#sharon washington

[caroleditosti]

'Richard III' Shakespeare in the Park, a Stunning Achievement

‘Richard III’ Shakespeare in the Park, a Stunning Achievement

Ali Stroker, Michael Potts, Danai Gurira, Sanjit De Silva, and Xavier Pacheco in the Free Shakespeare in the Park production of Richard III, directed by Robert O’Hara, running at The Delacorte Theater in Central Park through July 17. Photo credit: Joan Marcus For sixty years the Public Theater has kept its mission to offer free Shakespeare in the Park to educate and entertain in the finest of…

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#Ali Stroker #Ariel Shafir #Danai Gurira #Heather Alicia Simms #Michael Potts #Richard III #Shakespeare in the Park #Sharon Washington

[kenpiercemedia]

Warner Brothers Pictures "Joker: Folie à Deux" Official Teaser Trailer

The 2019 film “Joker” found actor Joaquin Phoenix donning the facepaint of the Clown Prince of Crime but instead of the character we all know and love in the comics, television series and the first serious “Batman” movie he was more of a mentally distressed individual as opposed to one focused on anarchy and living life in chaos. This will surely be changed as with the film receiving two Academy…

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#brendan gleeson #catherine keener #dc comics on film #harry lawtey #jacob lofland #joaquin phoenix #joker #joker: folie a deux #ken leung #lady gaga #leigh gill #movie trailers #sharon washington #steve coogan #trailers #zazie beetz

[thena0315]

"Are you watching season 9 @nbcchicagomed Wednesday nights to see what these two are up to ?

@merk2577 . . @theycallhimjelks

#onechicago#chicagomed"

#chicago med #sharon goodwin #dennis washington #s. epatha merkerson #john earl jelks

[aryburn-trains]

Flat out!

Train 175,The Patriot, no longer hampered by the climb from 128 Station to Sharon Heights, is taking full advantage of the fast track between there and the Rhode Island state line.

Photographed by Ken Patton, July, 1966.

#patriot #nynh&h #new haven railroad #1966 #washington dc #boston #trains #passenger train #history #sharon heights #massachusetts

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By Sharon Black

Thousands of mostly young women marched in pouring rain from 14th and I Streets to the White House July 9 as part of the “Summer of Rage” called by the Women’s March. When the group reached the White House, a sea of green bandanas with “Bans Off Our Bodies” written on them were tied to the White House fence.  

#AbortionRights #SCOTUS #protest #Joe Biden #Summer of Rage #BansOffOurBodies #Washington #NOLA #womensliberation #LGBTQ #Sally Jane Black #Sharon Black #Struggle La Lucha

[withintemptationrares]

📍 Capital One Arena, Washington, DC, USA (23/10/2022).

📸 Lauren G. Koch

#within temptation #wt #wtofficial #within temptation rares #sharon den adel #sharon den adel rares #live #2022 #ruud jolie #ruud jolie rares #Stefan helleblad #Stefan helleblad rares #Mike coolen #Mike coolen rares #Legacy of the Beast tour #Usa #Washington dc #Capital One arena

[yourcoffeeguru]

Up Close and Personal - Biographies of Celebrities 8 DVDs Holywood Stars // swtradepost - shop

#hollywood #holywood stars #up close and persona' #denzel washington #johnny depp #sharon stone #juliea roberts #nicholas cage #leonardo di caprio #kristen dunst

[paulpingminho]

#Oh No! #Castello boxwood #gold #diamond #Sharon Church #art #Renwick Gallery #Smithsonian #Washington DC

[streamondemand]

'Ray' – Jamie Foxx is R&B legend Ray Charles on Peacock

Jamie Foxx is electric as Ray Charles in Taylor Hackford’s biographical drama Ray (2004). The film sweeps us from his humble beginnings as an R&B piano man in Seattle in the early 1950s through his rocket-ride to the top of the R&B and pop charts (and his heroin addiction and philandering along the way) to his successful rehab in the mid-1960s, with sun-burned flashbacks in the red dirt Florida…

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#2004 #Blu-ray #Bokeem Woodbine #Clifton Powell #Curtis Armstrong #DVD #Harry Lennix #Jamie Foxx #Kerry Washington #Larenz Tate #Peacock #Ray #Ray Charles #Regina King #Richard Schiff #Sharon Warren #Taylor Hackford #Terrence Howard #VOD #Wendell Pierce

[z-reads]

The Blue is Where God Lives, Sharon Sochil Washington

Or: The Author of this Book is an Anthropologist, and She Really Really Wants You to Notice

I picked this book up off the New Fiction shelf at my library because the inside cover hit one of my prime buzzwords: “Afro-magical realism ”. I was extremely excited about the supposed shapeshifters and time travel and other miscellaneous magic, and on those points, I will say this novel absolutely delivered. I only wish that was what the book was actually about, rather than sort of the circumstances that the book’s plot happens around.

The Blue is Where God Lives is a time bending, inter generational historical fiction novel, telling the story of Blue, a Black woman who has lived a hard life, and comes from a line of Black women who have lived hard lives, as she reels in the fallout of the unimaginable tragedy of losing her daughter in a gruesome murder. As she processes her trauma and tries to understand how she can possibly move on from it, she tells us (and a priest) the story of her life.

I actually found the storytelling quality of these little flashbacks to be the most enjoyable and interesting aspects of the book. Blue has had a difficult and painful life in a lot of ways, and the honest way she speaks about her relationship with her sense of self and her experience as a mother I think really echoes how easy it is for a lot of women, especially those fighting through poverty, to absolutely lose themselves in the strain of trying to provide for others. And I deeply respect that Washington doesn’t mince words about the messiness of those feelings.

Struggling under the burden of unwanted motherhood is a theme of both of the dual storylines in this novel, as Ismay Riguad, one of the other main characters, struggles with many of the same tensions in the year 1843. Interwoven with Blue’s story are snippets of the story of her great grandparents Amanda and Palmer, and Ismay, the white-passing French Royal they befriend. It’s in the past, in their storyline, that the magic really becomes relevant in this text. But it’s also here where Washington starts to self indulge just a touch too much, and lose me. Amanda and Palmer, both Black and light skinned, are abolitionist revolutionaries, using Amanda’s magic and Palmer’s financial privilege in conjunction with the lightened color of their skin to wield great socio-political power, and to outsmart / kill / escape from the vicious white people that try to enslave them and their friends, while liberating as many other enslaved people as they can along the way.

Now, did I enjoy every single scene of these Black people bringing the white slaveholders, murderers and rapists the type of violent, bloody, gruesome justice they deserved? Absolutely. In fact, I would’ve happily read a novel of just Amanda and Palmer doing that for 300 pages. As intense as some of those scenes were, it was sort of comforting to know that the Black people were the heroes of this story, and that despite the violence of the setting, they were going to live to the end.

But here’s where Sharon starts to enjoy herself a little too much: far too many moments of the 19th century plot line feel less like historical fiction and more like historical fanfiction. Just about every famous person who was alive during these time periods gets name dropped in this book, from Karl Marx to Bonnie and Clyde, and they’re always both close personal/influential friends of the main characters and not at all fleshed out as characters themselves. Not to mention, the author puts these characters in the most transparently manufactured settings possible, to provide them an opportunity to dialogue over some specifically anthropological debate. This leaves us with a six page spread of Frederick Douglass and Johann Kant supposedly debating why the enslaved Africans in America don’t just revolt the way they did in Haiti.

It just felt at times like the author was writing a response to a social studies class prompt: “tell a story where three of this unit’s important figures meet for dinner. Be sure to represent each figures point of view accurately, and use at least 5 key words from the word bank”. The arguments she’s making are certainly never wrong, and her primary sources are always used intelligently, but it felt a little aggressively like she needed us to remember her background in anthropology. And it often got in the way of me enjoying her extremely lyrical and poetry like narrative prose, and fantastic storytelling skills.

In the end I stuck it out to the finish for all of the great character work she does with Blue, and the cool magical action with Amanda and Palmer, and because I found the non linear storytelling to be challenging at first but extremely compelling once I got used to it. But it would’ve been less of a chore to get through if it wasn’t trying so hard to teach me something.

Other things…

Whoooollleee lotta sexual assault. Definitely a recurring theme. No graphic descriptions of the act, but almost every woman in the novel is assaulted or at least loses agency over her body at some point or another in her life. There’s also some non trivial mentions of suicide and gore. Good to keep in mind as triggers.

Super Christian, randomly. I mean I know it has God in the title, but for a novel that otherwise leans so heavily into non Western spirituality, bending of reality, and even numerology, it sticks to a pretty prescribed definition of a Christian God.

This author also loooves to repeat herself. Especially that damn simile about memory being like reattaching an arm. Like babes we got it the first three times.

#the blue is where god lives #Sharon sochil washington #book review #booklr #afromagical realism #shapeshifting #magic #historical fiction #generational trauma

[mauricecherry]

All it takes is a spark to set off a blaze of creativity, and no one knows that better than our first guest of the year, visual artist Sharon Burton. As a creative coach, her specialty lies in helping people reclaim their creative lives, which I think is a fantastic way to start off 2023.

Sharon talked about her coaching practice Spark Your Creative, described the different courses and services she offers, and spoke on how using joy as resilience is a key part of her work. Sharon also talked about growing up in Philly, working in public health, and shared how her time in Atlanta opened her eyes to her true calling.

If you’re looking for a creative spark, then I hope this conversation with Sharon helps you begin this year on the right track!

For extended show notes, including a full transcript of this interview, visit revisionpath.com.

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#Revision Path #Sharon Burton #Spark Your Creative #creativity coach #visual artist #poet #Saint John's University #Clark-Atlanta University #DMV #Washington DC

[judgingbooksbycovers]

The Blue Is Where God Lives: A Novel

By Sharon Sochil Washington.

Design by Zach Bokhour.

#The Blue Is Where God Lives #Sharon Sochil Washington #Zach Bokhour #books #book covers

[cmarienorthwest]

New Paintings!

These last couple of months have flown by! But I’m happy to say I’ve created some paintings that I really love and I’m excited to share them with you today! You’ll see some process videos/pictures in the future but for now… please enjoy the paintings in their final forms :)

#watercolor landscapes #glacier national park painting #old faithful painting #bridge over water painting #sailboats painting #bison watercolor painting #rocks of sharon painting #dishman hills spokane washington #yellowstone national park #olympia washington #montana art #wyoming art #washington art

[aryburn-trains]

The Colonial Rolls Through Sharon

Penn Central FL-9 #5051, still in New Haven paint, leads sister #5029 and "The Colonial" as it leans through the curve at Sharon Station with only 18 miles to go before arriving at South Station Boston.

Photographed by Ron DeFilippo, 1970.

#colonial #pc #penn central #nynh&h #new haven railroad #1970 #washington dc #boston #trains #passenger train #history #sharon #massachusetts

[liongoatsnake]

It has come up as of late, yet again, regarding the use of the term phantom limbs while referring to the experiences some alterhumans have where they feel traits on their bodies that are not physically there.  

While I could go into the long, long history of the term being used in the alterhuman communities going back into the 1990s, as this debate’s key sticking point is in regard to phantom limb being a medical term specific to the experiences of amputees or instead a general term that can be used for non-amputees as well, I’m going to strictly be pulling from academic sources below.   

To put it succinctly, the use of the term phantom limbs for alterhuman experiences has been recognized by multiple researchers and in other academic settings over the years. Ergo, no it isn’t a term specific to amputees that doesn't apply to alterhuman experiences. - Academic references below cut-

Examples:

The research done by a multidisciplinary team of researchers focusing on the study of the furry fandom called the International Anthropomorphic Research Project, uses the term phantom limb while referring the experiences of therians and otherkin. In their book, FurScience! A Summary of Five Years of Research from the International Anthropomorphic Research Project, which is a summary of five years of continuous research into the furry fandom, a section simply named “Phantom Limb,” touches on the topic of phantom limbs among furries, therians, and otherkin. [1] They go into the presence of “phantom limbs” among furries, therians, and otherkin again in their piece “Furries, Therians, and Otherkin, Oh My! What Do All Those Words Mean, Anyway?” which was part of the book, Furries Among Us 2: More Essays on Furries by Furries. Further, in 2019, the team published an academic article which shared their results where they used the previously mentioned Rubber Hand Illusion experiment on furries and therians. Once again, when bringing up the existence of experiences among therians and otherkin, the researchers use the term “phantom limbs.” [2] 

Devin Proctor’s 2019 dissertation, On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space includes, along with dozens of mentions of the term throughout the work, a section on Phantom Shifting and in which he uses the term “phantom limbs.” [3]

For yet another example, the article, “An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Identity in the Therian Community” also goes into quite some detail regarding the experience of “phantom limbs” among therians. [4]

A final example includes Nat Bricker’s 2016 thesis, Life Stories of Therianthropes: An Analysis of Nonhuman Identity in a Narrative Identity Model. [5]

…

This is NOT an exhaustive list in the slightest, but I think I’ve made my point clear enough (and I have other things I need to do today other than keep searching through my archive...).

TL;DR - Researchers who have studied therians and otherkin ALSO use the term phantom limbs to describe our experiences. This isn’t appropriation or otherwise misuse of medical terminology. This is using a word for what it means.   Citations:

[1] Plante, Courtney N., Stephen Reysen, Sharon E. Roberts, & Kathleen C. Gerbasi. FurScience! A Summary of Five Years of Research from the International Anthropomorphic Research Project. Waterloo, Ontario: FurScience, 2016. https://furscience.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FurScience-Final-pdf-for-Website_2017_10_18.pdf, page 116.

[2] Kranjec, Alexander, Louis Lamanna, Erick Guzman, Courtney N. Plante, Stephen Reysen, Kathy Gerbasi, Sharon Roberts and Elizabeth Fein. “Illusory Body Perception and Experience in Furries.” CogSci (July 2019): Page 596-602.

[3] Proctor, Devin. On Being Non-Human: Otherkin Identification and Virtual Space. The George Washington University. May 2019. pages 172, 203-209, & 255.

[4] Grivell, Timothy, Helen Clegg & Elizabeth C. Roxburgh. “An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Identity in the Therian Community.” Identity: An International Journal of Theory and Research. Volume 14, Number 2 (May 2014): pages 119-120, 124, 128-129.

[5] Bricker, Nat. Life Stories of Therianthropes: An Analysis of Nonhuman Identity in a Narrative Identity Model, Lake Forest College, April 2016, pages. 10, 14-15, 39-41, 60.

#alterhuman terms #phantom limbs #supernumerary phantom limbs #phantom shifting #research into alterhumans #I don't mean to come across as harsh or snippy #it's nearing the end of finals week and I am in need of a break

[withintemptationrares]

📍 Capital One Arena, Washington, DC, USA (23/10/2022).

📸 Sidestage Magazine

#within temptation #wt #wtofficial #within temptation rares #sharon den adel #sharon den adel rares #live #2022 #Legacy of the Beast tour #Usa #Washington dc #Capital One arena