Feeling Normal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feeling Normal write by F. Hollis Griffin. This book was released on 2017-01-09. Feeling Normal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An analysis of emerging LGBTQ+ media, queer spaces in urban areas, and sexual identity. The explosion of cable networks, cinema distributors, and mobile media companies explicitly designed for sexual minorities in the contemporary moment has made media culture a major factor in what it feels like to be a queer person. F. Hollis Griffin demonstrates how cities offer a way of thinking about that phenomenon. By examining urban centers in tandem with advertiser-supported newspapers, New Queer Cinema and B-movies, queer-targeted television, and mobile apps, Griffin illustrates how new forms of LGBTQ+ media are less “new” than we often believe. He connects cities and LGBTQ+ media through the experiences they can make available to people, which Griffin articulates as feelings, emotions, and affects. He illuminates how the limitations of these experiences—while not universally accessible, nor necessarily empowering—are often the very reasons why people find them compelling and desirable. “As a guide to emerging queer media of our new century, Hollis Griffin is funny, generous, passionate, and lucid. Whether he’s explaining Grindr’s memes or the gayborhoods of Chicago, cable travel programs or online networks, Griffin discovers how it feels to be queer in the digital age.” —Amy Villarejo, author of Ethereal Queer: Television, Historicity, Desire “Offers a piercing examination of modern identity politics focused on relationships among new forms of media consumption and marketplaces, urban centers, and the experiences of sexual minorities. . . . Feeling Normal is a must-read for scholars and students in queer studies and communication, media studies, film studies, and sociology.” —Choice
Feeling Normal Again
Feeling Normal Again - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feeling Normal Again write by Stephen J. Kristof. This book was released on 2022-11-30. Feeling Normal Again available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Covid and the upheaval that went along with it, including dreaded lock-downs and even more dreaded illness and loss of life are, for most people today, merely a bad memory. However, the fallout from the pandemic is still being felt by many. Although it's hard to define "normal" in terms of our emotional state, has your pre-pandemic feeling of "normal" returned or are you still searching for it? Feeling Normal Again is a popular self-help book that helps the reader to understand specifically how the pandemic impacted their emotions, perspectives and behaviors, and provides easy-to-apply tools to repair the damage that was done. Ultimately, the goal is to surpass what felt normal before the pandemic and return to an even more healthy state of mind!
The Art of Being Normal
The Art of Being Normal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Being Normal write by Lisa Williamson. This book was released on 2016-05-31. The Art of Being Normal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An inspiring and timely debut novel from Lisa Williamson, The Art of Being Normal is about two transgender friends who figure out how to navigate teen life with help from each other. David Piper has always been an outsider. His parents think he's gay. The school bully thinks he's a freak. Only his two best friends know the real truth: David wants to be a girl. On the first day at his new school Leo Denton has one goal: to be invisible. Attracting the attention of the most beautiful girl in his class is definitely not part of that plan. When Leo stands up for David in a fight, an unlikely friendship forms. But things are about to get messy. Because at Eden Park School secrets have a funny habit of not staying secret for long , and soon everyone knows that Leo used to be a girl. As David prepares to come out to his family and transition into life as a girl and Leo wrestles with figuring out how to deal with people who try to define him through his history, they find in each other the friendship and support they need to navigate life as transgender teens as well as the courage to decide for themselves what normal really means.
When Kids Call the Shots
When Kids Call the Shots - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook When Kids Call the Shots write by Sean Grover. This book was released on 2015-06-03. When Kids Call the Shots available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. If you want to fix your rebellious and disrespectful child, you need to start by fixing yourself. Are your kids pummeling you with demands and bossing you around with impunity? Have your once-precious preschoolers become rebellious, entitled, and disrespectful to authority? While there are plenty of so-called experts who might try to validate your convictions that you have done all you can to “fix” your “difficult” children, the hard truth is, they’re not doing you any favors by placing the responsibility solely on your children. Parenting struggles rarely originate from just one side. Instead, they erupt at the volatile intersection of a child's personality with a parent's own insecurities and behaviors. In When Kids Call the Shots, therapist and parenting expert Sean Grover untangles the forces driving family dysfunction, and helps parents assume their leadership roles once again. Parents will discover: Three common bullying styles used by kids Parenting styles that contribute to power balances Critical testing periods in a child’s development Coping mechanisms that backfire Personalized plans for calmly exerting authority in any scenario The solution to any problem begins with learning to control what you can control. In parenting, you’ve already learned how impossible it is to control your kids. Begin by controlling you!
The Myth of Normal
The Myth of Normal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Myth of Normal write by Gabor Maté, MD. This book was released on 2022-09-13. The Myth of Normal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The instant New York Times bestseller By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing. In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health? Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.
