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Williams-Ford Texas A&M University military history volume no. 159
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Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"Edith May Witt served her country by joining the Red Cross in World War II as a staff assistant (or "club woman") in Oran, Algeria and worked throughout the Mediterranean theater, including several assignments in Italy. Edith Witt was also a talented writer and left behind a rich archive that illuminates the wartime experiences of civilian women. After her death, Peter A. Witt, Edith's nephew, painstakingly sifted through countless papers and letters,...
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"Fourteen years old and growing up in the Middle East, Lamya is an overachiever and a class clown, qualities that help her hide in plain sight when she realizes she has a crush on her teacher-her female teacher. She's also fourteen when she reads a passage in Quran class about Maryam, known as the Virgin Mary in the Christian Bible, that changes everything. Lamya learns that Maryam was untempted by an angelically handsome man, and later, when told...
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Topple Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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A hilarious and heartfelt memoir about finding your true voice by Sophie Santos, the fearless comic and host of The Lesbian Agenda. From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own.--
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"Cuando era una joven aspirante a escritora, Carmen Maria Machado conoció a una chica menuda, rubia, de clase alta, licenciada en Harvard, sofisticada y fascinante con la que inició su primera relación lésbica, después de varias experiencias sexuales con hombres. La chica poseía una idílica cabaña en Bloomington, Virginia: la casa de los sueños del título. Pero los sueños se convirtieron en pesadillas cuando la novia de Machado empezó...
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University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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A "coming-of-age memoir spanning two decades, from the Culture War of the early 1990s to the War on Terror ... [a] blend of picaresque adventure, how-to activist handbook, and rigorous inquiry into questions of identity, resistance, and citizenship. It is also a ... personal recollection of friendships and fallings-out and of finding true love--several times over. After the Lesbian Avengers imploded, Cogswell describes how she became a pioneering...
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Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Cameron Esposito is on her way to becoming a household name, thanks to her unique brand of comedy that doesn't shy away from the issues women (and many men) face today. From sexism and sexuality to white male privilege and self acceptance, Cameron uses humor to break down the barriers that keep us from speaking openly about these topics. Cameron offers funny and insightful essays about everything from coming out (at a Catholic college where being...
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Berkley
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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For years, Michelle LeClair, former President of Scientology's international humanitarian organization, tried to reconcile her sexual orientation with the anti-gay ideology of the church. Michelle finally ends her horrific marriage, finds the love of her life, a woman, and ultimately leaves the Church. But the split comes at a terrible price. Her once pristine reputation is publicly dragged through the mud, the police raid her home, her ex-husband...
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Atira Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Perfect for fans of Samantha Irby and Trick Mirror, a funny, whip-smart collection of personal essays exploring the intersection of queerness, relationships, pop culture, the internet, and identity, introducing one of the most undeniably original new voices today.Jill Gutowitz's life-for better and worse-has always been on a collision course with pop culture. There's the time the FBI showed up at her door because of something she tweeted about Game...
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"Historian Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian feminist Eve Adams, and her long-lost book Lesbian Love. Jonathan Ned Katz uncovers the forgotten story of radical lesbian Eve Adams and her long-lost book Lesbian Love Born Chawa Zloczewer into a Jewish family in Poland, Eve Adams emigrated to the United States in 1912,took a new name, befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies...
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Duke University Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A Part of the Heart Can't Be Eaten, a memoir from writer, speaker, sex educator, feminist pornographer, and activist Tristan Taormino, is a meditation on family, coming of age, identity, and activism. Raised by a single mother on Long Island, she got her sex education from the 1980s TV show Solid Gold, Alex Comfort's The Joy of Sex, and summers in Provincetown with her father. Woven throughout the book are stories of her father Bill Taormino's family...