat of Autism

by Jen Elcheson, Artemisia, Catriona Stewart, Anita Lesko, Liane Holliday Willey, Samantha Craft, Yenn Purkis, Kate Ross, Becca Lory, Renata Jurkevythz, Terri Mayne, Maura Campbell, Dena Gassner, Christine Jenkins ...

Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.Autistic advocates including Liane Holliday Willey, ... Read more

$22.99 USD

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Barb Cook and 14 other autistic women describe life from a female autistic perspective, and present empowering, helpful and supportive insights from their personal experience for fellow autistic women. Michelle Garnett's comments validate and expand the experiences described from a clinician's perspective, and provide extensive recommendations.Autistic advocates including Liane Holliday Willey,
... Read more

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The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction

Edited by Mark Bould, Sherryl Vint, Andrew M. Butler, Adam Roberts ...

Series series Routledge Literature Companions
The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological ... Read more

$72.99 USD

The Routledge Companion to Science Fiction is a comprehensive overview of the history and study of science fiction. It outlines major writers, movements, and texts in the genre, established critical approaches and areas for future study. Fifty-six entries by a team of renowned international contributors are divided into four parts which look, in turn, at:history – an integrated chronological
... Read more
Raising a Kid Who Can

Simple Strategies to Build a Lifetime of Adaptability and Emotional Strength

by Catherine McCarthy, MD, Heather Tedesco, PhD, Jennifer Weaver, LCSW ...

Three mental health professionals cut through the "parenting advice" noise with this accessible, easy-to-skim book filled with actionable strategies and tips to build a child's capacity to thrive where they are planted, in good times and bad.It’s time to parent smarter, not harder. Filled with scientifically based and eminently actionable advice and strategies, Raising a Kid Who Can boils down the ... Read more

$11.99 USD

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Three mental health professionals cut through the "parenting advice" noise with this accessible, easy-to-skim book filled with actionable strategies and tips to build a child's capacity to thrive where they are planted, in good times and bad.It’s time to parent smarter, not harder. Filled with scientifically based and eminently actionable advice and strategies, Raising a Kid Who Can boils down the
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