![]() ![]() Illuminated by journal entries spanning childhood to adolescence to today, he candidly recalls the challenges and loneliness he endured as he came to terms with both his gender and his bisexual identity. In this "soulful and heartfelt coming-of-age story" (Jamia Wilson, director and publisher of the Feminist Press), Jackson chronicles the ups and downs of growing up gender-confused. He barely remembers meeting anyone who was openly gay, let alone being taught that transgender people existed outside of punchlines. Growing up in Texas in the 1990s, he had no transgender role models. Jackson didn't share this thought with anyone because he didn't think he could share it with anyone. When Jackson Bird was twenty-five, he came out as transgender to his friends, family, and anyone in the world with an internet connection.Īssigned female at birth and raised as a girl, he often wondered if he should have been born a boy. An unflinching and endearing memoir from LGBTQ+ advocate Jackson Bird about how he finally sorted things out and came out as a transgender man. ![]()
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![]() ![]() So don’t feel bad if your thoughts go from “Can someone write my paper?” to “Write me a paper asap!” within the first few weeks of the college term. If you try to stay on top of all your responsibilities, you’ll likely burn out or suffer an anxiety attack sooner rather than later. You will soon forget about your plans to discover the party scene, visit your parents every other weekend, or find your soulmate on campus. Not only is it your first attempt at independent life free from parents’ oversight, but it’s also a completely new level of academic requirements and independent study many aren’t ready for.Īnd if you’re an overachiever or a perfectionist, keeping up with all the classes, assignments, extracurriculars, and side gigs will keep you up most nights. ![]() ![]() After all, college is an eye-opening experience for most students. If you’re suddenly wondering, “Can someone do my paper for me?”, there’s likely a very good reason for that. ![]() ![]() This system is a lumbering, unconscionably expensive apparatus that can only be administered by an entity the size of a state. One of the key requirements for creating a nation is control of the education system. Appropriately, this is also the type of person its institutions produce. To put it simply the modern nation is characterized by homogeneity, anonymity and functional literacy. As defined by Gellner, the nation is a unit large enough to reproduce itself through education, ideologically bound to a single literate culture and consisting mostly of deracinated ("gelded"), interchangeable people who can be moved with little retraining between the various occupations demanded by society. Into this breach emerged what we call nationalism, which remains the system that the overwhelming majority of human beings live under today. ![]() The sudden emergence of industrial society required a new type of person as well as a new organizing principle to support itself. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the first two adopted the theme of memory as a trigger for all his literary pursuit, largely linked to memories of childhood and early youth and nostalgic remembrance of certain neighborhoods and characters of Montevideo. Recurring readings were Bergson, Proust and Kafka. One of his wives, the Spanish Africa de las Heras, was a KGB agent. Her love life was also eventful: she married four times. The economic difficulties will be a constant in his life, so he is forced to play the piano in silent movie halls, and become itinerant pianist until 1942 by different coffees Argentina and Uruguay. At age nine he began piano lessons Later the resume and have it as a tutor to the blind pianist Clemente Colling, who teaches harmony and composition and that years later will be evoked in one of his opening works. He was born in Montevideo in 1902 and died in the same city in 1964. Felisberto Hernández corresponds to that anomalous spiritual species Ruben Dario called "rare" and Julio Cortazar cronopios. ![]() ![]() This was my private fun project that I’d work on when I wasn’t doing anything else. Why did it keep getting shoved to the back burner? It was planned to be on the back burner. She’s a beautiful widow, unabashedly living off the hospitality of her brother-in-law’s family while seeking to secure her own future by marrying off her daughter, Frederica (Morfydd Clark), to the wealthy, dimwitted Sir James Martin (Tom Bennett). Stillman, the director of late-20th-century cult classics like Metropolitan and Barcelona, takes certain liberties bringing Austen’s slim novel of letters to life, but his Lady Susan, played brilliantly by Kate Beckinsale, is nearly as Machiavellian as Austen wrote her. (Read to the end and you’ll find Austen’s original text in the appendix.) ![]() And earlier this month, Stillman published an equally funny companion novel, Love & Friendship: In Which Jane Austen’s Lady Susan Vernon Is Entirely Vindicated. Tomorrow, the director’s hilarious Love & Friendship, a 12-years-in-the-making movie adaptation of Austen’s book, hits theaters. If Whit Stillman has his way, that may change. Then again, it’s likely that few have cracked Lady Susan, the comic, epistolary, zinger-filled novella about an unscrupulous, gold-digging widow that Austen penned shortly before embarking on an early draft of Sense and Sensibility, and never published in her lifetime. ![]() Jane Austen’s novels are delightful, amusing, entertaining, and witty, but even her most zealous fans might hesitate to call her laugh-out-loud funny. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tales of Old Earth has one minor but potentially annoying problem: it doesn't give copyright information for the individual stories, so you can't see where, or when, they first appeared. In the World Fantasy Award winner "Radio Waves," a peculiar science-fictional ghost in a strange and frightening afterlife recovers his memory, and regrets it. ![]() "Mother Grasshopper" explores a planet that might be the weirdest ever to appear in science fiction (a huge claim, but true). In "The Dead," the corporate mania for profit reaches a shocking nadir of exploitation. In the Hugo Award winner "The Very Pulse of the Machine," the stranded surviving member of a Jupiter mission may have discovered the secret of the moon Io-or may be going mad. "The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O" is a mythic, Zelazny-tinged tale of time-transcending, world-hopping humans, monsters, and gods. Tales of Old Earth collects 19 of his acclaimed stories, including one ("The Raggle Taggle Gypsy-O") that is original to this volume. Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, World Fantasy, and Theodore Sturgeon Awards, Michael Swanwick is one of science fiction's best authors and a master of short fiction. ![]() ![]() ![]() His dangerous magical abilities instigate unrest in the streets of Cairo that threaten to spill over onto the global stage.Īlongside her Ministry colleagues and a familiar person from her past, Agent Fatma must unravel the mystery behind this imposter to restore peace to the city-or face the possibility he could be exactly who he seems…Ī Master of Djinn is poised to launch P. This murderer claims to be al-Jahiz, returned to condemn the modern age for its social oppressions. ![]() Al-Jahiz transformed the world fifty years ago when he opened up the veil between the magical and mundane realms, before vanishing into the unknown. So when someone murders a secret brotherhood dedicated to one of the most famous men in history, al-Jahiz, Agent Fatma is called onto the case. Download a FREE sneak peek today!Ĭairo, 1912: Though Fatma el-Sha’arawi is the youngest woman working for the Ministry of Alchemy, Enchantments and Supernatural Entities, she’s certainly not a rookie, especially after preventing the destruction of the universe last summer. ![]() Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe for his fantasy novel debut, A Master of Djinn. ![]() ![]() Cather is the popular fanfiction author of an ongoing work called ‘Carry On’, where Simon Snow falls in love with his roommate and arch-enemy, Baz. The heroine of Fangirl, Cather, centers most of her life on the Simon Snow book series. Back in 2015, Carry On was Rainbow Rowell’s creative spinoff to her 2013 novel Fangirl. Understanding Wayward Son requires a bit of a history lesson. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun. ![]() It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter.Ĭome on, Simon Snow. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. ![]() They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place… (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West. He just needs to see himself in a new light… ![]() What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. ![]() So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch? Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after… Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. Wayward Son by Rainbow Rowell manages to balance at the edge of a blade, with magical adventure on one side and subversive realism on the other. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Suspects are plentiful, including the victim’s much younger husband, her resentful stepsons, her longtime hired companion, a young family friend working as a nurse, and a London specialist on poisons who just happens to be visiting the nearby village.Īll of them have secrets they are desperate to keep, but none can outwit Poirot as he navigates the ingenious red herrings and plot twists that contribute to Agatha Christie's well-deserved reputation as the queen of mystery. When Emily is poisoned and the authorities are baffled, Poirot puts his prodigious sleuthing skills to work. ![]() Agatha Christie's debut novel was also the first to feature Hercule Poirot, her famously eccentric Belgian detective.Ī refugee of the Great War, Poirot has settled in England near Styles Court, the country estate of his wealthy benefactor, the elderly Emily Inglethorp. ![]() ![]() Moore: Every historical period has its peculiar challenges. After I graduated and was developing my own lines of research and setting up my clinical practice, I would see people who were navigating either sexual or gender identity questions in light of their Christian faith. In any case, there is overlap in research and clinical practice between sexual orientation and gender identity, at least in childhood, when there is greater gender atypicality among children who later grow up to identify as gay or transgender. ![]() We were looking at what science actually says about key areas of research, such as etiology, and how scientific findings were being used in the debate to move the discussion down a certain path. When he asked me to serve as his research assistant it was to work on a line of research on the use of scientific research in the church’s moral debates about homosexuality. His expertise was in two areas: human sexuality and the integration of psychology and theology. ![]() Yarhouse: When I was completing my doctoral degree in clinical psychology at Wheaton College, I had the opportunity to serve as research assistant to Stanton Jones, who was at the time the department chair. ![]() ![]() Moore: What and/or who was instrumental in getting you interested in this most challenging subject of gender dysphoria? ![]() |