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Kick Back This Summer with Beacon Audiobooks!

June 28, 2021

This will be our second summer with our favorite global party-crasher, the pandemic. (Leave already, Pandy! We want to get on with our lives.) Seems like a lifetime ago when this started, huh? Except this season, the rollout of vaccines is making outdoor time under the sun a little freer and a little less fraught with worry. Although still nowhere near the comfort and safety level we need, some of us may make to the beach. Others may make it as far as their backyard. Wherever you set your beach blanket or beach chair, vaxxed and masked, we have some audiobook suggestions for the occasion. Read more →

Posted at 04:55 PM in A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Ace, Angela Chen, Aubrey Gordon, Bettina L. Love, Biography and Memoir, Boyz n the Void, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Gayle Wald, Gustavus Stadler, G’Ra Asim, Ian Zack, Kate Bornstein, Literature and the Arts, Odetta, Progressive Education, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Rashod Ollison, Robin DiAngelo, Shout Sister Shout, Soul Serenade, Viktor Frankl, We Want to Do More Than Survive, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, White Fragility, Woody Guthrie, Yes to Life | | Comments (0)

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The Fight Continues!: A Pride Month Reading List

June 08, 2021

Raise your hand if you’re going to Pride this year! 2020 has been voted off the island. More importantly, we missed Pride. As we strut our stuff under the sun, let’s not forget why we have the parades in the first place. The queers, drag queens, and trans women—especially the folx of color—who fought back against police violence. The fight for LGBTQ rights has never stopped since the Stonewall uprisings. Whether it’s the fight for self-acceptance and self-expression, for the right to marry, for the right to use the bathroom aligned with your gender identity, for affordable access to HIV medication, for the abolition of violent and oppressive systems, there’s always a fight. Read more →

Posted at 05:13 PM in A Cup of Water Under My Bed, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, A Queer History of the United States for Young People, Ace, Activism, American Society, And the Category Is..., Angela Chen, At the Broken Places, Biography and Memoir, Carlos Ball, Charlene Carruthers, Christian Coleman, Daisy Hernández, Donald Collins, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, How to Love a Country, Imani Perry, Kate Bornstein, Laura A. Jacobs, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Literature and the Arts, Looking for Lorraine, M. V. Lee Badgett, Mary Collins, Michael Bronski, Queer Perspectives, Rashod Ollison, Richard Blanco, Ricky Tucker, Soul Serenade, The Economic Case for LGBT Equality, The Queering of Corporate America, Unapologetic, You're in the Wrong Bathroom | | Comments (0)

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Resources for Transgender Day of Visibility

March 31, 2019

In uncertain times like these, publishing progressive and thought-provoking books at Beacon Press becomes ever more urgent. “One of my great joys at Beacon Press is being able to sign progressive books . . . [that] deserve to be read and debated,” said our editorial director Gayatri Patnaik. Crucially, we sign progressive books to lift up the voices of our marginalized communities. This is true for the continued support needed for the transgender community. Read more →

Posted at 10:01 AM in A Queer and Pleasant Danger, At the Broken Places, Donald Collins, Just Add Hormones, Kate Bornstein, Laura A. Jacobs, Laura Erickson-Schroth, Leslie Feinberg, Mary Collins, Matt Kailey, Nick Krieger, Nina Here Nor There, Queer Perspectives, Trans Liberation, Transgender Warriors, You're in the Wrong Bathroom | | Comments (0)

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How to Become an Enemy of the Church of Scientology

April 03, 2015

Before becoming the gender outlaw we know and love today, Kate Bornstein was Al Bornstein, husband, father, and strappingly handsome lieutenant of the Church of Scientology’s Sea flagship vessel. In this selection from her memoir, A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Kate details the events leading up to her excommunication from the Church. Read more →

Posted at 08:45 AM in A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Kate Bornstein, Queer Perspectives | | Comments (0)

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E-Book Suggestions: Our Most Popular of 2012

December 25, 2012

A roundup of suggestions for your new (or old) e-book reader. Read more →

Posted at 08:32 PM in A Queer and Pleasant Danger, Activism, All Souls, Biography and Memoir, Dark Tide, Fiction, Literature, and the Arts, History, Kindred, Man's Search for Meaning, Notes of a Native Son, Overdiagnosed, Plain Secrets, Prairie Silence, Public Health, Medicine, and Science, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, The $60K Dog, The Cure for Everything, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Unchosen | | Comments (0)

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