The baby is us, and we are in need of profound healing and a unifying understanding of the world that religion provides. He feels that, culturally, we've thrown the baby out with the bathwater-and that bathwater is spirituality, Faith and the Sacred. For Wilson, this is very serious and essential pursuit, but he brings great humor and his own unique perspective to the conversation. In this book, Rainn Wilson explores the possibility and hope for a spiritual revolution, a 'Soul Boom' in order to address today's greatest issues-mental health, racism and sexism, climate change, and economic injustice. It is clear that existing political and economic systems are not enough to bring the change that the world needs. "The trauma that our world experienced in recent years-as result of both the pandemic and societal tensions that threaten to overwhelm us-has been unprecedented and is not going away anytime soon. The Oscar-nominated star who captivated the world with his performance in Juno finally shares his story in a groundbreaking and inspiring memoir about love, family, fame - and stepping into who we truly are with strength, joy and connection. The career that had been an escape out of his reality and into a world of imagination was suddenly a nightmare.Īs he navigated criticism and abuse from some of the most powerful people in Hollywood, a past that snapped at his heels, and a society dead set on forcing him into a binary, Elliot often stayed silent, unsure of what to do. He was forced to play the part of the glossy young starlet, a role that made his skin crawl, on and off set. His dreams were coming true, but the pressure to perform suffocated him. With Juno’s massive success, Elliot became one of the world’s most beloved actors. But for Elliot, two steps forward had always come with one step back. Getting closer to his desires, his dreams, himself, without the repression he’d carried for so long. Here he was on the precipice of discovering himself as a queer person, as a trans person. The hot summer air hung heavy around him as he looked at her. “Can I kiss you?” It was two months before the world premiere of Juno, and Elliot Page was in his first ever queer bar. With this evocative and lyrical debut, Oscar-nominated star Elliot Page captures the universal human experience of searching for ourselves and our place in this complicated world. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK by Salon, The Week, Elle, Bustle, and more.įull of intimate stories, from chasing down secret love affairs to battling body image and struggling with familial strife, Pageboy is a love letter to the power of being seen. This isn’t simply a book on what it means to be trans, it’s about what it means to be human." -Alok Vaid-Menon "Searing, deeply moving, and incredibly poignant. Pageboy helps chart the course." -Jamie Lee Curtis As they confront him in his office, Marcus is singularly fixated on winning the game by feeding as many eggs as he can to, uh, a larger egg? Just as the titular egg gives Marcus a NSFW happy ending - complete with presenting its bush, rear, and egghole - Marcus gives us a satisfying kicker: “You should be able to look at a little porn at work." The emergence of our true selves is all of our life's work. Feed Eggs is a lo-fi, bug-laden desktop game Robinson’s Marcus obsesses over, to the detriment of his co-workers. From comedy to the ring, sheer physicality brings the show to the next level.įrom “Santa brought it early” to “You can’t skip lunch,” ITYSL will never stop skewering office culture. Considering Robinson’s previous wrestling sketch in The Characters only teased matches with sound effects and cutaways, it’s huge fun seeing fighters actually body each other over benches and through toilet seats in ITYSL Mania III. But wait, there’s more! Wrestlers from Toilet Truck to Baby Duff suddenly overtake the park, unable to resist the perfect cushioned terrain for their brawls. Sam Richardson is an essential player in ITYSL, carrying some of the show’s strongest sketches including “Baby of the Year.” He guest stars as the pitchman for Pacific Proposal Park, complete with spongy soil specially designed for proposing knees.
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