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11 New Year’s Reads to Put You on the Runway of Transformation

January 15, 2025

By Christian Coleman | And the New Year’s category is . . . Transformation! As the oligarchs of the free world steer us on a rocky ride toward dire changes we didn’t want, we’ll be focused on changing ourselves for the greater good. What shall we work on? Expanding our minds about what Buddhism is and what it has to offer? Ditching the me-centric trend of girlboss feminism? Renegotiating our relationship with social media? Beefing up at the gym without the macho trappings? This handful of titles from Beacon’s catalog will set us on the runway of life to get tens across the board for progress and self-reinvention! Read more →

Posted at 02:12 PM in Activism, American Society, Biography and Memoir, Buddhish, Christian Coleman, Desire, Environment and Conservation, Faux Feminism, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Mayor of the Tenderloin, Progressive Education, Queer Perspectives, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, Superfreaks, Swole, The Stars in Our Pockets, Transfarmation, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, When Freedom Is the Question, Abolition Is the Answer, When the Light Goes On | | Comments (0)

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Back-Up Reading for Those Tough Conversations at Family Holiday Gatherings

November 22, 2023

By Christian Coleman | When loved ones perch at the table together for holiday gatherings, it’s not just the star protein with fixings that gets served. Whether it’s on Thanksgiving, Christmas, or any other occasion for feel-good feasting in big company, those mashed potatoes and greens come with a side of divergent viewpoints on touchy, real-life subjects. Sometimes they’re served respectfully, sometimes with vitriol, but on many occasions, they stir up tough conversations, and the meals become so ideologically fraught that digestion seems out of the question. Read more →

Posted at 12:51 PM in A Master Class on Being Human, American Society, At Home in Exile, Biography and Memoir, Christian Coleman, Christians Against Christianity, Dangerous Religious Ideas, Daring Democracy, Demystifying Shariah, Dirt Road Revival, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Her Body, Our Laws, History, In Jerusalem, In This Place Together, Let My People Vote, Now More Than Ever, On Repentance and Repair, Politics and Current Events, Producing Politics, Race and Ethnicity in America, Religion, Science and Medicine, The Drone Eats With Me, The Iron Cage, Trust Women, Two Billion Caliphs, We Need to Build, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, You Just Need to Lose Weight | | Comments (0)

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9 Dream Reads Bookworm Barbie Needs in Her Library

August 02, 2023

By Christian Coleman | Come on, Barbie! Let’s go party . . . in your library! You’re about to become Bookworm Barbie and read the days and nights away. Don’t worry about Ken. He’ll be fine because he’s just Ken. Now that you’re in your self-discovery era, you’ll have lots of questions. Like why you’re in a blockbuster summer movie and how the film industry works. We got you. And everything you want to know about empowerment for women and girls, beauty (and health) standards, life in plastic in the real world, the patriarchy, and all the badassery in women’s history is in these books from our catalog. Each sold separately! Read more →

Posted at 02:28 PM in All Made Up, American Plastic, American Society, Christian Coleman, Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality, Here She Is, History, Literature and the Arts, The Patriarchs, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls, The Wrong Kind of Women, What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Women and Other Monsters, Women Warriors | | Comments (0)

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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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