This book is an authoritative guide to help the transgender evaluate his/her intention to undertake gender transition. The book is short and direct; posing difficult, unvarnished questions to consider; the same questions I answered during my transition.This guide is designed to inform not only the transgender but also those who are attempting to understand someone in their life suffering from the medical diagnosis; gender dysphoria. The guide will provide concise insights to anyone who wants to understand the difficulties of this disease. You will see the road to gender transition is neither short nor easy. It is not a road chosen by the transgender. This road was laid out at birth. When the burden of hiding behind the fa ade of the person's birth gender becomes too heavy to carry, the transgender may decide transition is the only choice in order to live a full and peaceful life. It is imperative that everyone understand the depth and breadth of the struggle. Providing understanding, empathy and support will help to make the transition process possible and remove one major variable to success.You're transgender; you look in the mirror and admit to yourself. You've lived for years, maybe decades, moving across the gender continuum. At first things were easy; living your birth gender during the week and occasionally on weekends you portrayed the gender you feel inside. You may have questioned your need to cross genders. Over time the desire to live your true gender strengthened to the point it became impossible to ignore. You reached a decision point: you finally realized you could no longer live behind the fa ade of your birth gender. Transition is challenging and difficult but not impossible; unless the transgender fails to understand the implications of the decision. Following the directions in this guide does not guarantee success. This guide will enable you to evaluate your situation, address key considerations and prepare a transition plan that conforms to your situation. The more you prepare, the fewer unwelcome surprises and the greater opportunity to succeed. If you decide to go forward with gender transition, thorough planning and thoughtful execution should enable you to emerge with a reasonable likelihood of success.
This book as an efficient and practical guide to help employers understand and support transgender employees as they undertake gender transition. The book is short and direct. It addresses practical questions and realities of gender dysphoria and offers recommendations on supporting your employee(s) as they complete gender transition and also enables your organization to effectively implement and nurture diversity and equality. This change your employee is contemplating is significant, monumental and may be perceived as unbelievable and unacceptable. They are brave and probably fearful of rejection, ridicule, retribution and losing their livelihood. Your transgender employee is undertaking this journey out of absolute necessity. Your employee comes to you suffering from dysphoria, a medical diagnosis. Just like any other illness your employee is vulnerable physically, emotionally and psychologically. The need to reveal their true self is not a lifestyle choice.The sense of relief your employee will experience from not having to constantly move back and forth across the gender continuum should deliver renewed energy and focus; helping them to continue to be a valuable member of your workforce.Transition creates a changing landscape; impacted by all the variables in a person's life. Transition is challenging and difficult but not impossible; unless your or your transgender employee fail to understand the implications of the decision. This guide, along with my corollary guide, The Practical Guide for Gender Transition, should be read together. Following the directions in these guides will enable you to understand what you, the employer, can do to support a healthy transition process, to address your concerns and questions and to help you, your transgender employee and your workforce learn, understand and support their colleague. Working together openly and honestly will also fulfill any legal obligation you may have to all of your employees. Planning and thoughtful execution should enable you and your organization to attract and retain quality employees and to emerge from this process with a reasonable likelihood of success.
This is a book of expressions; a series of short stories, sometimes set to rhyme. They provide the opportunity to express emotions in a way that doesn't require the complexity of characters or plots.These poems are snapshots of experiences memorialized in creative words to convey an observation, a hidden meaning.Messages come in different ways and through various means. Nature has messages, stories, tales, to share if we're open to seeing and hearing. I'm a visual person. The beauty of nature speaks to me through colors, hues, shadows and reflections.We are all part of nature. We are the human representation of inanimate objects. Our mind and spirit can take us to places only the birds can reach; if we are open to the possibilities.My poems capture nature's message. They are very personal and moving. They are my stream of consciousness.
In What, No Bacon? (Book 2 in the series, The Life and Times of Amelia Ciracco), Amelia, wife and working mother, continues sharing her life experiences through the lens of a strong-willed and loving wife and mother of three. Walk with Amelia, but not too slowly, through her encounters with raising three unique children. You'll relate to the daily struggles of raising three diverse children and a husband whom she feels is comatose at times to her animated views. Amelia is every woman in some dimension, not all at once. But there are aspects of Amelia's life to which every woman can relate and to which every man can become enlightened.Amelia is passionate about her life and is protective of the lives of her daughters Suzanne and Lisa, and her son Randy. Amelia wrestles with the changes the younger generation ushers into her life and the world, including the need to be constantly connected, the urban dictionary and acronyms. Amelia's and Ralph's life is rich with feeling and emotion. Through Amelia's eyes, you understand her sometimes funny, sometimes sarcastic and always insightful view of the world as she adds color commentary, and sometimes unfettered emotion, to every encounter. Amelia has strong feelings about a woman's place in the world, and it's not perpetually in a supporting role. A big part of Amelia's allure is her ability to find the common denominator in every situation.
Nikki bor på en ö i Bohuslän med sin familj. Hon är i brytpunkten mellan det gamla, trygga livet och det nya okända. Kompisgänget från högstadiet har hon inte längre mycket gemensamt med, men gymnasiet som hägrar inne i stan är skrämmande. Vuxna tycker att Nikki väger för mycket, men ingen frågar hur hon egentligen mår. När Nikki börjar på gymnasiet är hon ensammast i världen. Efter ett tag börjar hon umgås med ett litet queert gäng i klassen, och inser att det faktiskt är hennes nya vänner. Med vännerna får hon även nya perspektiv på kroppen, sexualitet, politik och kamp. Nikki är en coming-of-age-roman om att hitta sitt sammanhang, sig själv och inte minst: den första kärleken.
Collected for the first time in a single volume, an anthology of the prose work by the distinguished poet features a variety of essays, articles, meditations, and reminiscences that includes Racism 101, Sacred Cows and Other Edibles, and selections from the autobiographical Gemini. Original. 25,000 first printing.
Representing three decades of work, an omnibus of poetry by the author of the award-winning Blues and Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea features pieces written between 1968 and 1998 and includes the contents of five previously published volumes. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the life and work of Nikki Giovanni, one of the most prolific and well-known poets to emerge during the Black Arts Movement.Nikki Giovanni: A Literary Biography focuses on one of the most widely read poets to emerge from the Black Arts Movement, providing a thorough examination of Giovanni's life and work, from her earliest volume of poetry, Black Feeling Black Talk, to the recent Bicycles. The book addresses Giovanni's preoccupation with historical themes and the past, and demonstrates the pervasiveness of music in Giovanni's poetry.Drawing on extensive interviews with Giovanni's friends and family, this book offers biographical information not previously available in other publications. It references material from Giovanni's prose works to illuminate and contextualize the analysis of her poetry, examining its highly allusive and topical nature. The book also shows the intersections of Giovanni's biography and the public history of the United States from the 1960s to the present, making it of interest to general readers as well as those studying American and African-American poetry or black feminism.
Nikki wants to be a basketball star... but between school stress, friend drama and babysitting woes, will she be able to make it in the big leagues?Thirteen-year-old Nikki Doyle dreams of becoming a great basketball player like her WNBA idol, Mia McCall. Nikki has always been the best point guard in her county league and her dreams feel within reach when she's selected to play on an elite-level club team. But in a league with taller, stronger and faster girls, it turns out that Nikki is no longer the best point guard. In fact, she's no longer a point guard at all, which leaves her struggling to figure out who she is and how she fits in.The stress piles on as Nikki's best friend spends more and more time with another girl on the team and when her science teacher assigns a family tree project that will be impossible to complete unless Nikki reveals the most embarrassing secret on the entire planet: her biological father was a sperm donor. As if that's not enough to deal with, to cover the costs of her new team, Nikki has agreed to take care of her annoying younger brother after school to save money on childcare.As the stakes rise on the basketball court, at school and at home, Nikki's confidence plummets. Can she learn to compete at this new, higher level? And how hard is she willing to work to find out? With a brilliant voice, fast-paced action and characters who feel as if they live and breath, Nikki on the Line heralds the arrival of a brilliant new voice in contemporary middle grade fiction.
Thirteen-year-old Nikki Doyle dreams of becoming a great basketball player like her WNBA idol, Mia McCall. Nikki has always been the best point guard in her county league, and her dreams feel within reach when she's selected to play on an elite-level club team. But in a league with taller, stronger, and faster girls, it turns out that Nikki is no longer the best point guard. In fact, she's no longer a point guard at all, which leaves her struggling to figure out who she is and how she fits in.The stress piles on as Nikki's best friend spends more and more time with another girl on the team, and when her science teacher assigns a family tree project that will be impossible to complete unless Nikki reveals the most embarrassing secret on the entire planet--her biological father was a sperm donor. As if that's not enough to deal with, to cover the costs of her new team, Nikki has agreed to take care of her annoying younger brother after school to save money on childcare.As the stakes rise on the basketball court, at school, and at home, Nikki's confidence plummets. Can she learn to compete at this new, higher level? And how hard is she willing to work to find out? With a brilliant voice, fast-paced action, and characters who feel as if they live and breath, Nikki on the Line heralds the arrival of a brilliant new voice in contemporary middle grade fiction.
Meet Nikki and Deja, who live next door to each other and are best friends.They do everything together--watch Saturday morning cartoons, play jacks, jump double dutch at recess, and help each other with their homework for Mrs. Shelby's third-grade class.But when an arrogant new girl arrives and Nikki and Deja form a club that would exclude her, the results are not what they expect.This warm, easy-to-read chapter book from an award-winning author captures all the joys and complexities of elementary school life--particularly friendships and cliques--with finesse and humor.
The second popular book about Nikki and Deja, two third-grade girls who are best friends.Deja's birthday is coming up, and she's been talking about it for weeks. But just before the big day, Auntie Dee gets called away on a business trip and Deja must stay with an elderly neighbor . . . who cooks turnips for dinner and doesn't even have a color TV Worse, the machinations of spoiled Antonia, Deja's new nemesis, threaten to ruin Deja's birthday party plans.Like the first book, this story captures with subtlety and humor all the small betrayals and triumphs of young girls' relationships. Readers will get a wider view of the girls' diverse neighborhood and will recognize themselves and their classmates in the colorful, deftly drawn school scenes. A more serious theme is also introduced (with a light touch) in a subplot concerning Deja's absent father.
Will Nikki and Deja's friendship survive a race for student body president?When the students in Nikki and Deja's class find out that their school is going to hold its first-ever election for student body president, some kids are more excited than others. But none is as excited as Deja, who figures she's a shoo-in for the third grade nomination.Deja decides that Nikki will be her campaign manager, of course, and puts her to work right away. But will Deja's tendency to rush into things and boss people around alienate her best friend when she needs her most, and spoil her chances of becoming president of Carver Elementary?This is a charming new entry in a chapter book series praised for its humor and authentic characters.
