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This Is Not a Werewolf Story
"This is the story of boarding school student Raul, who waits for sunset--and the mysterious, marvelous phenomenon that allows him to go home."--
Gangster's Diary
Ivan Johnson is a crime figure who grew up in Detroit. From the age of fifteen after watching his dad die in his arms, he takes over his dad’s business. He embarks on a fast life that includes a drug addiction, a few stormy romances, and a couple of prison sentences. His aggression and street fame led to him becoming a murderer. One of his latest victims, Marcus Washington strikes the most guilt in him as he stands trial for a double homicide. The victim’s wife, Sandra Washington, captures Ivan’s attention. After seeing her pain, Ivan begins to write Sandra a series of letters detailing his life story from his childhood to the murder of Sandra’s husband.
Congressional Record
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Women and Religion in the African Diaspora
This landmark collection of newly commissioned essays explores how diverse women of African descent have practiced religion as part of the work of their ordinary and sometimes extraordinary lives. By examining women from North America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Africa, the contributors identify the patterns that emerge as women, religion, and diaspora intersect, mapping fresh approaches to this emergent field of inquiry. The volume focuses on issues of history, tradition, and the authenticity of African-derived spiritual practices in a variety of contexts, including those where memories of suffering remain fresh and powerful. The contributors discuss matters of power and leadership and of religious expressions outside of institutional settings. The essays study women of Christian denominations, African and Afro-Caribbean traditions, and Islam, addressing their roles as spiritual leaders, artists and musicians, preachers, and participants in bible-study groups. This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space.
Conducting Airport Peer Reviews
"TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 46: Conducting Airport Peer Reviews explores the range of peer review approaches being used by airport sponsors, identifies similar efforts outside the airport industry, and documents both effective practices and challenges in conducting peer review activities."-- Publisher's description.
Songs in Black and Lavender
Drawing on fieldwork conducted at eight women's music festivals, Eileen M. Hayes shows how studying these festivals--attended by predominately white lesbians--provides critical insight into the role of music and lesbian community formation. She argues that the women's music festival is a significant institutional site for the emergence of black feminist consciousness in the contemporary period. Hayes also offers sage perspectives on black women's involvement in the women's music festival scene, the ramifications of their performances as drag kings in those environments, and the challenges and joys of a black lesbian retreat based on the feminist festival model. With acuity and candor, longtime feminist activist Hayes elucidates why this music scene matters. Veteran vocalist, percussionist, producer, and cultural historian Linda Tillery provides a foreword.
Common Ground
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Drive All Night
“A piece of lesbian history from the ‘girl with a guitar’ who truly sang for her supper. Jamie brings the road to you in color and out loud.” —Suzanne Westenhoefer She’s opened for Holly Near, closed a church coffeehouse by saying “uterus” and danced with a tornado. From taking her shirt off for Amy Ray to housing with a pig, she’s always looking for the perfect gig. With a delightful mix of horror road stories, fan girl name dropping and commentary on the people and times, Anderson describes the joys and travails of the touring circuit as she creates the music and stories of our lives. “An extraordinary glimpse into the life of a touring musician.” —Nancy Manahan “Jamie’s as endlessly funny an entertainer on the page as on the stage.” —Lee Lynch “She leads with her sense of humor and heart…” —Lisa Koch
An Army of Lovers
In California, a month before the Stonewall Riots in 1969, Maxine Feldman penned a song, “Angry Atthis,” about the shame surrounding lesbians. She didn’t know where she was going to sing her new song until comedy duo Harrison and Tyler asked her to open their shows. On the other side of the country and three years later, Alix Dobkin released Lavender Jane Loves Women, the first record produced, engineered and played by women. Maxine and Alix had no business plan. They didn’t fit the mold set by mainstream music but they saw great potential to create a powerful soundtrack for women claiming their place as lesbians and feminists. A myriad of musicians joined them, from a cappella group...
