#sarah cohen

[killyridols]

kara's kitchen floor by sarah cohen, 2021, oil on canvas, 18 × 24 inches

[soapdispensersalesman]

What happened to this era of the internet

[pedropascal24-7]

Sarah talking about how fame hasn’t changed Pedro and he bought her a purse!

[cinematicjourney]

A Summer in La Goulette (1996) | dir. Férid Boughedir

[thursdaythoughtsfromtheabyss]

Man I really love Moonward

Xen is the most adorable mix of David Bowie and Tim Curry as Frankenfurter In Rocky Horror and it fills me with joy

[crosseyedcricketart]

Met Gala 2024, "The Garden of Time", 20 Looks

[ojacksonscohen]

OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN and SARAH SNOOK in THE SECRET RIVER: PART TWO

[uwmspeccoll]

A Bodily Autonomy Decorative Sunday

These gorgeous posters are a selection of work from Our Bodies Our Resistance, published by the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative in 2023 in an edition of 150. The collection was curated by Molly Fair, a multidisciplinary artist, member of Justseeds, and a librarian (huzzah!). The thirteen risograph prints, cover sheet, and colophon were printed at Cowboy Press in Richmond, VA. They come wrapped in green hanky, screen-printed by Mary Tremonte at Lavender Estero in Pittsburg, PA. The green bandana is a symbol of the Marea Verde (“Green Wave” or “Green Tide”) an abortion rights movement that began in Argentina in the early 2000s and has since swept across Latin America. The design for the hanky was “cut from one piece of paper” by artist Devon Cohen, and “uplifts grizzly bears and three plants -- tansy, rue, and pennyroyal -- that have documented use over the centuries as abortifacients” (from the colophon). 

Some of the posters are also available as digital download here, for use in organizing work under an Attribution NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. Check out our photo captions for artist attributions.

Featuring art by Devon Cohen, Alec Dunn, Molly Fair, Sarah Farahat, Christeen Francis, Sanya Hyland, Kill Joy, Josh MacPhee, Fernando Martí, Andrea Narno, Saiyare Refaei, Jessica Sabogal, Meredith Stern, and Mary Tremonte.

60% of the proceeds of this portfolio will be donated to the National Network of Abortion Funds’ Collective Power Fund. This fund redistributes “direct abortion funding to 28 member abortion funds across more than 20 states. Funding is concentrated in the South and Midwest, where it’s often hardest to get an abortion. The Collective Power Fund supports the cost of an abortion, transportation to a clinic, childcare. lodging, and abortion doula support.”

-https://justseeds.org/product/our-bodies-our-resistance-portfolio/

Check out more Decorative Sunday posts here.

-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern

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Sarah Sherman as Rabbi Rebecca in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah

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1. Max, by Sarah Cohen-Scali

Owned: No, library Page count: 391 My summary: Max is the perfect child. Blonde haired, blue eyed, healthy and able-bodied; the perfect Aryan for the Nazi regime. As a Lebensborn child, Max is set to become one of the elites of the Third Reich. But as the war wears on, Max finds that the ideals he has been taught do not necessarily reflect the reality of the world around him. Germany is falling. And if Max is going to survive, he must find the truth in a world full of lies. My rating: 4/5 My commentary:

This was a very interesting book. I picked it up because of its striking cover and the desire to know just what the hell was going on here - and I found a slice of history that I wasn't expecting to be analysed as in-depth as they are here. I think this book did a lot of things right that Caging Skies, the novel upon which JoJo Rabbit was based, ultimately failed at in my opinion. It's a scathing critique of the Nazi regime and its impact upon even the people who should in theory be the most privileged and adored within this place and time. The narrator is a boy who starts out as an unborn child and ends up as a nine year old, and that colours a lot of how the story progresses and how this narrative is told. It was really fascinating, and I enjoyed it much more than I thought I would.

Okay, so let's get into it. Our main character is Max, unless he's Konrad. Officially, his name is Konrad, but Max is the name that his mother gave him and the book is literally called Max, so I'm calling him Max. Like I said, the story starts with him as an unborn baby - it's a little over-the-top to start with, a bit hard to adjust to the fact that the person talking to you is a literal foetus, but I think it works thematically with the points the book is making. After all, part of the point here is that, as a Lebensborn child, Max is being indoctrinated into the Nazi regime literally before he is born; he is born knowing that he is meant to be superior, and more interestingly, knowing the potential penalty for failure. Even at this early stage, he knows that kids who fail to meet the Nazi ideal are killed. He even knows how they are killed. There's no innocence here - no Boy In The Striped Pyjamas kind of unrealistic childishness from this kid, he knows exactly what he's meant to be and revels in it. When we see him in school, later, we see him being 'educated' about Jewish people and the things he's learning are ridiculously over-the-top and cartoonishly evil, but that's sadly realistic. That's what the Nazis were like. And I like that the book doesn't shy away from just how awful this situation is, and how awful this boy is.

But I'm interested, too, in the fact that Max did have some innocence to him. It's notable that in theory, he revels in the idea of murder and ethnic cleansing, but when it happens in front of him he's a lot more squeamish about it. A kid he knows in the school is shot next to him, and he tries to rationalise this while still noting that he feels strange about it and has a stomach ache - clearly, it upsets him. And when he meets his friend Lukas, a boy stolen from Poland for his blonde hair and blue eyes, he doesn't know what to think when Lukas reveals he's Jewish. If Max really was the Nazi ideal that he 'should' be, he'd report Lukas instantly, but he doesn't. His friendship with Lukas has an overtone of homoeroticism, though Max constantly denies and never truly acknowledges the potential there, possibly because he's about six-to-eight years old at this point. Lukas himself is interesting - focused on survival, but initially trying to take down the Nazis who have hurt him from the inside, straight-up murdering two of the other kids in the school and aiming to do the same to others, until Germany's fall renders the effort pointless next to his own survival.

I think the point I'm circling around here is that it's absolutely fascinating that Max doesn't quite realise how much damage has been done to him by his upbringing, and how until the very last second he doesn't know how much power his story can have. It matters little to him that his mother was murdered. He doesn't really care about being alone in the world - mostly, anyway. He doesn't quite understand how traumatised he is from what he's done and what he's been taught. He's not an innocent, he's definitely complicit in all that's happening. He makes active choices to engage in murderous, genocidal acts. But because he's a child, because he's been this brainwashed, because he's shown in this level of detail, we can see where he's coming from, and understand another facet of how fascism fucks people up.

Next up, back to the Dark is Rising, as all find the light at last.

[finemaleactors]

Oliver Jackson-Cohen and Sarah Snook

[genevieveetguy]

. Keep the home fires burning.

Priscilla, Sofia Coppola (2023)

[cinematicjourney]

A Summer in La Goulette (1996) | dir. Férid Boughedir

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“Hallelujah”

Original by Leonard Cohen

Covered by Sarah McLachlan

[ojacksonscohen]

OLIVER JACKSON-COHEN and SARAH SNOOK THE SECRET RIVER: PART ONE

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is the secret river good? like in your opinion is it worth buying

hi anon, i am so sorry i missed this in my inbox but yes, it really is one of his better projects. the story is really well written and tells a lot about australia's history. i really enjoyed it, it's also got tim minchin and sarah snook from succession - really recommend it!