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Hello, Gruel World shares personal and unorthodox methods of survival for all those balancing on the edge of a stifling mainstream culture. Transgender trailblazer Kate Bornstein is the radical role model, the affectionate best friend, and the guiding mentor all in one kind and spirited package. Hello, Cruel World: 1 1 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens, Freaks, and Other Outlaws By Kate Bornstein, with a foreword by Sara Quin of musical group Tegan and Sara ISBN-13: 978-1-58322-720-6/ ISBN-10: 1-58322-720-2 ^^^ $14.95 original trade paperback ^=^^^^C* -"^J^i^S^ Available at bookstores everywfiere / By phone: 1-800-596-7437 I Online: www.sevenstories.com Something's Missing Can you guess what it is? How about those annoying cards that are glued, stapled, or wedged into the magazine to get you to subscribe? Annoying, yeah? We thought so, too. That's why we're simultaneously dropping the bind-in card AND announcing an all new online subscription rate. A year of Clamor delivered to your door used to cost an affordable $18, but now it's an absurdly inexpensive $15 if you subscribe online at www.clamormagazine.org. Using our secure online server to place your subscription saves trees, your time, and our volunteer resources. Like where this is headed? Head over to the library, push your roommate off the iMac, or flip open your laptop and sign up now for one year of "your DIY guide to everyday revolution." {f[7(o)DL[Q ^©DDCP ©(Sntecp You've got aches. You've got pains. But you deal. You do what you have to right now? Sure, that helps sometimes. As people who spend our lives do to get by. Maybe you pop some ibuprofen to get through the work day dreaming of peace and health for everyone, we recognize that we're poor , Maybe you take over-the-counter medicine to keep your chronic allergies role models, but we're working on that, too. at bay. And bizarre as it may sound, many of us know more about the mechanics of our car or computer than of our own body. We can't promise Finally, we challenge you not to be moved by the photos and stories in this that this issue of Clamor will serve as the owner's manual to your body that issue about soldiers returning from Iraq. Some of Nina Berman's photos you wish you had, but we CAN promise that you'll leave the issue thinking ran in Mother Jones a few years ago, and they're unfortunately even more a little differently about that thing you lug around with you more places than poignant now. After five years of listening to platitudes about "making the you take your iPod. world safer," we're ready for the Commander-in-Chief to start talking about how his war is affecting the families of thousands of soldiers. Berman's This "body" issue hits home for us in more ways than one. First, we'll come photos and Socket's article about amputees retuming home from war might right out and note that Clamor has printed its shirt designs on American just be the conversation starters we're looking for Apparel shirts for about as long as they've been in business. How could we resist the hippest company out there working their magic with half-naked While we're being frank about our vices, let's air a little more of our not- models and a progressive "sweat-free" rallying cry? Well, we realize when so-secret side. Clamor, like most independent magazines these days, the gig is up. And while Clamor isn't the first to call Dov Charney out on struggles financially. Yes. despite that glossy veneer, the credible and com- his shit, the articles by Dez Williams, Keeley Savoie, and Jim Straub in the pelling content, the nationwide distribution, and the host of amazing adver- special American Apparel section are some of the most incisive and con- tisers, it still comes down to the basics. Clamor is still run by hard-working crete stories we've read about the slippery Charney Carnival. Big thanks volunteers who are dependent on you. the reader, to help make sure their to Grace Martinez and Kim Hoeckele for their help with the design and hard work can be printed in a magazine four times a year The single most photography (respectively) in the special section. important thing you can do to support independent media is to vote with your dollars and encourage your friends to do the same. Magazines like And when we read Adrienne Maree Brown's essay (p. 16) on how activists Clamor need you to subscribe, to renew when we send you notices, and treat their bodies - boy could we relate. As we wrap up production on the to buy subscriptions for every friend and family member you can think of. issue, we've been hunched over keyboards, staying up all hours, depriving We won't survive without you. To show you we mean it. just flip this page our bodies of the nutrition they need - maybe even self-medicating with caf- over, and you'll see how we've made it even cheaper and easier to support feine and alcohol to keep the juggernaut moving (we'll leave you to guess Clamor with your subscription. which staffer that is). And for what? The big paycheck? We're all volun- teers. The fabulous healthcare benefits? No such thing. 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PEOPLE EDITOR Erin Schwiderson San Francisco, CA 94 1 1 1 554 7 Jessica Hoffman newsstand#indypress.org COVER THIS ISSUE SEX &GENDER EDPfOR Nina Berman Bnan Bergen-Aurand " UPROAR 5 Clamor readers have their say 7 Purple Hearts: Back from Iraq by Nina Berman POLITICS 10 The New Wartime Body: Amputees Return From Iraq by Socket 16 My Body My Self, by Adrienne Maree Brown 18 Black Bookstores by Leslie Ann Murray CULTURE 22 The Power of NO! byTamara K. Nopper 26 When We Became Normal by Shana Agid 28 Holding the Mic ... and Power by Billy Bloodtruck 30 Science & Spectacle: The Body Worlds Controversy by Ren Hsieh SPECIAI. FEATURE: American Apparel Exposed 32 Who's Your Daddy? by Jim Straub 37 When the Sideshow Becomes the Main Attraction by Dez Williams 38 F*&cking Progressives by Keeley Savoie 42 It's a Front by Irina Contreras IVIEbli\ 44 Ursula Rucker: Bodies of Truth by Irina Contreras 48 Behind the Scenes of Made In Secret by Kyle Harris 50 The Business of Bodies by Roderick Graham PEOPLE 54 Activism Embodied: A Roundtable Discussion by Nomy Lamm '^a 58 No Hierarchy of Suffering: Talking with Bee Lavender by Laura Fokkena 60 Hottentot, Hotties, & History by StaceyTolbert ECONOMICS 62 SoThis Guy Walks Into The Emergency Room: byTara Bracco m: " Mi 67 War in the Store: Center for the Science of Public Interest by Edward Burch 69 Rethinking Stem Cell Research by Joseph Reynolds & Parita Shah w SEX & GENDER il ii 72 I Will Always Be Your Daughter/Son by Ellen Marie Hinchcliffe 76 Resource: Spread Magazine by Ari Paul 77 New Men About Town: A Photo Essay in Four Parts MURMURS 84 What We're Talking About..