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Prism & Pen

I grew up in #Florida, which was one of the campest places to grow up in the mid-20th century. I’ve learnt to appreciate many of the struggles I’ve experienced as a gay man come from being camp. I was #gay from the get-go, but I often tried to hide myself.
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Prism & Pen · Growing Up Gay in The Grove - Prism & Pen - MediumBy Matthew Bamberg
#LGBTQ#GrowingUp#Memoir
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Lydia Schoch

I’ve been reading “The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution”by Dixon Chibanda MD this weekend and learning how her idea for Friendship Benches that she started in Zimbabwe have now helped half a million people and counting get mental health help worldwide.

If you like nonfiction about mental health, you might like this book.

#Nonfiction #Zimbabwe #AmReading #MentalHealth #Memoir #HealthCare

@bookstodon

Book cover for “The Friendship Bench: How Fourteen Grandmothers Inspired a Mental Health Revolution”by Dixon Chibanda MD. Image on cover is a black and white drawing of a sapling or large bush behind an empty wooden bench.
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Gary Hall

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At the end of last night's show at #saddlerswells, Benji Reid said Find Your Eyes won’t be performed again in the UK. But if it is don’t miss it. It’s stunning. A completely unique #afrofuturist fusion of #photography, #choreography, #theatre, #dance, #music, #fashion, #design, #mime.

You might want to take what Reid himself says about it with a pinch of salt. In keeping with the current obsession with #memoir and #biography — the idea of ‘telling my story’ in ways that explore ‘universal themes’ and speak ‘to a wider audience’ (see his 2021 Laugh at Gravity publication for the #octobergallery) — he presents the work in terms that make it appear far more conventional and less imaginative than it really is. Reid is one of those #artists who may not be the best at writing about their own work. (Marina Abramović is another.) Just go and experience it.

SadlersWellsBenji Reid / Factory International - Find Your Eyes - Sadler's Wells East - Sadler's WellsBenji Reid / Factory International - Find Your Eyes - Sadler's Wells East - Sadler's Wells
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Hollywood Outbreak

U2's Bono got very personal during the one-man show he filmed for the new documentary, "Bono: Stories of Surrender." He shared with us the thought process behind the stories he chose to tell during the show.

#Bono #U2 #StoriesOfSurrender #Memoir #BookTour #OneManShow #BeaconTheatre #NewYorkCity #AppleTVPlus #Documentary #Music #RockMusic #Singer #Songwriter #Storytelling #Performance #Intimate #BandSongs #PersonalStories #BehindTheScenes

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Hollywood Outbreak · How Bono Chose His 'Stories Of Surrender'U2's Bono got very personal during the one-man show he filmed for the new documentary, "Bono: Stories of Surrender." He shared with us the thought process behind the stories he chose to tell during the show.
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Prism & Pen

My initial itinerary had me departing in March. I planned to walk the entire length of Highway 101, more than 1,500 miles, from Los Angeles to the Canadian border. Due to firm commitments, I needed to return home by August.
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Prism & Pen · On Being an Elderly Queer Cis Gent with a Mature Trans Woman on My ArmBy Rand Bishop
#LGBTQ#Queer#Transgender
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Sylvia

new on my blog: a perfect New York City afternoon

Our trip to New York started with many reasons to be grumpy, but one convention we only found out about when we were there made everything better.
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Sylvia's Studioa perfect New York City afternoonOur trip to New York started with many reasons to be grumpy, but one convention we only found out about when we were there made everything better.
#blog#HappySnapshots#fun
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Somē

I've been listening to Werner Herzog's memoirs 'Every man for himself and god against all'. I don't know what the general consensus is about Herzog, but all I knew of him before I started the memoirs was the incredibly angsty nihilistic clips of him talking about the jungle. I liked the way he spoke because it was iconic in some fashion. I found out his memoirs were narrated by himself straight away and was hooked first by his voice, then by his stories.

I was surprised to find none of the angsty nihilism in his memoirs! The way he told his stories was very down to earth. I thought the phrases were even too small in proportion to what he was really talking about. I thought he was just a filmmaker, but quite consistently, he recounts something shocking, made even more so by the down-to-earthness. 6 foot arrows killing his film extras. Child soldiers. Barefoot in the mountains. Duping PRC policemen. His voice recounts things so matter of factly, almost as if these things were normal.

Even his romanticism - dropping all belongings and travelling to a foreign land for one true love, hitchhiking across the world dependent on kindness of strangers and the likes - felt other worldly.

Anyways, if you don't know anything else about this man, I totally recommend listening (key!) to his memoirs. It's like having a pariah german uncle tell you stories after bedtime when you're supposed to sleep but don't want to.

#herzog#memoir#audiobooks
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Klaudia (aka jinxx)

It’s #booklaunch day! My wonderful colleagues from Cambridge University who did the creative #nonfiction diploma the year before me huddled together & out came a book - first in a series! They invited me to be a guest writer and I‘m happy to announce „Hiraeth - Deep Longing. Fifteen Authors in Search of Their Heartland“ is out incl my first humble approach on #memoir, and - much more exciting - a foreword by our tutors Derek Niemann & Jessica J. Lee. #HireathDeepLonging

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Cover of Hiraeth - Deep Longing. Fifteen Authors in Search of Their Heartland“ showing a wide landscape in a greenish grey with a hill and a tiny house.
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