The library is central to supporting course design and content selection. Faculty are increasingly asking libraries to acquire and provide materials from a broader, more diverse range of authors and subject areas to augment their courses and meet the needs of their students.
Lived Places Publishing (LPP) exists to support librarians and faculty in this goal. We publish applied and concise course reading material in interdisciplinary collections. Each title we publish explores the intersection of identity and place, humanizing an issue through lived experience(s).
Intersections: Identity & Place is a collection of 105 titles that serve as concise course readings (100-150 pages) across a variety of subjects and themes. Here's a sampling of the titles in the collection so you can get a sense of what we publish:
- The Reparations Project: Repair Work by Linked Descendants of Enslavement by Sarah Eisner & Randy Quarterman (Black Studies)
- Trans(formations) and Tenderness: Rhetorics and Resources to Support Transgender Youth by Prathim-Maya Dora-Laskey (Queer and LGBT+ Studies)
- Advocating for Queer and BIPOC Survivors of Rape at Public Universities: The #ChangeRapeCulture Movement by Taylor Waits, Kimiya Factory, & Coreen Hale (OPEN ACCESS in Queer and LGBT+ Studies)
- No Place for Autism? Exploring the Solitary Forager Hypothesis of Autism by Jaime Hoerricks (Disability Studies)
- The Resilient Teacher: Creating Positive Change through Inclusive Classrooms by Sarah Schlessinger (Education Studies)
- A Congolese Refugee's Quest for a Purpose and Better Life: More to Life than a Refugee Camp by Gentille Dusenge with Janine de Nysschen (Forced Migration Studies)
- The Darkest Parts of My Blackness: A Journey of Remorse, Reform, Reconciliation, and (R)evolution by Maurice Tyree & Katie Singer (Carceral Studies)
- Soil and Solidarity: Art, Ecology, Community and Sustainability in Northeast India by Amrita Pritam Gogoi & Deepankar Gohain (Cultural Anthropology)
- Latinidad, Identity Formation, and the Mass Media Landscape: Constructing Pocho Villa by Gabriel A. Cruz (Latinx Studies)
- Indigenous Women’s Reproductive Traditions: Reclaiming Bodily Agency After Five Hundred Years of European Colonization by Stephanie Sellers (Gender Studies)
- The Syrian Refugees Whose Entrepreneurial Spirit Created an Award-Winning British Cheese Factory by Razan Al Sous & Raghid Sandouk (The Emergent Entrepreneur Collection)
- Stories of Solidarity and Struggle: A Life in the Worldwide Movement for Human Rights by David Hinkley (Activism and Social Movement Studies)
- Social Spaces for Older Queer Adults: A Guide for Social Work Practitioners by David Betts (Queer and LGBT+ Studies)
- (Re)constructing Memory, Place, and Identity: Sangre Mexicano, Corazon Chicano by Louis Mendoza (Latinx Studies)
- Improving the Experience of Health Care for People Living with Sensory Disability by Dr. Annmaree Watharow MD, PhD (Disability Studies)
View all 105 titles in this Collection
Download Complete Intersections Title List (.xls)
This Collection includes 40 brand new titles for 2025, with many more in development across 20 topic areas.
The rapid adoption of the Intersections Collection by institutions both large and small showcases how these narrative works provide value within the classroom and increase the visibility of marginalized voices. Each of our collections are delivered with libraries in mind:
- DRM-free, unlimited user access, and unrestricted PDF download of titles
- Whole ebook interlibrary loan to one partner institution at a time
- Affordable, perpetual access pricing with region-appropriate discounts to ensure every university across the globe can own the Intersections Collection
- 5% of all sales are set aside to fund open access publishing based on our average production cost (published publicly on our website, updated every 6 months)
See complete information about all of the above here in our Librarian Resource Center, including MARC & KBART records.
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