Book Review: When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, July 2018 Issue. You can’t look any longer. Whatever it is, it’s just too painful, too scary, so you hide your eyes and pretend that nothing’s [...]
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Book Review: Marilyn Forever
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, June 2018 Web Exclusive. People will talk. And that can be a bad thing: gossip is often mean, and its shelf-life is sometimes longer than we’d [...]
Book Review: The Charm Bracelet
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, May 2018 Issue. The jewelry you wear tells a story. A ring on your left hand, third finger, says to the world that you stood up once and vowed to [...]
Book Review: One of These Things First
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, May 2018 Issue. Elephants, rhinos, hippos and giraffes. Skyscrapers, mammoths and Jupiter. Sequoias, Sasquatch, blue whales … and mice. One of [...]
Book Review: Stand by Me: The Forgotten History of Gay Liberation
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, April 2018 Issue. You had no idea. How could you know? No one ever told you, nobody sat you down to explain what was what. You were blissfully [...]
Book Review: Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, March 2018 Issue. You look sharp today. This morning, you dressed with determination, putting confidence on your body in order to put it in your [...]
Book Review: Play Big
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, March 2018 Web Exclusive. That was the lousiest call, ever. Obviously, the ref wasn’t paying attention. He was looking the other way, he dropped [...]
Book Review: Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, March 2018 Issue. Just like in the movies, you’d planned to grow old together. You’d be the couple everyone smiled at: two wrinkled beings, [...]
Book Review: Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, February 2018 Issue. You’re not in any hurry. The ring’s on your finger, the engagement was just announced, and you both feel like you’ve got [...]
Book Review: Fire and Fury
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, February 2018 Web Exclusive. Fit – or not? Most likely, you had an opinion about a year ago, when Donald Trump was sworn in as our [...]
Book Review: Somebody to Love: The Life, Death and Legacy of Freddie Mercury
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, January 2018 Issue. Last year, this season was particularly rough. Every time you opened a newspaper or turned on the computer or TV, it seemed as [...]
TRANScripts
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, December 2017 Issue The first memoir I ever read that was written by a transgender individual was Mirror Image: The Odyssey of a Male-to-Female [...]
Between The Covers | November 2017
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, November 2017 Issue. Can you float me a loan? It’s a common question when your friends know you’re flush with cash. Can I hold a ten for a [...]
Book Review: Making Midcentury Modern
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, October 2017 Issue. You’ll never forget the feeling of key in hand. Imagine: you. A homeowner, finally, after saving, planning, and a ceiling-high [...]
You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!
By Terri Schlichenmeyer, September 2017 Issue. “You’re in the Wrong Bathroom!” And 20 Other Myths and Misconceptions About Transgender and Gender-Nonconforming People [...]
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