Sing, Whisper, Shout, Pray! Feminist Visions for a Just World is a strong anthology featuring essays, narratives, and poetry?some new, some reprinted from the alternative press?by such writers as Angela Y. Davis, Cherr?e L. Moraga, Haunani-Kay Trask, Merle Woo, Joanna Kadi, and co-editors Lisa Albrecht, Sharon Day, and Mab Segrest. All offer important perspectives on violence, colonization and resistance, the mythology of race, and the reality of racism. $39.95 from EdgeWork; www.edgework.com

Other (?the magazine for people who defy categories?) is a new magazine intended as a voice for outcasts and subversives of all kinds. The first issue (June 2003) includes articles on ?redneck environmentalism? and ?why racial categories are fading away,? along with rants by cultural critic Stephen Duncombe about why getting dressed up matters and by Punk Planet associate editor Joel Schalit on pro-Palestinian protestors? failure to recognize color distinctions in keffiyehs (traditional Arab head kerchiefs). $12 (three issues) from 584 Castro St., #674, San Francisco, CA 94114; www.othermag.com

Amnesty Now, the quarterly magazine of Amnesty International USA, has been especially good in the last year and a half under the new editorship of Terry Allen. A regular source of important human rights?related articles, Amnesty Now has recently examined life in Iraq under the shadow of war, reported on former Illinois governor George Ryan?s commutation of death row prisoners? sentences, and featured articles by Chip Berlet on political profiling of activists and by Debbie Nathan on the murder of women in Juarez, Mexico. $25 membership (includes four issues) from 322 Eighth Ave., New York, NY 10001; www.aiusa.org

Offering radical history via art, by subscription, the Celebrate Peoples? History Poster Series profiles the likes of Harriet Tubman and John Brown (and commemorates the Battle of Little Bighorn), in striking two-color offset prints. It?s a project of Chicago-based activist Josh MacPhee, who also publishes and distributes zines about stencil graffiti and stop sign alteration. For a catalog: Box 476971, Chicago, IL 60647; poster subscription: $25-$50 for 10; josh@justseeds.org

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