#Carruthers Family History

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PHILIP WILLIAM CARRUTHERS WWII - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

      Pvt. Sgt. Lieut. Capt. Maj.  Philip William Carruthers   Philip was born 26/05/1914, at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was the son of William ‘Clyde’ and Loretta Mary ‘Laura’ (Smith) Carruthers.   Phil is pictured with his wife, Catherine Elizabeth “Betty” Bevan Carruthers and their first child, William “Bill.”   Philip is the brother of Vincent ‘Clyde’ (Cdn. Army), ‘Helen’ Laureen(Fowler),…

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absolutely amazing that in the end margaret carruthers wasn’t really involved in the main story drama. she was a racist shitccunt who was so caught up in the perceived glory of the carruthers colonialist history that she decided that adding more blood to the family legacy was preferred over returning land back to its traditional owners. she really just spent the entire show caught up in ensuring that every palawa person in the town was as disenfranchised or out of the way as possible while she played knockoff maggie beer. then she got bit by a tiger snake and died.

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The Battle of Lochmaben Fair was fought on 22nd July 1484 in the town of Lochmaben in south-west Scotland

Our second of three battles of the day involved party of cavalry led by the rebel Earl of Douglas and the Duke of Albany, who crossed from England and clashed with local forces loyal to King James III.

Another little known battle during the unpopular reign of James III, it’s tagged as a battle, but from the evidence I can gather it was another skirmish, or even a raid.

Alexander, the Duke of Albany, was the younger brother of King James III. More warlike than his brother, whose favourites were more talented in the arts of peace, Albany had been exiled from Scotland. At the English court, he met another exile, James, Earl of Douglas. Alexander had his eyes on the Scottish crown, and when there is a pretender to the throne, like Edward Balliol, from previous  weeks post, there is also a wee bit naughtiness from the English Monarchy, this time it was another Edward, what is it with the Edwards, they all seemed to want their piece of us?

Anyway Edward IV, promised his assistance to Albany who was to be made King of Scotland while owing allegiance to Edward. Edward was to be given the towns of Berwick and Lochmaben, with the lands of Liddesdale, Eskdale and Annandale.  Albany was to marry Edward’s daughter Cecily, meaning a possible future Union of Crowns.

With Edward’s help, these plans might have succeeded. But Edward died, and his successor, Richard III, withdrew his support. This left Albany’s main hope in gaining the throne of Scotland to be his alliance with the aging Douglas and the loyalty of Douglas’ retainers as they advanced north of the border.

And so it was on this day in a force of renegade Scots including the Earl of Douglas, and English soldiers under Albany, crossed the border in an attempt to capture Lochmaben.

Unfortunately for them, the local land owners and their retainers considered their loyalty to their King greater than to their feudal overlord, Douglas. The invaders, numbering probably not more than 500 horseman, were repulsed by a force gathered by the local land owners.

Hastening to Lochmaben to answer the summons of the signal fires that announced Albany’s approach were a number of the border nobles and their followers, the usual border clans were there, Master of Maxwell, Johnstone of Johnstone, Murray of Cockpool, Crichton of Sanquhar, Carruthers of Holmains and Charteris of Amisfield. The fighting lasted sporadically through the whole day. Before the next day had dawned, Albany had hightailed it back across the border and Douglas had been captured by Alexander Kirkpatrick, brother to the Laird of Closeburn.

All the families were rewarded for their loyalty, Douglas was eventually imprisoned at Lindores Abbey, where he died four years later.

For more background on The Douglas fall from grace and the events check out the excellent Douglas History Archives

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"We should all read or reread Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers’ profound book, Intellectual Warfare. It is a very important, continuing effort, for us, as African people in America to educate and reeducate ourselves about our history and its relationship to the important ideas that shape how we see the world. We must continue this effort beyond African American History Month and carry it into the rest of the year."

~Dr. Conrad Worrill

Remember those who demonstrate and teach us the value of STUDY. You can really spend a whole lifetime trying to discover self. Keep studying family.

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Because I have a bit of a problem, I was on Wikipedia reading about the wreck of the SS James Carruthers. The James Carruthers was this big old Canadian freighter that sank the year it was built during one of the worst storms in the history of the area. That’s not funny. What is funny is what happened next. 

There was a crewman aboard the James Carruthers named John Thompson. When the bodies started washing ashore, his father, Thomas Thompson, found a body that looked like it was probably John’s and immediately set about preparing for his funeral. But the thing is, John wasn’t dead and had been on shore leave when the James Carruthers sank. When he found out that everyone thought he was dead, rather than doing the normal thing and sending his family a telegram to let them know he was still alive, he decided to tell them in person and take his sweet time doing it, too. As a result, when he got there, they’d already made preparations for the funeral. Thomas Thompson was understandably pissed and told John that, and I quote, "It's just like you to come home and attend your own wake, and you can get right out of this house until this thing blows over!" 

They never figured out who the dead “John” was, by the way. He’s buried in Ontario with four other unidentified sailors. Still, I suppose it’s better than being buried as a guy who’s still alive. 

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CLAN & FAMILY CARRUTHERS: A little bit of Society history found in the archives leading to a surprising thank you!!

During the course of setting up the Society with a view to locating and finding a chief, discussions took place in the background with the Lyon Court, heraldic experts, genealogists, tartan historians , other clan chiefs and the seniors of our Chiefly line. This inevitable ended up with Carruthers having a Chief confirmed by the Lord Lyon in 2019 and inaugurated in 2024 our ancestral home lands…

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Reivers! Such a fascinating period of my local history. They were like if the mafia operated in the wild west. They stole livestock and operated protection rackets (called black mail - mail being the word for rent, so illegal rent) which is where we get the word blackmail from.

They claimed whichever nationality, Scottish or English, that would get them in the least trouble when arrested, but they showed no allegiance to either nation, and were tolerated by both governments for 300 years as theyprovided a buffer zone that kept the two from falling into war.

There were dozens of 'families' (equivalent to highland clans), Archbold, Armstrong; Beattie, Bell, Burns, Carleton, Carlisle, Carnaby, Carrs, Carruthers, Chamberlain, Charlton, Charleton, Collingwood, Crisp, Croser, Crozier, Cuthbert, Dacre, Davison, Dixon, Dodd, Douglas, Dunne; Elliot, Fenwick, Forster [also Foster]; Graham, Gray, Hall, Hedley, Henderson, Heron, Hetherington, Hume, Irvine, Irving; Johnstone; Kerr; Laidlaw, Little, Lowther, Maxwell, Milburn, Musgrove; Nixon, Noble; Ogle, Oliver; Potts, Pringle, Radcliffe, Reade, Ridley, Robson, Routledge, Rutherford, Salkeld, Scott, Selby, Shaftoe, Simpson, Storey, Tailor, Tait, Taylor, Trotter, Turnbull, Wake, Watson, Wilson, Woodrington; Yarrow and Young, and if you have one of these names you can claim descent from some of the meanest mother fuckers around.

The Armstrongs were the biggest and most powerful. One of their descendants was the first man on the moon. The US president at the time was of a reiver family, too :D

Hi Neil!

I was wondering if I found a little Easter Egg: When Aziraphale lost the coin toss and had to go to Scotland to muck about with some cattle, did that have anything to do with the MacLeod/MacDonald feud?

I know it did, but I want to hear you say, you sneaky monkey.

Actually I don't think it did.

I wasn't thinking of Skye, but of the reivers...

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What I Learned From Podcasts: Hypnosis, Marriage, Coffee, and Water

This week, the podcasting universe spilled its wisdom upon me and presumably millions of other listeners in the areas of hypnosis, marriage, coffee, and drinking water. It's worth reiterating that podcasting offers listeners entertainment, education, elucidation, and information. 

Can anybody be hypnotized?

In the November 17th episode of Science Vs, host Wendy Zukerman allowed herself to be hypnotized, along with a group of other audience members, as part of a comedian / hypnotist show. The thing is -- it didn't really work on her. Why? Zukerman talks to comedian hypnotist Jim Spinnato and three professors to ferret out these facts about hypnosis.

First, hypnosis cannot make people do something they really don't want to do. According to the experts, if a suggestion is made to a hypnotized person which truly offended their sensibilities, they would break out of their hypnotic state. Therefore, a hypnotist cannot get people to, say, take off their clothes in public or claim that they know someone who actually likes Ted Cruz.

Second, even though a hypnotist in the movies may say "you are getting sleepy," you are not asleep when you are hypnotized. You're not unconscious, either, just in a highly suggestible state of consciousness.

Third, scientists don't know exactly how the mechanisms of hypnosis work. Scary as it may seem to patients about to go under before surgery, doctors don't really understand how anesthesia works, either. The same goes for hypnosis. It's a bit of a mystery.

The business of marriage; “You’re my everything”

In the November 21 episode of Hidden Brain, host Shankar Vedantam talks to author Stephanie Coontz (Marriage, A History) and psychologist Eli Finkel.

While people today like to discuss the traditional view of marriage between a man and a woman who marry for love, both guests cast doubt on that assumption. Coontz, in research for her book, speaks about marriage as a business proposition for centuries. Not only were arranged marriages common, but marriage was seen as a business transaction where both parties brought something to the table -- a trade, a skill, money, a dowry or family connections. 

Finkel talked about modern marriage, and warned that people in modern culture expect their partner in marriage to perform all the roles necessary for the other to be satisfied and happy. According to Finkel, asking your spouse to be a lover, confidante, best friend, and fill all our your emotional and physical needs is a task that many cannot accomplish. What results is disappointment, disillusionment, and, ultimately, dissolution of the marriage. He recommends that people today moderate their expectations about their married partner. 

When to drink coffee and how much water to drink

In the November 26 episode of Something You Should Know, Dr Stuart Farrimond talks to host Mike Carruthers about our daily routines.

Farrimond first questions our collective belief that we need coffee desperately as soon as we get up. The good doctor poo-poos that belief by explaining that adenosine is one of the hormones that modulates sleepiness. The less adenosine, the more awake we feel. According to Farrimond, adenosine levels at their lowest when we first wake up and cortisol levels -- which stimulate wakefulness -- are very high 

Therefore, he recommends waiting two to three hours before having that first cup of coffee. The caffeine in coffee, he says, blocks adenosine and first thing in the morning, there's essentially nothing to block. 

That may be true, however, I will still be having my coffee within 15 minutes of waking up.

Farrimond goes from coffee to water, disputing the eight glasses of water a day mandate. First, he notes that we get about one-third of our water from our food every day. 

Then Farrimond says that people who believe that completely clear urine is a sign that you're drinking the right amount of water are wrong. 

In fact, the good doctor says completely clear urine typically means you have too much water in your system and your kidneys are trying to eliminate water from your system.

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Finally, what is attribution bias? When we make a mistake, such as being late for work, we tend to blame other factors. When someone else makes a mistake, we assume it is a result of a character flaw. For example, we're late for work because of traffic. Others are late for work because they're lazy or disorganized. 

With attribution bias, we judge ourselves by our intentions, but we judge others by their actions.

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Carruthers of the Scottish Lowlands

Carruthers of the Scottish Lowlands

Looking east across Nithsdale to the Lowther Hills – from Cairnkinna in the Scaur hills.

The Scottish Lowlands, south Scotland

Although not officially a geographical area of the country, in normal usage is generally meant to include those parts of Scotland not referred to as the Highlands.

I n the Lowlands, you must visit Loch Lomond, the largest in Scotland. Surrounded by hills and…

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Rating: 4/5

Book Blurb: Sir Ashley Carruthers, recently returned from the Boer War, is finding it difficult to settle into the surroundings of the country house bequeathed to him by his father. Irritated that the local 'gentry' are determined that he should be married to one of their own, settle down, and raise a family, he sets off one Sunday to visit an old friend. Finding him absent, Carruthers decides to travel on to visit other friends in a nearby village. A church bell summons him to a small country church where he decides to attend the evening service; it is during the service that he finds himself seated next to the beautiful and mysterious Woman in Black. The vicar's strange sermon text—'I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves'—puzzles Carruthers; but more puzzling is the reaction of the vicar when his eyes fall on the face of the Woman in Black: the colour drains from his face and he collapses senseless to the floor of the pulpit. Who is this Woman in Black? Why has she struck fear into the heart of the Reverend Jabez Waldegrave? What is her part in the sudden illness which strikes Carruthers? Why, when she is detained by the police, does she transform from a beautiful woman into an old hag? What part is played by the mysterious ring she considers so important to her? All is revealed in the course of M. Y. Halidom's 1906 novel, now given a retrospective centenary celebration in this new edition from Ash-Tree Press. In addition to providing mystery in his fiction, Halidom provided quite a mystery of his own, since his true identity only became known in 2005 when his grandson revealed the history of the author who was both 'M. Y. Halidom' and 'Dryasdust'. Richard Dalby's introduction to this new edition reveals more of the life and family background of M. Y. Halidom.

Review:

A gothic vampire story along the lines of Dracula/Camilla filled with magical talismons, horror, and a very interesting take on a vampire story.The story follows Sir Ashleigh Carruthers, a English gentlemen and war veteran who is also very jaded about love, He  finds himself going to visit an old friend but when he goes to a church service he finds that he is sitting next to the beautiful and mysterious woman in black. The Church services goes oddly and then Cuarruthers has questions and begins to investigate the Woman in black, And so begins this cozy read, it definitely is a cozy victorian gothic read that I would recommend for the spooky season!

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How to be an ally

(I fixed ALL the links so fucking reblog)

1.  Check In On Your Black Friends/Acquaintances

In my opinion, I believe the best way to be an ally is to reach out to your Black friends and check in on them, consistently. If you can recognize the times we are living in are absolute hell, you should be checking in on the most effected. None of my friends have checked up on me to see how I was doing or just to talk. They didn’t even bring up the protests until I did. It feels very very lonely and scary to not be checked up on by the people who say they support and love you. So, I’m making this the first point because I don’t want anyone else to feel this way, not trying to complain.

2.  Learn More About Black History

It’s important to learn about the Black activists that our history books left out. Yes, Martin Luther King Jr. was, and is, important but we need to reflect on why he was pushed on us so much in our history classes, compared to other Black leaders. Is it because our government would rather us walk down the street holding signs than actually defending ourselves against the cop who’s beating us?

Here’s a master list of activists to start you off.

3.  Go to Rallies and Protests (If you can)

Find protests and rallies in your area by looking on Twitter and search #yourcityprotest. Or watch your local news channel to see where they are (if they’re being covered on the news). Also search on Facebook. Wear a mask.

4. Donate and Sign Petitions

If you don’t have extra money to donate, that’s fine. If you still want to be an ally then sign all the petitions you can. Take a day to research all the ones you can sign/haven’t signed and sign them!

(Also you don’t need to donate to change.org! Directly donate to non-profit organizations and victims’ families!)

George Floyd - change.org

George Floyd - amnesty.org

George Floyd - colorofchange.org

Get The Officers Charged

Charge All Four Officers

Breonna Taylor - moveon.org

Breonna Taylor - colorofchange.org

Breonna Taylor - justiceforbreonna.org

Breonna Taylor - change.org

Breonna Taylor - thepetitionsite.com

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 2

Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 3

Justice for Oluwatoyin Salau

Pass The Georgia Hate Crime Bill

Defund MPD

Life Sentence For Police Brutality

Regis Korchinski - change.org

Tete Gulley - change.org

Tony McDade - change.org

Tony McDade - actionnetwork.org

Tony McDade - thepetitionsite.com

Joao Pedro - change.org

Julius Jones - change.org

Belly Mujinga - change.org

Willie Simmons - change.org

Hands Up Act - change.org

National Action Against Police Brutality

Kyjuanzi Harris - change.org

Alejandro Vargas Martinez - change.org

Censorship Of Police Brutality In France

Sean Reed - change.org

Sean Reed - change.org 2

Kendrick Johnson - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org

Tamir Rice - change.org 2

Fire Racist Criminal From The NYPD

Jamee Johnson - organizefor.org

Darius Stewart - change.org

Darius Stewart - moveon.org

Abolish Prison Labor

Free Siyanda - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org

Chrystul Kizer - change.org 2

Andile Mchunu (Bobo) - change.org

Eric Riddick - change.org

Amiya Braxton - change.org

Emerald Black - change.org

Elijah Nichols - change.org

Zinedine Karabo Gioia - change.org

Angel Bumpass - change.org

Sheku Bayoh - change.org

Visit these sites for more info:

http://www.pb-resources.com/

https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/

5. Educate yourself and others.

Articles:

- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)

- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists

- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)

- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine

- The Combahee River Collective Statement

- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)

- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD

- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)

- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh

- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)

Movies/TV Shows:

When They See Us

American Son

Hello Privilege, It’s Me, Chelsea

The 13th

Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story

What Happened Miss Simone?

The Two Killings of Sam Cooke

Who Killed Malcolm X?

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce (Lighter in tone)

LA 92

Dear White People

Videos:

- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)

- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)

- American Oxygen - Rihanna

- Formation - Beyonce

Podcasts:

- Malcolm X Speeches

- 1619 (New York Times)

- About Race

- Code Switch (NPR)

- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw

- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast

Books:

- The Autobiography of Malcolm X

- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About RaceBook by Reni Eddo-Lodge

- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins

- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper

- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon

- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock

- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century by Grace Lee Boggs

- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga

- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson

- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD

Follow:

- Shaun King: Instagram | Website

- Antiracism Center: Twitter

- Black Women’s Blueprint: Website

- Color Of Change: Website

- The Conscious Kid: Website | Instagram

- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Website | Twitter | Instagram

- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram |

- Ziwe | Instagram | (She has discussions about race with White people, kinda grilling them, every Thursday at 8 p.m. EST. Super thrilling to watch.)

Here’s Some Music Too:

Change Gonna Come - Sam Cooke

Chain Gang - Nina Simone

Missisippi Goddamn - Nina Simone

Fuck Da’ Police - N.W.A.

This is America - Childish Gambino

I’m Not Racist - Joyner Lucas

Fight the Power - Public Enemy

Freedom (Live) - Beyonce

I Can’t Breathe - H.E.R.

American Oxygen - Rihanna

Brown Skin Girl - Beyonce

+

My Playlist With A Few More

Black Artists Matter Playlist

What a large list! It looks so overwhelming! Don’t worry, you don’t have to read/watch/listen to everything. It takes a lot of effort!

Jk.

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WILLIAM WALLACE - BATTLE OF STIRLING BRIDGE - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS

WILLIAM WALLACE – THE BATTLE OF STIRLING BRIDGE At the beginning of September William Wallace, (Carruthers Ancestor) who was besieging the castle of Dundee, heard that de Warenne had a last crossed the Tweed and was marching on Stirling. He at once hastened south and took up a position on a hill overlooking Cambuskenneth Abbey not far from a narrow wooden bridge that spanned the Forth. Over…

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Aglionby Kisses

It was the end of the first school day after winter break - and it had been a supremely shitty day so far.

Adam trudged away from the student parking lot, where the shitbox had lain in state since that morning.

He had coaxed it and cajoled it and managed to somehow wrestle it into a parking space, where it had promptly flopped down and died. A few last white puffs had billowed from it in the freezing cold, like an extinguished dragon. 

So the morning had started off kind of shitty, but that in itself wasn’t such a surprise. The car had been christened shitbox for a reason.

School had really started sucking after the second period, when he hadn’t gotten a perfect score on the surprise Advanced Math test. As a result of those two missing points (Two whole points! It was so careless of him. Not that it would affect his perfect 4.0 but still), he had completely forgotten to figure out a solution to his car troubles.

He needed to clock in punctually at work or he’d lose pay. The factory was not like Boyd’s. He had a six hour shift, and then had to write a whole History paper for tomorrow - holiday homework that he’d forgotten about.

"You're making stupid mistakes today, Parrish," he yelled at himself silently, spittle flying everywhere. He dragged his mind away by the collar before things got ugly and pushed it towards thinking about solutions instead.

He looked heavenwards, as if asking for a miracle, and squinted, dazzled. The white sky was pregnant with precipitation. Because of course it was. In a surreal echo of his thoughts, a group of students passed him talking about snow, and skiing in Zermatt and Tignes.

For once, Adam was glad no one had asked him what he had done.

Because - he had spent the vacation charting the unexplored slopes of Ronan Lynch’s body.

Ronan. He could’ve messaged Ronan from Gansey’s phone. Of course, he could just ask Gansey for a lift. Except ... yes, Gansey had a Debate Club competition today. Goddamnit. Adam ran a despairing hand through his hair.

It was too far to walk, especially in this weather. He was out of options.

Almost.

Adam seriously considered whether frostbite and losing wages was preferable to Tad’s company for half an hour. He had a standing invite for a lift. He really couldn't afford to fall sick, but ... Tad Carruthers.

Adam knew he would have to grind his teeth every time Tad ground the gears in his sweet six-speed Miata. Not only was Adam offended as a mechanic, it was an unbearable sound to someone accustomed to Ronan’s silky smooth driving. This was not even considering his inane idiotic chatter. 

Truly, almost anything was better than being trapped in a car with Carruthers - even pneumonia.

Dammit. What was the point of being the Magician if he couldn’t conjure Ronan up when he really needed him?

Suddenly, the sea of students before him parted for a biblical second and he saw a vision of Ronan Lynch. He was leaning against the BMW, hands in the pockets of his vintage bomber jacket, looking god-like and grown-up and glamorous amidst all the uniformed fledglings.

Adam stopped in disbelief, holding up the people behind him.

But no. It wasn’t magic. Or a mirage.

It was a miracle.

Ronan Lynch was here, at Aglionby.

When their eyes met, Ronan’s face softened into amusement at Adam’s bewilderment. It was probably the first time on the school grounds that Ronan Lynch had genuinely smiled, without a snarl or smirk implicit behind it.

Adam walked up to him, grinning like the idiot he was, ridiculously pleased out of all proportion. Then, as if it was the most natural thing in the world, he cupped the back of Ronan’s head and fitted their mouths together.

He hadn’t even consciously thought about it.

To see Ronan was to kiss him. It was that simple.

And Adam’s mind, that had been berating him on repeat for the past six hours over two incorrect answers, was now blissfully silent.

Adam forgot about his car. He forgot about the factory. He certainly wasn't wondering how Ronan was here. Or where Here was.

All he was conscious of was the satisfying press of his boyfriend’s tall, beautiful body, and their tongues sliding hot and wet against each other.

“Does everyone feel like this?” Adam thought vaguely, as Ronan licked sweetly into his mouth, fingers fisted in his hair, “How does anything get done, when this exists?”

He anchored Ronan more firmly to the BMW with his hips, arching his body temptingly.

It was only when the wolf whistles had grown loud enough to pierce his love-hazed brain that he realised where they were. 

Adam looked back instinctively and saw navy overcoats wearing a variety of expressions staring back at him - from disgusted to disbelieving to disappointed. 

Holy shit. No doubt about it - Adam Parrish was being all kinds of stupid today.

Ronan simply whispered, ‘Good. Let ‘em know you’re taken', and planted a quick, pleased kiss against Adam’s embarrassingly flushed neck.

Adam tried to ignore the stares boring into his skull as he took a blessedly short walk of shame to the passenger side.

“How?” he asked cryptically, buckling his seatbelt.

“Gansey,” Ronan replied, equally succinct, as he put on his aviators with an elegant flick of his wrist.

He handed Adam a bag full of steaming Irish Butte pasties - a Lynch family recipe and Adam’s favourite work meal.

With a contented sigh, Adam Parrish relaxed into this sexy car, with his sexy boyfriend, who took off with a sexy squeal of tyres, happily uncaring as the student body erupted into scandal behind them.

His shitty day had improved.

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Outtake from Chapter 13, In One Piece

(Check out St.Agnes Nights - Outtake #2)

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George Carruthers, Cincinnati Physicist, Sent His Dreams To The Moon

There is, today, on the Moon, a monument to a Cincinnati scientist. The memorial is not terribly large, but it is covered in gold. It’s called the Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera, the only astronomical observatory located on the Moon, and it was designed by George R. Carruthers, born in Cincinnati in 1939.

George was the oldest of Sophia and George Carruthers’ four children. The family lived in an apartment on Gilbert Avenue in Evanston. The senior George was a civil engineer employed by the Army Corps of Engineers during the early days of remediation after the Great Flood of 1937. George’s father encouraged his son’s interest is astronomy and space flight. As a boy, George read a lot of science fiction. He built his own telescope when he was just 10 years old and, with his father, built and launched model rockets. In 1999, he reminisced during a NASA oral history interview:

“Well, my interest in space science and astronomy came about by reading science fiction comic books when I was about nine years old, and then after that I became interested in astronomy because I came across some books on the subject. Of course, that was long before there was a space program, so people weren't really overly enthusiastic, including my relatives, about my interest in astronomy. They thought I should pursue something more practical, such as engineering, because my father was an engineer, but he also gave me an interest in technology as well.”

Early in his childhood, Carruthers’ family moved to Milford, which offered astronomical vistas unhampered by the urban lights of Cincinnati, but with diminished access to science fiction magazines. When George was just 12 years old, his father died and his mother moved the family nearer to her relatives on the south side of Chicago.

George’s interest in astronomy and space flight flourished in the big city. He joined a model rocketry club, earned multiple prizes in high school science fairs – including first prize for a telescope he designed and built – and was a regular visitor to the Adler Planetarium.

Even in high school, George saw enormous potential for astronomical observation from outer space, but the astronomers at the planetarium poo-pooed the idea. As George told his NASA interviewer:

“Just prior to that, the famous issues of Collier's magazine, featuring Dr. Wernher von Braun and others who were proposing space flight for the first time, human space flight, like space stations, and Fred Whipple had proposed using space as a base for astronomy. But when I talked to the astronomers at the Adler Planetarium, they said, ‘Well, you know, that's fantasy. That's science fiction. Ground-based astronomy is really the thing that we do, and we think that there's no advantage in going out into space.’”

A big fan of Werner von Braun and his theories, Carruthers wrote the senior scientist a letter and received a reply, along with an autographed photo that he treasured.

Carruthers pursued his dreams into college at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics, a master’s in nuclear engineering and his doctorate in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, all before he was 25 years old. As an African American, Carruthers was in a distinct minority as an engineering student, but said he faced few barriers in his education:

“I don't think that I really had any overt obstacles in my college education. Of course, African Americans were like 1 percent of the engineering students there, so we were relatively rare, but I never saw any instances of discrimination that prevented me from doing whatever I wanted to do there, on the part of either professors or other students “

While still a student, Carruthers returned to Cincinnati at the invitation of the Urban League to give the keynote address at a career conference for high school students.

After earning his Ph.D., Carruthers accepted a post-doctoral fellowship to the Naval Research Laboratory, a facility funded by the National Science Foundation, and led a research team there for 38 years.

Carruthers developed an interest in the optics of ultraviolet light. By designing telescopes and detection instruments, he collected data that confirmed the presence of molecular hydrogen in outer space and provided a deeper understanding of Earth’s atmosphere, especially how radiation interacts with the atmosphere to affect communication systems.

For his work on the Apollo 16 mission, for which he created the Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera, Carruthers was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Science Achievement Medal. He went on to provide instruments for Space Shuttle and Skylab missions, and the ARGOS (Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite) satellite.

Carruthers was among the founders of  the Science & Engineers Apprentice Program, a program offering high school students the opportunity to work alongside scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory. Carruthers was involved with efforts to promote science education in the Washington, DC area.

After retirement in 2002, Carruthers was honored as a Distinguished Lecturer at the Office of Naval Research and, in 2012, was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. President Barack Obama personally conferred the medal during a White House ceremony.

George R. Carruthers died on 26 December 2020 after a long illness. His Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera remains in place in the Descartes Highlands on the Moon.

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Master List of Books

Here is the master list of books to read. Please support black authors by visiting your library or purchasing these instead of downloading!

Intro to Black Radical Politics

assata: autobiography 

angela davis an autobiography

angela davis: freedom is a constant struggle 

huey p newton: revolutionary suicide

what is marxism all about? 

beginners guide to marxism

huey p newton: to die for the people, collected writings 

w.e.b du bois: w.e.b du bois speaks

the autobiography of malcom x

muammar gaddafi: the green book

walter rodney: groundings with my brothers

lenin: state and revolution

kwame ture: stokely speaks, from black power to pan-africanism

thomas sankara: women’s liberation and the african freedom struggle

harry haywood: black bolshevik

w.e.b. du bois: essay collection

debunking anti-communism myths & propaganda 

karl marx & frederick engels: the communist manifesto

joseph stalin: dialetical & historical materialism 

reading marx’s “capital” with david harvey

marxism-leninism study guide

basic marxism-leninism study plan

paulo freire: pedagogy of the oppressed 

michael parenti: left anticommunism 

Black and Marxist Feminism

keeanga-yamahtta taylor: how we get free, black feminism and the combahee river collective

bell hooks: yearning; race, gender, and cultural politics

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african women and feminism

audre lorde: sister outsider

claudia jones: an end to the neglect of the negro woman!

silvia federici: caliban and the witch 

audre lorde: i am your sister

bell hooks: ain’t i a woman, black women and feminism

angela davis: modern motherhood, women and family in england

Prison Abolition

george jackson: blood in my eye

soledad brother: the prison letters of george jackson

angela davis: are prisons obsolete?

angela davis: political prisoners, prisons, and black liberation

paula c. johnson: voices of african american women in prison

On Racial Capitalism

jackie wang: carceral capitalism

e. franklin fraizer: black bourgeoisie 

robin d.g. kelley: hammer and hoe

cedric j. robinson: black marxism 

Critical Race Class Studies

w.e.b. du bois: black reconstruction

frantz fanon: black skin, white masks

patrick wolfe: traces of history; elementary structures of race

Black Studies Manifesto- Darlene Clark

Criteria of Black Art- W.E.B Dubois

Lynch Law- Ida B. Wells

On Being White and Other Lies- James Baldwin

James Baldwin Speech from 1965 Debate

The American Dream and the American Negro- James Baldwin

The Souls of Black Men- Hazel Carby

The Case for Reparations- Ta Nehisi Coates 

Cultural Identity and the Diaspora- Stuart Hall

The Fact of Blackness- Franz Fanon

Negritude

Fragments of Epic Memory- Derek Walcott

The Groundings with My Brothers- Walter Rodney

The Politics of Healing in the Black Lives Movement- Deva Woodley

Unapologetic- Charlene Carruthers

Emergent Strategy- Adrienne Maree Brown

The Use of the Erotic as Power- Audre Lorde

On Capitalism, Fascism, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Settler-Colonialism

frantz fanon: the wretched of the earth

walter rodney: how europe underdeveloped africa

eduardo galeano: open veins of latin america 

samir amin: eurocentrism

michael parenti: blackshirts & reds

glen sean coulthard: red skin, white masks 

clr james: the black jacobins

chris harman: a people’s history of the world

“decolonization is not a metaphor”

Indigenous Studies 

nick estes: our history is the future

“decolonization is not a metaphor”

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: women in the yoruba sphere

On Revolution:

frantz fanon: towards the african revolution

kwame nkrumah: africa must unite

black panthers speak

kwame ture: ready for revolution

steve biko: i like what i like; selected writings 

black like mao, red china & black revolution

che guevera: guerilla warfare

walter rodney: a history of the guyanese working people, 1881-1905

return to the source – selected speeches by amilcar cabral

https://dialecticalartist.wordpress.com/politicalresources/

On Slavery:

stephanie e. jones-rogers: they were her property 

Whiteness Studies

nell irvin painter: the history of white people

theodore w allen: the invention of the white race volume I

theodore w allen: the invention of the white race volume II

david r. roediger the wages of whiteness

david r. roediger: seizing freedom, slave emancipation & liberty for all

karen brodkin: how jews became white folks & what that says about race in america

On Gender, Sexuality, and Masculinities 

c. riley snorton: black on both sides a racial history of trans identity 

essex hemphill: ceremonies 

robert f. reid-pharr: black gay man, essays 

bell hooks: we real cool

maria lugones: heterosexualism and the colonial modern gender system

marlon m. bailey: butch queens up in pumps: gender, performance, and ballroom culture in detroit 

robert aldrich: colonialism and homsexuality

eve kosofsky sedgwick: epistemology of the closet

https://www.aaihs.org/excavating-black-queer-thought-a-pride-bibliography/

“the roots of lesbian & gay oppression: a marxist view” by bob mccubbin

afsaneh najmabadi: women with mustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity

anne mcclintock: imperial leather: race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial conquest

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: gender epistemologies in africa

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women: making african sense of western gender discourses

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african gender studies a read

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: what gender is motherhood?

Disability Studies

disability studies

Critical Reads

marx’s das kapital for beginners

black panther ten point program

Articles, Speeches, and Essays

w.e.b. du bois: essay collection

amiri baraka: essay collection

james baldwin: the free and the brave

adrienne rich: compulsory heteorsexuality and lesbian existence

david m. halperin: essay collection

e. patrick johnson: black queer studies a critical anthology

stuart hall: essay collection

audre lorde: the masters tools will never dismantle the master’s house

kwame nkrumah: axioms of kwame nkrumah

angela davis essays on liberation

clr james: black power, its past, today, and the way ahead

edward said’s lecture at york university

kwame ture: we are all africans

the death of stockley carmichael (and later kwame ture)

raewyn connell essay collection

stalin: marxism versus liberalism

what is dialectical materialism?

racism in the communist movement

the logic of lesser evilism

lenin: the three sources and three component parts of marxism

oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: de-confounding gender: feminist theorizing and western culture,

Cultural Texts

Bell hooks: all about love 

James Baldwin 

go tell it on the mountain

giovanni's room

another country

the fire next time

if beale street could talk

Sonny’s blues

just above my head

notes of a native son

nobody knows my name

rap on race

no name in the street

a dialogue

devil finds work

the evidence of things not seen

baldwin: collected essays

the cross of redemption

Toni Morrison

the bluest eye (1969)

sula (1971)

song of solomon (1977)

beloved (1986)

paradise (1997)

a mercy (2008)

the source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations (2019) V

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abolition work

hm i haven’t been posting here much because 1. Work Busy and 2. local movement spaces being largely on facebook, plus 3. disclosing local geographic location on here is still a bit Hhhh

but yeah i’m fairly open about being california bay area, and am working on plugging into local orgs and have been doing some rad captioning gigs for various places on both coasts, and getting to witness really rad conversations around defunding, dismantling, abolition, alternative structures, and communal healing

big plug for Kindred Collective and healing justice, their work on the medical industrial complex, and the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network doing the deprogramming state collusion and relearning community care for social workers & healing practitioners

on surveillance, Hacking//Hustling is doing awesome work and talking about histories of police collaboration to criminalize public health surveillance, as is Red Canary Song,

highly recommend the Just Practice Collaborative’s mixtape on transformative justice coming out at the beginning of august

some great discussion by Mia Mingus and Mimi Kim along with Cat Brooks of Anti Police-Terror Project/APTP about the conflation of transformative justice, which seeks to transform systems that allowed/enabled harm to occur, with restorative justice, which seeks to restore the status quo that existed before the harm, and which the state is picking up on as a veneer of reparative work

and always always love for Critical Resistance and their amazing resources, and to the Abolition Journal Study Guide

for concrete steps to police abolition and things to call for from leaders, i recommend:

APTP’s & Justice Teams Network’s Black New Deal (here, there, and also here)

8toAbolition

MPD150 (who have a huge resource page!)

Critical Resistance’s demands

Movement for Black Lives/M4BL’s Interrupting Criminalization Toolkit

Repeal 50 (New York police misconduct protection laws)

other rad groups with resources include Survived & Punished, Community Justice Exchange, DecrimNow, FreeThemAll4PublicHealth, local Decarcerate ___ groups, Black Youth Project 100, INCITE!

other important names include Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Kristina Agbebiyi, Kelly Hayes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kimberle Crenshaw, Mari Matsuda, Anoop Naya, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, Cornel West, Angela Davis, bell hooks, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Charlene Carruthers, Rachel Cargle

my favorite demands right now are:

freeze police hiring, at minimum

decriminalize public existence (loitering, disorderly conduct, being in a park after dark, eating or drinking in public/on transit, riding a bike on the sidewalk, sleeping in public, littering, urinating in public, etc)

- these shouldn’t be misdemeanors!  there can be general public conduct agreements without criminalization, and with competent handling of homelessness

refuse to criminalize COVID-19 and decriminalize HIV/AIDS and end all health care information sharing with police

refuse to use facial recognition tech and end usage of “predictive” tech, license plate readers, etc (saves money too!)

fund public bathrooms and showers, including making existent facilities (eg YMCA, pools) available, and fund COVID sanitation staff

move duties out of the police:

- youth engagement

- community engagement

- re-entry from incarceration assistance

- parking enforcement

- traffic law enforcement

- health crisis response

- mental health crisis response

- homelessness response and services

- neighbor disputes

- trespassing enforcement

- domestic violence response

- transit fares and rules enforcement

 --> create new divisions that are unarmed, are not trained&licensed to use force or institutionalize/incarcerate, and are non-coercive

 --> start by creating a transition team to start doing this with a five-year plan, for example

*** in the meantime, disarm police responses to these!! ***

--> see CareNotCops.org

articles i’ve found valuable:

Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop on Medium

Who Should Pay for Police Misconduct on a legal blog

Domestic Violence & Defunding Police on Huffington Post

Tired Bad Cops First Look to Their Labor Unions on Washington Post

Who’s Afraid of Defunding the Police? on Salon

Defunding the Police: What Would It Mean for the U.S.? on NPR

Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation by Dorothy Roberts

The Color of Surveillance by Alvaro Bedeta (see also the conference’s materials)

article i need to take a moment to find a way around a paywall for lmao:  On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism

documentaries/videos i recommend:

Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise on PBS

books i’ve learned about and super want to read include:

Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from Colonial Times to the Present

How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective

Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (by Charlene Carruthers with BYP100)

The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women

Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code

Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (by Simone Brown)

Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter

The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Decarcerating Disability

No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies

Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex

Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (by Dean Spade)

Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor

additional books i’m considering and have seen recommended:

Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond 

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America

When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America

Me and White Supremacy

So You Want to Talk About Race

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race

Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy

The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America

Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong

Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

A People’s History of the United States

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (by Patricia Hill Collins)

Eloquent Rage (by Brittney Cooper)

Bad Feminist (by Roxane Gay)

Thick: And Other Essays

Real Life: A Novel

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America

Since I Laid My Burden Down

The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir

The Summer We Got Free

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (by Trevor Noah)

Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption

yeah!!

what/who are y’all reading/watching/listening to and finding helpful, or meaning to get around to?