Explain briefly how biography can resemble fictionmania
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All We Were Allowed to Write ()
© by Dallas Denny
Source: Denny, Dallas. (, 22 October). All we were allowed to write: Transsexual autobiographies in the late XXth and early XXIst centuries. Workshop presented at Fantasia Fair, October, , Provincetown, MA.
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All We Were Allowed to Write
Transsexual Autobiographies in the Late XXth and early XXIst Centuries
Hello, and welcome. My name is Dallas Denny. I’m speaking today about transsexual autobiographies. I say transsexual because bygd far the majority of the authors have had sex reassignment, but in actuality I’ve included as wide a variety of trans* works as possible. Feel free to ask questions at any time.
I’d like to uppstart by illustrating the difference between autobiographies and memoirs. In this talk I will not be making a distinction. I’ll use the term autobiography to refer to both.
Before or so, transpeople were excluded from our own
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Gothic literature is usually described as having the following characteristics: Darkness, mystery, and horror: The theme of Gothic literature is usually darkness, mystery, and horror. It often involves death, magic, monsters, dark forces, and so on. These motifs helped Gothic literature express a unique atmosphere that was different from mainstream culture. 2. Romance and Poetic: Although Gothic literature is usually considered a kind of horror and dark literature, it also has romantic and poetic elements. Gothic literature often combined elements such as love, romantic relationships, and poetry to express a unique emotional and aesthetic experience. 3. Styles of architecture and art: Gothic literature is often associated with architectural and artistic styles. Gothic literature, gorgeous buildings such as castles, churches, bell towers, etc., often depicted some artistic scenes such as classicalism, romanticism, etc. Mystery and supernatural: Gothic literature often shows elements
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Selkie T.G.'s Blog
Yeah, I suffer from breast envy. I began imagining what it would be like to have breasts around the time puberty kicked in. And as part of that, to help my imagining along, I happened to have a smooth rubber tennis ball. I discovered that by carefully halving it, with a touch of baby oil I could make it suck onto my chest, to give me two small bumps to fantasise with.
Jump forward many years, as I stumble over news of a suction device that women could use to enlarge their breasts. Covered in a TV (hah!) news report, the multi-thousand device was connected to an electronically controlled pump, and had a harness for holding it in place. In fact I think it was the Brava system. They said “We know that stretching causes new cells to form. So we reason that if we could maintain a pressure over a long period of time we could cause the breast tissue to increase; and indeed that’s true.”
That seemed to make sense to me. But I couldn’t afford it. (Here’s a good overvi