She has made a good faith effort to integrate the changes wrought on the world by the coronavirus into a book ready for publication before the pandemic hit. The former editor of Cosmopolitan Australia and author of I Quit Sugar and its many sequels confronts the “itch” she feels as a result of a world beset by climate change, Covid-19, and the consequences of neoliberalism. Click here for other contests to enter.An earnest pastiche of political theorizing, travel memoir, and environmental exhortation that attempts to encourage readers to act constructively in an increasingly disconnected world.

This contest expired on Tuesday, Dec 03, 2019. Edie found love again, marrying Judith Kasen-Windsor in 2016.Ī Wild and Precious Life is remarkable portrait of an iconic woman, gay life in New York in the second half of the twentieth century, and the rise of LGBT activism. Their partnership lasted forty-four years, until Thea died in 2009. In the early 1960s Edie met Thea, an expat from a Dutch Jewish family that fled the Nazis, and a widely respected clinical psychologist. Edie was also one of a select group of trailblazing women in computing, working her way up the ladder at IBM and achieving their highest technical ranking while developing software. In this memoir, which she began before passing away in 2017 and completed by her co-writer, Edie recounts her childhood in Philadelphia, her realization that she was a lesbian, and her active social life in Greenwich Village's electrifying underground gay scene during the 1950s.

Beloved by the LGBTQ community, Edie embraced her new role as an icon she had already been living an extraordinary and groundbreaking life for decades. The Supreme Court ruled in Edie's favor, a landmark victory that set the stage for full marriage equality in the US. 'A captivating and inspiring story of a queer woman who believed in her right to take up space and be seen.'- BuzzFeedĮdie Windsor became internationally famous when she sued the US government, seeking federal recognition for her marriage to Thea Spyer, her partner of more than four decades. A WILD AND PRECIOUS LIFE A MemoirĪ lively, intimate memoir from an icon of the gay rights movement, describing gay life in 1950s and 60s New York City and her longtime activism which opened the door for marriage equality. Enter to win A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor with Joshua Lyon!Įnter to win A Wild and Precious Life: A Memoir by Edie Windsor with Joshua Lyon! To enter the contest, fill out the form below between Tuesday, November 12 and Tuesday, December 3.

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