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Coal to Diamonds A Memoir
Author | : Beth Ditto,Michelle Tea |
Publsiher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780385529747 |
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A raw and surprisingly beautiful coming-of-age memoir, Coal to Diamonds tells the story of Mary Beth Ditto, a girl from rural Arkansas who found her voice. Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas—a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sisters, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother’s bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens—her second family—who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing, mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim—with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer—she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humor, and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto’s unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.
Serendipity
Author | : Gren Thomas,Will Peacock |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2017-12 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 1987900154 |
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Coal to Diamonds
Author | : Beth Ditto |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2013-10-24 |
Genre | : Rock music |
ISBN | : 1847392466 |
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Born and raised in Judsonia, Arkansas-a place where indoor plumbing was a luxury, squirrel was a meal, and sex ed was taught during senior year in high school (long after many girls had gotten pregnant and dropped out) Beth Ditto stood out. Beth was a fat, pro-choice, sexually confused choir nerd with a great voice, an eighties perm, and a Kool Aid dye job. Her single mother worked overtime, which meant Beth and her five siblings were often left to fend for themselves. Beth spent much of her childhood as a transient, shuttling between relatives, caring for a sickly, volatile aunt she nonetheless loved, looking after sister, brothers, and cousins, and trying to steer clear of her mother's bad boyfriends. Her punk education began in high school under the tutelage of a group of teens - her second family - who embraced their outsider status and introduced her to safety-pinned clothing , mail-order tapes, queer and fat-positive zines, and any shred of counterculture they could smuggle into Arkansas. With their help, Beth survived high school, a tragic family scandal, and a mental breakdown, and then she got the hell out of Judsonia. She decamped to Olympia, Washington, a late-1990s paradise for Riot Grrrls and punks, and began to cultivate her glamorous, queer, fat, femme image. On a whim - with longtime friends Nathan, a guitarist and musical savant in a polyester suit, and Kathy, a quiet intellectual turned drummer - she formed the band Gossip. She gave up trying to remake her singing voice into the ethereal wisp she thought it should be and instead embraced its full, soulful, potential. Gossip gave her that chance, and the raw power of her voice won her and Gossip the attention they deserved. Marked with the frankness, humour and defiance that have made her an international icon, Beth Ditto's unapologetic, startlingly direct, and poetic memoir is a hypnotic and inspiring account of a woman coming into her own.
Coal to Diamonds
Author | : Good Catch Publishing,Matt Knighton,Worth Wilson,Fred Boyd |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Inspirational stories |
ISBN | : 0978515226 |
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Diamonds in the Coal Dust
Author | : Maddy Worth |
Publsiher | : Athena PressPub Company |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2008-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 184748316X |
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A war-time evacuee as a child, Maddy's horizons were to stretch much further than the Yorkshire landscape where she was cared for by her aunt and uncle. Over the years, she grew up, married a miner and dealt with all life had to throw at her - all the while taking care of her husband and three children. Even with all these responsibilities, Maddy was never afraid to take a risk, be it anything from skydiving to uprooting to the other side of the world. Her life story is an inspiring one, and demonstrates that it is possible to enjoy the fullness and richness that life has to offer, no matter what obstacles you may face.
A Memoir on the Diamond
Author | : John Murray |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 82 |
Release | : 1831 |
Genre | : Diamonds |
ISBN | : UOM:39015068290249 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature
Author | : Jodie Medd |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781107054004 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Lesbian Literature examines literary representations of lesbian sexuality, identities, and communities, from the medieval period to the present. In so doing, it delivers insight into the variety of traditions that have shaped the present landscape of lesbian literature.
Black Diamonds
Author | : Catherine Young |
Publsiher | : Torrey House Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1948814838 |
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A lyrical literary memoir of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Black Diamonds uncovers layers of history about the place that fueled the nation for over a century. As a girl in the 1960s, Catherine Young lived amid mountains of waste coal above ground and mine fires beneath her feet while longing for the green, lovely scene portrayed in The Lackawanna Valley, George Inness's 1855 painting. She shows readers the valley through a child's eyes, passing through the immigrant kitchens, relief lines, and soot-stained alleys of a collapsing city--and family love amid lives cut short by coal.