From international drag superstar and pop culture icon RuPaul, comes his most revealing and personal work to date-a brutally honest, surprisingly poignant, and deeply intimate memoir of growing up Black, poor, and queer in a broken home to discovering the power of performance, found family, and self-acceptance.

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In January 2017, Chimene Suleyman was on her way to an abortion clinic in Queens, New York with her boyfriend, the father of her nascent child. It was the last day they would spend together. In an extraordinary sequence of events, Chimene was to discover the truth of her boyfriend's life: that she and many other women had been subtly, poisonously and patiently betrayed.

In this remarkable memoir, she explores how women are duped every day by individuals, but also how society itself a...

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As a society, there is a tendency to elevate romantic love. But what about friendships? Aren't they just as – if not more – important? So why is it hard to find the right words to express what these uniquely comp...

Tina and Nina had a happy and careless childhood. Until the beginning of war in Croatia. After a bomb was thrown in front of their house family decided to leave Zadar. Just like many Italians at the end of the Second World War the two sisters left Zadar forever. Even though they thought they would come back just after a few days. But they never did. After the situation in Croatia got worse the whole family moved to Sweden. Their house was destroyed, looted and set on fire. In the house were v...

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I was 21 years old when I found myself on the front stoop of the Playboy Mansion, its ornate front door feeling like a route to success. I want to tell the real story of my time there - the good and the bad, the dark and the light. The story I wish I'd heard as a young woman trying to find my way in the world. Before I showed up at a party, allowed myself to stay, and made the decisions that would shape my life.'

In 2008 the Playboy mansion became Crystal Harris's sanctuary - a shimmering ves...