1.
Series:
Fired Up about Consent
Paperback
Sarah Ratchford
9781771133524
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Mar 01, 2021
According to the World Health Organization, one in three women will be sexually or physically assaulted in her lifetime. These rates are very similar for non-binary people and other feminized people, too. This is rape culture, and young adults are living through it here and now. Fired Up about Consent is a practical, survivor-informed primer for young people who want to learn how to build joyful, mutually satisfying sex lives and relationships. In these pages, author Sarah Ratchford defines rape and sexual assault, busts the myths behind too...
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Series:
Fired Up about Reproductive Rights
Paperback
Jane Kirby
9781771132091
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
May 10, 2017
What is at stake in the fight for safe, legal, and accessible abortion services? And who benefits from our dark legacy of coercive sterilization, eugenics, and population control? Reproductive rights are rights that everyone should be fired up about! Decades after abortion was legalized and decriminalized in Canada, the US, and the UK, why are we still fighting for reproductive rights? Shattering the myth that the battle for reproductive rights has already been won, Fired Up about Reproductive Rights shows us the many ways our reproducti...
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Series:
Fired Up about Capitalism
Paperback
Tom Malleson
9781771132008
$19.95
YOUNG ADULT NONFICTION
Age (years) from 16 - 20
Nov 17, 2016
There is no alternative to free-market capitalism. At least that’s what we’ve been told since the 1980s, when Margaret Thatcher first declared the debate over. Politicians daily declare it, journalists parrot it, talk show hosts acquiesce to it, rich people gloat about it, and regular people simply assume it. Fired Up about Capitalism forcefully argues that this is nothing but a myth. Tom Malleson exposes the reality of contemporary capitalism–from the widening inequality between the 1% and the rest of society, to ecological devastation–and ...
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4.
Series:
Decolonize Hipsters
Paperback
Grégory Pierrot
9781771135788
$22.95
SOCIAL SCIENCE
Oct 04, 2021
Few urban critters are more reviled than the hipster. They are notoriously difficult to define, and yet we know one when we see one. No wonder: they were among the global cultural phenomena that ushered in the 21st century. They have become a bulwark of mainstream culture, cultural commodity, status, butt of all jokes, and ready-made meme. But frightening as it is to imagine, for more than a century hipsters have been lurking among us. Defined by their appearances and the cloud of meaning attached to them—the cool vanguard of gentrification,...
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Series:
Primo Levi
Paperback
Matteo Mastragostino
9781771135221
$21.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 22, 2021
“It’s a pretty long story,” Primo Levi tells a classroom of children, “so I’ll try to make it simple.” Translated from the original Italian, this hauntingly illustrated comic tells the story of the Italian Jewish chemist who survived the camps at Auschwitz against all odds. Matteo Mastragostino draws on historical research, interviews, and Levi’s own landmark books to piece together a fictionalized yet profoundly intimate portrait of a courageous figure. In the scene that emerges, Levi visits a group of schoolchildren to retell his life st...
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6.
Series:
Won’t Get Fooled Again
A Graphic Guide to Fake News
Paperback
Erin Steuter
9781771134637
$29.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
May 18, 2020
“Fake news!” screams Donald Trump from his Twitter account when journalists ask tough questions about his past or present behaviour. Meanwhile, his Fox & Friends fan club makes dubious claims about anyone who challenges his power. Fake news inflames racism, stokes fear, spreads confusion, and undermines democracy.All while CO2 levels continue to rise as “experts” tell us it’s nothing to worry about. But how do we tell which news is real? In this meticulously researched but accessibly written comic, Erin Steuter shows us how to spot fake news...
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7.
Series:
Enemy Alien
A True Story of Life Behind Barbed Wire
Paperback
Kassandra Luciuk
9781771134729
$21.95
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS
Mar 09, 2020
This graphic history tells the story of Canada’s first national internment operations through the eyes of John Boychuk, an internee held in Kapuskasing from 1914 to 1917. The story is based on Boychuk’s actual memoir, which is the only comprehensive internee testimony in existence. The novel follows Boychuk from his arrest in Toronto to Kapuskasing, where he spends just over three years. It details the everyday struggle of the internees in the camp, including forced labour and exploitation, abuse from guards, malnutrition, and homesickness. ...
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8.
Series:
Advertising Shits in Your Head
Strategies for Resistance
Paperback
Vyvian Raoul
9781771133869
$17.95
ART
Sep 01, 2019
Advertising Shits in Your Head calls ads what they are—a powerful means of control through manipulation—and highlights how people across the world are fighting back. It diagnoses the problem and offers practical tips for a DIY remedy. Faced with an ad-saturated world, activists are fighting back, equipped with stencils, printers, high-visibility vests, and utility tools. Their aim is to subvert the advertisements that control us. With case studies from both sides of the Atlantic, this book showcases the ways in which small groups of activist...
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Series:
Beyond Guilt Trips
Mindful Travel in an Unequal World
Paperback
Anu Taranath
9781771134323
$22.95
TRAVEL
May 15, 2019
Every year, hundreds of thousands of young people pack their bags to study or volunteer abroad. Well-intentioned and curious Westerners—brought up to believe that international travel broadens our horizons—travel to low-income countries to learn about people and cultures different from their own. But while travel abroad can provide much-needed perspective, it can also be deeply unsettling, confusing, and discomforting. Travelers can find themselves unsure about how to think or speak about the differences in race or culture they find, even thou...
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