Dance or Die: From Stateless Refugee to International Ballet Star A Memoir by Joudeh Ahmad
$49.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
A Syria-born dancer offers his deeply personal story of war, statelessness, and the pursuit of the art of dance in this inspirational memoir. DANCE OR DIE is an autobiographical coming-of-age account of young refugee, Ahmad Joudeh, who grows up in Damascus with dreams of becoming a dancer. Neither bo ...Show more
Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture by Bruce Pascoe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Reading Level: very good
Dark Emu argues for a reconsideration of the 'hunter-gatherer' tag for pre-colonial Aboriginal Australians and attempts to rebut the colonial myths that have worked to justify dispossession. Accomplished author Bruce Pascoe provides compelling evidence from the diaries of early explorers that suggests t ...Show more
Decolonizing Solidarity: Dilemmas and Directions for Supporters of Indigenous Struggles by Clare Land
$39.99 AUD
Category: Out of Print | Reading Level: General Adult
In this highly original and much-needed book, Clare Land interrogates the often fraught endeavours of activists from colonial backgrounds seeking to be politically supportive of Indigenous struggles. Blending key theoretical and practical questions, Land argues that the predominant impulses which drive ...Show more
Design: Building on Country (First Knowledges) by Alison Page, Paul Memmott
$21.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour | Series: First Knowledges
Aboriginal design is of a distinctly cultural nature, based in the Dreaming and in ancient practices grounded in Country. It is visible in the aerodynamic boomerang, the ingenious design of fish traps and the precise layouts of community settlements that strengthen social cohesion. Alison Page and Paul ...Show more
Desiring Arabs by Joseph A. Massad
$36.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
Sexual desire has long played a key role in Western judgments about the value of Arab civilization. In the past, Westerners viewed the Arab world as licentious, and Western intolerance of sex led them to brand Arabs as decadent; but as Western society became more sexually open, the supposedly prudish Ar ...Show more
Double Melancholy - Art, Beauty, and the Making of a Brown Queer Man by C. E. Gatchalian
$27.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
According to Didier Eribon, melancholy is where it all starts and where it also ends: the lifelong process of mourning that each homosexual experiences, and through which they construct their own identity. In this beguiling book, an introverted, anxious, ambitious, artistically gifted queer Filipino-Can ...Show more
Flock: First Nations Stories Then and Now by Ellen van Neerven
$29.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
This wide-ranging and captivating anthology showcases both the power of First Nations writing and the satisfaction of a good short story. Curated by award-winning author Ellen van Neerven, Flock roams the landscape of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytelling, bringing together voices from acro ...Show more
From Victims to Suspects: Muslim Women Since 9/11 by Shakira Hussein
$24.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
The so-called War on Terror, in its many incarnations, has always been a war with gender at its heart. Once regarded as helpless victims waiting to be rescued, Muslim women are now widely regarded by both Muslim and non-Muslim disciplinarians as a potential threat to be kept under control. How did this ...Show more
Funeral Diva by Pamela Sneed
$34.99 AUD
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
A poetic memoir about coming-of-age in the AIDS era, and its effects on life and art. "She is a writer for the future, in that she defies genre."--Hilton Als "Pamela Sneed's Funeral Diva charts the 'grieving patterns' informing a life with unflinching honesty and clarity. This notable achievement, tra ...Show more
Gay and Lesbian Asia : Culture, Identity, Community by Peter A. (EDT) Gerard (EDT); Jackson Sullivan
$10.00 AUD
$24.99 (59% off)
Category: Multicultural Studies, Race & People of Colour
How do Asian cultures construct queer genders, sexualities, and eroticism?Gay and Lesbian Asia demonstrates the astonishing diversity of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgendered identities in countries including Korea, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, Indonesia, Singapore, and the Philippines. Althoug ...Show more
Gaysia: Adventures in the Queer East by Benjamin Law
$19.99 AUD
Category: Gay Male & Bi Biography/Memoir
Benjamin Law considers himself pretty lucky to live in Australia: he can hold his boyfriend's hand in public and lobby his politicians to recognize same-sex marriage. But as the child of immigrants, he's also curious about how different life might have been had he grown up in Asia. So he sets off to mee ...Show more
Growing Up African in Australia by Maxine Beneba Clarke
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Biography / Memoir
People of African descent have been in Australia for at least 200 years, yet their stories are largely missing from Australian writing. Australians of the African diaspora have arrived here in many different ways- directly from the continent; via the Caribbean, the Americas and the United Kingdom; makin ...Show more