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Why go through your day ho-hum when WOW is possible? WOW Factor provides you with compelling insights on 52 common words -- words that can shape your week and just maybe your future. Through this book you will gain insight from proven leaders, top-performers, people who have risen to the top of their class and now want to share their insights with you. Read just one word, one chapter each week. Ponder it, chew on it, embrace it. Own it. Let the insights seep into your soul and provide that spark of insight, energy and inspiration you need to unleash the truly standout performer within you. May today be the beginning of a remarkable, wow-experience for you.

In 2020 flamboyant fashion is associated with queer performativity. Psychologist Alan Downs and queer theorist madison moore understand this to be a response to a culture that is hostile to sexual behaviour and gender expression that falls outside a rigid binary. I study the history of flamboyant aesthetics and camp sensibilities from an intersectional perspective, and locate designers and artists who have produced clothes in ways that materialize the political implications of fashion. As a studio-based artist, I employ traditional sewing techniques, digital technologies, and performance to create clothes and new media works that demonstrate a circular understanding of time, and highlight the role of the artist as both creator and creation. I complicate a capitalist notion of progress with one-of-a-kind costumes, and reuse and transform textiles to develop a rhetorical strategy of self-expression that fosters sustainable community.

The Random Book of … Paul features facts, figures, stats, and trivia on legions of record breakers, record losers, actors, singers, sportsmen, historical figures, the famous and infamous, felons, inventors, rulers, heartthrobs, politicians, and scientists called Paul. Which Paul has battled Hodgkin's disease, was on the first private flight into suborbital space, and is worth over $22 billion? Which Paul is in the Penzance South ward, has been raided by the Spanish twice, and worships a former bus driver? Which Paul was a butterfly expert, predicted that life expectancy in the USA would be 42 by 1990, and that England would not exist by the year 2000? Which Paul was thirty-three feet tall, broke windows when he clapped, and was carried by five storks at birth? Which Paul picked up an 18-stone man with his mouth and ripped out five front teeth?