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..., and presents herself to others as a woman rather than as a man. But for transsexuals like me, these binaries are not aligned. Though I identify as female and present myself as a woman, biologically I still have a Y chromosome, and so recognizing me as a transsexual means recognizing that the gender binary...

... late in life, wistful and troubling as they ever were, though not for long? And from whom can 1 now seek guidance? Denise, the author ofWhat we desire travels with us, was dead...

... been depicted almost cutely beneath a huge cowboy hat, well dressed even if he is “all hat and no cattle”! For an example of a more fully fanged approach, consider Marc Forrests “Mad Cowboy Disease,” an image devoid of any positive qualities whatso­ ever. Though little known, Forrest’s...

...—posed as sexually available, as though their only desire is for the viewer to want their bodies. Sometimes the images show a hybrid woman/animal wanting to be consumed. In Italy, a restaurant’s ad depicted two beings in bed: a human man with his arm around a woman’s body with a cow’s head. Osteria La...

... — that nature can’t be so evenly divided: “But night comes on slowly. / It takes all day.” The poem then takes a dramatic turn, shifting to the poet’s friend’s father, who was “killed / in a car crash”; though her friend “hadn’t seen him in years,” she nevertheless “tore out a stain” of blood she had found...

... that it’s hopeless, that you have no power, that there’s no reason to act, that you can’t win. Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender, a power you don’t have to throw away. And though hope can be an act of defiance, defiance isn’t enough reason to hope. But there are good reasons. I wrote this book...

... in court, with words rather than blunt instruments. Though it’s Sunday morning, the air is alive with sound: men joking or arguing, Gregorian chant from the church beyond the palms, a truck loaded with construction materials rattling over the rutted dirt road whose reds—brick red where damp from a brief...

...JOSH KORNBLUTH Looking around at my fellow congregants, I am often struck by how they know the prayers so much better than I do. Certainly, most if not all of them are far more observant than I am. And even though we’re in Berkeley, I’d daresay that many of them even believe in God. But that’s...

...,” which was fine with me until January 20, 1967, when I crossed into exile. This motto deprived us of much wisdom. We had no relationship with the earth and, in some cases, with anything material. We saw life and our situation as a simple political struggle, quoting Marx, though few ever read him...

... final congregation, from whatever day in 1236 prayers were last held there. I was unclear how I’d gotten in, and equally uncertain how I would get out. Something pulled me toward the mihrab , the niche that shows the direction in which to pray; though I drew physically closer to Mecca, I was no closer...

... teacher first assign it?” “Oh, a couple of months ago.” This answer filled me with pride. Though I had failed to provide him with a grounding in his Jewish birthright, no one could argue that I had stinted in his training as a procrastinator—a skill that my own parents had painstakingly drilled...

...-but-canonical status in social-political scholarship. Though, as Leo Strauss warned at the threshold of our liquid-modern era, on the occasion of unravelling the precepts of historicist approach to human condition: There always have been and there always will be surprising, wholly unexpected, changes...

... proved irresistible for him. When his own essays turned knotty, dense with learned puns and allusions, it was because he loved being playful and challenging. The plain style, he once told me, held little interest for him, though he mastered it effectively. The Hebraic side of his later work and his...

... not see. And like Whitman’s, his poetry is informed with a political awareness, though it lacks Whitman’s pre–Civil War faith in an ideal America. Though critics who accuse Whitman of lacking a sense of evil read him shallowly, it is true that Whitman is not much inclined to reflect analytically...

... months, two days, twenty-one hours—but to a kid that’s a lot. But though we may have a different take on the world, our moral standards are generally the same. It has not been an easy road. Apparently compassion coupled with financial generosity is not a simple sell. Taking away money from any...

... to pray. W ithout In the open mindedness this we do not suffer the necessary pain of this world, the necessary sadness of being human. of not knowing enough Walter Brueggemann, my favorite Scripture teacher, points out that even though about...

... in And with some reason! W ithout Galileo, Newton, Darwin, evolution, were not yet established, though pioneers were laying Einstein, and the entire Enlightenment, we would never have had the groundwork. Darby’s coke smelting and cast iron, Ford’s assembly lines, and But all this was slow to filter...