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“In a field crowded with tech-utopian blowhards and app-happy snake oil salesmen, Tom Slee stands apart. ” – Astra Taylo
“Revolutionary Mothering: Love on the Front Lines is juicy, gutsy, vulnerable, and very brave. . . . A radical vision, many radical visions of how to mother in a time of resistance and of pain.” - Alice Walker
What kind of world is it when transnational companies making big bucks from unregulated labour is called "sharing"? Tom Slee has some thoughts on that. A world with collective solutions is called for by an amazing list of contributors who bring their thoughts and stories around revolutionary mothering. We call that a great February release!
World's easiest free book contest! Win a copy of What's Yours is Mine! To enter, email info@btlbooks.com by March 2nd with the subject line "February newsletter contest" and give us the name of the author of the book. We will draw a winner from the correct responses (Canadian mailing addresses only please).
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What's Yours is Mine
Against the Sharing Economy
By Tom Slee
A vigorous takedown of the "sharing economy"! The news is full of their names, supposedly the vanguard of a rethinking of capitalism. Lyft, Airbnb, Taskrabbit, Uber, and many more companies have a mandate of disruption and upending the “old order”—and they’ve succeeded in effecting the “biggest change in the American workforce in over a century,” according to former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich.
But this new wave of technology companies is funded and steered by very old-school venture capitalists. And in What’s Yours Is Mine, technologist Tom Slee argues the so-called sharing economy damages development, extends harsh free-market practices into previously protected areas of our lives, and presents the opportunity for a few people to make fortunes by damaging communities and pushing vulnerable individuals to take on unsustainable risk. Drawing on original empirical research, Slee shows that the friendly language of sharing, trust, and community masks a darker reality.
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Revolutionary Mothering
Love on the Front Lines
Edited by Alixis Pauline Gumbs, China Martens, and Mai'A Williams
Inspired by the legacy of radical and queer Black feminists of the 1970s and ’80s, Revolutionary Mothering places marginalized mothers of color at the center of a world of necessary transformation. The challenges we face as movements working for racial, economic, reproductive, gender, and food justice, as well as anti-violence, anti-imperialist, and queer liberation are the same challenges that many mothers face every day. Oppressed mothers create a generous space for life in the face of life-threatening limits, activate a powerful vision of the future while navigating tangible concerns in the present, move beyond individual narratives of choice toward collective solutions, live for more than ourselves, and remain accountable to a future that we cannot always see. Revolutionary Mothering is a movement-shifting anthology committed to birthing new worlds, full of faith and hope for what we can raise up together.
Contributors include June Jordan, Malkia A. Cyril, Esteli Juarez Boyd, Cynthia Dewi Oka, Fabiola Sandoval, Sumayyah Talibah, Victoria Law, Tara Villalba, Lola Mondragón, Christy NaMee Eriksen, Norma Angelica Marrun, Vivian Chin, Rachel Broadwater, Autumn Brown, Layne Russell, Noemi Martinez, Katie Kaput, alba onofrio, Gabriela Sandoval, Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Ariel Gore, Claire Barrera, Lisa Factora-Borchers, Fabielle Georges, H. Bindy K. Kang, Terri Nilliasca, Irene Lara, Panquetzani, Mamas of Color Rising, tk karakashian tunchez, Arielle Julia Brown, Lindsey Campbell, Micaela Cadena, and Karen Su.
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Hot off the press!
Ginger Goodwin
A Worker's Friend
by Laura Ellyn
“Ginger Goodwin: A Worker’s Friend is brilliant in every way" - Paul Buhle labour historian, editor of Wobblies!, Che, and graphic adaptations of books by Howard Zinn and Studs Terkel
With bright, strong imagery, Ginger Goodwin presents the story of labour activist and martyr Albert “Ginger” Goodwin. This accessible and thoughtful graphic history explores Goodwin’s life, work, and death in the mining communities of Cumberland and Trail, British Columbia. Drawing on local history, and exploring the ways the history of labour organizing affects contemporary movements, Ginger Goodwin is a story that needs to be shared.
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Seeing red! New In Defiance book trailer
In Defiance
By Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois
The “Maple Spring” saw more than 300,000 students across Quebec protest a tuition fee hike by striking from their classes. Nadeau-Dubois takes readers step-by-step through the strike, recounting the confrontations with journalists, ministers, judges, and police. Along the way he exposes the moral and intellectual poverty of the Quebec elite and celebrates the remarkable energy of the students who opposed the mercenary attitude of the austerity agenda.
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BTL events
Keep up to date for BTL events on this page of our website!
 Author Marilyn Churley is speaking on Shameless at the Dufferin/St. Clair library in Toronto. Details here.
Flight and Freedom co-author Ratna Omidvar is a featured speaker at the Cities of Migration Conference March 2nd in Toronto. Registration required. Details here.
Ernie Regehr will be in Toronto speaking at the Reference Library March 15th. Details here.
Join author and illustrator Laura Ellyn for an event at Octopus Books in Ottawa March 16. Details here.
 Author Shakil Choudhury will be speaking on his book at Octopus Books in Ottawa March 31st. Details here.
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