T ime-travel stories sit at a nexus of the literal and figurative. All of us are travelling through time — at the ambling pace of a human life, moving in a direction we think of as forward, with the future ahead and the past behind. But memory is a form of time travel, the study of history is an attempt at building time machines, and past and future are entangled. That same year was also when I first heard people speaking earnestly and frequently about feeling as if they were in the wrong timeline, as the Brexit referendum results rolled in and Donald Trump was elected US president. But our novella is just one of several recent stories of queer women time-travelling.
Modern Literature is nothing more than an Anti-Intellectual Word Salad
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This week, two writers in my circle were preoccupied with the same question. Why does modern literature suck? As far as I know, these two writers do not know each other. They are in similar political circles right leaning, conservative but different creative circles, which made the coincidence of their common interest even more fascinating.
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Previous research suggests that individuals with a marginalized sexual orientation report higher levels of emotional distress Cochran, ; Mayer, , including higher prevalence of social anxiety Gilman et al. The present study builds on previous research by examining results across sexual minority identities, including an additional write-in response option. One hundred eighty individuals participated in an online study in which they indicated their sexual orientation and completed measures of social anxiety.
Lesbian literature is a subgenre of literature addressing lesbian themes. It includes poetry, plays, fiction addressing lesbian characters, and non-fiction about lesbian-interest topics. Fiction that falls into this category may be of any genre, such as historical fiction , science fiction , fantasy , horror , and romance.