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Indie publisher of WHITE FRAGILITY, THE HERITAGE, NOTES OF A NATIVE SON, MAN’S SEARCH FOR MEANING, & more since 1854.
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.OiYan Poon 潘愛欣’s ASIAN AMERICAN IS NOT A COLOR is out in the world and featured on
Gabrielle Bellot’s Literary Hub roundup of new releases! Jeff Chang calls it “an intimate, indispensable portrait of Asian America.” #AAPIHeritageMonth buff.ly/4bzPSq3
It’s ✨COVER REVEAL✨ Friday for Albert Abonado’s FIELD GUIDE FOR ACCIDENTS!
His poetry collection is the latest installment in our National Poetry Series, selected by Mahogany L. Browne, who also penned the foreword.
Watch this space in October! 👀
Cover design: Carol Chu #AAPIHM
Keep your eyes on SCOTUS. Josh Douglas warns us that they have created a legal test that fails to scrutinize state election laws and trusts politicians, even though the politicians have every incentive to create rules that help to keep them in power. buff.ly/4ajX0pv
.NAACP had been fighting segregation incrementally in the courts. There were 5 cases that culminated in #BrownvBoard . Sheryll Cashin #KnowYourHistory buff.ly/3wDSDYo
We LOVE seeing Angela Tucker profiled in Puget Sound Business Journal! 😍 buff.ly/3UJ55y8
The end date for viewing Jeanie Finlay’s Your Fat Friend Film has been extended to 6/17!
If you stan for @yrfatfriend like we do, you’ll want to see it more than once! 😉 buff.ly/4dyVSAV
“With no place to process what I had gone through, I dealt with my emotions behind the wheel. It was a place where I was in charge, where I was both literally and metaphorically in the driver’s seat.”—Jonathan Rigsby - Your Rideshare Driver Psychology Today #MHAM buff.ly/3USuBlW
Celebrate Harvey Milk today, and learn more about how his death inspired the 1979 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights. #HarveyMilkDay
🔊 bit.ly/mgh-marching-on
📷 Harvey Milk in San Francisco's seventh annual Gay Freedom parade, June 26, 1978, photo via The Associated Press
The challenges public education faces now from parent-activists and partisan politics is unlike anything US schools have seen. Laura Pappano unpacks the far-right attacks we’re seeing today. Pell Center buff.ly/4bKWf9P
What’s the most underrated case where SCOTUS weakened #VotingRights , but that we just don’t talk about enough?
Josh Douglas says there are 2 cases: Anderson v. Celebrezze and Burdick v. Takushi. Bolts buff.ly/4aDHoNP
Here I talk with Robin Young about how Brown is weaponized. The truth is mean. @hereandnow Georgetown Law Beacon Press wbur.org/hereandnow/202…
.Anthony Pinn’s THE BLACK PRACTICE OF DISBELIEF is about the Black communities who flipped the old cliché of relying on the almighty “Let go and let God” by letting go of God instead.
Publishers Weekly caught up with him to chat about it. buff.ly/3V0v71e