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The World Made a Rainbow

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And he wrote about sexuality very poetically and desire in his novels turned into a life force, becoming a momentum of living… The men placed in her hands their own conscience, they said to her "Be my conscience-keeper, be the angel at the doorway guarding my outgoing and my incoming." And the woman fulfilled her trust, the men rested implicitly in her, receiving her praise or her blame with pleasure or with anger, rebeling and storming, but never for a moment really escaping in their own souls from her prerogative. The lovers become one dual movement, dancing on the slippery grass….It was a glaucous intertwining, delicious flux and contest in flux. “ Hi, yes, hello this wholeheartedly gay rainbow stole is my new favorite thing ever. It’s such a beautiful representation of queerness and faith, which is appropriate for a memoir about a man from an evangelical family coming out as gay while working as a youth minister in Texas. Life Isn’t Binary: On Being Both, Beyond, and In-Between by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker Ursula's story (plus Gudrun's) is continued in Women in Love, which is remarkably different style - in some ways. See my review HERE.

It has been decades since I’ve read D. H. Lawrence. I was reading The Unexpected Professor by John Carey, and he talked about a lot of books, but in particular, it was his discussion of spending a summer reading all of Lawrence’s works that inspired me to consider returning to Lawrence. Carey wrestled with Lawrence, not of the homoerotic desire type, but with his structure and style. He couldn’t really say he enjoyed him or liked him, but he couldn’t stop reading him! Overall, I liked this collection and not just from a diverse reading perspective, but as an interesting, well written and emotive work of literature. Recommended. Thanks Netgalley.

His falling from grace within the literary circles in recent years led me to take this novel with wariness and apprehension, lest I would be obliged to dethrone one the literary idols of my teenage days. A little over half of the novel covers the first 2 generations, while the remainder focuses on Ursula and her passions. Ursula falls in love with Anton Skrebensky, a British soldier of Polish ancestry, but he is conscripted to go to Africa. Take a look at our exciting range of resources to support teaching on the story. You can also listen to the audio version to bring it to life. The daughter was a hot mess and a crazy maker. She is very self-centered and that's ok. She had to be to rebel against such an extreme patrimony. I hated her relationship with her beau and I was glad he got some sense in him and married someone else. No love�

With a title like that you go in expecting all the colors of the rainbow umbrella and you get mostly two, the lesbian and the trans. But a lot of it and in a lot of different configurations, different ages, etc. The novel is largely devoted to schoolteacher Ursula, in her struggle to find fulfillment for her passionate, spiritual and sensual nature against the confines of the increasingly materialist and conformist society around her. She struggles with the battle of the classroom, and the need—against her nature—to assert control over her students. One emotionally fraught scene involves her actually caning one of her students. Has she joined the other side? Another memorable scene involves her encounter with wild horses who would seem to trample her. Ursula, whose story is continued in Women in Love, struggles with her relationship to the conventional soldier Anton Skrebensky—the male-female romantic relationships usually involve epic battles in this book—but needs to be free, to forge her own self. From the publisher: “When Moonbear looks out his window and sees a rainbow for the first time, he’s sure the sky is on fire. He is determined to put out the skyfire, but Little Bird has other ideas. How about finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, instead?” Six of the stories are in the third person and four in first person. I’d be interested to try Conklin’s longer-form work, and think first-person narration would particularly suit her. I didn’t really sense that this was a book meant for me, but that’s okay; a lot of readers will feel seen and represented. Pair this with, or have it on hand as a follow-up to, work by Allison Blevins, Melissa Febos and, most of all, Eley Williams. His writing is lyrical but not soothing and saturated with many ongoing contradictions that materialize in rhetorical repetitiousness, alliterations and dense passages reflecting the labyrinthine crevices of the human psyche, combining the realistic tradition, the classic mysticism and a modern diction assimilating the stream of consciousness technique.A wonderfully queer anthology of 14 LGBTQ+ stories from LGBTQ+ writers on keeping faith, whether faith in religion or just faith in yourself. The beautiful rainbow painted cover is designed by my friend Kess Costales, edited by my friend Gabriela Martins, and includes contributions from many excellent writers including fellow Rioter Adiba Jaigirdar (author of The Henna Wars). So I may be biased, but this anthology is wonderfully and wholeheartedly queer. More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera A cover full of flags and a compendium of LGBTQ+ activism and movements throughout the 20th century in the U.S. From Stonewall to marriage equality, this book provides a foundation for understanding the recent history of LGBTQ+ social movements. The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities Edited by David Levithan and Billy Merrell

Let me start with the good stuff. The writing is amazing, I'll give it that. I love the flowery language and the metaphors. I even understand that this is some groundbreaking feminist idea in old world Europe. I understand all that. More than anything, the ten stories in this collection are about the continual process of self-discovery. The trans, queer, and gender nonconforming characters in these stories are all in various states of becoming. They make mistakes and go through horrible experiences. They discover joy and understanding. They find small and big ways to express what's happening for them internally. Nothing is perfect, nothing is permanent. It gets messy and uncomfortable, but that's a space that readers, especially cis and hetero readers, should be willing to inhabit.Marc Solomon, a veteran leader in the fight for marriage equality, recounts how LGBTQ+ couples took on the fight to allow same-sex couples the right to marry and eventually won. Revealing inner workings of the advocacy movement, Solomon brings us inside the fight right alongside him. The Beauty That Remains by Ashley Woodfolk After Anton's departure, Ursula has a sexual relationship with her female teacher which she breaks off long before Anton's return a few years on. Yet, things are not so clear with Anton. At the book's end, Urusula dreams of a rainbow towering over the Earth: "She saw in the rainbow the earth's new architecture, the old, brittle corruption of houses and factories swept away, the world built up in a living fabric of Truth, fitting to the over-arching heaven." She turned, and saw a great white moon looking at her over the hill. And her breast opened to it, she was cleaved like a transparent jewel to its light. She stood filled with the moon, offering herself. Her two breasts opened to make way for it, her body opened wide like a quivering anemone, a soft, dilated invitation touched by the moon.”

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