Kirjahaku

This is the third and last volume of the Gemini Chronicles. This book shares many of the same topics as the previous books. With new material and an addition of short stories, "Breakfast" covers all levels of the writing mind of the author. Each page explains the morning thoughts and how it affects the mind.

Expansion is a different way of telling a story...Explaining a situation....or trying to put myself in someones life.

The Digital Closet: LGBT*Q Identities and Affective Politics in a Social Media Age discusses how LGBT*Q individuals occupy a precarious space within society as a marginalized community in the United States. They are afforded representation in some venues yet are often invisible. Through social media, LGBT*Q individuals have sought new ways to forge communities and increase their visibility. This rise in visibility afforded individuals means to seek out and distribute information to help in the coming out process. Combining archival research, observation, interviews, and visual discourse analysis of social media feeds, the Patrick Johnson examines the role social media plays in expressions of LGBT*Q politics, culture, and coming out. Despite the messages not having changed fundamentally, the improved access to LGBT*Q stories have amplified the ones that are sent. Johnson argues that this is positive in acting as intervention for LGBT*Q suicide rates, hate crimes, and discrimination from the outside. However, the author also contends that it has vastly re-centered and prioritized white, cisgender, masculinity, obscuring other stories and creating potentially dangerous environments for POC, women, trans* individuals, and gay men who do not meet this high standard of masculinity. Scholars of gender studies, media studies, and queer theory will find this book particularly interesting.

The Digital Closet: LGBT*Q Identities and Affective Politics in a Social Media Age discusses how LGBT*Q individuals occupy a precarious space within society as a marginalized community in the United States. They are afforded representation in some venues yet are often invisible. Through social media, LGBT*Q individuals have sought new ways to forge communities and increase their visibility. This rise in visibility afforded individuals means to seek out and distribute information to help in the coming out process. Combining archival research, observation, interviews, and visual discourse analysis of social media feeds, the Patrick Johnson examines the role social media plays in expressions of LGBT*Q politics, culture, and coming out. Despite the messages not having changed fundamentally, the improved access to LGBT*Q stories have amplified the ones that are sent. Johnson argues that this is positive in acting as intervention for LGBT*Q suicide rates, hate crimes, and discrimination from the outside. However, the author also contends that it has vastly re-centered and prioritized white, cisgender, masculinity, obscuring other stories and creating potentially dangerous environments for POC, women, trans* individuals, and gay men who do not meet this high standard of masculinity. Scholars of gender studies, media studies, and queer theory will find this book particularly interesting.

Love can be described in many ways. "Rough Edges" dives into the moments we will remember forever and those days we try to forget. From the path of falling in love to the daily struggle of emptiness. There are so many wonderful stories of lasting love and togetherness. But we too often only hear the tragic breakdown of relationships. No matter what the reason is, it still hits home to many people. The sadness that consumes so many relationships, spill on to family and friends. Their sorrow becomes your sorrow. I wish we could hear more beautiful stories of love, because they are out there. Just like love, it is always around us. We need to concentrate more on the beauty of life and not give the negative thoughts a chance to live and breathe amongst us. Lets not look to closely to the rough edges in life but the beauty that surrounds it.