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Becky Thompson is a US-based scholar, human rights activist, cross-cultural trainer, poet and yoga teacher. She is a professor of sociology in the College of Social Sciences, Policy and Practice at Simmons University. She also teaches yoga at the Dorchester YMCA in Boston. Since 2015 she has worked in Greece as a human rights advocate with people from Syria, Afghanistan, Palestine, Somalia. Thompson has contributed thought-leadership and scholarship to groups interested in organizational transformation, contemplative practices, trauma, healing and social justice globally. She is the author/editor of twelve books including Teaching with Tenderness, Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for those Healing from Trauma, A Promise and a Way of Life, and Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night and has received the Ex Ophidia Poetry Prize, the Creative Justice Chapbook Poetry Prize and the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award on Human Rights. Thompson has been affiliated with several professional organizations, including the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora and the National Women's Studies Association and is a representative of Cetlalic, Tlahuica Center for the Study of Language and Cultural Exchange in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She has taught seminars on social justice, yoga and creative writing in Guangzhou, Dali, and Beijing China and for the International Women's Partnership for Peace and Justice in Chiang Mai, Thailand. Education After obtaining her bachelor's degree in sociology from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 1982, Thompson enrolled at Brandeis University and received her master's and doctoral degree in sociology in 1986 and 1991, respectively. From 1992 till 1993, she served as a Rockefeller Foundation postdoctoral fellow in African American studies at Princeton University. She earned her MFA in creative writing at Stonecoast at the University of Southern Maine in 2021. Career Thompson started her academic career with the University of Massachusetts as a lecturer in the department of sociology and department of women's studies from 1987 to 1989. She then held an appointment at the University of Memphis as assistant professor of sociology before joining the Wesleyan University faculty in African American Studies from 1994 to 1996. In 1996 she joined the Simmons College faculty, where she became full professor in 2007. From 1996 to 2005 she also served as adjunct faculty at the Union Institute of Graduate Studies. From 2008 to 2010, she served as a professor of Women's and Ethnic Studies Program at the University of Colorado. In her career, Thompson also held visiting appointments at several institutes, including scholar-in-residence at China Women's University in 2018 and Duke University in African American studies in 2002–2003. Thompson also held several administrative appointments. She served as the coordinator of the Teaching Race, Teaching Gender Speakers Series at Duke University from 2002 till 2003, was the program director for the Women's and Ethnic Studies Program at University of Colorado from 2008 till 2009, and chair of the department of sociology in the College of Arts & Sciences at Simmons College from 2012 till 2014. Between 2020 and 2021, she served as an antiracism consultant at Northeastern University and for Partners for Perinatal Health. Work Thompson's scholarly activities emphasize poetry as well as research on educational transformation, social justice and healing. She has authored her books on a variety of topics; with a feminist social justice focus at the nexus of race, gender, religion, nationality, sexuality, and the body. Thompson's first book on poetry was entitled Zero is the Whole I Fall into at Night. Thompson has also authored many scholarly books, including A Hunger So Wide and So Deep, and Survivors on the Yoga Mat, which focus on trauma's impact on embodiment. Her book Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice follows in the tradition of bell hooks’ Teaching to Transgress and Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Naomi Simmons-Thorne reviewed that Thompson's pedagogy of tenderness recognizes "the embodied needs, traumas and inequalities that can mitigate and overwhelm learning" and the book delivers "instruction in such a way as to convey compassion for the lived experiences of students". Thompson has also co-edited anthologies on multiple subjects: poetry by and for refugees, multiracial education, HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora, and racial identity. Thompson's works have been recognized by the Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Association for University Women, the Ford Foundation, and Political Research Associates. She has also been invited for interviews on radio and other media platforms to present her views regarding her recent publications and her other activities in the field. Awards and honors 1992 –1993 – Rockefeller Foundation Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Afro-American Studies, Princeton University 1994 – Gustavus Myers Award for Outstanding Book on Human Rights in North America presented to “Beyond a Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence” (co-editor, Sangeeta Tyagi) 2000 – Mothering Without a Compass: White Mother’s Love, Black Son’s Courage, Chosen by Insight Out's Book of the Month Club for Gay and Lesbian Series 2009 – The Mosaic Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Colorado 2021 – Winner, Ex Ophidia Press Poetry Book Prize for “To Speak in Salt” Bibliography Books Beyond A Dream Deferred: Multicultural Education and the Politics of Excellence (1993) ISBN 9780816622696 A Hunger So Wide and So Deep: American Women Speak Out on Eating Problems (1994) ISBN 9781452902777 Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity (1996) ISBN 9780415911627 Mothering Without A Compass: White Mother's Love, Black Son's Courage (2000) ISBN 9780816636358 A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism (2001) ISBN 9780816636334 Fingernails Across the Chalkboard: Poetry and Prose on HIV/AIDS from the Black Diaspora (2007) ISBN 9780883782743 When the Center Is on Fire: Passionate Social Theory for Our Times (2008) ISBN 9780292717763 Zero is the Whole I Fall Into at Night (2011) ISBN 9781599483344 Survivors on the Yoga Mat: Stories for Those Healing from Trauma (2014) ISBN 9781583948262 Teaching with Tenderness: Toward an Embodied Practice (2017) ISBN 9780252041167 Making Mirrors: Righting/Writing by and for Refugees (2019) ISBN 9781623719784 Selected poetry and poetry reviews Thompson, B. (2017). Teaching poetry in Khora. Anchor Magazine: Where Spirituality and Social Justice Meet, 8, 80 Thompson, B. (2018). The lotus grows out of the mud. Nonviolence Magazine, Spring/Winter, 29–30. Thompson, B. (2019) “Ahmed Talks to his 13-year-old Brother;” “Found Conversation;” and “Praise Poem for Political Poets.” CURA: Magazine. Thompson, B. (2020). “Cartography in Lesvos” and “In The Slip Between .... Discover the Becky Thompson popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Becky Thompson books.
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The Seduction Series Boxset
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The Icing on the Cake
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Noxious
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The Cupcake Cottage
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Dark Psychology and Manipulation
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Good Guy
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My Paper Heart
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The Odyssey
HomerAn Apple Books Classic edition. Homer’s eighthcentury epic poem is a companion to The Iliad . It tells the story of Odysseus, who journeys by ship for 10 years after the Trojan War...
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Christmas in Sweetbriar Cove
Melody GraceCelebrate the holidays in Sweetbriar Cove with this festive romance collection, containing two sizzling smalltown holiday stories perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey, Sophie Kinsella...
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Assisting the Bosshole
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Caught Up with the Captain
Kait NolanCan a retired naval commander and the love he left behind overcome a 34yearold secret to find their way to a second chance? Captain Mitchell Greyson is a man who believes in duty. ...
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Teach Me
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Masters of Restraint
Ines JohnsonMy new boss is good at giving orders. But his latest demand is NSFW. Especially when his two business partners want in on our deal. My new boss My boss’s boss Their investor &#...
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Dream Psychology
Sigmund FreudAn Apple Books Classic edition. Written by the founding father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud’s 1899 book is the definitive text on learning to interpret dreams. Freud’s groundbr...
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Enemies With Benefits
Roxie NoirI don’t love him. I don’t even like him. I just want him. Eli Loveless was my nemesis from the first day of kindergarten until we graduated high school. Everything I did, he had to...
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The Great Gatsby
F. Scott FitzgeraldAn Apple Books Classics edition. The Roaring Twenties are in full effect in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s riveting classic. Manabouttown Jay Gatsby seems to have it all, including loads of...
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Peace on Earth
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Never Enough
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Pretty Little Lies
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Hot Off the Press
Lexy Timms"This is what really happened… reported by a free press, for a free people…" Wes Shaw leads a secret double life. As the secret owner of a billion dollar newspap...
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The Holy Bible - King James Version
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Becoming Lady Dalton
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Holy Bible
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsThe 2013 edition of the Holy Bible contains all of the study aids contained in the 1979 edition and includes revisions to the study aids, several new photos, updated maps, and adju...
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Just Me
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Salvation
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Get Lucky
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The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
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His Own Heaven
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Silenced Girls
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A Bookshop to Die For
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Tempting the King
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The Three Little Pigs
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Always Yours
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Alpha
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Hard Love
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Dracula
Bram StokerAn Apple Books Classic edition. Few characters have seized readers’ imaginations quite like Count Dracula of Transylvania, the hero of Bram Stoker’s classic. The 1897 novel put vam...
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Once Upon A One-Night Stand
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The Stoic Mind
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All Fired Up
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The Scarlet Letter
Nathaniel HawthorneAn Apple Books Classic edition. Hester Prynne lives in infamy. After committing adultery and bearing a child with a man whose name she refuses to divulge, the heroine of Nathaniel ...
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The Target
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Coffee Girl
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Think and Grow Rich
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Rogue Alpha
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Teased by Fire
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The Next Girl
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Law of Attraction
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Silver Santa
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Inception of Gold
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The Four Loves
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