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walking by the waters
down where an honest river
shakes hands with the sea,
a woman passed round me
in a slow, watchful circle…
—Jackie Kay, “In my country”
published in OTHER LOVERS (Bloodaxe Books, 1993)
Listen to Jackie Kay reading the poem on The Poetry Archive:
“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
– Sabrina Orah Mark on boyhood, motherhood, race, & Peter Pan
5/10
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature #motherhood #race
Biological reality: What genetics has taught us about race ~ Adam Rutherford, BBC
"[Human Genome Project] provided definitive evidence that racial groupings have no biological basis. In fact, there is more genetic variation within racial groups than between them. Race, it showed, is a social construct."
‘Really scary’: watchlist found of mostly Black federal health workers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/black-health-federal-workers-watchlist #Trumpadministration #UShealthcare #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #USnews #Race
"Arizona Man Indicted After Planning Mass Shooting at Atlanta Concert to Incite Race War"
"Mark Adams Prieto faces federal weapons charges after a sting operation where he devised a plan 'to commit a mass shooting of African Americans and other minorities' by targeting a Bad Bunny show"
“Neverland is as much a tomb for the unloved and forgotten as it is a map of a child’s mind. It is a place ruled by a boy with a memory as thin as the skeleton leaves he wears.”
– Sabrina Orah Mark on boyhood, motherhood, race, & Peter Pan
5/9
#Scottish #literature #PeterPan #KidLit #ChildrensLiterature #motherhood #race
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/06/19/sorry-peter-pan-were-over-you/
Women run 80% of US elections – but are targets of misogyny-laced threats https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/20/women-elections-misogyny-harassment #Electioninterference #Republicans #Colorado #USnews #Gender #Women #Race
“The most challenged books in the United States in 2023 continued to focus on the experiences of L.G.B.T.Q. people or explore themes of race…”
Time to buy these books, and/or request your public library purchase if they don’t have them.
#bookstodon #books #libraries #censorship #race #lgbtq @bookstodon
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/08/books/banned-books-2023.html
The Invisible Engine: Capitalism’s Reliance on Reproductive Labor and a Gendered Wage
https://digpodcast.org/2024/03/03/capitalism-reproductive-labor/
#6CsOfHistory #Continuity #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #AmericanHistory #EuropeanHistory #race #USHistory #WomensHistory #WorldHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons
Treadmill #run as it's rainy today.
Even if the #race is over, the #fundraising is not. Please consider #donating to the #AliForneyCenter if you can. Many thanks https://fundraise.aliforneycenter.org/andrea-sboner
'you cannot buy the revolution. you cannot make the revolution. you can only be the revolution. it is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.'
#art #history #inktober: what can i tell you about this powerhouse human? you already know that ursula le guin was a pioneering science fiction writer whose works incorporated #feminism, #anarchism, #race & gender fluidity - & she expanded upon these themes across five decades.
#ursulaLeGuin #sciFi #literature #illustration #portrait #oregon
For readers of White Fragility, White Tears/Brown Scars is an explosive book of history and …
Argues forcefully & convincingly that white womanhood has been (and still is) instrumental in upholding #WhiteSupremacy. I will never see the #intersection of #race & #gender so naively again. A must read for all - for solidarity & reflection.
Reading time 18 days, 12 pages/day
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #BookWyrm #WhiteWomensTears #WhiteFragility #Racism #Sexism #Intersectionality
