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Some Assembly Required: The Not-So-Secret Life of a Transgender Teen by Arin Andrews (Simon & Schuster) “In a plainspoken and sometimes-humorous memoir, transgender teenager Andrews discusses his life so far. Andrews received national recognition...

In the best selling books “Little Brother” and “Homeland,” Cory Doctorow uses his hero, teenage hacktivist Marcus Yallow, to get young people to think about privacy, civil liberties and the duties of the citizen in the age of...

Today is July 17 POW-MIA Recognition Day Disneyland Opened (1955) Canada’s Parks Day Wrong Way Day Food Holidays – July 17 National Peach Ice Cream Day Homemade Peach Ice Cream http://www.kitchme.com/recipes/peach-ice-cream Today in History...

Comic-Con has released Day 1 of its 2013 schedule. As usual, the convention is releasing its schedule one day at a time. Stay tuned for the Friday, Saturday and Sunday schedules later this week. Opening-day highlights abound, including a 10th anniversary...

As promised here’s the text of the talk I gave at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee.  It is part of the Oxygen Lecture Series, organised by the University of East Anglia to address subjects – from...