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Record W4246589000 · doi:10.1353/bcc.2014.1001

God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya (review)

2014· article· en· W4246589000 on OpenAlex
April Spisak

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueBulletin of the Center for Children's Books./Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books · 2014
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicThemes in Literature Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsWishSadnessArtPsychoanalysisAngerPsychologyHistoryLiterature

Abstract

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Reviewed by: God Loves Hair by Vivek Shraya April Spisak Shraya, Vivek God Loves Hair; illus. by Juliana Neufeld. Arsenal Pulp, 2014 110 p Paper ed. ISBN 978-1-55152-543-3 $18.95 E-book ISBN 978-1-55152-544-0 $8.96 R Gr. 11 up In this reprint of a self-published Canadian book from 2011, a man looks back on his youth with wit, grief, anger, and a keen eye about how he became the adult he now is. As a kid, the author was an Indo-Canadian boy negotiating efforts at fitting in even with all the ways he clearly did not, from his long hair to his interest in things that have traditionally signaled girlhood. Some passages are short, describing a particular incident, while longer essays summarize eras of his childhood and adolescence. All sections are titled and accompanied by a single illustration. There is clear collaborative effort between the author and the illustrator, Neufeld, and the drawings are indeed one of the strongest elements, sharpening what are occasionally long passages into one searing image that captures the same tone. For the most part, however, Shraya has edited this carefully, using each multi-page story to add to the ones before, resulting in a volume that is clearly written by retrospective adult, but one who still carries the scars of his childhood and adolescence with him. This may resonate most with older teens who may have also seen enough glimpses of life beyond high school to fully appreciate the evolution of the trapped, bullied kid represented to the sharp, poetic man who remembers being him. [End Page 229] Copyright © 2014 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow), Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.525
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.004
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.002
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0040.001
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.194
Teacher spread0.188 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it