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I don't know if you answered this before, but how old was Olympias when she married Philip? I'm very interested on your view of her, It's very different than most authors. What asks/articles can I read to understand it better?

Olympias was probably around 15 when she married Philip, and would probably have had Alexander at about 16, at most 17. That was a pretty standard age. Girls were traditionally betrothed after their first menses, and they seemed to start their menses later than we do now. In the case of Olympias, she was actually betrothed to Philip much younger, on the Isle of Samothrace during/after the initiations.

The deal would have been made between Philip's elder brother, King Perdikkas II and Olympias's uncle, who was regent for her younger brother, Alexandros. It would have been a backdoor deal between Macedon and Epiros against the power of Illyria under Bardylis. So contra the story in Plutarch, it was not a love match. 1) She was a little girl at the time, and 2) even if they'd hated each other on sight, the marriage would have been advantageous and gone through. (Beware of the "love matches" in the sources; they usually aren't.)

Driving around Epiros (see image below, 2nd is from Dodona), one gets a better sense of Olympias. It's rough country, compared to the lowlands. Families would have had to pull together there to survive, and the effort and work of women would have been required. The kingdom was not as absolute a kingship, and if the Molossian clan ruled, it was by consent of a council, who could remove kingship too. Alexander states at one point, observing when his mother and sister traded places, that his mother had made the smarter choice as the Macedonians wouldn't consent to be ruled by a woman. Apparently, the Epirotes would. And certainly Kleopatra had a great deal of power as regent for her son, when she was there. In this way, the Epirotes were perhaps closer to the Illyrians--also hill people, and among whom women could fight in combat.

In any case, Olympias would have been accustomed to more freedom and authority than she likely had in Pella. That may be one reason she clashed with Antipatros later, when he was regent, as well as with Philip occasionally. But clashes with Philip were exaggerated. They cooperated as much if not more than clashed, and any clashes were mostly as a result of offenses to the status of Alexander (or herself). In polygamous courts, the most important male in a wife's life wasn't the king but her son. If he didn't survive to take the throne, often she didn't either. So don't read Oedipal nonsense into that relationship. That's one reason I really disliked how Renault wrote Olympias, and how Stone directed Jolie to portray her in the movie (which is basically a direct steal from Renault).

Another important aspect for women in ancient Greece, Macedonia, Epiros, etc., was their role in religious rites. Olympias was a priestess, and Macedonia was rule by CLAN (the Argeads). So the women had specific roles to play, mostly in religion, but also in terms of dedications. We have information showing both Olympias and Kleopatra donating money to temples, etc., as did Philip's mother Eurydice...in her own name, not her husband's. And yes, that suggests some control over their finances, unlike women in Athens. I even put that in the novel; when Olympias interviews Kampaspe, she talks to her about a donation in Larissa, in the hopes of securing cavalry later for her son. That is precisely the sort of thing Macedonian royal women did.

I strongly recommend the work of Elizabeth Carney, if you want to know more about Olympias. Her biography is THE place to start. It's been out a while, so look for a used copy, or see if your local library has it, or can get it. Another article where Beth puts not a pin but a damn sword through the brutal image of Olympias in ancient sources is "Olympias and the Image of the Virago," Phoenix, 47.1 (1993): 29-55. The biography is a later work, but I point to that article as it really threw down the gauntlet to the (mostly male) Alexander scholars, about Olympias. As with the book, ask your local library to get a copy of the article for you via ILL (interlibrary loan).

It was Beth's work on Olympias that influenced how I portrayed her in the novels, even to using her other name, Myrtale, which I did to try to divorce her from ALL the horrible baggage. I did not want her to be a pushover--she manifestly wasn't--but all her actions have reasons, and reasons that aren't either jealousy or petulance. Even her objections to Hephaistion has nothing to do with jealousy of him and everything to do with what she considers a threat to Alexander's place as heir.

That's why I wrote "Two Scorpions," as one of the "outtakes" that occurs between the two novels, released between the publishing of book 1 and book 2. It's a confrontation between Hephaistion and Myrtale, and Hephaistion does not come out the winner, really.

In any case, I tried to make it clear that Myrtale is FAR from hated in the women's rooms. At one point, Alexander says his mother's women would die for her the same as his father's men would for him. And Myrtale is the only one to think of Kampaspe, when Alexander flees after the wedding. Hephaistion helps her, but because he almost falls over her when he goes to Alexander's room. Myrtale actually asks about her. Alexander more or less forgets her in all the hooplah. Myrtale doesn't.

I'll leave you with an interesting tribute to her. When the Greeks decided to build a trireme on the ancient model, back in the '80s, did they name it The Themistokles? Or The Perikles? No, they named her Olympias:

#Olympias #Alexander the Great #Philip II of Macedon #Philip of Macedon #Epiros #Molossian Kingdom #Kleopatra of Macedon #Cleopatra of Macedon #Hephaistion #Hephaestion #Classics #asks #Elizabeth Carney

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notmyrick · 4 years

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Also long side note/analysis:

In s4e10, Rick was part of the resistance against the Galactic Federation in his 30's which he said he grew out of.

In the comics (#34) while he was in the band The Flesh Curtains (which some sources say started in his college years, not sure when it ended though) , he also was starting off as a weapons dealer and got his first client/ friend Krombobulous Michael (Mike). After making the deal, in the following panel, Mike goes off in a killing spree and if you include the initial gun, and assume he got all his guns from Rick, he has a total of 4 guns, which at max means he met Mike 4 times to deal him weapons. At least from the first deal. Then we see another deal with Mike and Rick, this would be the 5th transaction, which this is where Rick confesses he fell in love. He has shorter hair, looks happy, and has the vibe of slowly becoming simple Rick as he even tells mike that he should fall in love. Same comic, when mike meets his wife amy they have a love montage where in the end they got married and surprise surprise, Rick is there with his iconic flask drinking as one of the groomsmen or as the best man wearing his common getup.

So this gives us a rough timeline that by the 5th transaction, Rick met his wife Diane when he became a well known weapons dealer and by the time Mike got married to Amy, he either had problems in his marriage or Diane already divorced or died. Most people married around their late 20's and early 30's and assuming Rick did the same maybe on the late side. He was also still part of the resistance against the government.

Also in Rickshank Redemption, does "weird" Rick give off any I'm against the Federation vibes? Like the outfit has the same feeling of space Beth? Anyone?

At the ending of Auto-Erotic Assimilation beth says:

And I know I sound like mom but I can't sacrifice this whole family's safety just because I'm afraid you'll leave again,

So this is something Diane would say, maybe not word for word, but certainly the same tone, vibe, and message.

This begs me to question how did Rick threaten his family's safety? For the smartest man in the universe, you would think it be easy to slip under the radar of the government considering that Earth wasn't really under the Galactic Federation until Rick was in his 60s/70s(his current age) in Rickshank Redemption. Sure they sent a couple spies, but they didn't give Earth an olive branch to join anytime prior to this episode. To me this means that Earth was under watch, but they werent worth much of the Federation's time. So Rick could be considered "not a threat" in his 30s (debatably). Also in this episode, it shown during this time (also debatable) that he was trying to figure out interdimensional travel. So breaking down the jobs Rick had, he was a weapons dealer, he was still part of the resistance against the government, he may or may not be working on earth to bring money to the family, and he was an at home scientist. That's a lot. It's nice to note that Diane was supportive of Rick's science endeavors although she might not know much. It looked like the family didn't have much conflict, at least in the early years of the marriage.

So what was Rick doing that was threatening the safety of his family? From Diane's/Beth's words, he was always leaving and the threat always starts when he left. So here is my 2 scenarios.

The Citadel of Ricks. When interdimensional travel becomes a Rick thing, they created a "clubhouse" or government where only Rick's exsist. But since this is an earlier time, it can be assumed that the Citadel was very "primitive" at this time. Sure there are a bunch of Ricks and a group of geniuses can achieve a lot, but not nearly the end product we see in the show. Rome wasn't built in a day and most definitely the Citadel wasn't either. Maybe a day and a half at best lol. Anyway, I just dont think that the power the Citadel has now, is what they had back then. They can be threats individually, but not a threat as a whole, at least not yet. And since a lot of non cooperative Ricks view this as a clubhouse or party, it could be safely assumed that it was used as such initially.

The Galactic Federation. In his 30s he was still part of the rebel alliance. Which one can assume, he was still a rebel during his marriage. Now this I see much less of a threat. As shared previously, I believe that Rick can go under the Federation's nose and stay hidden. As a matter of opinion, if the Galactic Federation knew where Rick was, which presumably he was soely labeled as a criminal instead of the smartest mammal who discovered interdimensional travel, they would've already threaten/take over his home planet and more specifically threaten his family to get him to concede. Which I believe is not the case because Diane couldn't sacrifice this whole family's safety which implies the threat was more looming and mental, than it was physical and present.

In Diane's case the Citadel of Ricks, yes can threaten the safety of the family despite being Rick, knew and are aware of Diane and Beth. They even have the advantage of portal tech and know the dimension they come from. Diane and Beth are essentially sitting ducks in this scenario and this can be a looming and mental threat compromising the safety of the family. However there are two caveats.

Beth's adoration

Rick's presence

While the Citadel is a threat, it would be more of a threat to Diane than Beth. Both caveats are linked to Beth. They can psychologically torture Diane with multiple Ricks. As a spouse, you hope the person you love comes back, but with the interdimensional travel the person who comes back may not be the person you married. In addition, this doesnt threaten the safety of the whole family, it only threatens Diane. And it seems to me as along as (a) Rick is cordial and father like to Beth, she would be willing to suffer the mental abuse of multiple Ricks. This is assuming that the threat came to them and as stated before, I'm less inclined to believe this because while yes it is a looming threat and definitely a mental one, it is also a physical threat because there is an actual entity invading and I don't think there was any physical factor when Diane spoke these words. Not only that, but it has to threaten the life of one Rick sanchez along with the rest of the family.

The term "losing you" can be interpreted in a lot of ways, but the most common I think of is death. If the Citadel was threatening another version of himself, then it would make sense that they would target the Sanchez family when they are together. And the only way to threaten Rick is to kill his family, and the only way to threaten the whole family, is to kill everyone. Which again I think, the threat should be more psychological and mental, than having an actual physical threat. This also contradicts that the family's safety is threatened when Rick leaves. For Diane, this is an inescapable scenario where safety is never guaranteed. Either way it should have enforced Rick to stay by his family's side instead of leaving.

Which brings me to the second point: Rick's presence. If they did torture Diane with multiple Rick's that wasn't her Rick, to Beth's childhood, her father would have more presence, even if he tried to sneak around the child (I'd like to think that Beth was like a bloodhound when it came to her dad). Also in her words, "I'm afraid you'll leave again" implies she constantly saw her father leave her mother, herself, or both.

With the Galactic Federation, I can see a little more meat to this. If Rick was still a rebel and actively participated in the front lines, Diane is essentially married to a solider, who has a very realistic possibility of dying on the battlefields. In addition if Rick is the weapons dealer and if he is as infamous as he claims to be, then he paints, not only, a target on his back, but his family's as well. Assuming his world state is similar to ours with the exception of us not having a Rick, then Rick is the first and only human to interact with other intelligent, sentient life forms. To Diane, Rick is easily recognizable. So a psychological looming threat is possible and can even manifest into something worse due to imagination. Even if the truth says otherwise, as long as Diane wasn't aware of it, she would just think the worst.

Now moving on to Diane and Beth. Don't take this to heart bc Diane had no speaking lines only rare appearances and mentions here and there, so I'm taking a few liberties with Diane. You could say these are a few headcanons I had of Diane (subject to change). Beth said she "sounds like mom" which I translate Beth is bringing up common issues or problem arguments they had when she was young. Essentially her argument is very reminiscent of the missing/late Mrs. Sanchez whether it was tone, topic, or opinions. So instead of word for word of what Beth said I made Diane say: I can't risk our family's safety just because I'm afraid of losing you. Which, like beth, sounds like an ultimatum, and to further emphasize that point I made her say in addition to that: Choose Rick, come home or stay out. In the episode Rick essentially implies that the creation of Portal tech is what caused the divorce or death of Beth's mom. Although there was a fabricated backstory, the show also implied that what was out of the shoneys were real. And we have a real memory of Beth and her mom standing infront of Rick's green portal in between Rick's favorite sports blooper and where he was in 9/11. To me there must be a connection with the portal and Rick's wife. So here is where the headcanon or possible backstory of Rick's marriage. I believe that Rick was still part of the rebels against the government during his marriage, that the federation was the looming threat that may compromise the safety of the Sanchez family. I believe that Diane was supportive, but was always frightened when Rick would be gone days at a time without a single word. So Diane actually proposes that Rick call her whenever he was in trouble. Depending on the Rick, he either calls her constantly to the point where he abuses it and depends on her to get him out of a sticky situation or he doesnt call her at all to the point where she is informed by a close friend of Rick because they were worried for Rick. Either way, it stresses Diane out to where she is jaded and worried at the same time. In this scenario, she saved rick from gods know what and essentially snaps. She confronts Rick to either come home or stay away because Diane realizes he's no good trying to protect the galaxy and being a father/husband, but he could excel if he focuses on one or the other.

Anyway this is merely for me of I ever wanted to explore this concept of Rick X Diane, or do like a one shot of this exact scenario.

#rick and morty #rick sanchez #diane sanchez #beth's mom #ricks wife #mini analysis #long side note #possible one shot #related to picture i drew

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thisguyatthemovies · 4 years

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Little Women, big statement

Title: “Little Women”

Release date: Dec. 25, 2019

Starring: Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Laura Dern, Timothee Chalamet, Meryl Streep, Chris Cooper, Tracy Letts, Bob Odenkirk, James Norton, Louis Garrel, Jane Houdyshell

Directed by: Greta Gerwig

Run time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Rated: PG

What it’s about: Based on the classic novel by Louisa May Alcott and the author’s personal writings, “Little Women” is the story of the March sisters – Jo, Amy, Meg and Beth – as they come of age in a lower middle-class home in Massachusetts during the Civil War era.

How I saw it: Making a movie version of the classic novel “Little Women” fresh and contemporary would seem a formidable task. Louisa May Alcott’s timeless story of the March sisters has been made into seven full-length feature films (dating back to 1917!) and countless TV adaptations (including a Japanese animated version), musicals and stage shows, and its Civil War era setting and way of life would seem to have little in common with today’s technology-saturated world. Alcott’s book is beloved, popular upon its publication in two volumes in 1868 and 1869 (and then combined) and still read, revered, dissected and discussed 150 years later. Any moviemaker wanting to rework it had better tread lightly.

But writer/director Greta Gerwig, not surprisingly (and thankfully), did not tread lightly. Nor did she stomp all over Alcott’s work. Her version of “Little Women” gives the story’s feminism 21st century bite while also paying respect to the source material. It’s still a period piece, still a captivating story of four sisters’ bond, still a warm family drama, still about romantic love, still about practical love, still about unrequited love, still about restraints society places on women, still about women’s struggle for identity. But Gerwig’s version feels like it is of the here and now. And it’s an outstanding film.

Alcott based her book loosely on her own life, and the main character (representing the author) is Jo, a determined, hot-tempered, tomboyish writer played in the film by Saoirse Ronan. She is the March sister who most questions what is expected of women in the mid-1800s. At times she is the family’s breadwinner. She is the one who puts her life in New York on hold when her sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) falls ill. She has a rivalry with her mischievous, boy-crazy youngest sister Amy (Florence Pugh). She does not understand the choices made by her oldest sister Meg (Emma Watson), who is content with getting married (and marrying for love, not money) instead of pursuing a career in acting. Jo also is loved by a neighbor, Laurie (Timothee Chalamet), who is loved by Amy, though she plans to marry for money. Jo has decided to go it alone, to be her own woman, to be more than someone’s wife. “Women, they have minds, and that have souls, as well as just hearts,” Jo says in one of several bits of empowerment dialogue in Gerwig’s film. “And they’ve got ambition, and they’ve got talent, as well as just beauty. I’m so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for. I’m so sick of it!”

Jo, as in the book, eventually does marry (though Alcott did not), though the middle-aged Friedrich Bhaer of the book has been reimagined as a hunky young man (played by Louis Garrel) who shares a kiss with Jo under an umbrella at a train station. In this movie version, Jo is told that women in books either must get married or die (and, according to her publisher, it does not matter which). Gerwig’s version shows Jo driving a hard bargain with the publisher (Tracy Letts), and her insistence on doing her own thing and being heard as a woman in a man’s world seems as if Gerwig, who has been outspoken about a male-centric Hollywood, has interjected herself into the story. Gerwig has said that Jo March was her hero growing up but that she now most admires Alcott, so Jo becomes a natural extension of Alcott and the filmmaker simultaneously in Gerwig’s screen version.

Ronan is, as usual, outstanding, her Jo full of spunk and heart. Pugh’s Amy gets her own epic speech about love, marriage and what is expected of her; Pugh is strong as the young adult Amy but is too much an adult to pull off 12-year-old Amy. Laura Dern brings a touch (but not too much) of her edginess to the role of Marmee, the girls’ mother. Chris Cooper stands out as Mr. Laurence, the March’s wealthy neighbor who befriends Beth. Chalamet is perfect as the young Laurie, especially in the scene in which Jo breaks his heart by being honest with him.

Any criticism of Gerwig’s film (and there isn’t much criticism) has centered on her choice to make this version a non-linear story. This “Little Women” jumps around in time, and it can be hard to follow until you get used to it (hint: look for the change in color palettes during different periods of time). But the non-linear format works in the film’s favor. For one, we meet Jo when she already is a young adult, which helps reinforce the film’s emphasis on strong women over the younger March girls. It also allows Gerwig to juxtapose scenes for effect, like when the girls are shown having fun at the ocean and then the story shifts to Jo reading to a weakened Beth on the beach. The format also seems to keep the pace lively and perhaps adds spark to a story already familiar to much of the audience.

No matter how “Little Women” is sliced, though, it is a powerfully emotional story, one that is engrossing and certain to bring more than one tear (and cheer). Gerwig, by making a few key changes along with some minor tweaks, by coaxing strong performances out of her cast, and by offering a lovingly made film that is beautiful to look at (and hear), has made “Little Women” seem like her own, a time period movie fully in touch with the world in which Gerwig resides. It is clear much work and thought went into its making, and the results are wonderful.

My score: 93 out of 100

Should you see it? Yes. As with the book, it will have more appeal for women, but it is a film of importance that just so happens to be immensely entertaining and should be seen by all.

#movies #film #movie review #movie recommendation #little women #greta gerwig #oscars #best picture #feminism #louisa may alcott #saoirse ronan #florence pugh #emma watson #laura dern #eliza scanlen #timothee chamalet

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nationaldvam · 5 years

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Our favorite childhood stories tend to stick with us. For me, rabbits seemed to be prominent characters in the books I loved – from Uncle Wiggily to Watership Down, Peter Rabbit and Alice in Wonderland. And more than the adventures of the bunnies, I remember the way the stories made me feel, and the lessons I still carry with me. There were lessons of survival, persistence, curiosity, risk-taking, and problem-solving that reinforced values of leadership, compassion, community, respect, and kindness. These rabbits live on in my subconscious, holding power and space having shaped my understanding of the world and all of its love and pain. Now, as a parent, I’ve come to know just how critical these choices are for my own children, and just how much power a simple picture book can hold.

Enhancing Social Justice Literacy

In 2015, Tanya Nixon-Silberg and Francie Latour, two Black mothers, authors, and community activists, drew on their own parenting practices – especially their use of children’s books to disrupt dominant narratives with their kids – to launch Wee the People (WTP) in Boston. WTP is a social justice project for children aged 4-12 that explores activism, resistance, and social action through the visual and performing arts. As part of their work, WTP hosts Social Justice Storytime at the Boston Public Library for their “Little Voices, Big Changes” initiative, built on the belief that if kids can understand fairness they can understand justice. Tanya and Francie work to builds parents’ capacity to confront topics like racism, deportation, gentrification, misogyny, islamophobia, and homophobia.

Innosanto Nagara, a Southeast Asian immigrant father, author/illustrator, and graphic designer creates new-wave board books that inspire conversations about social justice and encourage children’s passion and action around social causes like environmental issues, LGBTQ rights, and civil rights. With titles like A is for Activist, Counting on Community, and The Wedding Portrait, Innosanto explores themes of activism, free speech, political progress, civil disobedience, and artistic defiance. Innosanto is on the editorial team of M is for Movement, a site dedicated to exploring social justice and activism in children’s literature. The contributors to M is for Movement are children’s writers, illustrators, and book creators who are long-time activists and advocates who “come from and stand with marginalized communities living at intersections of identity, experience, race, class, gender, religion, sexuality, and ability.”

At the 2018 Facing Race National Conference in Detroit organized by Race Forward, Wee the People co-founder Tanya Nixon-Silberg and author/illustrator Innosanto Nagara presented a workshop together on racial literacy for children. They stressed the importance of racial literacy from an early age in the process of dismantling racist systems and structures.

Through their work, Tanya, Francie, and Innosanto are invested in inspiring social action through the arts, and have found that children’s books offer a powerful medium for moving new generations of people towards justice. Louise Derman-Sparks from Social Justice Books (a project of Teaching for Change) agrees:

“Children’s books continue to be an invaluable source of information and values. They reflect the attitudes in our society about diversity, power relationships among different groups of people, and various social identities (e.g., racial, ethnic, gender, economic class, sexual orientation, and disability). The visual and verbal messages young children absorb from books (and other media) heavily influence their ideas about themselves and others. Depending on the quality of the book, they can reinforce (or undermine) children’s affirmative self-concept, teach accurate (or misleading) information about people of various identities, and foster positive (or negative) attitudes about diversity. Children’s books teach children about who is important, who matters, who is even visible” (Guide for Selecting Anti-Bias Children’s Books, 2013).

Social Justice Literacy as a Prevention Strategy

Social justice literacy is an effective gender-based violence prevention strategy – a proactive effort to stop violence and abuse from happening in the first place by interrupting the cultural rules, norms, and constructs that support it. Several projects highlighted in the PreventIPV Tools Inventory demonstrate the effectiveness of social justice literacy in creating a more peaceful and just world. For example, Teaching for Change is a project that strives to build a more equitable, multicultural society by promoting social justice activism in the classroom. Their strategies center on leadership development and civic engagement for students, parents, and teachers that draw on real world current events. Teaching a People’s History offers classroom materials that emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. And Rethinking Schools focuses on strengthening public education through social justice teaching and education activism with a specific focus on promoting equity and racial justice in the classroom. These approaches focus on impacting the outermost layers of the social ecology to shift our cultural norms and values.

Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo, youth activists and creators of The Classroom Index, a textbook on racial literacy, identified two gaps in racial education:

The heart gap: “An inability to understand each of our experiences, to fiercely and unapologetically be compassionate beyond lip service,” and

The mind gap: “An inability to understand the larger, systemic ways in which racism operates.”

TED Talk: What It Takes to be Racially Literate by Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo

Children’s literature is one way to bridge these gaps by inspiring, educating, and engaging readers of all ages in a deeper understanding of the lived experiences of all people, families, and communities in our wide and vibrant world. But the fact is that marginalized people and communities are outrageously underrepresented in books available to children in mainstream American classrooms, libraries, and catalogues – in terms of both those authoring the books, and characters represented inside them. The Cooperative Children’s Book Center found that in all children’s picture books published in 2015, you are more likely to find non-human characters like bunnies (12.5%) than African Americans (7.6%) and Latinx (2.6%) combined. White characters are primarily depicted in the vast majority (73.3%) of these books.

Illustration: Diversity in Children's Books 2015 by David Huyck, in consultation with Sarah Park Dahlen and Molly Beth Griffin

Social Justice Books serves to identify, vet, and promote multicultural and social justice children’s books, building on the tradition of the Council on Interracial Books for Children which offered a social justice lens to reviews of children’s literature. They also help parents and children develop critical literacy skills and promote activism around diverse representation in libraries. One example is their #StepUpScholastic campaign urging Scholastic to “publish and distribute children’s books that reflect and affirm the identity, history, and lives of ALL children in our schools.” Engaging children in proactive efforts to both notice and address the underrepresentation of people of color in literature, as illustrated above, builds their social justice literacy.

Books that Promote Justice and Peace

For those looking for books that promote justice and peace, resources like Social Justice Books offer vetted booklists on a variety of topics, as do Raising Luminaries: Books for Littles and Little Feminist: Books for raising conscious kids. Topics include:

Learning about family structures

Talking to kids about violence

Books for tomorrow’s leaders

Honoring single mothers

Promoting healthy fatherhood

Fostering social and emotional health, compassion, and independence

Helping kids recognize privilege

Cultivating healthy sexual boundaries

Preventing sexual violence

Bullying, civil disobedience, and disrupting injustice

Seek out books by authors of color like Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Honor receipient Kwame Alexander. Additionally, several anti-violence organizations offer book lists specific to addressing trauma. For example, The Child Witness to Violence Project offers books about trauma and violence for young children.

As M is for Movement explains, “Children’s literature—both fiction and nonfiction—is full of inspiration and examples of children and adults who stand up for themselves and others. Whether it’s ducks organizing animals to oppose unfair farm rules, a student listening to her classmates’ concerns when running for student council, or a boy joining his first march, young people’s literature can demonstrate how individuals and communities have the power to act as agents for social change.”

Through children’s books, we can teach justice and peace across generations. By engaging a child in a book with a strong message that fills the heart and the head, we can help build their understanding, compassion, and confidence to impact social change in ways that are meaningful and important to them. And these lessons and values will likely stick with them their whole life long

Images:

The Rabbit Listened by Cori Doerrfeld

Counting on Community by Innosanto Nagara

Illustration: Diversity in Children's Books 2015 by David Huyck, in consultation with Sarah Park Dahlen and Molly Beth Griffin

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frederator-studios · 6 years

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Steve Wolfhard: The Frederator Interview

Steve Wolfhard is a cartoon writer and storyboard artist who's been nominated for an Emmy award for his work on Adventure Time. Since joining AT in season 3, Steve has contributed his zany humor and style to several more great shows, including Over the Garden Wall and our own latest season of Bravest Warriors. Steve lends great insight here into his path through animation and sources of inspiration. To hear that he often pulls ideas from dreams gives helpful context to the nightmarish ‘Lemongrab eats Lemongrab’ scene that he wrote, below. Going on the record as saying that this is and has been one of my very favorite minutes in animation. Enjoy!

When did you know you wanted to work in animation?

I always wanted to be a cartoonist as long as I can remember. I went to animation school because I just wanted to get better at cartoons. Once I got in there, I started to really enjoy animation.

When you were in the Classical Animation program at Sheridan, did you already know you wanted to be a writer/storyboard artist?

No. Until I learned about how Adventure Time did their work, as a board-driven show, I didn't even know that writing was an option that might be available for me, or that storyboarding could be something that I could love.

What's a general outline of your path through animation, from first job on? How did opportunities come about?

When I graduated from animation school, there weren't many jobs available, so I started on a public access animation show with some friends of mine in a small town in Ontario. After that I started working at Studio B in Vancouver doing character design and flash animation. Then I planned on quitting animation for good. I did illustration and comics for a couple of years. I met Pen Ward at a comic convention, and he was collecting comics people to work on Adventure Time. That was my first job writing and storyboarding.

What have you written that you're most proud of?

I'm really proud of a scene from an Adventure Time episode called "Another Five More Short Graybles". The outline just said something like "the Lemongrabs get angry." I made that into a scene where one of the Lemongrabs ate the other one. It still makes me laugh.

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What is your writing routine like? Any must-haves for writing?

I get ideas in dreams a lot. The idea for the Bravest Warriors episode "I.O.U. for Your Love" came from a dream. I like coming up with a setpiece or a fun ending and working around that. I also like to come up with fun jokes and get a lot of those in there. If I'm in a block, I think about what I'm trying to say with this story. In general, though, I don't trust anything that I come up with. I always talk with my wife Leslie about it and trust her to know if something's good or bad or how something can be fixed.

What do you like best about being a writer / storyboard artist? What's most challenging about it?

Writing and boarding are an artistically fulfilling part of animation. A job's a job, and I know that the important thing is keeping the lights on and food on the table, but I feel really lucky that I get to tell stories. I can get kind of exhausted from having to come up with ideas all the time, but I'm very lucky.

What are your favorite things about Beth, Danny, Wallow and Chris? Do you have a favorite character?

I like that the four main characters are very sweet but also have sex drives. Haha. I think that a lot of adult-centered cartoons would have sex-focused characters, but it would be lecherous. In BW, characters can be lustful but they don't lose any of their sweetness because of it. My favorite is Wallow. He's the most sensitive, and I like his voice actor, Ian Jones-Quartey.

What do you like best about Bravest Warriors overall?

I like how much adventure can be packed into one episode. I see that going back to the roots of the show on YouTube, where each episode would start in media res and end before the actual story ended. Wall to wall action. And I appreciate how the space setting lets you bring in literally any kind of creative idea. What's to stop you? It's space. Who knows what's out there.

How would you describe your writing style or voice in a few words?

I'm joke-focused, but I also like things to be very quiet and plain. In the most entertaining possible way.

What are your favorite cartoons? Which artists or writers do you admire most?

Right now, I'm really enjoying Craig of the Creek. As an adult, the things that have affected me the most have been the pilot for Adventure Time, some of the later episodes of Bee & Puppycat, and the first time I saw OK KO. My favorite cartoonists are KC Green, Meredith Gran, Emily Carroll, Kate Beaton, and Pen Ward. And they are wonderful writers as well. You can't really separate out cartooning and writing. I also read a lot of science fiction. My favorite sci-fi authors are Ray Bradbury, Brandon Sanderson, Vernor Vinge, Ursula Le Guin, and Adrian Tchaikovsky.

Which 5 books / comics / movies / seasons of TV would you have on a desert island - that has a functional entertainment center?

Books would be The Princess Bride (William Goldman), The Wizard of Earthsea series (Ursula K. Le Guin), the Zones of Thought series (Vernor Vinge), Something Wicked this Way Comes (Ray Bradbury), The Stars My Destination (Alfred Bester). Comics: Vampire Loves (Joann Sfar), Dungeon (Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar), Dungeon Meshi (Ryoko Kui), Ranma ½ (Rumiko Takahashi), Madman (Mike Allred). Movies: Porco Rosso (1992) Harvey (1950), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Pinocchio (1940), A Room With a View (1985). TV: Lost. It would be funny to have it on a desert island, but I don't think I could bear to watch it again... let’s not count that one. Lost in Space (the original series), The Sopranos, Jeopardy!, and The Great British Bake-off. ❀

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I Love You, Beth Cooper

I Love You, Beth Cooper – Anh Yêu Em, Beth Cooper

Nội dung phim:

I Love You, Beth Cooper là câu chuyện xoay quanh anh chàng mọt sách Denis Cooverman. Bộ phim bắt đầu khi Denis đại diện học sinh đọc diễn văn tốt nghiệp. Ngay trong bài diễn văn của mình, anh tuyên bố mình đã yêu thầm hotgirl xinh đẹp và nổi tiếng nhất trường – đội trưởng đội cổ vũ Beth Cooper trong suốt sáu năm trời. Tất cả mọi người đều chế giễu Denis, trừ một người duy nhất là Beth Cooper.

Beth cho rằng hành động của Denis rất ngọt ngào. Nó khiến anh có thêm can đảm mở lời mời Beth đến dự buổi tiệc tốt nghiệp tại nhà anh vào buổi tối. Đáng tiếc, tiệc đã chuẩn bị sẵn sàng nhưng không ai đến dự, Denis cùng cậu bạn thân Rich thất vọng vì bị đối xử như những kẻ bị hắt hủi. Thế rồi đột nhiên Beth xuất hiện trước cửa nhà, cùng hai người bạn thân Cammy và Treece.

Ba cô nàng ra sức giúp Denis và Rich chạy trốn khỏi nhà Denis để bắt đầu một đêm kỳ lạ, khó quên nhất trong đời năm người bạn trẻ. Bốn năm ròng rã ngồi cạnh Beth nhưng lại không dám nói lời nào. Thế mà vào một đêm dài lắm điều kỳ lạ thế này, Denis lại có cơ hội tiếp cận Beth và thấu hiểu cô nhiều hơn anh vẫn hằng ao ước.

Hai người đã có một đêm tuyệt vời với những câu chuyện trên trời dưới đất. Đó là những gì mà trước đây Denis nhút nhát chưa từng trải qua. Cứ thế mà một câu chuyện tình yêu đầy sự khác biệt này cũng được mở ra.

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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

A valedictorian’s declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.

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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

A valedictorian’s declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.

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thichfim · 3 years

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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

A valedictorian’s declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.

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I Love You, Beth Cooper (2009)

A valedictorian’s declaration of love for a high-school cheerleader launches a night of revelry, reflection and romance for a group of graduating seniors.

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csrgood · 6 years

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PAYING IT FORWARD: KPMG LLP & Stars of HOPE® Shine Bright in California Burn Zone

A collaboration between KPMG LLP and Stars of HOPE® is turning tragedy into hope for residents in the fire zone of Santa Rosa, Calif.

Hand-painted, brightly colored one-foot stars with words of encouragement began appearing soon after last October’s deadly wildfires, a stark contrast to the dark and grim landscape left behind by the flames that swallowed homes and entire neighborhoods.

Stars of HOPE joined KPMG employees in the San Francisco office who hand painted messages of hope. KPMG also sponsored events for hundreds of students at three schools in the fire zone: Hidden Valley Elementary, Reibli Elementary, and Glen Ellen.

KPMG, which provides audit, tax and advisory services, has been a long-standing supporter of the New York Says Thank You (NYSTY) Foundation and most recently, their Stars of HOPE program. NYSTY was founded by Jeff Parness, who now serves as the Foundation’s executive director. Parness was inspired by his 5-year old son, Evan, following the 9/11 tragedy as a ‘pay it forward’ for the country responding to the city in the days and months following the attack. In the words of Jeff Hoffman, a former public affairs executive with Disney and now the founder of Jeff Hoffman & Associates, “This helps to heal the deep emotional wounds of survivors while strengthening communities around the world recovering from tragedy through art, compassion, and connectivity.”

The science behind the Stars of HOPE is based on the Kubler Ross Change Curve. The HOPE the hand painted stars bring to survivors of natural disasters or human-caused tragedies acts as a positive shock while they are coping in the “numbness” phase and catapults them forward through the stages of grief to the “New Relationships Phase” and later, the “Helping Others Phase,” bypassing many other stages.

For one KPMG San Francisco employee, Laurie Souksavath, the in-office painting event was very personal and therapeutic. Laurie’s family lived in Coffey Park, one of the hardest hit neighborhoods, which burned to the ground. Fellow KPMG employees were empowered by the opportunity to show support for and offer hope to Laurie and other families, who are embarking upon a long-term recovery process. Stars of HOPE® team member Fran Sheff-Mauer from Connecticut was privileged to hang Laurie’s star only a few days later on the site where her family’s home once stood, knowing it would bring smiles and inspiration to all who pass by as the community works through the grueling cleaning and rebuilding process. “Partnering with Stars of HOPE to provide encouragement and help lift spirits in a time of need was a powerful experience. To do it side-by-side with an employee whose family was directly affected made it even more so, and reaffirmed why we are so committed to supporting our community,” said Scott Burger, the leader of KPMG’s citizenship efforts for its San Francisco office.

The Stars have continued to inspire and bring hope as Parness posts daily Stars of HOPE on the Santa Rosa Firestorm Update Facebook page. Summer Anne posted, “Thank you for coming to our community! I just LOVE seeing all of the stars hanging around town. Takes my eyes off all the burned areas and makes me feel hopeful!” And, Beth Ann Huff Henry, posted, “You [Jeff Parness] and those little wooden stars were so important to me during at the worst time of our lives and I can only do my best to ‘Pay It Forward’ for the rest of my days.”

Megan Carlock and Jennafer Rosset, residents of Santa Rosa, were instrumental in coordinating the painting events at Hidden Valley and Reibli schools, while Renea Magnani coordinated the Glen Ellen painting event. Finding strength and hope in each other, Davon Godwin posted to Megan via Facebook his gratitude for her kindness and the hope found in the colorfully painted stars adorning a now charred landscape, “I’m sorry it’s taken me so long to say how grateful I am for your presence and influence in our community. The informed, thoughtful, creative and beautiful ways you express concern, love and encouragement make me feel safer and more at home in my hometown. Four of our five routes to work and school were ravaged by fire, but now are emerging as vital, hopeful spaces again. I weep a little every time I see Stars of HOPE®, which is every day. Thank you for helping to make our home so special.”

Stars of HOPE arrived on site in California only a day after the mass school shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fl. Still in recovery mode themselves, Glen Ellen students found hope and healing by painting their stars to be delivered to the survivors and families of Stoneman Douglas. “It’s incredible when you see students still in the depths of tremendous personal loss and tragedy ‘pay it forward’ to students literally across the nation… and all of it made possible through the generosity of our partners at KPMG. These students embody the founding principles and core of what Stars of HOPE® represents,” said Parness, who himself is a 9/11 survivor. Parness has never forgotten the thousands of people from all across the Nation who poured into New York City the days, weeks, and months following that historic day and ultimately inspired the New York Says Thank You Foundation (NYSTY).

About New York Says Thank You Foundation: Started in 2003 at the suggestion of a 5-year-old boy, New York Says Thank You Foundation is a growing national and global “Pay It Forward” service movement that is creating transformative solutions based on survivor empowerment in disaster relief, education, and the arts. For more information and photos, please visit New York Says Thank You or Facebook.com/NewYorkSaysThankYou

About Stars of HOPE Program: Stars of HOPE empowers people of all ages to transform individuals and communities through the power of art and personal messages of hope and healing. Since 2007, over 80,000 hand-painted Stars of HOPE have lifted the spirits of millions of disaster survivors in 190 communities and 26 countries. Special thank you to our National Community Sponsor KMPG LLP. Stars of HOPE® is a registered trademark of New York Says Thank You Foundation. For more information and photos, please visit Stars of HOPE USA or Facebook.com/starsofhopeusa

About KPMG LLP: KPMG is one of the world’s leading professional services firms, providing innovative business solutions and audit, tax, and advisory services to many of the world’s largest and most prestigious organizations.

KPMG is widely recognized for being a great place to work and build a career. Our people share a sense of purpose in the work we do, and a strong commitment to community service, inclusion and diversity, and eradicating childhood illiteracy.

KPMG LLP is the independent U.S. member firm of KPMG International Cooperative (“KPMG International”). KPMG International’s independent member firms have 197,000 professionals working in 154 countries. Learn more at www.kpmg.com/us.

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2020

Hello. I hope you and yours are well. As is tradition, below are my selections for albums and songs of the year. As I have yet to receive a reply from you, dear reader, sincerely asking to unsubscribe, you are therefore the proud recipient of the list once more! I’ve altered the format from 5 tracks each month because, as I suspect many of you did, I went into a nostalgic hole for large chunks of this year (for me this consisted of at least two months of nothing but Funkadelic, which does mean my personalised algorithm is now ace), but also when I looked back at when many of these tracks were released it was front heavy for the first half of the year – another body blow to the supposed “monthly” mailer. I even considered not writing my one-liners, but where is the fun in that? Furthermore, trying to keep the long list to 60 tracks in total (equivalent to 5 per month) proved overly frustrating, so I’ve included some extras, especially as this year felt 13 month long. Notwithstanding said excuses, enough preamble, on with the list! Let me know what you think and do send me your own selections. Lots of love xx TOP 10s TOP 10 ALBUMS Baxter Dury – The Night Chancers Mildlife – Automatic SAULT – Untitled (Black Is) Alice Boman – Dream On Kanaan – Odense Sessions Lightning Orchestra – Source And Deliver Yves Tumor – Heaven To A Tortured Mind The Strokes – The New Abnormal Woods – Strange to Explain Erland Cooper – Hether Blether TOP 10 TRACKS Malena Zavala – En la Noche Caribou – You & I Yves Tumor – Kerosene! Puscifer – Apocalyptical Mildlife – Automatic King Hannah – Meal Deal SAULT – Wildfires // Bow [yes, there are two tracks there] Kanaan – Urgent Excursions To the Tundrasphere Frazey Ford – Golden Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? NEW MUSIC ‘MONTHLY’ MAILER Spotify Link Here Holy Fuck – Near Mint What better way to kick off a retrospective look at 2020 than with ‘Holy Fuck’ Alice Boman – It’s OK, It’s Alright Really love this album and this pick is a real downer, spectral and haunting but also touching Smoke Fairies – Out Of The Woods Jessica and Katherine still delivering a decade on, the chorus guitar riff is tops Nicolas Godin – The Border Air’s Nicolas Godin doing his best detached friendly robot, mais bien sur Moses Boyd – BTB Vibrant, propulsive, energetic, gotta move! The Men – Wading In Dirty Water Avid readers will know I’m a fan of these guys and this one rides a familiar Crazy Horse choogle Tame Impala – Breathe Deeper Funky bass, piano flourishes, solid synths, all groove Kanaan – Urgent Excursions To the Tundrasphere Ok, here it is, there’s always going to be at least one – this is the 14 min space rock jam – skip/enjoy! Frazey Ford – Golden This production is right up my street, soulful vocals swoop around tight rhythm section and hammond keys, an analogue dream Caribou – You and I From the analogue to a digital master, man this beat is catchy Pulled By Magnets – Cold Regime People Die File this under terrifying experimental jazz Jonathan Wilson – Riding The Blinds JW doing that 6/8 minor ballad thang Baxter Dury – Say Nothing Another album I loved this year and could have picked any number of tracks, so here’s a quote from Baxter: “My craft and in a sense a certain style has been perfected and it’s easy… I don’t have to do it again basically. I don’t want to hear another man talking over an orchestral background.” Ha! U.S. Girls – 4 American Dollars Slick funky, soulful, classic strings, building into a brilliant outro with great lyrics Deeper – Lake Song Detached vibe ala Joy Division / The Cure done through a Pavement lens with serious downer lyrics Pretty Lightning – Voo Doo Boo Swampy dirge guitar grooves Tamikrest – Anha Achal Wad Namda Another mailer favourite, Touareg guitar wizards Tony Allen, Hugh Masekela – Never (Lagos Never Gonna Be the Same) Master drummer who sadly passed away earlier this year just after this release, and two years after master trumpeter Masekela’s own passing, this track is a buzzing tribute to Fela Myrkur – House Carpenter Danish black metaller does Scandinavian folk: bright and beautiful Sufjan Stevens, Lowell Brams – The Runaround A weird album, even by Sufjan standards, but I found these electronic ambient sounds strangely comforting R.A.P. Ferreira – ABSOLUTES Rhythm & poetry The Weeknd – Blinding Lights What can I add to the smash of 2020? Catchy af Porridge Radio – Long Indie banger, with a decidedly angry, bitter, playful lyrics Cleo Sol – Her Light If online research is to be believed Cleo is part of the collective in SAULT with producer Inflo, but this album is standalone brilliance without knowing that, this is pure vintage soul vibes Malena Zavala – En la Noche I returned to this track more than any other this year, the rhythm, the vocals, the melody, the production, even if I have to use google translate to fully understand the lyrics Tom Misch, Yussef Dayes – Lift Off Molten guitar, groovy arrangements, and plenty of business from Dayes Yves Tumor – Kerosene! An absolute belter, amazing vocals, groove and crescendo perfection Warm Digits, The Orielles – Shake The Wheels Off (feat. The Orielles) Immediate synth pop, indie dancefloor (with some solid cowbell) EOB – Brasil First solo venture for Ed, acoustic folk gives way to rumbling bass banger, would very much like to experience this in a field Other Lives – Hey Hey I Grand rocking orchestral aural assault with hints of Morricone Elephant Tree – Sails Fulfilling the heavy dirge quota, that hit at 2:33 is a proper head in the speakers moment The Strokes – Why Are Sundays So Depressing This album snuck up on me, and then I found myself listening to it non-stop, this track such an ear worm Houses of Heaven – In Soft Confusion I think the right descriptor is darkwave – insistent drum machine, reverb soaked vocals, industrial production, gloomy pop hooks Joel Sarakula – Don’t Give Up on Me Operating in a dangerous space between homage and pastiche, groove and parody, this is smooth easy yacht rock Donny Benét – Second Dinner Following hot on the heels of pastiche, this time with tongue firmly in cheek, The Don and his 80s reverence lolz Perfume Genius – Whole Life Completely arresting, the lyrics an absolute gut punch, yet still gorgeous Jake Blount – Beyond This Wall From the press release, this album “features fourteen carefully chosen tracks drawn from Blount’s extensive research of Black and Indigenous mountain music. The result is an unprecedented testament to the voices paradoxically obscured yet profoundly ingrained into the Appalachian tradition” – this contemporary instrumental is a superb banjo and fiddle tune Holy Hive – Broom Formed by the drummer from the Dap Tones and inspired by being on tour with Lee Fields, this gentle soul, complete with tremolo guitar and horns, really floats Woods – Where Do You Go When You Dream A welcome return to form, this mellotron infused number is beautifully catchy Erland Cooper – Linga Holm Dramatic piano and strings from an altogether wild and wonderful album Mystery Jets – Screwdriver Loud / quiet dynamic, bombastic riffs, seething verses, the Jets turn it up to eleven to fight with love Jehnny Beth – Flower Another track where hushed verses give way to chorus explosions, serious tension and intensity Hinds – Good Bad Times Love that thudding bass drum, big stomping pop Norah Jones – Were You Watching? Smooth but haunting, with added Celtic flavour Braids �� Young Buck Bleeps and bloops, melancholic poppy vocals, and the damnedest catchiest chorus Jessie Ware – What’s Your Pleasure? Is it getting hot in here? No further questions LA Priest – What Moves Quirky strutting electro, sleek yet squelchy SAULT – Wildfires + SAULT, Michael Kiwanuka – Bow Double billing because I couldn’t make a choice (plus when I realised the rhythms flow perfectly into one another it’s like it’s one song) Run The Jewels – a few words for the firing squad (radiation) Again, difficult to choose which track on this album; this is pure fire with sax and all GUM – The Thrill Of Doing It Right Turn this feel good banger up! Such a big hit when the horns drop at the start The Vacant Lots - Fracture Catchy, icy, synths (and Desert Sands label mates by the by) A.A. Williams – Melt Enchanting slow-burning, stirring post-rock, with a wonderful, soaring crescendo Lightning Orchestra – For Those Who Are Yet To Be Born A late discovery, but immediately catapulted to the top, self-described “psychedelic booty-shake” Kamaal Williams – Save Me Almost chose ‘Pigalle’ but the tight push drumming on this won out, hard funky jazz stylings of the Herbie variety Victoria Monét – Dive Lavish and groovy, and as Monét puts it: “They say most humans are about 60% water, but I believe women must be 69% so dive in baby." Secret Machines – Talos’ Corpse Genuinely so happy to see Brandon and Josh back and still with the big sounds All Them Witches – Enemy of My Enemy Relentlessly heavy, all the chops and described by one reviewer as the love child of TOOL, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and Kyuss; I love this band Fenne Lily – Birthday Beautiful and bruised Mildlife – Automatic Another new discovery, in the pocket cosmic goodness and much as it pains me to quote from NME I can’t think of a better description than ‘Mobius strip funk’ Puscifer – Apocalyptical Maynard in the video for this track is an indelible image; massive swaggering Intruder-esque drums, angular menacing guitars, Carina’s ethereal edgy vocals, Maynard’s gritted teeth whispers, and apposite apocalyptical lyrics Matt Berninger – Loved So Little Confessional moody acoustic conjuring up Western-esque vistas Goldensuns – Denandra Moore Californian sun-drenched lo-fi groove, for fans of Conan Mockasin and Night Moves Frankie and the Witch Fingers – Cavehead F*cking excellent west coast garage psych melange and the B,D,E ascend at 3:10 is nod central King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard – The Hungry Wolf Of Fate Genre bending brilliance once again from down under, this cut a heavy, doomy Sabbath assault King Hannah – Meal Deal Ominous drone opens into an acoustic tale of buying a flat with a spider in the bath, Hannah’s sinister smoky sultry vocals draw you in, before some menacing low frequency dirge guitar and drums kick in at 1:30… By this point on first listen I was already hooked, but then comes a great walloping Angel Olsen ‘Sister’ style crescendo, a glorious find at the end of the year (props to Manuel) HONOURABLE MENTIONS Elephant Stone – I See You Sam Lee, Elizabeth Frazer – The Moon Shines Bright Priscilla Ermel – Martim Pescador Rheinzand – Blind Dogleg – Fox The Flaming Lips, Deap Lips – Home Thru Hell The Heliocentrics – Hanging By A Thread Midwife – 2018 Chicano Batman – Color My life Trace Mountains – Rock & Roll Peach Pit – Shampoo Bottles Buscabulla – Vámono Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever – Cars In Space Jess Williamson – Wind on Tin Thiago Nassif, Arto Lindsay – Plástico The Vacant Lots – Endless Rain Nubya Garcia – Stand With Each Other (Feat. Ms MAURICE, Cassie Kinoshi, & Richie Seivwright) Juanita Stein – L.O.T.F. Carlton Melton – Waylay Paul McCartney – Long Tailed Winter Bird

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MARCH HAIR - My Review of LITTLE WOMEN (3 1/2 Stars)

[Excerpted from THE QUEER REVIEW: https://thequeerreview.com/2019/11/25/film-review-little-women/ ]

Greta Gerwig understands how to convey a sweeping, swooning movement in her directorial style. She proved it with her debut, Lady Bird, which captured the woozy spirit of a young person’s life, and she does it again with her unexpected adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women. By comparison, prior versions, especially the smug, stilted 1994 version by the great Gillian Armstrong, feel somewhat leaden despite traversing the same ground. The story of the March sisters, a family growing and evolving in Civil War era America, gets a layered, modern treatment resulting in a well-paced, beautifully emotional, yet narratively confusing version.

Gerwig begins her story in medias res, starting with an older Jo (Saoirse Ronin) selling a story to a wary publisher played by Tracy Letts, who never fails to wow me as an actor. Her victory leads to flashbacks to seven years earlier as her sisters and mother (Laura Dern) find their way through life as their father is off to war. By starting the story where she does, Gerwig hones in on a strong female empowerment through line heretofore not as prominent in earlier versions. We now know we’ll see Alcott’s avatar Jo find her voice as a writer, thus giving every scene more clarity as to her specialness. Ronin, one of the greats, couldn’t make a false move if she tried, and here we cheer for her success every step of the way.

The eldest sister, Meg (Emma Watson) adheres to more traditional societal norms, wishing to abandon her acting dreams to marry and start a family. Watson’s soulful eyes and bright humor keeps her character from feeling like a passive one. Florence Pugh’s confident Amy bursts through the story without a care in the world what people think of her, while Eliza Scanlen, so great in Sharp Objects, plays the sickly Beth with just the right amount of waning energy. Gerwig has found a way to present the sisters’ interactions with a Robert Altman-esque style of overlapping dialogue and naturalness which brings this potentially stodgy period piece to exciting, modern life. Their scenes crackle and buzz and the cinematography by Yorick Le Saux (Clouds Of Sils Maria) brings a graceful forward momentum to the storytelling.

Unfortunately, the desire to maintain such a brisk pace makes for a lot of confusing transitions. With the plethora of abrupt time shifts, it often feels challenging to know when and where we are in the story. My advice is to follow the hair. The length of a character’s hair will signal the appropriate period, but keeping it all straight often feels like more of a chore than intended. I respect Gerwig for eschewing title cards and cheap dissolves, but things move so fast at times I struggled to catch up to the action.

Luckily, in addition to the four fantastic leads, she has a great cast, which includes Timothée Chalamet as the neighbor Theodore Laurence, who loves both Jo and Amy. Chalamet, like Watson, has so much going on in his eyes that you ache for his decisions. He has a great scene in which he tries to convince Jo to marry him where you empathize with him more than expected. Meryl Streep, of course, walks away with every scene she’s in as Aunt March, who never met a situation she couldn’t judge. Louis Garrel does fine work as Friedrich, the German teacher who dares to criticize Jo’s writing. His unbending love for Jo feels well-earned. I didn’t recognize Chris Cooper as Mr. Laurence, Theodore’s grandfather, but he breaks your heart during one of the film’s low points. Only Laura Dern feels underused as the family matriarch. We’ve grown so accustomed to great freakouts and scene-stealing from her, that when she plays soft and serene, it feels like a wasted opportunity. She’s not bad, but compared to her assured, perfectly calibrated performance in Marriage Story, this feels like an afterthought. There’s also a surprise appearance by an actor who feels so miscast that his entrance elicited laughter from the audience. It’s not that he’s bad, as I feel in ten years, people will see this film and not bat an eye at his presence, but for now it feels jarring.

Gerwig takes some liberties with the beloved source material, changing the outcome to suit what she felt were Alcott’s true intentions. It leads to a powerful, inspiring last act, giving this oddly structured version the ability to motivate a whole new generation of young women and the people who root for them.

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elirab · 4 years

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Using memory and legacy to educate the generations that follow, and to create upstanders out of bystanders!

The William Cooper Legacy is gaining momentum!

Special events celebrating William Cooper were held in Melbourne over 5 days in December.

These events connected Upstanders from diverse backgrounds, from the William Cooper Institute at Monash University to the Richmond Football Club, and from The Ark Centre in East Hawthorn to Temple Beth Israel.

Below is my selection of photos which highlights these events, and connects our WE ARE HERE! Human Rights and Social Justice project to the growing world of Upstanders influenced by William Cooper’s once long forgotten protest way back in 1938.

I have also incorporated parts of Barbara Miller’s report into this post. Barbara is William Cooper’s biographer. Thanks Barbara!

The Events- 2019:

Barbara Miller Book Launch

The William Cooper Dinner at Richmond FC

The launch of the William Cooper Institute at Monash University

The special Shabbat at The Ark Centre

The interfaith youth seminar in Ascot Vale

A visit to William Cooper’s former home in Footscray

Some William Cooper icons around Melbourne city

The World Premiere of the Kristallnacht Cantata

The Barbara Miller Book Launch

White Australia Has A Black History is available as a paperback from Barbara Miller’s website, and Barbara would love you to review it on Amazon and/or Goodreads.

The link to the book on Amazon is – https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X1MYCDX

The link to the book on Goodreads is https://www.goodreads.com/review/new/47942441-white-australia-has-a-black-history

Barbara giving a talk on William Cooper at an Author Event at Lamm Jewish Library in Melbourne 3 December 2019

Shattered Lives Broken Dreams has not yet gone to the printer, and is not yet available on Amazon.

Barbara on the radio

Barbara Miller:

David Jack interviewing Barbara on J-Air Jewish Radio in Melbourne on 4 December 2019 with Maurice Klein working the desk. The topic was Kristallnacht and William Cooper. It was on the Beersheba Vision program run by Peter Kentley.

Link to the interview:

https://omny.fm/shows/beersheba-vision/4-12-2019-beersheba-vision-ep6-barbara-miller-will?fbclid=IwAR2FJ-NnLDDU9FwuO5yVtHw8LhONQZ-jYb-o5zYi73XQWSmrZkRDEKCQ8d0

Richmond FC Seminar & Dinner

The Seminar

Abe Schwarz

Eli Rabinowitz, Barbara & Norm Miller

My slide – thanks to Stuart Rhine-Davis of Ellenbrook Secondary College

Barbara Miller

The Richmond Football Club and the William Cooper Legacy Project convened by Abe Schwarz hosted a seminar and dinner on 5 December 2019. It announced a new William Cooper Centre which will integrate sport, culture and diversity as the home to the Korin Gamadji Institute emerging Indigenous leaders program, the Bachar Houli Academy, Melbourne Indigenous Transition School (MITS) and women’s and community football.

There were four speakers at the seminar – Barbara Miller, biographer of William Cooper, Mike Zervos CEO Courage to Care, a teacher from Parkdale College called Natalie Baker and Eli Rabinowitz, founder, the WE ARE HERE! Project. Nola Kelly, the great-granddaughter of William Cooper, Leonie Drummond, Uncle Boydie’s daughter, shared briefly. Barbara is pictured speaking. A mural of the Tigers AFL players on the wall.

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Richmond Tigers

The Table List

Eli Rabinowitz, singer Lior Attar, Tali Kellman and Alex Kats

Professor Jacinta Elston, Monash University and William Cooper’s great grandchildren, Leonie Drummond and Lance Turner, with Eli Rabinowitz

David Jack

Eli, Rabinowitz, Professor Jacinta Elston & Abe Schwarz

Jamil Tye, Roberto D’Andrea & Aunty Di

Eli Rabinowitz, dancers, Abe Schwarz

Eli Rabinowitz, Uncle Boydie Turner, Alex Kats, Kevin Russel, ?, David Jago

William Cooper’s family

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Ngarra Bulla Ferra

Richmond FC, Melbourne 8 December 2019

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Richmond FC Dinner

Abe Schwarz & Uncle Boydie

Uncle Boydie

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William Cooper Legacy Film by David Jack

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Monash University Clayton – William Cooper Institute Launch

Eli Rabinowitz, Bill Appleby of Jewish Care & Norm Miller

Eli Rabinowitz & John Gandel

Barbara Miller, Minister Ken Wyatt & Eli Rabinowitz

Leonie Drummond

Dancers

Andrew Markus, Pauline Gandel, Simone Markus & Eli Rabinowitz

Eli Rabinowitz & Vedran Drakulic

Eli Rabinowitz & Professor Susan Elliott

Eli Rabinowitz & Professor Jacinta Elston & Associate Professor Chivonne Algeo

L-R photos – The Hon Minister Ken Wyatt with Barbara and Norman Miller at Monash University, the Unveiling of the plaque at Monash Uni with Uni staff, Cooper family and the Minister, and the Millers with Dr John Gandel AC and Pauline Gandel.

On 6 December 2019, the 81st anniversary of the 1938 AAL protest, Monash University launched the William Cooper Institute. The Gandel family’s philanthropy made the centre possible. Stirring speeches were made by the Federal Minister for Indigenous Australians, Mr Ken Wyatt, Chancellor Simon McKeon, the Pro Vice-Chancellor Indigenous Jacinta Elston, Dr John Gandel AC, and Leonie Drummond, Uncle Boydie’s daughter.

Minister Ken Wyatt said that William Cooper cut a pathway for people to follow and showed bravery in the face of opposition. He said William Cooper stepped out and left footsteps in the sand to follow. He said he had recently returned from Israel and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a speech, had paid tribute to William Cooper.

The Ark Centre – Cross Cultural Shabbat

Rabbi Gabi Kaltman and the ARK Centre held an Indigenous themed Shabbat service and meal honouring William Cooper on 6 December 2019

Eli Rabinowitz, Viv Parry, Lisa Naphtali, Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann, Kate Brocker, Shane Charles & Abe Schwarz

Shane Charles & Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann

A Very Special Duet by Shane Charles & Rabbi Gabi Kaltmann

The Ark Centre Aboriginal Kabbalat Shabbat In Honour of William Cooper Melbourne, Australia 6 December 2019

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The Interfaith Youth Human Rights Seminar in Ascot Vale

Elana Saks

A visit to William Cooper’s House in footscray

The Footscay Railway Station

Eli Rabinowitz & Christine Newman, owner of the William Cooper house.

The William Cooper Justice Centre

The former Nazi Consulate in Melbourne where William Cooper marched to, and left his petition

Kristallnacht Cantata – Temple Beth Israel

The Kristallnacht Cantata: A Voice of Courage held its world premiere on 8 December at Temple Beth Israel St. Kilda, Melbourne. The strident music of the orchestra conveyed the build-up to the Night of the Broken Glass and the shattering of glass and lives that took place. A tribute to William Cooper, the Cantata imagined a moving duet between Cooper and Otto Jontof-Hutter who was arrested in Stuttgart during Kristallnacht along with thousands of other Jews.

Otto’s grandson, world-famous violinist Ron Jontof-Hutter, active in the Berlin-based World Doctors Orchestra but living in Melbourne, conceived the Cantata. An Israeli composer living in Melbourne, Alon Trigger, collaborated with Ron as the lyricist and world-famous conductor Dr David Kram, as musical director, to put the Cantata together.

The event was held in Temple Beth Israel synagogue and Barbara was asked to read a scripture and she chose Isaiah 62:1-7. There was a beautiful performance by the Yeng Gali Mullum Indigenous Choir.

Photos L_R, Uncle Boydie watching the orchestra of the Kristallnacht Cantata and the Yeng Gali Mullum Indigenous Choir.

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For the start of the Kristallnacht Cantata, scroll to the 1 hr 41 min mark

back in Perth – On Noongar Radio with Jodi Ryder

Manager: Paul Whitton

WE ARE HERE! in Melbourne Using memory and legacy to educate the generations that follow, and to create upstanders out of bystanders!

#Abe Schwarz #Barbara Miller #Gandel Philanthropy #Monash University #Richmond Football Club #Ron Jontof-Hutter #The Ark Centre #WE ARE HERE! Foundation #William Cooper

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