A platform for marginalised voices across the globe

Not that I needed another reason to buy books, I've recently discovered an independent book publisher based in London called Zed Books who focus on purely non fiction subjects that matter.

I'm talking all those books that fall into the dry sounding subjects like social science, politics, and economics but are simply off putting words for the meaningful, conscious, responsible books that look for the what, who and why.

They describe themselves far better than I can on their about page, but if you're into hearing from marginalised communities, and want to read more about the LGBTQIA community, race and religion, feminism and human rights issues, I'm sure you'll find something on this site.

They have loads of titles and they are not all academic style reading. Books like Standing Rock (Biken Ekberzade), Who Really Feeds the World (Vandana Shiva), United Queerdom (Dan Glass), No Borders (Natasha King), The War on Disabled People (Ellen Clifford), and Black British History New Perspectives (Hakim Adi) can all be found here. Most titles are non fiction, but last time I checked there were seven fiction books on the site.

Right now I'm excusing myself for buying books as my local libraries are still closed, (I've been buying from Hive) but I do feel spending on books is a way of spending on your education and personal development so it is an okay spend (for me anyway) in the grander picture of trying to be a responsible human being who wants to acquire knowledge on all sorts of things happening across the world and as Zed decribes itself as:

a platform for marginalised voices across the globe

this is a place I'd want to put my pennies cos they are providing a place for the voices that ordinarily get squashed down, to be heard.

They also have a related blog and a media page that unfortunately looks like it's not looked after that well, as there's been nothing from 2020, but there seem to be a few interesting video links from the past.