People have long pondered the sources of gender identity and sexuality. We often wonder at what creates something different, a minority, and at the ways in which gender is expressed through behavior: men act manly, women act womanly, and so long as nobody departs from these norms, everyone remains comfortable. It is the variations from [...]
My grandfather recently went into the hospital with appendicitis. Appendectomies are simple – open the abdomen, sew the patient up, send him home. Unfortunately, when the doctors opened him up, they discovered that the real source of his illness was not bacteria, but a tumor; he had stage four colon cancer. As I write this, [...]