LPP authors Haya Al-Dajani, Maysa Baroud, and Deema Refai document the stories of Arab refugee women entrepreneurs who turn displacement into empowerment, and reveal the perils and pitfalls of refugee entrepreneurship.
Individuals with severe mental illness (SMI) have been barred from “polite” society throughout history. Many will eventually find their way to prison, behind a different set of bars, where there is little incentive to treat. Have we simply traded one form of confinement for another, even more cruel one?
Lived Places Publishing author Ani Zonneveld was interviewed on the Thom Hartmann Program, talking about the intersection of faith and feminism. This episode first aired live on November 7, 2025.
Release from prison is not the end of the story; it is the beginning of another struggle. A first-hand account of post-carceral life.
In spite of the burdens and losses because of settler male supremacy, Indigenous women are reclaiming their rights through movements for reproductive justice, advocating for a return to their ancestral practices, and redefining concepts of womanhood and motherhood on their own tribal terms.
A personal account of being in solitary confinement in a Correctional Centre in South Africa – 42 days in an infamous section of the prison where several people in prison have died since 2023.
Nica Cornell describes her experience with Complex Post Traumatic Stress and how the accoutrements of dress can be comforting for mental illness and other disabilities.
Autism was never an accident of Tylenol or vaccines or industrial life. It is not a side effect to be managed, nor a pathology to be cured. Autism has been preserved through millennia of natural selection as our ongoing contribution to humanity’s survival.
This book “is one of the greatest testaments to human tenacity, courage, and strength that the publishing world has ever seen.” –Arvilla Fee
Lived Places Publishing (LPP) proudly announces the launch of our 2026 collection of concise course readings – 45 new ebooks forthcoming in 2026. These new titles will also be included in Intersections: Identity & Place, a collection of 150 cross-disciplinary titles.