Big ideas to carry in your pocket. Treat yourself to our eight thought provoking Inklings titles for 2021. The full set includes:

• No Man's Land: Living Between Two Cultures by Anne East
  Many individuals, especially of non-white heritage, find themselves suspended in an identity limbo. No Man's Land explores this chasm and how it is to feel one way and yet be perceived as another. Why is culture so important? And how does it feel to experience that cultural no man’s land? A book on acceptance and shining a light on the cultural vacuum that exists for so many.

• Flip The Script: How Women Came to Rule Hip Hop by Arusa Qureshi
  It has taken a significant amount of time for women to get recognition in hip hop - why did we take so long in the UK? Flip The Script gets to know the women who have paved the way, the successes and experiences of those that shape the thriving scene we have today.

• On His Royal Badness: The Life and Legacy of Prince's Fashion by Casci Ritchie
  On His Royal Badness considers how Prince’s distinctive style both on and beyond the screen disrupts hegemonic, heteronormative and Black masculinities to examine and celebrate the construction and impact of Prince upon contemporary fashion. (Please note this title is unaffiliated with the Prince Estate.)

• Love That Journey For Me: The Queer Revolution of Schitt’s Creek by Emily Garside
  A fitting ode to a show that filled many a quarantined hour, Love That Journey For Me dives deep into a cultural sensation that became a watershed moment in both sitcom history, and in the portrayal of gay relationships on screen. (Please note this title is unaffiliated with Schitt's Creek.)

• The New University: Local Solutions to a Global Crisis by James Coe
  Coe reimagines the University as a more civic and personal institution, believing we can get there through realigning our research to communal benefit, adopting outreach into the hardest to reach communities, using our positional power to purchase better, and using our cultural artefacts to draw people together in a society that currently feels fractured.

• The End: Surviving the World Through Fictional Disasters by Katie Goh
  The End studies apocalypse fiction and its role in how we manage, manifest and imagine social, economic and political disaster and crises. What do apocalypse narratives tell us about how we imagine our place in history? Why do we fantasise about the end of the world?

• The Appendix: Transmasculine Joy in a Transphobic Culture by Liam Konemann
  In April 2019, Liam Konemann idly began work on what he thought of as ‘the appendix’ - a record of ongoing transphobia in the UK that he came across. But when his mental health began to spiral, he turned his attention to a different topic instead: how do we find beauty in transmasculinity? And how do we maintain it in a world stacked against us?

• Blind Spot: Exploring and Educating on Blindness by Maud Rowell
  Two million people in the UK live with sight loss, many more worldwide, and yet the general population know so little about the day to day life of a blind person, their pre-existing knowledge often rooted in ignorance. Maud educates about the realities of living with sight loss, offering the knowledge people need to become better, more welcoming members of diverse communities.

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