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From the New York Times bestselling team behind Rad American Women A-Z comes an illustrated collection of radical and transformative political, social, and cultural movements in American history."An engaging, fascinating, and necessary book that speaks truth to power." - Congresswoman Barbara LeeIn Rad American History A-Z, each letter of the alphabet tells the story of a significant moment in America's progressive history--one that isn't always covered in history classes: A is for Alcatraz, and the Native occupation of 1969; C is for the Combahee River Raid, a Civil War action planned in part by Union spy Harriet Tubman; Z is for Zuccotti Park, and the Occupy movement that briefly took over the world. Paired with dynamic paper-cut art by Miriam Klein Stahl, the entries by Kate Schatz explore several centuries of politics, culture, art, activism, and liberation, including radical librarians, Supreme Court cases, courageous youth, punk rocker grrrls, Southern quilts, and modern witches.
About the Author
www.kateschatz.com
www.radamericanwomen.com
I am Kate Schatz (pronounced 'Shots') . I'm a writer, educator, organizer, public speaker, and activist. I am the author of the New York Times bestselling books Rad Women Worldwide (Ten Speed Press) and Rad American Women A-Z (City Lights Books) , as well My Rad Life: A Journal (July 2017; Ten Speed Press) .
I learned to read in a clawfoot bathtub filled with pillows in a bookstore called Hicklebee's; after that, I often got in trouble for reading at the dinner table (and now my daughter does the EXACT same thing) . I wrote my first book when I was in 2nd grade: it was called Little Sisters, and it was basically Ramona Quimby fan fiction. I still have it! I organized my first protest in 6th grade when I became a vegetarian and convinced my friends to stop eating Burger King because they were clear-cutting rainforests to graze cattle. I've been reading, writing, and standing up for justice ever since. I still love Ramona Quimby, and I still don't eat meat.
My book of fiction, Rid of Me: A Story, was published in 2006 as part of the acclaimed 33 1/3 series. Stories, essays, and articles have been published in LENNY, Buzzfeed, Signature, Oxford American, Denver Quarterly, Joyland, East Bay Express, and the San Francisco Chronicle, among others. My short story "Folsom, Survivor" was a 2010 Notable Short Story in Best American Short Stories 2011. I recently wrote the introduction to "Kamala", a collection of feminist fairytales from Feminist Press, and I contributed an essay on whiteness, race, and post-election reckoning in the anthology "Radical Hope: Letters of Love and Dissent in Dangerous Times."
I'm also a co-founder of Solidarity Sundays, a nationwide feminist activist group committed to empowering women to resist the Trump administration and to take positive, progressive political action. I've appeared on numerous NPR affiliates; lots of great podcasts; msnbc; and at 100s of schools, universities, libraries, and non-profit organizations all over the country to talk about my books and how we can empower young people - especially girls and young women - to be "rad", and to make the world a better place.
I live in the Bay Area with my family, which includes two kids, a cat, and a really rad dude named Jason. We like to hang out with our neighbors, sing 'Hamilton' songs together, read stories, and go on adventures.
I am represented by the fabulous agent Charlotte Sheedy.
