Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws

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Kate Bornstein

Hello, Cruel World

101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws

Kate Bornstein

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Seven Stories
01 August 2011

Health & Self-Help; Coping with personal problems; Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system as we know it. Here, Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world. A one-of-a-kind guide to staying alive outside the box, Hello, Cruel World is a much-needed unconventional approach to life for those who want to stay on the edge, but alive. Hello, Cruel World features a catalog of 101 alternatives to suicide that range from the playful (moisturize!), to the irreverent (shatter some family values), to the highly controversial. Designed to encourage readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' harmless desires, the book has only one directive- ""Don't be mean."" It is this guiding principle that brings its reader on a self-validating journey, which forges wholly new paths toward a resounding decision to choose life. Tenderly intimate and unapologetically edgy, Kate Bornstein is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one.

By: Kate Bornstein
Imprint: Seven Stories
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 127mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 210g
ISBN: 9781583227206
ISBN 10: 1583227202
Pages: 190
Publication Date: 01 August 2011
Recommended Age: From 14 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Kate Bornstein is a celebrated pioneer for the LGBTQI community, transsexual author and performance artist. She is also the author of My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely and Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us.

Reviews for Hello, Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks & Other Outlaws

"""How lucky we are to have such a clear and intelligent writer who has had profoundly personal experiences with different identities, the subject of this first-rate book."" —Kurt Vonnegut ""I realize Kate Bornstein is trying to save teenagers—the beautiful weirdos on whom the fate of our future rests—but if her book gets into the wrong hands, she might inadvertently save a whole lot of adults too."" —San Francisco Chronicle “Writer-activist-professional outcast Kate Bornstein takes an empathetic approach."" —Carol Queen, co-editor of PoMoSexuals"