Shifting the Silence Style:Paperback At twenty-three

At twenty-three

being out and about in the LGBTQIA+ community and undergoing gender transition

which are tinged by addiction

but with time

values we’ve fought for again and again in our nation’s history

Shifting the Silence Style:Paperback At twenty-threeBy: Etel Adnan A heart rending meditation on aging, grief, and the universal experience of facing death. Shifting the Silence does just that, breaks the social taboo around writing and speaking about our own deaths. In short unrelenting paragraphs, Adnan enumerates her personal struggle to conceptualize the breadth of her own life at 95, the process of aging, and the knowledge of her own inevitable death. The personal is continuously projected