Results for: book
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Slow Takes: Casey Plett’s “A Dream of a Woman” and Forgiveness as a Love Story
Often I find myself pushing so hard against the image of trans loneliness that I don’t allow myself to acknowledge the truths that lie within. This book acknowledged them for me. It hurt. I’m grateful.
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For Your Consideration: Changing Associations After a Breakup
For when wiping the slate completely clean isn’t really an option.
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Make Big Life Changes Less of an Ordeal With a Lean Systems Perspective
I’d say about 90% of industrial/systems engineering work boils down to this super easy exercise: stop for a minute and think about what the main objective is. Now look at what you’re doing. Is that activity getting you closer to the goal?
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Dear Queer Diary: So Long, Farewell
There’s something strange about ending a journal.
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Dear Queer Diary: To Burn Or Not To Burn?
What say you, my dear queer diarists? Are your journals destined to go up in flames? Or are you already planning the exhibition on your journal-writing career?
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Dear Queer Diary: Journaling While Left-Handed
Adventures in non-normative handedness.
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Dear Queer Diary: I’ll Cover You
The gallery of beautiful journal covers is open. Bring your own wine and Trader Joe’s hors d’ouevres for the true art show experience.
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Dear Queer Diary, Today We Found the Perfect Journal
“Whether you write a page-long treatise on your love of Jolly Ranchers or a meditation on the cultural currency of the alternative lifestyle haircut, you’re claiming a space on the page for yourself.”
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A Prairie Homo Does New York: Homeward Trouble
I thought, “Hey New York, just cause you wear these cool designer bridges across your rivers and you’ve got some graffiti on your interesting architecture, doesn’t mean I have to like you, okay?” But I do like New York in spite of myself.
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Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches
I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: To Be More Like A Dog
Your dog doesn’t care that you’re an anti-social drunk bookworm.
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A Prairie Homo Companion: Wanderlust and Lessons Learned
I like to think all of this travelling has taught me a few things, or else what would be the point? Here’s a list of 10 things I’ve learned as a prairie homo in the great wide world.
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Butch Please: Butch and Her Boys
An open letter to all the male icons I have consciously (or subconsciously) based my butchness upon over the years.