Welcome to Buddy’s Bench Press
Shapeshifters
A Visually Stunning Book with
Provocative Writings of Gender
Liberation
Digital Version Now Available in Shop
A Night on Buddy’s Bench
An Evocative Story about Love,
Grief, and Finding
Free books and webinars
Now available to Hospice organizations
Grant Award to Disseminate Free Books to Hospices
Hello Ira,
Northern Light Home Care & Hospice will be making donation of $1000.00 to you to help with your work of supporting hospice programs with your touching end-of- life story, A Night on Buddy’s Bench and the guide, A Pilgrim’s Way through Grief. Please know your work has had a very positive impact with our volunteers.
– Robin Haynes, Northern Light Home Care and Hospice
To obtain free copies for your Hospice service organization email your request to: irabaumgarten@gmail.com
Metroland Now Arts, Albany NY – Endorses SHAPESHIFTERS: BODIES LIKE WATER
According to the UCLA Williams Institute, an estimated 5.5% of adults in the US identify as LGBTQIA+—that’s almost 14 million adults. While there has been a lot of progress throughout recent history, these adults still face an uphill battle of acceptance, whether that is civil, legal, or social. That battle will be even harder in the near future. The rest of Americans, that more-than-significant-majority 94.5%, live their lives as expected in a heteronormative society, moving throughout it without ever truly understanding what it might be like to live in the shoes of someone queer.
That’s where Shapeshifter: Bodies Like Water comes in. Published by Buddy’s Bench Press, this beautiful-crafted book pledges to be a bridge, offering understanding and acceptance through art. It is activism at its most artistic… Shapeshifters: Bodies Like Water is an emotionally immersive work of art on its own—one that would be right at home alongside any other full-color book on your coffee table. It is a conversation starter, a conversation that needs to be had more than ever, to empathize with your fellow human beings that live a life that you may not understand. –
Elissa Ebershold
