From the author of the “powerful, fable-like work” (Publishers Weekly) Intimate Relations with Strangers comes a sci-fi mystery—and a very dark comedy—about several, mostly white, men who are systematically driven insane by a series of bizarre events. A man wakes up in the woods one day with amnesia and is confronted by a dominatrix who tells him they are on a mission from God. She takes him to Atlanta, where he comes upon an unapologetically racist and sexist book called The Total Emasculation of the White Man—which sets him off on an even stranger quest. Another man, a college mathematics professor turned stay-at-home dad, finds himself losing his mind when his son’s demonic teddy bear comes to life. Other men see even stranger horrors, but all these seemingly unconnected stories are part of a grand scheme that is either the work of a mischievous god or something even weirder. Blending elements of fantasy, mystery, science fiction and comedy, The Total Emasculation of the White Man is a provocative exploration of gender and race relations in America today.

Imagining Transgender is an ethnography of the emergence and institutionalization of transgender as a category of collective identity and political activism. Embraced by activists in the early 1990s to advocate for gender-variant people, the category quickly gained momentum in public health, social service, scholarly, and legislative contexts. Working as a safer-sex activist in Manhattan during the late 1990s, David Valentine conducted ethnographic research among mostly male-to-female transgender-identified people at drag balls, support groups, cross-dresser organizations, clinics, bars, and clubs. However, he found that many of those labeled “transgender” by activists did not know the term or resisted its use. Instead, they self-identified as “gay,” a category of sexual rather than gendered identity and one rejected in turn by the activists who claimed these subjects as transgender. Valentine analyzes the reasons for and potential consequences of this difference, and how social theory is implicated in it. Valentine argues that “transgender” has been adopted so rapidly in the contemporary United States because it clarifies a model of gender and sexuality that has been gaining traction within feminism, psychiatry, and mainstream gay and lesbian politics since the 1970s: a paradigm in which gender and sexuality are distinct arenas of human experience. This distinction and the identity categories based on it erase the experiences of some gender-variant people—particularly poor persons of color—who conceive of gender and sexuality in other terms. While recognizing the important advances transgender has facilitated, Valentine argues that a broad vision of social justice must include, simultaneously, an attentiveness to the politics of language and a recognition of how social theoretical models and broader political economies are embedded in the day-to-day politics of identity.

A young Caribbean boy must learn to survive by himself after the death of his grandmother and disappearance of his mother, while trying to stay one step ahead of corrupt police. A twelve-year-old Caribbean boy wakes up to discover his grandmother, his only relative on the island, has died during the night. On his way into town to tell the authorities—and call his mother in America—he becomes the lone witness of a police execution. Worse, when he calls his mother’s phone number, he gets a message saying the number has been disconnected. As he struggles to survive on his own, the boy finds himself holding secrets that could have devastating consequences—not only for his own survival, but the island’s as well. Darkness lies beneath the idyllic image of the Caribbean island. The Thirsty Earth is about the global struggle for human dignity amidst corruption, isolation, and the grim realities of life.

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Antwanesta is a pious young woman from the Western Theocracy. She is committed to cultivating the virtues of modesty, chastity, peace, forgiveness, love and faith; and to memorizing her trigonometry tables. However, she impetuously defies her mother, her priest, and her cultural heritage, by enrolling in the very secular Central College of Epodlo. At the college she is befriended by two secretive monarchists, a Libertarian polygamist, a charming Humanist who manages her personal life through science-Yea that will work-and a strong, handsome, ambitious, young man who folds his clothes neatly, and wants to rescue women from "the illusion of God." Take off that student robe and step into a hot bubbling pool with Antwanesta, Gretchin, Xiny, and Feli. Join them and their culturally diverse classmates, as they are challenged by assassination, earthquake, tsunamis, parents, political intrigue, nude gym class, judicial misconduct, freckles, giant robots, the dress code, conspiracy, communal bathing, shoe stores, the threat of alien invasion, and an acute deficiency in the availability of personal floatation devices. The sky is falling!!!! Shhhh, we have to be Royal about this. Ride along on this fast-flying sci-fi romp, and fall in love, as four strong, smart, passionate, young women uncover the mystery of the Red-dot Moon.

Illuminated address presented to Sir David Valetine Hennessy Kt., J.P. from the Honorary Justices Association of Victoria on the occasion of his retirement as President, 31st January, 1918. Illuminated address commissioned, 1st of September 1923, in memoriam to Sir David Valentine Hennessy, - Knight., President of The Working Men's College, 1922.