#Vashti Harrison

[fyblackwomenart]

Vashti Harrison

[the-dust-jacket]

Congratulations to the 2024 Caldecott books!

[letmewriteitdown]

Sometimes when I am painfully sad and nothing else brightens my mood I go and find a picture book to read.

I take a little bag, I walk to the library close to me, and I pick up as many children's books as I think I can reasonably carry on my walk back home, and then I read them.

I know it seems silly and a little ridiculous, but looking at the art, I feel good. Reading the story, I feel good. I feel like that little person that I used to be that thought I would always have enough time and creativity to write pretty books and then spend downtime reading pretty books.

Recently I had one of those down days and I brought home the amazing picture book Big by Vashti Harrison. I saw Vashti Harrison's name on the cover and I snagged it right away.

I read Hair Love by Matthew Cherry and I completely fell in love with Vashti Harrison's art style in that book and wanted more.

Big was perfection. The story is sweet, quiet, and filled to the brim with painful memories that somehow play out to brighten your heart.

The book manages to be devastating in the emotions while being filled with a bright and amazing feeling of self love and acceptance.

The story is amazingly illustrated and each illustration adds to the mood and delicate story being told. There are soft lines, beautiful colors, and tiny details (the words of love even in the end papers) that just stitch the entire book together and make it a fantastic experience.

When I was done reading my little library stack, I was still a little sad, but very very glad to have found this gorgeous gem.

[covergirlnay]

Video credit: @thewokemama

If you want to ban uplifting stories with people of color, just say that. Based on this list, my office library is in complete violation. 🤷🏾‍♀️😂 Oh well. All of my students love the books that I share with them. Especially the ones that they do not normally get to see. 🤓📚

[friendly-neighbourhood-librarian]

Lupita Nyong'o's children's book is so beautiful 🌌

[zuezuesknots]

New cousin on the way!

[archandshri]

General update/Consumption from Shri - 12/04/24

Hi Archie and Peeps!

Hope the move went well with you Archie! Moving is so much energy in all forms from the brain to the physical - so hopefully it when as smoothly as a house move can go!

I'll be doing a general update today; mostly looking at what I've been consuming at the moment. This is because I am in the middle of finishing stuff for the deadline (I've got one at the end of this month for one of them ˙◠˙ ) and feeling like my brain is slowly melting somewhat.

So Just a chill update today!

What I've consumed and would recommend:

Link Click - great Chinese animation, waiting for season three ˙◠˙

P.S. Absolutely obsessed with session one opening Back in time, like they really didn't need to make it such a bop!

Witch Hat altervia - on the Forth Volume now!

Absolutely love the found family vibes! Also, look how pretty it is!!!

Sherlock and Co - This is a great modern podcast of Sherlock, what more is there to say.

Half-life by Livingston and Beautiful Things by Benson Boone - I've been listening to these songs on repeat! They very much remind me of one of my comfort characters Tossgo

Keeping Finance Personal by Ellyce Fulmore - Slowly making my way through this one because it's got a lot of homework I gotta make sure I do!

Oh, I also read this amazing picture book called Big by Vashti Harrison.

Some of the spread in this book *Chefs Kiss*

Anyways that's all from me folks! I'll see you soon

Hope you all have some lovely dinners!

Shri

[k00299141]

Vashti Harrison is the Illustrator of the book Sulwe that I am looking at for reference and inspiration for my 2 week brief “World Building”.

Her style is very magical to me, and I love the use of the colours and the designs of her characters.

Her tones especially are quite beautiful to me.

She got a BA in Art and has been a bestseller in the USA for her books.

One thing I love about her work is just how inclusive it is to all children, white or black.

Source: https://www.vashtiharrison.com/

[graphicpolicy]

Virtuous Con announces Vashti Harrison, Rodney Barnes and Roye Okupe as guests! 

Virtuous Con announces Vashti Harrison, Rodney Barnes and Roye Okupe as guests!  #virtuouscon

[typewriter-worries]

folk songs everyone should listen to at least once

I'll Be Here in the Morning by Townes Van Zandt 

One of These Things First by Nick Drake

Something on Your Mind by Karen Dalton

Cannock Chase by Labi Siffre

I'd Like To Walk Around In Your Mind by Vashti Bunyan

Love Is Our Cross To Bear by John Gorka

Talkin' Like You (Two Tall Mountains) by Connie Converse

Ventura Highway by America

I'd Have You Anytime by George Harrison

By The Time I Get to Phoenix by Glen Campbell

April Come She Will by Simon and Garfunkel

The Kiss by Judee Sill

[thewillowstreet]

What are your current musical obsessions?

Patti Smith, Vashti Bunyan, Hozier, Joni Mitchell, Florence's dance fever, Sufjan Steven's new single is also great, and specifically the version of something by the beatles in Anthology 3

[tiredfinch]

also here's marauders music taste hcs (period accurate), but some characters aren't included bc I'm not super deep in fandom so I don't . know/think anything abt them.

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james- I think he'd be a big fan of all the music of the now and maybe 10 ish years earlier. lots of sixties duwopy pop-rock like the beatles, the zombies and the turtles but also more contemporary stuff; Fleetwood Mac, Wings, the Pretty Things, Frank Zappa, the Eagles, Queen and Bowie (not glam, disco. so like thin white Duke era- not that he'd mind glam bowie I just think he'd prefer disco bowie)! also I think like Ambrosia and other 70s pop he'd dig.. but I think he would be totally in love with Fleetwood Mac, especially their album Mystery to Me- because it would remind him of lily. I think he, along with alice, would get lily more into fleetwood mac.

lily - I think she'd really prefer 50s rock and jazz .. blues and soul too, though I don't think she'd mind later rock. she just seems very buddy holly/chet baker/frank sinatra/ray charles/ella fitzgerald/nina simone, I also think she'd really like otis redding but he's 60s lol, oh and I think she would've LOVED the monkees when she wad younger and would think theyre brilliant.

sirius - glam glam glam and then also punk from the late 70s-81.. also goth+post punk music (ie. the cure, echo and the bunnymen, the smiths, siouxsie and the banshees, depeche mode, joy division ect ect) but I always think of goth as sort of a mid-late 80s thing so I don't think he'd have really been exposed to alot of goth bands because he was. in jail... but I think David Bowie, T. Rex, Lou Reed, the Velvet Underground, and then like Television, Patti Smith, the Clash, Iggy Pop, the Stooges. yk.. but also a lot of what James listens to as well!:3 bc they r bff! also I think remus and sirius share great love for queen :)

remus! - folk! and art rock! I think he'd like a lot of the glam sirius listens to and I think he'd be a very big velvet underground fan. as for folk, I think Bob Dylan, Vashti Bunyan, Donovan, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Janis Ian, Simon and Garfunkle, GEORGE HARRISON!! - that sort of vibe.. also also think he'd share folky stuff with lily and she would rather enjoy it !

peter - I don't think he really listens to music tbh, not in the way where he'd have favourites. just whatever is on the radio/the records his friends play!

alice - I think she lovessssss female artists and makes a point to listen to them. Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Janis Ian, Janis Joplin, Tina Turner, Kate Bush, Aretha Franklin, very varied but very girl, because I think Alice is a big fan of women doing things idk. bisexual moment 4 her. I think her and lily would also both share a really great love of Stevie Nicks and be like fanatics of hers.

frank - I think bro LOVES reggae idk. Bob Marley fan. culture/jimmy cliff/the gladiators. I also think he'd like a lot of "dad rock" bands, led zeppelin/steely dan/the eagles/the who/the kinks.. yar naur. he's a man❤️🙂‍↕️

severus - classical music snob, probably inherited from his mom. loathes rock n roll idk. seems like THAT SORT OF GUY..

regulus - lots of classical and jazz, but not in the way severus is like pretentious, I mean coming from a muscianship standpoint. I think he'd especially love miles davis jazz wise and beethoven+liszt classical music wise (ie. I think he'd have a great love for romantic music, even though beethoven isn't usually considered romantic- just LISTEN to moonlight sonata, it is DRIPPING with the emotion of romantic music).

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I also have a list of music artists I think would be witches/wizards in the wizardings world, so I might post that soon:)

[olipeaksforever]

sometimes you think too much: a trucoop (mini) playlist.

i decided to make another playlist of these two because i miss them so much and their relationship!

Featuring: Julee Cruise, Chet Baker, Tears For Fears, Bruce Springsteen, Suicide, Jonathan Richman and The Modern Lovers, The Millenium, Jan & Dean, The Zombies, George Harrison, Emitt Rhodes, The Beach Boys, Vashti Bunyan, The Velvet Underground, Adrianne Lenker, Belle and Sebastian, Nick Drake, Tim Buckley, Felt and Sibylle Baier.

Genres featured: dream pop, jazz, new-wave, electro pop, classic rock, folk and lo-fi.

[covergirlnay]

My favorites 2023

1. My favorite albums: Lady London- S.O.U.L., Ciara- Ci Ci, Chris Brown- 11:11, Lola Brooke- Dennis Daughter

2. My favorite movies: Barbie (that was for the 60s-90s babies 😄) & The Little Mermaid 🧜🏽‍♀️

3. Favorite Picture book: Big- Vashti Harrison

4. Favorite young Adult Novel: Invisible Son- Kim Johnson. This book was on my heart for days after finishing it.

*honorable mention: Love in Winter Wonderland

5. Favorite Nonfiction book: I’m not yelling- Elizabeth Leiba

6. Favorite Graphic novel: Curlfriends- Sharee Miller

7. Pivot point: Passing that test 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

8. Lesson: Continue to have hope 😌❤️‍🩹

[samueldays]

in the spirit of xkcd's "did you know you can just buy labcoats?" , did you know you can just buy newspapers? some days it feels like any old shitposter can get a journalism job and spew high-velocity misinformation, like Aziah Siid at the Seattle Medium.

You're the ones doing the starving here, fuckwits.

Thanks to food deserts — or as some folks call it, “food apartheid”

Thanks to bad reporting - or as some folks call it, "Nazi-style propaganda"

that's halfway through the first sentence and Siid has very effectively set the tone for an article of race-baiting, blame-shifting, inflammatory, connotation-smuggling, condescendingly ignorant, hyperbolic, partisan hackery.

there are cities across the United States where Black families have to drive several miles to access fresh food at a supermarket.

link does not support claim, link is just tangentially related article using the word "food desert". link says this:

This gives me the impression that someone yelled "CITE SOURCES" at the journalist until the journalist did the malicious minimum of work to give the superficial appearance of a citation. The source "more than a quarter of a mile" does not support the article "drive several miles", and other problems.

Journalism delenda est.

That isn't even the topic yet, just a shitty lead-in. The topic:

But the lack of resources that disproportionately impacts Black communities isn’t limited to food or health care. Access to literature is also often limited in Black neighborhoods.

Interest in literature is also often limited in black neighborhoods. They have less desire for and less interest in books relative to whites.

Nearly half of American children live in a book desert — places that American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten defines as “neighborhoods that lack public libraries and stores that sell books, or in homes where books are an unaffordable or unfamiliar luxury.”

The linked article is by Randi Weingarten, but does not define "book desert" that way, as it does not use the word "desert" anywhere at all. Superficial appearance of citation again, journalism delenda est.

I'd call for Aziah Siid to be "fired" but there is nothing to fire her from. You can just buy newspapers. You can just write shitposts and have them published with fancy headings.

So I'm left reiterating: journalists lie, journalists spread disinformation, newspapers are full of shit, the profession attracts liars and incentivizes lying partly because it's loudly claimed to be fact-checkers, journalists can get away with contradicting someone and calling it a "fact check". It happens up and down the scale across the industry, from relative rando Aziah Siid, to upscale Keith Olbermann who has multiple awards for excellent journalism and he won't stop lying after repeated corrections.

If students don’t have books at home or in their neighborhood, they rely on what’s available in schools — in the classroom and campus library. But good luck finding banned and challenged books like “The Gift of Ramadan” by Rabiah York Lumbard and Laura K. Horton and “Sulwe” by Lupita Nyong’o and Vashti Harrison if students live in a place impacted by censorship.

"impacted" is such a wonderful weasel word that encourages the reader to imagine something maximally inflammatory with minimal commitment on the part of the journalist. There is no rebuttal that can be made here without Siid dodging that that's not what she meant by "impacted" - so I retort instead that it's content-free incitement and demagoguery. Journalism delenda est.

Similarly with "banned and challenged", where all the weighty connotation is being carried by the "banned" part, but all the truth of the sentence resides in the "challenged" part. I tried to find the specifics of the matter and as best I can tell, in one of the three thousand counties in the United States, The Gift of Ramadan was challenged for school review by partisan hacks and then got stuck in bureaucratic limbo in a poorly designed review process to determine whether it should be in schools in that county. Somewhere has to be the most fuckup county of 3000, and Duval County was it that year.

From the viewpoint of people who thought their book should be read by every student as a default, this cherry-picked one-county school-holdup felt like a "ban" despite the fact that the book remained available in bookstores.

What extraordinary entitlement.

The epicenter of these efforts? Florida and the attempts led by Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis to eliminate the teaching of accurate U.S. history and kill off access to diverse books.

Stripped of the bombast: Florida rejected one specific Advanced Placement course on African American Studies. DeSantis claimed this was because the course was a bunch of thrown-together left-wing talking points including queer theory and climate action along with the black blackety blackness.

The College Board released an edited version of the course, and claimed this was nothing to do with Florida because they get feedback from lots of people.

That’s why as part of a larger effort to make books more accessible, and directly combat these anti-history book bans, the national nonprofit Little Free Library and creative marketing agency Venables Bell + Partners have teamed up on the Unbanned Book Club.

Again with the use of "ban" for not using government resources to promote. Journalism delenda est, wordcels delenda est. The books are not banned, as shown by the fact that this project is legal. The vast majority of books in the world are not in any school, let alone every school; curricula change regularly; to call it "banned" that a book was removed from a school is a sort of linguistic robbery that steals the substance of word and leaves us with a confusion of tongues as of Babel.