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Author talk with Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg

Join Rabbi Jessica Rosenberg for a reading and discussion of For Time Such As These: A Radical’s Guide to the Jewish Year. With a chapter for each month of the Hebrew calendar, For Times Such As These offers spiritual practices and holiday rituals rooted in movements for racial justice, decolonization, feminism, and queer and trans liberation. The book dives into core questions of leftist Jewish life in this time, which we will explore together at this event.

For Times Such as These: A Radical's Guide to the Jewish Year By Ariana Katz, Jessica Rosenberg Cover Image
Short Discount Book - email or call for price
ISBN: 9780814350515
Published: Wayne State University Press - March 1st, 2024

Author Talk with Cedar Monroe

Orca Books Cooperative is excited to announce author talk with Cedar Monroe, author of the book "Trash: A Poor White Journey", released March 5th, 2024 through Broadleaf Books.

A little about the author:

Cedar Monroe is an author, activist, and chaplain. They worked for over a decade as an interfaith chaplain to people experiencing homelessness, incarceration, and addiction. Raised in a rural community in a poor white family, they had a front row seat to the fall of extractive industries and the rise of white Christian nationalism.

Trash: A Poor White Journey By Cedar Monroe, Liz Theoharis (Foreword by) Cover Image
By Cedar Monroe, Liz Theoharis (Foreword by)
$28.99
ISBN: 9781506486277
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Published: Broadleaf Books - March 5th, 2024

WLBC- Civil Wars

March's WLBC book will be Civil Wars by June Jordan. Copies are available in-store OR available to order through our website here: https://www.orcabooks.com/book/9780684814049. We will be meeting Friday, March 15th at 6:00 p.m.

About the book:
"From renowned poet and activist June Jordan comes the reissue of her classic collection of essays about love, power, violence, and the condition of race relations in America. "A major and indispensable reading experience."--Alice Walker.

Civil Wars By June Jordan Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780684814049
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Published: Touchstone - September 1st, 1995

Author Talk with Abigail Rose Clarke on Returning Home to Our Bodies

We are hosting artist, author, and somatics practitioner Abigail Rose Clarke this Friday for a reading out of her new book! with decades of experience in body based healing (she just taught a class at fusion earlier this week~) we are excited to have her for an event with us at Orca. if you've ever felt the relief and inspiration of somatics and movement, you know it's a special way of being in the world!

Women's Liberation Book Club- The Right to Sex

February's book club book will be The Right to Sex by Amia Srinivasan! We will be meeting Friday, February 16th at 6:00 p.m.

Thrilling, sharp, and deeply humane, the philosopher Amia Srinivasan's The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century upends the way we discuss--or avoid discussing--the problems and politics of sex.

The Right to Sex: Feminism in the Twenty-First Century By Amia Srinivasan Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781250858795
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Published: Picador - September 20th, 2022

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