Beacon Press

What exactly is Blackness and what does it mean to be Black? Is Blackness a matter of biology or consciousness? Who…

As more and more people are becoming aware of the inhumane conditions of factory farming, this book offers a solution…

Combining no-holds-barred social critique, humorous personal anecdotes, and analysis of the latest interdisciplinary…

What is a weed, really? Nancy Gift defines it as a "plant out of place" and makes an argument for creating places for…

A personal walk through the history of transness around the world, from precolonial times to the present. Learn about…

Modern allopathic medicine likes to think of itself as having sprung straight from the robotic, sterile loins of…

A relationship guide for interabled couples, where one is able-bodied and the other has a physical disability. The…

A beautiful, thrilling, resonant letter from a Black parent to her children on what it means to be raising them in a…

Dana, a young, Black writer, is repeatedly sent back in time from her late 20th Century cosmopolitan life in Los Angeles…

In an age of Black Lives Matter, James Baldwin's essays on life in Harlem, the protest novel, movies, and African…

"When Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, farmworker organizers in California immediately understood…

Since the early 2000s, the alt-right movement has been promoting its racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic,…

Each chapter in this adapted history focuses on the life of a queer US American, from the 1500s to today. From Walt…

Being raised by Deaf parents gave Lennard Davis a close-up look at the discrimination faced by folks with disabilities…

Gain insight to the realities of globalization from the perspective of low-wage workers who have sparked a new labor…

This is a hell of a life story. The front of the book describes it pretty well: "The true story of a nice Jewish boy who…

What does it take to write an honest memoir? And what happens to us when we embark on that journey? Would she manage…