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We are an independent, Black- and woman-owned design consultancy, letterpress workshop, and bookstore serving designers and other thinking persons in community. We use joy (and love) as an act of resistance. We are the only full service—both in-person and fully online—majority Black-owned bookstore, in the Mountain Time Zone. We have titles from all over the world that illuminate the works of Black, brown, indigenous, and queer intellectuals that are not diminished by the presence of works by the Far Right. You can come to us for acknowledgment, love, conversations, tools, and books to transform minds and hearts.

Inter/Nationalism: Decolonizing Native America and Palestine Israel: A Concise History of a Nation Reborn My Promised Land: The Triumph and Tragedy of Israel
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Israel, Palestine and Elsewhere

Climate Change Is Racist: Race, Privilege and the Struggle for Climate Justice As Long as Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice, from Colonization to Standing Rock Revolutionary Power: An Activist's Guide to the Energy Transition
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Because Climate Justice and Racial Justice Go Hand in Hand

The Enneagram for Black Liberation: Return to Who You Are Beneath the Armor You Carry
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Is Gender Fluid? (the Big Idea Series)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Fully Human: 3 Steps to Grow Your Emotional Fitness in Work, Leadership, and Life
You Are Your Best Thing: Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience
A Zero Waste Life: In Thirty Days
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
We Should All Be Feminists
Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Reproductive Justice: An Introduction Volume 1 Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing of Women's Reproduction in America
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Because Reproductive Justice is a Human Right

Organized Labor and the Black Worker, 1619-1981
For Jobs and Freedom: Race and Labor in America Since 1865
Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America
Teacher Unions and Social Justice: Organizing for the Schools and Communities Our Students Deserve
A People's History of the United States
Reconsidering Southern Labor History: Race, Class, and Power
They're Bankrupting Us!: And 20 Other Myths about Unions
To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors After the Civil War
Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell): My Decade Fighting for the Labor Movement
Why Unions Matter
Black Workers' Struggle for Equality in Birmingham
Brotherhoods of Color: Black Railroad Workers and the Struggle for Equality
Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South
Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Fight Like Hell: The Untold History of American Labor
How to Write an Autobiographical Novel: Essays Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life In the Dream House: A Memoir
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Books that are Queer and Dear

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
Afterparties: Stories
Breasts and Eggs
Yolk
Laxmi's Mooch
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls: A Memoir
Dear Memory: Letters on Writing, Silence, and Grief
Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)
Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Original)
Build Your House Around My Body
Klara and the Sun
Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion
Land of Big Numbers: Stories
Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps Earthquakes, Mudslides, Fires & Riots: California and Graphic Design, 1936-1986 Art for People's Sake: Artists and Community in Black Chicago, 1965-1975
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BIPOC DESIGN HISTORY // Black Design in America

Salvation: Black People and Love
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger
Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
We Want to Do More Than Survive: Abolitionist Teaching and the Pursuit of Educational Freedom
The Book of Delights: Essays
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel
How We Fight White Supremacy: A Field Guide to Black Resistance
How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
DIY Resistance: 36 Ways to Fight Back!
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
Resist!: How to Be an Activist in the Age of Defiance
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Be Antiracist: A Journal for Awareness, Reflection, and Action
Black Against Empire: The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
Black Panthers Speak
Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times
What Doesn't Kill You Makes You Blacker: A Memoir in Essays
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement