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

By: S. Bear Bergman, Saul Freedman-Lawson (Illustrator)

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Paperback | 1 December 2021

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256 Pages

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28.4 x 17.9 x 2.1

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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 Ask 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 humour.

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'Sweet, soulful, and deeply humane. Bear at his best.'
Alison Bechdel author of Fun Home

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