Selected essays on radical social change.Written over the course of twenty years, the essays brought together here highlight and analyze tensions confronted by writers, scholars, activists, politicians, and political prisoners fighting racism and sexism. Focusing on the experiences of black women calling attention to and resisting social injustice, the astonishing scale of mass and politically driven imprisonment in the United States, and issues relating to governm...

Joy James has a long, well regarded career marked by praise from author/activists including Angela Davis, Robin D.G. Kelly, Howard Zinn, Manning Marable and reviews in trade, academic, and popular press.This, her first book published by a trade publisher, is poised to break out and join with her academic/activist peers in reaching a broader audienceThis book was inspired by and is dedicated to Erica Garner–Eric Garner’s daughter–and will be embraced by Black Lives Matter ac...

Since 1997, the US Department of Defense has transferred more than $7.2bn in military equipment to law enforcement agencies. Furthermore, the DOD is legally required to make various equipment items available to local police and school police departments, from flashlights and sandbags to grenade launchers and armored vehicles. This militarization has, unsurprisingly, been shown to impact Black communities unjustly and is associated with increased killings by police. No wonder there have bee...

Prisons constitute one of the most controversial and contested sites in a democratic society. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the industrialized world, with over 2 million people in jails, prisons, and detention centers; with over three thousand on death row, it is also one of the few developed countries that continues to deploy the death penalty. International Human Rights Organizations such as Amnesty International have also noted the scores of political prisoners...

When Georgia May's car breaks down on a long stretch of desert road, she worries she'll never get picked up when she hitchhikes as a last resort. When a beautiful biker babe named Violet finally stops to help her, though, she finds herself suddenly lost in a haze of lustful desires and intensely erotic moments with the strange and exotic woman. Will Georgia May throw caution to the wind and become Violet's woman for good, or will she resist her desires in favor of her old, ordinary life?

Tammy Yates is sick of her no-good college-aged son, Adam. He's lazy, shiftless, and disrespectful. Worse of all, he treats his beautiful girlfriend Amanda terribly. Tammy intends to show Amanda how she should really be treated - with a woman's sapphic touch. Though Amanda is first surprised and confused by this, she quickly melts under the older woman's practiced hand, enjoying an erotic bliss she could only experienced in the arms of another woman.This 4,200 word erotic short sto...

Despite being only a new college student, sexy Selena Matthews seems to think she owns the school. The beautiful and icy Professor Maria Smythe plans to disabuse her of that notion. Over the course of several intensely erotic days, Professor Smythe shows Selena that she doesn't want to be the Queen of the Campus - instead, she wants to show her full submission and lustful obedience towards her beautiful professor.This 4,200 word erotic short story features several erotic scenes fea...

Will's mother suspects that his beautiful girlfriend Alana is sleeping around behind his back. Finding out where she spends her nights, she crashes the club and discovers that she was right - but that Alana was sleeping around with beautiful women instead of handsome men. Will's mother can't help but be entranced by the erotic and sapphic scene in front of her, and is so maddened by lust at what she's seeing that she finds herself claiming Alana for her own in a steamy, erotic encounter.

When nineteen year old Colin is off to college, his beautiful mother takes it upon herself to comfort and take care of Colin's girlfriend Veronica. She does so in the most erotic way imaginable, turning Veronica into her willing sex slave. The pretty young Veronica, despite her initial misgivings, can't resist her sudden new desires for long, forgetting all about Colin in a submissive urge to submit to his beautiful and dominant mother.This 4,400 word erotic short story features sc...

Cassandra has a secret - she's in love, and lust, with her boyfriend's beautiful girlfriend, Sandra. In order to hide her taboo desires, she acts cold and withdrawn whenever Sandra is around. Sandra, finally wanting to find out why, confronts Cassandra - and soon passion overtakes them both, as they fulfill forbidden lusts in the most erotic of ways.Intense sapphic desire fills this 4,100 word erotic short story, which includes explicit scenes of sex between two women. All particip...

Pretty young Sara has impressed the Stonewall Sorority with her intelligence, beauty, and class, but if they're going to let her in as a full member, she's going to have to go farther than she ever imagined. Gorgeous Tiffany, queen of the sorority, excepts complete and total obedience from all of the girls she rules over, and she enforces that with her dominant personality, radiant beauty, and the big, heavy paddle she keeps to teach new girls their place - at her feet, in sexual service t...

Tanya loves her boyfriend, really she does. But when he leaves, she still calls someone else and asks them to come over. And when they do, she experiences erotic bliss unlike anything she's ever had before. She feels guilty, of course she does - but what can she do, when she's unable to deny her beautiful and dominant mistress? So once more, she descends into the wicked delights of having an affair with her boyfriend's own mother.This 4,000 word erotic short story features scenes o...