August 11th - Unsafe: The Carceral Roots of the Anti-Trans Backlash - Preorder

Haymarket Books and Lavender Pages have teamed up with The Common Press!

For every copy of Unsafe pre-ordered through The Common Press, Haymarket will donate a book to prisoners, distributed via Lavender Pages.

About Lavender Pages: 

Lavender Pages is a solidarity project for LGBTQIA+ people in prisons. We send books, magazines, and other reading material for free into UK prisons. It was founded in 2024 by a collective of queer, trans, and gender non-conforming people, following the closure of Books Beyond Bars UK. In its first year of existence, the Lavender Pages Project sent over 300 books to people in prison signed up to the project.

More on their substack: https://lavenderpages.substack.com/

About the book:

The fiercest battles over gender today aren’t just about identity or womanhood—but about punishment, fear, and control.

The twenty-first century “gender wars” have been driven by a powerful and seductive narrative: that safety can be secured through exclusion, surveillance, and the policing of difference. These punitive logics have gained momentum across the political spectrum, fuelling an anti-trans backlash and distorting the meaning of safety itself.

Unsafe is a clear-eyed and decisive challenge to the toxic ideas at the heart of this backlash. With patient rigour, Lamble exposes how carceral approaches to safety fail to address root causes of harm, ultimately deepening social divisions and legitimising new forms of violence and control.

Drawing on feminist and queer traditions as well as their experience organizing against prisons and policing, Lamble makes a principled case for a different vision: one where safety is not built on punishment but on collective care, radical solidarity, and transformative justice.

This book will be released on August 11th. Orders will be shipped on this date.