Stay Solid!
A Radical Handbook For Youth
Published on 14. February 2013
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-84935-099-0 (ISBN)
Description
- While there are a handful of books available to help teenagers cope with different issues, such as Dan Savage's It Gets Better and Grace Llewellyn's The Teenage Liberation Handbook, there is no collection that addresses such a broad array of issues-education, family, race, community, sex, drugs, relationships-central to growing up while maintaining your political identity.
- The drive to publish this work came from frequent requests for a collection of this kind.
- This book is a project of the Purple Thistle Youth Center in Vancouver, coordinated by Matt Hern, but largely developed for youth, by youth. It will resonate well with teens who are looking for peer-driven analyses of the issues that they face.
- The contributor line-up, which includes, Dan Savage, Noam Chomsky, and Grace Llewellyn ensures that this collection will be of interest not just to teens, but to adults who are interested to learn about the challenges today's radical youth face.
- Matt Hern's voice ties this collection together, and guarantees built-in readership due to acclaim for his previous work on education, which includes Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader, Field Day: Getting Society Out of Schoool, and Deschooling Our Lives.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 180 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
637 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84935-099-0 (9781849350990)
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E-Book
07/2013
AK Press
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Person
Matt Hern lives and works in East Vancouver with his partner and daughters. He founded, and for nine years has directed the Purple Thistle Centre, an all-ages youth-run community center for arts and activism. Among his other projects is a youth exchange program with an isolated town in northern Canada designed to bring native and non-native kids together to live, work, and travel.
His books and writing have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages. He writes features and articles for a wide variety of publications, and continues to lecture globally.
He is the author of Field Day (New Star, 2003), Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn't Always Better (New Star, 2007), and Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, and is the editor of Deschooling Our Lives (New Society, 1996), and Everywhere, All the Time (AK Press, 2008).
Matt holds a PhD in Urban Studies and lectures at SFU and UBC in Urban Studies and Education departments and is on faculty at the Institute for Social Ecology and Prescott College in Arizona. He remains active in a number of movements in Vancouver, is a food security activist, avid gardener and unrepentant sports fan. For more info, be sure to visit his website: www.mightymatthern.com.
His books and writing have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages. He writes features and articles for a wide variety of publications, and continues to lecture globally.
He is the author of Field Day (New Star, 2003), Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn't Always Better (New Star, 2007), and Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, and is the editor of Deschooling Our Lives (New Society, 1996), and Everywhere, All the Time (AK Press, 2008).
Matt holds a PhD in Urban Studies and lectures at SFU and UBC in Urban Studies and Education departments and is on faculty at the Institute for Social Ecology and Prescott College in Arizona. He remains active in a number of movements in Vancouver, is a food security activist, avid gardener and unrepentant sports fan. For more info, be sure to visit his website: www.mightymatthern.com.
Content
* Forward
* Introduction, by Matt Hern
*Section 1 *
1. Family (parenting)
Contributors include: Phillip Larkin, Ivan Coyote, Eldon Hay, Walker Banerd, Kelsey Savage, Laura Maybe, John Dewey
2. School
Contributors include: Carla Bergman, Gustavo Esteva, Grace Llewellyn
3. Community
Contributors include: Benito Wamburo, Chris Mercogliano, Fly, Liz Lichtman, Matt Hern
4. Money (careers, work etc.)
Contributors include: Aly de la Cruz, Starla, Geoff Mann, Astra Taylor, Hari Alluri, Anna Hunter
5. Things you are good at (skills)
Contributors include: Nigel Boeur, Wendell Berry, Lynda Berry, Dishwasher Pete
*Section 2*
6. Sex
Contributors include: Dan Savage, Maggie Hallowell, Leroy Wan, Meredith Lum,
7. Drugs
Contributors TBD
8. Pop culture
Contributors TBD
9. Relationships (friends, romance)
Contributors TBD
10. Travel
Contributors include: Cole Robertson, Gabe Martin, Mikeal, Elise Bouer, Bianca Bockman, Eylem Korkmaz, Dan Bushnell
*Section 3 *
11. Class
Contributors TBD
12. Race
Contributors TBD
13. Gender/sexuality
Contributors include: Sunera Thobani, Tania Willard, Cynthia Dewi Oka
14. Dis/ability = Cecily
Contributors include: Carmen Papalia, Sunaura Taylor, Marcus Youssef
15. Indigenous struggles
Contributors TBD
16. Eco disaster
Contributors include: Paul Watson, Derrick Jensen, Vandana Shiva, Ben West, Will Allen
* Section 4 *
17. Identity/Immigration
Contributors include: Alexandra Henao, Fara Mclaren, Raul Arboleda, Arman Zamani
18. Cops /courts
Contributors include: Jaggi Singh, Ashanti Alston, Arlin French, Harsha Walia
19. Mental health
Contributors TBD
20. Your body
Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Karine Silverwoman
*OUTRO : Getting old/er*
Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Peter Prontzos, Tasnim Nathoo
Biographies
* Introduction, by Matt Hern
*Section 1 *
1. Family (parenting)
Contributors include: Phillip Larkin, Ivan Coyote, Eldon Hay, Walker Banerd, Kelsey Savage, Laura Maybe, John Dewey
2. School
Contributors include: Carla Bergman, Gustavo Esteva, Grace Llewellyn
3. Community
Contributors include: Benito Wamburo, Chris Mercogliano, Fly, Liz Lichtman, Matt Hern
4. Money (careers, work etc.)
Contributors include: Aly de la Cruz, Starla, Geoff Mann, Astra Taylor, Hari Alluri, Anna Hunter
5. Things you are good at (skills)
Contributors include: Nigel Boeur, Wendell Berry, Lynda Berry, Dishwasher Pete
*Section 2*
6. Sex
Contributors include: Dan Savage, Maggie Hallowell, Leroy Wan, Meredith Lum,
7. Drugs
Contributors TBD
8. Pop culture
Contributors TBD
9. Relationships (friends, romance)
Contributors TBD
10. Travel
Contributors include: Cole Robertson, Gabe Martin, Mikeal, Elise Bouer, Bianca Bockman, Eylem Korkmaz, Dan Bushnell
*Section 3 *
11. Class
Contributors TBD
12. Race
Contributors TBD
13. Gender/sexuality
Contributors include: Sunera Thobani, Tania Willard, Cynthia Dewi Oka
14. Dis/ability = Cecily
Contributors include: Carmen Papalia, Sunaura Taylor, Marcus Youssef
15. Indigenous struggles
Contributors TBD
16. Eco disaster
Contributors include: Paul Watson, Derrick Jensen, Vandana Shiva, Ben West, Will Allen
* Section 4 *
17. Identity/Immigration
Contributors include: Alexandra Henao, Fara Mclaren, Raul Arboleda, Arman Zamani
18. Cops /courts
Contributors include: Jaggi Singh, Ashanti Alston, Arlin French, Harsha Walia
19. Mental health
Contributors TBD
20. Your body
Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Karine Silverwoman
*OUTRO : Getting old/er*
Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Peter Prontzos, Tasnim Nathoo
Biographies