Angeline Jackson

Gebundenes Buch

Funny Gyal

My Fight Against Homophobia in Jamaica

Beschreibung

Angeline Jackson stands up to the culture of homophobia in Jamaica by sharing the story of her sexual and spiritual awakening as well as her traumatic experience of "corrective rape."

Autor

Angeline Jackson is an LGBTQ human rights activist, an HIV/AIDS educator, and the former executive director of Quality of Citizenship Jamaica. In 2015, President Barack Obama recognized Angeline as one of Jamaica's remarkable young leaders at the Town Hall for Youth in Kingston, Jamaica. Angeline participated in a U.S. Senate briefing panel on LGBT rights in 2014 and attended the first White House Forum on Global LGBT Human Rights. She lives in Jamaica. Susan McClelland is a non-fiction writer who has received a number of national and international awards. Her first book, Bite of the Mango, is the true story of a young Sierra Leonean victim of war and has been published in more than twenty countries. She is a former staff writer at Maclean's and has written for the Sunday Times, Marie Claire, Glamour, Ms Magazine, the Guardian, the Walrus, Chatelaine, and more. Susan splits her time between Toronto and Dumfries-Galloway in Scotland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Altersempfehlung: 14 bis 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 138mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781459750586
• ISBN-10: 1459750586
• Artikelnr.: 62926904