The University of Alabama bookstore is offering a 25% off sale to celebrate Juneteenth, including progressive "queer" selections now available at a discount to commemorate the freeing of enslaved African Americans.
The promo, which runs through the end of the month and offers 25% and free shipping with the code JUNETEENTH, applies to the whole array of available titles on the University of Alabama Press's "Bama Bookstore."
"From deeply researched histories to powerful narratives, our titles invite readers to reflect, learn, and engage with the ongoing story of freedom and its legacies," The UA Press said in a release. "Whether you're adding to your personal library, preparing for a class, or simply looking for your next great read, now is the perfect time to discover and support meaningful scholarship."
When visiting the bookstore's "latest news" tab, you see the title "Queer Women, the Provincetown Players, and a Lasting Legacy," published by UA Press.
The book follows the acting troupe based in New York's Greenwich Village.
"Working in a converted stable with simple seating and a small stage, the Players helped shape American drama while fostering a community where queer women could live openly and define themselves on their own terms," the book's description reads. "Among the most compelling figures to emerge from this milieu were Djuna Barnes and Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose lives and work reflect the possibilities of queer expression in modernist America."
Another title available from the UA press is Reclaiming Queer by Erin J. Rand, which is touted as "An examination of the rhetorical linkage of queer theory in the academy with street-level queer activism in the 1980s and early 1990s."
There's also a UA Press title, "Sex Panic Rhetorics, Queer Interventions." This book "Analyzes the rhetoric of contemporary sex panics to expose how homophobia, heterosexism, and transphobia define public, political, and scholarly preoccupations with sexuality and gender."
One of the first on the "featured tab" when visiting the Bama Bookstore is "Former Virgin" by Cris Mazza, a book in which the author "shines a kleig light on the dark underside of relationships in a disturbing look at the ambiguous nature of our own desires. From women who foster their own abusive relationships, to failed suicide attempts, to furtive -- and horribly violent -- encounters in steamy basements, Mazza's stories cut to the heart of doomed human relationships, landing squarely in the murky territory between desire and despair, between freedom and loss of control."
Other books do focus on the civil rights movement and black liberation in the state, such as "Cradle of Freedom," by Frye Gaillard, or "Planning White Supremecy," which purports to show "how city planning was deployed to enforce white supremacy in Montgomery, Alabama—the birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement—and how Black activists fought back, block by neighborhood block."
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