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Heat: Gary Lee: Select Texts, Art & Anthropology
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartGary Lee; Maurice O’Riordan
Darwin: Disheval Books, 2023.An extensive anthology spanning five decades of the career of Larrakia artist and anthropologist Gary Lee. An important collection of writings and imagery on ethnicity, masculinity, and queerness in Darwin and beyond. With contributions by Dino Hodge, Daniel Browning, Tracey Moffatt, Jane Cush, Maurice O’Riordan and Wendy Brady. Edited by Maurice O’Riordan. Features extensive bibliography and a Larrakia & Darwin Aboriginal glossary.
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After Sex
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartEdna Bonhomme; Alice Spawls
London: Silver Press, 2023.“The last decade has seen a rise in activism and arguments over women’s reproductive freedom reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s. This title provides personal and political perspectives from the mid-twentieth century to the present day, setting feminist classics alongside contemporary accounts and highlighting the experiences of women of colour and working-class women. Contributors include Nell Dunn, Anne Enright, bell hooks, Ursula K. Le Guin, Audre Lorde and Sally Rooney. These essays, short stories and poems trace past understandings of reproductive freedom and consider what it might look like in future, making urgent connections between women’s equality and access to contraception, healthcare and childcare. The writers pay special attention to people — both fictional and real — who have sought control over their sexual lives, and the joy, comedy, difficulties and disappointments that entails. But above all, After Sex testifies to the power of great writing to show us why that freedom is worth pursuing — without shame and without apology.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Who are you, Polly Maggoo
AU$80.00 Read MoreAdd to cartWilliam Klein
Paris: delpire & co, 2023.Photo-novel based on Klein’s 1966 film.
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One Hour More Daylight: A Historical Overview of Aboriginal Dispossession in Southern and Southwest Queensland
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartMark Copland; Jonathan Richards; Andrew Walker
Toowoomba: The Social Justice Commission, Catholic Diocese of Toowoomba, 2023.Processes of Aboriginal dispossession in Southern and Southwest Queensland. Methods of dispossession. Colonial history. Racism in Queensland/Australia. Aboriginal adaptation to the new economic and social structures. The second edition with nearly 100 more pages.
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Ergot Alkaloids: History, Chemistry, and Therapeutic Uses
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlbert Hofmann
Berkeley: Transform Press, 2023.First English translation of Die Mutterkornalkaloide documenting Hofmann’s research on ergot that led to the discovery of LSD. “a detailed account of chemical compounds and pharmacological investigation into the potential of magical plants. Starting with the botany and cultivation of the ergot mushroom, Hofmann takes us through the historical elaboration of the fungus including the poisoning epidemic of ergot and its early medical uses all the way to the use of psilocybin as a “magical drug”. With a detailed timeline, we explore the growth of the pharmaceutical-chemical investigation from 1816 to 1961 with a total synthesis of ergotamine including tables of chemical structures and the role of lysergic acid, d-lysergic acid and diethylamide in experimental psychiatry gaining increasing importance in psychotherapy as a medical aid. Hofmann brings an observational account of these plants and their ceremonial and healing purposes still used by indigenous peoples such as the “Peyotl” cactus, “Teonanactl” the sacred mushroom of the Aztecs and “Ololiuqui” the seeds of bindweed plants.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Archer Magazine 19: The Pleasure Issue
AU$19.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAmy Middleton; Roz Bellamy
Melbourne: Archer Magazine, 2023.A magazine about sex, gender and identity. The Pleasure Issue. Contributors include: Joan Nestle, Katia Ariel, Erin Riley, Caitlin McGregor, Lauren French, Vex Ashley, Hini Hanara, Bebe Oliver, Patrice Capogreco, Euphemia Russell, Jessamyn Stanley, Pro Dommes Alani and Danielle, and an image editorial by Hailey Moroney.
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The Lost Tune: Early Works (1913-1930) as photographed by the artist
AU$90.00 Read MoreAdd to cartStanislav Szukalski
San Francisco: Last Gasp, 2023.The photos in this volume were printed from the original glass negatives taken by the artist between 1913 and 1930. This is the second edition of Stanislav Szukalski’s The Lost Tune. The first edition was produced to complement the exhibit Szukalski: The Lost Genius, held between August 3 and October 22, 1990 at the Polish Museum of America in Chicago. With the addition of over a dozen photos, this new edition is a collection of prints of almost all of Szukalski’s existing glass negatives. The negatives have been scanned in high resolution and meticulously reproduced and printed. This edition has a larger format than the first edition, and includes a comprehensive article on the historical and artistic merit of Szukalski’s early photography. (publisher’s blurb)
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The Archaeology of Eros
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJorge Socarras; Mel Odom
San Francisco: Dark Entries Editions, 2023.“Homoerotic poetry and art appear throughout the world’s civilizations for millennia. The Archaeology of Eros, the first collection of poems from cult music figure Jorge Socarras, taps into that continuum through the collaboration of acclaimed artist Mel Odom. Socarras’ intimate love poems and Odom’s evocative drawings are beautifully juxtaposed in this elegantly designed book. Straddling the sensual and the archetypal, the contemporary and the classical, poetry and art join forces in exploring the mystery and wonder of Eros, affirming that same-sex desire has lived before even as it flourishes now. Born to Cuban parents in New York City, Jorge Socarras (born 1952) is known for his 1970s collaboration with pioneering synthesizer musician Patrick Cowley as the duo Catholic, as singer-frontman of the 1980s avant-rock group Indoor Life and as half of the ongoing musical duo Fanatico X. He was also cofounder of the Silence=Death Collective, the AIDS activist group that in 1987 created the eponymous poster design and slogan. The award-winning art of Mel Odom (born 1950) has graced numerous book covers and magazines since the 1970s, has been the subject of two books, and has been exhibited in galleries and art institutions, including in collaboration with gay literary icon Edmund White.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Psilocybin Mushrooms of South East Queensland, Australia: Eliminating the Harms
AU$45.00 Read MoreAdd to cartT. K. Nixon
[Eumundi]: T. K. Nixon, 2023.“What are the main harms associated with foraging for and eating psilocybin mushrooms – the mushrooms themselves, poisonous look-a-likes, or the laws surrounding their use and possession? T. K. Nixon guides us through thousands of years of history, fifty years of prohibition and a modern, scientific, mushroom renaissance in this one-of-a-kind work. With over forty full-colour photos, and identification and environmental information, this book contains all you need to avoid the harms associated with psilocybin mushrooms.” (rear cover)
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Transgender Australia: A History Since 1910
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartNoah Riseman
Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2023.“The first book on Australian trans history exploring the lives and impacts of trans and gender-diverse Australians. Trans and gender diverse people have always been present in Australian life, whether they’ve lived quiet lives in the country, performed in cabaret shows, worked on the streets or run for parliament. But over the last century there have been remarkable changes in how they have identified and expressed themselves. Transgender Australia is the first book to chart the changing social, medical, legal and lived experiences of trans and gender diverse people in Australia since 1910. Drawing on over a hundred oral history interviews and previously unexamined documents and media reports, it highlights how trans people have tried to live authentically while navigating a society that often treated them like outcasts.” (publisher’s blurb)
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The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism
AU$100.00 Read MoreAdd to cartJudith Noble; Tilly Craig; Victoria Ferentinou
Lopen: Fulgur Press, 2023.“Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until recent years. This volume is the first critical examination of her diverse legacy, compiling papers from a 2018 conference on Colquhoun and her contemporaries Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini and Stella Snead. Colquhoun occupies a unique place within the lineage of occult Surrealist painters such as Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, as her presence in the 2022 Venice Biennale exhibition Milk of Dreams demonstrated.Contributors explore themes of authorship and agency, Colquhoun’s drawing practice, her Celtic motifs, British Surrealism and alchemy.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Doris Fish and the Rise of Drag
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCraig Seligman
Sydney: Hachette, 2023.“An exciting new history of drag told through the life of the remarkable, flawed, and singular Australian-born Doris Fish. In the 1970s, gay men and lesbians were openly despised and drag queens scared the public. Yet that was the era when Doris Fish (born Philip Mills in 1952) painted and padded his way to stardom. He was a leader of the generation that prepared the world not just for drag queens on TV but for a society that welcomes and even celebrates queer people. How did we get from there to here? In Who Does That Bitch Think She Is? Craig Seligman looks at Doris’s short but overstuffed life as a way to provide some answers. There were effectively three Dorises – the quiet visual artist, the glorious drag queen, and the hunky male prostitute who supported the other two. He started performing in Sydney in 1972 as a member of Sylvia and the Synthetics, a psycho troupe that represented the first anarchic flowering of queer creative energy in the post-Stonewall era. After moving to San Francisco in the mid-70s, he became the driving force behind years of sidesplitting drag shows that were loved as much as you can love throwaway trash – which is what everybody thought they were. No one, Doris included, perceived them as political theater, when in fact they were accomplishing satire’s deepest dream: not just to rail against society, but to change it. Seligman recounts this dynamic period in queer history – from Stonewall to AIDS – giving insight into how our ideas about gender have broadened to make drag the phenomenon we know it as today. In a book filled with interviews and letters about a life that ricocheted between hilarity and tragedy, he revisits the places and people Doris knew in order to shed light on the multi-hued era that his remarkable life encapsulated.” (publisher’s blurb)
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In Search of Smiles: LSD, Operation Julie and Beyond
AU$85.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAndy Roberts
London: Psychedelic Press, 2023.“The life of Alston Hughes, aka Smiles, is an extraordinary journey through Britain’s counterculture and illicit drug networks in the late twentieth century. A key figure in the Microdot Gang conspiracy, Smiles shifted millions of doses of LSD before being arrested in 1977 by Operation Julie — the police investigation which unearthed what was then the largest LSD manufacturing and distribution operation of its kind. Based on a series of interviews, Andy Roberts’ In Search of Smiles is an enthralling folkloric biography of a life lived to the full, and a culture pushed to the edge. From a tough upbringing in postwar Manchester, to free festivals, hashish smuggling, and travels to South Asia, Smiles’ cat and mouse adventure with the authorities weaves through an intimate portrayal of his life, relationships, and community in the village of Llanddewi Brefi and beyond.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Death in the Sauna
AU$35.00 Read MoreAdd to cartDennis Altman
Melbourne: Clouds of Magellan Press, 2023.“On the eve of a major international AIDS Conference in London, the Conference chair is found dead in suspicious circumstances. Tracking down how he died reveals layers of deception, rivalry and danger for those close to him.” (publisher’s blurb) The first novel of Australian gay rights activist and academic Dennis Altman (1943-).
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How They Fought: Indigenous Tactics and Weaponry of Australia’s Frontier Wars
AU$40.00 Read MoreAdd to cartRay Kerkhove
Brisbane: Boolarong Press, 2023.“The history of Australia’s Frontier Wars is becoming a hot topic for debate and research. It is now part of our national educational syllabus. However, there are very few books available which explain, in detail, the modes of warfare First Australians applied during the Frontier Wars. How They Fought is written as an introductory guidebook. It is broken into chapters covering organisation, strategies, weaponry, and defences. The book considers both traditional practices and technological and tactical adaptations. To make this complex topic more accessible, How They Fought includes numerous tables, figures and diagrams that illustrate and summarize the contents.” (publisher’s blurb)
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A White Genocidal Assimilationist Bitch Speaks
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartKathleen Mary Fallon
[Sydney]: Polar Bear Press, 2023.“This second publication in the Queensland School Reader series continues Fallon’s reconciliation dialogues telling intimate stories of her forty years as the lesbian foster mother of a Torres Strait Islander with disabilities. This was during the lesophobic decades when the boy would have been immediately removed from her care if the Authorities had discovered her lesbianism. Her stories are angry, tragic, darkly humorous, sometimes just plain snarky and gossipy. Ranging geographically from Brisbane to Sydney to London and ranging temporally over those forty year they are personally, politically, socially and culturally informative and candid snap shots of those times. There is an urgency about these stories and they need to be told.” (author’s blurb)
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Where Money Comes From: The Explosive Truth
AU$25.00 Read MoreAdd to cartCharles Pinwill
[Brisbane]: Logos, 2023.“Discover who creates and controls your money, how it is managed or mismanaged, and exactly how this impacts every hour of your life. This entertaining collection of essays explicitly addresses the monetary policy of nations from the point of view of its proper owners, the public. Hard-hitting, undeniable and unapologetic, political correctness has no place in this revelatory exploration.” (publisher’s blurb)
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Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays
AU$50.00 Read MoreAdd to cartAlan Piper
London: Psychedelic Press, 2023.“What are the roots of psychedelic culture? Why are psychedelics seen as transgressive? How was Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD’s effects entwined with a world at war? In Bicycle Day and other Psychedelic Essays, Alan Piper explores the often forgotten or ignored early histories of psychoactive drugs that helped shape psychedelia. Falling between the eighteenth century, the Club des Hashischins and the psychedelic sixties, the less explored interwar period has a surprisingly rich culture of drug-induced mind states, which are intimately connected with the birth of modernism. From the literature of Hope Mirrlees, David Lindsay and Ernst Jünger, to Harvard peyote experiments, Hofmann’s occultic network and the relationship of Sandoz pharmaceuticals with Nazi Germany, Alan Piper’s collection is a rich tapestry of literary and social drug history. It includes a Foreword by Mike Jay, author of Mescaline: A Global History of the First Psychedelic.” (publisher’s blurb)