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You, Your Parent, and Your Caregiving Journey: Strategies, Resources, and Inspiration to Guide the Way, by Carole MacNeil ’84 (Gatekeeper Press). MacNeil’s work and research has been focused on youth and community development, intergenerational partnerships, social justice, and peacebuilding all over the world, mostly in conflict zones and refugee camps. It was only through the personal experience of caring for four parents for nearly 12 years that she began to apply what she knew about human development to her “other” role as caregiver. You, Your Parent, and Your Caregiving Journey is grounded in a research-based, holistic approach to caregiving, one that frames aging more positively as part of the larger context of human development. Writing for a general audience, MacNeil draws from both personal experience and the stories she collected from other caregivers to focus on the practical ways families can apply human development research to their everyday caregiving experiences, decisions, and dilemmas. MacNeil is founder and principal of MacNeil & Associates Consulting in Denver.

Hear Our Stories: Campus Sexual Violence, Intersectionality, and How We Build a Better University, by Jessica C. Harris ’08 (Stanford University Press). Despite focused efforts to stop the perpetration of campus sexual violence, the statistic that one in four college women will experience such violence has remained steady over the last 60 years while the number of higher education institutions under federal Title IX investigation for mishandling sexual violence cases continues to grow. In Hear Our Stories, Harris demonstrates how preventive efforts often fall short because they lack intersectional perspectives, and often obscure how sexual violence is imbued with racial significance. Drawing on interviews with student survivors and staff, and documents from three universities, this book analyzes sexual violence on the college campus from an intersectional lens, centering the stories of women of color. Hear Our Stories challenges dominant approaches to campus sexual violence that too often stall the implementation of more effective sexual violence prevention and response efforts that could offer transformative outcomes for all students. Harris is associate professor of higher education and organizational change at UCLA.

Saying Inshallah With Chutzpah: A Gefilte Fish Out of Water Story, by Jessica Keith ’00 (Post Hill Press). Jessica Keith never believed she could walk down an aisle. With crippling anxiety fueled by unpredictable panic attacks, she said “I can’t” so many times she never thought she’d say “I do.” After finally setting a wedding date to Tyrone, her beau of eight years, Jessica made the impulsive decision to move away, accepting an offer to work for the Consulate of Kuwait in Los Angeles. The culture was unfamiliar territory—with a lot to unpack—and she felt lost in translation. Adrift in life and at work, nothing seemed to go right. When the rabbi refused to perform an interfaith ceremony— and her grandmother warned, “You can’t marry a Black man”—rather than speak up, Jessica found it easier to bite her tongue. But when she hears on the job, “Jews need not apply,” it shatters her faith in herself. While illuminating the depths of anxiety and love, Jessica must find the resilience it takes to persevere. From floundering to navigating, Keith’s memoir follows the unorthodox path of a Jewish woman working for a Muslim government. A psychology major at Occidental, Keith is a professor of cross-cultural communication at San Diego State University.

����𲹳ٳܰ���: P�DZ𳾲�, by Marsha de la O ’74 (University of Pittsburgh Press). Written during the last five years of her father’s life, de la O’s Creature is a book about love, destruction, and the self, all standing in relation to family and the natural world. The title poem recounts a quiet day when a hawk crashed through an open window in her home and found itself in her living room, creating terror, urgency, and a curious parallel: Who is the creature? Who is trapped inside? De la O is a lecturer in the English department at CSU Channel Islands, where she teaches poetry and creative writing. She is the author of Every Ravening Thing, Antidote for Night, and Black Hope. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Slowdown, and many journals, and she is a recipient of the Morton Marcus Poetry Prize. She and her husband, Phil Taggart, live in Ventura, where they founded the Ventura County Poetry Project to support local poetry.

más y más y más flores, the latest documentary short by César Martínez Barba ’17, was recently featured on the front page of The New York Times’ digital edition as part of its Op-Docs series. Barba’s film is a poetic exploration on the marigolds that are so central to Mexican Day of the Dead celebrations, and by extension is a meditation on loss and memorial in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The documentary continues his exploration of social justice issues related to transnationality, borders, and migration, which he began while a media arts and culture major at Oxy.

Top photo: Carole MacNeil ’84 with her mom, Eleanor, in 2019.