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[olreid]

"It is feminist to be beautiful, it is feminist not to be beautiful. You can be beautiful, you should not have to be beautiful, but you are beautiful and not-beautiful whether you want to be or not [...] Therefore, on the one hand we are post-beauty, and on the other, we need a better beauty, a not-beauty beauty. Here is where I will borrow and twist Frederic Jameson’s pithy quip—It’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of beauty."

[roesolo]

The Enchantment Lake Mystery concludes with The Silver Box

The Enchantment Lake Mystery concludes with The Silver Box @MargiPreus @UMinnPress

The Silver Box: An Enchantment Lake Mystery, by Margi Preus, (Nov. 2021, University of Minnesota Press), $11.95, ISBN: 9781517909697 Ages 10-14 I just picked up the Enchantment Lake Mysteries when I received an email inviting me to read the third book, The Silver Box, and really enjoyed this one. Francie is a 17-year old living in New York, who heads to Minnesota after receiving a call from her…

[theheartofabookblogger]

Do you prefer the summer or winter Olympics? • • I love the Winter Olympics! So I’m very excited to read BRAVE ENOUGH, which is a memoir by Olympic gold medalist @jessiediggins! Thank you to @uminnpress for sending me this fun package! ⛷ • • • #braveenough #jessiediggins #uminnpress #universityofminnesotapress #toddsmith #sportswriting #memoir #sportsmemoir #olympicgoldmedalist #winterolympics #crosscountryskiing #sportsbiographies #olympicgames #bookmail #booklove #igreads #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #coverlove #prettybooks #bookobsessed #booklover #2020books #booksbooksbooks #bookishalgorithm #bookcommunity

[nowheremag]

GINSBERG GOES SOUTH! This month, we are proud to feature in RETROSCOPE (a monthly feature from @alanbernheimer ) an excerpt from “South American Journals: January–July 1960,” by Allen Ginsberg, edited by Michael Schumacher and published by @uminnpress . Join him at Machu Picchu before it became, you know, #machupicchu. . Link in bio or at nowheremag.com. . Incan citadels, flying saucers, white puppy barkyipes, naranjada, incandescence, human shortcuts, bright yellow daisies, adventuring ducks, widows & Peru. . Photo: Willian Justen de Vasconcellos // @will_justen . #endupnowhere #travelstories #travel #travelwriting #journal #diary #allenginsberg #southamerica #ginsberg #travellit #machupicchu #peru https://www.instagram.com/p/B79BOLLl03p/?igshid=1ic3ol19kgl2t

[ginzyblog]

“God is so beautiful that it doesn’t make any difference whether he exists or not”  Lima, May 20, 1960.

From South American Journals Edited by Mike Schumacher, University of Minnesota Press. January through June 1960, Chile, Argentina, Bolivia,  Peru, adventures in the Andes, Machu Picchu, and ayahuasca explorations, meeting Peruvian poet Martín Adán, and Chilean Nicanor Parra. Photobooth snap:  Lima Peru, June 1960, courtesy Stanford University Libraries/Allen Ginsberg Estate]

#lima #peru #allenginsberg #poetry #poetrycommunity #instapoetry #southamericanjournals #uminnpress @uminnpress #queer #ayahuasca #psychonaut (at Lima, Peru)

[tattooed-alchemist]

Between its founding in 1966 and its formal end in 1980, the Black Panther Party blazed a distinctive trail in American political culture. The Black Panthers are most often remembered for their revolutionary rhetoric and militant action. Here Alondra Nelson deftly recovers an indispensable but lesser-known aspect of the organization’s broader struggle for social justice: health care. The Black Panther Party’s health activism—its network of free health clinics, its campaign to raise awareness about genetic disease, and its challenges to medical discrimination—was an expression of its founding political philosophy and also a recognition that poor blacks were both underserved by mainstream medicine and overexposed to its harms. Drawing on extensive historical research as well as interviews with former members of the Black Panther Party, Nelson argues that the Party’s focus on health care was both practical and ideological. Building on a long tradition of medical self-sufficiency among African Americans, the Panthers’ People’s Free Medical Clinics administered basic preventive care, tested for lead poisoning and hypertension, and helped with housing, employment, and social services. In 1971, the party launched a campaign to address sickle-cell anemia. In addition to establishing screening programs and educational outreach efforts, it exposed the racial biases of the medical system that had largely ignored sickle-cell anemia, a disease that predominantly affected people of African descent. The Black Panther Party’s understanding of health as a basic human right and its engagement with the social implications of genetics anticipated current debates about the politics of health and race. That legacy—and that struggle—continues today in the commitment of health activists and the fight for universal health care.

[marithlizard]

Free books online this summer, for your current events reading!

[lori-damiano]

‘An Ecotopian Lexicon’ is out and available for purchase on Amazon and at www.exotopianlexicon.com This copy was just added to our wonderful @pncalibrary collection! I am so honored to have an illustration in this book and so excited to read it! About the book: An Ecotopian Lexicon Presents thirty novel terms that do not yet exist in English to envision ways of responding to the environmental challenges of our generation Proceeding from the notion that dominant Western cultures lack the terms and concepts to describe or respond to our environmental crisis, this collaborative volume of short, engaging essays offers ecologically productive terms to inspire responses to fossil-fueled neoliberal capitalism. Each of the thirty suggested “loanwords” helps us imagine how to adapt and even flourish in the face of socioecological adversity. @uminnpress #ecotopianlexicon #loridamiano #ildsjel https://www.instagram.com/p/B40UnAkBN1j/?igshid=8ao7vdmpt5cl

[dianereviewsbooks]

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with recipes)

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with recipes)-Good choice for book clubs or fans of the folksy charm of A Prairie Home Companion and books by Fannie Flagg. @UMinnPress #literaryfiction #smalltowns #Minnesota #review #bookblogger

Chronicles of a Radical Hag (with recipes) is the story of small town Minnesota life over the past fifty years seen through the eyes of a local journalist. The title refers to the name one of her readers called her, a “radical hag”, plus she felt that if she added recipes it would encourage people to read her column.

A homespun Minnesotan newspaper columnist (think Garrison Keillor) suffers a…

[aupresses-blog]

#BookFace ・・・ Phil Ochs burst onto the American music scene just as the popularity of folk music was breaking through on the national consciousness. Along with friend and rival Bob Dylan, Ochs wrote some of the most compelling topical music of his time. In There But for Fortune, Michael Schumacher explores the life and career of a singer, songwriter, and political activist whose music resonates today as much as it applied to a divided country a half-century ago. Pictured here with @trevirke as the #bookface. #therebutforfortune #michaelschumacher #philochs #iaintmarchinganymore #thewarisover ・・・ Repost @uminnpress (at University of Minnesota Press)