#betty wilkerson

[lovestaruniverseblog]

Algunos dibujos que he hecho en el segundo tetra; excepto el de los ángulos de Angelo y algunos de sus expresiones, lo hice en la semana pasada.

Estoy desarrollando otro proyecto, que experimentaría con el arte surrealista. Lo llamo “Doctor Madness”, en donde un científico llamado Alex Wilkerson y su hija Betty Wilkerson tratan de viajar a otros universos alternos pero siempre se meten en problemas con las autoridades de su mundo.

[rad-roche]

BIOMASSE

WHEN BETTY WILKERSON FOUND HER HUSBAND TORN LIMB FROM LIMB IN THE SITTING ROOM, EATEN IN PARTS AND SMEARED ACROSS THE CEILING, SHE ROLLED HER EYES AND LEFT FOR HER BOOK CLUB

WHEN IT BECAME CLEAR HE WAS NEVER GOING TO CRAWL OUT OF THE BIOMASSE AGAIN, SHE CALLED ME

THESE DAYS, THERE’S ONLY ONE MAN CAPABLE OF MURDER

BUT THE THING IS…

IS THAT I WAS SOMEWHERE ELSE

[jurassicworldtieindrpepper]

Reading List

to be updated constantly

Articles:

"Why Women Online Can’t Stop Reading Fairy Porn" by C.T. Jones for Rolling Stone

"They Called 911 for Help. Police and Prosecutors Used a New Junk Science to Decide They Were Liars." by Brett Murphy for ProPublica

"‘I Think My Husband Is Trashing My Novel on Goodreads!’" by Emily Gould for The Cut

"Woman in Retrograde" by Isabel Cristo for The Cut

"The unwanted Spanish soccer kiss is textbook male chauvinism. Don’t excuse it" by Moira Donegan for the Guardian

"I Started the Media Men List" by Moira Donegan for The Cut

"What Moira Donegan Did for Young Women Writers" by Jordana Rosenfeld for The Nation

"The Key Detail Missing From the Narrative About O.J. and Race" by Joel Anderson for Slate

"The Coiled Ferocity of Zendaya" by Matt Zoller Seitz for Vulture

"OJ Simpson died the comfortable death in old age that Nicole Brown should have had" by Moira Donegan for The Guardian

"Norm Macdonald Was the Hater O.J. Simpson Could Never Outrun" by Miles Klee for Rolling Stone

"Trans Stylists and Makeup Artists Are Reshaping Red Carpet Looks. Will They Get the Credit They’re Due?" by James Factora

"The ‘perfect Aryan’ child used in Nazi propaganda was actually Jewish" by Terrence McCoy for The Washington Post

"There Are Too Many Books; Or, Publishing Shouldn’t Be All About Quantity" by Maris Kreizman for Literary Hub

"An O.J. Juror on What The People v. O.J. Simpson Got Right and Wrong" by Ashley Reese for Vulture

"Super Cute Please Like" by Nicole Lipman for N + 1 Magazine

Essays:

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture edited by Roxanne Gay

Creep: Accusations and Confessions by Myriam Gurba

"On Chappell Roan and Gen Z Pop" by Miranda Reinert

"In Memory of Nicole Brown Simpson" by Andrea Dworkin

"My Gender Is Dyke" by Alexandria Juarez for Autostraddle

"Columnists and Their Lives of Quiet Desperation" by Hamilton Nolan

Nonfiction:

Belabored: A Vindication of the Rights of Pregnant Women by Lyz Lenz

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

This American Ex-Wife: How I Ended My Marriage and Started My Life by Lyz Lenz

The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination by Sarah Schulman

Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession by Rachel Monroe

The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory by Carol J. Adams

Eros the Bittersweet by Anne Carson

Who Owns This Sentence? A History of Copyrights and Wrongs by David Bellos & Alexandre Montagu

The Once and Future Sex: Going Medieval on Women's Roles in Society by Eleanor Janega

Moby Dyke: An Obsessive Quest to Track Down the Last Remaining Lesbian Bars in America by Krista Burton

University of Nike: How Corporate Cash Bought American Higher Education by Joshua Hunt

What it Feels Like for a Girl by Paris Lees

Female Masculinity by J. Jack Halberstam

The Theory of Everything Else: A Voyage Into the World of the Weird by Dan Schreiber

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach

Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World by Christian Cooper

Rivermouth: A Chronicle of Language, Faith, and Migration by Alejandra Oliva

Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate by Anna Bogutskaya

Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick by Mallory O'Meara

Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg

Eyeliner: A Cultural History by Zahra Hankir

Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement by Ashley Shew

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann

Know My Name by Chanel Miller

Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe

Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami

Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study by Alexandra Heller-Nicholas

Fiction:

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Just as You Are by Camille Kellogg

Just Happy to Be Here by Naomi Kanakia

The Misadventures of an Amateur Naturalist by Ceinwen Langley

Family Meal by Bryan Washington

Jurassic Park by Michael Crichton

The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark

My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones

An Island Princess Starts a Scandal by Adriana Herrera

Blackouts by Justin Torres

We Do What We Do in the Dark by Michelle Hart

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Less Is Lost by Andrew Sean Greer

The Faithless by C.L. Clark

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang

The Disenchantments by Nina LaCour

Everything Leads to You by Nina LaCour

Bliss Montage by Ling Ma

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Institute by Stephen King

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Frankenstein: Junji Ito Story Collection by Junji Ito

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado

Young Mungo by Douglas Stuart

The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin

Snuff by Terry Pratchett

Travelers Along the Way: A Robin Hood Remix by Aminah Mae Safi

Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

[borderlineswagbracket]

Alrighty, I’ll be posting round four on 4/17!

ROUND ONE

Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket) vs. Atsushi Nakajima (Bungo Stray Dogs)

Eleanor Vance (The Haunting of Hill House) vs. Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives)

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Francis Wilkerson (Malcom in the Middle)

Pierre Bezukhov (War and Peace) vs. Harrier du Bois (Disco Elysium)

Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother) vs. Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Tiffany Valentine (Chucky Franchise) vs. Marie Mjolnir (Soul Eater)

Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with the Vampire) vs. Harley Quinn (DC)

Betty Cooper (Riverdale) vs. Catra (She-Ra)

Dream of the Endless (Sandman) vs. Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Marius Pontmercy (Les Miserables) vs. Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Roman Roy (Succession) vs. Grunkle Stan (Gravity Falls)

Grell Sutcliffe (Kuroshitsuji) vs. Dirk Strider (Homestuck)

Newton Geiszler (Pacific Rim) vs. Misa Amane (Death Note)

Sydney Sargent (Camp Here and There) vs. Roman Sionis (Birds of Prey)

Ralph (Wreck-It-Ralph) vs. Bella Swan (Twilight)

Jay Gatsby (The Great Gatsby) vs. Princess Buttercup (The Princess Bride)

ROUND TWO

Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket) vs. Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives)

Princess Buttercup (The Princess Bride) vs. Ralph (Wreck-It-Ralph)

Newt Geiszler (Pacific Rim) vs. Sydney Sargent (Camp Here and There)

Grunkle Stan (Gravity Falls) vs. Grell Sutcliff (Kuroshitsuji)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars) vs. Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Catra (She-Ra) vs. Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with the Vampire)

Dean Winchester (Supernatural) vs. Tiffany Valentine (Chucky Franchise)

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Harrier du Bois (Disco Elysium)

ROUND THREE

Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket) vs. Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)

Tiffany Valentine (Chucky Franchise) vs. Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with the Vampire)

Rose Tyler (Doctor Who) vs. Grell Sutcliff (Kuroshitsuji)

Sydney Sargent (Camp Here and There) vs. Princess Buttercup (The Princess Bride)

ROUND FOUR

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with the Vampire)

Sydney Sargent (Camp Here and There) vs. Grell Sutcliff (Kuroshitsuji)

FINAL ROUND

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend) vs. Sydney Sargent (Camp Here and There)

[patricia-von-arundel]

I've started a class on US history ( particularly around the colonization ) and it's fascinating! Do you have any period you would recommend to look more into?

You picked an interesting time to ask me about US history, through absolutely no fault of your own! (I haven't studied US history since high school, and my AP US History teacher has spent the last 20 or so years in jail for, uh... having relationships with little boys that were 100% NOT OKAY. And I recently found out he's out of prison and has been attempting to track down some of the boys involved [who are all now in their 30s and 40s]. I only know because one is one of my old roommates, and he was dating my best friend, and... well. I saw his name on the list and was just like "okay, this has to be a parole violation of some sort. Also, dude, what the actual fuck?! Several of the boys you hurt later committed suicide. One was found dead by his little sister and her best friend. They were nine. Nine years old. You are a fucking monster. Jesus christ.")

Aside from that... I'm not super well-versed in US history as a whole, but I have enjoyed some books dealing with it, so okay if I mention those? I particularly loved A People's History of the United States (Howard Zinn) and Lies My Teacher Told Me (James Loewen), both of which were seminal in presenting less "whitewashed" versions of US history. I've also enjoyed in recent years The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (about the disapora of Black Americans from the Southeast into the Midwest during the 20th century), The American West and Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, both by Dee Brown (classics of the expansion of settlers into the West in the 19th century, the "cowboy" years), and White Trash by Nancy Isenberg (looking at class in America). Other good, popular writers of US history: David McCullough, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Ron Chernow, Candice Millard. There's some awesome fiction that tackles US history in interesting ways - my favorites are A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Betty Smith), The Little Friend (Donna Tartt), Forever (Pete Hamill), The Jungle (Upton Sinclair), and basically anything by Steinbeck.

I find the great migration periods particularly interesting, especially the Asian arrivals in the West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Early Hollywood is fascinating. There's a wonderful book about it called Silent Stars by Jeanine Basinger. The US also has some honest really good classics in True Crime, especially Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song. (Truman Capote is also interesting in that he was a very good friend of Harper Lee, who wrote To Kill a Mockingbird.) There were some writers in the mid-20th century who took travel writing and turned it on its head: try Travels with Charley (Steinbeck again!), On the Road (Jack Kerouac - not my personal style, but I understand why it's an American classic!), and Roughing It (Mark Twain). (Honestly, all of Twain's stuff is great, and fucking hilarious. Twain and Wodehouse - in England - had no business being as brilliantly hilarious as they were.)

Also, a weirder rec?

Stephen King's 11/22/63.

Just trust me. And yes, it's that Stephen King.

Again: trust me.

(Other fictional creepiness built around or dealing with North American history [I say North American because I'm including Canada and Mexico]: Alma Katsu's The Hunger, Dan Simmons' The Terror, Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic [and I just got her Velvet was the Night, but haven't read it yet!], Toni Morrison's Beloved, basically anything by Cormac McCarthy. [Content warning, some of these are a little stomach-churning to get through. Reader beware!] I've also recently been recommended S. Craig Zahler's Westerns, but haven't read them yet, so be warned there that he's the guy who wrote Bone Tomahawk! If you know... you know. If you don't... not recommended viewing while eating. 🤷‍♀️ And speaking of Westerns, Larry McMurtry's Lonesome Dove is absolutely wonderful. And not stomach-churning!)

Hope that helps! If there are any specific periods that catch your interest, I can dig into recommendations for further reading/watching. US history isn't always my personal cup of tea, but my mother's been writing books and articles about it for 30 years, so I can always ask for recs! 😁

[wutbju]

Mrs. Carolyn Allen Garris, 78, passed away at her home Monday, January 10, 2022. The funeral service will be conducted Sunday at 3:30 PM in the Wilkerson Funeral Chapel, officiated by her pastor, Rev. Jeff Manning. Burial will follow in Pinewood Memorial Park. The family will receive friends Sunday from 1:30 until 3:15 PM at the funeral home.

Carolyn, a native and lifelong resident of Pitt County, was a daughter of the late Dewey Wallace and Alma Worthington Allen. After her high school graduation, she attended Bob Jones University completing a Bachelor of Science degree in education in 1966. She returned to eastern North Carolina to live and began teaching at [the infamous] Goldsboro Christian Academy. Through the years she also taught at Greenville Christian Academy, Eastern Elementary, W. H. Robinson and Falkland Elementary Schools. In 1978 she completed a Masters in Library Science at East Carolina University and later joined the staff at D.H. Conley High School as a librarian, working at Conley for 14 years prior to her retirement in 1996.

Carolyn loved doing for others. She would always put others before herself. She was a great teacher and enjoyed working with young people and seeing them learn and grow. Her most rewarding teaching experience was seeing first graders grasp a concept and seeing the expression of success on their faces. Carolyn was a longtime member of Maranatha Free Will Baptist Church and was currently a member of Unity FWB Church. Through her many years of church work she had worked with youth and adult choirs, directed plays, served as pianist, as well as teaching Sunday School and was a great partner with her husband, who taught a young couples class. Carolyn enjoyed traveling with her husband and friends. She and her husband traveled to all fifty states. She especially enjoyed her trips to New England and Alaska with some dear friends. She was a great cook and enjoyed having friends and family over for meals.

In addition to her parents, Carolyn was preceded in death by a sister, Charlene A. Haddock and a brother, Kenneth Allen. She is survived by her husband of 49 years, Jimmy Garris; step-daughter, Drs. Janie Garris Hallstrand and husband Teal of Seattle, WA; step-son, Joel Jimmy Garris and wife Stephanie of Orlando, FL; and grandchildren, Nelson, Ethan, and Connor Garris and Erik and Andrew Hallstrand. The family would like to thank Vidant Hospice Care for the love and attention they gave Carolyn and the great support they were to her family. A very special thanks for Betty Hartley, who was her caregiver and friend for the past seven years. Betty was always there for her and was quick to do whatever was needed. She is loved by Carolyn and her family and became a part of her family. The appreciation will never be forgotten!

Memorials may be made to Unity FWB Church Building Fund, 4301 Charles Blvd., Greenville, NC 27858. Online condolences at www.WilkersonFuneralHome.com

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[destinyhunted]

@lungisms

“What’s up with this damn town, anyways ? Looks like tragedy follows you everywhere.”

[dhaaruni]

I’m looking for some book recommendations on feminism. Do you happen to have any favorites?

Yeah of course like who do you think I am lol?

Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Perez

The Destruction of Hillary Clinton by Susan Bordo (and What Happened by Hillary Rodham Clinton)

The Empathy Exams and particularly “The Grand Unified Theory of Female Pain” by Leslie Jamison

Right-Wing Women (and Woman Hating and Pornography: Men Possessing Women) by Andrea Dworkin

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South by Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

Women & Power: A Manifesto by Mary Beard

The Perils of “Privilege” by Phoebe Maltz Bovy

Weird: The Power of Being an Outsider in an Insider World by Olga Khazan

Are women human?, Only Words, and Toward a Feminist Theory of the State by Catharine A. MacKinnon

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

Sexual Politics by Kate Millett

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Women, Race, & Class by Angela Davis

Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape by Susan Brownmiller

On Rape and Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility (and The Whole Woman)  by Germaine Greer

Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism by Kathleen Stock

Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich

Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality by Gail Dines

[thejusticewarrior]

The Book Club - Non-Fiction

The Non-Fiction Book Club TBR list:

100 Nasty Women of History by Hannah Jewell

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think by Brianna Wiest

13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do by Amy Morin

21 Lessons For The 21st Century by Yuval Noah Haran

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Are Prisons Obsolete? by Angela Y. Davis

Atlantis: The Antediluvian World by Ignatius L. Donnelly

Becoming Supernatural by Dr. Joe Dispenza

Between The World And Me by Ta-Neisi Coates

Beyond The Pill by Jolene Brighten

Boundaries In Dating by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

Calm The F**k Down by Sarah Knight

Caste: The Origins Of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

Confessions Of A Political Hitman by Stephen Marks

Confessions Of A Sex Kitten by Eartha Kitt

Declutter Your Mind by S.J. Scott & Barrie Davenport

Decoded by Jay-Z

Devil In The Grove by Gilbert King

Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh

Feminists Don't Wear Pink And Other Lies by Scarlett Curtis

first, we make the beast beautiful by Sarah Wilson

Girl, was your face by Rachel Hollis

Heal Thyself For Health And Longevity by Queen Afua

Homo Deus: A Brief History Of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Haran

Hormonal by Martie Haselton

Hormonal by Eleanor Morgan

How The Pill Changes Everything by Sarah E. Hill

How To Be Single And Happy by Jennifer L. Taitz

How To Love by Thich Nhat Hanh

I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou

Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen

Man's Search For Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

Maybe It's You by Lauren Handel Zander

Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus by John Gray

Milk And Honey by Rupi Kaur

Misjustice: How British Law Is Failing Women by Helena Kennedy

Moody: A 21st Century Hormone Guide by Amy Thomson

Natives: Race And Class In The Ruins Of Empire by Akala

Nile Valley Contributions To Civilization by Anthony T. Browder

Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi

Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

Red Notice by Bill Browder

Sacred Woman by Queen Afua

Sapiens: A Brief History Of Humankind by Yuval Noah Haran

Stolen Legacy by George G. M. James

Sweetening The Pill by Holly Grigg-Spall

The 48 Laws Of Power by Robert Greene

The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

The Art Of Happiness by The Dalai Llama

The Art Of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh

The Autobiography Of Malcolm X by Malcolm X

The Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Chimp Paradox by Prof. Steve Peters

The Four Agreements by Miguel Ruiz

The Gifts Of Imperfection by Brené Brown

The Little Book Of Hygge by Meik Wiking

The Many-Headed Hydra by Peter Linebaugh & Marcus Rediker

The Miracle Of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

The Power Of Now by Eckhart Tolle

The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

The Silk Roads by Peter Frankopan

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert

The Sun Does Shine by Anthony Ray Hinton

The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler

The Warmth Of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Thinking, Fast And Slow by Daniel Kahneman

This Is Going To Hurt by Adam Kay

Vilnius: City Of Strangers by Laimonas Briedis

When We Ruled by Robin Walker

White Tears/Brown Scars by Ruby Hamad

Why I'm No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

Womancode by Alisa Vitti

Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood

Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Women, Race And Class by Angela Y. Davis

A Massacre In Mexico by Anabel Hernandez

Putin's People by Catherine Belton

The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan

Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

The Immortal Life Of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla et al.

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullon & Asha Bandele

It's Not About The Burqa by Mariam Khan

Afropean: Notes From Black Europe by Johny Pitts

Blueprint For Revolution by Srdja Popovic

Freedom Is A Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

The Health Gap by Michael Marmot

Fake Law: The Truth Abiut Justice In An Age Of Lies by The Secret Barrister

The Secret Barrister by The Secret Barrister

I Am Malala by Malala Yousafzai

No One Is Too Small To Make A Difference by Greta Thunberg

Our Final Warning: Six Degrees Of Climate Emergency by Mark Lynas

Underground by Haruki Murakami

The Jigsaw Man by Paul Britton

This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate by Naomi Klein

Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue by Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre

Pharma by Gerald Posner

The Truth About The Drug Companies by Marcia Angell, M.D.

Selling Sickness by Ray Moynihan & Alan Cassels

Blood Feud by Kathleen Sharp

The Future We Choose by Christiana Gigueres & Tom Rivett Carnac

There Is No Planet B by Mike Berners-Lee

Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez

Society Must Be Defended by Michel Foucault

Discipline And Punish by Michel Foucault

Chernobyl Prayer by Svetlana Alexievich

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Anne Frank: The Diary Of A Young Girl by Anne Frank

If They Come In The Morning by Angela Y. Davis

Tiny, Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed

The House of Government by Yuri Slezkine

The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing The Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl McBride

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City Lights Bookstore’s Antiracist Reading List | UPDATED

Human creativity is integral to revolutionary resistance—the urgent plea, the silenced cry, the righteous rage. It is imperative that we educate and illuminate ourselves to deepen our commitment to justice and equity for Black people and all people of color, and to pave the way for radical systemic change.

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Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Til to Trayvon Martin Edited by Philip Cushway and Michael Warr 9780393352733        Norton    Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? Mumia Abu-Jamal  9780872867383       City Lights  Invisible Man Ralph Ellison  9780679732761       Vintage A Black Women's History of the United States Daina Ramey Berry and Kali N. Gross   9780807033555  Beacon         W.E.B. Dubois' Data Portraits: Visualizing Black America   The W.E.B. Du Bois Center at the University of Massachusetts     Edited by Britt Rusert and Whitney Battle-Baptiste  9781616897062        Princeton Architectural Press Race Man: Selected Works 1960-2015 Julian Bond Edited by Michael G. Long  9780872867949 City Lights       Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot  Mikki Kendall   9780525560548       Viking The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration  Isabel Wilkerson  9780679763888       Random House

The Echo Tree: The Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas Henry Dumas 9781566891493   Coffee House Everywhere You Don't Belong: A Novel Gabrielle Bump   9781616208790 Algonquin  The Meaning of Freedom and Other Difficult Dialogues Angela Y. Davis Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872865808   City Lights   

No Fascist USA!: The John Brown Anti-Klan Committee and Lessons for Today’s Movements Hillary Moore and James Tracy Foreword by Robin D.G. Kelley 9780872867963   City Lights The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness Michelle Alexander   9781620971932 The New Press Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds adrienne maree brown 9781849352604   AK  Black Skin, White Masks Frantz Fanon   Translated from the French by Richard Philcox 9780802143006  Grove The Wretched of the Earth Frantz Fanon Translated from the French by Richard Philcox Commentary by Jean-Paul Sartre and Homi K. Bhabha 9780802141323  Grove Citizen: An American Lyric Claudia Rankine 9781555976903   Graywolf  How to Be An Antiracist Ibram X. Kendi 9780525509288   One World The Fire Next Time James Baldwin 9780679744726 Random House No Name in the Street James Baldwin 9780307275929   Vintage How To Be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Supremacy, and the Racial Divide Crystal Marie Fleming   9780807039847 Beacon The History of White People Nell Irvin Painter 9780393339741   Norton       Heaven Is All Goodbyes: City Lights Pocket Poet Series No. 61 Tongo Eisen-Martin 9780872867451 City Lights Afropessimism Frank WIlderson III 9781631496141     Liveright If They Come in the Morning . . . : Voices of Resistance Edited by Angela Y. Davis  9781784787691       Verso So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Olua  9781580058827       Seal  Troublemaker for Justice: The Story of Bayard Ruskin, the Man Behind the March on Washington Jacqueline Houtman, Walter Naegle, and Michael G. Long  9780872867659       City Lights  We Are Not Yet Equal: Understanding Our Racial Divide  Carol Anderson with Tonya Bolden  Foreword by Nic Stone 9781547602520       Bloomsbury Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You - A Remix of the National Book Award-Winning Stamped from the Beginning  Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi 9780316453691       Little, Brown Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice  Mahogany L. Browne with Elizabeth Acevedo and Olivia Gatwood Illustrated by Theodore Taylor III Foreword by Jason Reynolds 9781250311207        Roaring Brook  Betty Before X Ilyasah Shabazz with Renée Watson  9780374306106       FSG Clifford's Blues John A. Williams  9781566890809       Coffee House  Native Son RIchard Wright  9780061148507  Harper Perennial Training School for Negro Girls Camille Acker  9781936932375       Feminist Press They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us: Essays Hanif Abdurraqib  9781937512651       Two Dollar Radio Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption  Bryan Stevenson  9780812984965       One World    The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations  Toni Morrison  9780525562795       Vintage Oreo Fran Ross  9780811223225       New Directions Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches  Audre Lorde  Foreword by Cheryl Clarke 9781580911863        Crossing Press Ghost Boys Jewell Parker Rhodes  9780316262262       Little, Brown Monument: Poems New and Selected  Natasha Trethewey  9780358118237  Mariner  The Sword and the Shield: The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. Peniel E. Joseph 9781541617865 Basic Dear White People Justin Simien Illustrated by Ian O’Phelan 97814769809 37 Ink Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas Edited by Sam Durant Preface by Bobby Seale Foreword by Danny Glover 9780847841899 Rizzoli Power to the People: The World of the Black Panthers Stephan Shames and Bobby Seale 9781419722400 Harry N. Abrams Press In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition Fred Moten 9780816641000 University of Minnesota Press The Known World: A Novel Edward P. Jones 9780061159176 Amistad Counternarratives: Stories and Novellas John Keene 9780811225526 New Directions Beloved: A Novel Toni Morrison 9781400033416 Vintage The Bluest Eye: A Novel Toni Morrison 9780307278449 Vintage Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination Toni Morrison Vintage 9780679745426 Mumbo Jumbo Ishmael Reed 9780684824772 Scribner Our Nig: Or, Sketches from the Life of a Free Black Harriet E. Wilson Edited with an introduction by Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Richard J. Ellis 9780307477453 Vintage Burn This Book: Notes on Literature and Engagement Edited by Toni Morrison 9780061774010 Harper I’m Not Dying with You Tonight Gilly Segal and Kimberly Jones Sourcebooks Fire 9781492678892 The End of Policing Alex S. Vitale 9781784782924 Verso The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual: A Historical Analysis of the Failure of Black Leadership Harold Cruse 9781590171356 NYRB Classics How Capitalism Underdeveloped Black America: Problems in Race, Political Economy, and Society Manning Marable 9781608465118 Haymarket From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor 9781608465620 Haymarket Still Black, Still Strong: Survivors of the War Against Black Revolutionaries Dhoruba Bin Wahad, Assata Shakur, and Mumia Abu-Jamal 9780936756745 Semiotext(e) Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom David W. 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[peacelongingmoved]

ALTERNATE UNIVERSES.

hello there ! i just wanted to drop the different aus ( private and not private ) for my muses.

Willow Douglas:

The Greatest Showman. Willow uses her powers for artistry, trying to find a way to feed her poor family and ill sister and joins P.T. Barnum’s show.

Ice Skater ( private with @lyquidmetal ). Willow and Jess make it as the first same-sex skating couple to make the olympics. It’s pretty gay.

40′s ( private with @memoirstold ). Willow works as a waitress in New York during WWII, in a desperate attempt to gain some money to raise her deaf sister. Her dad enlisted and died shortly after. She studies to become a teacher, though deals with the sexism in her institution.

A Star is Born ( private with @necropsychic ). To raise more money for Skylar’s expensive treatments, she applies as a songwriter for Michael MacGilleain, eventually they fall in love. We know the drill, it gets pretty romantic.

Skylar Douglas:

Sex Education. Life isn’t easy for a lesbian deaf girl, who just moved into town and applied to Moordale. Things... Get crazy.

X-Men. Shortly after finishing her treatment and with the first outbreak of her powers, Skylar is sent to Xavier’s school. She wants to play hero, but not being the center of attention feels far better.

Lennon Blake:

Grease. Lennon is a Brit boy that moved into America with all the knowledge about music. He applies to Rydell High, in the class of ‘58. Is part of the T-Bird’s enemies, after the race he decides that this isn’t his path. He breaks it as a talented musician, England’s golden boy in the US by the age of 20.

Diana & Nick Wilkerson:

X-Force / Deadpool 2 based. Both Nick and Diana ran away from their home after their father’s pinnacle of abuse. They see the announcement, and after being in several mutant underground networks, they decide to find a real family. Two kids, good at playing with fire. Maybe, they could be the key to understand Russell.

Noah Blackwood:

Bodyguard. Noah left the military when he felt like he had enough training, and with his mother’s passing, he tried to make things right. To be a better person, not killing under the shadows. He’s hired as a bodyguard, fit and perfect for the job. Kind of a paranoid one, carries guns everywhere.

Danique Koppelman:

IT, Chapter Two. Danique is dealing with the loss of his family, and the recovery after heart surgery. The bullets were taken out, he was a much more vulnerable guy. They figured it would be good for him to travel, go somewhere else. Derry seemed like a proper place.

Zoe Wallace:

Human. Zoe was raised by two loving adoptive parents, Aaron and Natalie. Unlike their mainverse, they’re much more outgoing and talkative, they were never taken away from their family and their parents never divorced. They grew up to become an actor and writer, usually getting the small jobs for short films, music videos, TV ads and to tell children stories at libraries.

MCU based / The Winter Soldier ( private with @butvic ). Zoe was nothing but a middle-class, mutant librarian when they kicked into the bookshop. There was a rumour of them being a freak, able to hear other’s thoughts and make things blow up with a snap of their fingers. It was late at night, and they were kidnapped. Tortured, brainwashed and turned into a killing machine, able to survive throughout the years as a result of the serum. And the only person that cared and found it odd for them to disappear was Victory.

IT, Chapter One. Coming from a small British family, it was a bad beginning for Zoe’s life in Derry. They’re the new kid— Moved from London into that small town with a blink of their eye, and given how different they were, they instantly got bullied. The fact that they could see things that other’s couldn’t didn’t help at all. At first, they didn’t understand why they could see Betty and Patrick, wandering around town, and no one else could find them— And then, they knew. 

[borderlineswagbracket]

One more day to submit your contestants, ending at 11:59 PM CT tomorrow (3/10)! Current contestants include:

Eleanor Vance (Haunting of Hill House Novel)

Martin Blackwood (The Magnus Archives)

Rebecca Bunch (Crazy Ex-Girlfriend)

Lestat de Lioncourt (Interview with the Vampire)

Atsushi Nakajima (Bungo Stray Dogs)

Harley Quinn (DC)

Dean Winchester (Supernatural)

Tohru Honda (Fruits Basket)

Anakin Skywalker (Star Wars)

Betty Cooper (Riverdale)

Harrier du Bois (Disco Elysium)

Newton Geiszler (Pacific Rim)

Pierre Bezukhov (War and Peace)

Roman Roy (Succession)

Tiffany Valentine (Chucky Franchise)

Grunkle Stan (Gravity Falls)

Marius Pontmercy (Les Mis)

Dream of the Endless (Sandman)

Marie Mjolnir (Soul Eater)

Francis Wilkerson (Malcom in the Middle)

Rose Tyler (Doctor Who)

Barney Stinson (How I Met Your Mother)

Grell Sutcliffe (Kuroshitsuji)

Catra (She-Ra)

Dirk Strider (Homestuck)

Misa Amane (Death Note)

Don’t see your favorite BPD girlie (gender neutral)? Submit them now!

[typingtess]

Tiptoeing through the guest cast of “Smokescreen”

Tell me if you've heard this before… no Nia Long in the press release.

Esai Morales as NCIS Deputy Director Louis Ochoa First appearance since "Diamond in the Rough" – episode nine in late November.

Kerr Smith as FBI Special Agent David Ross Played Theodore "Ryder" Ellison/Hughes in As the World Turns, Jack McPhee in Dawson's Creek, Kyle Brody in Charmed, Bobby Wilkerson in E-Ring, Tom Nicholson in Justice, Drew Bedford in CSI: NY, Paul Rollins in Eli Stone, Ryan Thomas in Life Unexpected, Joseph Bauer in Marvel's Agents of SHIELD and Robert Quinn in The Fosters.

Was super-soldier Lt. Jonas Cobb in season eight of NCIS (the Port-to-Port Killer who murdered Mike Frank).

Guest starred in episodes of Baywatch, CSI, The Outer Limits (2001), Miss Match, Silver Lake, CSI: Miami, The Closer, The Forgotten, Stalker, Criminal Minds, Doubt and Wisdom of the Crowd.

Medalion Rahimi as NCIS Special Agent Fatima Namazi Played Princess Zara Al-Salim in The Catch, Princess Isabella in Still Star-Crossed and Naya in The Outpost.  Appeared in episodes of Criminal Minds, New Girl, Jane the Virgin, Awkward, Scandal and My Dead Ex.

Was Lila in "The Admiral's Daughter" season 11 episode of NCIS.  Appeared a few weeks ago as killer/psycho Jazmine in the "Sheepdog" episode of NCIS: New Orleans.  

Délé Ogundiran as Janet Guest starred in episodes of Barbershop, Help Me Help You, Brothers & Sisters, Without a Trace, Ugly Betty, Nip/Tuck, Children's Hospital, Ray Donovan, Anger Management, Rounds and Wisdom of the Crowd.

Rima Haddad as Rana Azim Appeared in a few short films.

Stephen Chang as FBI Special Agent Yim Longtime working actor with credits back to the early 1970's.    Appeared in the original MacGyver series as well as episodes of Stingray, The Commish, MANTIS, The X-Files (first time around), Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, Once a Thief, Millennium, The Fearing Mind, Dark Angel, UC Undercover, The Twilight Zone (2002), The Killer Instinct, The Evidence, Psych, CSI: NY and Arrow.

Stacie Greenwell as Sonya Morales Guest starred in episodes of Criminal Minds, Grey's Anatomy, Parenthood, The New Normal, The Soul Man, Modern Family, Hart of Dixie, True Blood, Jane the Virgin, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Extant, Aquarius, Stitchers, Life in Pieces, Scandal, Major Crimes, Fresh Off The Boat, Workaholics, Legends of Tomorrow, Grace and Frankie, Rizzoli & Isles, Rush Hour, One Mississippi, Shameless, How to Get Away with Murder, Son of Zorn, Big Little Lies, Switched at Birth, LA To Vegas and Last Man Standing (2018).

Played Sheriff Marge Fields in the "Kill the Messenger" season 12 episode of NCIS.

Julie Zhan as Annie Was in episodes of The Jeselnick Offensive, Pretty Little Liars, Growing Up Fisher, Courtside, Comedy Bang Bang!, Grandfathered, Part Timers and Wisdom of the Crowd.

Toby Meuli as Dan Was Jamie in Death Valley.  Played Private Jones in the "Broken Arrow" episode of NCIS in season eight and guest starred in episodes of Grey's Anatomy, Cold Case, Bones, Night Walkers and Vegas.

Amir Kamali as Abbas Jalal Appeared in a few short films and the Facebook series Chaldea.

Danny Boushebel as Wasim Ghulam Guest starred in episodes of both Law & Order and Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Lipstick Jungle, Royal Pains, Mercy, Damages, Pan Am, Drop Dead Diva, Homeland, The Blacklist, House of Cards, Quantico, Stranger Things, Vice Principals, MacGyver (2017), Madam Secretary, High Maintenance and Turnt.

Instagram photos of his time on the show.

Austin Bowerman as FBI Special Agent Nelson Guest roles include CSI: Miami, The Mentalist, Justified, Dear White People and playing Young Walter Beck in the "Better Angels" episode of NCIS in season 11.

Raz Adoti as Masked Man Played Cpl. William Markham in Soldier, Soldier.  Was Mike Sullivan in the "Thirst" episode of NCIS in season nine.  Guest starred in episodes of Press Gang, The Ruth Rendell Mysteries, Rescue Me, The Librarians, American Crime Story and Colony.

Reece Rios as Mr. Ryland Appeared in episodes of Prison Break (2006), Inspector Mom, Criminal Minds, Exposed, CSI: NY, Major Crimes, Rake, Ray Donovan, Days of Our Lives, Bosch, You're the Worst, American Housewife and recurred on Scandal as Peter (a reporter).  

Played Dr. Caleb Lyons on NCIS: New Orleans's "The Accident" episode in season four.

Gillian White as Instructor Played LL Cool J's love interest in the "Hey Lover" 1996 music video (featuring Boyz II Men).

Guest starred in episodes of Martin, Malcolm & Eddie, The Wayans Bros., Arli$$, Pensacola: Wings of Gold, For Your Love, Xena: Warrior Princess, That's Life, The Parkers, My Wife & Kids, Ghost Whisperer, Days of Our Lives, The Exes, Sam & Cat, Love That Girl, Partners and Strange Angel.

Bianca Lopez as Paramedic Played an EMT in "Praesidium" as well.

Written by:  Andrew Bartels who wrote or co-wrote “Allegiance”, “Zero Days”, “The Grey Man”, “Humbug”, “Fighting Shadows”, “Driving Miss Diaz”, “Angels & Daemons”, “Where There’s Smoke…”, “Glasnost”, “Old Tricks” “Battle Scars”, “Fool Me Twice”, “Warrior of Peace”, "Reentry" and "The Prince".

Directed by:  Dennis Smith directed “Fame”, “Standoff”, “Rocket Man”, “Cyberthreat”, “Exit Strategy”, “Patriot Acts”, “Out of the Past” part one, “The Livelong Day”, Between the Lines”, “Deep Trouble” part two, “Black Budget", “Black Wind”, “Blame it On Rio”, “Defectors”, “Matryoshka”, “Granger, O”, “The Queen’s Gambit”, “Hot Water”, “From Havana With Love”, “Plain Sight”, the delightful romp that was “Monster”, "Superhuman" and "One of Us".

[libertariantaoist]

News Roundup 5/6/19

Military

A Green Beret is attempting to sue the government for failing to diagnose his cancer. The long-standing Feres Doctrine prevents service members from suing the government. [Link]

The VA opposes bills that would make it easier for vets to access medical marijuana. [Link]

Sexual assaults in the military hit a four year high in 2018. [Link]

The military does not follow its own rules for investigating domestic violence. [Link]

Trump/Putin Talk

Trump speaks with Putin about creating a new arms control agreement that will include China. They also discussed Venezuela, Ukraine, and North Korea. [Link]

Caitlin Johnstone explains how the establishment is turning Trump’s positive conversation with Putin into another conspiracy. [Link]

If Trump wants more arm control deals, then he needs to focus on extending the New START Treaty. [Link]

Venezuela

Several people are attempting to keep loyalists to the Venezuelan opposition out of the Venezuelan embassy in the US. [Link]

Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan said no order has been given to prepare for war with Venezuela. [Link] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs says the military is focused on gathering intelligence about Venezuela. [Link] Secretary of State Pompeo and National Security Adviser Bolton meet with Acting Defense Secretary Shanahan to discuss military options in Venezuela. [Link]

Moon of Alabama explains John Bolton is pushing Trump into war with Venezuela. [Link]

FAIR breaks down the legacy media’s one-sided position against Maduro. [Link]

Larry Wilkerson argues that if the US invades Venezuela, it will create another Vietnam or Afghanistan. [Link]

Pat Buchanan explains why the US needs to allow Venezuelans to decide their own fate. [Link]

Iran

The US deploys a carrier strike group to the Middle East. Bolton said the ships are a clear and unmistakable threat to Iran. [Link]

Israel

Rep Betty McCollum introduces a bill that would prevent US aid to Israel from being used to detain Palestinian children. [Link]

Heavy fighting breaks out between Hamas and Israel. The fighting started after Israeli snipers killed two Palestinian protesters on Friday. Moon of Alabama explains how the establishment media always frames fighting between Israel and Palestine as Israel defending itself. [Link] Since fighting has started, Hamas rockets have killed one Israeli. [Link] Israeli strikes have killed 19 Palestinians. [Link] Turkish state media reports an Israeli airstrike hit their Gaza office. [Link] An separate Israeli airstrike killed a Hamas commander. [Link]

After three days of fighting, Palestinians say a ceasefire has been reached. [Link]

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