Queering Safe Spaces explains how safe spaces are determined by those with privilege and power, those who choose to invite us in or leave us out. Whether we encounter boundaries at national borders, bathrooms or birth certificates, our personal safety, and well-being are at stake. Gender-diverse and queer non-binary people have bodies, brains, and hearts that challenge traditional ways of being male, female, gay, straight, Black, white, good, and bad. These practitioners—at the interfaces ...

In 2017 the queer and gender-diverse community of Australia undertook an incredible campaign of everyday activism around marriage equality. As individuals and collectives we shared our personal stories with our networks – from social media, to workplace to school playground. We purged our tears and our rage – documented as poems, articles, photos, short stories, status updates, tweets, blog posts, political cartoons, and short videos. Many of us were shocked at the vitriol directed at us, ...

She’s his once-in-a-lifetime. But she can’t remember their forever.Gage Jenick has loved Katy Thompson for years—from the sidelines, from the shadows, from the moment she stopped being his best friend’s kid sister and started being the woman who stole his every thought. When she finally ends things with her ex, Gage can’t hold back any longer. One night. One chance to show her what she’s always meant to him before a job takes him far from home.But fate has ...

I was desperate, sobbing, and already half in love. Why wouldn't I accept his proposal?My whole life I'd been shifting from place to place, looking for one to call home.It was odd that I thought I'd found it after working for Luke Holloway for only three months.Small wonder that I was drawn to my employer and father of the charge I adored.My entire fantasy was to become Mrs. Luke Holloway and who could blame me—he was rich, gorgeous and avai...

After forty years of theological, historical, and scriptural study, Vivienne E. Perkins, PhD, came to a unique conclusion: that mans entry into the modern and postmodern agesfacilitated by the superficial thought of the Enlightenment philosophesundermined the traditional Christian understanding of human sin in relation to the God who created and sustains the universe. This path had been blazed before her by the great Russian philosopher, Lev Shestov, and by the French Reformed Christian au...

She’s drowning in loss. He’s the only thing keeping her afloat.Maggie Ward’s life fell apart in one terrible night, and nothing feels safe anymore—except Clay Thompson. He’s been her steady place to land, her protector, her friend. But when the silence between them starts to crack with unspoken need, Maggie realizes she’s clinging to the one man she’s never supposed to want. She swore she wouldn’t break again…but every time Clay looks at her, she forgets how to bre...

Transgender people are waiting to be seen in healthcare and waiting to be recognised as the legitimate experts on their own lives and needs. This book foregrounds empirically novel and conceptually groundbreaking sociological analyses of trans health care and experiences.It draws together sociological contributions focused on the lives and perspectives of trans people to provide a vision of more equitable and affirming health and social care. Chapters explore how gender affirmation...

He’s her best friend’s brother. Her forever crush. And the man about to ruin her goodbye.Len Thompson’s spent years doing the right thing—keeping his hands off the one woman he wants more than his next breath. Janey Watson is off-limits, his sister’s best friend, and far too good for a man with grease on his hands and ghosts in his past. But when she announces she’s leaving Rocky Mountain House for good, Len’s self-control goes up in smoke. If she’s walking away, h...

He’s the town’s golden boy with a bad reputation. She’s the one woman who calls his bluff—and steals his heart.Troy Thompson has never pretended to be anything more than the guy you don’t bring home to Mom. Charming, confident, and a little too good with his hands, he’s made peace with being the town’s favorite cautionary tale. Until Nicole Adams—their secret fling turned impossible addiction—walks away. She wants commitment, stability, a future. The thought of her...

He’s the town’s bad boy. She’s the badge. And when they finally break the rules, nothing’s safe from the sparks.Mitch Thompson’s always been trouble—fast cars, faster mouth, and a smile that gets him out of nearly anything. But the one woman he’s never been able to sweet-talk into bending the rules? Constable Anna Coleman. Straight-laced, by-the-book, and immune to his charm… until the night she isn’t. One kiss turns into one secret, sin-soaked affair—and suddenly,...

SON OF AN UNKNOWN FATHER is a story about Martin de Porres.It opens a window on the culture of the New World in the sixteenth century and explores the spiritual growth of a black man who experienced and transcended racism from childhood to adulthood, often by bringing his pain to Jesus on the cross. It brings the reader from Martin’s life as a young child, experiencing the rejection of his white father who was not in a lawful relationship with his mother, through the years spent with his f...

An older divorcee suspects that her son's new girlfriend is more than he can handle. The young woman seems a little wild so she invites her over when her son is out to have a chat. She seems unfazed by the conversation and if anything, comes on to her. She tries to brush it off, but the girl comes back later with some friends and they take what they want as they seduce her to a lesbian gangbang.This story contains sex scenes and is suitable for adults only. All characters are ficti...