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Celebrate 5 Years of Dissident Publishing with Street Noise at the NYPL!

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Street Noise Books 5 Years of Dissident Publishing New York Public Library

Join Street Noise Books this Friday, December 12 at 6pm! Dissidence and activism are core foundations of Street Noise Book’s graphic novel publishing program. Dedicated to raising up the stories and voices of BIPOC, queer, neurodivergent, and disabled people, the publisher celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Street Noise Books is celebrating its 5-year anniversary with a panel featuring some of its top creators! 

This event will take place in person at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Library, 455 Fifth Avenue, NYC in room 7C on the 7th Floor.

This roundtable with Street Noise publisher Liz Frances and authors Makee (Call Me Emma), Jesse Mechanic (The Last Time We Spoke), Bishakh Som (Spellbound), and Tracy White (Unaccompanied) with Badiucao and Melissa Chan (You Must Take Part in Revolution) joining remotely from Australia and Berlin, and Mohammad Sabaaneh (Power Born of Dreams and Eyes on Gaza) joining remotely from the West Bank, will feature a discussion on what it means to be an activist publisher and author today — and how we all work to change the world for the better on local and global fronts. 

There will be books and stickers and buttons given away.

Street Noise Books Presents: Revolution, Resistance, Healing, and Queer Love in Spring 2025!

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Graphic novel publisher Street Noise Books presents the Spring 2025 list: The Murder Next Door, by Hugh D’Andrade, Eyes on Gaza, by Khaled Beydoun, with art by Mohammad Sabaaneh, You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao, Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder, by Cara Gormally, Call Me Emma, by Makee, and Punk Like Me, by JD Glass and Kris Dressen. Street Noise books have a radical, intersectional feminist, queer, and inclusion vision, and provide a platform for the voices of marginalized people. 

SPRING 2025 is: 

The Murder Next Door, by Hugh D’Andrade (on sale 2/4). When Hugh was ten years old, he walked home from school to find his friends next door crying – they had just come home and discovered their mother’s body. She had been murdered. As an adult, Hugh explores how the trauma of this event changed his life forever. 

Eyes on Gaza, by Khaled Beydoun, with art by Mohammad Sabaaneh (on sale 2/18). A powerful and impassioned prose collection of essays on the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, written in real time by a leading scholar of Islamophobia, as the annihilation was being carried out, accompanied by political cartoons from a renowned Palestinian comics creator. 

You Must Take Part in Revolution, by Melissa Chan and Badiucao (on sale 3/4). From Emmy-nominated journalist Melissa Chan and esteemed activist artist Badiucao comes a dystopian graphic novel exploring our future with China, about technology, authoritarian government, and the lengths that people will go to in the fight for freedom.

Everything Is Fine, I’ll Just Work Harder, by Cara Gormally (on sale 4/1). One day, during an ordinary early-morning run, Cara’s watch dinged with a Facebook friend request. But when they checked the message, the photo slammed them backward in time and froze them in fear. Their rapist wanted to “friend” them. This graphic novel is the story of one queer person bravely and creatively using therapy to navigate the healing from the trauma of a past sexual assault. 

Call Me Emma, by Makee (on sale 5/6). After immigrating from China to New York City, a teenage girl and her family struggle to adjust to the new world they’ve found themselves in. Balancing chaotic school life with her divorcing parents, her sister’s mental illness, and a new crush, Emma must ask herself, “How do I know who I really am?”

Punk Like Me, by JD Glass and Kris Dresen (on sale 6/3). Sixteen-year-old Nina Boyd is into punk rock and comic books. She plays guitar, is a straight-A student, a champion swimmer, and is in love with her best friend. But her best friend Kerri is a girl, and Nina knows her family would never approve. As Nina’s crush grows stronger, she must choose between her family’s dreams for her and her own in this powerful, emotional, queer graphic novel.