by Kat Georges, co-director, Three Rooms Press

Three Rooms Press is proud of our continuing commitment to diversity, dada, punk and passion. In this mix, we have published quite a few books focused on women who have done incredible things! March is Women’s History Month, so to celebrate we are offering a 25% discount on all 3RP books about these amazing women, plus all 3RP books WRITTEN by women authors are also 25% off, all with the code WONDERWOMAN. Click here to see the complete list or check out details below to pick your favorite (these make excellent gifts–buy one for a friend!).

Below are a few highlights on some of the biographies and memoirs of incredible women that Three Rooms Press has published over the years.

MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM: A Father Flees. A Daughter Returns. A Dual Memoir. By Christin Vo and Nghia M. Vo
Ms. Magazine called MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM one of its top-10 most anticipated Feminist memoirs of the year. And there’s good reason for this. Ostensibly, this dual memoir tells the story of Nghia M. Vo, who fled Vietnam in 1975 when the war ended. His daughter and co-author, Christina Vo, grew up in the US, for the most part in smaller midwestern cities where she was often the only Asian-American at her school. As a young adult in search of heritage, and against her father’s wishes, Christina traveled alone to Vietnam where she worked a variety of jobs and lived in both the northern city of Hanoi and the former South Vietnam city of Saigon. Her courageous journey led her to commit herself to helping people of the diaspora and those in Vietnam on the path to reconciliation and healing from intergenerational trauma from the war, even after 50 years. Also available in Vietnamese, MY VIETNAM, YOUR VIETNAM is a must-read for its honest and brave stories of both father and daughter. More details here.

FULL MOON STAGES: Personal Notes from 50 Years of the Living Theatre by Judith Malina
Judith Malina is a major icon of revolutionary, political underground theater. As founder, with Julian Beck, of the world-renowned Living Theatre, Judith traveled the world, performing in the streets of Berlin, favelas of Brazil, and theaters everywhere. She didn’t let arrests or lack of funding stop her vision. This book is not your standard memoir. Rather is gathers notes Molina made on every full moon for 50 years—documenting her joy and disillusionment, her resolve to speak truth to authority, and her love of the possibilities of avant garde theater. Includes more than 50 photos from the Living Theatre archives, plus an introduction by former Living Theatre associate Al Pacino. Fun fact: Did you know that Jim Morrison, and Anita Pallenberg performed with the Living Theatre? Did you know they performed experimental plays by Gertrude Stein, Anne Waldman, T.S. Eliot, Pablo Picasso, August Strindberg, Jack Gelber and so many more. For more details, click here.

YIPPIE GIRL: Exploits in Protest and Defeating the FBI by Judy Gumbo
Long time activist Judy Gumbo was one of the very few early female members of the Yippies, whose exploits as an antiwar protest group beginning in the 1960s often used humor and outrageous satire to support their case. Some of their activities included Levitating the Pentagon, and running a pig for president. They were at the center of the scene in the 1968 Democrat Convention protests, resulting in the arrests of seven Yippie leaders who became known as the “Chicago 7.” As a key player in the group, Judy was harassed and surveilled for years by the FBI. Years later, she was able to gain access to all of her FBI records, many of which are made public in this book for the first time ever. In YIPPIE GIRL, Judy tells her own story, including her defiant commitment to making an impact in a world which, at the time, was still dominated by men, even in leftist circles. A fascinating read, with plenty of lessons in the logistics of protests that are still effective today. More details here.

LAST BOAT TO YOKOHAMA: The Life and Legacy of Beate Sirota Gordon by Nassrine Azimi and Michel Wasserman
Born in Austria, Beate Sirota Gordon spent most of her youth growing up in Tokyo, where her father, the legendary pianist Leo Sirota, was a revered instructor at Tokyo University. An ideal world was shattered in 1939, when authorities, newly allied with Germany’s rising National Socialist Party, denied her entrance to the University because of her Jewish Heritage. While she was studying instead at Mills College in Oakland, California, Pearl Harbor was bombed, and Beate, then 17 years old, lost all contact with her parents. When the war finally ended, she helped them relocate to the US. Later, due to her extensive knowledge of Japanese language and culture, she was hand-selected by General Douglas MacArthur to be a part of the commission to rewrite the post-war Japanese constitution—at age 22! She is revered to this day for her insistence on including an amendment guaranteeing equality to women. In her afterward to LAST BOAT TO YOKOHAMA, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor notes, “It is rare life treat for a Supreme Court Justice to get to meet a framer of a Constitution. It is rarer indeed for that framer to have been a woman.” Find out more by getting your copy of this book about a woman who made a huge difference in the history of the world. More details here.