Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Sansouci I ask that the Violet

I ask that the Violet Flame burn with the intensity of a thousand suns to clear my mind

Recognizing that none of us are free until all of us are

please choose accordingly

from the United States and the Caribbean to Brazil

Their erasure from trans history masks the profound ways race has figured prominently in the construction and representation of transgender subjects

Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image Sansouci I ask that the VioletThis groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and feminine values. Writing drove cultures toward linear left