Outraged - Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
$22.99 AUD
Category: General
'The powerful new voice of her generation'The Times'Funny, nuanced and wonderful'Jon Ronson'A book that had me hollering, nodding and questioning at the same time'Candice Carty-Williams, author of Queenie'Funny, educational, enlightening . . . Way ahead of its time'Chris EvansA candid exploration of the ...Show more
Outraged: Why Everyone Is Shouting and No One Is Talking by Ashley 'Dotty' Charles
$29.99 AUD
Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Presenter and DJ Ashley Dotty Charles explores our age of outrage, and how it's debasing civil discourse.'Funny, nuanced and wonderful' Jon Ronson We're living in a post-modern utopia of sorts, where thanks to our resolute predecessors, we've checked a bunch of items off our outrage shopping list. Slav ...Show more
Outrageous! - The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education by Paul Baker
$34.99 AUD
Category: History
A personal and impassioned history of the infamous Section 28, the 1988 UK law banning the teaching "of the acceptability of homosexuality." On May 23, 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was n ...Show more
Outrageous! - The Story of Section 28 and Britain's Battle for LGBT Education by Paul Baker (Contribution by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
On 23 May 1988, Paul Baker sat down with his family to eat cake on his sixteenth birthday while The Six O'Clock News played in the background. But something was not quite right. There was muffled shouting - 'Stop Section 28!' - and a scuffle. The morning papers would announce: 'Beeb Man Sits on Lesbian' ...Show more
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Wolf, Naomi
$36.99 AUD
Category: History
The bestselling author of The Beauty Myth, Vagina and The End of America chronicles the struggles and eventual triumph of John Addington Symonds, a Victorian-era poet, biographer, and critic who penned what became a foundational text on our modern understanding of human sexual orientation and LGBTQ+ leg ...Show more
Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalisation of Love by Naomi Wolf
$32.99 AUD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
The bestselling author of Vagina illuminates a dramatic history - how a single English law in 1857 led to a maelstrom, with reverberations lasting down to our day. That law was the Obscene Publications Act and it was a crucial turning point. Why? Because dissent and morality; 'deviancy' and 'normalcy'; ...Show more
Outspoken - A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism by Julia Serano
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
In her third book Outspoken: A Decade of Transgender Activism and Trans Feminism, Julia Serano chronicles her own personal evolution and the many shifts in transgender activism that have occurred since the dawn of the twenty-first century. It is a personal history of where transgender activism has recen ...Show more
P.S. Burn This Letter Please by Craig Olsen
$32.99 AUD
Category: Drag
With an introduction from RuPaul's Drag Race winner Sasha VelourTheir greatest act of resistance was simply existing In 1950s New York, a group of drag pioneers found work in a small number of Lower East Side clubs. They occupied the margins of society, determined to live authentically, despite the atte ...Show more
Painted People: 5,000 Years of Tattooed History from Sailors and Socialites to Mummies and Kings by Matt Lodder
$24.99 AUD
Category: Popular Culture
In 1881, a writer in the Saturday Review called tattooing 'an art without a history'. 'No-one', it went on, 'has made it the business of his life to study the development of tattooing.' Until now. Painted People is a beguiling and intimate look at an untold history of humanity. The earliest tattoos ye ...Show more
Pandora's Jar: Women in the Greek Myths by Natalie Haynes
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Category: General
Natalie Haynes is the nation's muse' Adam Rutherford The Greek myths are among the world's most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters are the mainstay o ...Show more
Panic by David Marr
$29.95 AUD
Category: Non Fiction
Australians see themselves as a relaxed and tolerant bunch. But scratch the surface and you'll uncover an extraordinary level of panic about politics, art, sexuality, drugs, boat people, protest, religion and terror. Through it all, David Marr has stood tall to question the hubris, ignorance and decepti ...Show more