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Pholomolo

Author : Veronique Renard

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 634 pages

File Size : 50,2 MB

Release : 2007-06

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0595446698

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Author Veronique Renard omitted something critical in her popular 2003 memoir Pantau in India. As if leaving behind Dutch corporate life, converting to Buddhism, and living among Tibetan refugees in the Himalayas was not amazing enough, Veronique transitioned from male to female 25 years ago and has never mentioned it since. Until now. In her remarkable follow-up memoir Pholomolo, Veronique opens up for the first time. Laugh-out-loud moments punctuate this heartfelt portrait of her childhood struggles to express herself in a world that told her she had to be a boy. After transition at seventeen, she never discusses her background with family, friends, colleagues, and lovers. Now, she shares her unique experiences as a transsexual female in the occidental and oriental world with absolute candor. PHOLOMOLO-NO MAN NO WOMAN is a remarkable and inspiring story about yet another facet in Veronique's already amazing life, a story about learning to live your own truth every day. "A delightfully funny, unabashedly erotic, and deeply moving portrait." -Andrea James







Suck Less

Author : Willam Belli

Publisher : Grand Central Publishing

Page : 469 pages

File Size : 22,23 MB

Release : 2016-10-18

Category : Humor

ISBN : 1455566217

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The only lie told more often than "No, that looks totally cute on you" and "I got AIDS through oral" is "It gets better." Well, a lotta times it don't. Sometimes it just sucks less. But I promise you: where there's a Willam, there's a way. But this isn't all about me (for once). It's about you and how you can Suck Less at a variety of things drag queens are so much better at than the average person. I've got clap backs and life hacks and tips on classing up a simple grab-and-run lifting spree to the much more dignified act of larceny. Super-important life stuff with my own special, secret fag- swag sauce. So welcome to Willam's School of Bitchcraft and Wiggotry. Class is in session. With a foreword from Neil Patrick Harris.



To My Trans Sisters

Author : Charlie Craggs

Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers

Page : 346 pages

File Size : 49,75 MB

Release : 2017-10-19

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1784506680

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Lambda Literary Award Finalist - LGBTQ Anthology 2019 Over the Rainbow Recommended Book List Dedicated to trans women everywhere, this inspirational collection of letters written by successful trans women shares the lessons they learnt on their journeys to womanhood, celebrating their achievements and empowering the next generation to become who they truly are. Written by politicians, scientists, models, athletes, authors, actors, and activists from around the world, these letters capture the diversity of the trans experience and offer advice from make-up and dating through to fighting dysphoria and transphobia. By turns honest and heartfelt, funny and furious or beautiful and brave, these letters send a clear message of hope to their sisters: each of these women have gone through the struggles of transition and emerged the other side as accomplished, confident women; and if we made it sister, so can you!



Mark 947

Author : Calpernia Sarah Addams

Publisher : iUniverse

Page : 260 pages

File Size : 18,57 MB

Release : 2002-12-31

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 0595263763

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Mark 947 chronicles one woman's progress from spirit to flesh, a literal transubstantiation by force of will. Born a boy to loving but religious parents in the rural heartland of Tennessee, Calpernia Addams found her way on an unlighted path from forbidden dreams to fulfillment as a scholar, showgirl and eventually, as a woman. Sultry stage siren by night, intellectual chameleon by day, she worked her way to the top of Nashville's underground entertainment scene without ever succumbing to drugs, alcohol or bitterness, and through it all never lost her heart. When love walked into her new life in the form of a handsome young Army private, it seemed everything had at last come together. Then at the pinnacle of her career, as she was crowned Tennessee Entertainer of the Year in front of hundreds of adoring fans, her love was murdered in his sleep sixty miles away by bigoted fellow soldiers, sparking a national controversy that resonates still. Whether ablaze in the dazzle of the spotlight or haunting the woods of Tennessee in flannel and pigtails, Calpernia lives her life with the humor and spirit of a woman who can face anything and still move forward with hope intact.



Letters for My Sisters

Author : Andrea James

Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 40,30 MB

Release : 2014

Category : Electronic books

ISBN : 9781499342031

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LETTERS FOR MY SISTERS is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly. Brave, boldly vulnerable and revealing, this collection adds to a growing body of literature where trans people tell their own stories as they lived them. Each writer addresses one simple question: If you could write just one letter to someone beginning transition, or to your younger pre-transition self, what would you say? Would you reassure or warn them, or lay your life out in vivid detail for them to draw their own conclusions? Would you have a secret to tell, a hard-won truth or an unexpected triumph to share? LETTERS FOR MY SISTERS is an anthology of collected wisdom by and for transgender women. This groundbreaking collection of letters tells raw, heartfelt stories of childhood, transitioning, and becoming women in a world where acceptance is sometimes elusive and costly.



Leave No Man Behind

Author : David Isby

Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson

Page : 414 pages

File Size : 32,1 MB

Release : 2005

Category : History

ISBN : 9780304362042

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If the big wars of the 20th century were about saving civilization and countries, small wars are about saving people. Instead of defeating Hitler, they are concerned with the capture of international pariahs like General Noriega, Radovan Karadic or Colonel Aideed ¿ or the rescue of hostages or prisoners-of-war. This is the two-fold mission of the US Army¿s Special Forces, the ¿Green Berets¿. David Isby investigates their most famous missions from POW rescues at the end of the Second World War to the extraction of shot-down pilots from under the noses of the Bosnian Serb militia in 1995. Leave No Man Behind is a collection of vivid battle narratives, but it does more than tell dramatic war stories. Based on the latest evidence released under the Freedom of Information Act, it reveals why some missions were such great successes while others turned to tragedy. It compares them to other rescue operations, e.g. the British Army¿s recent action in Sierra Leone. As the author observes, raids and rescues will be more typical of warfare in the 21st century, so it is vital to understand the successes and failures of the Green Berets.



Pantau in India

Author : Veronique Renard

Publisher :

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 17,91 MB

Release : 2007

Category : Self-actualization (Psychology)

ISBN : 9780595416233

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A very funny as well as a sad book that reads like a detective and is intended for anyone having a hard time, man or woman, with their life, career or relationships. This compelling and inspiring story from the Himalayas will mesmerize the reader from the first to the last page. Pantau in India is a tale about fulfilling your dream and reaching your destiny. Pantau in India is the fascinating life story of Veronique Renard, a career woman who was struck by a severe depression at the turn of the millennium. On the night she wants to commit suicide, her inner voice tells her to stay alive and become the happiest person in the world. Unsatisfied by her career as an office worker and busy modern lifestyle she questions her own values and moral ethics and determines that it is time for a major change. In order to find an answer to the question of how to become happy, she travels to India in search of the magic formula. In the Himalayas she stumbles upon the Tibetan community in exile. The Tibetan refugees teach her the wisdoms of their culture and Veronique sets off to travel on her newly discovered path to happiness. The moment she stands eye to eye with the Dalai Lama she suddenly realizes that her life belongs to the Tibetan people. She burns all her ships behind her in the West, adopts the name Pantau and moves to India to develop herself as a spiritual teacher and to show others the way to happiness.



The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights

Author : Jami Kathleen Taylor

Publisher : University of Michigan Press

Page : 440 pages

File Size : 41,77 MB

Release : 2018-10-17

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0472074016

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While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a “collective political identity” is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the state and local levels, hate crimes protections in a number of states, inclusion in a federal law against hate crimes, legal victories in the courts, and increasingly favorable policies in bureaucracies at all levels. It has achieved these victories despite the relatively small number of trans people and despite the widespread discrimination, poverty, and violence experienced by many in the transgender community. This is a remarkable achievement in a political system where public policy often favors those with important resources that the transgender community lacks: access, money, and voters. The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights explains the growth of the transgender rights movement despite its marginalized status within the current political opportunity structure.