Tales of a Theatre Wench

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thedailywhat:

Quote of the Day: “I’m not transgender. I. Am. A. Boy,” says 5-year-old Tyler, who born a girl. He first insisted he was a boy at the age of 2, and eventually was diagnosed with gender identity disorder.
Now, his parents allow him to present himself as a boy, and Tyler’s mom doesn’t think he’s going through a phase (though doctors say many children with gender identity disorder eventually switch back to their biological gender). “I just want my child to be happy,” she says.
Don’t miss the video and pic gallery that help tell Tyler’s story.
[wapo]

Awesome story. A cheer for a kid who’s that self aware so young, and two cheers for the mom, who loves him no matter what!

thedailywhat:

Quote of the Day: “I’m not transgender. I. Am. A. Boy,” says 5-year-old Tyler, who born a girl. He first insisted he was a boy at the age of 2, and eventually was diagnosed with gender identity disorder.

Now, his parents allow him to present himself as a boy, and Tyler’s mom doesn’t think he’s going through a phase (though doctors say many children with gender identity disorder eventually switch back to their biological gender). “I just want my child to be happy,” she says.

Don’t miss the video and pic gallery that help tell Tyler’s story.

[wapo]

Awesome story. A cheer for a kid who’s that self aware so young, and two cheers for the mom, who loves him no matter what!

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Books I Want to Read!!

Updated reading list! :] (It just keeps getting longer!)

Anthem by Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand’s Anthem: The Graphic Novel by Charles Santino, Joe Staton, and Ayn Rand (my friend’s dad adapted and wrote it)
War Horse by Michael Morpurgo (I also want to see the movie and the play!!)
Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins
A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride & Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith
Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen
Sense & Sensibility and Sea Monsters by Ben H. Winters
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Animal Farm by George Orwell (saw the movie, it was disturbing. Still want to read it though…)
Brave New Worldby Aldous Huxley (read 1984by George Orwell in high school and I’ve been wanting to read this one as well)
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini (read his first book The Kite Runner freshman year of college)
Sherlock Holmesseries by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I have the entire collection in a leather-bound book, so might as well make use of it! Also, saw both movies. They are beautiful.)
Dracula by Bram Stoker (a real vampire novel)
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (can’t wait for the movie! Leonardo DiCaprio. ‘nuff said…)
All the works in The Picture of Dorian Gray & Other Writingsby Oscar Wilde (one of my favorite plays, The Importance of Being Earnest, is included in this book!)
The Complete Works of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare (7 plays down. 30 to go…)
Lord of the Rings trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
The Roadby Cormac McCarthy (in progress, started fall 2010 but then school started and I never finished it…probably should start over…)
Son of a Witch by Gregory Maguire (in progress, started last summer then school got in the way…)
The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series by Stieg Larson