6/30/2023 0 Comments Angela chen ace book![]() Chen is particularly interested in the phenomenon of compulsory sexuality, which, in her own words, describes, “a set of assumptions and behaviors that support the idea that every normal person is sexual, that not wanting (socially approved) sex is unnatural and wrong, and that people who don’t care about sexuality are missing out on an utterly necessary experience.” But the book also challenges everyone, regardless of sexual identity, to interrogate their own relationship to romance, sex, desire, and culture. ![]() This is a book about asexuality, the often overlooked ‘A’ in LGBTQIA, and the ace community. ![]() ![]() Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex is Angela Chen’s first book: an incredible feat considering the breadth of topics that Chen covers with the adroitness that only an experienced journalist could bring. ![]()
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6/30/2023 0 Comments You re a badass at making money![]() ![]() Yet even in New York City, where image-conscious subway riders tend to listen to podcasts unless they have a Sheila Heti or Rachel Cusk volume to flaunt, candy-colored Badass volumes have become a mainstay, filling the void the Twilight books left. Sincero’s books aren’t the sort of thing you hear about at dinner parties. I visualise a more successful version of myself, writing Vanity Fair cover stories and turning down assignments while wearing the pale pink clogs, and hand over my credit card. That could mean quitting a humdrum job, buying a fancy car or investing in assistants to free up the time to devote to big-picture concerns. According to Sincero, it is necessary to live courageously and to “align” one’s actions with one’s deepest desires. ![]() ![]() Yet for the past few days I have been steeped in the work of Sincero, who in her bestselling You Are a Badass books urges readers to stop accepting anything short of their wildest dreams. Exquisite as they are, I can think of no possible justification for buying them. F ifteen minutes before my interview with inspirational guru Jen Sincero, I nip into a chic boutique in downtown Manhattan, where I am drawn to a pair of conch shell-pink sandals. ![]() 6/30/2023 0 Comments Stargirl jerry![]() ![]() ![]() Having been homeschooled, Stargirl appears at Mica High dressed as a hippie holdover and toting a ukulele, which she uses to serenade students on their birthdays she marks holidays with Halloween candy and Valentine cards for all. By describing the girl through the eyes of a teen intermittently repulsed by and in love with her, Spinelli cunningly exposes her elusive qualities. Even before she appears at Mica High, Spinelli hints at her invisible presence readers, like Leo, will wonder if Stargirl is real or some kind of mirage in the Sonoran Desert. As narrator Leo Borlock reflects on his junior year in a New Mexico high school, Stargirl takes center stage. Part fairy godmother, part outcast, part dream-come-true, the star of Spinelli's latest novel possesses many of the mythical qualities as the protagonist of his Maniac Magee. ![]() |