num_pages: 271
description: As an author educator and public speaker S. Bear Bergman has documented his experience as among other things a trans parent with wit and aplomb. He also writes the advice column Ask Bear in which he answers crucial questions about how best to make our collective way through the world.Featuring disarming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson Special Topics in Being a Human elaborates on Asking Bear's premise: a gentle witty and insightful book of practical advice for the modern age. It offers Dad advice and Jewish bubbe wisdom all filtered through a queer lens to help you navigate some of the complexities of life--from how to make big decisions or make a good apology to how to get someone's new name and pronouns right as quickly as possible to how to gracefully navigate a breakup. With warmth and candor Special Topics in Being a Human calls out social inequities and injustices in traditional advice-giving validates your feelings asks a lot of questions and tries to help you be your best possible self with kindness compassion and humor.
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title: Special Topics in Being a Human: A Queer and Tender Guide to Things I've Learned the Hard Way about Caring for People, Including Myself
publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press