Arsenal Pulp Press

Arsenal Pulp Press is a book publisher in Vancouver, Canada with over 400 titles currently in print, which include literary fiction, nonfiction and poetry; books on social issues; gender studies; LGBTQ2S+ and BIPOC literature; graphic novels and non-fiction; children’s and young adult literature; regional history; cookbooks; alternative crafts; and books in translation. They are interested in literature that engages and challenges readers, and which asks probing questions about the world around us.

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
NEW! Between Certain Death and a Possible Future Queer Writing on Growing Up with the AIDS Crisis	Between Certain Death and a Possible Future: Queer Writing on Growing up with the AIDS Crisis offers crucial stories from this missing generation in AIDS literature and cultural politics. This …	Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore	368	2021	View
Care Work Dreaming of Disability Justice	In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and long-time disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the …	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	266	2018	View
Conflict Is Not Abuse Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair	From intimate relationships to global politics, Sarah Schulman observes a continuum: that inflated accusations of harm are used to avoid accountability. Illuminating the difference between …	Sarah Schulman	304	2016	View
NEW! Crip Kinship The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid	The remarkable story of Sins Invalid, a performance project that centres queer disability justice. In recent years, disability activism has come into its own as a vital and necessary means to …	Shayda Kafai	201	2021	View
Cure for Hate A Former White Supremacist's Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion	How does an affluent, middle-class, private-school-attending son of a doctor end up at the Aryan Nations compound in Idaho, falling in with and then recruiting for some of the most notorious …	Tony McAleer	235	2019	View
Fighting For Space How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City's Struggle with Addiction	North America is in the grips of a drug epidemic. While deaths across the continent soar, Travis Lupick’s Fighting for Space explains the concept of harm reduction as a crucial component of …	Travis Lupick	408	2017	View
NEW! Float Like a Butterfly, Drink Mint Tea How I Beat the Shit Out of All My Addictions	As an alcoholic, drug-addicted comedian with tendencies to over-indulge and under-achieve since he was a teenager, Alex Wood was on track for to achieve his greatest goals: to die young and …	Alex Wood	292	2021	View
NEW! Holden After & Before Love Letter for a Son Lost to Overdose	With poignant honesty and a heart laid bare, Holden After and Before is a beautiful and moving elegy to a son lost to overdose. Holden After and Before is a moving meditation on grief in the same …	Tara McGuire	356	2022	View
In a Queer Country Gay and Lesbian Studies in the Canadian Context	In terms of rights and freedoms for queers, Canada holds an international reputation as among the most liberal of nations. Yet this picture of harmonious gay and lesbian assimilation is nothing …	Terry Goldie	320	2001	View
National Dreams Myth, Mystery, and Canadian History	As Canadians, we remember the stories told to us in high-school history class as condensed images of the past—the glorious Mountie, the fearsome Native, the Last Spike. National …	Daniel Frances	217	1997	View
NEW! Postcards from Congo A Graphic History	The Democratic Republic of Congo, the second-largest country in Africa by area, has a fractured and bloody history, variously undone by decades of colonialism, civil war, corruption, and …	Edmund Trueman	176	2022	View
Resistance and Renewal Surviving the Indian Residential School	One of the first books published to deal with the phenomenon of residential schools in Canada, Resistance and Renewal is a disturbing collection of Native perspectives on the Kamloops Indian …	Celia Haig-Brown	172	1988	View
NEW! Special Topics in Being a Human A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring For People, Including Myself	S. Bear Bergman’s illustrated guide to practical advice for the modern age, filtered through a queer lens. As an author, educator, and public speaker, S. Bear Bergman has documented his …	S. Bear Bergman; Saul (Illus.) Freedman-Lawson	272	2021	View
NEW! The Care We Dream Of Liberatory & Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health	What if you could trust in getting the health care you need in ways that felt good and helped you thrive, felt honoured and valued queer and trans people’s lives, bodies, and expertise? …	Zena Sharman	352	2021	View
The Dictionary of Homophobia A Global History of Gay & Lesbian Experience	Based on the work of seventy researchers in fifteen countries, The Dictionary of Homophobia is a mammoth, encyclopedic book that documents the history of homosexuality, and various …	Louis-Georges Tin	496	2008	View
NEW! The Future is Disabled Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs	In The Future Is Disabled, Leah Laksmi Piepzna-Samarasinha asks some provocative questions: What if, in the near future, the majority of people will be disabled – and what if that’s …	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	334	2022	View