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International LGBTQ+ Literature for Children and Young Adults
This edited collection explores LGBTQ+ literature for young readers around the world, and connects this literature to greater societal, political, linguistic, historical, and cultural concerns. It brings together contributions from across the academic and activist spectra, looking at picture books, middle-grade books and young adult novels to explore what is at stake when we write (or do not write) about LGBTQ+ topics for young readers. The topics include the representation of sexualities and gender identities; depictions of queer families; censorship; links between culture, language and sexuality/gender; translation of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers; and self-publishing. It is the first collection to expand the study of LGBTQ+ literature for young readers beyond the English-speaking world and to draw cross-cultural comparisons.
I mitt namn – en bok om att vara trans
I mitt namn – En bok om att vara trans bygger på intervjuer med transpersoner – alltifrån ungdomar på högstadiet och gymnasiet till förebilder som skådespelerskan och Guldbaggevinnaren Saga Becker, estradpoeten Yolanda Bohm och skolchefen och f.d. rektorn Lina Axelsson Kihlblom, som kom ut som trans i Skavlan hösten 2015. Boken innehåller även fakta om trans och tips till dig som är transperson. Det är en bok för ungdomar som funderar över sin könsidentitet, men den riktar sig också till dem som befinner sig runt en transperson, till exempel skolpersonal, vänner och familj.
Queera tider
Hur har synen på personer som bryter mot normer kring kön och sexualitet förändrats under historiens gång? Vilken utveckling har skett när det kommer till hbtqi-personers rättigheter i Sverige? Vilka frågor är aktuella just nu? Och vart kan du vända dig om du har frågor om trans eller könsidentitet? Queera tider - hbtqi då och nu tar upp olika aspekter av att vara queer. Frågor får svar, och berättande texter varvas med intervjuer och skildringar av personer som varit betydelsefulla eller på andra sätt gjort avtryck. Det här är en bok som både inspirerar och informerar, såväl som lyfter fram delar av historien som det talas alldeles för lite om.
The Story of Bodri
Hédi spends her days playing with her dog Bodri in the park, but her quiet world starts to crumble the day she hears Adolf Hitler on the radio. Germany’s leader hates her and her family, just because they are Jewish. And Hitler doesn’t even know them—it doesn’t make any sense. Soon Nazi Germany invades Hédi’s country, and her life changes forever. Inspired by the author’s experiences, this book is a thoughtful introduction to the Holocaust for young readers. Strikingly honest prose and illustrations share an unforgettable story about a faithful dog, a family in danger, and the power of hope in unimaginable circumstances.
Gold
Cyclists Zoe and Kate are friends and athletic rivals for Olympic gold, while Kate and her husband Jack, also a world-class cyclist, must contend with the recurrence of their young daughter's leukemia.
Little Bee
Millions of people have read, discussed, debated, cried, and cheered with Little Bee, a Nigerian refugee girl whose violent and courageous journey puts a stunning face on the worldwide refugee crisis. “Little Bee will blow you away.” —The Washington Post The lives of a sixteen-year-old Nigerian orphan and a well-off British woman collide in this page-turning #1 New York Times bestseller, book club favorite, and “affecting story of human triumph” (The New York Times Book Review) from Chris Cleave, author of Gold and Everyone Brave Is Forgiven. We don’t want to tell you too much about this book. It is a truly special story and we don’t want to spoil it. Nevertheless, you need to know something, so we will just say this: It is extremely funny, but the African beach scene is horrific. The story starts there, but the book doesn’t. And it’s what happens afterward that is most important. Once you have read it, you’ll want to tell everyone about it. When you do, please don’t tell them what happens either. The magic is in how it unfolds.
It's Only Blood
Across the world, 2 billion people experience menstruation, yet menstruation is seen as a mark of shame. We are told not to discuss it in public, that tampons and sanitary pads should be hidden away, the blood rendered invisible. In many parts of the world, poverty, culture and religion collide causing the taboo around menstruation to have grave consequences. Younger people who menstruate are deterred from going to school, adults from work, infections are left untreated. The shame is universal and the silence a global rule. In It's Only Blood Anna Dahlqvist tells the shocking but always moving stories of why and how people from Sweden to Bangladesh, from the United States to Uganda, are fighting back against the shame.
Common Space
Space is both a product and a prerequisite of social relations, it has the potential to block and encourage certain forms of encounter. In Common Space, activist and architect Stavros Stavrides calls for us to conceive of space-as-commons – first, to think beyond the notions of public and private space, and then to understand common space not only as space that is governed by all and remains open to all, but that explicitly expresses, encourages and exemplifies new forms of social relations and of life in common. Through a fascinating, global examination of social housing, self-built urban settlements, street trade and art, occupied space, liberated space and graffiti, Stavrides carefully shows how spaces for commoning are created. Moreover, he explores the connections between processes of spatial transformation and the formation of politicised subjects to reveal the hidden emancipatory potential of contemporary, metropolitan life.
Glass Cathedral
Winner of the Singapore Literature Prize Commendation Award, Glass Cathedral’s sensitive depiction of homosexuality in conservative Singapore is a landmark in local literature. This novella was part of a small wave of gay- and lesbian-themed drama and fiction that appeared in Singapore during the early 1990s.
Sinfully Theirs
For little Miss Nobody, a love this unique is more than she'd ever dared expect... Mona is Miss. Average. Her ass isn't the tightest, her job sucks, and she's still getting over her divorce. Life is one long round of work, work, and more work until, one day, she accidentally falls into the arms of an ex-Marine. After an epic one-night-stand that has Mona rethinking everything she knows about sex, she learns a terrible secret. One that makes no sense. Zane Matthews? He's married. To a man. And that man? Well, he isn't about to take his husband's cheating lying down, not when he wants Mona too. For a girl who was reared in the Church, being propositioned by two men isn't an everyday occurrence...
