![]() Our aim to to provide a soundtrack that brings people together. Though our society is experiencing division, we know there is still common ground in music. The Sun King Warriors recognize that the connective power of music is a powerful point of commonality between people. ![]() and that together we can do a lot of good. Children of the Sun King: Some Reconsiderations: Metropolitan Museum Journal, v. That our words, thoughts and actions have a real effect on the people around us. The songs are an invitation to consider the idea that you and I are not separate. who refuse to be separated from their neighbors and families due to differing beliefs. "We See Through it" celebrates the truth and all those who hold themselves to the highest standards. The music is dedicated to all who work every day to become better people. ![]() In addition to the band, we've got a whole crew of great friends and family who contributed to this disc including my children Tupelo, Ella and Oliver and my former Rusted Root band mates Jenn Wertz and Liz Berlin. If you are crazy for music with a message of truth wrapped in the big vintage rock sounds of Led Zeppelin, the emotion and melody stylings of Mumford & Sons, soaring harmonies and tons of barreling tribal drums – then this might be your new favorite album. ![]()
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![]() ![]() But as long as he’s stuck here, he might as well make the best of it, so he discreetly checks out the local gay scene, where he meets Shane Connelly. Three long, lonely years on a crappy island that’s thousands of miles from his daughter? Oh. – Mandi Schreiner, USA Today Happily Ever After Recommended Readįirst class petty officer Eric Randall is less than thrilled about taking orders to Okinawa. ![]() I’ll definitely be hitting her back list. Witt writes a really hot book and her voice is one that I can’t get enough of. I really enjoyed these two guys and their struggles with being gay in the military.– Mary Grzesik, USA Today Happily Ever After Recommended Read It is heartfelt and hot with plenty of banter and humor. This is a terrific story about two military men stationed in Okinawa.The details of Navy life on the Japanese island of Okinawa give Witt’s novel authenticity, but the heat between the two heroes is what keeps the pages turning. ![]() ![]() ![]() Death on the Downbeat (also published as The Corpse) 1958.A Siren Signs Off (also published as The Myopic Mermaid) 1958.No Body She Knows (also published as No Future Fair Lady) 1958.Ten Grand Tallulah and Temptation (Also published as The Scarlet Flush) 1957.Eve - It's Extortion (also published as Walk Softly, Witch) (US Title The Victim) 1957.Cutie Wins a Corpse (also published as Graves I Dig) 1957.No Law Against Angels (also published as The Body) 1957.Doll for the Big House (also published as The Bombshell) 1957. ![]()
![]() ![]() What they have in common are their feelings of elation, pride, confidence, freedom and ecstasy as a direct result of coming out as non-cisgender, and how coming to terms with their gender has brought unimaginable joy into their lives. In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria: an agender dominatrix being called ‘Daddy’, an Arab trans man getting his first tattoos, a trans woman embracing her inner fighter. This is from Me and My Dysphoria Monster, a childrens book by Laura Kate Dale, about how you must bend everything to the demons will to keep it happy. But for many non-cisgender people, it’s gender euphoria which pushes forward their transition: the joy the first time a parent calls them by their new chosen name, the first time they have the confidence to cut their hair short, the first time they truly embrace themself. Gender dysphoria is demonic, and theyre not even pretending its not. In this groundbreaking anthology, nineteen trans, non-binary, agender, gender-fluid and intersex writers share their experiences of gender euphoria: an agender dominatrix being called. So often the stories shared by trans people about their transition centre on gender dysphoria: a feeling of deep discomfort with their birth-assigned gender, and a powerful catalyst for coming out or transitioning. GENDER EUPHORIA: a powerful feeling of happiness experienced as a result of moving away from one’s birth-assigned gender. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The main character in the novel – Jean Grenouille – was born without a scent, which made people mistrust him. But only recently the two were connected in my mind. And I read it when I was about 15, three years after I first heard Cobain sing about a ‘scentless apprentice’. Of course that made me even more curious. I bought the Nirvana album a few years before my father explicitly forbade me to read ‘The Perfume’ by Patrick Süskind (1985), which I had discovered on a shelf in the living room. Only much later I found out this song referred to a novel I hadn’t heard of at the time. SCENTLESS APPRENTICE (In Dutch that would be ‘geurloze leerling’) I clearly remember my father translating the title of the second song on the album for me (I was too young to fully understand English): The first album I ever bought was ‘In Utero’ by Nirvana. ![]() ![]() ![]() However, I can understand why others who don't know where this is coming from are having problems with it. The writing style used in this book is an intentional imitation of ancient Mesopotamian texts and story telling techniques, which was a quirk that I really enjoyed, perhaps because I knew where it was coming from and what she was doing. All of which is not true of the true and living God of the Bible.Ī lot of people reviewing this book are complaining about the writing style and seemingly flat characterizations in the story. Either way, I found it uncomfortable to have the Almighty possibly presented in a way that made Him appear uncaring, powerless, and apparently ineffective in communicating His will clearly or having a personal relationship with his people. Perhaps she did intend to given her reference to a passage in the Old Testament in the beginning of the book to a story that she paralleled in the book. Though she probably didn't mean to liken that deity to the God of the Bible, she did. Second, and most importantly to me, I found her presentation of the female's god hitting too close to home. Perhaps Levine was trying to catch the simplicity of the setting, ancient times, with her tale, but I found it lacking her usual magic. I found something quite different.įirst, I found the characters to be flat, one demensional, and simplistic. ![]() ![]() I loved the author's previous works, and I was looking forward to a nice enjoyable read. I bought this book with great anticipation. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The first case is about the school’s leading football player who mysteriously vanishes at random times. The Further Adventures of Jack Lime describes three very interesting cases: the missing quarterback, the red envelope and the case of the comic book caper. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Full of adventure, secrets and lies, this book is for you if you like Harry Potter, The Neil Flambé Capers and, of course, The Spiderwick Chronicles. Poppy is determined to never give up, Alice is more cautious and Zach is struggling to decide who he is. Also, the characters have really distinct personalities. I liked this book because there is so much happening at any one time that you feel like you’ll forget about it if you put it down. Solving the mystery leads them on a real adventure around their city involving Eleanor, the queen of their game. Poppy then tells them about the odd things happening with a doll that may have been made from the bones of a murdered girl. But then Zach’s dad throws out the toys because he thinks Zach is too old for them. Zach, Poppy and Alice love their game of figurines and adventure. ![]() Holly Black, author and co-creator of The Spiderwick Chronicles, has written Doll Bones, a truly creepy book about three children and a mysterious doll. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt. ![]() ![]() ![]() Carla has lectured in Ethnic Studies at the U.C. Her novel What Night Brings won the 2003 Miguel Mármol Prize and runner-up for the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award, as well as Honorable Mention for the Writers at Work competition. Berkeley, and has focused some of her recent activities on improving the classroom climate for underrepresented students in the College of Engineering using Interactive Theater. She works as a Director of Diversity programs in the College of Engineering at U.C. She is the author of several short stories, and various articles on identity, sexuality, and higher education. Her dissertation focused on assessing differential treatment of underrepresented students in college classrooms.Ĭarla is the editor of Chicana Lesbians: The Girls Our Mothers Warned Us About (1991), which won the LAMBDA Book Award for Best Lesbian Anthology and the Out/Write Vanguard Award for Best Pioneering Contribution to the field of Gay/Lesbian Lifestyle Literature and of Living Chicana Theory (1998). ![]() in Educational Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She received a BS degree in Human Development from UC Davis and an MS and Ph.D. Last update of this page: November 4 th 2004Ĭarla was born in Las Vegas, New Mexico and raised in the San Francisco Bay area in California. Matt & Andrej Koymasky - Famous GLTB - Carla Trujillo ![]() ![]() In this episode, JF and Phil discuss Wilson's concept of Faculty X as elaborated in his monumental 1971 work, The Occult. ![]() the oldest civilisation known to man, Colin Wilson sets out to explore. For Wilson, magic isn't the living fossil the arch-rationalists would like it to be, but a "science of the future." Faculty X is an evolutionary power, innately positive, inseparable from the will to live and the unshakeable conviction that, somehow, this world has some real, ineffable meaning. accompany anyone beyond the grave, the only reality that one can present to God. ![]() At its simplest, what Colin Wilson calls Faculty X is "simply that latent power in human beings possess to reach beyond the present." Yet its existence is evinced in all those phenomena that modernity files under "supernatural" or "occult." As difficult to explain as it is impossible to omit from any honest survey of human existence, the occult haunts the modern, not just as a vestige of the past but also, perhaps, as a promise from a time to come. This follow-up to the international bestseller, The Occult, is essential reading for anyone interested in the mystical and the paranormal from ESP and clairvoyance to poltergeists and spirit possession Colin Wilson has explored the paranormal universe ever since he researched his first highly successful work, The Occult hailed as the most interesting, informative and thought. ![]() ![]() ![]() The novel includes decorative pencil drawings, as well as a map of the Ojibwa community, and a glossary of Ojibwa language translations. She has three siblings: a baby named Neewo (who dies from smallpox), Little Pinch (later changed to Big Pinch) and Angeline. ![]() The most important thing Omakayas learns about herself is why she didn't get smallpox when most everyone in the community did. She learns about her connection to all nature, and discovers her gift of dreams. Omakayas cares for her family because she knew that with the winter comes a smallpox epidemic. The community in each season works together to hunt, build, gather, and survive. ![]() The circular motion of the Ojibwa culture is represented through the motions of the four seasons, Neebin (summer), Dagwaging (fall). Īfter the prologue, the novel continues through the eyes of a seven-year-old young girl, Omakayas ("her name means "little frog" because her first step was a hop). The Birchbark House has received positive reviews and was a 1999 National Book Award Finalist for young people's fiction. The story follows the life of Omakayas and her Ojibwe community beginning in 1847 near present-day Lake Superior. The Birchbark House is a 1999 indigenous juvenile realistic fiction novel by Louise Erdrich, and is the first book in a five book series known as The Birchbark series. ![]() |