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Artist Spotlight: Leslie Williamson

Leslie Williamson is a photographer of interiors. We mean this literally – in books like Still Lives and Modern Originals she photographed the studios and homes of iconic artists, including some of our Northern California favorites – but also figuratively, because what is remarkable about Williamson is her ability to touch upon the life of a space, or as she calls it, the soul – the part that offers a glimpse of a person's inner world, even when that person is no longer part of this one. In speaking with her, and looking at the mysterious, quiet, strangely emotional places she has photographed, I kept thinking of Gaston Bachelard's maxim in The Poetics of Space: "all really inhabited space bears the essence of the notion of home." Flip through any one of her books, and you will see how such notions take shape.

Studio AHEAD: Let's start with your essay "Doc's Lab," published a few weeks ago in a recent WildSam guide, Big Sur & HW 1. Tell us about it and what draws you to this particular landmark in Monterey.

Leslie Williamson: It’s funny how that came about. I became a little enthralled with Ed Ricketts and his Pacific Biological Laboratories when I moved to Monterey in April 2020 (yes, a pandemic move…). I am sure it won’t surprise you to learn that when I am in a new place, I research “house museum” to find what is around me, and when I did this in Monterey, Pacific Biological Laboratories came up. I have never read any Steinbeck so I wasn’t familiar with Ricketts and his story, but with the quiet of the pandemic I soon became a fan. Ricketts is such an inspiring character! It’s no wonder he was Steinbeck’s best friend and muse.

Anyhow, I tried and tried to visit Pacific Biological Laboratories throughout the pandemic but it was always closed. Finally one day, as I was on a walk, the door was open and the nice docent let me in even though I didn’t have a reservation. Oh my goodness that space, it gave me goosebumps!!! It is just so special – steeped in history on a few different levels: early 20th-century Cannery Row and the PBL/Doc Ricketts era and through to the birthplace of the Monterey Jazz Festival and the men’s club that left it to the city of Monterey. Of course I photographed the space and my plan was to write an essay to accompany it that would go on the Still Lives Portal on my website. I have begun sharing my stories in real time there. Happily the WildSam project seamlessly dovetailed in unexpectedly. I am thrilled they wanted to publish my essay in their 50th WildSam guide. I hope people will read the essay while looking at the images. It will really bring it to life.

SA: While we're talking about places, I want to mention a photograph you took that I find so compelling: of JB Blunk's Moongate sculpture that leads to JB Blunk's house. We've been to the estate, and to get there you have to go deep into the woods of Inverness, along a windy road up a steep mountain far from everything, and there is a sense of the space caught unawares, as if no one is supposed to see it. I'm not really sure this is a question! But maybe you can speak about this feeling; it's very powerful.

LW: Thank you! It is a special place for sure. I experienced that same feeling on my first visit. Somehow my emotions come through in my images a lot of the time. I’m not sure I can say more than that. It has always been that way. 

SA: I love the home libraries of various Californian luminaries that you shot in Interior Portraits – partly because whenever I'm in someone's house for the first time I head straight to their bookshelf, and partly because they're incredible spaces. Ray Kappe's library, with its bright blue cushions and the bamboo forest outside, shows his relation to reading. What sort of objects "speak" to you as the kind that tell a story, and how do you photograph that object in way that helps it best tell its story?

LW: First off, can I just say I love libraries too…so much. There was a time when our bookshelves were a window to our mind, heart and soul. I just added a Bibliophilia section on my SL Portal that shares people's bookshelves. I always photograph them and they never make them into my books so I decided they needed a venue of their own.

As for other objects that speak to me, I never know what they are going to be. It is different for every person/space I am in. I generally just trust my gut. From Una Jeffer’s narwhal tusk, to Georgia O’Keeffe’s record collection, I seem to be able to sense where there are meaningful stories.

SA: What role does writing play in your photography, and vice versa?

LW: My writing is still a surprise to me. I see it as in service to my photography; but having said that, the "Doc’s Lab" story ran in WildSam with none of my photographs, so maybe that is evolving? When I wrote Handcrafted Modern, it was a bit of an unexpected turn of events that led me to writing the book, as well. But in hindsight, it was the magic combination of expression I didn’t know I was looking for. The photography always comes first and I let my curiosity run rampant as I shoot. Then, after I have edited the images, I hone in on the stories I want to share in the writing. That is the general scenario my process takes.

SA: Speaking of which, you've now published four books. Tell us a little bit about this process – whether you've a vague idea for each project... or how you build a narrative between each space photographed ... maybe a hint as to the next project you're working on…..

LW: The process of creating my books has evolved quite a bit since Handcrafted Modern. I began just because I wanted to see the spaces of my favorite architects and designers and this evolved into a plan to create a library of how creative people live in the 20th/21st centuries. And that is still happening, but I realized pretty quickly that the discernment of my choice of spaces to photograph is very specific. I am looking for what I call “soul spaces”: spaces that are still imbued with their inhabitant’s soul if they are no longer with us and an innate expression of the owner if they are still living there. There is always a certain je ne sais quoi that I am looking for. I know it when I see/feel it. But I am not sure there are words to describe it.

As for what’s next, I am looking to more shows in art galleries and museums. There is a particular project I am just diving into that will be in a major museum in a few years. I can’t say more. And of course there will be an accompanying book. Creating books is in my DNA.

SA: Finally, pretend you are not Leslie Williamson and that Leslie Williamson comes to one of the homes you've lived in – any of them from your whole life – to photograph it for Still Lives: The Sequel. What room would you want her to capture? What is in it?

LW: Oh wow…what a question! I am not sure any of my former or current homes would warrant being included in one of my books. But I do wish I could time travel back and photograph all of my former living spaces starting with my childhood home, where my father still lives, before we remodeled it in 1976. I can’t really remember it before that and am curious what it was like in its original state and how my parents had it set up, what objects they had, etc. I also wonder if there is an evolutionary through line of my own that would be evident in my own bedroom/homes throughout my life starting from my first bedroom. Like artists who make a portrait of themselves once a year, I wish I had a portrait of my living spaces for every year. I would be fascinated to see that, just for my own curiosity and self learning.

Photos by Leslie Williamson

Leslie Williamson’s home in Monterrey, CA.

“The Party Room” at Doc’s Lab on Cannery Row in Monterey. Originally the home of noted marine biologist and Steinbeck muse Ed Ricketts.

Detail in Ed Rickett's former home and business, Pacific Biological Laboratories, on Cannery Row. Monterey, CA.

JB Blunk’s ‘Moongate’ sculpture and his home in Inverness, CA. 

Detail of the living and loft area in JB Blunk’s home.

Artist and AIDS activist Derek Jarman’s library at Prospect Cottage, his home in Dungeness, UK.

The kitchen/greenhouse and a longe area in the home of artists Evan Shively and Madeleine Fitzpatrick. Marshall, CA.

Artist David Ireland’s sitting room in his home and masterwork, 500 Capp Street. San Francisco, CA.

Stair detail in artist Jesse Schlesinger’s home. Sausalito, CA.

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LOLA GOES OFF

Lola: Hey, Stonks, you got a second?

Sutton: It's Stockwell, not Stonks.

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[Owen Fitzpatrick overhears this and sends a group text to all his friends.]

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Lola: And the girl you made out with at the bonfire is Jacqueline, not Madeleine. Can't remember her name. Lied to her about prom. Why didn't you just tell her the truth?

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Sutton: I didn't want to hurt her feelings.

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Lola: So instead you let her think she has a chance? You suck.

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Supreme Court, U.S FILED In The OCT 2 2022 Supreme Court ofthe United States  RALAND J BRUNSON, Petitioner,

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Books I've Read

2024: The Mister - E.L James The Hypnotist's Love Story - Liane Moriarty A Country Escape - Katie Fforde Dear Cupid - Julie Ortolon Lock and Key - Sarah Dessen Summer Rental - Mary Kay Andrews (accidental reread) The Sleeping Beauty Proposal - Sarah Strohmeyer The Importance of Being Married - Gemma Townley Big Summer - Jennifer Weiner Honey, Baby, Sweetheart - Deb Caletti A Summer To Remember - Erika Montgomery What I Thought Was True - Huntley Fitzpatrick When in Rome... - Gemma Townley

2023: I Remember You - Harriet Evans Sex and the Single Witch - Theresa Alan, Holly Chamberlin, Carly Alexander The Orchardist - Amanda Coplin The Ex-Boyfriend Yard Sale: Finding a Formula for the Cost of Love - Haley McGee Vivien's Heavenly Ice Cream Shop - Abby Clements The Summer List - Amy Mason Doan For Better, for Worse - Carole Matthews One Perfect Summer - Brenda Novak Beach Season - Lisa Jackson, Holly Chamberlin, Cathy Lamb, Rosalind Noonan Villa Serena - Domenica De Rosa Sunset Beach - Mary Kay Andrews Sleeping Arrangements - Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella) An Island Wedding (Mure, #5) - Jenny Colgan Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds Minding Frankie - Maeve Binchy One Hundred Names - Cecelia Ahern

2022: The Interestings - Meg Wolitzer Thanks for the Memories - Cecelia Ahern Falling - Jane Green First Comes Love - Emily Giffin Can You Keep A Secret? - Sophie Kinsella The Cake Shop in the Garden - Carole Matthews Remember Me? - Sophie Kinsella The Hypothetical Girl - Elizabeth Cohen The Gatecrasher - Madeleine Wickham (Sophie Kinsella) Dreamland - Sarah Dessen Vintage - Susan Gloss The Vacationers - Emma Straub That Summer - Jennifer Weiner Summer At The Garden Cafe - Felicity Hayes-McCoy The Beachcomber - Josephine Cox Love Always - Harriet Evans On The Other Side - Carrie Hope Fletcher Writers & Lovers - Lily King In Full Bloom - Caroline Hwang Christmas Dessert Murder (A Hannah Swensen Mystery: Christmas Caramel Murder, Christmas Cake Murder) - Joanne Fluke

Pre 2014: To Be Perfectly Honest - Sonya Sones This Is What Happy Looks Like - Jennifer E. Smith The Fault In Our Stars - John Green Looking For Alaska - John Green Paper Towns - John Green The Abundance of Katherines - John Green Crank - Ellen Hopkins Glass Fallout

Burned - Ellen Hopkins Smoke Eleanor & Park - Rainbow Rowell Get Well Soon - Julie Halpern Have A Nice Day Falling in Love with English Boys - Melissa Jensen Tweet Heart - Elizabeth Rudnick The Summer I Turned Pretty - Jenny Han It's Not Summer Without You We'll Always Have Summer ------ 2014: Sing You Home - Jodi Picoult The Earth, My Butt and Other Big Round Things - Carolyn Mackler Being Friends with Boys - Terra Elan McVoy Billy and Me - Giovanna Fletcher 13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson The Last Little Blue Envelope Twenties Girl - Sophie Kinsella Fangirl - Rainbow Rowell Babe in Boyland - Jody Gehrman Faking It - Cora Carmack Losing It (first in series, read backwards) All Lined Up - Cora Carmack(Rusk University)~ Amy & Roger's Epic Detour - Morgan Matson Since You've Been Gone - Morgan Matson The Geography of You and Me - Jennifer E. Smith Anna and the French Kiss - Stephanie Perkins* Lola and the Boy Next Door - Stephanie Perkins* Girl Online - Zoe Sugg/Siobhan Curham Finding It - Cora Carmack(losing it series) Every Day - David Levithan

2015: Isla and the Happily Ever After - Stephanie Perkins* Uglies - Scott Westerfeld Pretties Specials Extras To All The Boys I've Loved Before - Jenny Han- Life On The Refigerator Door - Alice Kuipers My Life Next Door - Huntley Fitzpatrick The Secret Life of Prince Charming - Deb Caletti Breakfast Served Anytime - Sarah Combs Aristole and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe - Benjamin Alire Sáenz All Broke Down - Cora Carmack~ Attachments - Rainbow Rowell Pretty Face - Mary Hogan Perfect - Ellen Hopkins (read out of order) Impulse  PS. I Still Love You - Jenny Han- My true love gave to me : twelve holiday stories  - edited by Stephanie Perkins The Statistical Probablity of Love at First Sight - Jennifer E. Smith All Played Out - Cora Carmack~

2016: Second Chance Summer - Morgan Matson All I Know Now - Carrie Hope Fletcher Dream A Little Dream - Giovanna Fletcher Carry On - Rainbow Rowell You're The One That I Want - Giovanna Fletcher Hello, Goodbye and Everything In Between - Jennifer E. Smith The Unexpected Everything - Morgan Matson The Guardian - Nicholas Sparks Landline - Rainbow Rowell The F-It List - Julie Halpern Solitaire - Alice Oseman This Lullaby - Sarah Dessen Bliss - Shay Mitchell & Michaela Blaney

2017: The Chocolate Lovers' Diet - Carole Matthews The Chocolate Lovers' Christmas The Chocolate Lovers' Wedding How To Start a Fire - Lisa Lutz The You I've Never Known - Ellen Hopkins Summer Rental - Mary Kay Andrews All The Summer Girls - Meg Donohue Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac - Gabrielle Zevin Windfall - Jennifer E. Smith All The Bright Places - Jennifer Niven The Sun Is Also A Star - Nicola Yoon

2018: Everything Leads To You - Nina LaCour We Are Okay - Nina LaCour You Know Me Well - Nina LaCour & David Levithan The Disenchantments - Nina LaCour Something Like Happy - Eva Woods Meant To Be - Julie Halpern Always and Forever, Lara Jean - Jenny Han-

2019: Let It Snow - John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson 2020: So Inn Love - Catherine Clark The UnDomestic Goddess - Sophie Kinsella The Night Swimmer - Matt Bondurant Welcome to the Real World - Carole Matthews My Life Before Me - Norah McClintock 2021: A Winter's Tale - Trisha Ashley Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman A Hopeless Romantic - Harriet Evans The Boy Next Door - Meg Cabot Mermaids in Paradise - Lydia Millet The Vintage Guide to Love and Romance - Kristy Greenwood Italian for Beginners - Kristin Harmel Love & Gelato - Jenna Evans Welch The Summer of Us - Holly Chamberlin Swapping Lives - Jane Green The Friends We Keep - Holly Chamberlin The Daughters - Joanna Philbin Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore - Robin Sloan The History of Love - Nicole Krauss This Time Next Year - Sophie Cousens Misery Loves Cabernet - Kim Gruenenfelder Time Between Us - Tamara Ireland Stone Second Chance - Jane Green Sorry Not Sorry - Sophie Ranald I Was Jane Austen's Best Friend - Cora Harrison Miss You - Kate Eberlen Meet Cute: Some People Are Destined To Meet - Jennifer L. Armentrout , Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton, Katie Cotugno, Jocelyn Davies, Nina LaCour, Emery Lord , Katharine McGee , Kass Morgan , Meredith Russo, Sara Shepard , Nicola Yoon , Ibi Zoboi , Julie Murphy The Idea of You - Robinne Lee

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Thank you for the tag love @buffnatalieportman 🖤

Tell us your top five:

Songs, TV series, Movies, Books, Foods

Then send this to five people you want to get to know better!

Songs: (Forever Changing)

1. Amatz by Shanti Dope

2. The Outsider by A Perfect Circle

3. Came For The Low by ZHU and Partywithray

4. Next Level by 7kingZ

5. Closer by NIN

TV Series: (Forever Favorites)

1. The Falcon and The Winter Solider

2. Supernatural

3. The Mandalorian

4. Star Wars: The Clone Wars

5. Hannibal

Movies: (Few of Many Favorites)

1. John Wick Series

2. Zombie Land

3. Captain America: The Winter Solider

4. The Mummy Series

5. Avengers Infinity War

Books: (To Many To Think Of)

1. Dark World by Kelly Crigger and Zak Bagans

2. Hush, Hush Series by Becca Fitzpatrick

3. It by Stephen King

4. Asylum by Madeleine Roux

5. Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Foods: (My Beloved)

1. Chicken

2. Stir Fry Vegetables

3. Chinese Food

4. BBQ

5. Burgers

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2020 Olympics Canada Roster

Athletics

Trevor Hofbauer (Guelph, Ontario)

Evan Dunfee (Richmond, British Columbia)

Bismark Boateng (Toronto, Ontario)

Andre De Grasse (Markham, Ontario)

Gavin Smellie (Toronto, Ontario)

Aaron Brown (Toronto, Ontario)

Brendon Rodney (Brampton, Ontario)

Marco Arop (Edmonton, Alberta)

Brandon McBride (Windsor, Ontario)

Mohammed Ahmed (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Lucas Bruchet (Surrey, British Columbia)

Justyn Knight (Toronto, Ontario)

John Gay (Kelowna, British Columbia)

Matthew Hughes (Oshawa, Ontario)

Jerome Blake (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Cameron Levins (Campbell River, British Columbia)

Ben Preisner (Milton, Ontario)

Mathieu Bilodeau (Quebec City, Quebec)

Django Lovett (Langley, British Columbia)

Michael Mason (New Westminster, British Columbia)

Tim Nedow (Brockville, Ontario)

Pierce LePage (Toronto, Ontario)

Damian Warner (London, Ontario)

Dayna Pidhoresky (Windsor, Ontario)

Khamica Bingham (Brampton, Ontario)

Crystal Emmanuel (Toronto, Ontario)

Kyra Constantine (Brampton, Ontario)

Natassha McDonald (Mississauga, Ontario)

Melissa Bishop-Nriagu (Lakeshore, Ontario)

Lindsey Butterworth (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Madeleine Kelly (Pembroke, Ontario)

Gabriela Stafford (Toronto, Ontario)

Natalia Hawthorn (Bracebridge, Ontario)

Lucia Stafford (Toronto, Ontario)

Andrea Seccafien (Guelph, Ontario)

Julie-Anne Staehli (Lucknow, Ontario)

Noelle Montcalm (Windsor, Ontario)

Sage Watson (Medicine Hat, Alberta)

Alycia Butterworth (Parksville, British Columbia)

Geneviève Lalonde (Moncton, New Brunswick)

Regan Yee (South Hazleton, British Columbia)

Alicia Brown (Ottawa, Ontario)

Madeline Price (San Francisco, California)

Malindi Elmore (Kelowna, British Columbia)

Tasha Wodak (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Christabel Nettey (Brampton, Ontario)

Anicka Newell (Albuquerque, New Mexico)

Alysha Newman (London, Ontario)

Brittany Crew (Mississauga, Ontario)

Sarah Mitton (Brooklyn, Nova Scotia)

Liz Gleadle (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Camryn Rogers (Richmond, British Columbia)

Jillian Weir (Sunnyvale, California)

Georgia Ellenwood (Langley, British Columbia)

Canoeing

Cam Smedley-Audet (Ottawa, Ontario)

Michael Tayler (Ottawa, Ontario)

Connor Fitzpatrick (Dartmouth, Nova Scotia)

Roland Varga (Aurora, Ontario)

Mark De Jonge (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Nicholas Matveev (Toronto, Ontario)

Simon McTavish (Oakville, Ontario)

Vincent Jourdenais (Chambly, Quebec)

Brian Malfesi (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Pierre-Luc Poulin (Quebec City, Quebec)

Katie Vincent (Mississauga, Ontario)

Haley Daniels (Calgary, Alberta)

Florence Maheu (Salaberry-De-Valleyfield, Quebec)

Laurie Lapointe (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Andréanne Langlois (Quebec City, Quebec)

Michelle Russell (Fall River, Nova Scotia)

Alanna Bray-Lougheed (Oakville, Ontario)

Madeline Schmidt (Ottawa, Ontario)

Cycling

Nick Wammes (London, Ontario)

Hugo Houle (Nicolet, Quebec)

Michael Woods (Toronto, Ontario)

Hugo Barrette (Santa Monica, California)

Vincent De Haître (Ottawa, Ontario)

Michael Foley (Montreal, Quebec)

Derek Gee (Ottawa, Ontario)

Jay Lamoureux (Victoria, British Columbia)

Guillaume Boivin (Montreal, Quebec)

Peter Disera (Kitchener, Ontario)

James Palmer (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Karol-Ann Canuel (Amos, Quebec)

Leah Kirchmann (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Lauriane Genest (Montreal, Quebec)

Kelsey Mitchell (Sherwood Park, Alberta)

Allison Beveridge (Calgary, Alberta)

Ariane Bonhomme (Gatineau, Quebec)

Jasmin Duehring (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Annie Foreman-Mackey (Kingston, Ontario)

Georgia Simmerling (Calgary, Alberta)

Alison Jackson (Vermilion, Alberta)

Catharine Pendrel (Fredericton, New Brunswick)

Haley Smith (Markham, Ontario)

Drew Mechielsen (Surrey, British Columbia)

Fencing

Shaul Gordon (Montreal, Quebec)

Marc-Antoine Blais-Bélanger (Montreal, Quebec)

Alex Cai (Montreal, Quebec)

Eli Schenkel (Richmond, British Columbia)

Maximilien Van Haaster (Montreal, Quebec)

Blake Broszus (Ottawa, Ontario)

Gabriella Page (Montreal, Quebec)

Jessica Guo (Toronto, Ontario)

Eleanor Harvey (Hamilton, Ontario)

Kelleigh Ryan (Ottawa, Ontario)

Alanna Goldie (Calgary, Alberta)

Sailing

Evan DePaul (Hamilton, Ontario)

William Jones (Hamilton, Ontario)

Tom Ramshaw (Toronto, Ontario)

Oliver Bone (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Jacob Saunders (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Mariah Millen (Toronto, Ontario)

Ali Ten Hove (Kingston, Ontario)

Nikola Girke (Grande Prairie, Alberta)

Sarah Douglas (Toronto, Ontario)

Climbing

Sean McColl (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Alannah Yip (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Swimming

Markus Thormeyer (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Brent Hayden (Mission, British Columbia)

Joshua Liendo-Edwards (Markham, Ontario)

Yuri Kisil (Toronto, Ontario)

Cole Pratt (Calgary, Alberta)

Gabe Mastromatteo (Kenora, Ontario)

Finlay Knox (Toronto, Ontario)

Ruslan Gaziev (Toronto, Ontario)

Hau-Li Fan (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Javier Acevedo (Toronto, Ontario)

Hannah MacNeil (London, Ontario)

Ky Masse (Toronto, Ontario)

Penny Oleksiak (Toronto, Ontario)

Sydney Pickrem (Clearwater, Florida)

Taylor Ruck (Scottsdale, Arizona)

Kayla Sanchez (Toronto, Ontario)

Summer McIntosh (Toronto, Ontario)

Katrina Bellio (Mississauga, Ontario)

Kierra Smith (Kelowna, British Columbia)

Kelsey Wog (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Katerine Savard (Pont-Rouge, Quebec)

Bailey Andison (Smiths Falls, Ontario)

Tess Cieplucha (Oakville, Ontario)

Rebecca Smith (Red Deer, Alberta)

Mary-Sophie Harvey (Laval, Quebec)

Kate Sanderson (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Claudia Holzner (Montreal, Quebec)

Jacqueline Simoneau (Montreal, Quebec)

Emily Armstrong (Toronto, Ontario)

Rosalie Boissonneault (Drummondville, Quebec)

Andrée-Anne Côté (Quebec City, Quebec)

Camille Fiola-Dion (Rimouski, Quebec)

Audrey Joly (Saint-Eustache, Quebec)

Halle Pratt (Edmonton, Alberta)

Table Tennis

Jeremy Hazin (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Mo Zhang (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Eugene Wang (Aurora, Ontario)

Taekwondo

Skylar Park (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Yvette Yong (Toronto, Ontario)

Wrestling

Amar Dhesi (Surrey, British Columbia)

Jordan Steen (Ottawa, Ontario)

Danielle Lappage (Olds, Alberta)

Erica Wiebe (Stittsville, Ontario)

Archery

Crispin Duenas (Toronto, Ontario)

Stephanie Barrett (Newmarket, Ontario)

Badminton

Brian Yáng (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Jason Ho-Shue (Markham, Ontario)

Nyl Yakura (Toronto, Ontario)

Joshua Hurlburt-Yu (Toronto, Ontario)

Michelle Man-Shan (Markham, Ontario)

Rachel Honderich (Toronto, Ontario)

Kristen Tsai (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Josephine Wu (Edmonton, Alberta)

Basketball

Shaina Pellington (Pickering, Ontario)

Kia Nurse (Hamilton, Ontario)

Bridget Carleton (Chatham, Ontario)

Folade Raincock-Ekunwe (Vernon, British Columbia)

Kim Gaucher (Mission, British Columbia)

Miranda Ayim (London, Ontario)

Natalie Achonwa (Hamilton, Ontario)

Shay Colley (Brampton, Ontario)

Kayla Alexander (Milton, Ontario)

Laeticia Amihere (Mississauga, Ontario)

Nirra Fields (Lachine, Quebec)

Aaliyah Edwards (Toronto, Ontario)

Boxing

Wyatt Sanford (Kennetcook, Nova Scotia)

Mandy Bujold (Kitchener, Ontario)

Caroline Veyre (Montreal, Quebec)

Myriam Da Silva (Chambly, Quebec)

Tammara Thibeault (Saint-Georges, Quebec)

Diving

Cédric Fofana (Montreal, Quebec)

Rylan Wiens (Saskatoon, Saskatchewan)

Nathan Zsombor-Murray (Montreal, Quebec)

Vincent Riendeau (Montreal, Quebec)

Jennifer Abel (Montreal, Quebec)

Pamela Ware (Longueuil, Quebec)

Meaghan Benfeito-Correia (Montreal, Quebec)

Celina Toth (Victoria, British Columbia)

Mélissa Citrini-Beaulieu (Saint-Constant, Quebec)

Caeli McKay (Calgary, Alberta)

Equestrian

Chris Von Martels (Wellington, Florida)

Mario Deslausriers (Venise-En-Québec, Quebec)

Brittany Fraser-Beaulieu (New Glasgow, Nova Scotia)

Lindsay Kellock (New York, New York)

Colleen Loach (Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Jessica Phoenix (Uxbridge Township, Ontario)

Field Hockey

Floris Van Son (Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Brandon Pereira (Surrey, British Columbia)

Scott Tupper (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Gabriel Ho-Garcia (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Oliver Scholfield (Toronto, Ontario)

Keegan Pereira (Toronto, Ontario)

Brendan Guraliuk (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Gordon Johnston (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Brenden Bissett (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Jamie Wallace (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Mark Pearson (Vancouver, British Columbia)

John Boothroyd (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Matthew Sarmento (Vancouver, British Columbia)

John Smythe (Vancouver, British Columbia)

James Kirkpatrick (Victoria, British Columbia)

Sukhi Panesar (Surrey, British Columbia)

Taylor Curran (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Antoni Kindler (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Soccer

Stephanie Labbé (Edmonton, Alberta)

Allysha Chapman (Oshawa, Ontario)

Kadeisha Buchanan (Brampton, Ontario)

Shelina Zadorsky (London, Ontario)

Deanne Rose (New Tecumseth, Ontario)

Julia Grosso (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Jayde Riviere (Pickering, Ontario)

Adriana Leon (King Township, Ontario)

Ashley Lawrence (Toronto, Ontario)

Desiree Scott (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Christine Sinclair (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Évelyne Viens (L’Ancienne-Lorette, Quebec)

Vanessa Gilles (Châteauguay, Quebec)

Nichelle Prince (Ajax, Ontario)

Janine Beckie (Douglas County, Colorado)

Jessie Fleming (London, Ontario)

Kailen Sheridan (Pickering, Ontario)

Jordyn Huitema (Chilliwack, British Columbia)

Sophie Schmidt (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

Gabrielle Carle (Quebec City, Quebec)

Erin McLeod (Calgary, Alberta)

Golf

Corey Conners (Palm Beach Gardens, Florida)

Mackenzie Hughes (Charlotte, North Carolina)

Brooke Henderson (Smiths Falls, Ontario)

Alena Sharp (Phoenix, Arizona)

Gymnastics

René Cournoyer (Repentigny, Quebec)

Ellie Black (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

Brooklyn Moors (Cambridge, Ontario)

Shallon Olsen (Surrey, British Columbia)

Ava Stewart (Bowmanville, Ontario)

Rosie MacLennan (King Township, Ontario)

Samantha Smith (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Judo

Arthur Margelidon (Montreal, Quebec)

Tony Valois-Fortier (Quebec City, Quebec)

Shady El Nahas (Toronto, Ontario)

Ecaterina Guică (La Prairie, Quebec)

Jessica Klimkait (Whitby, Ontario)

Catherine Beauchemin-Pinard (Montreal, Quebec)

Karate

Daniel Gaysinsky (Caledon, Ontario)

Rowing

Trevor Jones (Selwyn Township, Ontario)

Patrick Keane (Victoria, British Columbia)

Maxwell Lattimer (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Kai Langerfeld (North Vancouver, British Columbia)

Conlin McCabe (Brockville, Ontario)

Jakub Buczek (Kitchener, Ontario)

Luke Gadsdon (Hamilton, Ontario)

Gavin Stone (Brampton, Ontario)

Will Crothers (Kingston, Ontario)

Carling Zeeman (Hamilton, Ontario)

Jessica Sevick (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Gabrielle Smith (Markham, Ontario)

Jill Moffatt (Clarington, Ontario)

Jennifer Casson (Kingston, Ontario)

Caileigh Filmer (Saanich, British Columbia)

Hillary Janssens (Victoria, British Columbia)

Stephanie Grauer (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Nicole Hare (Calgary, Alberta)

Jennifer Martins (Toronto, Ontario)

Kristina Walker (Coquitlam, British Columbia)

Susanne Grainger (London, Ontario)

Kasia Gruchalla-Wesierski (Montreal, Quebec)

Madison Mailey (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Sydney Paine (Toronto, Ontario)

Andrea Proske (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Lisa Roman (Surrey, British Columbia)

Christine Roper (Victoria, British Columbia)

Avalon Wasteneys (Victoria, British Columbia)

Kristen Kit (St. Catherines, Ontario)

Rugby

Phil Berna (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Connor Braid (Oak Bay, British Columbia)

Andrew Coe (Brampton, Ontario)

Justin Douglas (Matsqui, British Columbia)

Mike Fuailefau (Victoria, British Columbia)

Lucas Hammond (Victoria, British Columbia)

Nathan Hirayama (Richmond, British Columbia)

Harry Jones (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Patrick Kay (Duncan, British Columbia)

Matt Mullins (Belleville, Ontario)

Theo Sauder (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Jake Thiel (Victoria, British Columbia)

Conor Trainor (Vancouver, British Columbia)

Elissa Alaire (Trois-Rivières, Quebec)

Olivia Apps (Victoria, British Columbia)

Brittany Benn (Napanee, Ontario)

Pam Buisa (Victoria, British Columbia)

Bianca Farella (Westmount, Quebec)

Julia Greenshields (Sarnia, Ontario)

Ghislaine Landry (Toronto, Ontario)

Kaili Lukan (Barrie, Ontario)

Kayla Moleschi (Williams Lake, British Columbia)

Breanne Nicholas (Chatham, Ontario)

Karen Paquin (Quebec City, Quebec)

Keyara Wardley (Calgary, Alberta)

Charity Williams (Toronto, Ontario)

Shooting

Lynda Kiejko (North Dundas, Ontario)

Skateboarding

Andy Anderson (White Rock, British Columbia)

Matt Berger (Kamloops, British Columbia)

Micky Papa (Van Nuys, California)

Annie Guglia (Montreal, Quebec)

Softball

Danielle Lawrie-Locke (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Sara Groenewegen (White Rock, British Columbia)

Jenna Caira (Richmond Hill, Ontario)

Lauren Bay-Regula (Trail, British Columbia)

Natalie Wideman (Mississauga, Ontario)

Kaleigh Rafter (Guelph, Ontario)

Kelsey Harshman (Tucson, Arizona)

Jo Lye (Toronto, Ontario)

Jennifer Salling (Burnaby, British Columbia)

Janet Leung (Mississauga, Ontario)

Emma Entzminger (Victoria, British Columbia)

Erika Polidori (Brantford, Ontario)

Victoria Hayward (Winter Park, Florida)

Jenny Gilbert (Denton, Texas)

Larissa Franklin (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Tennis

Félix Auger-Aliassime (Monte Carlo, Monaco)

Leylah Fernandez (Boynton Beach, Florida)

Gaby Dabrowski (Ottawa, Ontario)

Sharon Fichman (Toronto, Ontario)

Triathlon

Tyler Mislawchuk (Oak Bluff, Manitoba)

Matthew Sharpe (Campbell River, British Columbia)

Alex Lepage (Montreal, Quebec)

Joanna Brown (Ottawa, Ontario)

Amélie Kretz (Sainte-Thérèse, Quebec)

Volleyball

T.J. Sanders (London, Ontario)

John Perrin (Creston, British Columbia)

Steven Marshall (Abbotsford, British Columbia)

Nick Hoag (Sherbrooke, Quebec)

Stephen Maar (Aurora, Ontario)

Jay Blankenau (Edmonton, Alberta)

Ryan Sclater (Port Coquitlam, British Columbia)

Lucas Van Berkel (Edmonton, Alberta)

Sharone Vernon-Evans (Toronto, Ontario)

Graham Vigrass (Calgary, Alberta)

Blair Bann (Edmonton, Alberta)

Arthur Szwarc (Toronto, Ontario)

Heather Bansley (London, Ontario)

Brandie Johnson-Wilkerson (Toronto, Ontario)

Melissa Humaña-Paredes (Toronto, Ontario)

Sarah Pavan (Kitchener, Ontario)

Water Polo

Claire Wright (Lindsay, Ontario)

Clara Vulpisi (Montreal, Quebec)

Kelly McKee (Calgary, Alberta)

Axelle Crevier (Montreal, Quebec)

Emma Wright (Trail, British Columbia)

Monika Eggens (Maple Ridge, British Columbia)

Gurpreet Sohi (Delta, British Columbia)

Joëlle Békhazi (Hamilton, Ontario)

Elyse Lemay-Lavoie (Montreal, Quebec)

Hayley McKelvey (Delta, British Columbia)

Kyra Christmas (High River, Alberta)

Kindred Paul (Spruce Grove, Alberta)

Shae La Roche (Winnipeg, Manitoba)

Weightlifting

Boady Santavy (Sarnia, Ontario)

Rachel Leblanc-Bazinet (Saint-Bruno-De-Montarville, Quebec)

Tali Darsigny (Sainte-Hyacinthe, Quebec)

Maude Charron (Sainte-Luce, Quebec)

Kristel Ngarlem (Montreal, Quebec)

[biandlesbianliterature]

This is part 2 of 3 of the bi and lesbian books that I’ve read and loved! Click here to see the full list at the Lesbrary.

If you like what we do here and want to see more of it, buy us a coffee on ko-fi, or support this tumblr & the Lesbrary on Patreon for $2 or more a month and be entered into monthly book giveaways!

Young Adult:

This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow (review)

Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (review) [children’s/middle grade]

Starting From Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (review)

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake (review)

How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake (review)

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender (review)  [children’s/middle grade]

Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo (review)

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (review)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth (review)

Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee (review) [children’s/middle grade]

Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole (review)

Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman (review)

The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George (review)

Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin (review)

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan (review)

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell (review)

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy (review) [Bisexual M/F]

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (review)

P. S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy (review) [children’s/middle grade]

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate (review) [Bisexual M/F]

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan

Under Threat by Robin Stevenson

As I Descended by Robin Talley (review)

Pulp by Robin Talley (review)

The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde (review)

Going Off Script by Jen Wilde (review)

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (review)

The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (review)

↓ Click through for SFF YA, Sci Fi, Fantasy, and Horror! ↓

SFF Young Adult:

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (review)

Love In the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block (review) [Bisexual M/F]

The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow (review)

Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (review)

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (review)

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (review)

Dreadnought by April Daniels (review) and Sovereign (Dreadnought #2) by April Daniels (review)

All Good Children by Dayna Ingram (review)

Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel by A. W. Jantha

Adaptation (review) and Inheritance by Malinda Lo (review)

Natural Selection (Adaptation 1.5) by Malinda Lo (review)

Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce (review)

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe (review)

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner (review)

Sci Fi:

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (review) [Steampunk/Western]

Tierra Del Fuego, Colony Ship: Parting Shots by Caron Cro (review)

Meanwhile, Elsewhere edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (review)

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (review)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (review)

The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist by S.L. Huang (review)

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (review)

Fantasy:

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (review)

The Narrows by m. craig (review)

Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica (review)

Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (review)

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman (review)

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (review)

Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson (review)

Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (review)

Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw (review)

Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks (review)

A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray (review)

Everfair by Nisi Shawl (review)

Hellebore & Rue edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff (review)

Horror/Zombies/Vampires:

Fist of the Spider Woman edited by Amber Dawn (review)

Alice Isn’t Dead by Joseph Fink

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (review)

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (review)

Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene

Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram (review)

The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (review)

Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories by Pam Kesey

The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan (review)

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado (review)

Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon (review)

If you like what we do here and want to see more of it, buy us a coffee on ko-fi, or support this tumblr & the Lesbrary on Patreon for $2 or more a month and be entered into monthly book giveaways!

This is only part of the list! Click here to see the entire list at the Lesbrary, or check out Part 1: Fiction & Poetry, and Part 3: Romance, Comics, and Nonfiction.

[paddypikala]

June and July Wrap up

A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle

6/10

Finished on June 7, 2019

I thought it would be better, maybe because the trailer for the movie was so nice and so exciting. It was an audiobook, and I really like the narrator,  but I really dislike the characters. The main heroine let things happen to her rather than participated actively in what was going on. And I felt like she wasn't really the main character, she was just there to show us things.

Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

8/10

Finished on June 8, 2019

I liked the book, but it was really childish and predictable. I didn't really like the main character, because she was kind of self-absorbed. Also I felt like the book was sending the message that asexual people cannot communicate with other people, or talk about sex like normal human beings. Trust me, aces can talk about things and stuff.

Miracles of the Namiya General Store by Keigo Higashino

7/10

Finished on June 14, 2019

It was just another heart-warming Japanese book. What was interesting was that it gave social and historical context for what was going on and I think that was fun. There was another book that we read this summer that gave similar context and it was Red Girls.

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

8/10

Finished on June 18, 2019

All and all, a nice book. But there are just some tropes I don’t understand, like a straight losing her virginity with a queer friend who’s not interested in her romantically or otherwise. I think some of the character’s choices and actions were excused by their backgrounds and the fact that LOVE CONQUERS ALL. Well, usually, it doesn’t.

Red Girls by Kazuki Sakuraba

7/10

Finished on July 11, 2019

Japanese authors can’t really finish their books, can they? Or maybe I'm used to something different. anyway, I think that was the first saga I’ve ever read and I had fun reading it. or at least 2/3 of it, as the last part was completely unnecessary and out of place.

Here Lies Daniel Tate by Cristin Terrill

9/10

Finished on July 12, 2019

It was a book I read while observing the teacher trainees’ lessons and despite the circumstances I really enjoyed it. It was a real thriller and I liked the twists and turns and I like the fact that the author didn’t decide to write a forced and silly happy ending.

The Seeds of Speech: Language Origin and Evolution by Jean Aitchison

8/10

Finished on July 24, 2019

It's one of the TESOL books I intend to read over the next year or two while preparing for Delta (maybe, lol). It was interesting, although written for laymen. It shed some light on things that we don't usually realize about our  languages.

Dangerous Lies by Becca Fitzpatrick

6/10

Finished on July 26, 2019

Honestly, it wasn't a good book. It was supposed to be a thriller, but it was very predictable and I don't think it brought anything new to that genre. I kind of forced myself to finish it.

The Lost Narwhal by Tori McGee

8/10

Finished on July 26, 2019

It's one of the children's books I read to check if I can use them with my students. And sure, it's a perfect book for children, because it has beautiful pictures, very nice and clear text, and a clear message at the end.

Light Years by Kass Morgan

6/10

Finished on July 28, 2019

I hoped it would be much better. It didn't really feel like an exciting sci-fi book, there was too much romance in it. Besides, it seemed like a pilot episode of a Sci-Fi TV series I wouldn't want to continue watching anyway.

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness by Kabi Nagata

9/10

Finished on July 30, 2019

It’s the first autobiographical manga I’ve ever read. It was very honest and sometimes it was very painful. I wish it was longer, though: I think that’s the problem with graphic novels: they look like regular books, but you need about forty minutes to read it. I think I'm going to buy the second volume, too.

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

7/10

Finished on July 31, 2019

It was interesting—it shed some light on things I never realized about America and is very distant from the picture of the US American television usually shows us. But it was so long and there were so many characters and themes. It was an audiobook and I really enjoyed the narrator—Adjoa Andoh—who used a variety of accents and voices, making the story even more believable and the characters even more real.

[gov-info]

Roundup! Who’s Who at the State of the Union, 9p.m. ET (watch/listen/read: whitehouse.gov or c-span.org)

Speakers

President Donald Trump

Democratic Response (English): Stacey Abrams

Democratic Response (Spanish): Xavier Becerra

Attendees

Officials: Members of the House and Senate, the President’s Cabinet (with the exception of one planned absentee Cabinet member), Vice President, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, former Members of Congress, and members of the diplomatic corps.

Invited Guests (as of 2 p.m. ET)

President Trump/First Lady Melania Trump

Congress (via @RollCall) click below for list (as of 2p.m. ET):

            Senate

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tennessee: A.B. Culvahouse, Jr., Ambassador of the United States of America to the Commonwealth of Australia and a Tennessean.

Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wisconsin: Diane Whitcraft, a constituent with multiple sclerosis who stopped taking a drug after 23 years because she could not afford it.

Sen. Cory Booker, D-New Jersey: Edward Douglas, who faced a lifetime sentence in 2003 for selling crack cocaine, but was released in January thanks to a criminal justice reform bill called the First Step Act passed by Congress in December.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Illinois: Toby Hauck, an Aurora, Illinois, air traffic controller and Air Force veteran and one of the more than 8,000 Illinois federal employees impacted by the partial government shutdown.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-New York:Navy Lt. Cmdr. Blake Dremann, a transgender service member and the president of SPART*A, an LGBT military advocacy organization focused on transgender military advocacy.

Sen. Kamala Harris, D-California: Trisha Pesiri-Dybvik, an air traffic controller and a mother of three who lost her home in the Travis wildfire, and soon after went without a paycheck during the 35-day shutdown.

Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-New Mexico: Former Pueblo of Acoma Governor Kurt Riley will attend to bring attention to how the shutdown adversely affected public safety, child welfare, and health care programs at Indian Health Service and Bureau of Indian Affairs.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-North Dakota: Bethlehem Gronneberg, founder and CEO of uCodeGirl.

Sen. Angus King, I-Maine: Margo Walsh, the owner and founder of MaineWorks, a Portland employment agency, and co-founder of Maine Recovery Fund, which provides services for people in recovery for substance abuse.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minnesota: Nicole Smith-Holt, a constituent whose son died because the family was unable to afford his insulin.

Sen. Edward Markey, D-Massachusetts: Varshini Prakash, executive director and co-founder of Sunrise, a movement of young people working to stop climate change.

Sen. Martha McSally, R-Arizona: Isaiah Acosta, a 19-year-old rapper born without a jaw, who is an advocate for Phoenix Children’s Hospital and Children’s Miracle Networks Hospitals.

Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nevada: Dr. Michael Moradshahi, a second-generation American and licensed psychologist. Moradshahi served in the Department of Veteran Affairs and currently works in the Indian Health System (IHS) in Reno. He worked without pay during the partial government shutdown.

Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon: Albertina Contreras, a mother detained in solitary confinement and separated from her 11-year-old daughter Yakelin when she sought asylum from domestic violence in Guatemala.

Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio: Jamael Tito Brown, mayor of Youngstown, the beneficiary of a recent U.S. Department of Transportation BUILD grant.

Sen. Jacky Rosen, D-Nevada: Tanya Flanagan, a constituent and county employee who has survived breast cancer three times, who would be at risk of losing health care coverage without the Affordable Care Act’s protections for patients with preexisting conditions.

Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Maryland: Lila Johnson, a grandmother and primary breadwinner, who has worked as a general cleaning services contractor at the U.S. Department of Agriculture for more than two decades. As it stands, Johnson will not receive compensation for the 35 days the government was partially shuttered.

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, D-Arizona: Maj. Bryan Bouchard, a retired Bronze Star recipient.

Sen. Thom Tillis, R-North Carolina: Pastor Andrew Brunson, a North Carolina native who was imprisoned in Turkey, and his wife Norine Brunson. Brunson was arrested during a crackdown after a failed military coup attempt against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. He was released last year.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Massachusetts: Sajid Shahriar, an employee of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development furloughed during the government shutdown. Executive vice president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local 3258, Shahriar organized rallies in Boston to urge an end to the shutdown.

                 House of Representatives

Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Arizona: Border Patrol Agent Art Del Cueto.

Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D-Oregon: Blumenauer will not attend the State of the Union address, but has asked Nate Mook, executive director of the World Central Kitchen, to take his place. Word Central Kitchen, founded by celebrity chef José Andrés, provides food to people in need, and distributed meals to federal employees during the shutdown.

Rep. Suzanne Bonamici, D-Oregon: Alexandria Goddard, who helped organize Portland’s March for Our Lives while a student at Sunset High School. Goddard is currently a freshman at Portland State University.

Rep. Cheri Bustos, D-Illinois:Tom Mueller, a soybean farmer whose income has taken a hit from trade policy under the Trump administration.

Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-California: Foodbank of Santa Barbara County CEO Erik Talkin, who distributed food to furloughed workers during the 35-day partial government shutdown.

Rep John Carter, R-Texas: Robert Chody, the Williamson County sheriff. Carter said in a statement that Chody was a U.S. Army veteran and served in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice before taking the helm in Williamson County.

Rep. Judy Chu, D-California: Ryan Hampton, an advocate who was able to receive treatment for opioid addiction only to see his friend die in a sober-living facility due to lack of training and resources. Hampton will argue Trump is ignoring the opioid crisis by obsessing over a non-solution.

Rep. David Cicilline, D-Rhode Island: Jamie Green, an air traffic controller at T.F. Green International Airport.

Rep. Bonnie Watson Coleman, D-New Jersey: Victorina Morales, an undocumented immigrant who worked as a housekeeper at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

Rep. Gerald E. Connolly, D-Virginia: Amer Al-Mudallal, a chemist and 22-year veteran of the chemical safety division of the Environmental Protection Agency. Both Amer and his wife, another EPA employee, were furloughed and missed their paychecks during the partial government shutdown.

Rep. Angie Craig, D-Minnesota: Katie Brenny, who Craig describes as a cattle farmer, businesswoman, and community advocate.

Rep. Charlie Crist, D-Florida: “Coast Guard family” Petty Officer Chris Gutierrez and Chelsey Gutierrez. Gutierrez is stationed at Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater.

Rep. Joe Cunningham, D-South Carolina: Folly Beach Mayor Tim Goodwin, a Republican, who endorsed Cunningham over his GOP opponent Katie Arrington last year.

Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kansas: Laura Robeson, a mother and health care advocate from Prairie Village, whose 7-year-old son Danny was born prematurely and has cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and cortical vision impairment.

Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Illinois: Taylorville Fire Chief Mike Crews, who was instrumental in the emergency notification and disaster recovery efforts when a tornado struck the congressman’s hometown on Dec. 1, 2018.

Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pennsylvania: Jami Amo, a survivor of the 1999 Columbine school shooting. Amo became a gun safety activist after the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School last year.

Rep. Antonio Delgado, D-New York: Michael Hickey, who exposed elevated levels of toxic PFOA chemicals in Hoosick Falls and Petersburgh after his father died of cancer.

Rep. Val Demings, D-Florida: Orange County Mayor Jerry Demings and Ralph Velez, a federal employee at Orlando International Airport who worked without a paycheck during the partial government shutdown.

Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Florida: Manny Oliver, who started the organization Change the Ref after losing his son Joaquin in the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

Rep. Nanette Diaz Barragán, D-California: Charlene Downey, a retired U.S. Coast Guard Captain.

Rep. Veronica Escobar, D-Texas: Senaida Navar, a DACA recipient and an adjunct instructor at the University of Texas at El Paso.

Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-New York: Yeni Gonzalez Garcia, a Guatemalan mother separated from her three children at the Arizona border last year.

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick, R-Pennsylvania: Justin Cangro, 16, whose 20-year-old brother Jared died of an overdose in July 2016.

Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, R-Tennessee: Gov. Bill Lee will join Fleischmann as his guest and meet with the entire Tennessee delegation.

Rep. Bill Foster, D-Illinois: Marilyn Weisner, executive director of the Aurora Area Interfaith Food Pantry.

Rep. Lois Frankel, D-Florida: Kim Churches, CEO of the American Association of University Women, an organization that promotes education for women and girls.

Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Florida: Carlos Trujillo, U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States. Gaetz tweeted Trujillo has been a “key advisor” to the Trump administration on Venezuela policy.

Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Arizona: Beth Lewis, chair of Save Our Schools Arizona, an organization that advocates for strong public schools.

Rep. Sylvia R. Garcia, D-Texas: Devani Gonzalez, a DACA recipient who aspires to be in law enforcement but is hindered due to her immigration status.

Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine: Cynthia Phinney, president of the Maine AFL-CIO.

Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-California: Sandra Diaz, another former housekeeper who worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, New Jersey, as an undocumented immigrant. Diaz endured coercion, physical and verbal abuse, and threats of deportation from her supervisors there, Gomez said in a statement.Diaz, who emigrated from Costa Rica, is now a legal resident and does not have to worry her attendance will tip off U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Rep. Josh Gottheimer, D-New Jersey: Annette Leo, the mother of two who have been diagnosed with Ataxia Telangiectasia, a rare, progressive neurological disorder.

Rep. Deb Haaland, D-New Mexico: Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality.

Rep. Josh Harder, D-California: John Casazza, a Central Valley walnut farmer from Hughson and lifelong Republican. Recent Chinese tariffs are “significantly hurting his business due to the lowered demand,” according to a statement.

Rep. Jim Himes, D-Connecticut: Lane Murdock, a junior at Ridgefield High School student and co-founder of National School Walkout, which organized a massive student protest in the wake of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-District of Columbia: Faye Smith, a member of 32BJ SEIU, a contracted Smithsonian security officer who was facing eviction because of the shutdown.

Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Maryland: Jacqueline Beale, Maryland state lead ambassador for the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Washington: Lisa J. Graumlich, climate scientist and Dean of the College of the Environment at the University of Washington.

Rep. Bill Johnson, R-Ohio: Chris Green, a police officer who nearly overdosed after being exposed to fentanyl during an arrest.

Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Michigan: Cathy Wusterbarth, of Oscoda, who has advocated for all levels of government to more urgently address toxic per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) contamination that has been found in drinking water in her community.

Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa: Far-right Fox News personalities “Diamond and Silk.”

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Illinois: Dixon High School Resource Officer Mark Dallas, who intervened when a former student started firing in the school auditorium last year.

Rep. Conor Lamb, D-Pennsylvania: Darrin Kelly, a veteran of the U.S. Navy, firefighter and president of the Allegheny/Fayette Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO.

Rep. Jim Langevin, D-Rhode Island: Stephen Cardi, the chief operating officer of the Cardi Corporation and president of Construction Industries of Rhode Island.

Rep. Susie Lee, D-Nevada: Sergeant Isaac Saldivar, who served in the U.S. Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq. Saldivar lost two years of G.I. Bill benefits when the for-profit college he was enrolled in closed.

Rep. Mike Levin, D-California: Lucero Sanchez, a DACA recipient, student in environmental science at UC San Diego, and former intern on Levin’s campaign.

Rep. Daniel Lipinski, D-Illinois: Chicago police officer Gino Garcia and advocate for the organization WINGS, which provides shelter and job training for victims of domestic violence.

Rep. Dave Loebsack, D-Iowa: Jeff Chapman, battalion chief of the Clinton Fire Department, who has served with the department since 1995.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-California: Shaima Swileh, a Yemeni national, and Ali Hassan, a U.S. citizen, to spotlight the impact of the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban. Though their 2-year-old son is receiving treatment for a terminal genetic brain condition in the U.S., the couple struggled to obtain a visa for Swileh, his mother. After a public outcry, Swileh was able to visit the U.S. weeks before her son died. Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Calif., will also host the couple.

Rep. Tom Malinowski, D-New Jersey: Hing Foo Lee, brother of the late patient advocate John Lee, who was profiled in the Washington Post for his determination to vote in NJ-07 while dealing with stage IV cancer.

Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, D-New York: Sydney B. Ireland, a high school student who successfully lobbied to join the Boy Scout Troops and is now fighting to be officially recognized as a member with a rank of Eagle Scout.

Rep. Ben McAdams, D-Utah: McAdams will bring his brother-in-law Sam, who voted for Trump in 2016.

Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-California: Shaima Swileh, a Yemeni national, and Ali Hassan, a U.S. citizen, to spotlight the impact of the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., will also host the couple.

Rep. Grace Meng, D-New York: Jin Park of Flushing, Queens, the first Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient to be awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Park is to study at the University of Oxford in England in the fall but fears he will not be permitted to re-enter the country.

Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Florida: A 15-year-old student, Uma Menon of Winter Park, the winner of the congresswoman’s State of the Union essay contest.

Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colorado: Elias, a DACA recipient and student in chemical and biological engineering, as well as biomedical engineering at Colorado State University. Elias emigrated from Mexico at a young age.

Rep. Donald Norcross, D-New Jersey: Robert Martinez Jr., who is the International President of the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers and is a veteran of the U.S. Navy. Norcross has introduced a bill to grant federal contractors back pay for income lost during the shutdown.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York: Ana Maria Archila, co-executive director of the Center for Popular Democracy. Archila made national headlines last year when she confronted then-Sen. Jeff Flake, R-Arizona, in a Capitol elevator and challenged him to vote against Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court.

Rep. Tom O’Halleran, D-Arizona: Navajo Nation Vice President Myron Lizer.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minnesota: Linda Clark, who fled Liberia and found refuge in the U.S. two decades ago under Deferred Enforced Departure, but who faces deportation as soon as March because the Trump administration has shuttered the program.

Rep. Chris Pappas, D-New Hampshire: Pappas invited transgender veteran Tavion Dignard in order to call attention to the transgender military service ban.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-California: The House Speaker’s guest list includes active duty transgender members of the military, Chef José Andrés, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser and DNC Chair Tom Perez. The Leader’s other State of the Union guests are President Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO, President Randi Weingarten of the American Federation of Teachers, former Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe and Mrs. Dorothy McAuliffe.

Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine: Joel Clement, a former Department of the Interior policy expert and whistleblower, who alleged the Trump administration retaliated against him for speaking out about the threat climate change poses to Native communities in Alaska after department higher-ups moved the biologist into the accounting department.

Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wisconsin: Aissa Olivarez, staff attorney for the Community Immigration Law Center in Madison, a nonprofit resource center which helps low-income immigrants with legal services.

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-California: Kenia Yaritza Arredondo Ramos, a mother, DACA recipient and nursing student at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College.

Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio: Dave Green, president of United Auto Workers Local 1112, which represents General Motors workers at the Lordstown plant, one of five North American plants GM is closing.

Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Washington: Issaquah resident Jenell Payne Tamaela. Jenell was diagnosed with stage 3c colon cancer in Summer, 2016. She has since become an advocate for better access to health care for people with pre-existing conditions, and lower costs of prescription drugs and health care coverage. Jenell and Rep. Schrier are two of an estimated 300,000 people with pre-existing conditions in the 8th District.

Rep. Terri Sewell, D-Alabama: Tiphanie Carter, wife of Birmingham Police Sergeant Wytasha Carter, who was killed on duty last month.

Rep. Elissa Slotkin, D-Michigan: Amanda Thomashow, a sexual assault survivor advocate. Thomashow, a former Michigan State University student, brought the first Title IX case against Larry Nassar at MSU in 2014, which led to an investigation and contributed to Nassar’s eventual firing from the university.

Rep. Jackie Speier, D-California: United States Air Force Staff Sergeant Logan Ireland, who served in Afghanistan and Qatar.

Rep. Darren Soto, D-Florida: Doug Lowe, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and Federal Aviation Administration specialist at the Orlando International Airport.

Rep. Greg Stanton, D-Arizona: Ellie Perez, a DACA recipient, and the first undocumented City of Phoenix employee, the first undocumented member of the Democratic National Committee, and a former campaign aide.

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Michigan: Jean Buller, former teacher at Walled Lake Middle School, who recently retired after 30 years in the school district, and 2018 Michigan Science Teacher of the Year.

Rep. Norma J. Torres, D-California: Joe Rodgers, a Federal Aviation Administration Engineer Technician at Ontario International Airport.

Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-New Mexico: Arlean Murillo, ambassador to the New Mexico Secretary of Education’s Family Cabinet and, as the wife of a U.S. Border Patrol agent, a volunteer with the Border Patrol Agent Family Network.

Rep. Lori Trahan, D-Massachusetts: Lawrence Police Officer Ivan Soto, worked tirelessly during the gas explosions in his community last year, responding to fires even when his own house went up in flames.

Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Michigan: Haley Petrowski, a cyberbullying prevention advocate and Adrian College student.

Rep. Michael Waltz, R-Florida: Senior Chief Jeffery S. Graham, officer in charge of Coast Guard Station Ponce de Leon Inlet in New Smyrna Beach.

Rep. Jennifer Wexton, D-Virginia: Linda McCray, a constituent who works at the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center and was furloughed during the shutdown.

Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-New York: Commissioner Geraldine Hart, who previously led Long Island’s Federal Bureau of Investigations field office and gang task force.

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'I was calling my husband wearing a gas mask': US lawmakers open up after January 6 Capitol siege

Congresswoman Madeleine Dean and Congressman Brian Fitzpatrick got emotional as they discussed their experiences one year later, after the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection.

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100 U.S. Representatives call on Biden Administration to stand with Artsakh Republic and Armenia

New Post has been published on https://armenia.in-the.news/politics/100-u-s-representatives-call-on-biden-administration-to-stand-with-artsakh-republic-and-armenia-69552-19-02-2021/

100 U.S. Representatives call on Biden Administration to stand with Artsakh Republic and Armenia

One hundred Members of Congress – from more than twenty U.S. states – have called upon the Biden Administration to undertake concrete steps for Artsakh’s survival and Armenia’s security, in a bipartisan Armenian Caucus letter strongly supported by the Armenian National Committee of America (ANCA).

“The strong Congressional participation in the Armenian Caucus letter to the Biden Administration reflects and also powerfully reinforces growing bipartisan support for Artsakh among legislators from across America,” said ANCA Government Affairs Director Tereza Yerimyan. “We look forward to working with the leadership of the Caucus and each of our legislative friends to translate these pro-Armenian, pro-peace policy priorities into action.”

The letter, addressed to the Secretaries of State and Defense, underscoring the severity of the regional crisis caused by six weeks of unrelenting Azerbaijani and Turkish aggression last fall, proposes urgent action on the following U.S. policy priorities:

— U.S. emergency assistance that provides the people of Artsakh with the ability to reconstruct their communities and rebuild their lives without fear of further bloodshed.

— U.S. re-engagement in the search for an enduring regional settlement – based on the fundamental right of self-determination – that protects the security of Artsakh and helps to ensure another war does not break out.

— U.S. recognition of the right to self-determination for the people of Artsakh and their role as a legitimate negotiating party in resolving this conflict.

— U.S. leadership in securing the immediate release of Armenian prisoners

— U.S. accountability, including sanctions against high-ranking Azerbaijani and Turkish leaders, the withholding of U.S. aid to Baku, and ending the waiver of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act.

— U.S. support for Armenia’s economic development and assistance to Armenians displaced by Azerbaijani aggression

— U.S. recognition of the Armenian Genocide by President Biden

The Armenian Caucus letter was spearheaded by its leadership, Reps. Frank Pallone (D-NJ), Gus Bilirakis (R-FL), Jackie Speier (D-CA), David Valadao (R-CA), and Adam Schiff (D-CA). Joining them in co-signing this bipartisan appeal were Representatives Jake Auchincloss (D-MA), Jim Banks (R-IN), Nanette Barragan (D-CA), Karen Bass (D-CA), Don Beyer (D-VA), Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), Brendan Boyle (D-PA), Julia Brownley (D-CA), Ken Calvert (R-CA), Salud Carbajal (D-CA), Tony Cardenas (D-CA), Judy Chu (D-CA), David Cicilline (D-RI), Katherine Clark (D-MA), Jim Costa (D-CA), Jason Crow (D-CO), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Peter DeFazio (D-OR), Ted Deutch (D-FL), Mike Doyle (D-PA), Veronica Escobar (D-TX), Anna Eshoo (D-CA), Adriano Espaillat (D-NY), Dwight Evans (D-PA), Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA), John Garamendi (D-CA), Chuy Garcia (D-IL), Mike Garcia (R-CA), Jimmy Gomez (D-CA), Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ), Glenn Grothman (R-WI), Josh Harder (D-CA), Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), Jared Huffman (D-CA), Darrell Issa (R-CA), Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), Hank Johnson (D-GA), David Joyce (R-OH), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Dan Kildee (D-MI), Young Kim (R-CA), Raja Krishnamoorthi (D-IL), Doug LaMalfa (R-CA), James Langevin (D-RI), Brenda Lawrence (D-MI), Susie Lee (D-NV), Andy Levin (D-MI), Mike Levin (D-CA), Ted Lieu (D-CA), Zoe Lofgren (D-CA), Alan Lowenthal (D-CA), Stephen Lynch (D-MA), Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Sean Patrick Maloney (D-NY), Brian Mast (R-FL), Tom McClintock (R-CA), Betty McCollum (D-MN), James McGovern (D-MA), Grace Meng (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Grace Napolitano (D-CA), Richard Neal (D-MA), Joe Neguse (D-CO), Donald Norcross (D-NJ), Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC), Devin Nunes (R-CA), Jimmy Panetta (D-CA), Chris Pappas (D-NH), Kathleen Rice (D-NY), Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA), John Rutherford (R-FL), Linda Sanchez (D-CA), John Sarbanes (D-MD), Mary Gay Scanlon (D-PA), Janice Schakowsky (D-IL), Brad Schneider (D-IL), David Schweikert (R-AZ), Brad Sherman (D-CA), Albio Sires (D-NJ), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Christopher Smith (R-NJ), Michelle Steel (R-CA), Haley Stevens (D-MI), Tom Suozzi (D-NY), Mike Thompson (D-CA), Dina Titus (D-NV), Paul Tonko (D-NY), Lori Trahan (D-MA), David Trone (D-MD), Juan Vargas (D-CA), Nydia Velazquez (D-NY), Maxine Waters (D-CA), Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-NJ), Peter Welch (D-VT), and Susan Wild (D-PA).

The full text of the letter is provided below:

Dear Secretaries Blinken and Austin,

As bipartisan Members of Congress who are engaged in the US-Armenia relationship and interested in strengthening it, we write to offer our congratulations on your recent confirmations and to share a list of our bipartisan priorities we hope to work together on during the 117th Congress.

One of the most pressing issues for the Caucus and for the future of American foreign policy in the South Caucasus region is the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Armenia and Nagorno-Karabakh (Artsakh). As you are aware, Azerbaijani and Turkish forces initiated an unprovoked attack on September 27, 2020, leading to six weeks of devastating fighting that killed an estimated 5,000 people and forced more than 100,000 ethnic Armenians to flee from the Karabakh region.

Azerbaijani forces were able to make rapid advances into the region with the aid of Turkish-backed foreign mercenaries, many alleged to have ties to internationally recognized terrorist groups, Bayraktar drones that utilize American components and technology, and heavy weaponry including the illegal use of cluster and white phosphorus munitions.

With the rising risk of a mass atrocity against thousands of Armenian civilians, Armenia agreed to a peace agreement brokered by Russia on November 10. This agreement brought an end to the fierce combat, but it has done little to address the immediate and significant problems of feeding, sheltering, and ensuring the safety of thousands of displaced families during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In violation of the ceasefire, Azerbaijan also refuses to free dozens of Armenian prisoners of war and apprehended civilians, which illustrates how this agreement fails to address the structural issues that have caused uncertainty and fueled the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict for decades. There remain several important issues that must be resolved and many critical questions that must be answered before a binding and durable peace settlement can be reached.

First, the terms laid out in the current ceasefire are untenable for Artsakh’s long-term security and stability in the region. The United States cannot allow Russia, Turkey, and Azerbaijan to solely dictate and dominate the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh. While we have seen some reengagement in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Minsk Group process, we believe more must be done to pursue an enduring settlement based on the fundamental right to self-determination. We appreciate the response Secretary Blinken gave during his confirmation hearing to this end, stating that he will “reinvigorate U.S. engagement to find a permanent settlement to the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict that protects the security of Nagorno-Karabakh and helps to ensure another war does not break out.”

In negotiations, our diplomats must insist that any future settlement supported by the United States will provide the people of Artsakh with the ability to reconstruct their communities and rebuild their lives without fear of further bloodshed. This should include significant U.S. commitments to provide an urgently needed humanitarian aid and assistance package for the people of Artsakh. The international community, including the United States, also has an important role to play by finally recognizing the right to self-determination for the people of Artsakh and their role as a legitimate negotiating party in resolving this conflict. Absent this recognition, they will continue to face the threat of displacement by Azerbaijani and Turkish forces without any option for formal redress.

Another important component of ensuring lasting peace in the region is to hold destabilizing actors accountable. There is significant evidence that Azerbaijani and Turkish forces planned the invasion in the buildup to the September 27 assault on Nagorno-Karabakh. This evidence includes the stockpiling of armaments, including drones that killed many innocent civilians during the conflict, the July 2020 provocations by Azerbaijani troops in Armenia’s Tavush province, and several instances of large-scale joint military exercises near the Armenian border that foreshadowed the coming attacks. The United States and other international actors failed to acknowledge these warning signs and take necessary steps to prevent the sharp and unprovoked escalation of violence.

Actions that could have been taken at the time to halt Azerbaijani and Turkish aggressions included threatening sanctions on high-ranking officials from those countries and withholding aid, including ending the waiver of Section 907 of the Freedom Support Act and ceasing further military assistance through the Section 333 Building Partner Capacity program. We are encouraged by Secretary Blinken’s response during the confirmation process on this subject as well.

Similarly, the United States must reassess our policy toward Turkey. Turkish President Recep Erdogan’s regime reaps the rewards of the chaos he has sown in the Eastern Mediterranean, Libya, the Middle East, and the South Caucasus. His deliberate destabilizing behavior, which includes the installation of Russian made anti-aircraft missiles over the threat of sanction by the United States, demands a swift and decisive correction. We must learn from the failures of an appeasement policy used by past administrations toward Turkey and use every available diplomatic and economic tool to penalize these bad actors for their aggressions and abhorrent human rights abuses. If we do not act, we risk the likelihood that the Erdogan regime will trigger an ever-expanding zone of conflict.

Finally, the United States should seek to strengthen our strategic relationship with Armenia, a young democracy that has been shaken by last year’s events and the resulting uncertainty they have caused. We urge you to identify ways we can provide additional economic assistance to Armenia to support its democracy and development as well as respond to the significant number of displaced people who have fled the conflict in Artsakh.

We also request that your Administration identify ways in which our economic, cultural, and other ties to Armenia can be improved to benefit Armenia and the large Armenian American diaspora in the United States. Those steps should include the formal recognition of the Armenian Genocide by President Biden on April 24, following in the footsteps of both the House and Senate who passed resolutions recognizing the fact of the Genocide during the 116th Congress.

Thank you for attention to these important matters. We stand ready to work with you to craft a policy in the South Caucasus region that is consistent with U.S. national security, universal principles of human rights, and our democratic values. Our hope is to further discuss these issues with you and your teams at the earliest convenience.

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May 15, 2018

Podcast of The Day

There’s less seats from yesterday, so let’s go ahead with the list...

ID-01(Sandpoint, Lewiston, Murphy): Incumbent - Raul Labrador (Rep) NOT RUNNING Replacement - Russ Fulcher, who challenged Butch Otter with a surprisingly close race. Challenger - Cristina McNeil. PVI: R+21

ID-02(Boise, Twin Falls, Idaho Falls): Incumbent - Mike Simpson (Rep), who is typically crooked. Challenger - Aaron Swisher, economist? PVI: R+17

NE-01(Columbus, Wahoo, Lincoln): Incumbent - Mike Fortenberry (Rep). Challenger - Jessica McClure, former chemist and 36! PVI: R+11

NE-02(Omaha, Waterloo, La Vista): Incumbent - Don Bacon (Rep), he has amusing name... Challenger - Kara Eastman, in a upset! PVI: R+4

NE-03(Kimball, North Platte, Grand Island): Incumbent - Adrian Smith (Rep). Challenger - Paul Theobald, hog farmer and historian... PVI: R+27

OR-01(Astoria, Hillsboro, McMinnville): Incumbent - Suzanne Bonamici (Dem), science & arts. Challenger - John Verbeek, financial adviser. PVI:D+9

OR-02(Medford, Bend, La Grange): Incumbent - Greg Walden (Rep), only one in this state... Challenger - Jaime McLeod-Skinner. PVI: R+11

OR-03(Portland, Gresham, Boring): Incumbent - Earl Blumenauer (Dem), good with environment stuff... NO CHALLENGERS PVI: D+24

OR-04(Eugene, Florence, Roseburg): Incumbent - Peter DeFazio (Dem), the closest district! Challenger - Arthur Robinson, for the fifth time. PVI:EVEN

OR-05(Tillamook, Lincoln City, Salem): Incumbent - Kurt Schrader (Dem). Challenger - Mark Callahan, IT Professional, apparently. PVI:EVEN

PA-01(Philly - Quakertown, Doylestown, Levittown): Incumbent - Brian Fitzpatrick (Rep), very scared. Challenger - Scott Wallace. PVI: R+1

PA-02(Philly - Somerton, Lexington Park, Juanita): Incumbent - Brendan Boyle (Dem), pretty liberal... Challenger - David Torres PVI: D+25

PA-03(Philly - Philadelphia, Spruce Hill, Chestnut Hill): Incumbent - Dwight Evans (Dem). Challenger - Bryan Leib, but he won’t win because PVI:D+41

PA-04(Philly - Pennsburg, King of Prussia, Willow Grove): Incumbent??? - Bob Brady (Dem) NOT RUNNING Replacement - Madeleine Dean, who seems like a good progressive mom. Challenger - Dan David PVI: D+7

PA-05(Philly - Concordville, Wayne, Springfield): Incumbent - Pat Meehan (Rep) NOT RUNNING (for so many reason...) Replacement - Pearl Kim. Challenger - Mary Scanlon, who also seems like good mom. PVI: D+13

PA-06(Philly - Reading, Oxford, West Chester): Incumbent - Ryan Costello (Rep) NOT RUNNING Replacement - Greg McCauley, little-known attorney. Challenger - Chrissy Houlahan, another great female candidate. PVI: D+2

PA-07(Philly - Allentown, Easton, Stroudsburg): Incumbent - Charlie Dent (Rep) NOT RUNNING Replacement - Marty Nothstein, maybe??? Challenger - Susan Wild, who beat an conservative Dem to a relief. PVI: D+1

PA-08(Poconos & Endless - Wilkes-Barre, Scranton, Carbondale): Incumbent - Matt Cartwright (Dem). Challenger - John Chrin... PVI: R+1

PA-09(Alleghenies - Lebanon, Pottsville, Berwick): Incumbent??? - Lou Barletta (Rep) NOT RUNNING Replacement - Dan Meuser, healthcare executive. Challenger - Denny Wolff, no relation to Governor. PVI: R+14

PA-10(Dutch - York, Harrisburg, Elizabethville): Incumbent - Scott Perry (Rep), who got a little downgrade. Challenger - George Scott, who is a pastor and may need lot of funding, but it might be a nail-biter... so ??? PVI: R+6

PA-11(Dutch - Lancaster, Ephrata, Intercourse): Incumbent - Lloyd Smucker (Rep). Challenger - Jess King, major Bernie progressive. PVI: R+14

PA-12(Wilds - Mansfield, Williamsport, Lewisburn): Incumbent - Tom Marino (Rep), nominated for Drug Czar but withdrew because corruption... Challenger - Marc Fridenburg, but this is definitely not clear at all... PVI: R+17

PA-13(Alleghenies - Altoona, Johnstown, Chambersburg): Incumbent - Bill Schuster (Rep) NOT RUNNING Replacement - John Joyce, crowded field. Challenger - Brent Ottaway, not bounded by ideology, sure... PVI: R+22

PA-14(Steel City - Washington, Greenberg, Uniontown): Incumbent - Tim Murphy (Rep) NOT RUNNING Replacement - Guy Reschenthaler, who might be a tougher challenge for... Challenger - Bibiana Boerio, Ford? PVI: R+14

PA-15(Wilds - Indiana, Punxsutawney, Warren): Incumbent - Glenn Thompson (Rep). Challenger - Susan Boser, IUP professor. PVI: R+20

PA-16(Erie - Erie, Meadville, New Castle): Incumbent - Mike Kelly (Rep), no relation to Kellys in politics, I think. Challenger - Ron DiNicola. PVI: R+8

PA-17(Steel City - Beaver Falls, Cranberry Township, Moon): Incumbent - Keith Rothfus (Rep). Challenger??? - Conor Lamb, also incumbent. This is what you get when you get redistricting three months before... PVI: R+3

PA-18(Steel City - Pittsburgh, Bethel Park, Mckeesport): Incumbent - Mike Doyle, not the one from above... also NO CHALLENGERS. Why? PVI: D+13

Sorry about the snark and the lack of personal info... next week will be better.

[bellamysgriffin]

my 2018 reading goal

so, now that the new year is rolling in, i wanna buckle down and read even more books! i read about 60 this year, and while that’s not terrible, i’d like to read more, so my goal for next year is to read one hundred books, which, i know, is quite a lot. so i made a list of all the books i plan to read next year, and i wanted to share them with you guys as well as ask for some recs!

first, i have a book a week based on a goodreads challenge planned out, so i’ll start with that list!

me talk pretty one day by david sedaris

 the square root of summer by harriet reuter hapgood

bear town by fredrik backman

the body in the woods by april henry

the 57 bus by dashka slater

chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez

carmilla by sheridan le fanu

dear martin by nic stone

the face on the milk carton by caroline b. cooney

born a crime by trevor noah

grapes of wrath by john steinbeck

a bend in the river by v. s. naipaul

the fever by megan abbott

my lost brothers by brendan mcdonough 

building stories by chris ware

the pregnancy project by gaby rodriguez

the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy by douglas adams

my life next door by huntley fitzpatrick

the long and faraway gone by lou berney

the art of racing in the rain by garth stein

perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

and every morning the way home gets longer and longer by fredrik backman

coma by robin cook

chronicles of narnia by c.s. lewis

fight club by chuck palahnuik

ready player one by ernest cline

if i die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home

the lifeboat clique by kathy parks

revolver by duane swierczynski

persepolis by marjane satrapi

we’ll always have paris by jennifer coburn

the man in the high castle by phillip k. dick

the song of achilles by madeline miller

the bluest eye by toni morrison

shooter by walter dean myers

goodbye days by jeff zentner

the power by naomi alderman

the thousandth floor my katherine mcgee

eat the sky, drink the ocean by multiple authors

the road by cormac mccarthy (subject to change)

fracture by megan miranda

the raft by s. a. boden

we were liars by e. lockhart

the lovely bones by alice sebold

by the river piedra i sat down and wept by paulo coelho

the alchemist by paulo coelho

georgia peaches and other forbidden fruit by jaye robin brown

seven ways we lie by riley redgate

the best of us by joyce maynard

the storied life of a.j. fikry by gabrielle zevin

kids we were by bernie morris

and the ocean was our sky by patrick ness

now, just et cetera books that i plan on reading at some point during the year

the girls by emma cline

the virgin suicides by jeffrey euginides

a man called ove by fredrik backman

to all the boys i loved before by jenny han

his dark materials by phillip pullman (5)

miss peregrines home for peculiar children by ransom riggs (3)

a series of unfortunate events by lemony snicket

the body by stephen king 

in the lake of the woods by tim o’brien

chaos walking by patrick ness (3)

a wrinkle in time by madeleine l’engle

anne of the island by l.m. montgomery

to kill a mockingbird by harper lee

flowers for algernon by daniel keys

the chosen by chaim potok

the new york four by brian wood and ryan kelly

selected poems of federico garcia lorca

the voices great within us

re-gifters

essential rumi

confessions of a blabbermouth

pride and prejudice by jane austen

friends with boys

the hate u give by angie thomas

the best-loved poems of jacqueline kennedy onassis

all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque

in cold blood by truman capote

replay by ken grimwood

crosstalk by connie willis

labyrinths by jorge luis borges

affliction by russel banks

carrie by stephen king

july, july by tim o’brien

page by paige

more than this by patrick ness

the long way home by g. b. trudeau

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli

a semi-definitive list of worst nightmares by krystal sutherland

blood by tony birch

our magic hour by jennifer down

made you up by francesca zappia

what we talk about when we talk about love by raymond carver

where’d you go, bernadette? by maria semple

a lot of this is subject to change as my tastes change and time changes, so pls send me book recs!! i’d much appreciate it! this goes over a little bit by i think four books, haha, but i’m gonna get through all of them. 

[dana-studies]

my 2018 tbr

so, now that the new year is rolling in, i wanna buckle down and read even more books! i read about 60 this year, and while that’s not terrible, i’d like to read more, so my goal for next year is to read one hundred books, which, i know, is quite a lot. so i made a list of all the books i plan to read this year, and i wanted to share them with you guys!

first i have a book a week planned out, so here’s a book i’ll be reading every week, and i will be crossing them off as i finish them :)

me talk pretty one day by david sedaris

the square root of summer by harriet reuter hapgood

bear town by fredrik backman

the body in the woods by april henry

the 57 bus by dashka slater

chronicle of a death foretold by gabriel garcia marquez

carmilla by sheridan le fanu

dear martin by nic stone

the face on the milk carton by caroline b. cooney

born a crime by trevor noah

grapes of wrath by john steinbeck

a bend in the river by v. s. naipaul

the fever by megan abbott

my lost brothers by brendan mcdonough

building stories by chris ware

the pregnancy project by gaby rodriguez

the hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy by douglas adams

my life next door by huntley fitzpatrick

the long and faraway gone by lou berney

the art of racing in the rain by garth stein

perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky

and every morning the way home gets longer and longer by fredrik backman

coma by robin cook

chronicles of narnia by c.s. lewis

fight club by chuck palahnuik

ready player one by ernest cline

if i die in a combat zone, box me up and ship me home

the lifeboat clique by kathy parks

revolver by duane swierczynski

persepolis by marjane satrapi

we’ll always have paris by jennifer coburn

the man in the high castle by phillip k. dick

the song of achilles by madeline miller

the bluest eye by toni morrison

shooter by walter dean myers

goodbye days by jeff zentner

the power by naomi alderman

the thousandth floor my katherine mcgee

eat the sky, drink the ocean by multiple authors

the road by cormac mccarthy (subject to change)

fracture by megan miranda

the raft by s. a. boden

we were liars by e. lockhart

the lovely bones by alice sebold

by the river piedra i sat down and wept by paulo coelho

the alchemist by paulo coelho

georgia peaches and other forbidden fruit by jaye robin brown

seven ways we lie by riley redgate

the best of us by joyce maynard

the storied life of a.j. fikry by gabrielle zevin

kids we were by bernie morris

and the ocean was our sky by patrick ness

finally, just some other books i want to read during the year under a cut :)

the girls by emma cline

the virgin suicides by jeffrey euginides

a man called ove by fredrik backman

to all the boys i loved before by jenny han

his dark materials by phillip pullman (5)

miss peregrines home for peculiar children by ransom riggs (3)

a series of unfortunate events by lemony snicket

the body by stephen king

in the lake of the woods by tim o’brien

chaos walking by patrick ness (3)

a wrinkle in time by madeleine l’engle

anne of the island by l.m. montgomery

to kill a mockingbird by harper lee

flowers for algernon by daniel keys

the chosen by chaim potok

the new york four by brian wood and ryan kelly

selected poems of federico garcia lorca

the voices great within us

re-gifters

essential rumi

confessions of a blabbermouth

pride and prejudice by jane austen

friends with boys

the hate u give by angie thomas

the best-loved poems of jacqueline kennedy onassis

all quiet on the western front by erich maria remarque

in cold blood by truman capote

replay by ken grimwood

crosstalk by connie willis

labyrinths by jorge luis borges

affliction by russel banks

carrie by stephen king

july, july by tim o’brien

page by paige

more than this by patrick ness

the long way home by g. b. trudeau

simon vs. the homo sapiens agenda by becky albertalli

a semi-definitive list of worst nightmares by krystal sutherland

blood by tony birch

our magic hour by jennifer down

made you up by francesca zappia

what we talk about when we talk about love by raymond carver

where’d you go, bernadette? by maria semple

[goalhofer]

2020-21 Utica Comets Roster

Wingers

#9 Lukáš Jašek (Třinec, Czech Republic)

#10 Will Lockwood (Bloomfield Hills, Michigan)

#12 Nathan Walker (Sydney, Australia)

#13 Kole Lind (Shaunavon, Saskatchewan)

#17 Nolan Stevens (Sea Isle City, New Jersey)

#18 Vincent Arseneau (Les Îles-De-La-Madeleine, Quebec)

#21 Jonah Gadjovich (Whitby, Ontario)

#47 Sven Bärtschi (Langenthal, Switzerland)

#81 Curtis McKenzie (Burnaby, British Columbia) A

Centers

#7 Sam Anas (Potomac, Maryland)

#11 Dakota Joshua (Dearborn, Michigan)

#14 Hugh McGing (Chicago, Illinois)

#16 John Stevens; Jr. (Sea Isle City, New Jersey)

#19 Carson Focht (Regina, Saskatchewan)

#23 Robby Jackson III (Alameda, California)

#26 Tanner Kaspick (Brandon, Manitoba)

Defensemen

#2 Tyler Tucker (Longlac, Ontario)

#4 Josh Teves (Calgary, Alberta)

#8 Steven Santini (Mahopac, New York) A

#22 Jett Woo (St. Boniface, Manitoba)

#24 Josh Wesley (Raleigh, North Carolina)

#28 Mitch Reinke (Stillwater, Minnesota)

#52 Mitch Eliot (Detroit, Michigan)

Goalies

#29 Jake Kielly (Eden Prairie, Minnesota)

#31 Evan Fitzpatrick (St. John’s, Newfoundland)

#32 Jon Gillies (South Portland, Maine)

[biandlesbianliterature]

This is part two of the bi and lesbian books that I’ve read and loved! It covers YA, SFF, and Horror. Click here to see the full list at the Lesbrary!

Young Adult:

This is What it Feels Like by Rebecca Barrow (review)

Drum Roll, Please by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (review) [children’s/middle grade]

Starting From Here by Lisa Jenn Bigelow (review)

Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake (review)

How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake (review)

Hurricane Child by Kheryn Callender (review)  [children’s/middle grade]

Fat Angie: Rebel Girl Revolution by e.E. Charlton-Trujillo (review)

Little & Lion by Brandy Colbert (review)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post by emily m. danforth (review)

Star-Crossed by Barbara Dee (review) [children’s/middle grade]

Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole (review)

Honey Girl by Lisa Freeman (review)

The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George (review)

Silhouette of a Sparrow by Molly Beth Griffin (review)

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan (review)

All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens Throughout the Ages edited by Saundra Mitchell (review)

Ramona Blue by Julie Murphy (review) [Bisexual M/F]

Radio Silence by Alice Oseman (review)

P. S. I Miss You by Jen Petro-Roy (review) [children’s/middle grade]

Noteworthy by Riley Redgate (review) [Bisexual M/F]

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan

Under Threat by Robin Stevenson

As I Descended by Robin Talley (review)

Pulp by Robin Talley (review)

The Brightsiders by Jen Wilde (review)

Going Off Script by Jen Wilde (review)

Queens of Geek by Jen Wilde (review)

The House You Pass On the Way by Jacqueline Woodson (review)

SFF Young Adult:

Girls Made of Snow and Glass by Melissa Bashardoust (review)

Love In the Time of Global Warming by Francesca Lia Block (review) [Bisexual M/F] 

The Scorpion Rules by Erin Bow (review)

Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy (review)

Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Cordova (review)

Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst (review)

Dreadnought by April Daniels (review) and Sovereign (Dreadnought #2) by April Daniels (review)

All Good Children by Dayna Ingram (review)

Hocus Pocus and the All-New Sequel by A. W. Jantha

Adaptation (review) and Inheritance by Malinda Lo (review)

Natural Selection (Adaptation 1.5) by Malinda Lo (review)

Will of the Empress by Tamora Pierce (review)

Toil & Trouble: 15 Tales of Women & Witchcraft edited by Tess Sharpe (review)

Ice Massacre by Tiana Warner (review)

Sci Fi:

Karen Memory by Elizabeth Bear (review) [Steampunk/Western]

Tierra Del Fuego, Colony Ship: Parting Shots by Caron Cro (review)

Meanwhile, Elsewhere edited by Cat Fitzpatrick and Casey Plett (review)

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (review)

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing by Hank Green (review)

The Little Homo Sapiens Scientist by S.L. Huang (review)

Ascension by Jacqueline Koyanagi (review)

Fantasy: 

Kushiel’s Dart by Jacqueline Carey (review)

The Narrows by m. craig (review)

Indigo Springs by A.M. Dellamonica (review)

Kissing the Witch by Emma Donoghue

Long Hidden: Speculative Fiction from the Margins of History edited by Rose Fox and Daniel José Older (review)

The Second Mango by Shira Glassman (review)

The Salt Roads by Nalo Hopkinson (review)

Falling In Love With Hominids by Nalo Hopkinson (review)

Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson (review)

Bearly a Lady by Cassandra Khaw (review)

Fire Logic by Laurie J. Marks (review)

A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams by Dax Murray (review)

Everfair by Nisi Shawl (review)

Hellebore & Rue edited by JoSelle Vanderhooft and Catherine Lundoff (review)

Horror/Zombies/Vampires:

Fist of the Spider Woman edited by Amber Dawn (review)

Alice Isn't Dead by Joseph Fink

The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez (review)

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (review)

Gnarled Hollow by Charlotte Greene

Eat Your Heart Out by Dayna Ingram (review)

The Haunting Of Hill House by Shirley Jackson (review)

Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories by Pam Kesey

The Red Tree by Caitlin R. Kiernan (review)

Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, edited by Carmen Maria Machado (review)

Better Off Red by Rebekah Weatherspoon (review)

If you like what we do here and want to see more of it, buy us a coffee on ko-fi, or support this tumblr & the Lesbrary on Patreon for $2 or more a month and be entered into monthly book giveaways!

This is only part of the list! Click here to see the entire list at the Lesbrary, or check out Part 1: Fiction & Poetry, and Part 3: Romance, Comics, and Nonfiction.