A Normal Life

Author : Dean Spade
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822374794

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Revised and Expanded Edition Wait—what's wrong with rights? It is usually assumed that trans and gender nonconforming people should follow the civil rights and "equality" strategies of lesbian and gay rights organizations by agitating for legal reforms that would ostensibly guarantee nondiscrimination and equal protection under the law. This approach assumes that the best way to address the poverty and criminalization that plague trans populations is to gain legal recognition and inclusion in the state's institutions. But is this strategy effective? In Normal Life Dean Spade presents revelatory critiques of the legal equality framework for social change, and points to examples of transformative grassroots trans activism that is raising demands that go beyond traditional civil rights reforms. Spade explodes assumptions about what legal rights can do for marginalized populations, and describes transformative resistance processes and formations that address the root causes of harm and violence. In the new afterword to this revised and expanded edition, Spade notes the rapid mainstreaming of trans politics and finds that his predictions that gaining legal recognition will fail to benefit trans populations are coming to fruition. Spade examines recent efforts by the Obama administration and trans equality advocates to "pinkwash" state violence by articulating the US military and prison systems as sites for trans inclusion reforms. In the context of recent increased mainstream visibility of trans people and trans politics, Spade continues to advocate for the dismantling of systems of state violence that shorten the lives of trans people. Now more than ever, Normal Life is an urgent call for justice and trans liberation, and the radical transformations it will require.

Author : Vassilis Palaiokostas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1904491405

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"I never legislated, I never enforced, and I never obeyed any laws! Laws dictated by the interests of a handful of rulers. I came across their laws everywhere, but I never found justice. I'll remain with the unique ones; the uncatchables. Those that consciously chose to lead their lives normally, reacting to an abnormal world..." A Normal Life is the autobiography of Vassilis Palaiokostas, known to some as the 'Greek Robin Hood', to others as 'The Uncatchable'. His is a life of kidnappings and robberies. A life lived in defiance of the police and of the state. For decades it has been a life lived as a fugitive. It is a life led extraordinarily. He has become a modern folk hero of sorts, earning millions in robbed banks and kidnapped CEOs whilst distributing his gains to those who need it most. He is most famous for not only one but two helicopter escapes from the Korydallos Prison in Athens. Vassilis Palaiokostas is hated by the authorities, deemed a terrorist, his freedom a continued insult to the Greek state. Now, translated to English for the first time, Palaiokostas tells his story in his own words. He does not justify his actions, but elaborates his motivations and dreams and their totality. A Normal Life is a gripping account of life on the run and in prison, of car chases, prison life, daring escapades and the camaraderie of bandit life. It is also the story of his motivations. He is still free.

Author : Charles L. Mee
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780316400589

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A Nearly Normal Life by Charles L. Mee Pdf

In the summer of 1953 the author was a carefree, athletic boy of fourteen. But after he collapsed during a school dance one night, he was suddenly bedridden, drifting in & out of consciousness, as his body disintegrated into a shadow of its former self. He had been stricken with spinal polio. When he emerged from the grip of the disease, he was confronted with a life change so enormous that it challenged all he had believed in & forced him, despite his young age, to redefine himself. His once stereotypically normal life, filled with baseball & swimming pools & dreams of girls, had been irreversibly altered. He was almost the same person he had been; he was nearly normal. His moving personal narrative is a textured portrait of life in the fifties - a time when America & her fighting spirit collided with this disease. Both funny & profound, he is a gifted, unique writer, who unravels the mysteries of youth in a Cold War climate, who gives voice to the mind of a child with a potentially fatal disease, & whose recognition of himself as a disabled outsider heightens his brilliant talents as a storyteller.

Author : Kim Rich
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781943328512

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After an unconventional childhood that ended in the tragic death of her mother and the murder of her Alaskan mobster father, Kim Rich was left on her own at the young age of fifteen to fend for herself. Ever since then, she began a nearly lifelong pursuit in chasing what most others had—a normal life. Rich tugs at your heartstrings as you follow her journey toward normalcy, from her teen years, freshly orphaned, through her high school years spent couch-surfing at local families’ homes, then through her college years, a failed first marriage, and a rising career as a journalist. Through frank and down-to-earth storytelling, Rich also tells of her grandfather’s kidnapping, a frightening health crisis, and a six-year attempt to have children. Picking up right where her first memoir, Johnny’s Girl, left off, A Normal Life recounts the author’s vivid story of being an ordinary girl faced with extraordinary circumstances—at seemingly every turn in life—with grace, humility, and wit.

Author : Lyrysa Smith
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1483996875

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Molly has degrees from Yale and Stanford and was a publishing executive and an extraordinary athlete. But after a horrible accident, she didn't know the difference between a hairbrush and a hammer. Molly got a severe brain injury from carbon monoxide poisoning. Her husband died as he lay next to her in the hotel bed. Molly had a baseline pulse, but was declared clinically dead. After nine days in a coma, Molly emerged. But not the Molly her family knew. That Molly was gone.This is not a story about recovery. Molly got better, then worse, and then simply different. She is still the oldest of four sisters, but she is a new Molly. This astonishing memoir from the second oldest sister chronicles Molly's brain injury and its impact on the sisters' close relationship and on the entire family. Told with engaging candor, this account delves into the harrowing complexities of this most damaging and mysterious of impairments, and reveals how a close-knit family was turned inside out and was forever changed by an “invisible injury.”Revealed in startling twists and turns, this gritty, yet shining story of a life departed and also restarted is laced with frustration and lingering loss, but also long on humor and joy. Full of spirit and insights, Molly and her family struggle with brain injury using courage and creativity, determination and hope, while always vulnerable to its unrelenting dilemmas.

Author : Erin Zammett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585676438

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My (so-called) Normal Life by Erin Zammett Pdf

A compellingly inspirational memoir of a young woman confronting the battle of her life with hope, humor, and style.

Author : Aura Angel
Publisher : Memoirs Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781909544673

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Parental love was in short supply when Aura Angel was growing up, in a household where there was so little money that her parents would burn the floorboards of their council house to keep warm in winter. Her father would beat her at the slightest excuse, and when he left home her mother took over, using brooms and kitchen implements to make sure the blows hurt. Her mother’s conflicts with authority led Aura (not her real name) to eight schools and more than 20 homes before finally, at 12 years old, she marched into the local Social Services offices and asked them to take care of her. Her troubles were far from over; an abortion at 16 followed and two children by fathers who badly let her down. Yet now, in her forties, she is at peace with herself. She has written A Normal Life as “a counselling tool for myself”. It is an extraordinary and moving story, candidly and sensitively written.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Cancer
ISBN : UCR:31210023585142

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"Maintaining a Normal Life" by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lorette Gay
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781644249246

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The Daily Battle for a Normal Life by Lorette Gay Pdf

Olivia was a townswoman of Haiti whose life has been persecuted in all aspects. She talked about how in her childhood, she has become a friend of nature, which has impacted her life and abetted her throughout the diversity of many encumbrances. Through nature, she has learned what life is about, and nature has helped her overcome utmost the madness she has encountered along her pathway. She believes that the cycle change in the nature is likened to the cycle change in people's lives. Abandoned by her father while she was only an embryo, a father that had never come across her way, isolated from her mother at the age of six, she was left to be raised by her grandparents. Her existence is marked by many junctures. At an early age, she already knew what sexual harassment is about. She boarded many strangers' houses. In her teenage years, she traveled virtually the entire country from north, south, and central and has seen things that normal teens haven't seen and probably won't ever see in their existence. In her thirties, her husband left her in Haiti with two of her children, after the chaotic presidential overthrow of 1986. Fearing retaliation by an uprising populace, her husband was the first to emigrate in USA because as an act of reprisal toward anyone that had worked for the regime, no matter what your job was, thugs in the streets terrorized everyone (you can be here today and dead tomorrow). In 1987, after passing a long time into hell, in a country still under revolution, she and her children fled to New York. Then ten months after, she moved to Miami with her family, where she made it home in the United States, her adopted country. In 1992, while her life started to recover, her new home was hit by the most violent cyclone, Hurricane Andrew, which had destroyed everything she had amassed. A few years later, her husband left her again to go back to his native land, to stay. This is to ask if everyone that she loves will always find a way to pass as an absentee in her life. Over the following years, many chronic diseases have attacked her body, and from there the fun started, the fun game to stay alive. No one would imagine of what she's going through. She always looks happy, but under the veil of her happiness was hiding all sort of life complications that you would never thought could happen to one person. Her conviction is that she should not complain about herself. In this world we're living in, each of us carries secret onuses. By experience, she realized that people have a habit of comparing our burdens with the other people's. It isn't a fair tactic to support a friend or a family member in despair by associating his or her problem with another. Life is an impartial place for all of us. Don't presume that some problems are less than others. You exactly detain what you can bear oneself and what was predestined to fit only you.

Author : Manthappa M.
Publisher : Peacock Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Diabetes
ISBN : 8124801673

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How to Manage Your Diabetes and Lead a Normal Life by Manthappa M. Pdf

Diabetes Is A Condition In Which Blood Glucose Levels Are Abnormally High. Diabetes Affects 15 Crore People Worldwide And 3 Crore People In India. Diabetes Is Not A Serious Health Problem If You Know How To Manage It. The Secret Of Successfully Managing Diabetes Is To Know As Much As Possible About Diabetes. It Is This Knowledge That Helps You To Take Control Of Your Diabetes, Prevent Complications, And Lead A Normal Life Like Any Other Person. This Book Teaches You All That You Have To Know About Diabetes, In Simple Language. This Book Covers All Aspects Of Diabetes. It Provides Comprehensive Knowledge About Diabetes, Diet, Drugs, Insulin, Exercise, And The Ways Of Dealing With Complications Of Diabetes. The Book Helps You To Learn How To Protect Your Heart, Kidneys, Eyes, And Limbs, And Lead A Completely Normal Life. This Book Makes You The Master Of Your Diabetes. By Being The Master Of Your Diabetes, You Decide How You Live Your Life And Let Not Diabetes Decide How You Live. The Book Is Also Useful For Diabetes Care Nurses, Diabetes Educators And Other Paramedical Personnel. Diabetic Patients Can Draw Great Benefit By Reading This Book. Others Can Learn Preventive Measures To Avoid This Malady.

Author : Chris Shelton
Publisher : CGShelton SR.
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781685648701

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Extraordinary Situations of a Normal Life by Chris Shelton Pdf

True story of a father's struggle to see his son, forces him to confront a past filled with betrayal, deception and extraordinary situations. His path leads him face to face with serial killer and a murderer. Achieving a world record and overcoming obstacles that were said could never happen...

Author : Nicole White
Publisher : Nicole White
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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How To Live a “Normal Life” With HIV Without Shame or Fear? by Nicole White Pdf

Do you have doubts about having HIV or AIDS, but you aren't sure? This book will help you learn more about HIV, AIDS and possible treatments to be safe and live longer (without pain). It would prepare you psychologically and emotionally, especially if your worst nightmare come true (diagnosed positively with HIV). You'll learn how to be positive with the disease and discover practical ways to block the functions of the deadly virus with medications (without many side effects). This book is designed to prepare you mentally BEFORE you go for a test. So, if you are afraid to get tested or do not want to hear the results, this book will give you the necessary information to eliminate most of the stress, doubts and worry. You'll be OK! If my sister managed to block the disease for so many years, you can do it too - luck has nothing to do with it. I'll show you how! Grab your copy now!

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-15
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781782195986

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The Railway Killer - He was a normal man with a normal life, but he turned into one of the world's worst serial killers by Wensley Clarkson Pdf

Angel Matrino Resendez is one of history's most notorious serial killers. Found guilty of nine horrific murders, his seemingly random methods shocked the world, striking fear into the hearts of thousands who lived along the railroad that the twisted killer travelled in search of blood. For the first time, this is his amazing true story...Described by most who knew him as a quiet, polite, softly spoken man, a loving husband and father to a baby daughter, nobody would have suspected the monster that lay within this seemingly normal human. In this classic of true crime writing, bestselling author Wensley Clarkson delves deep into the mind of a horrifying murder case to uncover the stunning truth about one of the most grisly episodes in criminal history.This book will shock and intrigue in equal measure - a must for any true crime fan!

Author : Cea Sunrise Person
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781443424400

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North Of Normal by Cea Sunrise Person Pdf

In the late 1960s, riding the crest of the counterculture movement, Cea’s family left a comfortable existence in California to live off the land in northern Alberta. But unlike most commune dwellers of the time, the Persons weren’t trying to build a new society—they wanted to escape civilization altogether. Led by Cea’s grandfather Dick, they lived in a canvas Teepee, grew pot, and hunted and gathered to survive. Living out her grandparents’ dream with her teenage mother, Michelle, young Cea knew little of the world beyond her forest. She spent her summers playing nude in the meadow and her winters snowshoeing behind the grandfather she idolized. Despite fierce storms, food shortages and the occasional drug-and-sex-infused party for visitors, it was a happy existence. For Michelle, however, there was one crucial element missing: a man. When Cea was five, Michelle took her on the road with a new boyfriend. As the trio set upon a series of ill-fated adventures, Cea began to question both her highly unusual world and the hedonistic woman at the centre of it—questions that eventually evolved into an all-consuming search for a more normal life. Finally, in her early teens, Cea realized she would have to make a choice as drastic as the one her grandparents once had made in order to get the life she craved. From nature child to international model by the age of thirteen, Cea’s astonishing saga is one of long-held family secrets and extreme family dysfunction, all in an incredibly unusual setting. It is also the story of one girl’s deep-seated desire for normality—a desire that enabled her to risk everything, overcome adversity and achieve her dreams.

Author : Sally Rooney
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780735276482

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Normal People by Sally Rooney Pdf

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE: A wondrously wise, genuinely unputdownable new novel from Sally Rooney, winner of the 2017 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award (at 26, tied with Zadie Smith for the youngest-ever recipient)--the quintessential coming-of-age love story for our time. Connell Waldron is one of the most popular boys in his small-town high school--he is a star of the football team, an excellent student, and never wanting for attention from girls. The one thing he doesn't have is money. Marianne Sheridan, a classmate of Connell's, has the opposite problem. Marianne is plain-looking, odd, and stubborn, and while her family is well-off, she has no friends to speak of. There is, however, a deep and undeniable connection between the two teenagers, one that develops into a secret relationship. Everything changes when both Connell and Marianne are accepted to Trinity College. Suddenly Marianne is well-liked and elegant, holding court with her intellectual friends while Connell hangs at the sidelines, not quite as fluent in language of the elite. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle each other, falling in and out of romance but never straying far from where they started. And as Marianne experiments with an increasingly dangerous string of boyfriends, Connell must decide how far he is willing to go to save his oldest friend. Sally Rooney brings her brilliant psychological acuity and perfectly spare prose to a novel that explores the subtleties of class, the electricity of first love, and the inescapable challenges of family and friendships. Normal People is a book that you will read in one sitting, and then immediately share with your friends.