<p>Product Description      As a columnist in Chicago's gay and lesbian press between 1977 and 1997, Jon-Henri Damski chronicled a crucial period in the history of the 'Second City's' LGBTQ community. His articles in a series of newspapers and magazines charted the lives of people at all strata of the queer world, from street kids to politically connected power brokers. He covered the rise of LGBTQ political power and self-empowerment, the hard-fought and victorious campaign to pass gay-inclusive Chicago Human Rights Ordinance, the tough realities of physical and emotional violence in relationships, and the tragedy of AIDS; but his eye--the eye of a street poet, a beat reporter, and a historian--was always focused on the human face of great events. Influenced by classical literature, the Beat movement, and writers ranging from Walt Whitman and Nelson Algren to Jean Genet and Camille Paglia--and the real-life conversations he heard on the streets and in the bars, bathhouses, park bushes and all-night diners--Damski provided a compassionate, drily humorous, sexy and insightful account of the world in which he moved.      From the Publisher      Nothing Personal was edited by John Michael Vore and co-edited by Albert N. Williams and Owen Keehnen.</p>

Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago's LGBTQ Community 1977-1997

History

Jon-Henri Damski

Americas

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The free spirit in Suzanne's Newsclipping Service, Janice devours men like a meat-eater, though she's a vegetarian. She conquers tricks, dodges marriage proposals and embarks on a journey that takes her to the desert, where she discovers the remains of Dr. Thurlow's plane. Thurlow invented the birth-control Janice uses, so he is her erstwhile hero.    Outside the  city, she discovers a different life off of Banyan Circle, where a hot air balloon pilot and an adopted girl begin to show her a way to confront the family past she'd avoided so well.  An earthquake changes everything in this novel set in Southern California.

My Valley Is Icky Too

De Niscia, Lisa

Literature & Fiction

Continuing the tradition established by Fritjof Capra in the Tao of Physics, The Raft mines current writings in neuroscience and string theory, combines this research with the notion that being human means being embodied energy, then tackles the most problematic concept in the Western World: the Ego.  The Raft takes on established ideologies within one-God religious traditions, certain New Age beliefs, and current schools of psychotherapy to forge a wholly new union between psychology and spirituality, one which could serve as a foundation for self-realization in the 21st century. Vore’s straight-forward sense of spirituality as being the movement of energy in the present moment is broad enough to bring even to atheists an understanding and practical use of what he calls "metaphysical technology". With its detailed account of the workings of Intentionality and Choice, Vision, Intuition and the Will to Action, as well as its close look at the  mechanisms behind love, attraction, sex and relationship, The Raft shows how "the word became flesh".  Special attention has been paid mapping out the workings of "Intuition" so that  even the most non-intuitive person might begin to observe it's presence. The Raft repeatedly asks the reader to rely on her or his native intelligence and to be willing to respectfully question the authorities and experts in every field of knowledge which impinges an self-understanding:  from neuroscience, artificial intelligence, psychology to traditional theologies–even The Raft, itself.   Finally, The Raft challenges us to examine the ways in which our programs of recovery and therapies further inscribe difficult behavior. Current approaches leave potential subscribers to those beliefs stuck in hard-bound identities ("alcoholic") or paired roles ("victim"/"perpetrator"),which Vore sees as a dead-ends. Vore offers a way of thinking about the self which moves these discussions into an altogether different context, the path of one’s Vision. One thus truly recovers, escaping even "the cult of victimhood".

The Raft: Notes Towards Rules of Order for a Digital Age

Politics & Social Sciences

Vore, John

Philosophy

Before he knew he was gay, before he would be abused by a priest, John Vore thought of himself, first, and foremost, as an American. In essays written since 9/11 Vore challenges progressives, liberals and would-be victims to think differently: fractured into broken selves with patchwork identities, we can barely see ourselves as Americans, anymore.  Our blindness has allowed conservatives to grab the stage of history.  With our very individuality broken into psychological factions, how can we challenge them? In remembering our capacity as Americans, Vore shows how we can come together, again. With values rooted in spirituality and an ideology-free look at our lives, he delivers an open invitation to us all,  a road-map back to the center of America.

Moving into History: Therapy for the American Identity

John Vore

Politics & Government

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