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Jodie Patterson, activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, shares her transgender son's experience in this important picture book about identity and acceptance.Penelope knows that he's a boy. (And a ninja.) The problem is getting everyone else to realize it. In this exuberant... Read More about Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope

A mural renaissance swept the United States in the 1930s, propelled by the New Deal Federal Art Project and the popularity of Mexican muralism. Perhaps nowhere more than in New York City, murals became a crucial site for the development of abstract painting Artists such as Stuart Davis, Arshile Gork... Read More about Modernism for the Masses: Painters, Politics, and Public Murals in 1930s New York

Inspired by her transgender son, activist Jodie Patterson explores identity, gender, race, and authenticity to tell the real-life story of a family’s history and transformation.“A courageous and poetic testimony on family and the self, and the learning and unlearning we must do for those we love.”—J... Read More about The Bold World: A Memoir of Family and Transformation

An insightful study of the progressive politics animating a great work of modernist mural painting In 1936 the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project commissioned Stuart Davis (1892–1964) to paint a mural for the Williamsburg Houses, a New York City housing project. Though the mural, Sw... Read More about Swing Landscape: Stuart Davis and the Modernist Mural

From Gwyneth Paltrow's modern lifestyle brand goop comes the Audible Original The goop Pursuit, a four-part audio series taking listeners on an intimate journey of learning and unlearning. "Finding Beauty" Author, LGBTQIA+ activist, and beauty maven Jodie Patterson explores capital-"B" Beauty throug... Read More about The Goop Pursuit: Finding Beauty

Jodie Patterson, activist and Chair of the Human Rights Campaign Foundation Board, shares her transgender son's experience in this important picture book about identity and acceptance.Penelope knows that he's a boy. (And a ninja.) The problem is getting everyone else to realize it. In this exuberant... Read More about Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope