Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths
The Rules:
    Clone thyselfLearn teleportation. The sooner the better.Trust no one.

These are the rules I learned as a middle school teacher, though it was the last one that drove me from the classroom forever. Like many educators, I couldn't survive the politics. After thirteen years, I bailed. How did I, an abuse-surviving queer, end up teaching in the middle of the Bible Belt? Better yet, how did I survive?

New Rule: Neither my silence nor my identity is for sale at any price.

My former vice principal said it best (though I wasn't supposed to see that email) when he asked, "Why does she always have to write a damn novel?"

So here I am. Writing a damn novel. As to the why...because I believe in changing the world, one word at a time.

Navigating discrimination, whether it's from employers, medical professionals, colleagues, or family, is often fraught with uncertainty. Join Raven Oak on their journey of transition and self-discovery in a world built on silence.

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Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths
The Rules:
    Clone thyselfLearn teleportation. The sooner the better.Trust no one.

These are the rules I learned as a middle school teacher, though it was the last one that drove me from the classroom forever. Like many educators, I couldn't survive the politics. After thirteen years, I bailed. How did I, an abuse-surviving queer, end up teaching in the middle of the Bible Belt? Better yet, how did I survive?

New Rule: Neither my silence nor my identity is for sale at any price.

My former vice principal said it best (though I wasn't supposed to see that email) when he asked, "Why does she always have to write a damn novel?"

So here I am. Writing a damn novel. As to the why...because I believe in changing the world, one word at a time.

Navigating discrimination, whether it's from employers, medical professionals, colleagues, or family, is often fraught with uncertainty. Join Raven Oak on their journey of transition and self-discovery in a world built on silence.

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Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths

Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths

by Raven Oak
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Voices Carry: A Story of Teaching, Transitions, & Truths

by Raven Oak

Overview

The Rules:
    Clone thyselfLearn teleportation. The sooner the better.Trust no one.

These are the rules I learned as a middle school teacher, though it was the last one that drove me from the classroom forever. Like many educators, I couldn't survive the politics. After thirteen years, I bailed. How did I, an abuse-surviving queer, end up teaching in the middle of the Bible Belt? Better yet, how did I survive?

New Rule: Neither my silence nor my identity is for sale at any price.

My former vice principal said it best (though I wasn't supposed to see that email) when he asked, "Why does she always have to write a damn novel?"

So here I am. Writing a damn novel. As to the why...because I believe in changing the world, one word at a time.

Navigating discrimination, whether it's from employers, medical professionals, colleagues, or family, is often fraught with uncertainty. Join Raven Oak on their journey of transition and self-discovery in a world built on silence.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940179486701
Publisher: Grey Sun Press
Publication date: 08/06/2024
Sold by: Draft2Digital
Format: eBook
File size: 9 MB

About the Author

Multi-international award-winning speculative fiction author Raven Oak (she/they) is best known for Amaskan's Blood (2016 Ozma Fantasy Award Winner, Epic Awards Finalist, & Reader's Choice Award Winner), Amaskan's War (2018 UK Wishing Award YA Finalist), and Class-M Exile. She also has many published short stories in anthologies and magazines. She's even published on the moon! Raven spent most of her K-12 education doodling and writing 500 page monstrosities that are forever locked away in a filing cabinet.Besides being a writer and artist, she's a geeky, disabled ENBY who enjoys getting her game on with tabletop games, indulging in cartography and art, or staring at the ocean. She lives in the Seattle area with her wife, and their three kitties who enjoy lounging across the keyboard when writing deadlines approach. Her hair color changes as often as her bio does, and you can find her at www.ravenoak.net.
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