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Olympian and World Champion Caster Semenya is finally ready to share the vivid and heartbreaking story of how the world came to know her name. Thrust into the spotlight at just eighteen years old after winning the Berlin World Championships in 2009, Semenya’s win was quickly overshadowed by criticism and speculation about her body, and ....
Autor_innen: Semenya, Caster
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks is a political biography of Parks, examining her 6 decades of activism and challenging passive perceptions of her contributions in the civil rights movement.Including a new introduction titled “Nine Ways to Be Like Rosa Parks in the Age of Black Lives Matter,” public historian Jeanne ....
Autor_innen: Theoharis, Jeanne
A Memoir of a Body in Crisis
In Catholic grade school, Emma Bolden has a strange, intimate experience with a teacher that unleashes a short-lived chronic coughing spell – something the medical establishment will later use against her, as she struggles through chronic pain and fainting spells that coincide with her menstrual cycle. With The Tiger and the Cage, Bolden ....
Autor_innen: Bolden, Emma
What‘s in a name? What happens when we consciously choose a different name? How do names influence our identity? this is my name is a collection of intimate stories about the personal journey of people who have consciously decided to change their names: amongst others a non-binary teenager from Germany, a journalist from Turkey persecuted ....
Autor_innen: kartsaki, alpha
Trans on Trans enthält 5 wunderschöne Essays von Trans-Personen mit unterschiedlichen Hintergründen. Sun Niederer, Lila Creativista, Rafel Al Doori, Lucretia und Ivy Monteiro tauchen in den Ozean ihrer Existenz ein, erinnern sich an ruhige und stürmische Tage, um uns zu erzählen, was es für sie bedeutet, Trans zu sein.Das wunderschön ....
Autor_innen: Trans Safety Emergency Fund (Hg.)
In July 2012, aged thirty, Juliet Jacques underwent sex reassignment surgery-a process she chronicled with unflinching honesty in a serialised national newspaper column. Trans tells of her life to the present moment: a story of growing up, of defining yourself, and of the rapidly changing world of gender politics.Fresh from university, ....
Autor_innen: Jacques, Juliet
Our Stories Of being Trans
A visionary, moving and one-of-a-kind anthology of writing on what it means to be trans today and every day. From the daily bite of anxiety as you go to leave the house, to the freedom found swimming in the wild, through to moments of queer rage and joy and the peculiar timeslip of reliving your adolescence, the stories in this collection ....
Autor_innen: Casey, Den; Fulmine, Kole
Catherine Millet gilt in Frankreich als eine der wichtigsten Kunstkritikerinnen, ihre Fachbu¨cher und Essays sind maßgebliche Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte. Weltweit in Erstaunen versetzte sie Kritiker und Leser aber mit ihren Bestsellern »Das sexuelle Leben der Catherine M.« und »Eifersucht«, beides autobiografische Schilderungen ihrer ....
Autor_innen: Millet, Catherine
»Iberbetn« bedeutet im Jiddischen »gegenseitige Versöhnung« und ist verwandt mit dem deutschen Verb »überbitten«, das noch im 19. Jahrhundert gebräuchlich war. Bei den Satmarer Chassidim ist es tägliches Ritual: Zwei Menschen bitten einander um Verzeihung mit der gegenseitigen Verpfichtung, einander zu vergeben. Im mythischen Glauben, ....
Autor_innen: Feldman, Deborah
Zwei Erzählungen
Eine Sensation: erstmals publizierte Texte der Mutter Ruth Klügers von ganz eigenem literarischen Wert.Im Nachlass von Ruth Klüger (1931-2020) fanden sich Aufzeichnungen ihrer Mutter Alma Hirschel, die in den frühen 1970er-Jahren entstanden. In autofiktionaler Erzählhaltung hält sie darin ihre Erinnerungen an die Zeit der Verfolgung ....
Autor_innen: Hirschel, Alma
Musings of a Fat, Black Muslim
Ever since she was little, Leah Vernon was told what to believe and how to act. There wasn’t any room for imperfection. ‘Good’ Muslim girls listened more than they spoke. They didn’t have a missing father or a mother with a mental disability. They didn’t have fat bodies or grow up wishing they could be like the white characters they saw ....
Autor_innen: Vernon, Leah
My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Tarana Burke didn't always have the courage to say me too. As a child, she reeled from her sexual assault, believing she was responsible. Unable to confess what she thought of as her own sins for fear of shattering her family, her soul split in two. One side was the bright, intellectually curious Bronxite steeped in Black literature and ....
Autor_innen: Burke, Tarana
