This imaginative and visionary novel by Dezeray Lyn is set in modern day France. While slipping out of his ultra-conservative brother’s wedding, Oliver Ijanni’s encounter with a port city refugee camp sets into motion a series of events which will resound globally. Displaced persons from across the globe rise up with new weapons to face down their oppressors and smash centuries of injustice, dictator by dictator and terrorist by terrorist, including those sitting in the White House.
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This imaginative and visionary novel by Dezeray Lyn is set in modern day France. While slipping out of his ultra-conservative brother’s wedding, Oliver Ijanni’s encounter with a port city refugee camp sets into motion a series of events which will resound globally. Displaced persons from across the globe rise up with new weapons to face down their oppressors and smash centuries of injustice, dictator by dictator and terrorist by terrorist, including those sitting in the White House.
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As hurricanes, fires, pandemics, and other disasters increase in intensity and frequency, the insights, visions, and experiences the authors in this book share offer a valuable road map to meet the climate crisis head on, struggle for a just recovery when disasters do hit, reimagine our relationships to each other and the planet, and as the Zapatistas taught civil society, “Don’t seize power, exercise it.”
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Rage against oppression, opposition to authority, anticapitalism, and compassion for others are woven throughout this book of poetry. At once both fiercely heretical and deeply (albeit secretly) reverent, these poems are tied together by the interlocking threads of love, resistance to conventional religion, and revolution.
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In this quirky collection of tales, monsters who've traditionally crept from dark corners, rolling fog and eerie woods to frighten us are living through the grave realities we face. A shape-shifting military leader is locked in endless war, a zombie fights to subvert land development of the cemetery, and a mummy nurses forgotten plague patients in a crumbling almshouse.
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Salaam Mish Hon Mish El Yom (Peace, not here, not today): a graphic novel on struggle and solidarity is a collection of graphic illustrations by Dezeray Lyn spanning her time as a member of the International Solidarity Movement in the Israeli military controlled section of H-2 occupied Al-Khalil (Hebron) in the West Bank of Palestine in the Fall of 2015 – a time many are calling the beginning of the third intifada.
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Sounds Like Liberation, Jimmy Dunson's first poetry book, covers a range of topics including resisting oppression, ending violence against women, gender nonconformity, solidarity-based disaster relief, religious hypocrisy, madness, and anti-capitalist struggle, all while integrating spirituality, love, and revolution in every poem.
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This book, written by Ellen Zitani, won’t teach you how to get rich quick. But it will teach you how to live well on a relatively low wage. From Millennials to Baby Boomers, many people struggle living paycheck to paycheck. In today’s society, workers have less rights and benefits, while more and more cobble together multiple jobs in the gig economy. If wages are low or unreliable and living expenses are ever on the rise, how can you survive or even thrive with what you have?
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Words can be medicine and this fantastical, imaginative book from Dezeray Lyn spans over a decade of cathartic short fiction from worker’s rights and confronting “Corporation” to the state murder of Troy Davis and completely off the wall magical nonsense. Get ready to smile, laugh, and experience a world turned upside down. All power to the imagination, friends.
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Watching The Bloom is a lyrical journey through love, loss, healing and growth told in heart ramblings that trace the seasons of a life deeply felt. Through seven chapters, this collection from Assata Dela Cruz, a Black and Indigenous Two-Spirit mama, writer and community organizer, still proudly rooted on her ancestral lands just outside of Africatown, Alabama explores what it means to root into yourself, to love fiercely, to break, to mend and to keep going.
From the quiet longing of Rooting, where the search for belonging begins, to the intoxicating tenderness of Budding, where love first cracks through the surface. From Pruning, where love is wild and untamed, full of ache and release, to Blooming, a tribute to the souls who have shaped and shaken the journey. Then comes Wilting, where addiction, grief and the shedding of self take center stage, followed by Shedding, a reckoning with love that could never truly take root. And finally, Seeding, a meditation on legacy, resilience and the love planted in the hands of the next generation.
Tender yet unflinching, Watching The Bloom is for anyone who has ever loved, lost and found themselves growing anyway. This is a story of becoming, of surrendering to every season and finding beauty in the bloom, the wilt and everything in between.
