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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions

by John Grisham (Goodreads Author)

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Immortal Seeds: Bearing Gold from the Abyss

by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

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Escape From St. Hell: My Trans Teen Life Levels Up (St. Hell, #2)

by Lewis Hancox

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Book cover for Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More

Read This to Get Smarter: About Race, Class, Gender, Disability & More by Blair Imani

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Personal identity is the way a person perceives themselves, while social identity is the way others perceive them.

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“Being told you are not who you know yourself to be is trauma [page 321]”
― Elijah C. Nealy, Transgender Children and Youth: Cultivating Pride and Joy with Families in Transition

tags: children, education, ftm, mtf, transgender

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“When her breast grew, Teena hated how they hurt. When someone stared at her chest, it would make her feel sick. She liked her body before puberty and despised it when it started to develop. She wasn't feminine she wasn't graceful and she didn't want to be [page 47]”
― Aphrodite Jones, All She Wanted

tags: ftm, transgender, true-crime

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