#gayl jones

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[all tea all shade (model: Flawless Shade)] :: [Blcksmth]

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"And my spirit, you said, like knives dancing. My veins are centuries meeting."

Gayl Jones, Corregidora

#drag show #Flawless shade #title page #Blcksmth #quotes #Gayl Jones #corregidora #guns

[theloverspeaks]

song for anninho, gayle jones (1981)

#gayl jones #poetry #bookblr #book quotes #quotes #books #black poets #tenderness #the lover speaks

[dk-thrive]

Haven't you had dreams too where you're afraid to look?

Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher (Beacon Press, September 13, 2022)

#dreams #nightmare #Gayl Jones

[backstreetsbackalright]

Some Memorable Reading from 2022

Gayl Jones, Corregidora (1975, Random House)

Annie Ernaux, The Possession (2002, Gallimard)

Kathryn Scanlan, Kick the Latch (2022, New Directions)

Chantal Akerman, My Mother Laughs (2013, The Song Cave/Mercure de France)

Anne Tyler, Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant (1982, Knopf)

Joy Williams, The Changeling (1978, Doubleday)

Michael DeForge, Birds of Maine (2022, Drawn & Quarterly)

James Welch, Winter in the Blood (1974, Harper & Row)

Kate Beaton, Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands (2022, Drawn & Quarterly)

John Darnielle, Devil House (2022, MCD)

#Gayl Jones #Annie Ernaux #Kathryn Scanlan #Chantal Akerman #Anne Tyler #Joy Williams #Michael DeForge #James Welch #Kate Beaton #John Darnielle #2022 #EOY

[whynotbetrees]

“You can’t grow up without growing inside.”

The Birdcatcher Gayl Jones

#life lessons #quote #national book award #the Birdcatcher #gayl jones

[m-c-easton]

Book Picks: Palmares

Magical realist and almost Biblical, Gayl Jones' novel Palmares is magnificent. Almeyda grows up enslaved in 1600s Brazil--until she arrives in Palmares, where everything changes. This is a story of magic, myth, and the hope of intergenerational healing.

Palmares is marvelous. Magical realist and at times even Biblical, Gayl Jones’ novel is set in a fictional Brazil at the end of the 17th century. It opens with the young first-person narrator Almeyda, observing Mexia, a mixed race woman. She serves as a model for a particular type of femininity: quiet, alluring, and outwardly obedient. This divide between inner and outer worlds—appearance versus…

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#17th century Brazil #Bakhtin heteroglossia #Bakhtin polyphony #bildungsroman novel #Black feminism #Black liberation #Black resistance #book review #European colonization of the Americas #Gayl Jones #historical fiction #intergenerational trauma #magical realism #Palmares #slave narrative #slavery in Brazil #Song of Anninho #traditional healers

[ladamarossa]

Bad Things (2023)

#i wanted to like this so bad #and in some ways i did #bad things #bad things movie #bad things 2023 #stewart thorndike #gayle rankin #hari nef #annabelle dexter jones #molly ringwald #horror #slasher #women in horror #lgbtq+ horror #female filmmakers #horror directors #lgbt+ filmmakers #lgbtq+ cinema #scream queen #80s horror #80s slasher #80s aesthetic #the shining

[whenweallvote]

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Before you log off for the night, take a moment to make sure you're registered to vote at weall.vote/register — then you'll be a winner too! 🌟

#grammys #beyonce #victoria monet #janelle monae #lionel richie #miley cyrus #ed sheeran #taylor swift #taylorswift #billie eilish #olivia rodrigo #leon thomas #gayle king #oprah #voting rights #Khris Riddick-Tynes #jon batiste #coco jones

[moviemosaics]

Bad Things

directed by Stewart Thorndike, 2023

#Bad Things #Stewart Thorndike #movie mosaics #Annabelle Dexter-Jones #Gayle Rankin #Hari Nef #Rad Pereira #Dana Slosar #Holland Smith #Ariella Josephine #Molly Ringwald

[theloverspeaks]

she changed black literature forever. then she disappeared (2021) imani perry

#on the gayl jones novel 'palmares' #on reading #imani perry #gayl jones #literary hunger #the lover speaks

[kwebtv]

Tripping the Rift - Sci Fi Channel / Space / Teletoon - March 4, 2004 - December 13, 2007

Animated Science Fiction (39 episodes)

Running Time: 20 minutes

Voice Actors:

Stephen Root as Chode McBlob 

Gina Gershon (season 1), Carmen Electra (season 2) and Jenny McCarthy (season 3) as Six

Gayle Garfinkle as T'Nuk Layor

Rick Jones as Whip

Maurice LaMarche as Gus

John Melendez as Spaceship Bob

Terrence Scammell as Darph Bobo

#Tripping the Rift #TV #Sci Fi Channel #Space #Teletoon #2000's #Science Fiction #Stephen Root #Gina Gershon #Gayle Garfinkle #Rick Jones #Maurice LeMarche #John Melendez

[notchainedtotrauma]

It's easier being a woman and alone in different places than it is in the same place.

Eva’s Man by Gayl Jones

#Gayl Jones #Eva #the possibilities of refusal

[dk-thrive]

I couldn't believe that all you had to do was get old to get right.

Gayl Jones, The Birdcatcher (Beacon Press, September 13, 2022)

#Gayl Jones #peace #aging #older #old #wise #wisdom

[judgingbooksbycovers]

What Things Cost: An Anthology for the People

Edited by Rebecca Gayle Howell, Ashley M. Jones and Emily J. Jalloul.

#What Things Cost #Rebecca Gayle Howell #Ashley M. Jones #Emily J. Jalloul #animals #books #book covers #birds

[topoet]

Ronstadt Round-Up

Linda Ronstadt, as much as Janis Joplin, paved the way for females who rock – not that Aretha didn’t pave the way too but soul is very different genre. In my collection I have as mp3 Stone Poneys – Evergreen Vol.2 (1967), Different Drum (Michael Nesmith) Stone Poneys III (1968), art folk. Solo: Silk Purse(1970) country, Linda Ronstadt (1972)   country rock – I Fall To Pieces;  Don’t Cry Now…

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#Alison Moyet #am writing #Chrissie Hynde #Gayle McCormick #Grace Jones #Grace Slick #Linda Ronstadt #Marianne Faithfull #music #Ontario #photographs #review #Smith #Stone Ponyes #the Pretenders #Toronto #Yaz

[whynotbetrees]

“There’s almost nothing I wouldn’t do for you; you know that,” he said.

I heard the “almost.” Does every woman hear the “almost”?

The Birdcatcher Gayl Jones

#gayl jones #birdcatcher