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"An Unlikable Survivor provides helpful balance to the collection, arguing that contrary to the usual..."

“An Unlikable Survivor provides helpful balance to the collection, arguing that contrary to the usual story of transcendence, sometimes damage has its consequences, and though many are able to transform experience, some women are rightly, unapologetically angry: ‘We have not gained some divine likeability by virtue of being survivors. We are not all Mother Theresa trying to save the world.’”

- Dear Sister: Letters from Survivors of Sexual Violence

review from publishers weekly features quote from my piece in the anthology :-D

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Tomorrow night’s the night!

Tomorrow night’s the night!

"I am disappointed,” Judge Lippman said after the results came in. “We were unable to get a..."

“I am disappointed,” Judge Lippman said after the results came in. “We were unable to get a consistent message across that people should be judged on their ability to do the job and not on some outdated conceptions of age.”

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there’s an ageism angle they’re trying to play up, tempting, but to force retirement will mean that new judge appointments give opportunity to undue endemic racism.

Plan to Raise Judges’ Retirement Age to 80 Is Rejected

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Hynes Out as Brooklyn D.A.

Hynes Out as Brooklyn D.A.:

phyrecracker:

Kenneth Thompson became the first African-American candidate to be elected Brooklyn district attorney on Tuesday, defeating incumbent Charles J. Hynes.

so you’re saying Hynes got voted out, even despite the *amazing* reggae song written for his campaign???

Thompson unseat longstanding white man incumbent for #bkda. Hynes was thoroughly entrenched in the #bk electoral machine so this is an especially happy upset. Hynes presided over long standing wrongful convictions and the corrupt use of his prosecutorial powers.

That would be the arc of history, bending toward #justice

#nypolitics #nyelections #electionday

I wrote something today.

I wrote something today.:

"The main difference now is that they have no protection. One case from early 2009 illustrates why I think criminalization was such a bad idea. A young attorney from North Providence was moonlighting as an escort, and one evening she was attacked at knifepoint by an unstable client. Knowing that she had the protection of the law, this woman – whose name I don’t use to respect her own wishes – called the police and the man was swiftly apprehended. Had this incident happened a few months later, she might have never made that call and her appalling attacker might never have been caught."

-Matthew Lawrence on the anniversary of prostitution being recriminalized in Rhode Island in 2009, and the negative impact it’s had on sex worker safety.

"When did you first consider yourself a writer? Was there any particular moment or stimulus that..."

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When did you first consider yourself a writer? Was there any particular moment or stimulus that brought on this realization?

ER: I only consider myself a writer when I’m actually writing. You know, as opposed to when I’m just talking about what I’m going to write or teaching a writing workshop or procrastinating by watching Orange is the New Black or don’t have my hands free because I’m expressing milk with a beastly breast-pump.

VL: I became a writer at about thirteen years old. I wrote my first story—a bit of a Stephen King rip off—and sent it out to a magazine. It was rejected, of course, but it didn’t matter. The rejection was just as much a part of the job as the writing.

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- Geeking out over this Tennessee Williams Festival interview with Emily Raboteau and Victor Lavalle.

eugenelang:BELL HOOKS SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCEPUBLIC EVENTS,...

eugenelang:

BELL HOOKS SCHOLAR-IN-RESIDENCE

PUBLIC EVENTS, NOVEMBER 4–8, 2013

For more than three decades, bell hooks (née Gloria Watkins) has been recognized internationally as a scholar, poet, author, and radical thinker. The dozens of books and articles she has published span several genres, including cultural and political analyses and critiques, personal memoirs, poetry collections, and children’s books. Her writings cover topics of gender, race, class, spirituality, teaching, and the significance of media in contemporary culture. According to Dr. hooks, these topics must be understood as interconnected in the production of systems of oppression and class domination.

Dr. hooks has appeared in documentary films. She has been celebrated as one of our nation’s leading public intellectuals by The Atlantic Monthly and listed as one of Utne Reader’s “100 Visionaries Who Could Change Your Life.” She is a charismatic speaker who divides her time among teaching, writing, and lecturing around the world.

When Dr. hooks published her first book, And There We Wept, in 1978, she released it under the name “bell hooks” for two reasons. The first was to honor her maternal grandmother, Bell Blair Hooks, whom she has described as being “known for her snappy and bold tongue.” Secondly, and more broadly, the name, expressed in lowercase letters, de-emphasizes the author as person and instead focuses attention on the subject of her writing.

A topic prominent in Dr. hooks’ most recent writings is community and communion, the ability of loving communities to overcome race, class, and gender inequalities. Another prominent theme in her work has been education, which she views as a practice of freedom. Dr. hooks has called for an approach to learning that nurtures “radical critical consciousness.” “The academy is not paradise,” she wrote in 1994’s Teaching to Transgress. “But learning is a place where paradise can be created. The classroom with all its limitations remains a location of possibility.”

The bell hooks residency at The New School is an opportunity for students to engage with education as a practice of freedom. They can participate in a series of intimate conversations and public dialogues on subjects ranging from politics to love, race to spirituality, gender to lived bodies.

Monday, November 4

Talking Teaching
General seminar for faculty
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 2:00-3:30 p.m.
Open only to faculty. RSVP required to Heather O’Brien at obrienh@newschool.edu

Tuesday, November 5

Talking Race: Left and Right
A New School dialogue 
Wollman Hall, 65 West 11th Street, 12:00-2:00 p.m. 
Open to students, faculty, and staff

Join bell hooks, dean Stephanie Browner of Eugene Lang College, and others for an informal and searching conversation about race at Lang and The New School generally.
Seating is limited. Talking Race RSVP elcdean@newschool.edu

Beyond the Body?
bell hooks in conversation with Eve Ensler 
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, 5:00-6:30 p.m. 
Open to the public; admission free. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Join bell hooks and Eve Ensler, the Tony Award-winning playwright (The Vagina Monologues), performer, and activist, for a conversation about gender and lived bodies, spirituality, and feminism.

Friday, November 8

Feminism Forever: Theory and Practice
Undergraduate master class 
Hirshon Suite, 55 West 13th Street, 12:30-2:30 p.m.
Open to undergraduate students of all divisions. To RSVP, students are asked to share their interest in the event via a Google form. This event is limited to 25 students, and space will be made available in order of RSVPs received. 

Black Female Voices: Who Is Listening?
bell hooks in conversation with Melissa Harris-Perry
Tishman Auditorium, 66 West 12th Street, 3:30-5:00 p.m. 
Open to the public; admission free. Seating is first-come, first-served.

Join bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry, founding director of the Anna Julia Cooper Project on Gender, Race, and Politics in the South, for a conversation about race, black womanhood, politics, media, and love. Harris-Perry is a professor of political science at Tulane Universtiy, an author, and the host of MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry.

Join the conversation #bellhooksTNS

http://www.newschool.edu/lang/bell-hooks-scholar-in-residence/

24 hours left in the Kickstarter for the Red Umbrella Diaries...

24 hours left in the Kickstarter for the Red Umbrella Diaries documentary and theater event at Joe’s Pub! We have rocked our goal and are reaching for a stretch goal of $20K, which will help us do a free community screening of the films (feature doc + short on the trans women’s theatre troupe).

 

Don't worry, lady, my 15/16 year old self ran around with copies of Jill Johnston's Lesbian Nation (a pretty cool book if read critically but) and Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and was considering lesbian separatism despite having boyfriends. Entranced a

Oh it wasn’t just me then!

Don't worry, lady, my 15/16 year old self ran around with copies of Jill Johnston's Lesbian Nation (a pretty cool book if read critically but) and Friedan's The Feminine Mystique and was considering lesbian separatism despite having boyfriends. Entranced a

Oh it wasn’t just me then!