Spanish Accents and Dialects for Actors: Volume 1 – North America and the Caribbean is an interactive roadmap to the accents and dialects of the Spanish-speaking world that uses trauma-informed approaches to navigate the reclamation of the Latino/a/e/x home sounds.Historically, performing Spanish-speaking characters has been done through oversimplification and has left actors with minimal resources for navigating the authentic portrayal of the Latine community on stage and...

Queering the Stage: Inclusive Approaches to Performing Gender and Sexuality addresses a history of stereotyping and provides inclusive approaches to navigating gender and sexuality in a way that does not reduce the broad spectrum of LGBTQ+ communities into a single monolith.Butch it up! Be more manly! Add a little swish! Queen out! These instructions make performers feel minimized, erased, and forced to fit in a binary that encourages underdeveloped portrayals of ...

When a fall from the mast leaves Alba unable to sail, he finally has the chance to run away from his family debts in search of a better life. He hopes to reunite with his mother, Edythe, where they always promised to meet, but finding the town of Moon Harbor proves a greater challenge than Alba expected. Worse, upon arriving, no one seems to know anyone by the name Edythe.Taking a job as the local lighthouse keeper while waiting for her to come, Alba attempts to find peace in his s...

All tequilas are mezcals; all mezcals are made from agaves; and every bottle of mezcal is the remarkable result of collaborations among agave entrepreneurs, botanists, distillers, beverage distributors, bartenders, and more. How these groups come together in this "spirits world" is the subject of this fascinating new book by the acclaimed ethnobotanist Gary Paul Nabhan and the pioneering restauranteur David Suro Piñera. Join them as they delight in the diversity of the distillate agave spi...

Star Trek meets Leverage in a space opera that's "refreshingly hopeful and heaps of fun" (author Megan E. O'Keefe).Jasper Wilder is an activist, not a spy, but he'll become one if that's what it takes to stop Ravel Corporation from reviving the research project that devastated his home planet.His plan is simple enough: Break into the secure facility. Steal the data. Find a weakness and sab...

Their families call them the Gifted. They call themselves the Losts. And to everyone outside Brennex, they were ordinary people—until now.Libbi Wilder is the good kid. While her older siblings have traveled the galaxy having adventures, she's stayed home to run the family store. Someone has to, after all.Then a stranger shows up at the store, and people Libbi's age—the Losts—start going missing. Libbi and her best friend Mixin set out to investigate, but be...

A celebrated food writer's expansive, audacious excavation of the development of modern queer identity and food culture.Food in America and Europe has long been shaped, twisted, and upended by queer creatives. Beloved food writer John Birdsall fills the gap between the past and present, channeling the twin forces of criticism and cultural history to propel readers into the kitchens, restaurants, swirling party-houses, and humming interior lives of James Baldwin, Al...

"The creators seamlessly tackle relevant issues such as colonization, misogyny, transphobia, and white entitlement in this eclectic celebration of infinite possibility and the ever-present human spirit." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)What does the future hold? Ten speculative short stories by leading young-adult authors imagine what the world could be through the lens of technologies emerging today. When the modification industry transforms how humans...

A unique, compelling, and hopeful space opera, Dissonant State is sure to delight fans of Ann Leckie, Becky Chambers, and Martha Wells.Kay Wilder despises Ravel Corporation, whose occupation of her home planet left Kay with a useful but debilitating power to hear others' emotions. Unlike her brother Jasper, an activist who fights corporate injustice, Kay has always stayed as far away from the corporate states as possible.

Welcome to the Shifting Lands.Silluka was born with only one arm and could never practice the exacting motions to summon the favor of the gods. Caught stealing, she is forced to test her powers or be branded an outcast. She fails, and loses citizenship to her village. In a fit of desperation, Silluka tries to steal a badge of citizenship from a mysterious elder, but instead, Elder Quilqi shows Silluka a different path to gain the powers of the gods, aided by an oct...

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.Revolting Indolence makes a case for laziness as an aesthetic-political strategy for countering the oppressive logics of cisheteronormative racial capitalism. Focusing on ways in which queer and trans Latinx people demonstrate the unwillingness of their participation in "productivist" ethics and allied respectability politics, Marcos Gonsalez argues that slacki...

There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Muñoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture—not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Muñoz calls this process "disidentification," and through a study of its workings, he develops a new perspective on minority performance, survival, and activism...