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cloakndagger2 · 5 months

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I’m probably gonna make one long masterpost listing all the “evidence” that points to Carol Danvers being queer once I’ve done reading the bulk of her stuff but for now I’m just gonna point out this entire scene from Captain Marvel (2014) reads like someone meeting a queer elder for the first time and being so over the moon about it. I mean “gals like us” come on

#captain marvel #carol danvers #helen cobb #kelly sue deconnick #caroljess #carol x jessica #carol x jess #carolwanda #carol x wanda

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theoscarsproject · 4 months

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The Color of Money (1986). Fast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.

Paul Newman truly is That Actor - boundless charisma and an undeniable screen presence - he always delivers, and does so again here. He actually pairs really well both with Tom Cruise, who's playing the ingenue here in a kinda fun role reversal, and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, who plays a woman hungry for a life bigger than the one she's ended up with. It's got some great and tense action sequences too, and is just overall a pretty fun sports film. 8/10.

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badmovieihave · 6 months

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Bad Movie I have Call Northside 777 (1948)

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tudorblogger · 1 year

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Monthly Reading Summary – October 2022

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focusonthegoodnews · 2 years

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'A miracle': Rescuer reacts to teen girl's rescue from waterfall

‘A miracle’: Rescuer reacts to teen girl’s rescue from waterfall

Good News Notes: “A Northeast Georgia rescuer calls the mission to save a teenage girl wedged in the rocks of a White County waterfall “a miracle worth sharing.” The girl got trapped about a third of the way down Raven Cliff Falls when she fell approximately fifty feet from the top while trying to snap a photo on May 20. “It was an extremely challenging location to get to and required a lot of…

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thoughtfulfangirling · 4 months

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2024 Reads

Another human invented marker of time has passed moving us from one year to the next. It's a good reason to start over my lists right?! XD 2023's list can be found here! 2024 starts below!

You Made a Fool out of Death with Your Beauty - Awaeke Emezi

Pussypedia: A Comprehensive Guide^ - Zoe Mendelson & Maria Conejo

The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek -Kim Michele Richardson

Meru - S.B. Divya

The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: A True Story of Injustice in the American South^ by Radley Balko & Tucker Carrington

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Tradition, and Spiritual Wisdom^ - Adeline Yen Mah

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Last Days of the Romanovs: Tragedy at Ekaterinburg^ - Helen Rappaport]

Pride and Prejudice* - Jane Austen

Fresh Girl - Jaida Placide

Butts: A Backstory^ - Heather Radke

The Girl Who Chased the Moon - Sarah Addison Allen

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Blue Sword - Robin McKinley

In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex^ - Nathaniel Philbrick

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the 1846 U.S. Invasion of Mexico^ - Amy S. Greenberg

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get You Killed: How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible^ - Charles E. Cobb Jr.

This Is Your Mind on Plants^ - Michael Pollan

The Silent Patient*~ - Alex Michaelides

Finding Me^ - Viola Davis

Wuthering Heights# - Emily Bronte

Exit Strategy~ - Martha Wells

The Girls Who Went Away:^ The Hidden History of Women Who Surrendered Children for Adoption in the Decades before Roe V. Wade - Ann Fessler

Bowling Alone:^ The Collapse and Revival of American Community - Robert D. Putnam

Fugitive Telemetry%~ - Martha Wells

The History of Wales^*% - History Nerds

The War on Everyone^% ~- Robert Evans

Searching for Black Confederates:^ The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth - Kevin M. Levin

The Great Influenza:* The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History [2004] by John M. Barry

Network Effect~ - Martha Wells

Zelda Popkin:^ The Life and Times of an American Jewish Woman Writer - Jeremy D Popkin

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay - Michael Chabon

Currently reading: The Assassination of Fred Hampton and Medical Apartheid

Key: * = Reread ^ = Nonfiction ~ = Read with Empty % = Novella #= Doc book club

My goal for 2024 is for 40% of my reads to be nonfiction. I've had two years within the recent past where I managed 20% of my reads to be nonfiction, so I'm aiming to double that. THIS WILL BE HARD FOR ME! Not because I don't enjoy nonfiction but because I enjoy fiction a lot more and have a lot more practice reading it. Haha Also for me, I am in circles where I'm just going to have more awareness of fictional books that I'm likely to enjoy more so than nonfiction. I'm kind of hoping that this years journey will change that a bit too!

Okay, below the cut I'm putting the nonfiction books on my tbr, most of which I have the lovely people of Tumblr to thank for the recommendations!

1968: The Year that Rocked the World

The Age of Wood; Our Most Useful Material...

The Assassination of Fred Hampton

Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the...

Being Human:

The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shelf

Birdseye: The Adventures of a Curious Man

Bowling Alone

Brave the Wild: The Untold Story of Two Women Who Mapped...

Butts: A Backstory / Evermore Recommended

The Cadaver Kin and the Country Dentist / Automatuck9

Charity and Sylvia: A Same-Sex Marriage in Early America

Dancing in the Glory of Monsters: The Collapse...

Dear Senthuran

DisneyWar

Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with...

Finding Me (Viola Davis)

The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed...

The Food of a Younger Land

The Girls Who Went Away: The Hidden History of Women...

The Glass Universe

The Great Hunger: The Story of the Famine...

The Great Influenza

Helping Her Get Free: A Guide for Families and Friends of an Abused Woman

The History of Ireland

The History of Scotland

The History of Wales

How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks

The Indifferent Stars Above

In the Heart of the Sea / ecouterbien

In the Wake of the Plague: The Black Death...

The Indifferent Stars Above

The Last Days of the Romanovs / Automatuck9

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer

Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical...

Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During the Crisis...

A New World Begins

Nonviolence: The History of a Dangerous...

This Nonviolent Stuff'll Get you Killed / Empty

Radium Girls

The Road to Jonestown

Paper: Paging through History

People's Temple

Pussypedia / Bookstagram Rec

Salt: A World History

Say Nothing

Sea Biscuit: An American legend

Searching for Black Confederates

This is Your Mind on Plants

Unmasking Autism

The Unthinkable: Who Survives when Disaster Strikes - And Why

Watching the Tree / found all by my little self

We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow we Will be Killed...

A Wicked War: Polk, Clay, Lincoln and the.. / Rose

The Writing of the Gods: The Race to Decode the Rosetta...

I will actually add to this list as I get more recs and whatnot. And I still have some coming which I ordered from Thriftbooks. Once those are here, I'll add those. I'm a little sad there aren't more memoirs, but there's plenty of time for that yet! This is already 37 books, and given lately I've been reading about 70 (nonfiction may slow me down tho), these should give me plenty of ability to reach my 40% goal. Now it's just a matter of if I do it XD

#tfg reads #2024 Reading List #Books #tbr #Do I usually wait until I actually have more than one book read?#Uh yeah woops haha #Ah well I was eager to get my goal written to hold myself accountable #I'm really enjoying pussypedia!#So a promising start #I also have a silent private goal of some other nonfiction I want to get to #but it's going to be especially hard so that will wait to see if I can even get started XD #la de da #silly tfg #reading #my reading index

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hbowar-bracket · 3 months

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Albert Blithe

Alex Penkala

Alice

Alton More

Anna

Anthony 'Manimal' Jacks

Antonio 'Poke' Espera

Antonio Garcia

Army Chaplain Teska

Baba Karamanlis

Bernard DeMarco

Bill 'Hoosier' Smith

Bill Leyden

Billy Taylor

Brad 'Iceman' Colbert

Burton Christenson

Capt. Andrew Haldane

Carwood Lipton

Charles (Chuck) Grant

Charles Bean Cruikshank

Charles K. Bailey

Col. Robert Sink

Cpt. Bryan Patterson

Cpt. Craig 'Encino Man' Schwetje

Cpt. Dave 'Captain America' McGraw

Curtis Biddick

Darrell (Shifty) Powers

David Solomon

David Webster

Denver (Bull) Randleman

Donald Hoobler

Dr. Sledge

Edward (Babe) Heffron

Elmo 'Gunny' Haney

Eric Kocher

Eugene Jackson

Eugene Roe

Eugene Sledge

Evan 'Q-Tip' Stafford

Evan 'Scribe' Wright

Everett Blakely

Father John Maloney

Floyd (Tab) Talbert

Frank Murphy

Frank Perconte

Frederick (Moose) Heyliger

Gabe Garza

Gale 'Buck' Cleven

George Luz

Glenn Graham

Gunnery Sgt. Mike 'Gunny' Wynn

Gunnery Sgt. Ray 'Casey Kasem' Griego

Hamm

Harry Crosby

Harry Welsh

Helen

Herbert Sobel

Howard 'Hambone' Hamilton

Jack Kidd

James (Mo) Alley

James Chaffin

James Douglass

James Gibson

James Miller

Jason Lilley

Jean Achten

Jeffrey 'Dirty Earl' Carisalez

John 'Bucky' Egan

John Basilone

John Christeson

John D. Brady

John Fredrick

John Janovec

John Julian

John Martin

Joseph 'Bubbles' Payne

Joseph Liebgott

Joseph Toye

Josh Ray Person

Katherine 'Tatty' Spaatz

Ken Lemmons

Lance Cpl. Harold James Trombley

Larry Shawn 'Pappy' Patrick

Leandro 'Shady B' Baptista

Lena Basilone

Lew 'Chuckler' Juergens

Lewis Nixon

Lt. Edward 'Hillbilly' Jones

Lt. Henry Jones

Lt. Nathaniel Fick

Lt. Thomas Peacock

Lynn (Buck) Compton

Maj. 'Red' Bowman

Maj. John Sixta

Mama Karamanlis

Manuel Rodriguez

Mary Frank Sledge

Meesh

Merriell 'Snafu' Shelton

Navy Hm2 Robert Timothy 'Doc' Bryan

Neil 'Chick' Harding

Norman Dike

Old Man on Bicycle

Patrick O'Keefe

Phyllis

R.V. Burgin

Ralph (Doc) Spina

Renee Lemaire

Richard Winters

Robert 'Rosie' Rosenthal

Robert 'Stormy' Becker

Robert (Popeye) Wynn

Robert Leckie

Rodolfo 'Rudy' Reyes

Ronald Speirs

Roy Claytor

Roy Cobb

Sammy

Sgt. Mallard

Sidney Phillips

Stella Karamanlis

Teren 'T' Holsey

Vera Keller

Walt Hasser

Walter (Smokey) Gordon

Warren (Skip) Muck

Wayne (Skinny) Sisk

Wilbur 'Runner' Conley

William Guarnere

William Hinton

William J. DeBlasio

William Quinn

Winifred 'Pappy' Lewis

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kemetic-dreams · 10 months

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Lucius Henry Holsey was born on July 3, 1842, near Columbus, Georgia. His mother Louisa was enslaved. His father James Holsey owned the plantation. Lucius was born enslaved.

He was sold to his cousin T. L. Wynn and then to Richard Malcolm Johnston, an academic. According to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, Holsey chose to be sold to Johnston. According to American National Biography, Holsey taught himself to read and write and was not educated; according to the New Georgia Encyclopedia, some of Holsey's relatives taught him to read. He remained enslaved by the Johnston family until slavery was abolished.

Holsey converted to Methodism after attending plantation missionary revivals led by Henry McNeal Turner. He was given a preaching license as a Methodist minister in February 1868 and held various positions as a minister until he was appointed a bishop of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church (now the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church) in March 1873. The Colored Methodist Episcopal Church was a division of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, created for African people in 1870 during the Reconstruction era.

As a bishop, Holsey founded churches, wrote and revised religious texts including the church's Book of Discipline, and participated in church governance. He also edited a church newspaper, The Gospel Trumpet. He raised funds in support of educational institutions including Paine College; Lane College; Holsey Industrial Institute in Cordele, Georgia; and the Helen B. Cobb Institute for Girls in Barnesville, Georgia.

Initially an advocate for racial cooperation, Holsey endorsed Black separatism around the turn of the 20th century after Sam Hose was lynched in 1899.

In 1898, Holsey published Autobiography, Sermons, Addresses, and Essays with Franklin Printing & Publishing Company in Atlanta, Georgia. It went through three editions.

Holsey married Harriett Turner on November 8, 1862, or 1863. Harriett was 15 at the time. Her name is also given as Harriett A. Pearce or Harriet A. Turner. Harriett and Lucius met in Hancock County, Georgia, while classes at the University of Georgia, where Johnston taught, were canceled due to the Civil War. Lucius died on August 3, 1920, at his home on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #afrakans #brownskin #brown skin #auburn avenue #harriett turner #hancock county #columbus ga #columbus #Lucius Henry Holsey

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ionlydrinkhotwater · 2 years

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Still working on my comic for COBB and I have so many other comics to do after that so I'm just gonna talk about some quotes I like from the trilogy that I've been thinking about:

"But no one loves magic like I do. None of the other magicians-none of my classmates, none of their parents-know what it's like to live without magic. Only I know. And I'll do anything to make sure it's always here for me to come home to". Carry On Chapter 2 in hindsight this line is devastating.

"The first time I came back to Watford, my second year, I climbed into my bed and cried like a baby" Carry On Chapter 3. So can anyone imagine how it felt when the one place he could call his permanent home refused him entry after he lost his beloved magic: "The gates wouldn't even open for me tonight" Epilogue Carry On.

"I still can't believe they're friends. I can believe it of Simon; he'll make friends with anyone who's willing. Anyone who doesn't mind the risks of befriending a human wrecking ball." CO AGATHA talking about Baz and Simon, CHAPTER 77 awww Simon 😢

"Baz came back. This morning. He was always going to come back. I think he always will, if I make it good for him. I think he wants this, wants me. And I'm going to make it so good for him. This morning. This life" AWTWB Chapter 82. I think with the painful pattern of abandonment that Simon has experienced, this was super important for him and I like how in this moment Simon accepts his agency in good things happening for him and acknowledges the depth of Bazs love for him.

"Could this be real? Is it something else that will blow up in my face? Does everything I believe in fall apart?" AWTWB Chapter 89 for Simon learning that the Salisburys are his family is a happy thing so of course with the way things have gone in his life he's gonna question it, i hope in Scattered Showers that we see some Salisbury fluff.

"We grew up together, he spends every Christmas at my house" CO Agatha Chapter 13 and "Would my life have been different if i hadn't grown up with Simon like a brother?" WS Agatha Chapter 4. They should have been allowed to stay siblings but I think that the pressure from everyone, including Agatha parents pushing them to date stopped them from being the siblings I think they both needed. Simon probably assumed that the only way he could be part of the Wellbelove family was to date her. Can you imagine if they had adopted him instead? He and Agatha would have been legit siblings and could have like fought over Baz, talked about crushes, Normal stuff, and watched Dr WHO with Helen all the time. Penny and Simon are also like siblings but I can't see Mitali adopting him. The Wellbeloves might have though, even just to have a powerful child.

Is anyone else charmed by Simon calling the younger years "littleuns". It's so cute and such an endearing term.

"There are still a lot of people who don't accept Simon, even among the Mage's allies. "It takes more than magic to make a mage," is what Baz had always said. It sounds like classist nonsense, but in a way, it's true. The unicorns have magic. The Vampires have some. Dragons, numpties, ne'er-do-wolves-they all have magic. But you're not a magician unless you can control magic, unless you can speak its language. And Simon...Well. Simon." PENNY CO CHAPTER 23 Baz may have initially said this with disdain before but I think in hindsight it might be sort of comforting to Simon now. Also I fully believe that Shep will find non verbal Mages cause this whole thing sounds like WOM propaganda.

"(How does a magician fall in love with a centaur? What do they have in common?) ("The top half", Simon said, when I tried to discuss this with him.)" WS Penny Chapter 40. LEGEND. ATTA BOY SIMON LOL

#simon snow #the simon snow trilogy #simon snow series #baz pitch #carry on rainbow rowell #rainbow rowell #simon snow trilogy #wayward son #awtwb #agatha wellbelove #penny bunce #shepard love #character study #meta

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NOIR CITY 20 day six at Oakland's Grand Lake Theatre: I LOVE TROUBLE (7:00) & CALL NORTHSIDE 777 (9:00). Films introduced by Eddie Muller. Full festival information and tickets: www.NoirCity.com Directions via car, bus and BART at http://noircity.com/directions.html Wednesday • January 25 DOUBLE FEATURE 7:00 PM I LOVE TROUBLE

Franchot Tone plays wisecracking private eye Stuart Bailey, sleuthing his way through a bevy of treacherous dames in this playful homage to Raymond Chandler. Chandler didn't find it so playful—he threatened to bring a lawsuit against future TV legend Roy Huggins (77 Sunset Strip, Maverick, The Fugitive), A whirlwind of plot swirling through dozens of West Coast locations, with Janet Blair, Janis Carter, Adele Jergens, Glenda Farrell, John Ireland, Tom Powers, and Raymond Burr. The 35mm print was originally struck expressly for NOIR CITY 5. Originally released January 15, 1948. Columbia [Sony Pictures], 93 minutes. Screenplay by Roy Huggins, based on his novel The Double Take. Produced and directed by S. Sylvan Simon.

9:00 PM CALL NORTHSIDE 777

Jimmy Stewart gives a terrific performance as P.J. McNeal, a Chicago newspaper reporter determined to free a convicted killer (Richard Conte) he believes has been unfairly imprisoned for eleven years. The first Hollywood feature to be shot entirely on location in Chicago, Call Northside 777 boasts fantastic cinematography by Joseph MacDonald, and stellar supporting performances by Conte, Lee J. Cobb, and Helen Walker. Winner of the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for Best Motion Picture of 1948. First time at NOIR CITY! Originally released February 18, 1948. 20th Century–Fox, 112 minutes. Screenplay by Jerome Cady and Jay Dratler, based on news articles by James P. McGuire. Produced by Otto Lang. Directed by Henry Hathaway.

#i love trouble #janet blair #call northside 777 #Jimmy Stewart #richard conte #film noir #film noir festival #film noir foundation #noir city #noir city 20 #eddie muller

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jcmarchi · 5 months

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MIT students build connections with Black and Indigenous Brazilians to investigate culture and the environment

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MIT students build connections with Black and Indigenous Brazilians to investigate culture and the environment

In January 2024, at the height of Brazil’s summer, a group of 20 MIT undergraduates will arrive in São Paulo, Brazil, for the Independent Activities Period (IAP) course WGS.247/21L.592 (Race, Place, and Modernity in the Americas) jointly offered by the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences’ programs in Women’s and Gender Studies, Literature, and Writing.

Continuing a program developed in 2019 and launched as a special course in 2020, the three-week course offers students opportunities to study how American and Brazilian Black and Indigenous writers, artists, and filmmakers’ art and cultural activism — particularly women’s — can impact racial justice and environmental issues.

The class will visit historical sites, cultural centers, nature reserves, and museums while also engaging in conversations with local scholars, activists, religious leaders, community organizers, and artists.

By mixing classroom discussions with on-site exploration and cross-cultural exchanges, the course offers innovative pedagogy that is experiential (learning by doing), immersive (learning within an environment), and interdisciplinary (learning across different fields).

An immersive course, years in the making

Joaquin Terrones ’99, a lecturer in literature and women’s and gender studies, was already teaching this material when he considered expanding its scope. “It seemed like the natural next step was to take students to Brazil so they could experience its incredible culture, art, and activism for themselves,” he remembers.

In 2019, he and Wyn Kelley, a senior lecturer in literature, received a Higher Education Innovation grant from the MIT Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) to develop the course and teach it as a special subject the following year.

Generous support from MIT-Brazil, the Office of Minority Education, and MindHandHeart completed its transformation into a full-fledged course in women’s and gender studies, literature, and writing as part of MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) last January.

Helen Elaine Lee, a professor in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies/Writing program, co-taught the subject in its first full year, sharing her experiences using creative practices to further social justice.

Undergraduates from across MIT’s five schools, particularly Black, Latino, LGBTQ+, and first-generation college students, have enrolled. This outreach is important because some studies have shown students from these groups are underserved by study abroad programs, participating at significantly lower rates.

“Our students want spaces like the one created by this course to think deeply and collectively about the daunting array of crises we face, from catastrophic climate change to entrenched violence against communities of color,” says Terrones.

No day at the beach … well, maybe one or two

Although a few weeks in South America during January might sound like a vacation, the course is rigorous and intense, packing a semester’s worth of material into three weeks. Students spend mornings in seminar-style discussions, head out across the city for field trips in the afternoon, and return to their residences in the early evening for a few hours of readings or screenings.

For Tamea Cobb, a senior double majoring in chemical engineering and literature, the class trip to Rio led to an epiphany. “I remember waking up super early to watch the sunrise on the beach, where we saw a man practicing capoeira, an Afro-Brazilian martial art form disguised to look like dancing by enslaved Africans forbidden from practicing martial arts. We had just learned about capoeira the week prior, so it was a beautiful full-circle moment.”

In addition to class outings in São Paulo and Rio, students also organize their own weekend trips within Brazil to places such as Salvador, the unofficial capital of Afro-Brazilian culture, and Inhotim, a vast open-air art museum and botanical garden in the middle of the Atlantic Forest.

Beyond Brazil

The course’s impact continues well after its completion as participants incorporate what they learned into their work and lives.

“The course was a priceless experience that further revealed the interconnectedness of African experiences in the Americas,” says Afura N. Taylor ’21, who double majored in physics and writing. “It has influenced my writing by providing examples of literature and cultural practices that center ancestral memory.”

Educators also see benefits. “I had no idea it would give me a new research project on the presence of Brazil in Black U.S. print culture from the early national period to the present,” says Kelley.

In fact, the course’s success has inspired two new IAP subjects in Brazil this year: 21G.S07 (Language Conversation and Brazilian Culture) by Nilma Dominique from the Global Studies and Languages Section, and 10.496/1.096 (Design of Sustainable Polymer Systems in the Amazon) by Professor Bradley Olsen in the Department of Chemical Engineering.

When asked what makes the course special, Professor Lee describes “[a] unique power [that] derives from rigorous discussions of challenging texts and films that question prevalent assumptions about history and politics, and immersive cultural experiences that open mind and heart, expanding and empowering students who often feel isolated and excluded on MIT’s campus.”

She adds, “In addition to deepening my intellectual and political understanding, this class gave me a profound experience of ancestral recovery that has fed my artistic work. For our Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ students, it was a liberatory experience of community. A re-education. A cultural and personal homecoming.”

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cosplayinamerica · 6 months

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by Zippy

After visiting my first anime convention in my final months of college in March 2007, DaigaCon in Bowling Green, Kentucky, I knew I needed to seek out more conventions to feed my burgeoning love of anime and the fan community. This led me to wake up my sister super early on September 22nd, 2007 to take the nearly two hour drive down from Chattanooga to the Cobb Galleria, where I’d participate in my first, but certainly not last, Anime Weekend Atlanta (AWA). At the time AWA was celebrating its 13th year, with a “mere” 10,000 attendees, a third of what was estimated to have attended in 2022.

For my eyes though, entering Anime Weekend Atlanta was like discovering a bustling Otaku metropolis full of strange sights, sounds, and perhaps smells too. I planned a full schedule of panels including one featuring some of my favorite podcasters Anime World Order, which I found had Otaku Generation members in attendance as well – I fanboyed hard over all of them. I also ensured we would meet some of the guests, and specifically my sister and I both wanted to meet Greg Ayres who then, and everytime I’ve met him since, has been an absolute treasure. Of course we also marveled at all the cosplays too, and to this day my sister and I still recall some of our favorite cosplays we saw that year including a fancy deer cosplayer who bowed upon meeting us! After exhausting ourselves with panels, events, and running around, with the tiredness leading to some sibling squabbles, we took a break and relaxed in line outside the door for the concerts of the evening featuring Peelander-Z, The Emeralds, and The Captains. After rocking alongside the bands, in the late PM early AM hours, we drove back where I summarily had my first post-AWA sleep and recovery. This day still is treasured in my heart and my memories.

Since my trek down to my first AWA, my love of the con, as well as its importance in my life, has grown year after year. As a member of the press in attendance for many years, I had the pleasure to interview some incredible people including the author Helen McCarthy, music artist and producer Taku Takahashi, Otaku USA founder Patrick Macias, and DJ/producer TeddyLoid to name a few. I’ve also made many lifelong friendships, which makes AWA feel as much like a reunion as it does a convention. I’ve even had my share of heartbreak connected to the con, with friends who used to attend with me passing away, and also missed moments and lost connections over the years. All in all it has added up to the con becoming an incredible part of my life, which I think is why I was especially feeling emotional leading into this final year at the Cobb Galleria.

This year was my 16th trip to the convention, which I’ve attended consecutively (excluding the year of the Covid cancellation) since that first trip down in 2007. (This was also Anime Weekend Atlanta’s 29th year in existence.) My place in fandom has certainly evolved since then, as I’m now the former president of an anime club, former radio host of an J-Pop/J-Rock/anime college radio show, and former director for an anime con that ran for seven years. My time spent watching anime has dropped significantly too, less due to lack of interest and more time obligations, and so though my love of anime, anime cons, and the culture therein has never waned, I’ve seen myself go from a young upstart to becoming a somewhat elder statesmen looking on as new generations take their own paths into the fandom. I caveat that all to say that coming into this year’s Anime Weekend Atlanta was emotional at the onset, as the rumor mill had predicted – correctly so – a move from the Cobb Galleria, AWA’s home for the last twenty years, to the future home of the con the Georgia World Congress Center.

Many of us undoubtedly had and have mixed feelings about the move, though as a past con runner myself I certainly understand many of the pressures and the reasoning for the move, but without yet thinking too much on the future we all wanted to focus on the time and present and to enjoy this convention to its fullest. Thanks to a combination of wonderful weather, an incredible array of guests, panels, vendors, and artists, nearly everyone I encountered was able to do just that and seemed to really enjoy their AWA experience to the fullest.

Certainly there were some changes: the hotel introduced wristbands for the lobby, the main path of flow between the Cobb Galleria and the Renaissance Waverly was reversed (I eventually got used to it), and registration was in the old theater, which feels like it should’ve been used from the start. Yet what remained the same spoke to the success of the con over the years and presented a positive outlook for its future. I’m specifically speaking of things like the packed, yet fun if you got inside, Super Happy Fun Sell. I’m also including the many incredible music performances such as the rave, highlighted by the inclusion of TeddyLoid and Taku Takahashi of M-Flo. I of course have to shout out the full array of guests, who drew folks to their panels and to the back of the dealer’s hall for autographs in droves. Likewise the panels were awesome as always, including Dave Merrill’s Anime Hell, a panel whose presence over the years has been like a steady anchor in the everchanging schedule. (Merrill helped create Anime Weekend Atlanta, and previously served as con chairman.) Lastly and most importantly everywhere in the con there were fans of all ages, some in cosplays which is always incredible to see, who through their presence and participation in the con showed their love for the fandom and for each other by helping to create this place for us all to just geek out for a weekend.

It’s important I think to remember that the fans are the rock of conventions like Anime Weekend Atlanta. Merrill in his opening for Anime Hell highlighted the work of every fan at the con, and in the American anime community at large, who through our presence and support not only helped make Anime Weekend Atlanta happen all these years, but also helped build the anime fandom that now flourishes in America. “We did that”, Merrill emphasized, giving credit to fans over companies. That’s an incredibly resonant point and a reminder that while AWA may change in various ways over the years, as long as fans remain, and as long as it’s a welcome home for this community, no matter where the convention will take place it’ll have a lasting life for present and future anime fans for many years to come.

Zippy is a contributor to Cosplay in America as well as editor of Last Looks

#awa #anime weekend Atlanta

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mumblingsage · 9 months

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The only novelty in any of these books is the fact that those demanding “sex-based rights”—the notion that civil rights should be apportioned differently to members of different sex classes, the idea that Frances Power Cobbe, Josephine Butler, Margaret Oliphant, Simone de Beauvoir, and Judith Butler have consistently stood against for 17 decades—believe themselves to be “feminists.” But the word is taken.

#transphobia #Grace Lavery

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Robert Harold Ogle (April 3, 1886 - December 3, 1936) was born in DC. He attended public schools in DC. He was a student at the M Street School (1901-05). After graduation in 1905, he entered Cornell University.

After graduation he entered the secretarial field, finding employment for the Senate Appropriations Committee. He developed a keen knowledge of the financial affairs of the Federal Government and a habit of careful research. He clerked with two Washington Municipal Judges Brother James A. Cobb and Armond W. Scott. He married the former Helen Moore and moved to Richmond, Virginia for a short period. She died leaving him with two daughters Helen Ogle (Atkins) and Mary Ogle (Wilson). He married Marea Scott.

He along with Jewel Nathaniel Allison Murray and future historian and General President Charles Harris Wesley chartered the Mu Lambda Chapter, where he was an active member of the chapter until his death.

He was a dedicated Brother from the start. It was at the home of Archie and Annie Singleton (411 East State Street, Ithaca) in his disheveled combination study and bedroom that the fraternity took shape. In December of 1905, as the desire to become a fraternity was growing, He began investigating a news item he had seen in the Chicago Defender newspaper. He had returned to Washington for the Christmas holidays and saw an article that told of the establishment of the Pi Gamma Omicron Fraternity at Ohio State University. He wrote the registrar for information and received a reply that there was no such organization. They found out that the fraternity had been at Ohio State but had disintegrated.

At the first initiation banquet, he spoke on “Welcome Brother,” and it was he who made the motion to establish the Beta Chapter at Howard University in December of 1907. It was he who proposed the colors of “Old Gold and Black” for the organization. Noted for his excellent Spencerian penmanship, he served as the first secretary of the Alpha Chapter. He and Brother J. P. Boags wrote what was to become the first song for the Fraternity, sung to the tune of “Maryland, My Maryland”: #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence #alphaphialpha

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clarklovescarole · 1 year

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May 1939: Making a House a Home

May 3, 1939 - The Knoxville Journal

It’s a bit of a shock, all right, to hear Carole Lombard phoning baby talk to Clark Gable…

May 4, 1939 – The Lincoln Star

Another Clark Gable-Carole Lombard item of domesticity: She calls him “Pa” and he calls her “Ma.” And in front of people…

May 11, 1939 – Press Democrat

The Clark Gable-Carole Lombard honeymoon is definitely set for August.

They’ll probably spend two or three weeks roughing it in New Mexico’s painted desert and a week or two riding hither and yon from their new 14-acre San Fernando valley ranch home. Carole, who once rode a great deal, has done little of late, but Clark moved his three horses onto the ranch the other day and she’s going to take it up again.

Clark gave Carole a horse a year ago, but the nag turned out to be so frisky the screen hero later made his lady give him away.

Clark gets finished with “Gone with the Wind” at Selznick’s about July 1 and he’ll have a month to do any added scenes which may prove necessary. MGM wanted him to start “The Great Canadian,” a hockey story, immediately thereafter, but Clark turned thumbs down on the idea, informing the studio he was entitled to time for a wedding trip first.

Over at RKO, Carole completes “Memory of Love” in three weeks, and she’ll do her other picture for that studio, “Vigil in the Night,” after only a week’s vacation. So, she’ll be all set to get away around August 1.

May 14, 1939 – Lincoln Star

Carole Lombard is in a quandary. Clark Gable has so many guns in their house, she’s thinking of trying to rent them to the movie studios.

With all movie stars having their homes named, she may title the Gable-Lombard ranch “The Arsenal.”

May 15, 1939 – Minneapolis Star

Soon as “Gone with the Wind” is finished, Clark Gable and Carole Lombard will take a six weeks’ honeymoon.

May 15, 1939 – Roanoke Times

Newcomers to Hollywood who feel they have to put up a front might take a hint from Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, two of filmdom’s brightest stars, who refuse to be bothered with butlers, chefs, chauffeurs, first maids, second maids and the array of supernumeraries that you sometimes stumble over in homes.

There are only two house servants in the new Gable-Lombard menage in the valley. Besides these, there are a man and his wife to take care of the 14 acres of grounds.

Neither Carole nor Clark has a chauffeur. They drive their own cars, and when they want to go to a film premiere, they rent a machine with a driver.

Carole selected or okayed the design for every stick of furniture in the nine-room house. She and Clark have separate rooms, dressing rooms, and baths, which cover the entire second floor. Carole’s bedroom is very feminine, Clark’s very masculine, with bookshelves in one corner. Fanciest thing in his quarters is the bed with headpiece covered with brown leather.

May 19, 1939 – The Times

You might find it hard to believe but the pet on the new Carole Lombard-Clark Gable ranch home is a mule, one “Judy.”

“Judy is just wonderful,” Carole informs a reporter. “You would never believe a mule could have so much brains. She knows every single word Clark or I say to her.”

May 20, 1939 – Evening Star

How Clark Gable became a farmer. Carole Lombard gave him a mule, so he bought a plough. Andy Devine gave him five chickens, so Clark said, “I might as well have a chicken farm, and bought 500 more. Bob Cobb gave him a milk pail, so Gable bought a cow. I wonder what will happen if someone gave him a horse. Will he buy a racetrack?

May 26, 1939 – Wisconsin State Journal

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard will soon be enjoying the beauties of Wisconsin elm trees on their Bel-Air property in Los Angeles. The McKay Nursery Co. revealed today that two Washington elm trees have just been shipped to the movie stars as a wedding gift from their “Aunt Nell,” Mrs. Helen K. Stuart, Neenah.

May 28, 1939 – Richmond Times

Mr., Mrs. Clark Gable Are Housekeeping in Valley

The social life of the movie colony is getting along these days without the benefit of Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. Of course, both of them are pretty busy, Gable with the Rhett Butler role in “Gone with the Wind,” and Carole with “Memory of Love,” in which she costars with Cary Grant.

But, even in their leisure time, they have no hours for socializing. They’re too busy trying to make a home. Denied a honeymoon because of picture commitments, they are still “having fun,” says Carole, “shifting furniture and figuring on what stock to buy for their 12-acre estate in the San Fernando valley.

“It’s the first time either of us has ever owned a stock of furniture,” she adds. “And maybe we’re being foolish about it, but, just the same, everything about the house seems to be of major importance. Pappy is like a boy. He came in yesterday when I was about to drop from fixing things, and he shook me and yelled, ‘Carole, come on. Look at the wonderful knobs we’re going to put on the doors!’”

The Gables plan to stock their place, too, but friends did not wait for them to begin. Director John Cromwell, long-time friend of both players, sent them one of his prize milch cows. David Selznick contributed a mule.

Carole says she is going to learn to milk the cow. Gable says he already knows how to cuss a mule!

May 30, 1939 – Evening Vanguard

By Jimmie Fidler

Clark Gable and Carole Lombard are treating Hollywood to a masterly exhibition of diplomacy in their dealings with the press. With every fan magazine scribe and newspaper sob-sister in a dither of eagerness to “tell all” about their at-home life, they have managed to maintain their dignity, preserve their privacy and avoid slushy comment. And – most remarkably – they have done it without making enemies. Some of their fellow stars who, with far less excuse, are constantly feuding with the fan scribblers, might well profit by the Gable-Lombard technique.

Clark and Carole avoid giving offense – and, incidentally, being offended – because they know WHERE to draw the line. Instead of going into temperamental tailspins when asked some perfectly legitimate, though quite personal, questions, they have the common sense to concede that the public, whose admiration made them stars, has a perfect right to be curious about their personal affairs. And, being perhaps the least egotistical top-notchers in town, they are grateful enough to that public to satisfy its legitimate curiosity cheerfully.

They draw the line precisely where it should be drawn, between the word, “personal,” and the word, “private.” They are glad to talk about vacation plans, common career interests, social activities, hobbies, their new home – in short, any one of the multitudinous subjects that the public has a right to display interest in. But they do not choose to talk about “How Clark looks when he wakes up in the morning,” or about “The reason why marriage hasn’t robbed our kisses of thrills.” I’m beginning to believe that two people who show such tactful good sense are due for a lot of happiness together.

May 31, 1939 – The Times

… Gable, incidentally, is having a tough time getting a gentle horse so his real bride, Carole Lombard, can resume her riding. Clark gave her one as a present a year ago, but he was so frisky they had to get rid of him.

The new one with which he has just presented her has his little tricks, too, but let Carole tell about him:

“He’s just too playful. When you turn your back to him for instant, he nips you. And when you are riding him, if you don’t want carefully, he swings his head around and nips your knee or your leg. He doesn’t really want to injure you, but believe me, it hurts.”

#clark gable #carole lombard #1939 #old hollywood

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hbhughes · 1 year

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George Powell Flint

Beloved son of the late George Pogue Flint and Dorothy Powell Flint, husband for 58 years, 7 months to Helen Elaine, and father to Andrew, George Powell Flint, 83, passed away early on Sunday, November 28, 2021. He grew up in Nassau County, Long Island, NY, where his father managed a GE appliance store and his mother, a nationally recognized pioneer in adapting 4-H programs for suburban youth, had a 47-year career with Cornell Cooperative Extension of Nassau County, 4-H Division. In 1924, she established a 4-H camping program using borrowed tents and equipment. When public camping was no longer permitted in state parks, she and her mother financed the purchase of a 24-acre rustic camp on the bluffs overlooking L.I. Sound with a sandy beach 90 steps below. This allowed the camping program to continue and flourish with huge effort, creativity, resourcefulness, skill, and generosity from dedicated community volunteers, co-workers , and county officials. Now known as the Dorothy P. Flint Nassau County 4-H Camp, it is a 140-acre co-ed sleep-away camp with a farm and a wide variety of programs for ages 8-16.

An only child, when he was 4 years old, after the sudden death of their mother in Nov. 1942, 3 cousins, ages 7, 5, and 2, came to live in the 3 story Victorian house, along with Grandmother Powell and brave Carolyn Cobb, there to help care for 4 lively boys. After their father, a pilot in the USAAF, completed his tour of duty flying military supplies between India and China during WWII, he returned to the US and established a home in CA. The cousins moved to be with him, but they were always important in Aunt Dorothy’s family.

In his early teens, a football game with friends resulted in a spiral fracture of his left femur. The group had climbed a fence with a locked gate to play on the perfect grassy area at the Fulton Avenue School at the end of the block. The family doctor climbed the fence to aid until the gate could be unlocked for the ambulance. George spent many long days in traction in Mineola Hospital, but was fortunate to have an excellent recovery. He had no fond memories of that hospital stay.

George graduated from Hempstead High School and Bowdoin College where he was a member of Theta Delta Chi fraternity and participated in ROTC. Upon graduation, he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Army. He trained at Fort Benning, GA, and from Sept., 1961, to Sept., 1962, served as Commanding Officer, Headquarters Detachment, Student Battalion and as Executive Officer, Headquarters Company, U.S. Army Intelligence Center, Fort Holabird, MD. He was awarded a “Certificate of Achievement” for outstanding organizational and leadership abilities, concern for and interest in the welfare and morale of his troops, and devotion to duty. Upon discharge from active duty in 1962, he worked as an insurance adjuster for Liberty Mutual Insurance Co., Lynbrook office, where he made lifelong friends. In 1965, he entered graduate school at Teachers College – Columbia University where he was awarded a Master of Arts degree in 1966, followed by a Professional diploma in 1968. He also studied for a Ph.D. at New York University, all in Higher Education Administration.

At Adelphi-Suffolk College (later known as Dowling College), he served as Assistant to Dean of Students, Director of Student Financial Aid and Placement, Assistant to the President, and VP for Development and Public Relations, as part of a team that successfully raised the funds to build a library. He became Director of Institutional Relations at Lycoming College, raising funds to build a new gymnasium, and then he was Director of Development at King’s College, leading their successful campaign to fund their first separate Chapel.

Deciding to remain in PA he began a third career as a Care Manager for the Aging, first commuting to Dauphin County, and then transferring to Luzerne County Area Agency on Aging as soon as possible. Experienced, resourceful, professional, and compassionate, and with a gift for treating clients with dignity and respect, he joined the Protective Service team, where he served with upmost dedication.

He was a member of a number of professional organizations and had several articles published in CASE CURRENTS. He was a past-president of the Oakdale, LI, Lions Club and at the time of his death was a member of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Dallas, where he had served as an Elder, King David Lodge 763, F. & A.M., Kingston, and Irem Shriners, where he sang with the Chanters.

An active parent, he included Andy’s friends in baseball games in the back yard, fishing at Shadyside Pond, golfing at Newberry, and when they were teenagers, trips to Dorney Park, Unexpected calls for help came: a ride home to Orange from a party, home alone and a stubborn bleeding cut. He responded. He was an excellent driver and role model, once receiving praise for averting a sure disastrous accident when a driver pulled out in front at a high rate of speed. One of Andy’s soccer friends in the car observed, “Mr. Flint, I don’t know how you did that.” He was using seat belts as early as 1962. However, in 1968 he did buy his favorite car, Pontiac’s “Car of the Year.” a GTO with concealed headlights and windshield wipers, and Endura bumpers. His was gold with a black Cordova top.

Over the years, he had many interests. One little goldfish led to four large tanks of tropical fish. A fifth-grade teacher enrolled her class in the Audubon Society, sparking his lifelong casual birdwatching hobby. Whenever he heard a Cardinal’s song, he responded with his own close imitation. He was a good bridge player, had an eclectic love for music from pops, jazz, bossa nova to classical. He attended many, many live concerts and Broadway shows. He somehow had a box seat overlooking the stage for his favorite show, “Camelot,” with Julie Andrews, Richard Burton, and Robert Goulet. He also appreciated good food, whether at home or at a wide range of restaurants from Maine to Maryland and from Long Island and Manhattan to PA.

In his relationships, he was positive, patient, supportive, and constructive He taught swimming one summer at Buddy Pierce’s Country Day Camp and never forgot the very frightened six-year-old who did learn to swim thanks to his patient coaching, He was known to be a slow speaker, said to have been characteristic of George Washington and Ruth Bader Ginsberg, but he was reflective and thoughtful, never glib or superficial, almost always very serious.

His mother’s family traced back to John Alden and thus two signers, John Alden and William Mullins (father of Priscilla Mullins Alden), of the “Mayflower Compact” on Nov. 11, 1620. George was certified through eleven generations and accepted as a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. A 5th generation great-grandfather, Alden Gage served in the Revolutionary War, enlisting at age 16-1/2 in Oct.,1775 and serving in parts of every year through 1780. During the Civil War, a great-grandfather, Frederick C, Powell, served with the 106th NY Infantry Regiment, G Company, from 8/27/1862 to 6/22/1865, His beautifully scripted letters to his parents, describing some of his life and requesting supplies for himself and friends from the Madrid, NY, area, were preserved.

In the last years of his life, George suffered a series of mini strokes and failing vision, despite best efforts to help. The last twenty months were greatly impacted by Covid 19. His family extends their deepest gratitude to all those who provided care with kindness, compassion, understanding, warmth, and humor.

A service for the family was held at Trinity Presbyterian Church with Pastor Jen Baer officiating and Pamela Carroll, Director of Music, providing music. He was laid to rest at Fern Knoll Burial Park near the tall pines reminiscent of the “Pines of Bowdoin.”

Survivors, in addition to his wife and son, are cousins and their families, Cecil J. Folmar, MD and Raymond H. Folmar, MD (Sharon). Roger L. Folmar (Carolyn, children, and grandchildren)) died in 2013. Before his retirement, he was a software engineer at Lockheed Missiles & Space and had worked actively on the SR Supersonic Plane and the Hubble Space Telescope. Also surviving are sisters-in-law, Nancy Masticola and Anne Rieken and their children, Stephen P. Masticola, Ph.D. (Jeanette) and Nadine Rieken.

If you wish. memorial donations can be made: “where needed most” or “where they will do the most good”.

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