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Politics & Prose: Read This: YA Recommendations for Pride Month

Politics & Prose: Read This: YA Recommendations for Pride Month:

politicsprose:

Pride Month is the perfect time to celebrate the relatively recent blooming of queer lit for young adults. Even ten years ago, the YA audience had a relatively hard time finding books addressing queer issues in teens’ lives; thankfully, the times are a-changin’.

Here are just a few of our…

Couldn’t be more thrilled that we got to hear the news...

Couldn’t be more thrilled that we got to hear the news together this morning. 

So thrilled that we got to hear the news together this morning!

So thrilled that we got to hear the news together this morning! 

"Today we eat our good dinners with forks.A thousand years ago they had no forks.Yet, though we..."

“Today we eat our good dinners with forks.

A thousand years ago they had no forks.

Yet, though we have forks, we are not happy. We scream and kick and struggle and weep just as they did a thousand years ago—when they had no forks.”

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Mary MacLane (at age 19!); from her memoir I Await The Devil’s Coming (first published in 1902 as The Story of Mary MacLane).

I’ve been meaning to read this book forever and it’s proving very useful for the novel-in-progress. Also, I think “Today We Eat Our Good Dinners With Forks” is a swell rock band title. (I’m claiming it now.)

exhibition-ism:As part of an ongoing exploration of high speed...

exhibition-ism:

As part of an ongoing exploration of high speed photography, Jon Smith has been filling standard incandescent light bulbs with various objects, liquids, aNd other substances before causing them to explode in front of his camera. The result is a technicolor of carefully layered colors and patterns. 

"I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky."

“I am in the mood to dissolve into the sky.”

- Virginia Woolf (via the-unfeminine-female)

"I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see..."

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I want to stress this again: In many, many parts of the country right now, if you want to go to see a movie in the theater and see a current movie about a woman — any story about any woman that isn’t a documentary or a cartoon — you can’t. You cannot. There are not any. You cannot take yourself to one, take your friend to one, take your daughter to one.

There are not any.

By far your best shot, numbers-wise, at finding one that’s at least even-handedly featuring a man and a woman is Before Midnight (on 891 screens) so I hope you like it. Because it’s pretty much that or a solid, impenetrable wall of movies about dudes.

Dudes in capes, dudes in cars, dudes in space, dudes drinking, dudes smoking, dudes doing magic tricks, dudes being funny, dudes being dramatic, dudes flying through the air, dudes blowing up, dudes getting killed, dudes saving and kissing women and children, and dudes glowering at each other.

Somebody asked me this morning what “the women” are going to do about this. I don’t know. I honestly am at the point where I have no idea what to do about it. Stop going to the movies? Boycott everything?

They put up Bridesmaids, we went. They put up Pitch Perfect, we went. They put up The Devil Wears Prada, which was in two-thousand-meryl-streeping-oh-six, and we went (and by “we,” I do not just mean women; I mean we, the humans), and all of it has led right here, right to this place. Right to the land of zippedy-doo-dah. You can apparently make an endless collection of high-priced action flops and everybody says “win some, lose some” and nobody decides that They Are Poison, but it feels like every “surprise success” about women is an anomaly and every failure is an abject lesson about how we really ought to just leave it all to The Rock.

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At The Movies, The Women Are Gone : Monkey See : NPR

The whole article is fantastic, as is pretty much everything Linda Holmes writes.

(via kdhart)

ianbrooks:One Million Bones DCLed by artist Naomi Natale as...

One Million Bones DC photo by Jonathan Ernst@Reuters / posted by ianbrooks.me


One Million Bones DC photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta@AP / posted by ianbrooks.me


One Million Bones DC photo by Jonathan Ernst@AP / posted by ianbrooks.me


One Million Bones DC photo by Manuel Balce Ceneta@AP / posted by ianbrooks.me


One Million Bones DC photo by Teru Kuwayama / posted by ianbrooks.me


One Million Bones DC photo by Teru Kuwayama / posted by ianbrooks.me

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One Million Bones DC

Led by artist Naomi Natale as part of the One Million Bones Project, this mass grave assembled at the National Mall in Washington, DC is composed of bones made of paper and plaster, but symbolizes the very real number of people killed in places like Sudan, Germany, and the former Yugoslavi. Each bone created by students and volunteers was matched with $1 sent to CARE, which helps send aid to Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

(via: nbcnews)

"I hate the term magic realism because it implies paradox, as if magic isn’t a part of realism when..."

“I hate the term magic realism because it implies paradox, as if magic isn’t a part of realism when in fact it’s inside of the very threads of what’s real. It is not the magic world that is different, but the medium, the sensing apparatus. Realism is only half the story.”

- Carmen Giménez Smith (via mttbll)

"I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a bit like refusing to watch..."

““I see now that dismissing YA books because you’re not a young adult is a bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the grounds that you’re not a policeman or a dangerous criminal, and as a consequence I’ve discovered a previously ignored room at the back of the bookstore that’s filled with masterpieces I’ve never heard of.””

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Nick Hornby, Shakespeare Wrote For Money (via jobberwacky)

This.

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