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We're Here! We're Queer! Get Used to Us! Survival Strategies for a Hostile World | 
 enlarge | Author: Regina Sewell
Publisher: BookSurge Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $15.99
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 2988847
Media: Paperback
Pages: 168
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.4
ISBN: 1594573174
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.766
EAN: 9781594573170
Publication Date: May 2004
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Product Description
News reports of anti-gay/lesbian/bisexual, transgendered violence, especially the media coverage of the brutal murders of Teena Brandon and Mathew Shepard, leave us feeling hopeless. "We're Here! We're Here! Get Used to Us! Survival Strategies for a Hostile World" book provides an antidote this sense of hopelessness by showing how LGBT people have successfully defended themselves against homophobic comments, threatening situations, and violence. "We're Here! Get Used to Us! Survival Strategies for a Hostile World" also includes a chapter describing same-sex intimate abuse and violence and includes examples of how GLBT people got out of damaging relationships. "We're Here! Get Used to Us! Survival Strategies for a Hostile World" reads like a warm supportive coach that cheers readers on for their past efforts to defend themselves, and offers techniques and strategies that readers can practice and use. In the process, it helps readers come to terms with the sexual harassment and violence that they have experienced in the past and puts the blame where it should go - on the perpetrators. This is a great book for any lesbian, gay, bi-sexual and transgendered person who is tired of feeling afraid, is sick of circumscribing his/her life in order to feel safe, wants to know how to defend themselves, or needs to get out of an abusive relationship.
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Gay Without Apology November 12, 2006
Debra L. Stang (Shawnee, KS United States)
Dr. Regina Sewell's amazing book tells the stories of GLBTQ (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered and queer/questioning) people who have successfully fought back against anti-gay violence.
Sewell's book does something most other self-defense books do not--it focuses on the positives, on the techniques that worked rather than the ones that didn't. Sewell uses empowerment, not fear, to coach GLBTQ people how to deal with harassment, verbal abuse, discrimination, and violence.
Some of the anecdotes in her book are amusing (e.g., the young lesbian who punched a would-be date rapist in the nose and then told him to act like a g--d--- gentleman), others disturbing (e.g., the gay man who chose not to fight a rapist because he feared he would be killed if he saw his attacker's face). In granting all survivors the same respect, Sewell honors ALL coping styles, not just the ones that turn up in action movies.
Written in an engaging, supportive style, this book is a valuable resource that should be on the shelf of anyone who is GLBTQ, or anyone who loves someone who is GLBTQ.
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