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2 Mission & Vision Statements 4 Spring 2021 Titles 11 Fall 2021 Titles 17 Amethyst Editions 20 Backlist Highlights 31 Rights & Permissions MISSION The Feminist Press publishes books that ignite movements and social transformation. Celebrating our legacy, we lift up insurgent and marginalized voices from around the world to build a more just future.

VISION To create a world where everyone recognizes themselves in a book.

2 MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS EDITORIAL VISION

The Feminist Press publishes twelve to fifteen books a year and specializes in an array of genres including cutting-edge fiction, activist nonfiction, literature in translation, hybrid memoirs, children’s books, and more.

FP seeks to champion intersectional and nuanced works that spark much-needed dialogue and move the feminist conversation forward. Current editorial initiatives include the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize, created to highlight debut work by women and nonbinary writers of color, and Amethyst Editions, a queer imprint founded by Michelle Tea.

We are seeking political and cultural activist nonfiction that furthers our understanding of intersectional feminism. We gravitate toward voice- and vision-driven stories as well as genre- defying texts. Other topics of interest include feminist dystopia, environmental justice, and immigration stories. We do not publish poetry, dramatic works, doctoral dissertations, or literary criticism.

MISSION & VISION STATEMENTS 3 THIS IS HOW WE COME BACK STRONGER Feminist Writers on Turning Crisis into Change Edited by Feminist Book Society

In essays, short fiction, poetry, and more, writers This is how we come back stronger. Edited by Feminist Book Society from the United States and the United Kingdom n essays, short fiction, poetry, and more, feminist writers respond to the personal and the political This respond to the personal and the political in the I in the time of pandemic. Marking the one-year anniversary of lockdown in the US and the UK, this time of pandemic. Marking the one-year anni- transatlantic collection considers where we go from Feminist here – and reminds us that, despite it all, we are is not alone. Ten per cent of every book sold will be writers versary of lockdown in the US and the UK, these donated to Third Wave Fund to support youth-led on turning gender-justice organizing and activism. pieces consider where we go from here—and how crisis into FEATURING change remind us that, despite it all, we are not alone. Amelia Abraham n Yomi Adegoke n Rosanna Amaka Laura Bates n Fatima Bhutto n Lauren Bravo Molly Case n Catherine Cho n Sara Collins we This Is How We Come Back Stronger is an essential Melissa Cummings-Quarry and Natalie A. Carter Juli Delgado Lopera n Lindsey Dryden collection for our times, featuring contributions Stella Duffy n Sarah Eagle Heart n Fox Fisher Shirley Geok-lin Lim n Mireille Cassandra Harper come from Fatima Bhutto, Layla Saad, Juliet Jacques, Kerry Hudson n Akasha Hull n Juliet Jacques Jude Kelly n Dorothy Koomson n Kuchenga Kate Mosse, Michelle Tea, Lisa Taddeo, Akasha Helen Lederer n Francesca Martinez n Gina Miller n n n back Jessica Moor Kate Mosse Jess Phillips Layla F. Saad Hull, Amelia Abraham, Virgie Tovar, and more. Radhika Sanghani n Jenny Sealey n Shaz n Lisa Taddeo Michelle Tea n Virgie Tovar n Sophie Williams stronger. It provides both an intimate, immediate look at life during lockdown—amid the political turmoil

ISBN 978-1-952177-90-3 $25.95 US Edited by THE FEMINIST PRESS and everyday insecurity—as well as a reflection AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Feminist Book Society FEMINISTPRESS.ORG on what has changed. Ten percent of every book sold will be donated to Third Wave Fund to support “What you’ll find in these pages is a truly youth-led gender justice activism. exhilarating and honest creative response to crisis.” FEMINIST BOOK SOCIETY is a UK-based literary orga- —FEMINIST BOOK SOCIETY, from the introduction nization of writers and publishing professionals.

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4 SPRING 2021 BLACK BOX The Memoir That Sparked Japan’s #MeToo Movement Shiori Ito Translated by Allison Markin Powell

In 2015 an aspiring young journalist named Shiori Ito charged prominent reporter Noriyuki Yamagu- SHIORI chi with rape. After meeting up for drinks and networking, Ito remembers regaining conscious- ITO ness in a hotel room while being assaulted. But when she went to the police, Ito was told that her case was a “black box”—untouchable and unprosecutable.

Black Box is a riveting, sobering memoir that chronicles one woman’s struggle for justice, call- ing for changes to an industry—and in society at large—to ensure that future victims of sexual assault can come forward without being silenced and humiliated. With careful and quiet fury, Black Box recounts a broken system of repression and violence—but it also heralds the beginning of a THE MEMOIR THAT SPARKED JAPAN'S #METOO MOVEMENT new solidarity movement seeking a more equitable TRANSLATED BY ALLISON MARKIN POWELL path toward justice.

SHIORI ITO is a freelance journalist who contributes “Ms. Ito’s story is a stark example of how news footage and documentaries to the Econ- sexual assault remains a subject to be omist, Al Jazeera, Reuters, and other primarily avoided in Japan, where few women report non-Japanese media outlets. She was named one rape to the police and when they do, their complaints rarely result in arrests or of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people prosecution.” in 2020. —NEW YORK TIMES ALLISON MARKIN POWELL has been awarded grants from English PEN and the NEA, and the 2020 PEN America Translation Prize. She is based in New York.

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SPRING 2021 5 TASTES LIKE WAR A Memoir Grace M. Cho

Grace M. Cho grew up as the daughter of a white American merchant marine and the Korean bar hostess he met abroad. When Grace was fifteen, her mother experienced the onset of schizophre- nia, a condition that first developed in their xeno- phobic small town and would evolve for the rest of her life.

Part memoir, part sociological investigation, Tastes Like War is a hybrid text about a daughter’s search through intimate and global history for the roots of her mother’s schizophrenia. In her moth- er’s final years, Grace learned to cook dishes from her mother’s childhood in order to invite the past into the present, and to hold space for her moth- er’s multiple voices. And over these shared meals, Grace discovered not only the things that broke the brilliant, complicated woman who raised her but also the things that kept her alive. “Both an exquisite commemoration GRACE M. CHO is the author of Haunting the Korean and a potent reclamation.” Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. —BOOKLIST (starred review) Her writing has appeared in journals such as the New Inquiry, Poem Memoir Story, Gastronomica, and Feminist Studies. She is associate professor of sociology and anthropology at the College of Staten Island, CUNY.

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6 SPRING 2021 WE ARE BRIDGES WINNER A Memoir The Louise Meriwether Cassandra Lane First Book Prize

When Cassandra Lane becomes pregnant at thirty- five, the knowledge sends her on a poignant explo- ration of memory in order to prepare for moth- erhood. We Are Bridges is the realization of this journey, a memoir that weaves personal narrative and speculation together in order to rescue the lives of Cassandra’s great-grandparents, Mary Magdalene Magee and Burt Bridges, from his- torical erasure. Shifting between present-day Los Angeles and the early twentieth-century South, We Are Bridges is Cassandra Lane’s love letter to her ancestors, a declaration of her own story, and a lyrical blueprint for her child’s future.

CASSANDRA LANE is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Lane received her MFA from Antioch University LA. Her stories have appeared in the New York Times’s Conception series, the Times- Picayune, the Atlanta-Journal Constitution, and elsewhere. She is managing editor of L.A. Parent “An exceptional memoir of self-discovery magazine and formerly served on the board of the through family histories, even without AROHO Foundation. official records.”

—FOREWORD REVIEWS (starred review)

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SPRING 2021 7 ALEJANDRIA FIGHTS BACK! / ¡LA LUCHA DE ALEJANDRIA! Leticia Hernández-Linares and the Rise-Home Stories Project Illustrated by Robert Liu-Trujillo

For nine-year-old Alejandria, home isn’t just the apartment she shares with Mami and her abuela, or nine-year-old Alejandria, home isn’t just the apartment she shares Alejandria Fights Back! Fwith Mami and her abuela, Tita, but rather the whole neighborhood. Home is the bakery where Ms. Beatrice makes yummy picos; the sidewalk Tita, but rather the whole neighborhood. Home where Ms. Alicia sells flowers with her little dog, Duende; and the corner store with friendly Mr. Amir. ¡La lucha de Alejandria! is the bakery where Ms. Beatrice makes yummy But lately the city has been changing, and rent prices are going up. Many people in el barrio are leaving because they can no longer afford their homes, and “For Sale” signs are popping up everywhere. Then the picos; the sidewalk where Ms. Alicia sells flowers worst thing happens: Mami receives a letter saying they’ll have to move out too. with her little dog, Duende; and the corner store Alejandria knows it isn’t fair, but she’s not about to give up and leave. Join Alejandria as she brings her community together to fight and save with friendly Mr. Amir.

their neighborhood! Alejandria Fights Back! ara Alejandria de nueve años, el hogar no es sólo el apartamento que Pcomparte con Mami y su abuela, Tita, sino más bien todo el barrio. But lately the city has been changing, and rent El hogar es la panadería donde la Sra. Beatrice hace unos ricos picos; la vereda donde la Sra. Alicia vende flores con su perrito, Duende; y la prices are going up. Many people in el barrio pulpería con el amistoso Sr. Amir. lucha de Alejandria! ¡La Pero últimamente la ciudad ha estado cambiando, y los precios de alquiler están subiendo. Muchas personas en el barrio se están yendo are leaving because they can no longer afford porque ya no pueden costear sus hogares, y letreros anunciando “Se Vende” están apareciendo por todos lados. Entonces ocurre lo peor: Mami their homes, and For Sale signs are popping up recibe una carta diciendo que ellas también tendrán que mudarse. Alejandria sabe que no es justo, pero no está dispuesta a darse por vencida e irse. ¡Únete a Alejandria mientras ella reúne a su comunidad everywhere. Then the worst thing happens: Mami para luchar y salvar su barrio! receives a letter saying they’ll have to move out too. Alejandria knows it isn’t fair, but she’s not about to give up and leave. Join Alejandria as she

THE brings her community together to fight and save FEMINIST By/por Leticia Hernández-Linares and the Rise-Home Stories Project PRESS ISBN 978-1-55861-704-9 $16.95 US AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY Illustrated by/ilustrado por Robert Liu-Trujillo their neighborhood from gentrification! OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Translated by/traducido por Carla España LETICIA HERNÁNDEZ-LINARES is an educator, inter-

Alejandria_Fights_Back_cover_FINAL.indd 1 2/1/21 5:00 disciplinaryPM artist, and author of the poetry col- lection Mucha Muchacha, Too Much Girl. Her work appears in collections and journals such as Latinas: Struggles & Protests in 21st Century USA, Street Art San Francisco, Huizache, and Pilgrimage.

THE RISE-HOME STORIES PROJECT is an innovative col- laboration between multimedia storytellers and social justice advocates from several grassroots organizations who work at the nexus of housing, land, and racial justice in the US.

ROBERT LIU-TRUJILLO is an author and illustrator based in the Bay Area. He is the author of several books, including Furqan’s First Flat Top.

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8 SPRING 2021 Estoy afuera de la pulpería del Sr. Amir terminando mi raspado cuando escucho a alguien gritar “¡Ale!” Es mi mejor amigo, Edgar. Estaba visitando a su abuela en Guatemala, y siento como si él hubiera estado lejos por una eternidad. “¿Qué me perdí?” pregunta Edgar. “Qué verano tan laaargo,” le digo, y comienzo a contarle la historia de cómo casi perdimos nuestro hogar.

I’m outside Mr. Amir’s finishing my raspado when I hear someone shout “Ale!” It’s my best friend, Edgar. He was visiting his grandma in Guatemala, and it feels like he’s been gone forever. “What did I miss?” Edgar asks. “It’s been a looong summer,” I say, and launch into the story of how we almost lost our home.

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Se me olvidó lo que quería decir, así que alcé mi dibujo del barrio. “Mi nombre es Alejandria, y nací aquí mismo en Parkwood. Quiero mostrarles que nuestro hogar no es sólo nuestro apartamento sino todo nuestro barrio. Mami, Tita, Julian, la Sra. Beatrice, el Sr. Amir, la Sra. Alicia, Duende . . . somos como una familia grande, y queremos quedarnos aquí. Como dice mi Tita, todos debemos de tener un lugar que podamos decir que es nuestro hogar, no importa cuánto dinero tengamos. Espero que puedan hacer una ley sobre esto.” Cuando terminé, vi que Mami estaba llorando y sonriendo a la misma vez.

I forgot what I wanted to say, so I held up my drawing of the neighborhood. “My name is Alejandria, and I was born right here in Parkwood. I want to show you that our home is not just our apartment but our whole neighborhood. Mami, Tita, Julian, Ms. Beatrice, Mr. Amir, Ms. Alicia, Duende . . . we’re like a big family, and we want to stay here. Like my Tita says, everyone should have a place to call home, no matter how much money they have. I hope you can make a law about that.” When I finished, I saw that Mami was crying and smiling at the same time.

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¡Y si alguna vez estás por el barrio, te daré la bienvenida y te mostraré todas las personas y lugares especiales que forman nuestra gran familia!

And if you’re ever in the barrio, I will welcome you and show you all the special people and places that make up our big family!

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SPRING 2021 9 SKYE PAPERS Jamika Ajalon

Twentysomething and restless, Skye flits between cities and stagnant relationships until she meets Scottie, a disarming and disheveled British trav- eler, and Pieces, an enigmatic artist living in New York. As kindred spirits—Black, punk, whimsical, revolutionary—the three fall in together, leading Skye on an unlikely adventure across the Atlan- tic. They live a glorious, subterranean existence in 1990s London until it is jeopardized by the rise of CCTV and policing.

In fluid and unrelenting prose, Jamika Ajalon’s debut novel explores youth, poetry, and what it means to come to terms with queerness. Skye Papers is an imaginative, episodic group portrait of a transatlantic art scene spearheaded by people of color—and of the fraught, dystopian reality of increasing state surveillance.

“Skye Papers is a story of becoming— JAMIKA AJALON is an author and interdisciplinary part love story, part surveillance-state artist who works with different mediums inde- dystopia—from a wholly unique and pendently, but also in multiple fusions—incorpo- necessary new voice.” rating written and spoken text, sound/music, and —PAMELA SNEED visuals. Her poems, stories, and essays have been published in various publications internationally.

Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

June 2021 • $17.95 • 978-1-952177-96-5 • 290 pages • Rights: World

10 SPRING 2021 MARGARET AND THE MYSTERY OF THE MISSING BODY Megan Milks

Meet Margaret Worms. At twelve years old, she’s the head detective of the mystery club Girls Can Solve Anything. Margaret and her three best friends are leading exciting lives solving crimes, having adventures, and laughing a lot. Fast-forward to high school. The club has disbanded, and Margaret is unmoored—she doesn’t want to grow up, and she wishes her friends wouldn’t either. Instead, she opts out, developing an eating dis- order that quickly takes over her life. When she enters a treatment center, Margaret finds her path to recovery twisting sideways as she pursues a string of mysteries involving a ghost, a hidden passage, disturbing desires, and her own vexed relationship with herself.

An interrogation of girlhood and nostalgia, dysmor- phia and dysphoria, Margaret and the Mystery of the Missing Body reimagines nineties adolescence— mashing up girl group series and choose-your-own- adventures—in a queer and trans coming-of-age tale like no other.

MEGAN MILKS is the author of Kill Marguerite and Other Stories—finalist for the Lambda Literary Award for debut fiction and forthcoming from Feminist Press in revised and expanded form—as well as Remember the Internet: Tori Amos Boot- leg Webring. Born in Virginia, they currently live in Brooklyn.

Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

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FALL 2021 11 SLUG AND OTHER STORIES Megan Milks

A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a wasp falls in love with an orchid; and hair starts sprouting from the walls. These stories slip and slide between genres—from video games to fan fiction, avant- garde theater to choose-your-own-adventure—as characters cycle through giddying changes in gen- der, physiology, species, and identity. Collapsing boundaries between bodies and forms, these fic- tions interrogate the visceral, gross, and absurd.

“This book is fucking weird,” wrote Brit Mandelo in 2015. It’s only gotten weirder since. Slug and Other Stories is a revised and expanded edition of a contemporary cult classic. Finally back in print, this collection is a testament to the messy anti- logic of queer feelings by a revelatory new voice.

MEGAN MILKS is the author of Margaret and the “A gory and gorgeous mess.” Mystery of the Missing Body and Remember the —AMBER DAWN Internet: Tori Amos Bootleg Webring. With Marisa Crawford, they are coeditor of We Are the Baby- Sitters Club: Essays and Artwork from Grown-Up Readers; with KJ Cerankowski, they are coeditor of Asexualities: Feminist and Queer Perspectives. Born in Virginia, they currently live in Brooklyn.

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12 FALL 2021 PANPOCALYPSE Carley Moore

In pandemic-era NYC, Orpheus just manages to buy a bike before they sell out across the city. She takes to the streets looking for Eurydice, the first woman she fell in love with, who broke her heart. The city is largely closed, devoid of touch, con- nection, and community. But Orpheus hears mys- terious news of an underground bar, Le​​ Monacle, fashioned after the lesbian club of the same name in 1930s Paris. Can she find it? Will she ever be allowed to love again? Follow our lonely queer, dis- abled, poly hero in a new serialized novel about disease, decay, love, and revolution.

CARLEY MOORE is the author of the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry chapbook Portal Poem, the young adult novel The Stalker Chronicles, and the fiction novel The Not Wives. Her work has appeared in the American Poetry Review, Brain- child, the Brooklyn Rail, the Journal of Popular “Panpocalypse ​is a rousing, eerily Culture, and other publications. She is a clinical enchanting, and verve-filled exploration professor of writing and contemporary culture and of love and life in the midst of brittle creative production in the Global Liberal Studies collapse and upheaval.” Program at New York University and a senior asso- —JAMIA WILSON ciate at Bard College’s Institute for Writing and Thinking. She lives in Brooklyn.

Amethyst Editions is a modern, queer imprint curated for the Feminist Press by Michelle Tea.

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FALL 2021 13 WE WERE THERE The Third World Women’s Alliance and the Second Wave Patricia Romney

From 1970 to 1980, the Third World Women’s Alliance lived the dream of third world femi- nism. The small bicoastal organization was one of the earliest groups advocating for what came to be known as intersectional activism, arguing that women of color faced a “triple jeopardy” of race, gender, and class oppression. Rooted in the Black civil rights movement, the TWAA pushed the women’s movement to address issues such as sterilization abuse, infant mortality, welfare, and wage exploitation. Their revolutionary framework focused on the effect of US foreign and military policy on women’s lives worldwide, declaring that US activists had an important role to play in “global sisterhood.”

Interweaving oral history, scholarly research, and first-person memoir, We Were There documents the essential contributions of women of color to the movement, and will inspire activists today and tomorrow, reminding a new generation that soli- darity across difference is the only way forward.

PATRICIA ROMNEY received her PhD in clinical psy- chology from the City University of New York. She taught at Hampshire College and Mount Holyoke College, and is the coeditor of Understanding Power: An Imperative for Human Services. She is based in Amherst, MA.

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14 FALL 2021 IN CASE OF EMERGENCY Mahsa Mohebali Translated by Mariam Rahmani

What do you do when the world is falling apart and you’re in withdrawal? Disillusioned, wealthy, and addicted to opium, Shadi wakes up one day to apocalyptic earthquakes and a dangerously low stash. Outside, Tehran is crumbling: yuppies flee in bumper-to-bumper traffic as skaters and pretty boys rise up to claim the city as theirs. Cross- dressed to evade hijab laws, Shadi flits between her dysfunctional family and depressed friends— all in search of her next fix.

Mahsa Mohebali’s groundbreaking novel about Iranian counterculture is a satirical portrait of the disaster that is contemporary life. Weaving together gritty vernacular and cinematic prose, In Case of Emergency takes a darkly humorous, scathing look at the authoritarian state, global capitalism, and the gender binary.

MAHSA MOHEBALI is an Iranian fiction writer. She is the author of several novels and short story collections. Her short stories have appeared in English in the Guardian as well as the anthologies Tehran Noir Alive and Kicking: Short Stories by Contemporary Iranian Women. She lives and works in Tehran.

MARIAM RAHMANI is a writer, translator, and scholar. Her fiction has appeared in Gulf Coast; her trans- lations in Columbia Journal and After Cinema: Fictions from A Collective Memory; and her non- fiction writing inBOMB magazine, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and the Rumpus.

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FALL 2021 15 BLOOD FEAST The Complete Short Stories of Malika Moustadraf Malika Moustadraf Translated by Alice Guthrie

In Blood Feast, the complete collection of short fiction by Moroccan cult feminist writer Malika Moustadraf, a woman is groped during her suffo­ cating commute; a teenage girl suffers through a dystopian rite of passage; two mothers scheme about how to ensure their daughters pass a vir- ginity test.

Through brilliantly executed twists and rich slang, Moustadraf takes an unflinching look at the female body, abuse and harassment, and double standards around desire. Blood Feast is a sharp provocation to patriarchal power, and a celebra- tion of the life and genius of one of Morocco’s preeminent­ writers.

MALIKA MOUSTADRAF (1969–2006) was an arabo- phone writer from Casablanca, Morocco. She died at just thirty-seven, leaving behind a semiauto­ biographical novel and a collection of short stories. An exacting social critic, Moustadraf was admired for her distinctive and experimental style.

ALICE GUTHRIE is a translator, editor, and event pro- ducer specializing in contemporary Arabic litera- ture and media. Her translations have appeared in a range of international publications and venues. She is curator and producer of the literary strand of Shubbak, London’s biennial festival of Arab arts and culture. She lives in Bristol.

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16 FALL 2021 AMETHYST EDITIONS Founded by Michelle Tea Amethyst Editions is an imprint founded by Michelle Tea championing emerging queer writers who complicate the conversation around LGBTQ+ experiences beyond a coming-out narrative.

“A story of migration, queerness, brokenness, and love, this book FIEBRE TROPICAL is absolute music to my ears.” —INGRID ROJAS CONTRERAS DELGADO JULIANA “ Lit by neon Miami sunsets and the hot glow of the Christian LOPERA prootedA fromNovel Bogotá, apocalypse, Fiebre Tropical is a coming-of-age tale, a coming- UColombia, into an ant-infested out tale, a migration tale we’ve never read and badly need.” Miami townhouse, fifteen-year- —MICHELLE TEA, author of Against Memoir old FranciscaJuli is miserable Delgado in her Lopera FIEBRE TROPICAL strange new city. Her alienation “ ¡Ay Dios mío! This book’s got tumbao. Juliana Delgado Lopera’s eye for grows when her mother and detail is fierce, and this novel is easy to devour.” grandmother are swept up into —JOSEPH CASSARA, author of The House of Impossible Beauties an evangelicalFinalist church—replete for the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction! “ Fiebre Tropical is a triumph, and we’re all triumphant in its presence.” with Christian salsa and baptisms —DANIEL HANDLER, author of Bottle Grove for the dead—that meets in the ballroom of their local Hyatt Hotel. “ Delgado Lopera’s riveting new book is propelled as much by its JULIANA DELGADO LOPERA is “Ebullient and assertive. . . . Francisca’s soul stinks up the hurricane-force language as by its unforgettable characters: storm- But there, Francisca also meets an award-winning Colombian tossed women making the best of their new lives in a new country.” the magnetic Carmen: head of writer and historian based in —CAROLINE PAUL, author of You Are Mighty the youth group and the pastor’s San Francisco. She is the author place beautifully in Fiebre Tropical.” daughter. As her mother’s mental of Quiéreme and the illustrated, “ A magnificent novel. Pa’ decirlo clarito: Delgado Lopera is a writer of health deteriorates, Francisca falls bilingual collection ¡Cuéntamelo! explosive talent, and this book is a fierce and radiant contribution to for Carmen and turns to Jesus to Oral Histories by LGBT Latino —NEW YORK TIMES queer literature, Latinx literature, and immigrant literature, but also to grow closer to her, even as their Immigrants, which won a 2018 literature, punto.” FIEBRE relationship hurtles toward a Lambda Literary Award and a —CAROLINA DE ROBERTIS, author of Cantoras shattering conclusion. 2018 Independent Publisher Book Award. Her work has been “ Breathless, hungry, funny, fun—the new immigrant novel in a knowing, TROPICAL NarratedUprooted in irreverent prose from Bogotá to Miami, fifteen-year-old Francisca see-all Colombian lesbian voice—this novel is much needed and alive.” nominated for a Pushcart Prize and a groundbreaking rhythmic —SARAH SCHULMAN, author of Conflict Is Not Abuse and has appeared in Eleven Eleven, Spanglish, Fiebre Tropical Foglifter, Four Way Review, Broadly, establishesis Julianamiserable Delgado in her strange new city. Her alienation grows “ Gorgeously written, tragic and hilarious by turns, Fiebre Tropical is a and Time Out, among others. She Lopera as a bold new voice in tale of the soul-saving, soul-crushing power of first love.” is the former creative director of American literature. RADAR Productions, a queer literary —ANNALEE NEWITZ, author of Autonomous when her mother is swept up into an evangelical church nonprofit in San Francisco.

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TABITHA$17.95 US / $23.99 CANAND MAGOO

MICHELLE TEA is the author of several works Tabitha and Magoo love to play dress up in for young readers, including Mermaid in their room. TabithaDRESS uses her brother’s shirtsUP TOO Chelsea Creek and the Astro Pals picture book to make superhero capes, and Magoo uses his Tabitha and Magoo Dress Up Too series. A prolific literary organizer in queer and sister’s frilly skirts to fashion gowns. They’re feminist communities, she founded RADAR disappointed to think they can’t go outside in Productions, Drag Queen Story Hour, and their new outfits,Michelle but then the gorgeous dragTea the Amethyst Editions imprint at the Feminist queen Morgana magically appears! Press. She lives in Los Angeles. With their newIllustrated friend’s help, they learn to by Ellis van der Does ELLIS VAN DER DOES is a Dutch illustrator and But on one special day while Tabitha practiced her powers defy restrictive gender roles and celebrate designer based in London. being themselves. The trio, dressed in colorful and Magoo stumbled about in Mom’s heels, high as towers, costumes and riding in a flying car, then heads they laid eyes on a visitor they’d never before seen— to the local libraryTabitha for a diverse and fun-filledand Magoo love to play dress story time. a gorgeous, ginormous, fantastic Drag Queen! up. Tabitha uses her brother’s shirts to make superhero capes, and Magoo uses his sister’s frilly skirts to fashion MICHELLE TEA gowns. With the help of the magical

Written by Michelle Tea drag queen Morgana, the siblings ISBN 978-1-936932-77-1 $17.95 US Illustrated by Ellis van der Does learn to defy restrictive gender roles

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AMETHYST EDITIONS 17 “Gritty, sexy, very queer— THE NOT WIVES up-all-night compelling.” —ANDREA LAWLOR A novel of sex-positive awakening he Not Wives traces the lives of TthreeCarley women as they navigate Moore the and burgeoning political resistance, Occupy Wall Street movement and set in Occupy-era New York City. one another. Stevie is a nontenured professor and mom in the middle of a divorce; her best friend Mel is a “ A provocative and well-told story about chosen community, friendship, bartender, torn between her long- and human frailty.” term girlfriend“A and provocative a desire to explore and well-told story about chosen community, friendship,

© AMY© TOUCHETTE —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) polyamory; and Johanna is a homeless teenagertryingtofindherwayinthe “ A terrificliterarynovelaboutwhatitmeanstobelongtoyourselfwhile world, who bears shared witness to trying to be a part of something bigger.” a tragedy thatand interlaces herhuman life with frailty.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS (starred review) —INDEPENDENT BOOK REVIEW Stevie’s. “ The Not Wives is not just for not wives—it’s for all of us struggling is the author of CARLEY MOORE with how to be human amid the ongoing clamor and bewilderment of In the midst of economic collapse and the essay collection 16 Pills, the poetry twenty-first-centurylife.” classconflict,late-nighthookupsand chapbook Portal Poem, and the young complicated exes, these characters traces the lives of three women as they navigate the —LAURA SIMS The Not Wives adult novel The Stalker Chronicles. Her piece together a new American work has appeared in the American “ Carley Moore has created a landscape of achingly authentic female lives identity of resistance—against the Poetry Review, Brainchild, the Brooklyn that we rarely see given such literary treatment. A compulsively readable loomingshadowoffinancialprecarity, Rail, the Journal of Popular Culture, and novel with deep roots in our gorgeous, messed-up world.” thegentrificationOccupyofNewYork,andthe  Wall Street movement and one another: Stevie is a non­ other publications. She is a clinical —MICHELLE TEA traditional role of wife. professor of writing and contemporary culture and creative production in “ I was in dire need of a queer, sex-positive mom in literature—and then the Global Liberal Studies Program the gift of The Not Wives showed up. I couldn’t put this extraordinary book down.” tenured professor and mom in the middle of a divorce; her best at New York University and a senior associate at Bard College’s Institute —LYNN MELNICK for Writing and Thinking. She lives in “ With seemingly effortless prose, Carley Moore paints a rich portrait of New York City. threedeeplycompellingwomennavigatingthepolaritiesandconfining friend Mel is a bartender, torn between her long-term girlfriend and norms of modern-day life.” —ETAF RUM

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AMOS MAC is a writer, artist, ROCCO KAYIATOS is a writer, and producer based in Los organizer, educator, and former ORIGINAL PLUMBING Angeles. His photography has hip hop artist (stage name been featured in publications Katastrophe). He was the head of “ Over the course of its ten-year run, the magazine Original Plumb- ndependently published from 2009 to 2019, Original including the New York Times, the video education department Interview, Vogue Italia, and OUT. at BuzzFeed and continues to ing made thousands of us queer and trans people laugh, cry, and Plumbing grew from a Bay Area zine to a nationally A love of storytelling influenced produce content in the new gasp out loud. This is how we talked with each other, inspired acclaimed print quarterly dedicated to trans men. his leap into television, where media space. He is a man of The Best of Ten Years of Trans Male Culture each other, and gave each other the strength to keep on living For ten years, the magazine was the premier resource he works across scripted and trans experience who began his outside the box. This collection is an invaluable, unapologetic documentary series. transition in 2001. I archive of a multiplicity of queer and trans experiences.” focused on their experiences and imaginations, featuring —KATE BORNSTEIN writingEdited on both playful and politicalby topics Amos like selfies, Mac and Rocco Kayiatos bathrooms, and safer sex; interviews with icons such as “ When OP burst onto the scene, it was an absolute game changer Janet Mock, Silas Howard, T Cooper, and Ian Harvie; and in trans media and representation. This collection is a beauti- visual art, photography, and short fiction. ful tribute to that treasured publication, and an authentic and Foreword by Tiq Milan moving representation of trans male culture. Essential for both In celebration of the magazine’s ten-year run, this essential longtime readers and those diving in for the first time.” collection compiles the best of all twenty issues. Selec- —JILL SOLOWAY tions are reprinted in full color, with a foreword by activist

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THE SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS The Summer of Dead Birds takes readers on a lyrical road trip winding through death, breakups, “A near mythic journey into life-stopping loss: and theAli complications Liebegott of everyday a howl, and a hymn to what’s mortal.” living. With a knack for finding —MARIE HOWE humor in grief and absurdity in

THE SUMMER OF DEAD BIRDS beauty, Ali Liebegott embraces life’s “A fierce, funny, agonized, cracked-open aria casual highs and inevitable lows, in homage to the presence and passing of exposing“A her humanityfierce, and inviting funny, agonized, cracked-open aria in homage to the fiercely loved things.” a connectivity with ourselves and —MAGGIE NELSON the people who populate our gorgeous,presence ridiculous, sometimes and passing of fiercely loved things.”—MAGGIE NELSON “Sweet and so sad and the writing’s perfect.” painful planet. —EILEEN MYLES

“A chronicle of grief & its animals—the birds our cities kill, the dogs who are our best friends, the The Summer of Dead Birds, poet Ali Liebegott’s newest novel-in- lovers we can’t keep, the strange beauty of a mother’s death, the strange translation of all of death’s old

© JEN ROSENSTEIN JEN © meanings in a time of mass extinction.” —ARIANA REINES verse, takes readers on a lyrical road trip winding through death, ALI LIEBEGOTT “Full of wry heartbreak and sweet, sad humor; ALI LIEBEGOTT is a poet, writer, righteous fury and tender grief.” breakups, and the complications of everyday living. and artist who has published three —MICHELLE TEA previous books: The Beautifully Worthless, The IHOP Papers, and “A linked sequential lyric memoir balancing Cha-Ching! She is the recipient of aphoristic ingenuity, deadpan irreverence, and two Lambda Literary Awards and the deep interior exploration of the soul.” a Ferro-Grumley Award. She has —SAM SAX written for the Emmy Award– winning TV show Transparent, and currently lives in Los Angeles. ISBN 978-1-936932-50-4 $17.95 US

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18 AMETHYST EDITIONS AGAINST MEMOIR Complaints, Confessions & Criticisms Michelle Tea Winner of the 2019 PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay!

Against Memoir is Michelle Tea’s first collection of essays, delivered with her signature candor and dark humor.

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BLACK WAVE Michelle Tea “An apocalyptic fantasia.” —NEW YORK TIMES

It’s San Francisco in 1999 and the world is ending. Drug-addled writer Michelle has alienated most of her friends and lovers with her drama and heads to LA to write a screenplay, where she endeavors to make sense of her life.

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SINCE I LAID MY BURDEN DOWN Brontez Purnell Winner of the Whiting Award for Fiction!

Home for his uncle’s funeral, DeShawn ponders family, church, and his lifelong quest for love. This raw, funny novella traces a queer Black man’s sexual and artistic awakenings as he stumbles—often painfully, some- times joyously—down memory lane.

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WE WERE WITCHES Ariel Gore “A singularly spectacular siren song.” —LIDIA YUKNAVITCH

Ariel is a teen mom, aspiring writer, and feminist witch trying to get a col- lege education in the early nineties during the first Bush administration.

Basically she’s screwed.

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AMETHYST EDITIONS 19 I HAD A MISCARRIAGE A Memoir, a Movement Jessica Zucker

“Miscarriage survivors will find affirmation and hope in this stirring account.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review)

Drawing from her expertise, personal experience, and work as the creator of the #IHadaMiscarriage campaign, Jessica Zucker’s memoir meets manifesto is a heart-wrenching, thought-provoking, and validating book about navigating the vitality of truth telling.

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GRIEVING Can writing, in fact, be something that “Grieving is a major reckoning with violence in contemporary acts against fear or terror? Mexico, and its relevance, like the causes of the crisis, extends far beyond the border. A brilliant work.” Dispatches from a Wounded Country —RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ “ A probing meditation on the violence being waged on the poor, marginalized, overlooked, and downtrodden in Mexico and the Cristina Rivera Garza borderlands. Cristina Rivera Garza dissects the misnamed drug war, the epidemic of femicides and misogyny, the capitalistic wrecking ball, the Gadarene charge of climate change, and the scourge of Translated by Sarah Booker pandemic. At once a gorgeous elegy, a clarion call to action, and a revindication of the human spirit.” —JOHN WASHINGTON, The Dispossessed Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s Award in “ Laying bare the foundations of state violence and collective trauma Criticism! while also imploring its readers to imagine the world we want to live in, Grieving is the perfect book to accompany us through these uncertain times.” —ROSA ALCALÁ, Undocumentaries

“ A bold, luminous collection from Mexico’s most impressive essayist and writer.” “A lucid, poignant collection of essays and poetry. . . . Love —LINA MERUANE, Seeing Red letters to writing itself, and to the power of language.” “ Sarah Booker’s translation recreates the urgency of Rivera Garza’s prose with exceptional vitality.” —IDRA NOVEY, Those Who Knew —NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

In this acclaimed collection of short crónicas, journalism,

ISBN 978-1-936932-93-1 $16.95 US THE FEMINIST PRESS and personal essays on systemic violence in contemporary AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Mexico, Cristina Rivera Garza posits that collective grief is an act of resistance and that writing is a powerful mode of seeking social justice.

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20 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS APSARA ENGINE Bishakh Som Longlisted for the LA Times Book Prize! Nominated for the Lambda Literary Award in LGBTQ Comics!

“Evading standard categories and unsettling familiar narrative patterns, the book is a testament to how trans experiences can teach us entirely new ways of imagining our humanity.” —NPR.org

By turns fantastical and familiar, this graphic short story collection is immersed in questions of gender, the body, and existential conformity.

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WE TOO Essays on Sex Work and Survival Edited by Natalie West, with Tina Horn Foreword by Selena the Stripper

“This book and its fierce creators are ready to change the world.” —BOOKLIST (starred review)

This collection of narrative essays by sex workers presents a crystal-clear rejoinder: there’s never been a better time to fight for justice. Responding to the resurgence of the #MeToo movement in 2017, sex workers from across the industry complicate narratives of sexual harassment and violence, and expand conversations often limited to nor- mative workplaces.

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 21 CELEBRATE PEOPLE’S HISTORY The Poster Book of Resistance and Revolution (Second Edition) Edited by Josh MacPhee Forewords by Charlene Carruthers and Rebecca Solnit

“The images inside of this book weaken the stronghold that gatekeepers to history hold over our lives.” —CHARLENE CARRUTHERS

Spanning nearly three thousand years of history—from the ancient Secession of the Plebs to the 2017 protests of the Confederate Soldiers Monument in Durham, from Sojourner Truth to Naoto Matsumura—these posters pay tribute to the long-standing human legacy of revolution, creative activism, and grassroots organizing.

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PARENTING FOR LIBERATION TRINA GREENE BROWN PARENTING FOR LIBERATION peaking directly to parents S raising Black children in a worldA of police Guide brutality, racialized for Raising Black Children violence, and disenfranchisement, Parenting for Liberation A guide for guardians combines powerfulTrina storytelling withGreene Brown of Black children, practical exercises, encouraging including firsthand accounts, readers to imagine parenting methods rooted in liberation practical guidance, and rather than fear. exercises for empowered This guide fills a critical gap in and liberated currently“Anyone available resources forcurious about how to walk with a child through parenting methods. parenting. Pairing personal stories from the Parenting for Liberation TRINA GREENE BROWN is the podcast tumultuouswith open-ended prompts times needs to read this book now.” creator of Parenting for Liberation, a virtual platform launched in 2016 designed to inspire reflection featuring blogs and podcasts that and creativity, this book provides aim to connect, inspire, and uplift insight for those seeking to —DANI McCLAIN Black parents. An activist and mother dismantle harmful narratives of two, she is also a member of the “Trina Greene Brown’s Parenting for Liberation allows all of us to raise Black children about Black families, initiate Resonance Network and the Move to to be their most liberated selves, and ultimately helps us be more free too.” End Violence. With an ethos rooted difficult conversations on social in community and collaboration, —MIA BIRDSONG, author of How We Show Up: issues with their children, and find Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community she cultivates cross-organizational communitySpeaking with other parents directly to parents raising Black children in a partnerships aimed at building an who share their struggle. inclusive gender and racial justice “As a ‘ woke ’ Black mom, I’ve been on a never-ending quest to find a book movement. She was recently named that would enable me to shift my parenting lens from one based on trauma to the 2017 Black Feminist Rising by world of racialized violence, this guidebook combines Black Women’s Blueprint and an one of freedom and joy. Trina Greene Brown has written that book!” Inspirational Parent in 2018 by —A. ROCHAUN MEADOWS-FERNANDEZ, CADRE. Brown has contributed to writer for “On Parenting,” Washington Post “On Parenting” for the Washington powerful storytelling with practical exercises, encouraging Post, as well as two anthologies on the intersection of motherhood and activism. ISBN 978-1-936932-84-9 $19.95 US readers to imagine methods of parenting rooted in libera- THE FEMINIST PRESS AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK Author photograph by Jayia Kim FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Cover art and photograph collage by Amir Khadar tion rather than fear.

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22 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS THE NATIVE TONGUE TRILOGY SUZETTE HADEN A CLASSIC OF ELGIN Suzette Haden Elgin FEMINIST DYSTOPIA With new forewords by Leni Zumas, REISSUED FOR A NEW GENERATION Rebecca Romney, and Karen Lord OF READERS

“Published in 1984, Native Tongue got it right. In the power and precision of language, women can begin to change the world.” —MAGGIE SHEN KING, author of An Excess Male “A classic text of angry feminism and an exemplary n 2205, the Nineteenth Amendment has been repealed and I men hold absolute power. The Earth’s economy relies on an experiment in speculative fiction.” insular group of linguists who “breed” women to become inter­ stellar translators until they are sent to the Barren House to await death. But instead, these women are secretly creating a lan­ guage of their own, Láadan, to reclaim their autonomy and —URSULA K. LE GUIN make resistance possible for all. The first in this acclaimed science fiction trilogy, and with a new foreword by author Leni Zumas, Native Tongue remains a testament to the power of language and collective action to reenvision an oppressive world. Originally published in 1984, a year before The Hand-

FOREWORD BY LENI ZUMAS maid’s Tale, this dystopian trilogy is a testament to the power of language and women’s collective action. ISBN 978-1-936932-62-7 $17.95 US “A classic text of angry feminism and an exemplary experiment in speculative fiction.” URSULA— K. LE GUIN

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MARS Stories Asja Bakic´ MARS Translated by Jennifer Zoble

“These are sly, uncommon stories—a rare mix of the witty and the visceral, with no small hint of the decadent and transgressive. Asja Bakic´ is a major talent.” —JEFF VANDERMEER

Mars showcases a series of twisted universes where every Stories by Asja Bakić Translated by Jennifer Zoble character is tasked with making sense of their strange real- ity. One woman will be freed from purgatory once she writes the perfect book; another abides in a world devoid of phys- ical contact.

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WINNER The Louise Meriwether First Book Prize —ALICIA GARZA Rights: World x Brazil x Spain x Turkey x UK x Turkey Rights: World x Brazil x Spain • 128 pages • When you’re Black and female in America, society’s rules were never society’s When you’re Black and female in America, relatable yet unexpected meant to make you safe or free. Camille Acker’s characters break down the walls of respectability politics, showing that the only way for Black women to be free is to be themselves. TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS Camille Acker Over 7,000 copies sold! Over 9,000 copies sold! art in times of politi A candid and encouraging guidebook about creating cal upheaval, censorship, and oppression. YOUR ART WILL SAVE YOUR LIFE YOUR YOUR ART WILL SAVE Beth Pickens A Memoir Melissa Valentine gorgeous memoir.” “A poignant, painful, and debut is an inti a life lost, Melissa Valentine’s A lyrical recounting of an pipeline and school-to-prison by the fractured a family of portrait mate enduring love letter to an adored older brother. THE NAMES OF ALL THE FLOWERS THE NAMES OF ALL THE YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO REMAIN FAT TO REMAIN THE RIGHT YOU HAVE Tovar Virgie copies sold! Over 9,000 for a fat calling positivity—it’s isn’t about body manifesto Virgie Tovar’s revolution. Rights: World • Rights: pages $17.95 • 978-1-936932-37-5 • 232 Rights: World pages • Rights: $14.95 • 978-1-936932-29-0 • 136 Rights: World pages • Rights: $17.95 • 978-1-936932-85-6 • 320 978-1-936932-31-3 • —THE MILLIONS $14.95 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS “A timely, welcome book.” book.” welcome timely, “A 24

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NEGRO GIRLS Camille Acker

ISBN 978-1-936932-37-5 US $17.95

is a symphony of story: is a symphony —BUST —NYLON —BRIDGETT M. DAVIS —VERONICA CHAMBERS the short fiction genre.” the short fiction genre.” “With vivid portrayals, prose, fresh of race and history and gender. Marvelous.” Marvelous.” history and of gender. race and “This flawlessly executed work reinvigorates reinvigorates work executed “This flawlessly shining partshining of ocean the of human experience.” and real attitude, we see Washington, DC, anew, DC, anew, see we attitude, Washington, real and “Acker perfectly varied the experiences captures “Acker hen you’re black and female in America, female black and society’s you’re hen free. or safe make you to meant never rules were A WELL-READ BLACK GIRL CLUB PICK BOOK as a backdrop for black girls coming into their own.” black their own.” girls into for coming as a backdrop Training School for Negro Girls of her characters, makingof clear characters, her each of that lives [their] is worth exploring individually, and valued as being valued one and is worth exploring individually, “ be against the constraints of weights the counterweights and be against constraints the Camille Acker’s relatable yet unexpected characters break break unexpected yet characters relatable Camille Acker’s ofdown respectability walls the politics, the showing that be themselves. is to be free to black women for only way W the clear, true of girls shaping they who might voices women and clear, the “ A celebration of identity, queer love, messy families, and the ferocity of want. I love this book’s expansive A WORLD BETWEEN heart, nuance, and radiant joy.” hashimoto —T KIRA MADDEN

“Smart, honest, compassionate, emily Emily Hashimoto and tender, A World Between is a novel of love and liberation.”

—LISA KO A WORLD BETWEEN “A sweet and funny take on love and growing up: imagine a classic rom-com, if the lead actors were two queer Asian women.” —ROWAN HISAYO BUCHANAN In 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an “A generational breakthrough.” —SARAH SCHULMAN elevator and fall into a whirlwind romance. A World Between chronicles n 2004 college students Eleanor Suzuki and Leena Shah meet in an elevator. On the brink I of adulthood, both full of possibility and big ideas, they fall into a whirlwind romance. Years later, Eleanor and Leena collide on the streets of the next thirteen years in Eleanor’s and Leena’s lives, following these two San Francisco, and the two find themselves irre - sistibly pulled back together. A World Between follows two women as they navigate family, female friendship, and their own young immigrant women as they navigate family, female friendship, and fraught history—unfolding into a new kind of love story for a millennial, immigrant America. their own fraught history.

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LOVE WAR STORIES Ivelisse Rodriguez Finalist for the 2019 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction!

This poignant, street-smart collection follows idealistic teenagers and weary mothers battling over what it means to be a Puerto Rican woman in love.

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THE COSMOPOLITANS

“Vivid and moving. Novels about the past that can celebrate it with intelligence rather than nostalgia are rare and are themselves to be celebrated.” —SAMUEL R. DELANY, author of Sarah Schulman Through the Valley of the Nest of Spiders

“A deep, smart, and satisfying novel.” —RABIH ALAMEDDINE, author of An Unnecessary Woman

“This novel is book club gold—weighty dilemmas, unforgettable characters, and a roller-coaster plot!” A gay Black man and a straight white woman build an intimate friend- —TAYARI JONES, author of Silver Sparrow

“The psychological insights Schulman shares with artful simplicity will shatter your heart. A masterpiece.” —MICHELLE TEA, author of How to Grow Up ship as outsiders in 1950s Greenwich Village. Based on Balzac’s Cousin

SARAH SCHULMAN Bette, the novel portrays the corrosive influence of oppressive systems on reenwich Village, 1958. Earl, a black, gay actor, and Bette, a white secretary, have been neighbors for thirty years, forming a deep bond as refugees from small-minded hometowns. But when Hortense, a wealthy young actress with links to Bette’s painful past, shows individual lives and relationships. It explores the pain of family shunning, up, Earl and Bette’s hard-won assumptions are shaken to the core. The Cosmopolitans is a beautifully written, page-turning novel about friendship, Glove, and revenge set in the disappeared world of 1950s New York. representations of people of color, and class dynamics. ISBN 978-155861-904-3 $15.95 US a novel by SARAH SCHULMAN

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THE LIVING IS EASY

A cult classic by one of DOROTHY Dorothy West the Harlem Renaissance’s WEST youngest members.

The Living Is Easy With a new foreword by Morgan Jerkins he Living Is Easy, Dorothy West’s first novel and one of only a handful to be published by Black T women in the forties, tells the story of Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, who is obsessively determined to integrate herself and her daughter, Judy, into Boston’s Black elite. Married to the “Black Banana Dorothy West’s first novel and one of only a handful to be published King” Bart Judson, Cleo meanwhile maneuvers her three sisters and their children—but not their husbands—into living with her, attempting to re-create her original family in a newly rented ten-room mansion. Witty, satirical, and razor-sharp in its depiction of race by Black women during the 1940s, The Living Is Easy is the powerful, and class in early twentieth-century Boston, this “pow- erful work” (Essence) features a new foreword by author Morgan Jerkins. fiercely satirical story of Cleo Judson, daughter of Southern sharecroppers, THE who is determined to integrate into Boston’s Black elite. ISBN 978-1-936932-97-9 $19.95 US Living IS THE FEMINIST PRESS A Novel AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG Easy WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY MORGAN JERKINS

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 25 THE ECHOING IDA COLLECTION Edited by Cynthia R. Greenlee, Kemi Alabi, and Janna Zinzi Foreword by Michelle Duster

Echoing Ida is a writing collective of Black women and nonbinary writers who—like their foremother Ida B. Wells-Barnett—believe the “way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” This anthology gathers the Echoing Ida collective’s writing for the first time, tackling topics such as reproductive justice, state violence, motherhood, and more.

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THE FEMINIST PORN BOOK The Politics of Producing Pleasure Edited by Tristan Taormino, Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Constance Penley, and Mireille Miller-Young

This book addresses the fraught history of pornography and the rise of the antiporn movement, and identifies the importance of porn made for and by feminists.

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THE CRUNK FEMINIST COLLECTION Edited by Brittney C. Cooper, Susana M. Morris, and Robin M. Boylorn

Unapologetic and necessary, this collection of pop culture criticism takes on beauty parlor politics, prison abolition, and Rihanna. The Crunk Fem- inist Collective’s blog, with an annual readership of nearly one million, fosters dialogue for critical homegirls stuck between loving hip hop and “ratchet culture” while hating patriarchy and sexism.

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“HIGH VOLTAGE—FULL OF YOUTH, DETERMINATION, AND POWER.”—EMILY BAZELON THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT Fifty-Seven Visions of a Wildly Better Future Edited by Alexandra Brodsky and Rachel Kauder Nalebuff

THE FEMINIST UTOPIA PROJECT Cutting-edge voices including Melissa Harris-Perry, Janet Mock, and FIFTY-SEVEN VISIONS OF A WILDLY BETTER FUTURE Sheila Heti invite us to imagine the world we want. Featuring essays, speculative fiction, interviews, and art,The Feminist Utopia Project chal- lenges the status quo, describes affirmative visions, and exhorts us to demand a radically better future.

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26 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES HOW Juniper Fitzgerald HOW MAMAS LOVE THEIR BABIES MAMAS Illustrated by Elise Peterson LOVE Illustrating the myriad ways that mothers provide for their THEIR children, this picture book is the first to depict a sex-worker BABIES parent. It provides an expanded notion of working mothers WRITTEN BY ILLUSTRATED BY Juniper Fitzgerald Elise Peterson and challenges the idea that only some jobs result in good ISBN 978-193693-200-9 $16.95

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HIS OWN WHERE June Jordan Introduction by Sapphire

First published in 1971, His Own Where gained both praise and notori- ety for being written entirely in Black Vernacular English. Fifteen-year-old Buddy meets Angela, whose family life is also spinning out of control. The two find a home in one another, learning to love while navigating Brooklyn and adolescence.

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“I’m a big Cristy C. Road fan. Spit and Passion is SPIT AND PASSION a graphic delight, and the depiction of Cristy C. r oad awkward youth is spot-on, weird, and familiar. -- Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home

“Cristy C. Road is the Jack Kerouac of the young queer generation. Cristy C. Road She’s as brilliant a writer as she is an illustrator.” —-- kate bornstein, author of A Queer and Pleasant Danger t its core, Spit and Passion is about the transformative moment when music crashes into a stifling adolescent bedroom and saves you. Sud- A denly, you belong. In this punk graphic memoir, twelve-year-old Cristy is struggling to At twelve years old, Cristy C. Road is trying to balance the values of a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer identity, and begins a chronic obses- sion with the punk band Green Day. In this stunning graphic memoir, Road renders the clash between her rich inner world of fantasy and the numbing sub- urban conformity she is surrounded by. She finds solace in the closet—where balance tradition in a Cuban Catholic family with her newfound queer she lets her deep excitement about punk rock foment and, in that angst and euphoria, finds a path to self-acceptance.

Cristy C. road has reached cult status for work identity, and begins a chronic obsession with the punk band Green Day. that captures the beauty of the imperfect. Her career began with Greenzine, a punk rock zine, which she made for ten years. She has since published Indestruc- tible, an illustrated novel about high school; Distance Makes the Heart Grow Sick, a postcard book; and Bad Habits, a love story about self-destruction and healing. She has also illustrated countless album covers, book jackets, and political organization propaganda. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. P H oto: l IS ette CARR e RA graphic novel $15.95 US

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PHELPS FEMINIST FOLKTALES SERIES KAMALA FEMINIST FOLKTALES FROM AROUND THE WORLD Edited by Ethel Johnston Phelps ETHEL JOHNSTON PHELPS KAMALA Introduction by KATE SCHATZ | With illustrations by SUKI BOYNTON Illustrated by Suki Boynton What might we dream of after reading these tales? In Kamala, the second volume in Introductions by Gayle Forman, Kate Schatz, Daniel José Older, the Feminist Folktales series, stories from countries such as India, Peru, China, and Ireland follow clever, outspoken heroines—demonstrating how the courage and power of women and Renée Watson hold our world together.

“Who stole these fierce, bawdy stories from the mouths of mothers and transformed the strong girls into damsels in distress? Who cast Bringing readers tales from China, Sudan, Norway, Peru, and beyond, this the spell . . . and how do we break it? With books like this, obviously!” —Kate Schatz, Rad American Women A–Z VOL. II best-selling four-volume series reminds us that girls and women every- isbn 978-155861-940-1 $14.95 Us where have been the heroes of their own stories for centuries.

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 27 3 PT BLEED ONTO FRONT AND BACK COVERS IS INTENTIONAL

ZORA NEALE HURSTON ZORA NEALE HURSTON A FEMINIST PRESS CLASSIC, (1891–1960) was a novelist, REISSUEDI FORTYLOVE YEARS LATER. MYSELF WHEN I AM LAUGHING . . . folklorist, and anthropologist. She was the author of several books ... And Then Again When I Am “One of the greatest writers including Jonah’s Gourd Vine, of our time.” Their Eyes Were Watching God, Looking Mean and Impressive —TONI MORRISON Mules and Men, and Dust Tracks When I Am Laughing ... A Zora Neale Hurston Reader on a Road, as well as over fifty short stories, essays, and plays. uring her lifetime, Zora Neale She attended Howard University, D Hurston was praised for her Barnard College, and Columbia writing but condemned for her University. She was born on independenceEdited and audacity. She by Alice Walker January 7, 1891, in Notasulga, was one of the great writers of the

Alabama, and grew up in Eatonville, . . . I Love Myself When Am Laughing Harlem Renaissance, yet after her Florida. She died in Fort Pierce, in death much of her work fell out of 1960. In 1973 Alice Walker had a print and her literary legacy was headstone placed at her gravesite definedIntroduction by men more concerned by Mary Helen Washington with this epitaph: “Zora Neale with her behavior than with her Hurston: A Genius of the South.” merit. But, in the 1970s, Alice Walker lifted Hurston’s work from obscurity when she discovered her ALICE WALKER is the author unmarked grave and anthologized of multiple novels, short stories, her writing in this collection of children’s books, essays, and folklore, essays, and fiction. poetry collections, including 2018’s In the 1970s Alice Walker rediscovered Zora Neale Hurston’s unmarked Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart. The first-ever Zora Neale She is the winner of the Pulitzer Hurston reader, I Love Myself . . . Prize and the National Book Award established Hurston as an for The Color Purple, and her work intellectual leader for future has been translated into numerous generations of writers, and languages worldwide. grave and anthologized her writing in this enduring collection. ensured the continuation of her legacy as an American artist and icon. A testament to the power and breadth of Hurston’s oeuvre, the newest edition of this enduring text remains as vital as ever for readers today. ISBN 978-1-936932-73-3 $19.95 US

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But Some of Us Are Brave ALL THE WOMEN ARE WHITE, ALL THE BLACKS ARE MEN, “ Exciting! Affirmations and the beginning of a new era, where All the Women Are White, the ‘women’ in women’s studies will no longer mean ‘white.’” All the Blacks Are Men, —AudrE LordE “ ‘Necessary bread’ for women of all colors. The essays contain BUT SOME OF US ARE BRAVE not only fact and durable resources but some of the best But Some of Us writing I’ve seen around.” —AdrIENNE rIch Are Brave Black Women’s Studies Black Women’s Studies (Second Edition) Edited by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott, and Barbara Smith Afterword by Brittney C. Cooper & Barbara Smith Patricia Bell-Scott Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Edited by AkAshA (GLorIA T.) huLL, BArBArA smITh,

ANd PATrIcIA BELL-scoTT s arah Putnam © 1981

Originally published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave is the first com- “ It’s back! In college, Brave allowed me to see myself in 2nd feminism. This new edition brings this essential and still edition powerfully relevant book to a new generation.”

—VEroNIcA chAmBErs prehensive collection of Black feminist scholarship.

isbn 978-155861-898-5 $24.95 Us Edited by Akasha (Gloria T.) Hull, Patricia Bell-Scott & Barbara Smith New Afterword by Brittney Cooper

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WOMEN WHO KILL Ann Jones

“Stunning, revealing, provoking.” —VOGUE

From Lizzie Borden to Jean Harris to Aileen Wuornos, this legendary bestseller and riveting investigation will change the ways you think about crime and punishment.

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COMPLAINTS & DISORDERS The Sexual Politics of Sickness (Second Edition) Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English Introduction by Susan Faludi

This concise history of the sexual politics of medical practices shows how biomedical rationale was used to justify discrimination, and how its ves- tiges are evident in abortion policy and other reproductive rights struggles today.

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28 BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS FAULT LINES fault lines A Memoir An acclaimed Indian poet explores writing, memory, and place in this classic postcolonial memoir. Meena Alexander “ Meena Alexander’s writing is imbued with a poetic grace shot through with an inner violence, like a shimmering piece of two-toned silk.” —MS. magazine With a new afterword by Gaiutra Bahadur “Evocative and moving.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY a memoir “ In Fault Lines, Meena Alexander tells us—and herself—that ‘we need a speech that acknowledges rage.’ Now more than ever, we need her voice.” —VIDHU AGGARWAL, author of The Trouble with Humpadori Meena Alexander explores how trauma and recovery shaped the entire “ One of the most important literary voices in South Asian American writing and American letters broadly writ, Meena Alexander is a writer who sews her dislocations together into a place where all are welcome, held by her elegant, lyrical prose.” —RAJIV MOHABIR, author of The Cowherd’s Son landscape of her memory, across continents and cultures. This new edi- “ Meena Alexander’s acute poetic sensibility makes this memoir a joy to read.” —BAPSI SIDHWA, author of Cracking India tion, published on the two-year anniversary of Alexander’s passing in

ISBN 978-1-936932-99-3 $18.95 US meena alexander THE FEMINIST PRESS Preface by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o 2018, features a commemorative afterword. AT THE CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK FEMINISTPRESS.ORG With a new afterword by Gaiutra Bahadur

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VALERIE SOLANAS The Defiant Life of the Woman Who Wrote SCUM (and Shot Andy Warhol) Breanne Fahs

Shockingly little work has interrogated Solanas’s life. This book is the first biography about Solanas, including original interviews with family, details about her writing and copyright, and her elusive personal and professional relationships.

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TESTO JUNKIE “Testo Junkie is a wild ride. Preciado leaves the identity politics of taking T to others, and instead, in the tradition of William S. Burroughs, TESTO JUNKIE

Kathy Acker, and Jean Genet, he conducts a wild textual experiment. PAUL B. PRECIADO The results are spectacular. . . . The gendered body will never be the same again.” —JACK HALBERSTAM, author of THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era “ Preciado’s brilliant book oscillates between high theory and the surging rush of testosterone. Flush with elegant theoretical formulations, lascivious sex narratives, and astute histories of gender, Testo Junkie is a key text to comprehend the deep interconnectedness of sex and drugs today.” Paul B. Preciado —JOSÉ ESTEBAN MUÑOZ, author of CRUISING UTOPIA hat constitutes a “real” man or woman in the twenty-first century? WSince birth control pills, erectile dysfunction remedies, and factory- made testosterone and estrogen were developed, biology is definitely no Translated by Bruce Benderson longer destiny. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Paul B. Preciado shows the ways in which the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceutical and pornography industries are in the business of creating desire. This riveting continuation of Michel Foucault’s The History of Sexuality also includes Preciado’s diaristic account of using testosterone every day for one year, and its mesmerizing impact on the body as well as the imagination. In this penetrating analysis of gender, Preciado shows the ways in which

PAUL B. PRECIADO is one of the leading thinkers in the study of gender and sexuality. He is the author of Manifiesto contrasexual and Pornotopia: Architec- ture and Sexuality in Playboy During the Cold War, which has been named a finalist for the Anagrama the synthesis of hormones since the 1950s has fundamentally changed Essay Prize. He teaches at Université Paris VIII and is the director of the Independent Studies Program at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art.

ISBN 978-155861-837-4 $22.95 US “Inventive, daring, and blindingly lucid, Paul B. Preciado how gender and sexual identity are formulated, and how the pharmaceu- opens a new branch of philosophical practice.” —AVITAL RONELL, author of CRACK WARS tical and pornographic industries are in the business of creating desire.

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AMONG THE WHITE MOON FACES An Asian-American Memoir of Homelands Shirley Geok-lin Lim Feminist Press Lifetime Achievement Award Winner!

Shirley Geok-lin Lim’s memoir is a courageously frank and deeply affect- ing account of a Malaysian girlhood and of the making of an Asian Amer- ican woman, writer, and teacher.

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BACKLIST HIGHLIGHTS 29 COCKFIGHT “Offering a glaring view of the impact of “Ampuero’s literary voice is tough and beautiful at once: misogynistic violence and oppression, this will her stories are exquisite and dangerous objects.” appeal to fans of unrepentant feminist fiction.” —YURI HERRERA —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY María Fernanda Ampuero

“Brutal! Very intense.” —MARIANA ENRÍQUEZ, author of Things We Lost in the Fire Translated by Frances Riddle “Ampuero is a writer of great power that the entire Americas will have to deal with for decades to come.” —ERNESTO QUIÑONEZ, author of Bodega Dreams Thirteen stories explore domestic horrors and everyday violence, providing n lucid and compelling prose, Ecuadorian writer María Fernanda Ampuero sheds light on the grotesque real- Iities of the home—family, coming-of-age, religion, and an intimate and unflinching portrait of twenty-first-century Latin America. class struggle. A family’s maids witness a horrible cycle of abuse, a girl is auctioned off by a gang of criminals, and two sisters find themselves at the mercy of their spiteful brother. With violence masquerading as love, the characters in these stories spend their lives trapped reenacting their past traumas. Named one of the ten best fiction books of 2018 by the New York Times en Español, Cockfight explores the power of the home to both create and destroy those within it. translated by Frances Riddle

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“An intelligent, beautiful story about bodies, disguised as a THE ILIAC CREST story about language, disguised as a story about night terrors.” —YURI HERRERA “ Rivera Garza’s novel succeeds as a suspenseful psy- chological horror story in the vein of a David Lynch film or Ingmar Bergman’sPersona , as a dissolver of

THE CREST ILIAC Cristina Rivera Garza the space between genders, and as a challenge to the the iliac crest cultural erasure of the real-life Dávila. The result is mind-bending.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (starred review) Translated by Sarah Booker n a dark and stormy night, an unnamed narrator is visited by two women—one a former lover, Cristina Rivera Garza Othe other a stranger—who ruthlessly harass him and claim to know his greatest secret. In increasingly des- perate attempts to defend himself, he spirals deeper into a haunted past of disappearance and memory. Published for the first time in English, this Gothic novel destabilizes male- “ Like the ocean itself, Rivera Garza writes a world where borders shift and dissolve. In the curves of the fantastic, the highest realism is born. This world is weird. This world is so deeply true. Reader, I love this female binaries and subverts literary tropes. wholly perfect book.” —SAMANTHA HUNT, The Dark Dark Cristina

“ A willfully queer piece where the workings of Rivera Rivera Garza Garza’s wild imagination destabilize everything.” —LINA MERUANE, Seeing Red Translated by Sarah Booker

ISBN 978-155861-435-2 $16.95 US Afterword by Elena Poniatowska

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ARID DREAMS Duanwad Pimwana Translated by Mui Poopoksakul

In thirteen stories that investigate ordinary and working-class Thailand, this collection explores class, gender, and disenchantment in a changing country.

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“A magnificent gem.” — j e n n i f e r c r o f t THE LIVING DAYS Ananda Devi Translated by Jeffrey Zuckerman “ Beautifully written, visceral, and ecstatic. Unafraid, as angels might be, to bear witness to the force of entropy pulling us all toward death.” —PRETI TANEJA, author of We That Are Young chance encounter on Portobello Road incites an A unsettling, magnetic attraction between Mary, a Winner of a 2019 French Voices Award! seventy-five-year-old white British spinster, and Cub, a thirteen-year-old Jamaican boy from Brixton. As dementia overtakes her reality, Mary clings to phan- toms, latching on to Cub and channeling her remain- ing energy into their relationship. But their macabre romance comes to a horrific climax as white suprem- acy, desperation, and class conflict explode on the streets of London. This novel of post-9/11 London is a masterful dissection of racism, aging, The Living Days encapsulates Ananda Devi’s daring, unflinching talent and paints an unforgettable portrait of an increasingly nationalistic metropolis. and the perturbing nature of desire.

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