Posts tagged Consciousness
Selected Poems
Selected Poems

Selected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. This compelling collection showcases Brooks's technical mastery, her warm humanity, and her compassionate and illuminating response to a complex world. This edition also includes a special PS section with insights, interviews, and more—including a short piece by Nikki Giovanni entitled "Remembering Gwen."

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdConsciousness, Self Love, Love & Relationships, Social Justice, Race
Zami A New Spelling of My Name
Zami A New Spelling of My Name

A writer, activist, and mother of two, Audre Lorde grew up in 1930s Harlem. She earned a master’s degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State’s Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. She is the author of twelve books, including ZAMI and THE BLACK UNICORN. Lorde died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight in 1992.

Zami is a fast-moving chronicle. From the author’s vivid childhood memories in Harlem to her coming of age in the late 1950s, the nature of Audre Lorde’s work is cyclical. It especially relates the linkage of women who have shaped her . . . Lorde brings into play her craft of lush description and characterization. It keeps unfolding page after page.

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdConsciousness, Self Love, Love & Relationships, Social Justice, Race
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry
Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry

Throughout her illustrious career in letters, Maya Angelou gifted, healed, and inspired the world with her words. Now the beauty and spirit of those words live on in this new and complete collection of poetry that reflects and honors the writer’s remarkable life.

Maya Angelou: The Complete Poetry also features her final long-form poems, including “A Brave and Startling Truth,” “Amazing Peace,” “His Day Is Done,” and the honest and endearing Mother.

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Sex, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdSex, Consciousness, Self Love, Love & Relationships
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

Charting Kiki and Man Ray’s volatile relationship, award-winning historian Mark Braude illuminates for the first time Kiki’s seminal influence not only on Man Ray’s art, but on the culture of 1920s Paris and beyond. The works they made together, including the Surrealist icons Le Violon d’Ingres and Noire et blanche, now set records at auction. As provocative and magnetically irresistible as Kiki herself, Kiki Man Ray is the story of an exceptional life that will challenge ideas about artists and muses―and the lines separating the two.

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Sex, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdSex, Consciousness, Desire & Libido, Self Love, Love & Relationships
The Gentleman's Book of Vices
The Gentleman's Book of Vices

Finely dressed and finely drunk, Charlie Price is a man dedicated to his vices. Chief among them is his explicit novel collection, though his impending marriage to a woman he can’t love will force his carefully curated collection into hiding. Before it does, Charlie is determined to have one last hurrah: meeting his favorite author in person, Miles Montague.

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Sex, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdSex, Consciousness, Desire & Libido, Self Love, Love & Relationships, LIterature
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale
Harlots, Whores & Hackabouts: A History of Sex for Sale

This book redresses the balance, revealing the history of the sex trade through the eyes of sex workers. These tales are brought to life by Whores of Yore creator Kate Lister’s witty and authoritative text, and illuminated by a rich archive of photographs, artworks, and objects offering insight into sex workers’ lives, challenging assumptions about this age-old trade.

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Sex, Consciousness, HistoryThe Sex EdSex, Health, Consciousness, Desire & Libido, Parenting, Self Love, Love & Relationships, Stress, Overcoming Trauma, Sex Work, Consent, Social Justice
Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents
Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents

Written by a psychologist and relationship expert, Baby Bomb offers powerful tools based in psychology and neurobiology to help you and your partner co-parent and co-partner as a solid and supportive team--while also cultivating mad love for each other! You'll find more than just "tips" for better parenting and partnering; you'll discover how a secure-functioning relationship is essential for raising happy, healthy kids.

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Sex, Health, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdSex, Health, Consciousness, Desire & Libido, Parenting, Self Love, Love & Relationships, Pregnancy & Postpartum, Stress, Overcoming Trauma
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good

How do we make social justice the most pleasurable human experience? How can we awaken within ourselves desires that make it impossible to settle for anything less than a fulfilling life? Adrienne Maree Brown finds the answer in something she calls "pleasure activism," a politics of healing and happiness that explodes the dour myth that changing the world is just another form of work.

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Sex, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdSelf Love, Sex, Masturbation, Desire & Libido, Sex Tips, Reproductive Health, Social Justice, Consciousness
On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel
On Her Knees: Memoir of a Prayerful Jezebel

On Her Knees chronicles Brenda’s spiritual journey over the course of a decade in LA, through marriage, divorce, unlikely friendship, and sexual exploration. Through it all, she began tearing down the false idol of purity while refusing to abandon her faith. Told with raw honesty, sans obligatory shame, this is a story for anyone who wonders if it’s possible to love God without fearing sex, in all its shades of grey.

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ConsciousnessThe Sex EdConsciousness, Spirituality & Religion, Feminism, Love & Relationships, Overcoming Trauma, Self Love
Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups & Shame-Free Sex
Getting It: A Guide to Hot, Healthy Hookups & Shame-Free Sex

A comprehensive and fun-to-read guidebook for people of all sexual identities and experience levels, Getting It covers all the bases of hook-up culture from first moves and sex etiquette to navigating non-monogamy and sexual health. In an era of endless crossed signals and heightened awareness of consent and respect, award-winning author and sex educator Allison Moon shows you how to achieve safe and enjoyable encounters by practicing clear communication and consideration of all parties involved--yourself included.

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Sex, ConsciousnessThe Sex Edsex, Consciousness, Desire & Libido, Orgasms, Love & Relationships, Sex Tips, Gender & Sexual Identity
The Breathing Book
The Breathing Book

With The Breathing Book, young readers discover the power of mindful awareness through a series of breathing practices and engaging activities designed to calm the mind and body, set positive intentions, and spark creativity and imagination. A book that’s much more than just a book, this interactive offering from Christopher Willard and Olivia Weisser invites readers to bring their full attention to the sights, sounds, and tactile sensations that arise as they explore the practices on each page with awareness.

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Kids, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdSpirituality & Religion, Self Love, Meditation, Consciousness, Kids
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from A Secret World by Peter Wohlleben

Peter Wohlleben is the author of numerous books about the natural world including The Hidden Life of Trees, The Inner Lives of Animals, and The Secret Wisdom of Nature, which together make up his bestselling The Mysteries of Nature Series. The Hidden Life of Trees explores questions such as: are trees social beings?

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Consciousness, HealthThe Sex EdHealth, Consciousness, Love & Relationships, Natures Medicine
Reproductive Justice (An Introduction) by Loretta Ross
Reproductive Justice (An Introduction) by Loretta Ross

Reproductive Justice is a first-of-its-kind primer that provides a comprehensive yet succinct description of the field. Written by two legendary scholar-activists, Reproductive Justice introduces students to an intersectional analysis of race, class, and gender politics.

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Sex, Consciousness, Health, HistoryThe Sex EdSex, Health, Consciousness, History, Social Justice, Race, Reproductive Health, Pregnancy & Postpartum
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Today's feminist movement has a glaring blind spot, and paradoxically, it is women. Mainstream feminists rarely talk about meeting basic needs as a feminist issue, argues Mikki Kendall, but food insecurity, access to quality education, safe neighborhoods, a living wage, and medical care are all feminist issues.

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Consciousness, Health, HistoryThe Sex EdHealth, Consciousness, History, Social Justice, Race, Reproductive Health, Feminism
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty by Dorothy Roberts

Killing the Black Body exposed America’s systemic abuse of Black women’s bodies. From slave masters’ economic stake in bonded women’s fertility to government programs that coerced thousands of poor Black women into being sterilized as late as the 1970s, these abuses pointed to the degradation of Black motherhood—and the exclusion of Black women’s reproductive needs in mainstream feminist and civil rights agendas.

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Sex, Health, Consciousness, HistoryThe Sex EdHistory, Sex, Health, Consciousness, Social Justice, Race, Reproductive Health, Pregnancy & Postpartum
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women by Leila J. Rupp
Sapphistries: A Global History of Love between Women by Leila J. Rupp

From the ancient poet Sappho to tombois in contemporary Indonesia, women throughout history and around the globe have desired, loved, and had sex with other women. In beautiful prose, Sapphistries tells their stories, capturing the multitude of ways that diverse societies have shaped female same-sex sexuality across time and place.

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History, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdHistory, Consciousness, Love & Relationships, Self Love, LGBTQ+, Gender & Sexual Identity
Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover by Annie Sprinkle
Assuming the Ecosexual Position: The Earth as Lover by Annie Sprinkle

Assuming the Ecosexual Position tells of childhood moments that pointed to a future of ecosexuality; how the two came together as lovers and collaborators, how they took a stand against homophobia and xenophobia, and how this union led to the miraculous conception of the Love Art Laboratory.

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Sex, Health, ConsciousnessThe Sex EdPorn, Sex Work, Gender & Sexual Identity, LGBTQ+, Desire & Libido, Self Love, Orgasms, Natures Medicine, Sex, Health, Consciousness