Hello Cruel World

101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks and Other Outlaws

Paperback, 190 pages

English language

Published July 1, 2006 by Seven Stories Press.

ISBN:
9781583227206
OCLC Number:
63808160

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Celebrated trans 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 …

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Subjects

  • Advice on careers & achieving success
  • Coping with personal problems
  • Suicide
  • Prevention
  • Gay Studies
  • Self-Help
  • Psychology
  • Suicidal behavior
  • General
  • Self-help techniques for teenagers
  • Gender Studies
  • Self-Help / General
  • Depression
  • Teenagers
  • Adolescent psychology

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