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

Description

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein bravely and wittily shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival in an often cruel world in this much-needed unconventional approach to teenage suicide prevention for marginalised youth who want to stay on the edge, but alive. Features 101 alternatives to suicide that range from the playful (moisturise), to the irreverent (disbelieve the binary), to the highly controversial (get laid, please). Bornstein fervently encourages readers to give themselves permission to unleash their hearts' desires.

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.

"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