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Wearing My Mother's Heart
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
Format: Hardcover
Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.
In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the lives of women in the past and considers what it means to be a woman today. Exploring topics such as identity, race, politics, mental health, and self-love, she weaves together the voices of a grandmother, mother, and daughter and examines how previous generations have given us the freedom to speak out. Encompassing love from first crush to breakup, as well as the history that comes before us and the brave moments that make us, this collection will resonate with all young women as they approach the joys and pain of adulthood.
The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World
Price: $9.99
Pub Date: September 27, 2022
Format: Paperback
“An outstanding and inspirational guide to women’s history for today’s political activists.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The women’s suffrage movement was decades in the making and came with many harsh setbacks. But it resulted in a permanent victory: women’s legal right to vote in the United States. How did the suffragists do it? Just over one hundred years later, an eye-opening look at their playbook shows familiar strategies from women’s marches to publicity stunts, petitions to lobbying, fundraising to writing articles. From moments of inspiration to some of the movement’s darker aspects—including the racism of some suffragist leaders, violence against picketers, and hunger strikes in jail—this clear-eyed view takes in the role of key figures: Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, and more. Engagingly narrated by Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs Roberts, whose friendship goes back generations (to their grandmothers, Lady Bird Johnson and Lindy Boggs, and their mothers, Lynda Robb and Cokie Roberts), this unique melding of history and tactics is sure to capture the attention of today’s activists-in-the-making.
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Price: $7.99
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
Format: Paperback
"The power of Sophia Thakur's words will affect generations." —Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give
Be with yourself for a moment.
Be yourself for a moment.
Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment.
From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference, perseverance, relationships, fear, loss, and joy. From youth to school to family life to falling in love and falling back out again—the poems draw on the author’s experience as a young mixed-race woman trying to make sense of a lonely and complicated world. With a strong narrative voice and emotional empathy, this is poetry that will resonate with all young people, whatever their background and whatever their dreams.

Wearing My Mother's Heart
Price: $18.99
Pub Date: October 10, 2023
Format: Hardcover
Performance poet Sophia Thakur offers a powerful new collection touching on intergenerational relationships, finding your voice, and what it means to be a woman.
In her heartfelt second poetry collection, Sophia Thakur takes us on an emotionally charged journey through the lives of women in the past and considers what it means to be a woman today. Exploring topics such as identity, race, politics, mental health, and self-love, she weaves together the voices of a grandmother, mother, and daughter and examines how previous generations have given us the freedom to speak out. Encompassing love from first crush to breakup, as well as the history that comes before us and the brave moments that make us, this collection will resonate with all young women as they approach the joys and pain of adulthood.
The Suffragist Playbook: Your Guide to Changing the World
Price: $9.99
Pub Date: September 27, 2022
Format: Paperback
“An outstanding and inspirational guide to women’s history for today’s political activists.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
The women’s suffrage movement was decades in the making and came with many harsh setbacks. But it resulted in a permanent victory: women’s legal right to vote in the United States. How did the suffragists do it? Just over one hundred years later, an eye-opening look at their playbook shows familiar strategies from women’s marches to publicity stunts, petitions to lobbying, fundraising to writing articles. From moments of inspiration to some of the movement’s darker aspects—including the racism of some suffragist leaders, violence against picketers, and hunger strikes in jail—this clear-eyed view takes in the role of key figures: Susan B. Anthony, Lucy Stone, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Ida B. Wells, Alice Paul, and more. Engagingly narrated by Lucinda Robb and Rebecca Boggs Roberts, whose friendship goes back generations (to their grandmothers, Lady Bird Johnson and Lindy Boggs, and their mothers, Lynda Robb and Cokie Roberts), this unique melding of history and tactics is sure to capture the attention of today’s activists-in-the-making.
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Price: $7.99
Pub Date: September 14, 2021
Format: Paperback
"The power of Sophia Thakur's words will affect generations." —Angie Thomas, author of The Hate U Give
Be with yourself for a moment.
Be yourself for a moment.
Airplane mode everything but yourself for a moment.
From acclaimed performance poet Sophia Thakur comes a stirring collection of coming-of-age poems exploring issues of identity, difference, perseverance, relationships, fear, loss, and joy. From youth to school to family life to falling in love and falling back out again—the poems draw on the author’s experience as a young mixed-race woman trying to make sense of a lonely and complicated world. With a strong narrative voice and emotional empathy, this is poetry that will resonate with all young people, whatever their background and whatever their dreams.