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Oh you crazy gods!

Oh you crazy gods!


Happle Tea » Diligence
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"A 2004 study showed that the Hispanos in San Luis valley are about one-third In...

"A 2004 study showed that the Hispanos in San Luis valley are about one-third Indian and two-thirds Spanish-European. They have a small portion of African ancestry, averaging 3 percent. The Hispanos generally resemble other Hispanic and Mexican-American groups, while having a somewhat higher proportion of European blood than the rest. Genetic research also has confirmed the harshly one-sided nature of the admixture. By paying special attention to the y chromosome and the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), scientists proved that the genetic exchange in the early years of New Mexico was almost entirely between Spanish males and Indian females."


Sex, God, and DNA: The Creation of New Mexicans
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How a group of devoutly Catholic Spaniards infiltrated the temples and gene pools of the Pueblo Indians

I first clicked here: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.co......

I first clicked here: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/artwork/golden-age/ which then lead me to here: http://jcbarquet.com/. WOW!


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"Even when creating work that appeals to mainstream sensibilities, recognition a...

"Even when creating work that appeals to mainstream sensibilities, recognition and acceptance are areas where diverse creators face the biggest challenges, resulting in admirable works worthy of a larger audience languishing in obscurity. Popular entertainment and trade publications can help raise awareness for creative properties by running profile pieces and reviews, but they tend to focus on mainstream work that pushes the conventional narrative. "


You Want More Diversity in Your Pop Culture? Here's How to Find It
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Many fans are demanding more diversity in comics, movies and TV. What you may not realize is that there's already a community of creators producing stories about diverse characters. Now is a great time to get into their work.

A fascinating discussion of non-European mythical creatures. Silvia Moreno-Garci...

A fascinating discussion of non-European mythical creatures. Silvia Moreno-Garcia talks about some Mexican creatures/legends/concepts that are pretty interesting; her description of the nahual concept cleared up a lot of things for me, since I've often seen conflicting information about what a nahual is. Now I can see it's changed meanings over time thanks to some Christianization. Some creatures that don't get a mention that are interesting are the ahuitzotl--the 5-handed water monster that lived in Lake Texcoco that was said to eat the eyes, fingernails, and teeth of drowning victims--and civatateos--vampiric noblewomen who died in childbirth and rose from the dead as servants of the god Tezcatlipoca. I've never heard of the chaneques, so I'm looking forward to researching them.


SFF IN CONVERSATION: A Diverse Mythical Creatures Round Table - Part 1
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SFF in Conversation is a new monthly feature on The Book Smugglers in which we invite guests to talk about a variety of topics important to speculative fiction fans, authors, and readers. Our visio...

"What's the difference between a challenge and a ban? The ALA explains: "A chall...

"What's the difference between a challenge and a ban? The ALA explains: "A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, based upon the objections of a person or group. A banning is the removal of those materials."" Lots of infographs on the whys and wheres.


INFOGRAPHIC: Where Are Books Banned?
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Banned Books Week, an annual event organized by the American Library Association (ALA), grants readers, parents, teachers and librarians an opportunity to discuss the value of unhindered expression. Throughout the week, The Huffington Post will h...

"So here’s the quick version: The Daily Show recruited fans of the Washington Ra...

"So here’s the quick version: The Daily Show recruited fans of the Washington Racial Slurs via twitter to participate in a panel about the name change. They chose four of them, who sat in a hotel conference room with Jason Jones of the Daily Show for awhile, as he asked them a bunch of questions–even pulling out a dictionary to read the definition of “that word” and the like. The show also had a panel of the Native activists, asking them questions about why the name is racist, offensive, and needs to be changed. Then, the show brought the two panels together, and things, apparently, got “heated.”"


White tears and aggressive Indians: Native activists on the Daily Show
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http://instagram.com/p/s5Z33BpfyT A couple weeks ago, a stellar, amazing group of my Native activist friends, colleagues, internet-friends, and people-I-wish-were-my-friends gathered in DC for a ta...

"Criminally chicano bondslaves were the imprests. Undeservedly inhomogeneous spi...

"Criminally chicano bondslaves were the imprests. Undeservedly inhomogeneous spinifexes can stare. The Bone Flower Throne (The Bone Flower Trilogy, #1) by T.L. Morganfield. Goal is a thad. Imprinting farrows." And supposedly this mind-blowing description lead to 200 illegal downloads of my novel. Yeahhhhh. :-D

And my, the racist implications of "Criminally chicano"....

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THE BONE FLOWER THRONE
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(Book One of the Bone Flower trilogy)Can One Woman Alone Defeat a God? I slid to a stop and gasped when I saw the black-robed monster hunched over Father’s bed mat. Its long, matted hair glistened in the moonlight, and it sang in a harsh voice that sounded like bones snapping. I screamed, my heart t…

All the texts I've read until now have pretty much said that octli was used prim...

All the texts I've read until now have pretty much said that octli was used primarily as a ritual drink by the priesthood, and that outside the priesthood, only the oldest of the populations was allowed to partake (because they'd earned the privilege to be drunk without shame), so these findings at Teotihuacan suggesting a much wider use by the general population as a matter of survival are interesting.


Ancient People of Teotihuacan Drank Milky Alcohol, Pottery Suggests
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A milky alcoholic concoction was made and drunk at one of the largest cities in prehistory, Teotihuacan in Mexico. This liquor may have helped...

I've heard rumblings of the Historical Romance genre being dead these days (beca...

I've heard rumblings of the Historical Romance genre being dead these days (because writing dead, unsellable genres is how I roll), so it's nice to see a take-down of that rumor.

"Maybe New York is becoming more Regency-centric," says author Grace Burrowes, "but five years ago, I didn't see WWI, Edwardian, Egyptian, Gaslight, or even Western romances in the numbers I see them now. We have Georgian erotic, Scottish early-modern, Roaring Twenties... all manner of periods and subgenres springing forth that veer away from the Regency with excellent results."

Maybe instead I'm getting into this genre at just the right time.


What Happened to the Historical Romance Novel?
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Once upon a time, a girl could find some bad ass cowboys in historical westerns, tycoons in turn of the century NYC, and medieval Knights charging...