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Pocket Change CollectiveSeries

This series features powerful and inspiring stories from today's leading activists and artists. Each book, despite its small size, delivers profound ideas and food for thought. It is a collection of voices aiming to spark change and encourage readers to reflect on important social issues. These are small books with big messages.

Concrete Kids
Taking on the Plastic Crisis
Beyond the Gender Binary
This Is What I Know About Art
Imaginary Borders
The New Queer Conscience

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  • The New Queer Conscience

    • 64 pages
    • 3 hours of reading
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    LGBTQIAA+ activist Adam Eli argues the urgent need for queer responsibility -- that queers anywhere are responsible for queers everywhere--

    The New Queer Conscience

  • Imaginary Borders

    • 64 pages
    • 3 hours of reading
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    In this personal, moving essay, environmental activist and hip-hop artist Xiuhtezcatl Martinez uses his art and his activism to show that climate change is a human issue that can't be ignored--

    Imaginary Borders

  • This Is What I Know About Art

    • 64 pages
    • 3 hours of reading
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    In this powerful and hopeful account, arts writer, curator, and activist Kimberly Drew reminds us that the art world has space not just for the elite, but for everyone--

    This Is What I Know About Art

  • Beyond the Gender Binary

    • 64 pages
    • 3 hours of reading

    Pocket Change Collective was born out of a need for space. Space to think. Space to connect. Space to be yourself. And this is your invitation to join us. In Beyond the Gender Binary, poet, artist, and LGBTQIA rights advocate Alok Vaid-Menon deconstructs, demystifies, and reimagines the gender binary.

    Beyond the Gender Binary

  • Concrete Kids

    • 96 pages
    • 4 hours of reading
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    "Musician, playwright, and educator Amyra León takes us on a poetic journey through her childhood in Harlem, as she navigates the intricacies of foster care, mourning, self-love, and resilience. In her signature free-verse style, she invites us all to dream with abandon--and to recognize the privilege it is to dream at all"-- Provided by publisher

    Concrete Kids