Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
By: Taylor Brorby
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“I am a child of the American West, a landscape so rich and wide that my culture trembles with terr…
Want to Read $ 15.37"I wanted to be that open with others. Be able to express myself without fear. Spare emotions fester in a landscape where the only way capitalism has made sense of the American West is to fence it in. Break it into 160-acre parcels. Frack, mine, dam, and cut it to a stubble."-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"I wanted to be that open with others. Be able to express myself without fear. Spare emotions fester in a landscape where the only way capitalism has made sense of the American West is to fence it in. Break it into 160-acre parcels. Frack, mine, dam, and cut it to a stubble."-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The American West is the playground for the country's obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth defects, higher rates of cancer. Violent people who mimc the violence done to the land."-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The American West is the playground for the country's obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth defects, higher rates of cancer. Violent people who mimc the violence done to the land."-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
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"Ik vroeg me af of ik wel klaar was om met hem mee te gaan, of ik wel klaar was om die ene stap verder te zetten in het nieuwe leven dat ik weg van huis begon te ontdekken. Hier was ik een volwassene;…"-Seán Hewitt, All Down Darkness Wide
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18. Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
By: Taylor Brorby
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Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
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"I wanted to be that open with others. Be able to express myself without fear. Spare emotions fester in a landscape where the only way capitalism has made sense of the American West is to fence it in.…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The American West is the playground for the country's obsession with exploitation and destruction, with most extractive economies near Native American reservations. There are increased rates of birth…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"The prairie I grew up on teaches you to notice, to pay attention. The yolk of the sun as it slides across the dome of the sky streaking the world orange and indigo. The swish of grass in afternoon br…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
"My grip loosened on the wheel. Or was it, the world? It was such a small, passing moment. Which is where many of our monumental shifts happen. It is not the grand stage, but the quiet kitchen, the si…"-Taylor Brorby, Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land
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3.35
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27. Nearlywed
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28. Jack of Hearts (and Other Parts)
By: Lev A.C. Rosen
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3.92
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3.40
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