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All My Dead Cats and Other Losses
ISBN: 9780063445994 | $21.99 | HarperOne, 2026
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Grief is not over once the body is neatly disposed of, the rubble of the house has been taken away in dumpsters, the final fit on the prosthesis is done, the law is passed and withstands legal challenges, or when the permanent peace is brokered. It is an ongoing shift in our relationship to the world, and one that deserves attention and care as well as time and space to be amongst fellow mourners, to whom we do not need to justify or explain, because they understand where we are.
Readers will feel seen rather than being chastised for how they grieve and better understand how to process mourning—and how to help others. All My Dead Cats and Other Losses provides an entry point, by beginning the conversation about a beloved pet, so readers can think about the larger stakes of death and live a more fulfilled life.
“All My Dead Cats is the book we desperately need—one that moves beyond platitudes and stages to face the raw, complicated, and transformative truth of grief.” — Sarah Chavez, Executive Director, The Order Of the Good Death
“Like death, grief and mourning is part of the lived human experience. There are no rules or timelines on grieving despite American society dictating one ‘right’ way to grieve and punishing those who fail….This book stands out among a sea of books in this genre. Insightful, tender, and compassionate. A must read for everyone since we are all touched by grief.” — Alice Wong, author of Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life
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What is intimacy? More than sex, more than romantic love, the pieces in this stunning and illuminating new anthology offer broader and more inclusive definitions of what it can mean to be intimate with another person. Explorations of caregiving, community, access, and friendship offer us alternative ways of thinking about the connections we form with others—a vital reimagining in an era when forced physical distance is at times a necessary norm.
But don’t worry: there’s still sex to consider—and the numerous ways sexual liberation intersects with disability justice. Plunge between these pages and you’ll also find disabled sexual discovery, disabled love stories, and disabled joy. These twenty-five stunning original pieces—plus other modern classics on the subject, all carefully curated by acclaimed activist Alice Wong—include essays, photo essays, poetry, drama, and erotica: a full spectrum of the dreams, fantasies, and deeply personal realities of a wide range of beautiful bodies and minds. Disability Intimacy will free your thinking, invigorate your spirit, and delight your desires.
“A poignant anthology about ability and intimacy that espouses a gorgeously original worldview.” — Kirkus
“Editor Alice Wong refuses to shut out the 'other' in this collection of essays, poems and stories on topics such as BDSM, queer love and intergenerational relationships.” — Los Angeles Times
A kaleidoscopic anthology of essays published by Catapult magazine about the stories our bodies tell, and how we move within—and against—expectations of race, gender, health, and ability. Bodies are serious, irreverent, sexy, fragile, strong, political, and inseparable from our experiences and identities as human beings. Pushing the dialogue and confronting monolithic myths, this collection of essays tackles topics like weight, disability, desire, fertility, illness, and the embodied experience of race in deep, challenging ways.
Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health, ability, geography, and class—a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others’ expectations about how their bodies should look, function, and behave.
An NPR Best Book of the Year, ‘most anticipated’ in Electric Lit, BookPage, and Literary Hub
“These smart, affecting, and vulnerable essays, chronicling a vast range of experiences, inspire and illuminate.” — Booklist (starred review)
“These lyrical and incisive essays cover a wide range of topics related to the human body, including birth, death, race, gender, size, disability, and fertility.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Disability Visibility
Alice Wong, Editor
“Wong's discerning selections, bolstered by the activism that shines through, will educate and inspire readers.” — Kirkus
“Implicitly (and sometimes explicitly) makes the case for acknowledging and accommodating society’s overlooked population of disabled people.” — The New York Times Book Review
According to the last Census, one in five people in the United States lives with a disability. Some are visible, some are hidden—but all are underrepresented in media and popular culture. Now, just in time for the thirtieth anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act, activist Alice Wong brings together an urgent, galvanizing collection of personal essays by disabled people in the 21st century.
From Harriet McBryde Johnson’s account of her famous debate with Princeton philosopher Peter Singer over her own personhood, to original pieces by up-and-coming authors like Keah Brown and Haben Girma; from blog posts, manifestos, eulogies, testimonies to Congress, and beyond: this anthology gives a glimpse of the vast richness and complexity of the disabled experience, highlighting the passions, talents, and everyday lives of this community. It invites readers to question their own assumptions and understandings. It celebrates and documents disability culture in the now. It looks to the future and past with hope and love.
Young adult adaptation received stars from Kirkus, Booklist, School Library Journal
ISBN: 9781984899422 | $16 | Vintage, 2020
(Don’t) Call Me Crazy
Kelly Jensen, Editor
A Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2018, 2019 Schneider Family Honor Book, 2019 Little Free Library Action Book Club Selection
"Lively, compelling . . . the raw, informal approach to the subject matter will highly appeal to young people who crave understanding and validation . . . This highly readable and vital collection demonstrates the multiplicity of ways that mental health impacts individuals." — Kirkus
"Thought-provoking . . . Misconceptions about mental health still abound, making this honest yet hopeful title a vital selection." — School Library Journal, starred review
What does it mean to be crazy? Is using the word crazy offensive? What happens when such a label gets attached to your everyday experiences?
In order to understand mental health, we need to talk openly about it. Because there’s no single definition of crazy, there’s no single experience that embodies it, and the word itself means different things—wild? extreme? disturbed? passionate?—to different people.
(Don’t) Call Me Crazy is a conversation starter and guide to better understanding how our mental health affects us every day. Thirty-three writers, athletes, and artists offer essays, lists, comics, and illustrations that explore their personal experiences with mental illness, how we do and do not talk about mental health, help for better understanding how every person’s brain is wired differently, and what, exactly, might make someone crazy.
If you’ve ever struggled with your mental health, or know someone who has, come on in, turn the pages, and let’s get talking.
ISBN: 978-1616207816 | $16.95 | Algonquin Young Readers, 2018
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The Feminist Utopia Project
Alexandra Brodsky & Rachel Kauder Nalebuff, Editors
“Wildly creative ideas from intelligent writers who want more for women, regardless of race, religion, or sexual preference.” — Kirkus
These contributions will root themselves in history and experience to invent and demand a better future. We hope that this anthology, in offering a diverse collection of utopias, will inspire American feminists (as well as potential feminists) to imagine their own visions and reach for unprecedented possibilities.
People, not ideas, will build our utopias. But the first step toward a feminist world is to imagine it collectively.
ISBN: 978-1-55861-900-5 | $16.95 | The Feminist Press, 2015
Get Out of My Crotch!
Kim Wyatt and Sari Botton, Editors
We are witnessing the patriarchy’s last gasp, and it’s not going down without a fight. Using legislation, language, and women’s own silence, it seeks to return us to a time when choice and self-determination were not options. In this collection, twenty-one fearless writers examine reproductive rights, access to health care, violence against women, and the rise of rape apologists in the twenty-first century United States. Illuminating intersections of gender, class, and race, these stories speak to the challenges women routinely face, attempts to undermine their rights, and the deliberate, systemic erosion of their agency and their existence as equals. It’s time to revisit what’s at stake, what could still be lost, and why we must continually fight for equality and freedom for all.
ISBN: 978-1-936511-09-9 | $18.00 | Cherry Bomb Books, 2013