Beacon Press

14/08/2025

How come not all s*x ed is created equal? We caught up with Margaret Grace Myers to chat about THE HISTORY OF S*X ED.

A Q&A with Margaret Grace Myers | I really fell into the topic of the history of s*x ed in the United States while doing research about my great grandparents, who were both biologists at the turn of the twentieth century in Baltimore. They were casually involved in the social hygiene movement, which...

14/08/2025

🚨GIVEAWAY ALERT!🚨

Dina Gilio-Whitaker’s WHO GETS TO BE INDIAN? explores how Native American identity became a commodity, from cultural appropriation to ethnic fraud to disenrollment. Enter our Goodreads giveaway by September 7 for a chance to win a copy!

Enter to win one of 25 free copies available. Giveaway dates from Aug 08-Sep 07, 2025. Enter for a chance to win 1 of 25 first edition copies of Who Gets...

14/08/2025

When it comes to avoiding violence, most women have gotten a lot of questionable, s*xist safety advice. IMPACT Boston’s Meg Stone wrote THE COST OF FEAR to offer a path to true personal and collective safety.

"My writing style is what happens when you take memoir, reporting, and 'straight nonfiction' and put them in a blender."

13/08/2025

It wasn’t often that Planned Parenthood and the Reagan administration saw eye to eye, but the AIDS crisis brought them together to fund s*x ed programs.

The Adolescent Family Life Act (AFLA), nicknamed the “chastity bill,” was a federal law that provided funding for teen pregnancy prevention under Ronald Reagan’s Omnibus Budget Re…

13/08/2025

LaShawn Harris’s TELL HER STORY comes out later this month! And just like all the books listed here in EBONY’s new releases roundup, it packs a one-two punch!

From a champion boxer’s memoir to untold history, romance, poetry, and children’s tales, these August releases by Black authors deserve a spot on your list.

13/08/2025

In their ⭐starred review⭐, Publishers Weekly calls Ilan Binyamin’s ISRAEL ON THE BRINK “a bracingly principled and hopeful blueprint for the future.” Watch this space next month!

In this striking account, Israeli historian Pappé (Lobbying for Zionism) examines the present crisis of Israel’s legitimacy as a...

12/08/2025

When you’re reading these books while tanning at the beach, you’re in the zone. You know it when you feel it.

By Christian Coleman | Finishing eight or nine? Tell us: What’s the perfect time? We told you we’ll be waiting, hiding from the rainfall. And tell us: What’s the joy of giving if you’re never pleased? On our last strength against you, babes, tell us what you, as titles from our catalog, need...

12/08/2025

One thing Author Gloria Browne-Marshall says we’re overlooking in Trump’s takeover of policing in DC is the outward hostility against the city’s Black communities.

Civil rights leaders say Trump, a longtime antagonist, is overreaching by taking over policing in the nation's capital.

12/08/2025

Happy Publication Day, Margaret Grace Myers! 🎇

THE FIGHT FOR S*X ED, the 1st comprehensive trade history of s*x ed in US schools—and an impassioned call to reform s*x ed into a powerful tool for reproductive justice and social equality, “illuminates a history that is more vital than ever before” (Emma Straub).

11/08/2025

Save the date!

IMPACT Boston’s Meg Stone is leading a high-energy, hands-on self-defense training on September 25 at WBUR CitySpace. Get your tickets now!

Every year, nearly one in four women will experience s*xual violence on college campuses, but research shows that empowerment self-defense programs reduce these assaults by 50% or more. Join us for a self-defense class where you’ll learn assertive communication, bystander skills and simple, powerf...

11/08/2025

2 more months until Atash Yaghmaian’s MY NAME MEANS FIRE comes out! Kirkus Reviews calls her memoir “a powerful exploration of how family stories and cultural identity forge—and sometimes fracture—the self.”

A haunting memoir that excavates the weight of names, family mythology, and inherited trauma.

11/08/2025

8 years ago, a group of student anti-racist activists prepared all summer to stand up to the white nationalist demonstration in Charlottesville, VA. The neo-Nazis had other plans.

The students were surrounded by neo-Nazis wielding torches.