![]() ![]() The first thing I did was tell her that the results verify that Dee was, in fact, not my dad-and so I wanted to know if she knew who my biological dad is. When my mother and I finally spoke about this, my heart was racing. He scanned the email, looked at me and read the results over the sound of my heart beating like an anxious drum. I sat on the couch next to my husband, Shai, and told him the results were in. ![]() When I saw the DNA email in my inbox, I couldn’t open it. ![]() I asked my dad, Dee, to take a paternity test. One time, just one, my grandmother had alluded to my dad maybe not being my dad. And then the next day, a family member told me. I asked a few of my family members about who Lil Man was. Were his comparably small? Internally, I was having a conversation with myself: “Blair, he doesn’t resemble you at all.” I stopped talking. But my dad was at my grandmother’s funeral-and later that day, as we were talking, I found myself closely examining my father’s hands, his face, his ears. ![]() My dad had not been around much while I was growing up-he and my mother were not together by the time I made my entrance into the world, and when I was 3 my mother moved us to California, chasing a film-star dream for her daughters. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He would welcome enquiries from prospective doctoral students in Methodist/Wesleyan studies and other areas of church history and historical theology.ĭr Hammond is currently working with Dr David Ceri Jones on the ' George Whitefield and Transatlantic Protestantism' project, which is aimed at producing a scholarly edition of Whitefield's correspondence. He is a member of the Methodist-Roman Catholic International Commission sponsored by the World Methodist Council and the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity.ĭr Hammond teaches and supervises in the areas of church history and Methodist/Wesleyan studies. He serves as Vice-President of Methodist-related Theological Schools in Europe, is on the editorial board of Methodist Review, and the committee of the Methodist and Wesleyan Studies Unit of the American Academy of Religion. He is an Honorary Research Fellow of The University of Manchester and Australasian Centre for Wesleyan Research, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Geordan Hammond, Ph.D., F.R.Hist.S., Director of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre Senior Lecturer in Church History and Wesley Studies and Director of Research at Nazarene Theological College.ĭr Hammond is co-editor of the journal Wesley and Methodist Studies and book series Studies in the Holiness and Pentecostal Movements. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Vijay smartly resists psychoanalyzing her, implying that the china-shop bulls in our families can be survived but never entirely explained away."-JAN STUART, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW ![]() The show-stealer is Shalini's mercurial mother, an 'outrageous queen' of capricious gestures. 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His second children’s title “O’ Mista’ Whadda’ Wata’ Bug” was published in 2009. These experiences later inspired him to pursue writing as well as the visual arts.Īs an author/illustrator, he self-published his first children’s book in 2006, entitled “The Adventures of Joey Zee.” While attending public school there, he was also exposed to the power of books and the written word. His interest in the visual arts developed early when he attempted to duplicate a drawing which his older brother had bought home as a school assignment. The artist/author was born in rural, North Carolina. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() How can a younger generation connect to Lou’s story? Susan says in her gorgeous intro, “It’s hard to convey to those who have come of age since the retroviral cocktails appeared in the mid-90s just how devastating the AIDS epidemic was before that…” The impossibility of working in a history before your time - something is inevitably lost in translation, emotionally and linguistically. Through his work, he brought thousands of trans people together across the country and helped create and preserve trans history for generations to come. ![]() He fought the medical system to officially recognize “female-to-gay males,” and in 1986 founded FTM, one of the first organizations for the FTM community he was also a founding member of San Francisco’s GLBT Historical Society, now host to one of the largest queer historical archives in the United States. He was an activist whose writing, public speaking, and community leadership helped establish sexual and gender identity as two distinct concepts in the public mind and rallied the female-to-male community at a time when it didn’t yet exist. 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