(Source: larmoyante)
Books for transgender teens
Today at the reference desk I helped a patron & her home-schooled daughter who were looking for resources for transgendered [sic] teens and their families. My library system is fairly large and cosmopolitan, but even so, we didn’t have a very large selection of materials on the subject. As I looked for titles to add to our collection, I came across a few great booklists for LGTBQ young adult fiction and nonfiction.
- ALA’s Stonewall Book Award List
- Goodreads: Booklist for Trans Youth
- Multnomah County Library: Books for GLBTQ Teens
There are many more great subject lists out there, but these sites gave me a good starting place to add to our library’s collection.I want to make sure teens looking for support & information about being transgendered will be able to find books about kids like them at our public library. And I want them to know that they’re not alone.
Great resource! Thanks for sharing. And for those of you in the Chicagoland area, the Oak Park library has the wonderful Transgender Resource Collection. Dig.
(Source: wretchedoftheearth)
Basically,
…if you want to talk about class struggle in America but don’t begin and end your discussion with Women of Color then fuck off.
H.P. Lovecraft and Nikola Tesla: Paranormal Investigators
Illustration by Travis Pitts :: via zom-bot
The unidirectionally future-oriented vigilance of paranoia generates, paradoxically, a complex relation to temporality that burrows both backward and forward: because there must be no bad surprises, and because learning of the possibility of a bad surprise would itself constitute a bad surprise, paranoia requires that bad news be always already known. As Miller’s analysis also suggests, the temporal progress and regress of paranoia are, in principle, infinite.” Eve Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading” (via hookedonsemiotics)
Tucson schools bans books by Chicano and Native American authors
“Tuscon schools champion science fiction as basis for new public schools curriculum”
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, por Ed Regis, es un interesante recopilatorio de las teorías científicas más increíbles que han sido tomadas en serio, expuestas de una forma sencilla y comprensible, a la vez que difumina la raya entre ciencia ficción e inevitable futuro.
Mambo Chicken ofrece un acercamiento a la base del transhumanismo, un movimiento cultural que se basa en el cambio inevitable (y deseado) que sufrirá la “condición humana” con el uso y avances de nuevas tecnologías que darán paso a una nueva condición conocida como Posthumana. El transhumanismo, aunque promotor de los subsecuentes cambios a venir, busca también adelantarse a los problemas éticos y morales que vendrán junto a tales cambios como el aumento exponencial y artificial de las capacidades intelectuales y físicas o la eliminaciones o retraso del envejecimiento.
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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis, is an interesting compilation of the most incredible scientific theories that have been taken seriously, exposed in a simple and understandable, while blurring the line between science fiction and inevitable future .
Chicken Mambo offers an approach to the base of transhumanism, a cultural movement based on the inevitable (and desired) change that will suffer the “human condition” with the advances of new technologies that will shape a new condition known as posthuman. . Transhumanists, although promoters of the subsequent changes to come, are also trying to provide grounds of discussion for the ethical and moral problems that come along such changes as the artificial increase of intellectual and physical capabilities or the elimination of aging.
Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition, por Ed Regis, es un interesante recopilatorio de las teorías científicas más increíbles que han sido tomadas en serio, expuestas de una forma sencilla y comprensible, a la vez que difumina la raya entre ciencia ficción e inevitable futuro.
Mambo Chicken ofrece un acercamiento a la base del transhumanismo, un movimiento cultural que se basa en el cambio inevitable (y deseado) que sufrirá la “condición humana” con el uso y avances de nuevas tecnologías que darán paso a una nueva condición conocida como Posthumana. El transhumanismo, aunque promotor de los subsecuentes cambios a venir, busca también adelantarse a los problemas éticos y morales que vendrán junto a tales cambios como el aumento exponencial y artificial de las capacidades intelectuales y físicas o la eliminaciones o retraso del envejecimiento.
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Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition by Ed Regis, is an interesting compilation of the most incredible scientific theories that have been taken seriously, exposed in a simple and understandable, while blurring the line between science fiction and inevitable future .
Chicken Mambo offers an approach to the base of transhumanism, a cultural movement based on the inevitable (and desired) change that will suffer the “human condition” with the advances of new technologies that will shape a new condition known as posthuman. . Transhumanists, although promoters of the subsequent changes to come, are also trying to provide grounds of discussion for the ethical and moral problems that come along such changes as the artificial increase of intellectual and physical capabilities or the elimination of aging.
Jean de Brunhoff: The Story of Babar
Reader Submission: Title by Kendra Leonard
When I was a kid, I was always so mystified and overwhelmed by my Babar books. I was like, WHY IS THAT ELEPHANT WEARING SEERSUCKER AND GRILLING BANANAS?? ELEPHANTS DON’T LIVE IN THE CARIBBEAN, THAT DOESN’T EVEN MAKE SENSE. Then I learned.
