Angela Davis is iconic as an international figure but few recognize the educational, political and ideological contexts that formed the public persona.Excavating layers of networks, activists, academics, polemicists, and funders across the ideological spectrum, Joy James studies the paradigms and platforms that leveraged Angela Davis into recognition as an activist and radical intellectual.Beginning in Alabama in 1944 with Davis's birthplace and ending in California in 1970 with a ...

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...

"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."-Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End TimesKeywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as democracy,’ occupatio...

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...

“Essential reading for those of us working in the university and inside institutions that help the state wage war ... While the conversations are informed by histories of Black, Indigenous, and Afro-Indigenous struggle, they unfold in unexpected ways and in the real time of our perilous and shifting grounds” Tiffany Lethabo King, author of The Black Shoals: Offshore Formations of Black and Native StudiesThis dynamic collection of conversations includes ref...

“A work of radical care and love, a study guide for the urgency of the moment” Dian Million, author of Therapeutic Nations“Guides us through confrontation with counterinsurgency in empire’s proxy wars, colonies, prisons and schools” Frances Madeson, author of Cooperative Village“An incendiary political and philosophical reflection” Ken Fero, radical filmmaker and convenor of The People’s Tribunal on Police...

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?

Deidre Falcone has a boring job at a boring office, but all of that gets thrown on its head when someone gives her a pack of Dum Gum, guaranteed to relieve your stress and provide a worry-free day. Unexpectedly it works, in the most surprising way possible - by turning Deidre into a sex-loving bimbo! This is a ten thousand word story about a young woman who chews some special gum and discovers her wild, untamed side in a couple of hot sexual encounters. Keep an eye out for the next install...

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...

Becky Sue's worked at the bar all her life, until now, when she owns it. She takes pride in never taking crap from anyone, but when the beautiful and cruel biker babe named Delilah rolls into town, she's going to have to prove it, because all Delilah wants is to make the pretty and clever Becky Sue into her lusty sex slave. And while Becky Sue knows she shouldn't want it, each second in the enthralling Delilah's presence makes that seem more and more like a good thing.This 4,200 er...