![]() Informative and refreshingly honest, Queerly Autistic provides a definitive and clear framework for LGBTQIA+ autistic teens navigating the highs and lows of life. Lawson (PhD) CPsychol AFBPsS MAPSĮkins has created an essential guide for autistic LGBTQIA+ teenagers, covering all aspects of identity, relationships and, crucially, safety. ![]() For any young autistic (or otherwise) person questioning the many variables to working our where you 'sit' and how to recognise your 'fit' within queer society, this book is perfect! Dr. ![]() Poe Charlotte, author of 'How to Be Autistic'Įrin's no nonsense, clear & concise explanations of the many roads that lead us to self-discovery re: gender and sexuality is carefully crafted. One of the most important books in autistic literature. The intersectionality between autism and LGBTQIA+ identities has long been ignored, but Queerly Autistic not only bridges the gap but guides the reader through a world of new ideas and acceptance. It's a vital exploration into autism, gender and sexuality, and is easy to understand even as it tackles difficult topics. ![]() This book is going to change and save so many lives. ![]()
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![]() The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. ![]() The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with-and perished from-for more than five thousand years. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. Now includes an excerpt from Siddhartha Mukherjee ’ s new book Song of the Cell! ![]() Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” ( The New Yorker)-a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer-from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. ![]() ![]() Middle-class morality significantly influences the values of these characters and seeps into Bowery culture through the religion of the mission church and through the entertainments found in the theatres and music halls that the characters visit. Mary seems to be mimicking the rhetoric and the ideology of benevolence of many female moral reformers. Through scenes which present a performance of grief and a spectacle of insincere emotions, Crane effectively criticizes the false morality of certain characters, like Maggie's mother Mary Johnson, while at the same time causing his readers to contemplate the plight of the poor. This article analyzes the belief system of the Bowery people in Stephen Crane’s city sketches and Maggie, A Girl of the Streets and considers how the values imposed on them by the performance of morality in both the theatre and the mission church clash with their lived experiences and actively shape their lives. ![]() ![]() ![]() Out of Darkness is based on a true-events: In 1937, a natural gas explosion at a school in New London, Texas, killed nearly 300 students and teachers - one of the deadliest school disasters in U.S. She published Out of Darkness in 2015, a year that invoked a national conversation surrounding issues of race, environmental racism, racialized violence and police brutality. Pérez - who is a comparative literature professor at The Ohio State University in addition to having authored three novels - centers her writing on Latin American narratives, making space for young Latino readers to see themselves in her work. ![]() This discussion with Ashley Hope Pérez is part of a series of interviews with - and essays by - authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.Īshley Hope Pérez is the author of the award-winning Out of Darkness, a young adult novel that has faced challenges and bans in the U.S. ![]() ![]() ![]() I found that particularly original, having never encountered such a story structure before, and it was interesting to observe how the two characters’ lives and interactions with one another and the people around them progressed from birthday to birthday. It is divided into six different parts-six different birthdays, starting at thirteen and ending at eighteen. Until tragedy strikes and they need one another more than ever. But the older they get, and the more Morgan struggles with her identity, the more distance opens up between them. ![]() It’s told from two alternative POVs: Morgan’s and Eric’s, who are best friends and ready to tackle everything in life together. There is a lot of love in this coming-of-age story-it is not hopeless-but there is also much destruction. Birthday is very different from her debut, so different that I feel a switch was made in the author’s mind or she wanted to tell a heart-breaking story instead of a mainly heart-blossoming one. Three years ago, I read Meredith Russo’s debut – If I Was Your Girl – and I enjoyed it, but I could not have predicted it becoming a bestseller and award-winning novel, because although I found it sweet and meaningful, it was not a page-turner for me. Genres & Themes: Young Adult, Fiction, Transgenderism, Coming of Age, Friendship, Romance, High School, Family ![]() ![]() Still, Aza is flattered when a frequent visitor to the inn, a gnome named Zhamm, tells Aza that her hair is the most beautiful he has ever seen. Besides being skilled at singing, Aza can also flawlessly mimic people and throw her voice without moving her mouth, a form of ventriloquism she calls "illusing". However, Aza's voice garners as much attention as her looks, for Ayortha is a land of song, and Aza is an amazing singer. ![]() Her prodigious size and her odd coloring – milk-white skin, dragon tongue lips, and hair that seems to be frying-pan black – are greatly at variance with the land's standards of beauty and often make her the target of stares and rude comments. The kingdom of Ayortha, the setting of the story, is the neighboring kingdom of Kyrria, where Ella Enchanted was set and the story makes several allusions to the previous work.Īza, the adopted daughter of innkeepers in Ayortha, has always hated her appearance. ![]() It uses some plot elements of the classic Snow White and is set in the same world as Ella Enchanted. ![]() Fairest is a 2006 novel by Gail Carson Levine. ![]() ![]() ![]() This contributes to the narrative's message regarding families, and how, in contemporary Japan, "family" doesn't always refer to the people you are connected to by blood. What is the narrative impact of Eriko being a trans woman?Įriko could have simply been a mother who was born female and thus more traditional, but Yoshimoto decided to make Eriko a trans woman instead. Though the rituals and cultural elements of religion may still permeate contemporary Japan, the characters do not rely on the gods for help-a fact that is both daunting and empowering. Mikage says frankly, "For having been granted such a warm bed after finding myself in the direst straits, I thanked the gods-whether they existed or not-with all my heart" (22). When Chika is bemoaning Eriko's death, she says, "Why do things like this have to happen? I can't believe in the gods" (86). The story alludes to gods several times, but they do not offer any succor or relief. ![]() Yoshimoto is writing this novel in 1987, and it is clearly representative of a more secular era. How do the characters of this world relate to religion and spirituality? ![]() ![]() Local-area networks or LANs allow thousands of machines within a building or campus to be connected in such a way that small amounts of information can be transferred in a few microseconds or so. The second development was the invention of high-speed computer networks. In any case, the current generation of machines have the computing power of the mainframes deployed 30 or 40 years ago, but for 1/1000th of the price or less. With multicore CPUs, we now are refacing the challenge of adapting and developing programs to exploit parallelism. Initially, these were 8-bit machines, but soon 16-, 32-, and 64-bit CPUs became common. The first was the development of powerful microprocessors. Starting in the mid-1980s, however, two advances in technology began to change that situation. ![]() Moreover, for lack of a way to connect them, these computers operated independently from one another. From 1945, when the modern computer era began, until about 1985, computers were large and expensive. The pace at which computer systems change was, is, and continues to be overwhelming. ![]() ![]() ![]() I had just finished coloring in My Kindergarten Book. It didn't really meet my expectations because I thought it would be stupid and terrible, but in reality, it was really awesome! So anyone into goth, vampires, humor, or all, I highly highly recomend it. I didn't like the ending though because Alexander vanishes. Becky thought she had run him over with her truck by accident, and he disappears. Also, when she sees Alexander, (her future boyfriend)for the first time, is very mysterious and scary. ![]() I thought that was hilarious! That is the kind of teen humor I can get. ![]() She gets her arch nemises (Trevor) naked in the woods, and then grabs his clothes and run, leaving him drunk and alone in the woods. One of the chapters in the book describes a teen party in which Raven, (the main character) and her best friend, (Becky) crash. It was about a goth girl who finally meets the vampire boyfriend of her dreams. The book had a lot of imagery in the characters. The book had the same kind of younger humor I could relate to. It really caught my eye, and thought it looked interesting. I chose to read this book, because I like vampires, (not the sparkly kind). I am typing a book review on the great book, Vampire Kisses, by Ellen Schreiber. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “And Netflix ended up optioning a pile of Christopher Pike’s stuff - 28 books.” “He agreed to let me take a shot with the show and the pitch was, we’ll do ‘The Midnight Club’ - but the stories the kids tell will be other Christopher Pike books, and he really liked that idea,” Flanagan told a group of reporters at a “Midnight Club” press conference last week. While Netflix has not yet renewed “Midnight Club” for a second season, Flanagan has a plan for multiple seasons of the series, which follows the teens as they live out the end of their short lives at the hospice and share scary stories to help them cope with the inevitable, all while supernatural forces loom around them. At a recent media conference Flanagan, along with his producing partner Trevor Macy, also had unsurprisingly good things to say about our guy: Flanagan talks Pike, Midnight Club's futureĪccording to Variety, Mike Flanagan promises answers to the show's dangling questions, even if the show isn't renewed. ![]() |