#deborah a miranda

[lavendernhoney]

I just finished a really interesting ATLA fic so OF COURSE this poem screamed ZUKO to me

I’ve been reading this amazing book by Deborah A. Miranda. It’s generally about the history of California Indians from when they were missionized by Spain to current day- and the inter generational violence they still suffer that stems from what colonizers did to them.

One of my favorite things about ATLA is the various ways they depict intergenerational violence- from a familial to world wide scale- not an easy thing to depict so effectively in children’s media, so it’s unsurprising one of Deborah’s poems would make me think of it.

Anyway I highly recommend this book (Bad Indians by Deborah A. Miranda) it’s taken me a few months to get through because it’s HEAVY but it’s wonderfully written and part of the history of America they really gloss over in our schools.

[warningsine]

[gonkaccino]

Season 4 hope/prediction: Deb's show is solid, zero issues, runs flawlessly with great ratings, but her personal life is completely eroding. We start with her discovering Marcus is leaving, and it culminates in DJ going into labor right before a taping. Deb chooses the show. When it's over, and she finally flies to Vegas, it's too late -- Aiden's not letting her in because he loves his wife too much to let DJ get into a shouting match with her mom right after giving birth, and instead takes the brunt of Deb's wrath, with her making excuses and talking about how they used her money for IVF, and anyway, DJ's fine, so who cares if she wasn't there? Kathy's in the room with DJ and the baby (DJ's the closest she has to a daughter, after all) and Deb leaves too furious to think about how badly she's hurt her family.

She heads back to her Vegas mansion -- empty, obviously, Josefina and the dogs would be in LA -- and pops open a bottle of wine. Alone. Completely alone. Can't call Marty, she has no friends, the closest she's got would be Kiki and wouldn't that be embarrassing, calling your poker dealer to talk about your feelings --

and then Ava's there. She got the news about DJ's labor, she got the story from Aiden (who was distraught, by the way, man's too much of a sweetheart for Vance drama), a spare key from Damian (happy to pawn that off on her, though if it isn't returned promptly he's taking legal action) and has arrived just in time to see the Deborah Vance having a breakdown the likes of which no one thought physically possible. Crying gives you wrinkles, you know. But Ava has to be here. She's the physical embodiment of a lesson Deb never truly learned: you don't have to like someone to love them.

In my imaginary fantasy land that I am concocting this would then subsequently lead into them fucking nasty but I understand that this may be a step too far for the surprisingly large number of very normal people who watch this show and would forgive JPL for not taking it that far. However I do believe they should fuck about it and let Ava take the reigns in their relationship while they see how many of Deb's bridges they can un-burn.

[ijustthrewawaymyshot]

Happy Birthday Deborah Sampson!

We CANNOT forget about that time when she decided to dress as a man to participate in Revolutionary War. Honestly? Icon, Legend and a Moment.

P.S Also she's 264 years old today

[byronicist]

"I came into this world already scarred by loss on both sides of my family. My Indigenous side; my European side. My father and my mother were the kind of damaged people who should never have had children. But of course, they had me, and so my first language was loss."

Deborah Miranda, When Coyote Knocks on the Door (2021)

[astrophiliaxx]

Not me watching edits of Ava and Deborah after seeing clips of them being in comparison to Miranda and Andrea.

( I don't have HBO nor do I have the money to pay for it.)

Can someone please tell me like what it the plot of the show or like just tell me if the ship is actually canon in the show.

[blackfemmecharacterdependency]

Black Starlets Around the World

Black Australian Women in Entertainment

Aisha Dee | Alice Hunter

Charmaine Bingwa

Deborah Mailman | Deni Gordon

Emelia Burns/Emilia Burns An ongoing struggle with her name. I still haven't found any confirmation from her of which way it is actually spelled.

Madeleiene Madden | Marcia Hines | Miranda Tapsell | Molly Fatnowna

Paula Arundell

Sara Zwangobani | Sisi Stringer | Sophie Wilde

Talijah Blackman-Corowa

Zahra Newman

I know this list needs work. Australia is one of those places that I really have never cared about or looked into. But, I began noticing that there were a few Black actresses from out there popping into my awareness, so I was like... That means there’s a Black lady market/circle that I haven’t represented (not that I can cover everywhere, because We Are Everywhere), but I’ma do what I can, when I can. 

[i-miss-music-247]

Also, hear me out, I'm seeing a lot of similarities with the show Hacks and The Devil Wears Prada...

[thegayfangrrl]

[spoke9]

Advice from La Llorona | Deborah A. Miranda

-Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen poet —a found poem Each grief has its unique side. Choose the one that appeals to you. Go gently. Your body needs energy to repair the amputation. Humor phantom pain. Your brain cells are soaked with salt; connections fail unexpectedly and often. Ask for help. Accept help. Read your grief like the daily newspaper: headlines may have information you need. Scream.…

[cutiewithawakenedheart]

"Discrete portions of empowered earth."

----Deborah A. Miranda

[warningsine]

That's not fair. Oh, congratulations. You're right. This business isn't fair. I'm not asking for the business or the world to be fair. I am asking for you to treat me fairly, because you owe me that.

[amaised44]

[honeysound]

[ Transcript:

Our Lady of Perpetual Loss

By Deborah A. Miranda

Maybe all losses before this one are practice:

maybe all grief that comes after her death seems tame.

I wish I knew how to make dying simple,

wish our mother’s last week were not constructed

of clear plastic tubing, IVs, oxygen hiss,

cough medicine, morphine patches, radiation tattoos,

the useless burn on her chest.

I’m still the incurable optimist, she whispers,

you’re still the eternal pessimist.

My sister sleeps on a sofa; our brother, exhausted,

rolls up in a blanket on the hard floor.

Curled in a rented white bed, our mother’s body

races to catch up with her driven, nomadic soul.

Those nights alone, foster care, empty beer bottles

taught us she was always already vanishing. ]

[byronicist]

"Sometimes you lose something so big, so immeasurable, that bearing your grief requires an act just as complicated and unfathomable as that loss."

Deborah Miranda, When Coyote Knocks on the Door (2021)

[ironicfury]

Honestly, any one of them would cause their kids to need intensive therapy.

Mother "I sacrificed EVERYTHING for you and this is how you act?" Miranda

Alcina "You are my daughter now act like it!" Dimitrescu

Donna "You can't leave me! I'm severely mentally debilitated" Beneviento

Bela, Cassandra, and Daniela " We literally turn into flies, eat people psychotically, and have little autonomy from our mother" Dimitrescu

Mia "I'm an absentee parent to a bioweapon" Winters

Elena "I'll raise my kids in a cult" Lupu

happy mother's day!

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