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neverfearforiamhere · 3 months

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HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!! I knew I needed to whip up a lil something, and I’ve been obsessed with the final arc of AFLH. So of course, Eggs came to be.

I’ve been marbling in one of my classes, and working in Adobe Animate in the other, so the background is inspired as a mix between the two!!

#Scott Caldwell #Eggs Benedict #Ben Hansberry #Ennard #Valentine’s Day #Almost Feels Like Home #Home Series #Mable

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mable-stitchpunk · 8 months

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Question: What's the timeline of Baby/Ennard/The Funtimes splitting up in the CGHA universe? Like, when Mari/Mike first go down to ARI are they fighting the whole conglomeration or is Ennard alone? And if it is all of them, at what point did they split?

Alright, here we go!

So, prior to CGHA, both Ben Hansberry and Michael Afton went down to Afton Robotics at separate but close times. Ben was scooped, but the body failed. Michael was scooped and the amalgam of Circus Baby and the Funtimes escaped Afton Robotics. Shortly afterwards, Michael's body failed and they escaped.

Fighting in the group led to Baby getting tossed out by her bandmates and they wandered briefly before returning to Afton Robotics, as their body was weakened without Baby. Unknowing to them, the soul of one of their previous victims was starting to spread further into the body- likely caused by how disjointed things became after they had ditched their leader, Baby.

One by one, their fourth voice unintentionally filled more of the body, and the other inhabitants were forced out. This left Ennard as his own being and the remains of the Funtimes leftover in Afton Robotics until they eventually rebuilt themselves as the Moltens in the basement.

Now, Baby had also returned to Afton Robotics- reluctantly. She gathered up parts and pieces and rebuilt herself into Scrap Baby and then went to confront her old band. However, by time she got there, Ennard had fully overtaken the body, much to her horror. Frightened by her, Ennard fled.

The two existed in Afton Robotics for a while. Baby waiting for another opportunity for 'escape'- Afton Robotics had closed, but there wasn't a realistic way of her escaping into society- and Ennard existing and surviving.

That was, until Mike and Marionette came to Afton Robotics. Seeing her chance, Baby put aside her differences and encouraged Ennard to help her snatch the new body- fully intending to take full control if given the chance. Ennard, tempted by the offer, agreed.

This is why when Ennard first appears it is a mix of Baby and him. She is in control, but the two are working together. Using Ennard's body and wires, they puppeteer the remains of Ballora and the Funtimes to slowly chip down Mike and Mari.

Alas, the plan fails and the two are scooped. Baby separated herself from Ennard and returned to her scrap body while leaving Ennard to pull himself back together. She retreated further into the facility.

But Ennard had a trick up his sleeve. Sometimes before Baby's return, he had partially feasted on Max the Magician's (unknowing he was alive and starved) wiring. With that, he had somehow assimilated his ability for brute force telepathy and used this to lure Mari back to Afton Robotics. He then disguised himself in Baby's old shell.

Mike, Mari, and the others fell for the act and took Ennard with them. The real Baby had not engaged, nor knew of his plan.

So, that's the story! ^_^ Hope that answers your question.

#Circus Baby #Scrap Baby #Ennard #Elizabeth Afton #Ben Hansberry #Fnaf #Home Series #Funtime Freddy #Ballora #Funtime Foxy

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caroleditosti · 2 years

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'Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge' at the Public, Review

This is one to see for its trenchant themes. James Baldwin holds currency for us today.

Gavin Price in the New York premiere production of Elevator Repair Service’s Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge at The Public Theater. Photo credit: Joan Marcus. Baldwin & Buckley at Cambridge, the 1965 debate of James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr. at the Cambridge Union, University of Cambridge, UK is receiving its New York Premiere at The Public Theater. You need to see this production…

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#Ben Jalosa Williams #Elevator Repair Service #Greg Sargeant #James Baldwin #John Collins #Lorraine Hansberry #Public Theater #William F. Buckley Jr.

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manwalksintobar · 6 months

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if we’ve gotta live underground and everybody’s got cancer/ will poetry be enuf? // Eisa Davis to Ntozake Shange

dear ntozake,

I got sacks of mercury under the skin beneath my eyes either cried too much or i’m abt to the cool war’s burnin up my retina again does poetry start where life ends? i know i’m supposed to be cool: i wear corrective lenses that feature high definition tragedy. baby in the dumpster ethnic cleansing assassinations multinational mergers i’m supposed to shake my head write a poem believe in ripples. but i ain’t cool. i emit inhuman noises i imagine terrorist acts as i flick my imaginary ash onto the imaginary tray i imagine going insane with a purpose and writing it down feels sorta unnecessary does poetry end where life begins? berkeley girl black girl red diaper baby born of the blood of the struggle but with reaganomics and prince pickin up steam in ‘81 nothing came between me and my calvins 10 yrs old unpressed hair playin beethoven readin madeleine l’engle got scared in my pants when i heard this girl testifying ‘TOUSSAINT’ in the black repertory group youth ensemble i was just sittin in a rockin chair pretendin to be 82 and talkin like I knew all bout langston’s ‘rivers’

i wasn’t as good as her and i definitely wadn’t cool so i gave up drama and decided to bake soufflés zake you wda beat me up in the playground if we’da grown up together and you did eighth grade ‘he dropped em’ at the regional oratorical competition i saw another fly honey rip it this time it’s ‘a nite with beau willie brown’ i was bleedin on the ground i became yours no more soufflés i jacked for colored girls right off my mama’s shelf my mama fania who was sweatin with you and raymond sawyer and ed mock and halifu osumare dancin on the grass back in the day in you i found a groove never knew i had one like that did that monologue over and over alone in my room my bunk bed the proscenium arch 13 yrs old screamin and cryin abt my kids gettin dropped out a window didn't know a damn thing about rivers but i knew abt my heart fallin five stories you were never abbreviated or lower case to me you just pimped that irony that global badass mackadocious funkology you not only had hígado you had ben-wa balls in yr pussy

betsey brown on my godmother's couch nappy edges in mendocino at the mouth of big river spell #7 after the earthquake in silverlake the love space demands had to be in brooklyn yr poems are invitations to live in yr body love letters yr admirers dream they coulda written themselves no one cd find a category that was yr size blackety black but never blacker than thou you teased me into sassiness when i had none to speak of made profane into sacred but never formed a church sanctified women's lives whether we were reading nietzsche or a box of kotex we were magical and regular you many-tongued st louis woman of barnard and barcelona you left us the residue of yr lust left us to wander life as freely as sassafrass cypress and indigo and even the unedumacated could get yr virtuosity cuz you always fried it up in grease you built an aqueduct from lorraine hansberry's groundwater and it bubbled straight to george c wolfe you never read what the critics said and you scrunched up the flesh between yr eyebrows like everybody else in my family

but zake is poetry enuf?

i beg the question cuz you grew me up you and adrienne kennedy and anna deavere smith and all my mothers you blew out the candles on my 26th so when there's mercury under the skin beneath my eyes and the world ain't so cool do you write a poem or a will?

like leroi jones said if bessie smith had killed some white people she wouldn't have needed that music so do we all write like amiri baraka does or do we all get our nat turner on?

i beg the question cuz i wanna get my life right do some real work and i really don't want to kill any white folk i mean can we talk abt this maybe it's just my red diaper that's itchin but i still got that will to uplift the race sans bootstraps or talented tenths or paper bag tests this time we uplift the human race and i know the rainbow might be but is poetry enuf?

it's a naive question but i'm old enuf to ask them once in a while if we do finally unload the canon clean it out stock up on some more colorful balls ain't we only gettin the ones that are available at a store near you? doesn't the market end up setting the new standards anyway? is poetry enuf if it ain't sellin? if ain't nobody readin it? can poetry keep a man who can't read from droppin his kids out a window?

and how can i call a ceasefire to this cool war in stanzas of eights when we've declared poetry a no fly zone? we have learned to protect it and its potential politics like a mother shoot down anyone who might overdetermine a poem's meaning (while we poets divebomb everyone else's politics with impunity like we're the United States or something)

if poetry is just poetry we save it from the conservatives but doesn't that mean it's of no use to the progressives?

is poetry enuf? cuz that's all i'm doin. makin up stories on stage on the page keepin the beat and that's all my friends are doin and that's what a lot of folks my age are doin

but if we've gone and burnt up everything in the sky if there's nothin else to eat but landfill stroganoff if we've gotta live underground and everybody's got cancer will poetry be enuf?

my aunt angela says i can do my thang and keep swinging left hooks to oppression if i stay up stay into it stay involved just one form of praxis will do. it's just my guilt that thinks i need twenty-two what's enuf?

shouldn't i (or somebody) be our secular bodhisattva become a real power player but skip the talk show can't we stabilize, rekindle collectives and cooperatives and collaborations therapeutic communities that double as creative juggernauts a publishing house a theatre where the plays cost less than the movies get the neighborhood coven back together take dance breaks in the cubicles sing until the flourescent lights burst into snow i ask you because you changed me zake you changed thousands of women and i know poetry can't be enuf if you drunk

i ain't tryin ta walk off wid alla yr stuff and i got nuttin but love for ya so that's why i gotta know i'm sittin on my bed encircled by every book you've ever published they're open like fans marking pages with the flint of genius all i want is for this circle to grow so tell me:

is this where poetry and life are twins? i felt so crumpled up when i started writing you poetry seemed so useless and dingy next to all the bright red bad news but now that the poem is over i feel wide open like an infant of the spring just tell me how to feed this light to my responsibilities and poetry just might be enuf love eisa

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daughterofhecata · 4 months

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Reading List 2023

Ocean Vuong: Night Sky With Exit Wounds

Alena Mornštajnová: Hana

Wolfgang Benz: Theresienstadt. Ein Geschichte von Täuschung und Vernichtung.

Jáchym Topol: Die Teufelswerkstatt [org. title: Chladnou zemí]

Ocean Vuong: Time is a Mother

Richard Siken: Crush

Ben Nevis: Die Drei ??? Die Yacht des Verrats

Frank Wedekind: Frühlings Erwachen (reread)

James Ellroy: Die Schwarze Dahlie [org. title: The Black Dahlia]

André Marx: Die Drei ??? und der Puppenmacher

Evelyn Boyd: Rocky Beach Crimes #2. Mord unter Palmen.

Peter Hallama: Nationale Helden und jüdische Opfer. Tschechische Repräsentationen des Holocaust.

Brigitte Johanna Henkel-Waidhofer: Die Drei ??? Späte Rache

Kim Newman: Professor Moriarty. The Hound of the D‘Urbervilles. (reread)

Vera Schiff: The Theresienstadt Deception. The Concentration Camp the Nazis Created to Deceive the World.

Evelyn Boyd: Rocky Beach Crimes #2. Mord unter Palmen. (reread)

Josef Bor: Die verlassene Puppe [org. title: Opuštěná panenka]

Kari Erlhoff: Rocky Beach Crimes #1. Tödliche Törtchen.

Susanna Partsch: Wer klaute die Mona Lisa? Die berühmtesten Kunstdiebstähle der Welt.

Kathy Reichs: Virals #1. Tote können nicht mehr reden. [org. title: Virals] (reread)

Arthur Schnitzler: Reigen (reread)

Evelyn Boyd: Die Drei ??? Teuflisches Foul

Faye Kellerman: Der Zorn sei dein Ende [org. title: The Hunt]

J.D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye

Władysław Szlengel: Was ich den Toten las [org. title: Co czytałem umarłym]

Hanna Krall: Dem Herrgott Zuvorkommen [org. title: Zdążyć przed Panem Bogiem]

Ursula K. Le Guin: The Dispossessed

Thomas Mann: Der Tod in Venedig

James Oswald: Natural Causes. An Inspector McLean Novel.

Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (reread)

Christoph Dittert: Die Drei ??? Melodie der Rache

Maria Rolnikaitė: Mein Tagebuch [org. title: Ja dolžna rasskazat']

Mark Thompson: Leatherfolk. Radical Sex, People, Politics and Practice.

James Baldwin: Giovanni‘s Room

Christopher Tauber, Hanna Wenzel: Rocky Beach. Eine Interpretation.

Lorraine Vivian Hansberry: A Raisin in the Sun

Jonathan Kellerman: Unnatural History. An Alex Delaware Novel.

Robert Arthur: Die Drei ??? und die Geisterinsel. [org. title: The Three Investigators in the Secret of Skeleton Island]

Evelyn Boyd: Rocky Beach Crimes #3. Eiskalter Rausch.

André Marx: Die Drei ??? Labyrinth der Götter

John Barth: Lost in the Funhouse

Langston Hughes: Selected Poems of Langston Hughes.

Claude McKay: Harlem Shadows. The Poems of Claude McKay.

Jonathan Kellerman: Exit. Ein Alex Delaware Roman. [org. title: Devil‘s Waltz. An Alex Delaware Novel.] (reread)

David Henry Hwang: M Butterfly

James Oswald: The Book of Souls. An Inspector McLean Novel.

Jonathan Kellerman: Time Bomb. An Alex Delaware Novel. (reread)

Manuela Günter: Überleben schreiben. Zur Autobiographik der Shoah.

Birgit Kröhle: Geschichte und Geschichten. Die literarische Verarbeitung von Auschwitz-Erlebnissen.

Alexander F. Spreng: Der Fluch (reread)

Sibylle Schmidt: Zeugenschaft. Ethische und politische Dimensionen.

Sibylle Schmidt: Ethik und Episteme der Zeugenschaft

Kari Erlhoff & Christoph Dittert: Die Drei ??? und die Salztote

Jeanette McCurdy: I‘m Glad My Mom Died

E.T.A. Hoffmann: Der Sandmann

Hendrik Buchna: Die Drei ??? Drehbuch der Täuschung

Michael Scott: The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel #2. The Magician. (reread)

Alain Locke: The New Negro

Mascha Kaléko: Großstadtliebe. Lyrische Stenogramme.

Marco Sonnleitner: Die Drei ??? Der Tag der Toten

Georg Heym: Gedichte [herausgegeben von Stephan Hermlin]

Rose Ausländer: Hinter allen Worten. Gedichte. [herausgegeben von Helmut Braun]

Vladimir Nabokov: Lolita

Paul Celan: Ausgewählte Gedichte. Zwei Reden. [herausgegeben von Günther Busch]

Rich Cohen: Lake Shore Drive [org. title: Lake Effect]

Jan T. Gross: Neighbors. The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland.

Kathy Reichs: Virals #2. Nur die Tote kennt die Wahrheit. [org. title: Seizure]

Jonathan Kellerman: Bones. An Alex Delaware Novel. (reread)

Akwaeke Emezi: You made a Fool of Death with your Beauty

Friedrich Schiller: Maria Stuart

Bret Easton Ellis: American Psycho

Christian Handel: Die Hexenwald-Chroniken #2. Palast aus Gold und Tränen.

Maurice Leblanc: Arsène Lupin und der Schatz der Könige von Frankreich [org. title: L'Aiguille creuse]

E.T.A. Hoffmann: Nussknacker und Mausekönig

Marco Sonnleitner: Die Drei ??? Panik im Park

Ben Nevis: Die Drei ??? Tal des Schreckens

Michael Borlik: Ihr mich auch

Robert Arthur: Die Drei ??? und der grüne Geist [org. title: Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators in the Mystery of the Green Ghost]

Barbara Köhler: Niemands Frau. Gesänge.

Christoph Dittert: Die Drei ??? Hotel der Diebe

Cornelia Funke: Tintenwelt #4. Die Farbe der Rache.

DNF:

Thomas Ziebula: Paul Stainer #1. Der rote Judas.

Faye Kellerman: Mord im Garten Eden [org. title: The Garden of Eden and Other Criminal Delights]

#end of 2023 #reading list #bookblr #readblr #to my utter surprise i just breezed through some books in december and did end up reaching my goal of 80 books #read books that were originally published in: german - english - czech - polish - lithuthian (i think) - french #read more poetry than ever before i think #read some real 'classics' and enjoyed most of them a lot #if you're curious about anything on here or just wanna talk about any of these books *please* send me an ask or something #i love talking about books

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maskedinstructor · 2 months

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The Adventures of David Dashiki- Stories of an African America Hero... 2024- Year of the Black Man Aaaahhh! But What To Read ?

READING...

We have agreed that reading is our starting point. Then, here are some essential and brilliant authors that you must possess in your quiver as ammunition in the battle against illiteracy. Make no mistake, this is scholastic warfare. An ill-equipped reading warrior is only armed for his own demise. Secondly, on the battlefield, we must be able to fluently communicate. We must speak the same language. One cannot speak Swahili and the other, French. This type of preparation would only lead to disaster of major proportions.

Garvey is the primer. Other authors of significant fame and reputation that our young readers must master are: Arna Bontemps, Claude Brown, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, Alex Haley, Ta-Nehisi Coates, August Wilson, Malcolm X, Nelson Madela, W.E.B. DuBois, Calvin Baker, Junius Edwards, Yosef Ben-Jochannan, Harold Cruse, Maulana Karenga...

Female Authors: Alice Walker, Amanda Gorman, Toni Morrison, Chi Mammanda, Ngozi Adichie, Bell Hooks, Audre Lorde, Lorraine Hansberry, Terry McMillan, Ntozake Shange, Jesmyn Ward, Angela Davis, Ida B. Wells, Claudia Tate, Dorothy Koomson, Cheryl Clarke, Sioban Brooks, Elaine Brown, Ruby Bridges, Rosa Parks, Dorothy Porter...

Poetesses: Nikki Giovani, Maya Angelou, Phyllis Wheatley, Mari Evans...

Poets: Langston Hughes, Amiri Baraka, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen. Jean Toomer

We must read so that we can survive the myths. We live in a country in which myths about our character and industry have been propagated for centuries. History has not told our story with veracity and pride. We have been maligned. Therefore, we use the Year 2024 to read what WE have to say about US. If we do not read, we will succumb to the vicious lies spoken and written about us. Our children will never overcome in the current social environment. What is most important is that we read our story and focus on why is it important to omit the truth about what has happened and will continue to happen to us in America. This is a land of opportunity. It is our duty to reveal the truth. This can only be accomplished if we read, act, do, speak, question, create, develop, execute, move, pursue, respond, persevere, operate, persist, exert, represent, exploit,... Damn it! We must do something. The plan is that we read. Fill the knowledge gaps. Then act. The dormant days of life have ended. We are in the moment knowledge warriors.

Here are a few questions I advance: Why is it important that America omit our true history in our textbooks?

Why has America hidden the history, of our past, our successes and achievements from all who call themselves AMERICANS?

What has been taught are lies, propaganda and MYTHS.. America is a land of opportunity. We can right these wrongs. First , we must be armed with our own stories and triumphs. We must be READERS.

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thespeedyreader · 4 years

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Black Lives Matter: A (By No Means Complete) Reading List

“Books are a form of political action. Books are knowledge. Books are a reflection. Books change your mind.” - Toni Morrison

It has always been, and always will be, vital to educate ourselves on the world around us. In response to the Black Lives Matter movement, I hope that this blog can become a platform for sharing resources on black history and literature, in a conscious effort to educate both ourselves and those around us. It is our duty to continue to amplify the voices of people of colour, because it is through education that we can make lasting changes in the world.

Here you will find a list of books and essays by authors of colour, and which speak about the experiences of people of colour everywhere. By committing to read even one of these books, you are expanding your consciousness of the lives around you, and giving people of colour a voice.

(Please reblog with your own book recommendations - keep the chain going!)

Classic Fiction

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

Beloved - Toni Morrison

Another Country - James Baldwin

Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin

The Colour Purple - Alice Walker

Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe

Wide Sargasso Sea - Jean Rhys

Kindred - Octavia E. Butler

The Lonely Londoners - Sam Selvon

Small Island - Andrew Levy

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

Contemporary Fiction

Americanah - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernadine Evaristo

An Orchestra of Minorities - Chigozie Obioma

White Teeth - Zadie Smith

Red at the Bone - Jacqueline Woodson

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

A Brief History of Seven Killings - Marlon James

Black Leopard Red Wolf - Marlon James

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

The Vanishing Half - Brit Bennett

Sorry To Disrupt the Peace - Patty Yumi Cottrell

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

The Fifth Season - N.K. Jemisin

My Sister, the Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours - Helen Oyeyemi

Homegoing - Yaa Gyasi

The Underground Railroad - Colson Whitehead

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

The Girl With the Louding Voice - Abi Daré

We Cast a Shadow - Maurice Carlos Ruffin

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

The Black Flamingo - Dean Atta

Just Mercy - Bryan Stevenson

The Icarus Girl - Helen Oyeyemi

Poetry, Theatre and Graphic Novels

A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

Citizen: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

I Am Alfonso Jones - Tony Medina, illustrated by Stacey Robinson & John Jennings

Your Black Friend and Other Strangers - Ben Passmore

Say Her Name - Zetta Elliot, illustrated by Loveis Wise

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Don’t Call Us Dead - Danez Smith

How ro Be Drawn - Terrence Hayes

The Black Unicorn - Audre Lorde

Coal - Audre Lorde

Passion - June Jordan

Children’s/YA Fiction

Children of Blood and Bone - Tomi Adeyemi

The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

Akata Witch - Nnedi Okorafor

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

You Should See Me in a Crown - Leah Johnson

With the Fire on High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Refugee Boy - Benjamin Zephaniah

Malcolm Little: The Boy Who Grew Up to Become Malcolm X - Ilyasah Shabazz

Not My Idea: A Book About Whiteness - Anastasia Higginbotham

A Is for Activist - Innosanto Nagara

New Kid - Jerry Craft

This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work - Tiffany Jewell

Non-Fiction and Autobiography

The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy - Lani Guiner

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou

Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World - Layla F Saad

Don’t Touch My Hair - Emma Dabiri

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging - Afua Hirsch

The Good Immigrant - Nikesh Shukla

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge (available for free on Yorsearch)

The New Jim Crow - Michelle Alexander (available for free on Yorsearch)

Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde

So You Want to Talk About Race - Ijeoma Oluo

The Fire Next Time - James Baldwin

The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo

Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women - Midge Wilson & Kathy Russell

They Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson, Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice Movement - Wesley Lowery

Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America - James Foreman Jr.

The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon

When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir - Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele

Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower - Brittney Cooper

Waking Up White, and Finding Myself in the Story of Race - Debby Irving

The Hidden Rules of Race: Barriers to an Inclusive Economy - Andrea Flynn, Susan R. Holmberg, Dorian T. Warren, & Felicia J. Wong

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race - Beverly Daniel Tatum

How to Be Anti-Racist - Ibrahim X. Kendi

#black lives matter #blm #books #booklr #bookblr #book #reading #reading list #education #justice #change #thespeedyreader #study #studyblr

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rockislandadultreads · 3 years

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Non-Fiction Reads: African American Literature

Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man by Emmanuel Acho

An urgent primer on race and racism, from the host of the viral hit video series “Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man” “You cannot fix a problem you do not know you have.” So begins Emmanuel Acho in his essential guide to the truths Americans need to know to address the systemic racism that has recently electrified protests in all fifty states. “There is a fix,” Acho says. “But in order to access it, we’re going to have to have some uncomfortable conversations.” In Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man, Acho takes on all the questions, large and small, insensitive and taboo, many white Americans are afraid to ask—yet which all Americans need the answers to, now more than ever. With the same open-hearted generosity that has made his video series a phenomenon, Acho explains the vital core of such fraught concepts as white privilege, cultural appropriation, and “reverse racism.” In his own words, he provides a space of compassion and understanding in a discussion that can lack both. He asks only for the reader’s curiosity—but along the way, he will galvanize all of us to join the antiracist fight.

A Promised Land by Barack Obama

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making, from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy. In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil. Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office. Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden. A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible. This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

From Slave Cabins to the White House: Homemade Citizenship in African American Culture by Koritha Mitchell

Koritha Mitchell analyzes canonical texts by and about African American women to lay bare the hostility these women face as they invest in traditional domesticity. Instead of the respectability and safety granted white homemakers, black women endure pejorative labels, racist governmental policies, attacks on their citizenship, and aggression meant to keep them in "their place." Tracing how African Americans define and redefine success in a nation determined to deprive them of it, Mitchell plumbs the works of Frances Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Lorraine Hansberry, Toni Morrison, Michelle Obama, and others. These artists honor black homes from slavery and post-emancipation through the Civil Rights era to "post-racial" America. Mitchell follows black families asserting their citizenship in domestic settings while the larger society and culture marginalize and attack them, not because they are deviants or failures but because they meet American standards. Powerful and provocative, From Slave Cabins to the White House illuminates the links between African American women's homemaking and citizenship in history and across literature.

Unapologetically Ambitious: Take Risks, Break Barriers, and Create Success on Your Own Terms by Shellye Archambeau

*Named a Best Business Book of 2020 by Fortune and Bloomberg* Full of empowering wisdom from one of Silicon Valley's first female African American CEOs, this inspiring leadership book offers a blueprint for how to achieve your personal and professional goals. Shellye Archambeau recounts how she overcame the challenges she faced as a young black woman, wife, and mother, managing her personal and professional responsibilities while climbing the ranks at IBM and subsequently in her roles as CEO. Through the busts and booms of Silicon Valley in the early 2000s, this bold and inspiring book details the risks she took and the strategies she engaged to steer her family, her career, and her company MetricStream toward success. Through her journey, Shellye discovered that ambition alone is not enough to achieve success. Here, she shares the practical strategies, tools, and approaches readers can employ right now, including concrete steps to most effectively: Dismantle impostor syndrome Capitalize on the power of planning Take risks Developing financial literacy Build your network Establish your reputation Take charge of your career Integrate work, marriage, parenthood, and self-care Each chapter lays out key takeaways and actions to increase the odds of achieving your personal and professional goals. With relatable personal stories that ground her advice in the real world and a foreword by leading venture capitalist and New York Times bestselling author Ben Horowitz, Unapologetically Ambitious invites readers to move beyond the solely supportive roles others expect them to fill, to learn how to carefully tread the thin line between assertive and aggressive, and to give themselves permission to strive for the top. Make no apologies for the height of your ambitions. Shellye Archambeau will show you how.

#black authors #african american #african american authors #black history #african american history #history #us history #civil rights #Reading Recs #nonfiction #non-fiction #modern literature #book recs #booklr #reading recommendations

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insanityclause · 5 years

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The National Theatre Collection launches today with 19 titles, making the best of British theatre available to libraries, schools, universities and the education sector around the world.

The National Theatre Collection is a new streaming service, that draws on 10 years of NT Live broadcasts alongside high-quality archive recordings never previously seen outside of the NT 's Archive. The National Theatre Collection will make the best of British theatre available worldwide to libraries, schools, universities and the wider education sector.

The National Theatre Collection is available through Bloomsbury’s award-winning digital library Drama Online and as a stand-alone resource from renowned EdTech leader ProQuest. ProQuest will also integrate the collection in its popular Theatre and Drama Premium. It will transform the current landscape of theatre studies and digital learning by connecting students, researchers and teachers across the globe to world-class productions, archive materials and learning resources.

The National Theatre Collection launches with 19 titles and will grow to 30 titles by March 2020. It features a wide range of works regularly studied at secondary / high school and degree level. The National Theatre Collection is available via two models: a one-time payment for the full collection, or via an annual subscription.

UK state-funded schools will be able to access the productions for free through the National Theatre Schools Collection, on Bloomsbury's Drama Online, from January 2020. Until the National Theatre Schools Collection launches in January 2020, UK state-funded schools can access a selection of recordings and resources for free through National Theatre: On Demand In Schools - find out more here.

Unique in its scope, the collection encompasses:

Greek classics such as Medea by Euripides, in a contemporary adaptation by Ben Power, directed by Carrie Cracknell with Helen McCrory in the title role

Vibrant modern stagings of Shakespeare, such as Twelfth Night, directed by Simon Godwin, with Tamsin Greig in the role of ‘Malvolia’ and Coriolanus directed by Josie Rourke with Tom Hiddleston in the title role

20th century classics such as Lorraine Hansberry’s Les Blancs and the Young Vic’s production of Lorca’s Yerma, adapted and directed by Simon Stone with Billie Piper in the title role

Literary adaptations, such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein adapted by Nick Dear and directed by Danny Boyle, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller

Comedies such as She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith, directed by Jamie Lloyd with a cast including Cush Jumbo and Katherine Kelly, and One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean, directed by Nicholas Hytner, and featuring James Corden's Tony Award-winning performance

For more information and details of how to access the National Theatre Collection, please visit: ProQuest Drama Online

#Tom Hiddleston #Coriolanus #National Theatre Collection #NT Live #education

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composmentis-expostfacto · 6 years

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What Do You Read As an Ivy League Theatre Major

ZenHere is a non-comprehensive list of plays and artistic pieces assigned to me as a theatre major at a prestigious Ivy league school in...ahem...Manhattan. This was not every play I read over the course of my Bachelor’s degree, as I transferred (my community college assignments maybe added at a later date if it becomes possible to compile them) and is not a comprehensive list of everything assigned (ie: articles, textbooks, and academic criticism.) I might do a list of that later if there’s enough interest.

1 Henry IV - William Shakespeare

2 Henry IV - William Shakespeare

Abyss - Maria Milisavljevic

A Number - Caryl Churchill

A Rasin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry

A Streetcar Named Desire - Tennessee Williams

As You Like It - William Shakespeare

All’s Well That Ends Well - William Shakespeare

The Amen Corner - James Baldwin

The America Play - Suzan-Lori Parks

Antony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare

The Balcony - Jean Genet

Betrayl - Harold Pinter

The Black Doctor - Ira Aldridge

Blue-Eyed Black Boy - Georgia Douglas Johnson

The Book of Margery Kempe (selections) - Margery Kempe

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark - Lynn Nottage

Caught - Christopher Chen

The Cherry Orchard - Anton Chekhov

Clybourne Park - Bruce Norris

Comedy of Errors - William Shakespeare

Cymbeline - William Shakespeare

Death and the King’s Horseman - Wole Soyinka

Dojoji - Kanami

The Downfall of justice; and the farmer just return'd from meeting on Thanksgiving Day. A comedy, lately acted in Connecticut. - Anonymous/E. Russell

The Dutchman - Amiri Baraka

Embers - Samuel Beckett

Enjoy - Toshiki Okada

The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom - William Wells Brown

Fences - August Wilson

Fires in the Mirror - Anna Devere Smith

For Colored Girls who have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf - Ntozake Shange

Funnyhouse of the Negro - Adrienne Kennedy

Galileo - Bertolt Brecht

The Gelede Spectacle - Babatunde Lawal

Ghosts - Henrik Ibsen

The Golden Dragon - Roland Schimmelpfennig

The Good Person of Szechwan - Bertolt Brecht

Hamlet - William Shakespeare

Henry V - William Shakespeare

The Homecoming - Harold Pinter

The House of Bernarda Alba - Frederico Garcia Lorca

In Dahomey - Jesse A. Shipp Paul Laurence Dunbar

Invasion! - Jonas Hassen Khemiri

Journey's End - R.C. Sherriff

Kichaka Vadha in The Mahabharata - Nagendra K. Singh

King Lear - William Shakespeare

Krapp's Last Tape - Samuel Beckett

Le Morte D'Arthur - Thomas Mallory

Life is a Dream - Calderón de la Barca

Loa to The Divine Narcissus - Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Lysistrata - Aristophanes

Made in Poland - Przemyslaw Wojcieszek

M.Butterfly - David Henry Hwang

Macbeth - William Shakespeare

Machinal - Sophie Treadwell

The Maids - Jean Genet

Marat/Sade or The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade - Peter Weiss

The Masque of Queens - Ben Jonson

Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare

Medea - Euripides

Miss Julie - August Strindberg

Much Ado About Nothing - William Shakespeare

Mulatto - Langston Hughes

Murderer, the Hope of Women and Sphinx and Strawman - Oskar Kokoschka

Native Son - Richard Wright Paul Green

Natural Man - Theodore Browne

Oedipus the King - Sophocles, Trans. Robert Fagles

Oedipus the King - Sophocles, Trans. Stephen Berg, Diskin Clay

Oedipus the King - Sophocles, Trans. Bernard Knox

Oedipus Rex - Sophocles, Trans. David Mulroy

Oh What a Lovely War - Charles Chilton

Old Times - Harold Pinter

Othello - William Shakespeare

Pericles - William Shakespeare

Phaedra - Jean Racine

The Piano Lesson - August Wilson

Plumes - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Pygmalion - George Bernard Shaw

Rachel - Angelina Grimke

Rainbow Kiss - Simon Farquhar

Revelation of Love (selections) - Julian of Norwich

Richard II - William Shakespeare

The Rover - Aphra Behn

Safe - Georgia Douglas Johnson

Shunkan - Unknown; Possibly Zeami, Zenchiku, or Motomasa

Soul Gone Home - Langston Hughes

Star of Ethiopia - W.E.B. Dubois

Tamburlaine - Christopher Marlowe

Tartuffe - Jean-Baptiste Molière

The Tempest - William Shakespeare

The Testament of Cresseid - Robert Henryson

Top Girls - Caryl Churchill

Trial of Dr. Beck - Hughes Allison

Trifles - Susan Glaspell

Troilus and Cressida - William Shakespeare

Troilus and Criseyde - Geoffrey Chaucer

Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare

The Two Noble Kinsmen - William Shakespeare and John Fletcher

Ubu the King - Alfred Jarry

Uncle Tom’s Cabin - George Aiken

Venus - Suzan-Lori Parks

Waiting for Godot - Samuel Beckett

White Snake - Tien Han

The Winter's Tale - William Shakespeare

Woyzeck - Georg Büchner

York Mystery Plays - Beadle and King Edition

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It’s the boys from Almost Feels Like Home!! (by @mable-stitchpunk as always XD) This is kinda spoilery, so make sure you’re caught up before viewing!

Eggs is just the kind of guy who doesn’t get circulation in his legs. XD I love them both so much.

#mable #almost feels like home #aflh #Ben Hansberry #Eggs Benedict #Michael Afton

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alternate happening in the Home Universe if Ben never died.

Ben and Amalgam Baby enter the apartment

Michael: u...uh.... whatcha got there...

Ben, holding up a drink: a smoothie.

Michael: *Takes one look at Amalgam Baby* ...Ben, can I talk to you for a second?

*Puts arm around Ben, drags him aside*

Michael: Look, Ben. I know it's your job to help these animatronics and everything, but I think this is a lost cause. They've obviously made up their mind. Why don't we just cut our loses and get the hell out of here?

Ben: ...And what, give them the house?

Michael: It's a sacrifice I am willing to make.

#Home Series #AU #Michael Afton #Ben Hansberry #Eggs Benedict #Memes

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Review: ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ Burns With New Fire

By BEN BRANTLEY Robert O’Hara’s interpretation of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic, starring a brilliant S. Epatha Merkerson, puts the audience in the hot seat. Published: July 1, 2019 at 04:30AM from NYT Theater https://ift.tt/2xjObfh

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On Still Being a Republican

A few nights ago, I attended my senior banquet dinner at the Union League in Philadelphia. The Union League was founded in 1862, dedicated to preserving the Union and promoting the policies of Abraham Lincoln - the first Republican and my favorite US President. These days, the Union League is mostly a venue for rich old white men to flaunt their wealth. I think that the Union League is a good metaphor for the Republican party: we have an esteemed history, but not nearly as much to say for ourselves in our present moment.

I often get misty-eyed thinking about good ole Abe. I know he wasn’t perfect. But he lived in a moment where our nation - which has always been precarious and fragile - was imploding. The great American experiment almost failed. We almost lost it all. But Lincoln held the Union together - by God - and he effected the ending of slavery, which not even the most abolitionist of our Founding Fathers could do. And as our President, Lincoln stood before the nation at some of the bloodiest sites of battle, asked us to accept our losses as God’s judgment, and invited us to move forward as a nation in humility and love. Lincoln so deeply and desperately wanted us to live up to our aspirations, to be a nation where true equality of persons was possible. He famously said that our nation is dedicated to the proposition of equality. Lincoln’s law education started with Euclid’s geometry, so he knew that unlike self-evident axioms, propositions have to be demonstrated concretely. Lincoln knew that America is an open question, and I think that’s why I keep going back to him.

Recently the Huffington Post interviewed Paul Coates - the former Black Panther and father of the firebrand writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. Paul said something in that interview that keeps echoing in my mind. He said: "most black people are conservative. We’re seen as radical when we demand the same values that America claims to have, but as a whole, we’re one of the largest bodies of conservatism in the country." I think one way of restating this is that we black folk are the living test of Lincoln’s proposition: we are the metric by which the ideals of America can be measured. But Paul also was thinking about the kind of Bill Cosby / Ben Carson / Kanye West style black conservatism which emphasizes individual and social responsibility more than government intervention. Paul has critiques of this, I’m sure, and Ta-Nehisi certainly does. I do as well. But I think Paul has his finger on something important when he says: “Folks want to attack Bill Cosby for hating black people in that speech. But people from my generation understood what Bill Cosby was saying. He would have been on the side of Booker T. Washington, yes. But I’d have been there, too. Booker T. Washington was all about the empowerment of the community. The major organization of black business in his time was the National Negro Business League—those folks were not talking about handouts from white people.” There’s an aspect of affirming human dignity in black conservatism: we know what it means to be denied that recognition, and we’ll be damned if we’re gonna embrace paternalistic subservience at the hands of the white man.

Maybe you’re uncomfortable that I’m citing Cosby, Carson, and Kanye? Let me turn to Obama instead. In my favorite of his speeches - given at Howard University in 2016 as he was ending his time in the oval office - Obama said this to the graduating seniors: “If you had to choose a time to be, in the words of Lorraine Hansberry, ‘young, gifted, and black’ in America, you would choose right now.” He continued: “I tell you all this because it's important to note progress. Because to deny how far we’ve come would do a disservice to the cause of justice, to the legions of foot soldiers; to not only the incredibly accomplished individuals who have already been mentioned, but your mothers and your dads, and grandparents and great grandparents, who marched and toiled and suffered and overcame to make this day possible.” Obama went out to talk about the challenges that still face our nation, the ways in which we have not lived up to the Lincoln proposition. But I am always struck that he began his speech by inviting a graduating class of black folk to be grateful for the past - not contemptuous of it. I’m not trying to say that Obama is a conservative, and he’s certainly no Republican. But I think Obama gets this right: he recognizes that a healthy politics begins with piety: kissing the hand of our grandmother, thanking the generations before us for the work they’ve done on our behalf.

Sitting in the Union League, I turned to a close friend of mine - also a native of conservative Lancaster County, PA - and asked him if he’s changed his voter registration. He said no. And then we both grew sad. Because we’re Republicans sitting in a room with a full-size bust of Lincoln, and meanwhile Trump is president, and Iowa Republican Steve King is defending white nationalism in the pages of the New York Times. It’s a really shitty time to be a Republican. And college has complicated things: for example, my friend and I have grown to love Marx: we know that markets can unleash prosperity, but we’re incredibly skeptical of late capitalism and painfully aware of the growing income disparities. Just the other week, we both defended the idea of universal basic healthcare - and we did so appealing to Hayek and others in the conservative tradition. We’ve also had many conversations over the years about automation and AI, about universal basic income, about a foreign policy that doesn’t look perpetual warmongering in a hundred different nations. We could make really good Democrats if we wanted to be, but we don’t want to have to be.

I’m thinking a lot these days of a blog post from a good friend (and fellow ISI alum), Sarah, who writes as a conservative leftist. In Sarah’s words, the essence of conservatism is “to look at the past — be it your own, that of your society, that of history — with gratitude.” Growing up in Lancaster County was an incredible gift: our people care for each other, in large part because our Anabaptist roots have led to a widespread communitarian ethic that recalls the best of the Puritan project in the early years of America’s history. I have watched our municipal organisations, libraries, nonprofits, local governments, and small businesses partner together to do incredible things. I know that government is important, but I also know that a strong civil society can do much more than an impersonal bureaucracy that is far removed from localities. And my experience of conservatism in Lancaster County has been personal. Two of my closest mentors are locally elected Republican officials. One of them, the one who stood as my sponsor when I joined the Catholic Church - wrote his master’s thesis at Villanova on Abraham Lincoln. I have a lot of gratitude for these influences in my life.

In her blog post, Sarah asks us to recognize that this gratitude at the heart of conservatism “precludes revolution because it refuses absolute rejection. We do not need revolt, but healing.” She goes on to write: “history is not a catalogue of errors, but injuries. What came before is at times monstrous, but it is ours and we must tend to it as it dies. We must also ensure that what comes after it has the means to forgive itself and us for its origins, as its own vices will inevitably be a gloss on its predecessor.”

I think Abraham Lincoln would have readily agreed with that assessment. Consider these words from his second inaugural address, given in the aftermath of the Civil War: “With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation’s wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan—to do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.”

At the end of our conversation in the Union League, we both said that while we’re still Republicans, it’s very likely that we won’t end up staying in the party, particularly if Trump marks the party’s future. It’s an open question for us where we’ll end up, because we can’t deny our convictions on the basis of nostalgia, and we also can’t be foolishly obstinate if the time comes when the party has so lost its way that there is no going back. But goddamn, I’d love to stay in the party of Honest Abe. And regardless of where I end up ideologically, I’ll always be grateful for the conservatives in Lancaster County who taught me what it means to be a reflective, mature, and engaged citizen.

#black blackrepublican blackconservatism

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thejoyofviolentmovement · 4 years

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New Audio: Leeds-based Collective Fold Reimagines Lorraine Hansberry in Swaggering and Stuttering New Single

New Audio: Leeds-based Collective Fold Reimagines Lorraine Hansberry in Swaggering and Stuttering New Single @foldfm @heygroover

Fold is a Leeds-based collective currently centered around its core quartet Seth Mowshowitz (beats, keys), Kane Rattray (drums), Ben Walsh (bass) and Sam Hutchinson…

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