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Genspect, which says it is “an international organisation providing support for individuals and families impacted by gender distress” says that they chose Killarney to hold the conference as a counter to the European Professional Association for Transgender Health (EPATH) which is holding its own annual conference in the town at the same time. One of the most important things #GenspectBiggerPicture conference will be hearing the voices of detransitioners, something unlikely to be happening at #EPATH2023 around the corner “The Bigger Picture” conference says it will “challenge the narrow, medicalised model of gender care currently in vogue” and is hosting some renowned experts and authors – and also giving voice to detransitioners: people who have undergone treatment to change sex and who have then realised they made a mistake.įor some of those people, the changes, especially some surgeries, are irreversible – and they argue that ‘gender-affirming care’ is, in fact, rushing young people in particular towards making life-changing decisions without due consideration. 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(This was not well set up in the book itself. Lightlark is about an island that appears once every 100 years for 100 days, so the rulers of the six realms can try to solve some prophesy to undo curses. I ended up with it, and it took me a couple days to get through it. Welp, it was so bad, neither of us wanted first dibs. I said something about that, then we started talking about how we were interested in it because of the hype/drama and decided to read the first page. One of our senior booksellers planned to put it in my locker, but forgot, and someone else picked it up. Normally, we get them a minimum of a month ahead of time. My store got an advanced copy of Lightlark one week before release date, which is pretty sus anyways. It had really high ratings on Goodreads, until regular reviewers started sharing their thoughts and things went south, both with legitimate negative reviews and ridiculous review bombing. Alex Aster put her book idea on TikTok and the buzz led to a six-figure publishing deal and Universal bought the rights to Lightlark before it ever hit store shelves. If you aren’t on TikTok, you might have missed all the drama about a book that releases soon. First step: send Abigail instructions on properly communicating, via a hidden compartment in a whittled toy boat that will be passed off as the work of her son. Sackett takes Ben and Caleb into his barn filled with spycraft inventions and explains how he plans to turn Abigail into a verified asset. To Ben’s dismay, he dismisses Abigail’s note about Lee, saying it lacks context and comes from an unverified source.īen vents to Caleb and Sackett about Washington’s refusal to heed Abigail’s intel. In Morristown, General Washington excitedly reads Abe’s report. 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