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Minnesota Reformer: A celebrated Minnesota teacher on raising his nonbinary child

Apr 19, 2022

I think people like that it’s not a how-to book about raising nonbinary kids. I recognize that Ollie doesn’t just sit around being nonbinary all day — that’s not all they do. The book includes stories about all different aspects of their childhood and what it’s meant raising them.

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Prairie Public NewsRoom: Interview with Tom Rademacher

Apr 19, 2022

Tom Rademacher is an English teacher and Minnesota’s Teacher of the Year in 2014. His new book, “Raising Ollie,” is the story of his nonbinary, art-obsessed child; a new school where Ollie could flourish; and how raising Ollie led the author into insights about himself.

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Pioneer Press: Rest in peace Shad Rafferty, you big-hearted Irishman, saloon owner and amateur detective

Apr 18, 2022

“Writers have a compulsion to keep at it,” he says. “Our imaginations and skills remain at a level I can sustain, at least for a while yet anyway.”

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Racket: New Book Celebrates The Bell Museum's Big Ideas

Apr 18, 2022

“Anybody picking up this book and thinking it’s going to be a nice picture book will very quickly discover that there is much, much more here."

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Andrew Zitcer for Next City: What We Learn From Black- and Women-Led Cooperative Practice

Apr 18, 2022

The following is an excerpt from the book “Practicing Cooperation: Mutual Aid Beyond Capitalism,” by Andrew Zitcer, published by the University of Minnesota Press. In it, the author offers an ethical and practical guide to “inspiring cooperative practice,” as both response and alternative to extractive models of neoliberal capitalism that exacerbate income inequality and stagnate wages.

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