Growing up doesn't mean giving up! The quintessential guide to staying true to you in a fucked up world.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Matt Hern lives and works in East Vancouver with his partner and daughters. He founded, and for nine years has directed the Purple Thistle Centre, an all-ages youth-run community center for arts and activism. Among his other projects is a youth exchange program with an isolated town in northern Canada designed to bring native and non-native kids together to live, work, and travel. His books and writing have been published on all six continents and translated into ten languages. He writes features and articles for a wide variety of publications, and continues to lecture globally. He is the author of Field Day (New Star, 2003), Watch Yourself: Why Safer Isn't Always Better (New Star, 2007), and Common Ground in a Liquid City: Essays in Defense of an Urban Future, and is the editor of Deschooling Our Lives (New Society, 1996), and Everywhere, All the Time (AK Press, 2008). Matt holds a PhD in Urban Studies and lectures at SFU and UBC in Urban Studies and Education departments and is on faculty at the Institute for Social Ecology and Prescott College in Arizona. He remains active in a number of movements in Vancouver, is a food security activist, avid gardener and unrepentant sports fan. For more info, be sure to visit his website: www.mightymatthern.com.
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* Forward * Introduction, by Matt Hern *Section 1 * 1. Family (parenting) Contributors include: Phillip Larkin, Ivan Coyote, Eldon Hay, Walker Banerd, Kelsey Savage, Laura Maybe, John Dewey 2. School Contributors include: Carla Bergman, Gustavo Esteva, Grace Llewellyn 3. Community Contributors include: Benito Wamburo, Chris Mercogliano, Fly, Liz Lichtman, Matt Hern 4. Money (careers, work etc.) Contributors include: Aly de la Cruz, Starla, Geoff Mann, Astra Taylor, Hari Alluri, Anna Hunter 5. Things you are good at (skills) Contributors include: Nigel Boeur, Wendell Berry, Lynda Berry, Dishwasher Pete *Section 2* 6. Sex Contributors include: Dan Savage, Maggie Hallowell, Leroy Wan, Meredith Lum, 7. Drugs Contributors TBD 8. Pop culture Contributors TBD 9. Relationships (friends, romance) Contributors TBD 10. Travel Contributors include: Cole Robertson, Gabe Martin, Mikeal, Elise Bouer, Bianca Bockman, Eylem Korkmaz, Dan Bushnell *Section 3 * 11. Class Contributors TBD 12. Race Contributors TBD 13. Gender/sexuality Contributors include: Sunera Thobani, Tania Willard, Cynthia Dewi Oka 14. Dis/ability = Cecily Contributors include: Carmen Papalia, Sunaura Taylor, Marcus Youssef 15. Indigenous struggles Contributors TBD 16. Eco disaster Contributors include: Paul Watson, Derrick Jensen, Vandana Shiva, Ben West, Will Allen * Section 4 * 17. Identity/Immigration Contributors include: Alexandra Henao, Fara Mclaren, Raul Arboleda, Arman Zamani 18. Cops /courts Contributors include: Jaggi Singh, Ashanti Alston, Arlin French, Harsha Walia 19. Mental health Contributors TBD 20. Your body Contributors include: Patricia Hill Collins, Karine Silverwoman *OUTRO : Getting old/er* Contributors include Noam Chomsky, Peter Prontzos, Tasnim Nathoo Biographies
