Bücher von Sarah Schulman

Maggie Terry hat den Tiefpunkt erreicht. Gerade aus der Reha in die Welt entlassen, Exfreundin und Tochter sind schon lange weg, muss sie einen neuen Job in einer Anwaltskanzlei antreten, denn ihre Karriere bei der New Yorker Polizei ist unwiderruflich futsch. Nun heißt es den Anschluss an die Gegenwart wiederfinden. Am ersten Tag von Maggies neuem beruflichem Dasein stattet Broadway-Bühnenstar Lucy Horne der Kanzlei einen Besuch ab. Maggie soll diskret den Mord an einer Komparsin untersuchen - die Schauspielerin Jamie Wagner wurde erwürgt -, und Lucy präsentiert auch einen Verdächtigen, den bekannten Schriftsteller Steven Brinkley. Ein Verbrechen aus Leidenschaft?Maggie Terry kämpft mühsam um Bodenhaftung, pendelt zwischen Narcotics Anonymous-Treffen, irrationalen Stalking-Aktionen ihrer treulosen Ex und dem Versuch zu verstehen, was mit ihr und der Welt passiert ist ...

Collected together for the first time in one volume, Short Stories 1988 - 1991, are the twenty-nine stories Stan Leventhal included in a tiny herd of elephants and Candy Holidays.The first collection are stories about male relationships and span many literary styles including romance, fantasy, western and erotica. Some are funny, others are serious, but all invariably "playful". There are clear autobiographical elements, as in much of the author''s work. Several stories are about writers and the writing process (as life intrudes); "Schoolmarm" is set in the old west when a substitute school teacher meets his cowboy; "The Crystal Storm" offers us a lonely Warrior King, whose eyes "flash like jewels on fire", as he interrogates a handsome visitor, "unarmed and definitely not hostile". The longer pieces flesh out characters in clandestine meetings with lovers that end in a gift, or a group of tight-knit friends growing into adults at college ... there''s even a vampire tale.The second diverse, entertaining set of tales also cover several genres. In "Candy Holidays", two lovers break up, live apart, and then come back together again, the narrative catching glimpses, of them at Halloween, Christmas, Valentine''s Day and Easter. "Razorback" is a dark futuristic tale about surviving in a burnt-out city in which all order has withered and chaos reigns. In "Oasis Motel" a young man on a business trip in Los Angeles finally breaks through the sexual barrier that has contained him all his life. "Seder" is the story of a gay Jewish man''s attempt to reconcile his spirituality with his sexuality. Both collections reflect issues confronting the lives of queer people in America in the late twentieth century. This new omnibus edition features a foreword by Sarah Schulman, close friend of Leventhal and author of numerous works of fiction and social history."Stan was a literary activist who always gave to, built and endorsed literature and writers. On this Sunday morning, all these years later, I can still see Stan in his apartment window on Christopher Street, next door to the Stonewall Inn, overlooking Sheridan Square as he typed away." - Michele Karlsberg"Stan Leventhal was wonderful company: warm, honest, curious, engaging, and human. Mountain Climbing in Sheridan Square is the next best thing to hanging out with him." - Christopher Bram"Stan Leventhal''s vision is clear and undaunted. For all of its somber chiaroscuro, it challenges us to see the world through new eyes and to revel in its author''s ability to translate life into art, pain into understanding." - Michael Bronski

"Needy," "high-risk," "vulnerable," "slow." When the words people use to describe themselves are the same as the labels in their case files, what does that say about how our social welfare systems shape the identity and possibilities of those who use them? In 2014, three disability organizations asked an international team of designers and social scientists to help them understand and address lived experiences of social isolation. The team moved into a social housing complex in the "loneliest city" in Canada, Vancouver, in order to get to know their neighbours with and without disabilities. The project resulted in a five-year journey of partnership and team building, co-design and prototyping, failure and learning. The social sector is stuck. Seventy years since the rollout of the modern welfare state, Canada is left with a cracked and overburdened old-world system that struggles to provide basic care. Human needs for connection, belonging, purpose and agency are largely forgotten, or actively thwarted, which prevents people from living towards their potential. Whether it is in the disability sector, or in mental health and addictions, homelessness, immigration and refugee services, youth at risk, etc., the patterns are the same: cultures of compliance; rigidity and inflexibility; deeply embedded assumptions, rhetoric and ideology; the constant recycling of similar solutions; counting up the things that don't really matter; hoarding power and control. But how do you change it? How do you reshape a giant ecosystem with engrained approaches, habitual reactions and vested interests? Instead of going big, Tulloch and Schulman suggest going small. They articulate a series of twelve strategies, or "stretches," that will enable organizations to reach in new directions. Things like attending to beauty, purpose, and identity, and designing roles that activate community capacity and bridge people to it. The aggregate of those efforts across time and contexts, they argue, can lead to a gradual repurposing of the social safety net. This book is for anyone who plays a role in the social service system ecosystem, whether you are a frontline worker, manager or leader; researcher or policymaker; part of a vocational training or social worker program; a government funder, community foundation or philanthropist; or a professional association. It's also for social innovators and intrapreneurs trying to bring change to communities and organizations. Lastly, it's for social scientists and designers who are curious to see applications of their methods to the redesign of the welfare state.

Although acceptance of difference is on the rise in America, its the rare gay or lesbian person who has not been demeaned because of his or her sexual orientation, and this experience usually starts at home, among family members.Whether they are excluded from family love and approval, expected to accept second-class status for life, ignored by mainstream arts and entertainment, or abandoned when intervention would make all the difference, gay people are routinely subjected to forms of psychological and physical abuse unknown to many straight Americans.Familial homophobia, as prizewinning writer and professor Sarah Schulman calls it, is a phenomenon that until now has not had a name but that is very much a part of life for the LGBT community. In the same way that Susan Brownmillers Against Our Will transformed our understanding of rape by moving the stigma from the victim to the perpetrator, Schulmans Ties That Bind calls on us to recognize familial homophobia. She invites us to understand it not as a personal problem but a widespread cultural crisis. She challenges us to take up our responsibilities to intervene without violating families, community, and the state. With devastating examples, Schulman clarifies how abusive treatment of homosexuals at home enables abusive treatment of homosexuals in other relationships as well as in society at large.Ambitious, original, and deeply important, Schulmans book draws on her own experiences, her research, and her activism to probe this complex issuestill very much with us at the start of the twenty-first centuryand to articulate a vision for a more accepting world.