![]() ![]() Trans male persons, and also a biography of the San Francisco trans man, Jack Bee Garland. He founded FTM International, one of the first organizations specifically for trans male individuals, and his activism and community work was a significant contributor to the rapid growth of the FTM community during the late 1980s. Sullivan was a pioneer of the grassroots female-to-male (FTM) movement and was instrumental in helping individuals obtain peer-support, counselling, endocrinological services and reconstructive surgery outside of gender dysphoria clinics. He founded FTM International, one of the first FTM organizations, along with SHAFT in the UK and Rupert Raj's Metamorphosis in Toronto, and is largely responsible for the modern acknowledgment that sexual orientation and gender identity are totally different concepts. Louis Graydon Sullivan (16 June 1951 – 2 March 1991), better known as Lou Sullivan, was an American author and activist known for his work on behalf of trans men. ![]()
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![]() The woman was Carri Chmielewski, author of the now-private blog “ Carri Me Away,” where she described her Quiverfull lifestyle, eschewing contraception, having as many children as God gave her, submitting to her husband’s leadership, and, in a related conviction common among Quiverfull adherents, her plans to deliver her children through unassisted childbirth-a home birth with no doctors, nurses, or midwives to help her and her husband through labor and aftercare.įor weeks, Chmielewski’s plans drew the scrutiny and concern of Quiverfull critics, such as the commenters on the wryly-named ”Free Jinger” forum, a discussion board dedicated to “freeing” Jinger Duggar, one of the daughters of the Quiverfull Duggar family featured on reality TV show 18 Kids and Counting. ![]() In the last week of June, two different circles of blogs invested in the Quiverfull movement-both as critics and supporters of the pro-natalist, patriarchal, conservative Christian lifestyle-focused on the sad news of the death of one Quiverfull mother’s child shortly after birth. ![]() ![]() ![]() Morgan is the co-founder of gijiit: a curatorial collective that focuses on community-engaged Indigenous art curations, gatherings, and research dealing with themes of gender, sex, and sexuality. Morgan’s first book n îtisânak (Metonymy Press, 2018) won the prestigious 2019 Dayne Ogilive Prize and a 2019 Quebec Writer’s Federation first book prize, and has been nominated for a Lambda Literary Award and an Indigenous Voices Literary Award. They previously held the position of Editor-at-Large for Canadian Art and served as the Arts and Literary Summit programmer for MagNet 2019. candidate, and an assistant professor in Ryerson University’s Department of English. Morgan is a Toronto-based Cree-Métis-Saulteaux SSHRC doctoral scholarship recipient, a McGill University Art History Ph.D. For more details or to schedule an interview, email Ashley Fortier or call 43 About the Author ![]() ![]() Knights who fly too near find their magic suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island of Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Epic fantasy like no other in the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive series, a hefty novella taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War. When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island of Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn'. ![]() Epic fantasy like no other in the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive series, a hefty novella taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War.ĭiscover the stories of often-overshadowed characters: See more of Lopen, the Windrunner, Rysn Ftori and Chiri-Chiri the last larkin. ![]() ![]() Her articles on the other hand have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, LitHub, Psychology Today, among others.Ī mother to three boys, Kline currently lives with her husband, David, in New York City and Southwest Harbor, Maine. ![]() Kline also served as Writer-in-Residence at Fordham University for four years.Ī recipient of numerous accolades, including the New England Prize for Fiction, the Maine Literary Award, and a Barnes & Noble Discover Award, Kline’s books have been published in 40 countries. She has taught writing, both fiction and nonfiction, poetry, English literature, literary theory, and women’s studies at Yale, NYU, and the University of Virginia. ![]() Christina Baker Kline is a #1 New York Times bestselling author of historical fiction, women’s fiction and contemporary fiction novels, most notably The Exiles (2020), Orphan Train (2013) and A Piece of the World (2017).īorn in Cambridge, England, and raised in both England and the U.S, Kline holds a B.A from Yale, an M.A from Cambridge, and an M.F.A from the University of Virginia, where she was a Hoyns Fellow in Fiction Writing. ![]() ![]() , collects all of Hodgson's series nautical fiction, including the Sargasso Sea Story cycle. ![]() By the later half of the twentieth century, it was only his weird fiction that remained in print, and his vast catalog of non-supernatural stories was extremely hard to find. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith, who often praised his work and cited it as an influence on their own. ![]() While his nautical adventure fiction was very popular during his lifetime, the supernatural and cosmic horror he is most remembered for only became well known after his death, mainly due to the efforts of writers like H. His dark and unsettling short stories and novels were shaped in large part by personal experience (a professional merchant mariner for much of his life, many of Hodgson's tales are set at sea), and his work evokes a disturbing sense of the amorphous and horrific unknown. ![]() William Hope Hodgson was, like his contemporaries Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Machen, one of the most important, prolific, and influential fantasists of the early twentieth century. ![]() Available for the first time in trade paperback, the first of five volumes collecting the complete fiction of William Hope Hodgson, an influential early twentieth-century author of science fiction, horror, and the fantastic. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cassie’s outsider feelings are convincing and give credence to her actions throughout the story. This savvy thriller grabs readers right away. A novella, titled Twelve, was published in 2017.Īlex Winters of The State Journal-Register praised the series and said, "If you enjoy suspenseful crime thrillers and whodunnits with a dash of teen melodrama, then this is the book series for you." The New York Times best-selling author Ally Carter said the series was "a must-read for anyone who likes books about real teens who have no superpowers and yet aren’t quite typical either." Reviewing the first novel, Kirkus Reviews wrote: The third book, All In, came out in 2015, and the fourth and final book, Bad Blood, was published in 2016. The initial book was followed by Killer Instinct, published in 2014. Beginning with 2013's initial novel of the same name, the series follows the life of Cassie Hobbes, a 17-year-old girl who is contacted by the FBI to join a special program. The Naturals is a series of young adult novels by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. ![]() ![]() As Harvard Law professor Randall Kennedy has said, “No one has been more committed to struggles against impoverishment and its cruel consequences than Peter Edelman.” And former New York Times columnist Bob Herbert writes, “If there is one essential book on the great tragedy of poverty and inequality in America, this is it.” Kennedy and senior official in the Clinton administration, Peter Edelman has devoted his life to understanding the causes of poverty. The homeless are arrested for sleeping in the park or urinating in public.Ī former aide to Robert F. Women are evicted from their homes for calling the police too often to ask for protection from domestic violence. Schoolchildren are sent to court for playground skirmishes that previously sent them to the principal’s office. ![]() Nor is the criminalization of poverty confined to money. The anti-tax revolution that began with the Reagan era led state and local governments, starved for revenues, to squeeze ordinary people, collect fines and fees to the tune of 10 million people who now owe $50 billion. As Peter Edelman explains in Not a Crime to Be Poor, in fact Ferguson is everywhere: the debtors’ prisons of the twenty-first century. Department of Justice didn’t just expose racially biased policing it also exposed exorbitant fines and fees for minor crimes that mainly hit the city’s poor, African American population, resulting in jail by the thousands. For example, in Ferguson, Missouri, the U.S. ![]() ![]() In one of the richest countries on Earth it has effectively become a crime to be poor. ![]() ![]() ![]() And since Caroline is currently on a self-imposed "dating hiatus," and her neighbor is clearly lethally attractive to women, she finds her fantasies keep her awake even longer than the noise. ![]() Thanks to paper-thin walls and the guy's athletic prowess, she can hear not just his bed banging against the wall but the ecstatic response of what seems (as loud night after loud night goes by) like an endless parade of women. The first night after Caroline moves into her fantastic new San Francisco apartment, she realizes she's gaining an-um-intimate knowledge of her new neighbor's nocturnal adventures. USA TODAY bestselling indie author Alice Clayton delights readers with the sexy, laugh-out-loud romance of Caroline and Simon in Wallbanger, the first book in the Cocktail series! ![]() "An instant classic.highly recommended!" - New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author Jennifer Probst ![]() ![]() The good news is that being a key witness in a police investigation earns Moo a respite from his classmates' bullying. Then one night Moo witnesses what seems to be a road-rage incident, culminating in murder. Overweight and nearly friendless, the teen has always sought solace on a bridge overlooking the local motorway. The book opens on the night before Moo is due to perform a mysterious deed (which is revealed only at the novel's end) as he whiles away the hours by recalling the complicated chain of events that has led him to this moment. The style may not be to everyone's taste, but it allows readers to get inside the head of 15-year-old narrator Mike "Moo" Nelson. Ness-but whatever it is, whatever he's got, he wants Here the attention-grabbing first-person narrative unspools as a funky, impressionistic hybrid of stream-of-consciousness and instant-messaging slang ("I dunno what it ¸ and also demonstrates the author's range. Brooks's gritty and gripping third novel shares the noir style of his first book, Martyn Pig ![]() |