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December 12 Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws (Paperback)
Editorial Reviews
Book Description
Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it.
Here, Kate bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for navigating an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalized youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive.
Hello, Cruel World features a catalog of 101 Alternatives to Suicide that range from the playful (Moisturize), to the irreverent (Disbelieve the Binary), to the highly controversial (Get Laid. Please). Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' harmless desires, the book has only one directive: "Don't be mean." It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life.
Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package.
A celebrated pioneer for the LGBTQI community, transsexual author and performance artist, Kate Bornstein is the author of the wildly successful books My Gender Workbook and Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and The Rest of Us. About the AuthorA celebrated pioneer for the LGBTQI community, transexual author and performance artist,Kate Bornstein, offers a pivotal critique of the gender binary that has become a staple in the study of Gender and Sexuality. Kate currently lives with her partner Barbara Carrellas in Spanish Harlem, New York City.
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The Associated Press
Published: October 4, 2006
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COLUMBIA, Missouri Students at the University of Missouri-Columbia have launched a campaign to rename the student union building because it is christened in honor of a former dean who worked to purge the campus of gay students and professors more than a half-century ago.
Erin Kennedy and two other students spent the summer poring over Thomas A. Brady's personal papers in the university archives and said the documents show that Brady regularly corresponded with the university president over ways "to establish machinery for identification and apprehension" of homosexuals.
The student union was built and named Brady Commons in 1966, two years after Brady's death. Brady was also a history professor and a university vice president.
"We are not suggesting that Brady's ideals were out of the mainstream at the time," the students wrote in a recent issue of The Maneater, the student newspaper. "We are simply wondering why (the university) would continue to leave a building ... named after a man who represented where the university has been, rather than where it is going."
The student union is in the early stages of a $58.7 million (€46.28 million) expansion that would nearly double its size. While the project has been temporarily dubbed the MU Student Center in hopes of attracting a donor interested in naming rights, campus officials have told the protesters that a section of the new complex will retain the Brady name.
"I'm sympathetic and empathetic to the students' issue," Mark Lucas, student life director, said Wednesday. "But we're not sure that opening up an entire campus with 80 buildings to public scrutiny of people's past is the right way to do this."
The students, who have posted the Brady documents on the Web, also cited his efforts to track the names of students, faculty and community members working to hold an integrated student meeting on campus in 1947.
Brady also argued for access to students' confidential medical and mental health records over the strenuous objections of university doctors, records show.
"Brady's actions went above and beyond simple ideology," the students wrote in the student newspaper, which has also editorialized in favor of the renaming.
Kennedy, a senior majoring in sociology, said the university should instead consider honoring a black historical figure — something that black students on campus have sought for years.
Brady's son, also named Thomas A. Brady, an emeritus professor of history at the University of California-Berkeley, suggested his father is being held to an unfair standard.
"We are all people of our times," he said. "You would have to rename the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and probably Washington, D.C."
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On the Net:
Not My Brady: http://www.realmizzouhistory.blogspot.com
MU Student Center: http://www.mizzouismyhome.com
COLUMBIA, Missouri Students at the University of Missouri-Columbia have launched a campaign to rename the student union building because it is christened in honor of a former dean who worked to purge the campus of gay students and professors more than a half-century ago.
Erin Kennedy and two other students spent the summer poring over Thomas A. Brady's personal papers in the university archives and said the documents show that Brady regularly corresponded with the university president over ways "to establish machinery for identification and apprehension" of homosexuals.
The student union was built and named Brady Commons in 1966, two years after Brady's death. Brady was also a history professor and a university vice president.
"We are not suggesting that Brady's ideals were out of the mainstream at the time," the students wrote in a recent issue of The Maneater, the student newspaper. "We are simply wondering why (the university) would continue to leave a building ... named after a man who represented where the university has been, rather than where it is going."
The student union is in the early stages of a $58.7 million (€46.28 million) expansion that would nearly double its size. While the project has been temporarily dubbed the MU Student Center in hopes of attracting a donor interested in naming rights, campus officials have told the protesters that a section of the new complex will retain the Brady name.
"I'm sympathetic and empathetic to the students' issue," Mark Lucas, student life director, said Wednesday. "But we're not sure that opening up an entire campus with 80 buildings to public scrutiny of people's past is the right way to do this."
The students, who have posted the Brady documents on the Web, also cited his efforts to track the names of students, faculty and community members working to hold an integrated student meeting on campus in 1947.
Brady also argued for access to students' confidential medical and mental health records over the strenuous objections of university doctors, records show.
"Brady's actions went above and beyond simple ideology," the students wrote in the student newspaper, which has also editorialized in favor of the renaming.
Kennedy, a senior majoring in sociology, said the university should instead consider honoring a black historical figure — something that black students on campus have sought for years.
Brady's son, also named Thomas A. Brady, an emeritus professor of history at the University of California-Berkeley, suggested his father is being held to an unfair standard.
"We are all people of our times," he said. "You would have to rename the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and probably Washington, D.C."
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On the Net:
Not My Brady: http://www.realmizzouhistory.blogspot.com
MU Student Center: http://www.mizzouismyhome.com
COLUMBIA, Missouri Students at the University of Missouri-Columbia have launched a campaign to rename the student union building because it is christened in honor of a former dean who worked to purge the campus of gay students and professors more than a half-century ago.
Erin Kennedy and two other students spent the summer poring over Thomas A. Brady's personal papers in the university archives and said the documents show that Brady regularly corresponded with the university president over ways "to establish machinery for identification and apprehension" of homosexuals.
The student union was built and named Brady Commons in 1966, two years after Brady's death. Brady was also a history professor and a university vice president.
"We are not suggesting that Brady's ideals were out of the mainstream at the time," the students wrote in a recent issue of The Maneater, the student newspaper. "We are simply wondering why (the university) would continue to leave a building ... named after a man who represented where the university has been, rather than where it is going."
The student union is in the early stages of a $58.7 million (€46.28 million) expansion that would nearly double its size. While the project has been temporarily dubbed the MU Student Center in hopes of attracting a donor interested in naming rights, campus officials have told the protesters that a section of the new complex will retain the Brady name.
"I'm sympathetic and empathetic to the students' issue," Mark Lucas, student life director, said Wednesday. "But we're not sure that opening up an entire campus with 80 buildings to public scrutiny of people's past is the right way to do this."
The students, who have posted the Brady documents on the Web, also cited his efforts to track the names of students, faculty and community members working to hold an integrated student meeting on campus in 1947.
Brady also argued for access to students' confidential medical and mental health records over the strenuous objections of university doctors, records show.
"Brady's actions went above and beyond simple ideology," the students wrote in the student newspaper, which has also editorialized in favor of the renaming.
Kennedy, a senior majoring in sociology, said the university should instead consider honoring a black historical figure — something that black students on campus have sought for years.
Brady's son, also named Thomas A. Brady, an emeritus professor of history at the University of California-Berkeley, suggested his father is being held to an unfair standard.
"We are all people of our times," he said. "You would have to rename the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and probably Washington, D.C."
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On the Net:
Not My Brady: http://www.realmizzouhistory.blogspot.com
MU Student Center: http://www.mizzouismyhome.com
COLUMBIA, Missouri Students at the University of Missouri-Columbia have launched a campaign to rename the student union building because it is christened in honor of a former dean who worked to purge the campus of gay students and professors more than a half-century ago.
Erin Kennedy and two other students spent the summer poring over Thomas A. Brady's personal papers in the university archives and said the documents show that Brady regularly corresponded with the university president over ways "to establish machinery for identification and apprehension" of homosexuals.
The student union was built and named Brady Commons in 1966, two years after Brady's death. Brady was also a history professor and a university vice president.
"We are not suggesting that Brady's ideals were out of the mainstream at the time," the students wrote in a recent issue of The Maneater, the student newspaper. "We are simply wondering why (the university) would continue to leave a building ... named after a man who represented where the university has been, rather than where it is going."
The student union is in the early stages of a $58.7 million (€46.28 million) expansion that would nearly double its size. While the project has been temporarily dubbed the MU Student Center in hopes of attracting a donor interested in naming rights, campus officials have told the protesters that a section of the new complex will retain the Brady name.
"I'm sympathetic and empathetic to the students' issue," Mark Lucas, student life director, said Wednesday. "But we're not sure that opening up an entire campus with 80 buildings to public scrutiny of people's past is the right way to do this."
The students, who have posted the Brady documents on the Web, also cited his efforts to track the names of students, faculty and community members working to hold an integrated student meeting on campus in 1947.
Brady also argued for access to students' confidential medical and mental health records over the strenuous objections of university doctors, records show.
"Brady's actions went above and beyond simple ideology," the students wrote in the student newspaper, which has also editorialized in favor of the renaming.
Kennedy, a senior majoring in sociology, said the university should instead consider honoring a black historical figure — something that black students on campus have sought for years.
Brady's son, also named Thomas A. Brady, an emeritus professor of history at the University of California-Berkeley, suggested his father is being held to an unfair standard.
"We are all people of our times," he said. "You would have to rename the Jefferson Memorial, the Lincoln Memorial and probably Washington, D.C."
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On the Net:
Not My Brady: http://www.realmizzouhistory.blogspot.com
MU Student Center: http://www.mizzouismyhome.com
| December 05
Join the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women candle light memorial walk on Dec. 6 at 5:45 p.m. starting from City Hall. The walk will end at the Longhouse where there will be hot food, singing, drinks, Heidi, and other speakers. December 01
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Parents to SD 27 board: Hands off our schools
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By Gaeil FarrarTribune Staff Writer
Nov 30 2006
About 200 people filled the bleachers at Williams Lake Secondary School Monday evening to tell a public forum on School District 27’s Trillium facilities report to leave their schools alone.
Parent advisory council members, parents, and students made dozens of oral presentations about Kwaleen, Glendale, Wildwood, and Likely elementary schools, which are all proposed for closure in the report, and on behalf of Williams Lake Secondary, which is proposed for conversion into a Grade 7-9 middle school.
Parent Doug Magnowski said he has two children attending Glendale Elementary. He chose the school because of its year-round program, excellence in education, and because it is a smaller school.
If he wanted to send his kids to a larger school, there are other communities they could have chosen, he said.
If Glendale is closed, he said, “My children will go to private school so they will fall out of your numbers.”
Hands stayed down
Janet Stafford has two children at Wildwood Elementary, and is a graduate of Columneetza during a time when that school ran shifts to accommodate all of the students. She said she attended classes from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and enjoyed it. She suggested that some of the district’s financial problems could be solved by having shifts rather than building new buildings.
Gina Calabrese, presenting on behalf of the Glendale PAC, told the board the year-round school concept at Glendale has been the subject of several radio shows and is of interest to people across Canada.
She asked the crowd how many people wanted to send their children to an elementary school with 400 students in it. Hands remained down.
“I didn’t think so.”
The Trillium report suggests rebuilding Marie Sharpe Elementary as a 400-student elementary school.
“We would like to work with other PACs... to make decisions for our region, rather than simply following the Trillium report.
“The guidelines are too harsh, and are coming too quickly,” Calabrese said.
Cindy Outhouse was in tears when she finished her presentation on behalf of the Likely community, which has started a petition to buy more time for the Likely school, recommended for closure next year.
Kwaleen parents came en masse to the forum with banners held high while the presentation was made to keep that school open.
Coun. Paul French cautioned the board about moving too quickly to close schools or reconfigure the secondary schools.
He said his daughter was short-changed and had a struggle getting her courses for graduation when Anne Stevenson was closed and the current Grade 8-12 configuration was created.
“We are looking at the possibility of the town growing, and that is not in the report. My message to the trustees is to be careful who is leading you here.” French said.
Barry Sale, one of three retired principals who organized the forum, recounted the facts before opening the discussion.
The district is expected to lose 550 secondary students over the next 10 years, and 100 elementary students over the next five years This year the district is facing a $1-million deficit, and if nothing is done to cut costs, he said that deficit will more than double in following year.
The district receives $530 per student from the Ministry of Education, and when enrollment decreases, so does the funding.
He said quality of education and impact on communities were not part of the Trillium facilities report criteria. |
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