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SARAH ANN CRUTHIRDS - 1836 - 1916 - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS
SARAH ANN CRUTHIRDS – 1836 – 1916 – CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS
SARAH ANN CRUTHIRDS
BIRTH 16 JUL 1836 • Mississippi
DEATH 2 AUG 1916 • Jackson, Mississippi
Sarah Ann Cruthirds was born on July 16, 1836, in Mississippi, Her father, George Henry, was 25, ( 1811 – 1870 ) and her mother, Dorcas Scarborough, was 22 ( 1814 – 1897 ).
She married Charles Ferdinand Krohn on January 28, 1858, in Harrison, Mississippi.
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absolutely amazing that in the end margaret carruthers wasn’t really involved in the main story drama. she was a racist shitccunt who was so caught up in the perceived glory of the carruthers colonialist history that she decided that adding more blood to the family legacy was preferred over returning land back to its traditional owners. she really just spent the entire show caught up in ensuring that every palawa person in the town was as disenfranchised or out of the way as possible while she played knockoff maggie beer. then she got bit by a tiger snake and died.
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The Battle of Lochmaben Fair was fought on 22nd July 1484 in the town of Lochmaben in south-west Scotland
Our second of three battles of the day involved party of cavalry led by the rebel Earl of Douglas and the Duke of Albany, who crossed from England and clashed with local forces loyal to King James III.
Another little known battle during the unpopular reign of James III, it’s tagged as a battle, but from the evidence I can gather it was another skirmish, or even a raid.
Alexander, the Duke of Albany, was the younger brother of King James III. More warlike than his brother, whose favourites were more talented in the arts of peace, Albany had been exiled from Scotland. At the English court, he met another exile, James, Earl of Douglas. Alexander had his eyes on the Scottish crown, and when there is a pretender to the throne, like Edward Balliol, from previous weeks post, there is also a wee bit naughtiness from the English Monarchy, this time it was another Edward, what is it with the Edwards, they all seemed to want their piece of us?
Anyway Edward IV, promised his assistance to Albany who was to be made King of Scotland while owing allegiance to Edward. Edward was to be given the towns of Berwick and Lochmaben, with the lands of Liddesdale, Eskdale and Annandale. Albany was to marry Edward’s daughter Cecily, meaning a possible future Union of Crowns.
With Edward’s help, these plans might have succeeded. But Edward died, and his successor, Richard III, withdrew his support. This left Albany’s main hope in gaining the throne of Scotland to be his alliance with the aging Douglas and the loyalty of Douglas’ retainers as they advanced north of the border.
And so it was on this day in a force of renegade Scots including the Earl of Douglas, and English soldiers under Albany, crossed the border in an attempt to capture Lochmaben.
Unfortunately for them, the local land owners and their retainers considered their loyalty to their King greater than to their feudal overlord, Douglas. The invaders, numbering probably not more than 500 horseman, were repulsed by a force gathered by the local land owners.
Hastening to Lochmaben to answer the summons of the signal fires that announced Albany’s approach were a number of the border nobles and their followers, the usual border clans were there, Master of Maxwell, Johnstone of Johnstone, Murray of Cockpool, Crichton of Sanquhar, Carruthers of Holmains and Charteris of Amisfield. The fighting lasted sporadically through the whole day. Before the next day had dawned, Albany had hightailed it back across the border and Douglas had been captured by Alexander Kirkpatrick, brother to the Laird of Closeburn.
All the families were rewarded for their loyalty, Douglas was eventually imprisoned at Lindores Abbey, where he died four years later.
For more background on The Douglas fall from grace and the events check out the excellent Douglas History Archives
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"We should all read or reread Dr. Jacob H. Carruthers’ profound book, Intellectual Warfare. It is a very important, continuing effort, for us, as African people in America to educate and reeducate ourselves about our history and its relationship to the important ideas that shape how we see the world. We must continue this effort beyond African American History Month and carry it into the rest of the year."
~Dr. Conrad Worrill
Remember those who demonstrate and teach us the value of STUDY. You can really spend a whole lifetime trying to discover self. Keep studying family.
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Rating: 4/5
Book Blurb: Sir Ashley Carruthers, recently returned from the Boer War, is finding it difficult to settle into the surroundings of the country house bequeathed to him by his father. Irritated that the local 'gentry' are determined that he should be married to one of their own, settle down, and raise a family, he sets off one Sunday to visit an old friend. Finding him absent, Carruthers decides to travel on to visit other friends in a nearby village. A church bell summons him to a small country church where he decides to attend the evening service; it is during the service that he finds himself seated next to the beautiful and mysterious Woman in Black.
The vicar's strange sermon text—'I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves'—puzzles Carruthers; but more puzzling is the reaction of the vicar when his eyes fall on the face of the Woman in Black: the colour drains from his face and he collapses senseless to the floor of the pulpit.
Who is this Woman in Black? Why has she struck fear into the heart of the Reverend Jabez Waldegrave? What is her part in the sudden illness which strikes Carruthers? Why, when she is detained by the police, does she transform from a beautiful woman into an old hag? What part is played by the mysterious ring she considers so important to her?
All is revealed in the course of M. Y. Halidom's 1906 novel, now given a retrospective centenary celebration in this new edition from Ash-Tree Press.
In addition to providing mystery in his fiction, Halidom provided quite a mystery of his own, since his true identity only became known in 2005 when his grandson revealed the history of the author who was both 'M. Y. Halidom' and 'Dryasdust'.
Richard Dalby's introduction to this new edition reveals more of the life and family background of M. Y. Halidom.
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A gothic vampire story along the lines of Dracula/Camilla filled with magical talismons, horror, and a very interesting take on a vampire story.The story follows Sir Ashleigh Carruthers, a English gentlemen and war veteran who is also very jaded about love, He finds himself going to visit an old friend but when he goes to a church service he finds that he is sitting next to the beautiful and mysterious woman in black. The Church services goes oddly and then Cuarruthers has questions and begins to investigate the Woman in black, And so begins this cozy read, it definitely is a cozy victorian gothic read that I would recommend for the spooky season!
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Because I have a bit of a problem, I was on Wikipedia reading about the wreck of the SS James Carruthers. The James Carruthers was this big old Canadian freighter that sank the year it was built during one of the worst storms in the history of the area. That’s not funny. What is funny is what happened next.
There was a crewman aboard the James Carruthers named John Thompson. When the bodies started washing ashore, his father, Thomas Thompson, found a body that looked like it was probably John’s and immediately set about preparing for his funeral. But the thing is, John wasn’t dead and had been on shore leave when the James Carruthers sank. When he found out that everyone thought he was dead, rather than doing the normal thing and sending his family a telegram to let them know he was still alive, he decided to tell them in person and take his sweet time doing it, too. As a result, when he got there, they’d already made preparations for the funeral. Thomas Thompson was understandably pissed and told John that, and I quote, "It's just like you to come home and attend your own wake, and you can get right out of this house until this thing blows over!"
They never figured out who the dead “John” was, by the way. He’s buried in Ontario with four other unidentified sailors. Still, I suppose it’s better than being buried as a guy who’s still alive.
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CLAN & FAMILY CARRUTHERS: The Holmain Manuscript -Our involvement in the history of Scottish Country Dancing.
What began as genuine query from our senior Genealogist, Laurie Caron in Canada relating to something called the Holmain Manuscript, led us on an exciting fact finding journey. The Manuscript is an ancient document relating to Scottish dance from Dumfriesshire, and the question was whether or not this was associated with our own chiefly line of Carruthers of Holmains. With the working hypothesis…
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What I Learned From Podcasts: Hypnosis, Marriage, Coffee, and Water
This week, the podcasting universe spilled its wisdom upon me and presumably millions of other listeners in the areas of hypnosis, marriage, coffee, and drinking water. It's worth reiterating that podcasting offers listeners entertainment, education, elucidation, and information.
Can anybody be hypnotized?
In the November 17th episode of Science Vs, host Wendy Zukerman allowed herself to be hypnotized, along with a group of other audience members, as part of a comedian / hypnotist show. The thing is -- it didn't really work on her. Why? Zukerman talks to comedian hypnotist Jim Spinnato and three professors to ferret out these facts about hypnosis.
First, hypnosis cannot make people do something they really don't want to do. According to the experts, if a suggestion is made to a hypnotized person which truly offended their sensibilities, they would break out of their hypnotic state. Therefore, a hypnotist cannot get people to, say, take off their clothes in public or claim that they know someone who actually likes Ted Cruz.
Second, even though a hypnotist in the movies may say "you are getting sleepy," you are not asleep when you are hypnotized. You're not unconscious, either, just in a highly suggestible state of consciousness.
Third, scientists don't know exactly how the mechanisms of hypnosis work. Scary as it may seem to patients about to go under before surgery, doctors don't really understand how anesthesia works, either. The same goes for hypnosis. It's a bit of a mystery.
The business of marriage; “You’re my everything”
In the November 21 episode of Hidden Brain, host Shankar Vedantam talks to author Stephanie Coontz (Marriage, A History) and psychologist Eli Finkel.
While people today like to discuss the traditional view of marriage between a man and a woman who marry for love, both guests cast doubt on that assumption. Coontz, in research for her book, speaks about marriage as a business proposition for centuries. Not only were arranged marriages common, but marriage was seen as a business transaction where both parties brought something to the table -- a trade, a skill, money, a dowry or family connections.
Finkel talked about modern marriage, and warned that people in modern culture expect their partner in marriage to perform all the roles necessary for the other to be satisfied and happy. According to Finkel, asking your spouse to be a lover, confidante, best friend, and fill all our your emotional and physical needs is a task that many cannot accomplish. What results is disappointment, disillusionment, and, ultimately, dissolution of the marriage. He recommends that people today moderate their expectations about their married partner.
When to drink coffee and how much water to drink
In the November 26 episode of Something You Should Know, Dr Stuart Farrimond talks to host Mike Carruthers about our daily routines.
Farrimond first questions our collective belief that we need coffee desperately as soon as we get up. The good doctor poo-poos that belief by explaining that adenosine is one of the hormones that modulates sleepiness. The less adenosine, the more awake we feel. According to Farrimond, adenosine levels at their lowest when we first wake up and cortisol levels -- which stimulate wakefulness -- are very high
Therefore, he recommends waiting two to three hours before having that first cup of coffee. The caffeine in coffee, he says, blocks adenosine and first thing in the morning, there's essentially nothing to block.
That may be true, however, I will still be having my coffee within 15 minutes of waking up.
Farrimond goes from coffee to water, disputing the eight glasses of water a day mandate. First, he notes that we get about one-third of our water from our food every day.
Then Farrimond says that people who believe that completely clear urine is a sign that you're drinking the right amount of water are wrong.
In fact, the good doctor says completely clear urine typically means you have too much water in your system and your kidneys are trying to eliminate water from your system.
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Finally, what is attribution bias? When we make a mistake, such as being late for work, we tend to blame other factors. When someone else makes a mistake, we assume it is a result of a character flaw. For example, we're late for work because of traffic. Others are late for work because they're lazy or disorganized.
With attribution bias, we judge ourselves by our intentions, but we judge others by their actions.
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Carruthers of the Scottish Lowlands
Carruthers of the Scottish Lowlands
Looking east across Nithsdale to the Lowther Hills – from Cairnkinna in the Scaur hills.
The Scottish Lowlands, south Scotland
Although not officially a geographical area of the country, in normal usage is generally meant to include those parts of Scotland not referred to as the Highlands.
I n the Lowlands, you must visit Loch Lomond, the largest in Scotland. Surrounded by hills and…
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How to be an ally
(I fixed ALL the links so fucking reblog)
1. Check In On Your Black Friends/Acquaintances
In my opinion, I believe the best way to be an ally is to reach out to your Black friends and check in on them, consistently. If you can recognize the times we are living in are absolute hell, you should be checking in on the most effected. None of my friends have checked up on me to see how I was doing or just to talk. They didn’t even bring up the protests until I did. It feels very very lonely and scary to not be checked up on by the people who say they support and love you. So, I’m making this the first point because I don’t want anyone else to feel this way, not trying to complain.
2. Learn More About Black History
It’s important to learn about the Black activists that our history books left out. Yes, Martin Luther King Jr. was, and is, important but we need to reflect on why he was pushed on us so much in our history classes, compared to other Black leaders. Is it because our government would rather us walk down the street holding signs than actually defending ourselves against the cop who’s beating us?
Here’s a master list of activists to start you off.
3. Go to Rallies and Protests (If you can)
Find protests and rallies in your area by looking on Twitter and search #yourcityprotest. Or watch your local news channel to see where they are (if they’re being covered on the news). Also search on Facebook. Wear a mask.
4. Donate and Sign Petitions
If you don’t have extra money to donate, that’s fine. If you still want to be an ally then sign all the petitions you can. Take a day to research all the ones you can sign/haven’t signed and sign them!
(Also you don’t need to donate to change.org! Directly donate to non-profit organizations and victims’ families!)
George Floyd - change.org
George Floyd - amnesty.org
George Floyd - colorofchange.org
Get The Officers Charged
Charge All Four Officers
Breonna Taylor - moveon.org
Breonna Taylor - colorofchange.org
Breonna Taylor - justiceforbreonna.org
Breonna Taylor - change.org
Breonna Taylor - thepetitionsite.com
Ahmaud Arbery - change.org
Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 2
Ahmaud Arbery - change.org 3
Justice for Oluwatoyin Salau
Pass The Georgia Hate Crime Bill
Defund MPD
Life Sentence For Police Brutality
Regis Korchinski - change.org
Tete Gulley - change.org
Tony McDade - change.org
Tony McDade - actionnetwork.org
Tony McDade - thepetitionsite.com
Joao Pedro - change.org
Julius Jones - change.org
Belly Mujinga - change.org
Willie Simmons - change.org
Hands Up Act - change.org
National Action Against Police Brutality
Kyjuanzi Harris - change.org
Alejandro Vargas Martinez - change.org
Censorship Of Police Brutality In France
Sean Reed - change.org
Sean Reed - change.org 2
Kendrick Johnson - change.org
Tamir Rice - change.org
Tamir Rice - change.org 2
Fire Racist Criminal From The NYPD
Jamee Johnson - organizefor.org
Darius Stewart - change.org
Darius Stewart - moveon.org
Abolish Prison Labor
Free Siyanda - change.org
Chrystul Kizer - change.org
Chrystul Kizer - change.org 2
Andile Mchunu (Bobo) - change.org
Eric Riddick - change.org
Amiya Braxton - change.org
Emerald Black - change.org
Elijah Nichols - change.org
Zinedine Karabo Gioia - change.org
Angel Bumpass - change.org
Sheku Bayoh - change.org
Visit these sites for more info:
http://www.pb-resources.com/
https://blacklivesmatters.carrd.co/
5. Educate yourself and others.
Articles:
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Movies/TV Shows:
When They See Us
American Son
Hello Privilege, It’s Me, Chelsea
The 13th
Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story
What Happened Miss Simone?
The Two Killings of Sam Cooke
Who Killed Malcolm X?
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Homecoming: A Film by Beyonce (Lighter in tone)
LA 92
Dear White People
Videos:
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- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- “How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion” | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
- American Oxygen - Rihanna
- Formation - Beyonce
Podcasts:
- Malcolm X Speeches
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
Books:
- The Autobiography of Malcolm X
- Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About RaceBook by Reni Eddo-Lodge
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Follow:
- Shaun King: Instagram | Website
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Website
- Color Of Change: Website
- The Conscious Kid: Website | Instagram
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Website | Twitter | Instagram
- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram |
- Ziwe | Instagram | (She has discussions about race with White people, kinda grilling them, every Thursday at 8 p.m. EST. Super thrilling to watch.)
Here’s Some Music Too:
Change Gonna Come - Sam Cooke
Chain Gang - Nina Simone
Missisippi Goddamn - Nina Simone
Fuck Da’ Police - N.W.A.
This is America - Childish Gambino
I’m Not Racist - Joyner Lucas
Fight the Power - Public Enemy
Freedom (Live) - Beyonce
I Can’t Breathe - H.E.R.
American Oxygen - Rihanna
Brown Skin Girl - Beyonce
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My Playlist With A Few More
Black Artists Matter Playlist
What a large list! It looks so overwhelming! Don’t worry, you don’t have to read/watch/listen to everything. It takes a lot of effort!
Jk.
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Aglionby Kisses
It was the end of the first school day after winter break - and it had been a supremely shitty day so far.
Adam trudged away from the student parking lot, where the shitbox had lain in state since that morning.
He had coaxed it and cajoled it and managed to somehow wrestle it into a parking space, where it had promptly flopped down and died. A few last white puffs had billowed from it in the freezing cold, like an extinguished dragon.
So the morning had started off kind of shitty, but that in itself wasn’t such a surprise. The car had been christened shitbox for a reason.
School had really started sucking after the second period, when he hadn’t gotten a perfect score on the surprise Advanced Math test. As a result of those two missing points (Two whole points! It was so careless of him. Not that it would affect his perfect 4.0 but still), he had completely forgotten to figure out a solution to his car troubles.
He needed to clock in punctually at work or he’d lose pay. The factory was not like Boyd’s. He had a six hour shift, and then had to write a whole History paper for tomorrow - holiday homework that he’d forgotten about.
"You're making stupid mistakes today, Parrish," he yelled at himself silently, spittle flying everywhere. He dragged his mind away by the collar before things got ugly and pushed it towards thinking about solutions instead.
He looked heavenwards, as if asking for a miracle, and squinted, dazzled. The white sky was pregnant with precipitation. Because of course it was. In a surreal echo of his thoughts, a group of students passed him talking about snow, and skiing in Zermatt and Tignes.
For once, Adam was glad no one had asked him what he had done.
Because - he had spent the vacation charting the unexplored slopes of Ronan Lynch’s body.
Ronan. He could’ve messaged Ronan from Gansey’s phone. Of course, he could just ask Gansey for a lift. Except ... yes, Gansey had a Debate Club competition today. Goddamnit. Adam ran a despairing hand through his hair.
It was too far to walk, especially in this weather. He was out of options.
Almost.
Adam seriously considered whether frostbite and losing wages was preferable to Tad’s company for half an hour. He had a standing invite for a lift. He really couldn't afford to fall sick, but ... Tad Carruthers.
Adam knew he would have to grind his teeth every time Tad ground the gears in his sweet six-speed Miata. Not only was Adam offended as a mechanic, it was an unbearable sound to someone accustomed to Ronan’s silky smooth driving. This was not even considering his inane idiotic chatter.
Truly, almost anything was better than being trapped in a car with Carruthers - even pneumonia.
Dammit. What was the point of being the Magician if he couldn’t conjure Ronan up when he really needed him?
Suddenly, the sea of students before him parted for a biblical second and he saw a vision of Ronan Lynch. He was leaning against the BMW, hands in the pockets of his vintage bomber jacket, looking god-like and grown-up and glamorous amidst all the uniformed fledglings.
Adam stopped in disbelief, holding up the people behind him.
But no. It wasn’t magic. Or a mirage.
It was a miracle.
Ronan Lynch was here, at Aglionby.
When their eyes met, Ronan’s face softened into amusement at Adam’s bewilderment. It was probably the first time on the school grounds that Ronan Lynch had genuinely smiled, without a snarl or smirk implicit behind it.
Adam walked up to him, grinning like the idiot he was, ridiculously pleased out of all proportion. Then, as if it was the most natural thing in the world, he cupped the back of Ronan’s head and fitted their mouths together.
He hadn’t even consciously thought about it.
To see Ronan was to kiss him. It was that simple.
And Adam’s mind, that had been berating him on repeat for the past six hours over two incorrect answers, was now blissfully silent.
Adam forgot about his car. He forgot about the factory. He certainly wasn't wondering how Ronan was here. Or where Here was.
All he was conscious of was the satisfying press of his boyfriend’s tall, beautiful body, and their tongues sliding hot and wet against each other.
“Does everyone feel like this?” Adam thought vaguely, as Ronan licked sweetly into his mouth, fingers fisted in his hair, “How does anything get done, when this exists?”
He anchored Ronan more firmly to the BMW with his hips, arching his body temptingly.
It was only when the wolf whistles had grown loud enough to pierce his love-hazed brain that he realised where they were.
Adam looked back instinctively and saw navy overcoats wearing a variety of expressions staring back at him - from disgusted to disbelieving to disappointed.
Holy shit. No doubt about it - Adam Parrish was being all kinds of stupid today.
Ronan simply whispered, ‘Good. Let ‘em know you’re taken', and planted a quick, pleased kiss against Adam’s embarrassingly flushed neck.
Adam tried to ignore the stares boring into his skull as he took a blessedly short walk of shame to the passenger side.
“How?” he asked cryptically, buckling his seatbelt.
“Gansey,” Ronan replied, equally succinct, as he put on his aviators with an elegant flick of his wrist.
He handed Adam a bag full of steaming Irish Butte pasties - a Lynch family recipe and Adam’s favourite work meal.
With a contented sigh, Adam Parrish relaxed into this sexy car, with his sexy boyfriend, who took off with a sexy squeal of tyres, happily uncaring as the student body erupted into scandal behind them.
His shitty day had improved.
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Outtake from Chapter 13, In One Piece
(Check out St.Agnes Nights - Outtake #2)
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PHILIP WILLIAM CARRUTHERS WWII - CLAN CARRUTHERS CCIS
Pvt. Sgt. Lieut. Capt. Maj. Philip William Carruthers
Philip was born 26/05/1914, at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. He was the son of William ‘Clyde’ and Loretta Mary ‘Laura’ (Smith) Carruthers.
Phil is pictured with his wife, Catherine Elizabeth “Betty” Bevan Carruthers and their first child, William “Bill.”
Philip is the brother of Vincent ‘Clyde’ (Cdn. Army), ‘Helen’ Laureen(Fowler),…
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George Carruthers, Cincinnati Physicist, Sent His Dreams To The Moon
There is, today, on the Moon, a monument to a Cincinnati scientist. The memorial is not terribly large, but it is covered in gold. It’s called the Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera, the only astronomical observatory located on the Moon, and it was designed by George R. Carruthers, born in Cincinnati in 1939.
George was the oldest of Sophia and George Carruthers’ four children. The family lived in an apartment on Gilbert Avenue in Evanston. The senior George was a civil engineer employed by the Army Corps of Engineers during the early days of remediation after the Great Flood of 1937. George’s father encouraged his son’s interest is astronomy and space flight. As a boy, George read a lot of science fiction. He built his own telescope when he was just 10 years old and, with his father, built and launched model rockets. In 1999, he reminisced during a NASA oral history interview:
“Well, my interest in space science and astronomy came about by reading science fiction comic books when I was about nine years old, and then after that I became interested in astronomy because I came across some books on the subject. Of course, that was long before there was a space program, so people weren't really overly enthusiastic, including my relatives, about my interest in astronomy. They thought I should pursue something more practical, such as engineering, because my father was an engineer, but he also gave me an interest in technology as well.”
Early in his childhood, Carruthers’ family moved to Milford, which offered astronomical vistas unhampered by the urban lights of Cincinnati, but with diminished access to science fiction magazines. When George was just 12 years old, his father died and his mother moved the family nearer to her relatives on the south side of Chicago.
George’s interest in astronomy and space flight flourished in the big city. He joined a model rocketry club, earned multiple prizes in high school science fairs – including first prize for a telescope he designed and built – and was a regular visitor to the Adler Planetarium.
Even in high school, George saw enormous potential for astronomical observation from outer space, but the astronomers at the planetarium poo-pooed the idea. As George told his NASA interviewer:
“Just prior to that, the famous issues of Collier's magazine, featuring Dr. Wernher von Braun and others who were proposing space flight for the first time, human space flight, like space stations, and Fred Whipple had proposed using space as a base for astronomy. But when I talked to the astronomers at the Adler Planetarium, they said, ‘Well, you know, that's fantasy. That's science fiction. Ground-based astronomy is really the thing that we do, and we think that there's no advantage in going out into space.’”
A big fan of Werner von Braun and his theories, Carruthers wrote the senior scientist a letter and received a reply, along with an autographed photo that he treasured.
Carruthers pursued his dreams into college at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in physics, a master’s in nuclear engineering and his doctorate in aeronautical and astronautical engineering, all before he was 25 years old. As an African American, Carruthers was in a distinct minority as an engineering student, but said he faced few barriers in his education:
“I don't think that I really had any overt obstacles in my college education. Of course, African Americans were like 1 percent of the engineering students there, so we were relatively rare, but I never saw any instances of discrimination that prevented me from doing whatever I wanted to do there, on the part of either professors or other students “
While still a student, Carruthers returned to Cincinnati at the invitation of the Urban League to give the keynote address at a career conference for high school students.
After earning his Ph.D., Carruthers accepted a post-doctoral fellowship to the Naval Research Laboratory, a facility funded by the National Science Foundation, and led a research team there for 38 years.
Carruthers developed an interest in the optics of ultraviolet light. By designing telescopes and detection instruments, he collected data that confirmed the presence of molecular hydrogen in outer space and provided a deeper understanding of Earth’s atmosphere, especially how radiation interacts with the atmosphere to affect communication systems.
For his work on the Apollo 16 mission, for which he created the Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera, Carruthers was awarded NASA’s Exceptional Science Achievement Medal. He went on to provide instruments for Space Shuttle and Skylab missions, and the ARGOS (Advanced Research and Global Observation Satellite) satellite.
Carruthers was among the founders of the Science & Engineers Apprentice Program, a program offering high school students the opportunity to work alongside scientists at the Naval Research Laboratory. Carruthers was involved with efforts to promote science education in the Washington, DC area.
After retirement in 2002, Carruthers was honored as a Distinguished Lecturer at the Office of Naval Research and, in 2012, was awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. President Barack Obama personally conferred the medal during a White House ceremony.
George R. Carruthers died on 26 December 2020 after a long illness. His Lunar Surface Ultraviolet Camera remains in place in the Descartes Highlands on the Moon.
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Master List of Books
Here is the master list of books to read. Please support black authors by visiting your library or purchasing these instead of downloading!
Intro to Black Radical Politics
assata: autobiography
angela davis an autobiography
angela davis: freedom is a constant struggle
huey p newton: revolutionary suicide
what is marxism all about?
beginners guide to marxism
huey p newton: to die for the people, collected writings
w.e.b du bois: w.e.b du bois speaks
the autobiography of malcom x
muammar gaddafi: the green book
walter rodney: groundings with my brothers
lenin: state and revolution
kwame ture: stokely speaks, from black power to pan-africanism
thomas sankara: women’s liberation and the african freedom struggle
harry haywood: black bolshevik
w.e.b. du bois: essay collection
debunking anti-communism myths & propaganda
karl marx & frederick engels: the communist manifesto
joseph stalin: dialetical & historical materialism
reading marx’s “capital” with david harvey
marxism-leninism study guide
basic marxism-leninism study plan
paulo freire: pedagogy of the oppressed
michael parenti: left anticommunism
Black and Marxist Feminism
keeanga-yamahtta taylor: how we get free, black feminism and the combahee river collective
bell hooks: yearning; race, gender, and cultural politics
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african women and feminism
audre lorde: sister outsider
claudia jones: an end to the neglect of the negro woman!
silvia federici: caliban and the witch
audre lorde: i am your sister
bell hooks: ain’t i a woman, black women and feminism
angela davis: modern motherhood, women and family in england
Prison Abolition
george jackson: blood in my eye
soledad brother: the prison letters of george jackson
angela davis: are prisons obsolete?
angela davis: political prisoners, prisons, and black liberation
paula c. johnson: voices of african american women in prison
On Racial Capitalism
jackie wang: carceral capitalism
e. franklin fraizer: black bourgeoisie
robin d.g. kelley: hammer and hoe
cedric j. robinson: black marxism
Critical Race Class Studies
w.e.b. du bois: black reconstruction
frantz fanon: black skin, white masks
patrick wolfe: traces of history; elementary structures of race
Black Studies Manifesto- Darlene Clark
Criteria of Black Art- W.E.B Dubois
Lynch Law- Ida B. Wells
On Being White and Other Lies- James Baldwin
James Baldwin Speech from 1965 Debate
The American Dream and the American Negro- James Baldwin
The Souls of Black Men- Hazel Carby
The Case for Reparations- Ta Nehisi Coates
Cultural Identity and the Diaspora- Stuart Hall
The Fact of Blackness- Franz Fanon
Negritude
Fragments of Epic Memory- Derek Walcott
The Groundings with My Brothers- Walter Rodney
The Politics of Healing in the Black Lives Movement- Deva Woodley
Unapologetic- Charlene Carruthers
Emergent Strategy- Adrienne Maree Brown
The Use of the Erotic as Power- Audre Lorde
On Capitalism, Fascism, Imperialism, Neocolonialism, Settler-Colonialism
frantz fanon: the wretched of the earth
walter rodney: how europe underdeveloped africa
eduardo galeano: open veins of latin america
samir amin: eurocentrism
michael parenti: blackshirts & reds
glen sean coulthard: red skin, white masks
clr james: the black jacobins
chris harman: a people’s history of the world
“decolonization is not a metaphor”
Indigenous Studies
nick estes: our history is the future
“decolonization is not a metaphor”
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: women in the yoruba sphere
On Revolution:
frantz fanon: towards the african revolution
kwame nkrumah: africa must unite
black panthers speak
kwame ture: ready for revolution
steve biko: i like what i like; selected writings
black like mao, red china & black revolution
che guevera: guerilla warfare
walter rodney: a history of the guyanese working people, 1881-1905
return to the source – selected speeches by amilcar cabral
https://dialecticalartist.wordpress.com/politicalresources/
On Slavery:
stephanie e. jones-rogers: they were her property
Whiteness Studies
nell irvin painter: the history of white people
theodore w allen: the invention of the white race volume I
theodore w allen: the invention of the white race volume II
david r. roediger the wages of whiteness
david r. roediger: seizing freedom, slave emancipation & liberty for all
karen brodkin: how jews became white folks & what that says about race in america
On Gender, Sexuality, and Masculinities
c. riley snorton: black on both sides a racial history of trans identity
essex hemphill: ceremonies
robert f. reid-pharr: black gay man, essays
bell hooks: we real cool
maria lugones: heterosexualism and the colonial modern gender system
marlon m. bailey: butch queens up in pumps: gender, performance, and ballroom culture in detroit
robert aldrich: colonialism and homsexuality
eve kosofsky sedgwick: epistemology of the closet
https://www.aaihs.org/excavating-black-queer-thought-a-pride-bibliography/
“the roots of lesbian & gay oppression: a marxist view” by bob mccubbin
afsaneh najmabadi: women with mustaches and men without beards: gender and sexual anxieties of iranian modernity
anne mcclintock: imperial leather: race, gender, and sexuality in the colonial conquest
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: gender epistemologies in africa
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women: making african sense of western gender discourses
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: african gender studies a read
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: the invention of women
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: what gender is motherhood?
Disability Studies
disability studies
Critical Reads
marx’s das kapital for beginners
black panther ten point program
Articles, Speeches, and Essays
w.e.b. du bois: essay collection
amiri baraka: essay collection
james baldwin: the free and the brave
adrienne rich: compulsory heteorsexuality and lesbian existence
david m. halperin: essay collection
e. patrick johnson: black queer studies a critical anthology
stuart hall: essay collection
audre lorde: the masters tools will never dismantle the master’s house
kwame nkrumah: axioms of kwame nkrumah
angela davis essays on liberation
clr james: black power, its past, today, and the way ahead
edward said’s lecture at york university
kwame ture: we are all africans
the death of stockley carmichael (and later kwame ture)
raewyn connell essay collection
stalin: marxism versus liberalism
what is dialectical materialism?
racism in the communist movement
the logic of lesser evilism
lenin: the three sources and three component parts of marxism
oyèrónkẹ́ oyěwùmí: de-confounding gender: feminist theorizing and western culture,
Cultural Texts
Bell hooks: all about love
James Baldwin
go tell it on the mountain
giovanni's room
another country
the fire next time
if beale street could talk
Sonny’s blues
just above my head
notes of a native son
nobody knows my name
rap on race
no name in the street
a dialogue
devil finds work
the evidence of things not seen
baldwin: collected essays
the cross of redemption
Toni Morrison
the bluest eye (1969)
sula (1971)
song of solomon (1977)
beloved (1986)
paradise (1997)
a mercy (2008)
the source of self-regard: selected essays, speeches, and meditations (2019) V
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abolition work
hm i haven’t been posting here much because 1. Work Busy and 2. local movement spaces being largely on facebook, plus 3. disclosing local geographic location on here is still a bit Hhhh
but yeah i’m fairly open about being california bay area, and am working on plugging into local orgs and have been doing some rad captioning gigs for various places on both coasts, and getting to witness really rad conversations around defunding, dismantling, abolition, alternative structures, and communal healing
big plug for Kindred Collective and healing justice, their work on the medical industrial complex, and the National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network doing the deprogramming state collusion and relearning community care for social workers & healing practitioners
on surveillance, Hacking//Hustling is doing awesome work and talking about histories of police collaboration to criminalize public health surveillance, as is Red Canary Song,
highly recommend the Just Practice Collaborative’s mixtape on transformative justice coming out at the beginning of august
some great discussion by Mia Mingus and Mimi Kim along with Cat Brooks of Anti Police-Terror Project/APTP about the conflation of transformative justice, which seeks to transform systems that allowed/enabled harm to occur, with restorative justice, which seeks to restore the status quo that existed before the harm, and which the state is picking up on as a veneer of reparative work
and always always love for Critical Resistance and their amazing resources, and to the Abolition Journal Study Guide
for concrete steps to police abolition and things to call for from leaders, i recommend:
APTP’s & Justice Teams Network’s Black New Deal (here, there, and also here)
8toAbolition
MPD150 (who have a huge resource page!)
Critical Resistance’s demands
Movement for Black Lives/M4BL’s Interrupting Criminalization Toolkit
Repeal 50 (New York police misconduct protection laws)
other rad groups with resources include Survived & Punished, Community Justice Exchange, DecrimNow, FreeThemAll4PublicHealth, local Decarcerate ___ groups, Black Youth Project 100, INCITE!
other important names include Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Mariame Kaba, Kristina Agbebiyi, Kelly Hayes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Kimberle Crenshaw, Mari Matsuda, Anoop Naya, Audre Lorde, Assata Shakur, Cornel West, Angela Davis, bell hooks, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Charlene Carruthers, Rachel Cargle
my favorite demands right now are:
freeze police hiring, at minimum
decriminalize public existence (loitering, disorderly conduct, being in a park after dark, eating or drinking in public/on transit, riding a bike on the sidewalk, sleeping in public, littering, urinating in public, etc)
- these shouldn’t be misdemeanors! there can be general public conduct agreements without criminalization, and with competent handling of homelessness
refuse to criminalize COVID-19 and decriminalize HIV/AIDS and end all health care information sharing with police
refuse to use facial recognition tech and end usage of “predictive” tech, license plate readers, etc (saves money too!)
fund public bathrooms and showers, including making existent facilities (eg YMCA, pools) available, and fund COVID sanitation staff
move duties out of the police:
- youth engagement
- community engagement
- re-entry from incarceration assistance
- parking enforcement
- traffic law enforcement
- health crisis response
- mental health crisis response
- homelessness response and services
- neighbor disputes
- trespassing enforcement
- domestic violence response
- transit fares and rules enforcement
--> create new divisions that are unarmed, are not trained&licensed to use force or institutionalize/incarcerate, and are non-coercive
--> start by creating a transition team to start doing this with a five-year plan, for example
*** in the meantime, disarm police responses to these!! ***
--> see CareNotCops.org
articles i’ve found valuable:
Confessions of a Former Bastard Cop on Medium
Who Should Pay for Police Misconduct on a legal blog
Domestic Violence & Defunding Police on Huffington Post
Tired Bad Cops First Look to Their Labor Unions on Washington Post
Who’s Afraid of Defunding the Police? on Salon
Defunding the Police: What Would It Mean for the U.S.? on NPR
Abolishing Policing Also Means Abolishing Family Regulation by Dorothy Roberts
The Color of Surveillance by Alvaro Bedeta (see also the conference’s materials)
article i need to take a moment to find a way around a paywall for lmao: On Trans Dissemblance: Or, Why Trans Studies Needs Black Feminism
documentaries/videos i recommend:
Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise on PBS
books i’ve learned about and super want to read include:
Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation from Colonial Times to the Present
How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
Unapologetic: A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements (by Charlene Carruthers with BYP100)
The Trials of Nina McCall: Sex, Surveillance, and the Decades-Long Government Plan to Imprison “Promiscuous” Women
Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code
Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness (by Simone Brown)
Black Software: The Internet & Racial Justice, from the Afronet to Black Lives Matter
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Decarcerating Disability
No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Studies
Captive Genders: Trans Embodiment and the Prison Industrial Complex
Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (by Dean Spade)
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
additional books i’m considering and have seen recommended:
Nobody: Casualties of America’s War on the Vulnerable, from Ferguson to Flint and Beyond
An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America
When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in 20th Century America
Me and White Supremacy
So You Want to Talk About Race
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race
Being White, Being Good: White Complicity, White Moral Responsibility, and Social Justice Pedagogy
The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
A People’s History of the United States
Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (by Patricia Hill Collins)
Eloquent Rage (by Brittney Cooper)
Bad Feminist (by Roxane Gay)
Thick: And Other Essays
Real Life: A Novel
No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America
Since I Laid My Burden Down
The Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir
The Summer We Got Free
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (by Trevor Noah)
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption
yeah!!
what/who are y’all reading/watching/listening to and finding helpful, or meaning to get around to?
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How to be an Ally Pt. 4
Articles to read:
- “America’s Racial Contract Is Killing Us” by Adam Serwer | Atlantic (May 8, 2020)
- Ella Baker and the Black Freedom Movement (Mentoring a New Generation of Activists
- ”My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant” by Jose Antonio Vargas | NYT Mag (June 22, 2011)
- The 1619 Project (all the articles) | The New York Times Magazine
- The Combahee River Collective Statement
- “The Intersectionality Wars” by Jane Coaston | Vox (May 28, 2019)
- Tips for Creating Effective White Caucus Groups developed by Craig Elliott PhD
- “Where do I donate? Why is the uprising violent? Should I go protest?” by Courtney Martin (June 1, 2020)
- ”White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” by Knapsack Peggy McIntosh
- “Who Gets to Be Afraid in America?” by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi | Atlantic (May 12, 2020)
Videos to watch:
- Black Feminism & the Movement for Black Lives: Barbara Smith, Reina Gossett, Charlene Carruthers (50:48)
- "How Studying Privilege Systems Can Strengthen Compassion" | Peggy McIntosh at TEDxTimberlaneSchools (18:26)
Podcasts to subscribe to:
- 1619 (New York Times)
- About Race
- Code Switch (NPR)
- Intersectionality Matters! hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw
- Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast
- Pod For The Cause (from The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights)
- Pod Save the People (Crooked Media)
- Seeing White
Books to read:
- Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins
- Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
- Heavy: An American Memoir by Kiese Laymon
- How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
- Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
- Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
- Raising Our Hands by Jenna Arnold
- Redefining Realness by Janet Mock
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison
- The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
- The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century
by Grace Lee Boggs
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
- Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
- This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color by Cherríe Moraga
- When Affirmative Action Was White: An Untold History of Racial Inequality in Twentieth-Century America by Ira Katznelson
- White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo, PhD
Organizations to follow on social media:
- Antiracism Center: Twitter
- Audre Lorde Project: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Black Women’s Blueprint: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Color Of Change: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Colorlines: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Conscious Kid: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Equal Justice Initiative (EJI): Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Families Belong Together: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- The Leadership Conference on Civil & Human Rights: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- MPowerChange: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- Muslim Girl: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- NAACP: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
- National Domestic Workers Alliance: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook
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