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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 20h

UNC College of Arts and Sciences did a great profile about @beaconpress.bsky.social author @sgriest.bsky.social and her latest book ART ABOVE EVERYTHING. Learn more about this "art monk" and her quest to find community below!

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Finding her (artistic) congregation - College of Arts and Sciences

Globe-trotting author Stephanie Elizondo Griest journeyed to 12 countries to interview 70 women artists about the trials and triumphs of pursuing art above everything else.

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 3d

2 years ago today the October 7th attack on Israel occurred and the ensuing war on Gaza began. @lithub.com.web.brid.gy excerpted "Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine" from ISRAEL ON THE BRINK by @beaconpress.bsky.social author Ilan Pappé to mark the moment.

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Imagining a Liberated Future for Palestine

A proper imagining of liberation cannot rest content with describing the end game: the day of liberation itself and the hard work the day after. This is only the starting point. No less important i…

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 10d

As @beaconpress.bsky.social author @terencekeel.bsky.social opines in the @latimes.com, the push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail instead endangers more people. Check out his great piece below.

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Contributor: The push to hold more nonviolent suspects in jail threatens public safety

Safety includes more than the free. It includes those of us who are incarcerated. Holding people needlessly costs lives.

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · 21d

@sfdirewolf.bsky.social shared a nice book write up for Margeaux Feldman's TOUCH ME, I'M SICK, out now from @beaconpress.bsky.social. She's also doing a giveaway & 7 winners will receive copies, so check out her newsletter & sign up to win!

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Touch Me, I’m Sick!

Hello everyone! It’s been a long time since you heard from me. I’ve been working on my next anthology, Disability Vulnerability, and enjoy summer after a harrowing 9 weeks of bed rest. I’m delighted t...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Sep 3

Big congratulations to @paulpeartsmith.bsky.social and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz for their win at the Massachusetts Center for the Book Awards! @beaconpress.bsky.social is so proud to publish both the vital original work and this fantastic adaptation.

gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 29

A great and powerful piece by author Sara Moslener in ‪@religiondispatches.org‬. Her latest book AFTER PURITY will be released in December by @beaconpress.bsky.social.

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I Will Always Be Afraid of James Dobson

Focus on the Family founder Dr. James C. Dobson died last week, and there was much rejoicing—particularly among people whose families of origin subscribed to Dobson’s punitively patriarchal and rigidl...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 27

@talkingpointsmemo.com posted a great excerpt from @beaconpress.bsky.social author Margaret Grace Myers' FIGHT FOR SEX ED this week. Definitely give it a read!

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How the Christian Right Hijacked the Fight for Sex Ed in America’s Public Schools

Formal school-based sex ed in the United States was born of the...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 21

@borderlessmag.bsky.social shared an in depth excerpt from @anterobot.bsky.social and Alix Dick's THE COST OF BEING UNDOCUMENTED, in which Alix discusses her past and how she came to be in the US. A powerful read. @beaconpress.bsky.social

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The Cost of Being Undocumented: One Woman's Reckoning with America's Inhumane Math – Borderless Magazine NFP

Alix Dick and Antero Garcia tally the structural costs of undocumented life in an excerpt from their new book

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 20

Aviva Chomsky's UNDOCUMENTED: HOW IMMIGRATION BECAME ILLEGAL got a shout out on Hasan Minhaj's podcast earlier this week. It's so great that backlist @beaconpress.bsky.social titles are still sparking conversation.

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 15

@beaconpress.bsky.social author Heidi Boghosian did a great interview with @projectcensored.bsky.social discussing digital literacy in an age of connectivity and her book CYBER CITIZENS: SAVING DEMOCRACY WITH DIGITAL LITERACY.

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Being Good Cyber Citizens in the Digital Age, with Heidi Boghosian

YouTube video by ProjectCensored

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 13

‪@literaryhub.bsky.social ran a terrific excerpt from THE FIGHT FOR SEX ED by Margaret Grace Myers, examining how the AIDS epidemic laid the foundations for sex education in the US. The book is on sale now from @beaconpress.bsky.social.

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How the AIDS Epidemic Led to the Creation of Sex Ed in America

The Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA), nicknamed the “chastity bill,” was a federal law that provided funding for teen pregnancy prevention under Ronald Reagan’s Omnibus Budget Re…

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 5

It was very meaningful to be interviewed by @bklynlibrary.bsky.social alongside Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz to discuss Howard Zinn's radical take on history. @beaconpress.bsky.social is proud to publish our REVISIONING HISTORY series titles in that same vein. www.bklynlibrary.org/podcasts/leg...

The Legacy of Howard Zinn's Radical History | Brooklyn Public Library

Don Dumas Without Zinn, I don't know what I would be doing right now.Adwoa Adusei This is Don Dumas. He lives in San Diego, California – and when he first came across Howard Zinn’s A People's History ...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Aug 5

Happy #BookBirthday VIKTOR E. FRANKL AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING! Pam Roy and Moira Hummel's guided journaling companion introduces Frankl's message to readers in a whole new way and @beaconpress.bsky.social is so proud to have played a part.

gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 28

Gloria Browne-Marshall sat down with Ali Velshi to talk about protest and why "we have to make protest an investment into generations and people we don’t know." Great shot of her PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US cover too!

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Protest is an investment: ‘The power of unity is what we need to see right now’

"Throughout American history, people have persisted," says syndicated radio host and author Thom Hartmann. Gloria Browne-Marshall, law professor and author of ‘A Protest History of the United States’ ...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 23

Gloria Browne-Marshall does it again! Listen to her stellar interview on @npr.org's "Code Switch" about A PROTEST HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, her research, & her roadmap for how protesters today can stay the course when they experience setbacks.

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Protests are near constant. Do they work? : Code Switch

To the casual observer, it might seem like the U.S. has been spent years in a constant state of protest, from the Women's March in 2017 to the racial uprisings in 2020 to the No Kings protests earlier...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 21

"...at the end of the day, it’s not bitcoin or Wall Street propping up the world. It’s mothercoin." "Be The Best Nanny" posted a great review of Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz's MOTHERCOIN: THE STORIES OF IMMIGRANT NANNIES earlier this month. Check it out!

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“Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies” by Elizabeth Cummins — From A Nanny’s Perspective

“Mothercoin: The Stories of Immigrant Nannies” is not a comforting read — but if you’re an immigrant in America it will be a validating one. Elizabeth Cummins Muñoz has written th…

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 18

A fantastic review of Gloria Browne-Marshall's PROTEST HISTORY OF THE US in yesterday's First Amendment News. She'll be speaking at @freelibrary.bsky.social next week and they've reported to @beaconpress.bsky.social that all their copies are checked out!

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Paths to protests: Gloria Browne-Marshall’s revealing new book

First Amendment News 478

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 17

HUMANIZING IMMIGRATION author Bill Ong Hing sat down with ‪‪@uusf.bsky.social‬'s‬ "Pod and Country" podcast to discuss justice for immigrants, not "just ICE." Have a listen! @beaconpress.bsky.social

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Justice Not Just ICE

Podcast Episode · Pod and Country · 07/15/2025 · 1h 9m

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 10

We at @beaconpress.bsky.social take huge pride in our backlist, so it's great to see Kyle T. Mays and AN AFRO-INDIGENOUS PEOPLES' HISTORY OF THE US get a shout out from ‪@blklibrarygirl.bsky.social‬ in ELLE Magazine's "Shelf Life" feature!

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Honorée Fanonne Jeffers Loved This Book So Much, She Had to ‘Lie Down’ After Finishing It

The author of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Dubois takes ELLE’s literary survey.

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 2

The Boston Art Review wrote a wonderful feature about @beaconpress.bsky.social author Danielle Legros Georges, highlighting her participation in the Dark Room Collective in the 1990s. What a legacy.

www.bostonartreview.com/read/daniell...

Remembering Danielle Legros Georges and the Dark Room Collective

Members of Boston’s poetry and visual arts communities gathered to honor the life of the influential poet, and unearthed the history of the Black poetry collective.

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 1

@kavitadas.bsky.social penned a powerful piece for @beaconpress.bsky.social Broadside, reflecting on what the 4th of July means during these troubling times.

www.beaconbroadside.com/broadside/20...

What, to the American Immigrant, Is Your Fourth of July?

By Kavita Das | On July 5, 1852, brilliant orator, fierce abolitionist, and former slave, Frederick Douglass, gave an impassioned speech entitled “The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro.” In his spe...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 1

"I think anytime a Black person writes something down or chooses to read something, it is revolutionary." Fabulous @queerty.com interview with @beaconpress.bsky.social author @wjlofton1.bsky.social about his book BOY, MAYBE and queer resistance.

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The unspoken cry: WJ Lofton on love, queerness, & the subtle power of his poetry book ‘boy, maybe’ - Queerty

Beacon Press / Wulf Bradley Born in Chicago and raised in Alabama, WJ Lofton’s creative work breathes life into the intricacies of identity, race, grief,

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 1

@beaconpress.bsky.social author Dana Frank penned a great piece for the @jacobinmag.bsky.social that shines a light on the National Guard being used to break up strikes and protests throughout history.

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The National Guard’s History of Violent Labor Repression

Donald Trump recently commandeered California’s National Guard to repress anti-ICE protests in LA. The National Guard has a long history of being deployed to break up protests and strikes, including v...

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jul 1

Gloria Browne-Marshall is tireless! Check out her Q&A on ‪@rolandsmartin.bsky.social‬'s daily show! @beaconpress.bsky.social

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“When Streets Roar, Change Happens” — Protest History Unleashed

YouTube video by Roland S. Martin

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gayatripat.bsky.social @gayatripat.bsky.social · Jun 30

ART ABOVE EVERYTHING author @sgriest.bsky.social writes about "long hauler" books and the writing process in this @literaryhub.bsky.social piece. ART ABOVE EVERYTHING is out now from @beaconpress.bsky.social.

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The Agonies and Ecstasies of a Slow Book Project

Slow books. Long-haulers. Glacial-pacers. Forever-endeavors. Determine the quickest, most efficient way of writing a book, and then do the opposite: That’s me. Besides sleeping, there is no activit…

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