Divided by sections that address kids' individual ages-from infancy to kindergarten-this joyful and approachable book shares a bit of hope and starts with the understanding that anyone can spread queer joy.īy giving parents and their kids a vocabulary to express themselves, Rainbow Parenting ultimately aims to create more empathetic adults-and spreads a message of radical acceptance in a world where it's sometimes dangerous to just be yourself. Host and Executive Producer of RAINBOW PARENTING, a brand new queer and gender-affirming parenting podcast produced in partnership with Multitude Productions. Lindz Amer, the creator of Queer Kid Stuff, an award-winning LGBTQ+ educational webseries for children and families, is an expert guide, leading readers through practical applications, important LGBTQ+ history, key lessons in intersectionality, pronouns, social justice, and more. Rainbow Parenting is an indispensable stepping stone for adults who want to raise and teach kids in a queer and gender-affirming way, but might not know how. While they may not be able to address every problem across the country, there's a simple place to start: right at home. In the face of so many injustices across society for LGBTQ+ people, it can be easy for parents of young children to feel helpless and hopeless. An essential guide for parents and caregivers to raising queer-friendly children in a gender-affirming space.
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I thus conclude by offering a reading of Marc Bloch’s The Historian’s Craft as a small contribution to reinforce White’s modernist theory of historiography. The fulfillment of this oscillation can be found in the work of the many theorists and historians who have been stimulated by White’s reflections, and sought to push the oscillation towards one or the other pole. While finding these two arguments at odds with each other, I suggest that we should read them as part of a fruitful oscillation between figural and literal conceptions of modernism/modernity in White’s oeuvre. I argue that Metamodernity presents two separate lines of argumentation: one leading to a modernist theory of historiography, the other, more recent, resulting in a speculative philosophy of modernity. In this essay I imagine and discuss the fulfillment of Metahistory in Hayden White’s Metamodernity, a figural text composed of a specific corpus of essays, spanning over five decades of writing, which present White’s engagement with modernism/modernity. “Black drivers could venture unwittingly into the wrong neighborhoods or stop at the wrong places,” Sorin writes. Still, the new freedom also presented challenges. The free movement opened the window to migration across the land and away from Jim Crow, bring in the modern Civil Rights Movement. Travel guides presented a modern-day Underground Railroad to show black travelers which hotels and restaurants would serve them. The car allowed African Americans to avoid segregated trains and buses throughout the American South and gave blacks a chance to travel across the country. “Driving While Black: African American Travel and the Road to Civil Rights,” by Gretchen Sorin, is a riveting story on how the automobile opened up opportunities for blacks in the U.S. When all of a sudden Crasweller starts lying about his age and claiming that he was in fact born a year later, Neverbend realises that measures must be taken to ensure the smooth execution of the Law. He considers it unfortunate that his friend Crasweller, as the first one to go, does not show any of the signs of old age for which "the Law" was made in the first place: Crasweller is healthy and vigorous, his mental abilities have not started to deteriorate in any way, and accordingly he is more than capable of managing his own affairs and of earning his living. As the originator of the idea, Neverbend also hopes that his name will go down in the annals of history as one of the great reformers. Neverbend has long been planning that day and envisaging it as a day of triumph, believing that mankind and civilisation will move an enormous step forward towards perfection. Whereas decades ago Crasweller also voted in favour of the law which introduced the "Fixed Period," he gradually becomes more pensive as the day of his deposition is approaching. Born in 1913, he emigrated from New Zealand when he was a young man and was instrumental in building the new republic as one of a group of similar-minded men which included his best friend John Neverbend, ten years his junior, who is now serving his term as President of Britannula. The Fixed Period (1882) is a satirical dystopian novel by Anthony Trollope.Gabriel Crasweller, a successful merchant-farmer and landowner, is Britannula's oldest citizen. Andrew’s University in Scotland and then returned to teach at the George School in Bucks County. Michener entered Swarthmore College as a scholarship student and graduated with highest honors. He traveled across the land by boxcar, worked in carnival shows, and before he was 20 years old, had visited all but three of the States in the Union. The great variety of odd jobs and experiences that followed formed an important part of his early education. Reading fed his wanderlust, and as a teenager, he hitchhiked from coast to coast. His mother and aunt valued books and education, and young Michener immersed himself in the novels of 19th-century masters, Dickens and Balzac. His adopted mother was a hardworking woman who opened her home to many foster children, but life was hard, and James Michener learned early to work hard and do without material possessions. He was born in New York City in 1907, but over the course of a long life, he was never able to learn who his birth parents were. Michener was adopted by a widow in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. OctoJames Michener as a child in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.Īs an infant, James A. Park’s family is much more stable, yet his military veteran father and immigrant mother do not quite know what to make of Park, with his black clothes, eye makeup and love of music. Park is half Asian, loves comic books and alternative music.Įleanor has had a rough life, living with her mother, her mother’s new husband, and her four siblings in a rundown house without even a door on the bathroom. Eleanor comes from the wrong side of the tracks and has big red hair and wears all the wrong clothes. Told in alternating voices, this is the story of two teenagers who don’t quite fit in. 72).Įleanor & Park is a smart, funny young adult romance that takes place over one school year in 1986. She tried to remember what kind of animals paralyzed their prey before they ate them.Maybe Park had paralyzed her with his ninja magic, his Vulcan handhold, and now he was going to eat her. She sat completely still because she didn’t have any other option. Could still feel his thumb exploring her palm. Even in a million different pieces, Eleanor could still feel Park holding her hand. If you’ve ever wondered what that feels like, it’s a lot like melting, but more violent. Like something had gone wrong beaming her onto the Starship Enterprise. I read the first time Corrupt in 2016, and it was my favorite read of that year and one of my all-time favorite books. And now every last one of her nightmares will come true.Ĭorrupt is a STANDALONE dark romance with no cliffhanger. Because you see, three years ago she put a few of my high school friends in prison, and now they’re out. The opportunity is too good to be true, as well as the timing. Until my brother leaves for the military, and I find Rika alone at college. I can always feel the fear rolling off of her, and while I haven’t had her body, I know that I have her mind. She looks down when I enter a room and stills when I am close. My brother’s girlfriend grew up hanging around my house and is always at our dinner table. Her name is Erika Fane, but everyone calls her Rika. He’s bad, and the dirt I’ve seen isn’t content to stay in my head anymore. Now, I’ve graduated high school and moved on to college, but I haven’t stopped watching Michael. The things that he did, and the deeds that he hid… For years, I bit my nails, unable to look away. The star of his college’s basketball team and now gone pro, he’s more concerned with the dirt on his shoe than me. He’s handsome, strong, and completely terrifying. My boyfriend’s older brother is like that scary movie that you peek through your hand to watch. My nightmares, however, became my obsession. I was told that dreams were our heart’s desires. "Fortean" phenomena are events which seem to challenge the boundaries of accepted scientific knowledge, and the Fortean Times (founded as The News in 1973 and renamed in 1976) investigates such phenomena.įort was born in Albany, New York, in 1874, of Dutch ancestry. įort's collections of scientific anomalies, including The Book of the Damned (1919), influenced numerous science-fiction writers with their skepticism and as sources of ideas. His work continues to inspire admirers, who refer to themselves as "Forteans", and has influenced some aspects of science fiction. Fort's books sold well and are still in print. The terms "Fortean" and "Forteana" are sometimes used to characterize various such phenomena. Charles Hoy Fort (Aug– May 3, 1932) was an American writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena. Several months later he finds himself in Senegal, a country both modern and ancient, where the real and the unreal are inseparably entwined." 296 pages. In a moment of surrender Evan joins the Peace Corps, setting out for Africa both to deter any sort of real commitment and to discover the black identity that so empowers Wanda. Unfortunately Evan would rather get stoned with a comfortable band of aging hippies who entice him to kick back and drop out. In America Evan Norris enjoys all the comforts of a middle-class existence and the love of Wanda, a strong and fiercely intelligent woman who is determined to see Evan succeed in her world. ""Reginald McKnight's first novel is the hallucinatory tale of an African American's quest for identity in two radically different cultures. The folow-up to his remarkable, multiple award-winning 'Moustapha's Eclipse' short story debut. Author Reginald McKnight Format/Binding Paperback Book condition Used Quantity-available 1 Edition First Ed thus First Printing indicated. Highly acclaimed author's absorbing first novel. She takes up the same job-as a night clerk-that Viv had when she disappeared and starts poking around. Carly’s mother never talked about her sister but Carly could sense that she was haunted by Viv’s disappearance till the day she died.įor that reason, Carly has never been able to let go of the past and is determined to figure out just what happened to her aunt. She wants to find out what happened to her aunt, Viv Delaney, who disappeared from The Sun Down Motel in the 1980s. In 2017, a young woman, Carly Kirk, arrives in Fell. Told in two different timelines, The Sun Down Motel takes you to a small town in upstate New York. But once the story picks up pace-after a 100 or so pages-you can’t put it down. The initial few chapters feel a bit bleak and that might make you want to stop reading. The Sun Down Motel is a family drama, ghost story, and murder mystery all rolled in one. The vibe is kind of like that of ‘The Shining’ by Stephen King, perhaps the ultimate horror book/movie set in a hotel. It’s a bit slow and there aren’t many jump scares but it feels like watching a good suspense thriller movie. If you are in the mood for a creepy story that makes the hairs at the back of your neck stand, I suggest you read ‘The Sun Down Motel’ by Simone St. |