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With heart, humor, and razor-sharp observation, this intimate and incisive memoir traces the journey of a Black, queer woman as she searches the world for a place of security and acceptance to call homeI've never seen home as a permanent concept; it is an image crafted from untempered glass that threatens to shatter with lack of care.Jennifer Neal was born in the United States to a family that moved continuously for their own survival and well-being—from the Great Migration to the twenty-first century. As an adult, she has continued to travel the world as a Black queer woman, across two decades and four countries—from Japan to the US and then Australia to Germany, where she has settled for now.Throughout her moves, Neal threads her personal story of immigration with local Black histories and racial politics to provide context for her own experiences. The result is both a crucial examination of how racism plays a foundational role in modern-day immigration systems and a tender tribute to immigrants and their stories.An unwavering interrogation of colonialism and policy, love and loss, hypocrisy and resistance, My Pisces Heart demands meaningful conversation about not only the ways in which we live with our histories, but also how they live through us—urging an honest dialogue on why the West continues to grapple with its past and visualize its future.

Analyzes the impact of International Conflict Feminism's alliance with powerful global institutionsIn this book, Vasuki Nesiah tells the story of the astonishing uptake of International Conflict Feminism (ICF) in the most powerful institutions of global governance. ICF refers to a repertoire of policy agendas and legal strategies allied with those institutions to focus on women's vulnerabilities, fight impunity for sexual violence, and promote women's roles in peace-building processes. ICF emerged from feminist networks anchored in the Global North that gained momentum in the aftermath of the Cold War. Although this volume offers a testament to ICF's remarkable success, it also analyzes how this success was intertwined with the defeat of alternative visions and agendas, including a range of dissident and heterodox feminisms that were eclipsed as ICF gained traction.Emerging from Nesiah's dual occupations in academia and international law and policy practice, International Conflict Feminism shows how centrally the ICF agenda has shaped fields such as peace building, international criminal law, transitional justice, and post-conflict economic policy. Each section pauses at different sites in the international governance architecture to analyze the distributive impact of ICF and its allied global policy agendas to examine what is privileged, legitimized, and empowered, and what is subordinated, marginalized, and further excluded.ICF is a project of ideas and passions, legal proposals, and policy orientations. Today, when the most powerful countries of the world are describing their military, economic, and political interventions as a “feminist foreign policy,” the task of understanding and assessing the ICF project is especially urgent. Nesiah argues that, rather than obfuscating and denying the power of the ICF agenda, grappling with ICF's power is essential to achieving solidarity with feminisms that don't have a seat at the table, in particular those dissident feminist traditions with priorities and interests that challenge the dominant world order and its injustices and hierarchies.

'A searingly honest and impassioned account of being an advocate in the social media era, Alyssa's voice is fierce, urgent and brave; and filled with deep familial love. This book burns with an urgency and clarion call to action.'Alice Pung, author of One Hundred Days This is a book for anyone who believes that racism has no place in Australia's future and is ready to take action.‘I've played the role of the quiet and embarrassed Asian girl who shyly laughs along more than I should have in my lifetime. Enough is enough.'Growing up, Alyssa Huynh heard stories from her family about their journey from Vietnam to Australia following the fall of Saigon and the racism they experienced upon arrival. While the discrimination she faced was different, she never quite felt like she belonged either. Longing for a safe space, she turned to the internet. Through sharing her writing online, she created a supportive community for fellow Asians and people of colour with similar experiences, as well as for allies. When some of her views went viral, important conversations were sparked, but there was also racist backlash – showing her that the work was necessary and her voice had impact. Honest and heartfelt, Safe Space is unapologetically angry and sincerely hopeful. Alyssa explores the challenges she has faced as an Asian-Australian and those that made her the advocate she is today. She also offers practical advice, both to those who are victims of racism and wish to add their voice to the discourse or deepen their connection to their cultural identities, and to allies who want to learn more about how they can meaningfully show their support.

A fun-filled, highly illustrated, science-based exploration into one of the universe's greatest mysteries—does life exist beyond Earth?—from bestselling and award-winning author Stacy McAnulty. Spoiler: Scientists haven't discovered life beyond Earth, not even a single teeny-tiny organism. But there's a whole lot of outer space, and humans have searched only a fraction of a fraction of it. So do you believe in the possibility of life out there? Or do you think Earth is perfectly unique in its ability to grow organisms?Where Are the Aliens? takes readers on a journey of theories and discoveries, from the big bang and primordial soup, to how the ancient Greeks considered the cosmos, to the technology used today to listen and (possibly!) communicate with far-off exoplanets. Packed with playful illustrations and fascinating factoids, this is the perfect book for anyone who has ever looked up and asked,'What's out there?'

지금껏 알고 있던 \'위안부\'문제의 이면을 들여다보다! 과연 ‘위안부'문제는 80여 년 전 전쟁 중에 일어난 전쟁범죄일 뿐일까? ‘위안'은 누구에 의한, 그리고 누구를 위한 것인가? 미국, 필리핀, 중국 등 여러 나라의 \'위안부\'문제 전문가들로부터 수집한 생생한 기록과 증언들. 더 이상 증인이 남아 있지 않을 시대, 우리가 깨닫고 지켜나가야 할 역사적 과제의 현안을 명확히 짚어본다. 2020년 말 어느 국제 학술지에 실린 논문이 큰 논란을 일으켰다. 미국 하버드 대학 로스쿨의 마크 램지어 교수는 《국제법경제학리뷰》라는 학술저널에 게재한 〈태평양전쟁 중 성계약〉이라는 논문에서 제2차 세계대전 중 아시아태평양 지역의 일본군 ‘위안부'제도에 대한 역사적 사실을 부정하고 여성들이 자발적 계약을 맺고 매춘부로 전쟁터로 갔다는 억지 주장을 폈다. 여러 학자들의 비판적 검증에 부닥쳐 지면 출판이 연기된 이 사건은 태평양전쟁 중에 일어났고 문제제기가 된 지도 30년이 지난 ‘위안부'문제가 아직도 논쟁의 대상이며, 국제적인 주목을 받고 있는 현실을 잘 보여주는 사례이다. 《그녀의 일생》은 우리가 익숙하다고 생각하지만 그 내용과 해법에 대해서는 불확실할 때가 많은 ‘위안부'문제를 새로운 시각으로 조명한다. 이 책은 1926년 어느 날, 식민지 조선 남쪽의 한 작은 마을에서 태어난 한 여성의 이야기로 시작한다. 열여섯 어린나이에 전쟁 중인 대만으로 끌려가 그곳에서 ‘위안부'생활을 하다 어렵사리 조선으로 돌아온 그녀가 숨죽이며 살다가 드디어 과거의 일이 내가 잘못해서 생긴 일이 아니라는 것을 깨닫고 목소리를 내어 ‘위안소'에서 겪었던 일을 증언하는 과정을 역사적 사실과 함께 담담이 풀어냈다. 본 내용은 크게 세 부분으로 나누어진다. 1~4장은 역사적 사실과 논쟁, 5장은 피해자의 이야기, 6~9장은 국경을 넘은 활동가들의 이야기를 중심으로 한다. ‘위안부'라는 표현의 의미부터 시작해 ‘위안부'문제와 이를 해결하려는 여러 운동, 그리고 우리나라뿐 아니라 중국이나 필리핀, 심지어 네덜란드 등 여러 나라에 있는 피해자들의 이야기와 이들을 돕고 있는 활동가와 가족들의 이야기를 담고 있으며, 앞으로 ‘위안부'문제가 어떻게 진행되어 나가고 교육해야 하는지에 대해 폭넓게 다루고 있다. 오랜 시간 한국과 미국을 넘나들며 ‘위안부'교육안을 연구, 개발해온 저자 김지민 박사는 이 책을 통해 일본군 ‘위안부'문제를 국제적 시선에서 조망하고 있다. 국가주의적 담론 대신 피해자와 활동가들의 이야기를 중심에 놓는 서술에서 역사학자 특유의 비판 의식이 드러난다. 친절하게 풀어쓴 이야기를 따라가다 보면 독자들은 어느새 ‘위안부'문제의 현재성과 보편성을 이해하게 되고, 그 속에서 새로운 전망까지 스스로 고민하게 될 것이다.

This first comprehensive history of America's lottery obsession explores the spread of state lotteries and how players and policymakers alike got hooked on wishful dreams of an elusive jackpot. Every week, one in eight Americans place a bet on the dream of a life-changing lottery jackpot. Americans spend more on lottery tickets annually than on video streaming services, concert tickets, books, and movie tickets combined. The story of lotteries in the United States may seem straightforward: tickets are bought predominately by poor people driven by the wishful belief that they will overcome infinitesimal odds and secure lives of luxury. The reality is more complicated. For a Dollar and a Dream shows how, in an era of surging inequality and stagnant upward mobility, millions of Americans turned to the lottery as their only chance at achieving the American Dream. Gamblers were not the only ones who bet on betting. As voters revolted against higher taxes in the late twentieth century, states saw legalized gambling as a panacea, a way of generating a new source of revenue without cutting public services or raising taxes. Even as evidence emerged that lotteries only provided a small percentage of state revenue, and even as data mounted about their appeal to the poor, states kept passing them and kept adding new games, desperate for their longshot gamble to pay off. Alongside stories of lottery winners and losers, Jonathan Cohen shows how gamblers have used prayer to help them win a jackpot, how states tried to pay for schools with scratch-off tickets, and how lottery advertising has targeted lower income and nonwhite communities. For a Dollar and a Dream charts the untold history of the nation's lottery system, revealing how players and policymakers alike got hooked on hopes for a gambling windfall.