"Nimrods" by Kawika Guillermo

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Nimrods Kawika GuillermoDuke University Press Books (2023)ISBN: 978-1478024927Reviewed by Jamie King for Reader Views (11/2023) “Nimrods: A Fake-Punk Self-Hurt Anti-Memoir” by Kawika Guillermo uses images and words to submerge readers in a turbulent confessional biography on masculine energy, the father figure, and multi-faceted male existence.  Opening with fatherhood anxiety, presumably…

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Life & Style, April 8

Cover: Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt’s second date 

Page 1: Photo Flash -- Channing Tatum goes blonde 

Page 2: Contents 

Page 4: Top 10 Lupita Nyong’o looks 

Page 6: Twinning -- Sela Ward vs. Dana Delany vs. Charlize Theron 

Page 8: Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon butt heads on the set of their untitled morning show drama 

Page 9: Paris Jackson refusing rehab, Throwback -- Hannah Brown, Biggest Spenders of the Week -- Chris O’Dowd, Meghan Markle, Jennifer Lopez, Hailey Baldwin, Cindy Crawford 

Page 10: Teresa Giudice’s brother Joe Gorga says she’s a mess, Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott’s spending spree, Whose Voice Is It -- Owen Wilson, Ellen DeGeneres, John C. Reilly, Auli’i Cravalho, Craig T. Nelson, Demi Lovato 

Page 12: From Riches to Rags -- Real Housewives cash crises 

Page 13: Kylie Jenner and estranged BFF Jordyn Woods are secretly talking behind Khloe Kardashian’s back, inside Wendy Williams’ brave battle to stay sober, VIP Style -- Colton Underwood and Cassie Randolph, Alec Baldwin, Danielle Jonas, Hannah Godwin, Anthony Lee Medina, Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez, Gavin Rossdale

Page 14: The Week in Photos -- Ariana Grande 

Page 15: Liev Schreiber and son Sasha, Miley Cyrus 

Page 16: Emmy Rossum, Andy Cohen and son Benjamin and dog Wacha, Hannah Simone 

Page 18: Nicole Kidman and daughters Sunday and Faith, Zachary Levi, Haley Lu Richardson and Cole Sprouse and Busy Philipps 

Page 19: Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown and Jonathan Van Ness and Antoni Porowski and Tan France gave Jimmy Kimmel’s sidekick Guillermo Rodriguez a makeover 

Page 20: Lupita Nyong’o and Evan Alex and Shahadi Wright Joseph and Winston Duke and Jordan Peele at the NYC premiere of Us 

Page 21: Kourtney Kardasian and son Reign, Nick Viall, Hilary Duff and son Luca 

Page 22: Olivia Wilde and Ellen DeGeneres gave Jason Sudeikis a haircut, John Stamos and a fake tattoo of Nick Jonas, Ben Affleck and son Samuel 

Page 23: Jane Seymour and Jonathan and Drew Scott, Rita Ora and Anitta 

Page 24: Lionel Richie and Prince Charles, Colton Underwood and dog, Dwayne Johnson 

Page 26: Stars Behaving Badly -- Bebe Rexha, Ben Affleck, Miley Cyrus and Kawika Lum-Nelmida

Page 27: Kendall Jenner 

Page 28: Say What?! Jessica Alba on celery juicing, Julianne Moore on being replaced in Can You Ever Frogive Me?, Cole Sprouse on jump-scaring people, Whitney Port on wardrobe mishaps, Leighton Meester on struggling to find balance as a working mother 

Page 30: Hailey Baldwin finds Justin Bieber’s secret texts to Selena Gomez 

Page 31: It’s serious between Kate Beckinsale and Pete Davidson, Jessica Simpson’s post-baby slimdown, Romance Report Card -- Amy Schumer, Cole Sprouse, Priyanka Chopra 

Page 32: Emma Roberts’ love triangle between Evan Peters and Garrett Hedlund, Scheana Shay is looking for love but not online 

Page 33: Felicity Huffman and William H. Macy are trying to salvage their reputations and marriage as they deal with the fallout if the college admissions scam 

Page 34: Cover Story -- Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt -- 14 years after she filed for divorce Jennifer and Brad are giving their relationship another shot 

Page 38: Lori Loughlin -- from bad to worse in the nationwide college cheating scandal 

Page 40: Weeks after her split with Jamie Foxx Katie Holmes is celebrating single life with a sexy new look

Page 42: Move over, Meghan Markle, Kate Middleton cozying up to the Queen 

Page 44: Stars in the Bathtub -- Chrissy Teigen, Kevin Hart 

Page 45: Taylor Swift, Bethenny Frankel 

Page 46: Brooklyn Beckham, Mariah Carey, Hailey Baldwin, Jimmy Fallon and Bryan Cranston 

Page 48: Who Lives Here? Jodie Foster 

Page 50: Entertainment 

Page 51: Star Review -- Alison Sweeney 

Page 52: Style -- Crochet -- Alicia Vikander, belted jackets -- Olivia Wilde 

Page 53: Tie-Dye -- Kaia Gerber 

Page 54: Beauty -- highlighter -- Meghan Markle 

Page 56: Charcoal -- Lea Michele 

Page 60: How She Got That Body -- Hilary Swank 

Page 62: The fabulous life of Travis Scott 

Page 64: Diva or Down-to-Earth? Brie Larson, Kendra Wilkinson and daughter Alijah, Channing Tatum 

Page 65: Jeremy Piven, Kristen Stewart 

Page 66: Social Stars Posts of the Week -- Liev Schreiber and rescue dog, Jimmy Fallon and Ricky Gervais, Chris Pratt, Chris Hemsworth 

Page 67: Nicole Richie, Ashley Graham, Jennifer Garner, Chrissy Teigen’s son Miles 

Page 68: Horoscope -- Aries Lily James, They’re Not Together But They Should Be -- Pisces John Moyega and Cancer Khloe Kardashian 

Page 70: Made Ya Look -- Paris Hilton and dog Diamond Baby 

Page 72: What I’m Into -- Nicky Hilton 

And Another Thing

"Personal games have radically different outcomes than literary or film biographies. I found myself stressed, hurt, aggravated, saddened, through the act of play. I didn’t get much of a sense of the identities of the developers or writers, or what was at stake or being broadcast about the identities they were writing. They made me feel a different kind of empathy, one not welded to a subset of peoples, but one rooted in the anger and loathing I, too, feel for the systems and standards all around us."

 Guillermo, Kawika. ‘Can You Live A Video Game? Autobiography & Living The Author In Video Games’. Medium, 19 April 2018. https://medium.com/anomalyblog/playing-the-author-video-game-autobiographies-46367939c70a.  

If I am making my research practice-led, this is one of the few times that it is the author’s journey that is the mode of concern, even if in my gameplay artefacts, the story is still whatever the player experiences.  

Blog #3 - Black Femininity, Gender Roles, Then & Now by Joseph Martinez

Mama’s Baby Papa’s Maybe, by Hortense Spillers utilizes the Moynihan Report to detail the structure of matriarchy within the slave family. This structure is the polar opposite of patriarchy in American society. Spiller provides the reality of black women slaves being forced into sexual confrontations despite the offspring were only considered part of the workforce, not the extension of family. The “male” and “female” realize themselves as gendered only in respect to how they are defined by the white subject, which as Spillers points out, is exactly that place where the woman “becomes a living laboratory” (68). The black woman faces a “counter-narrative to notions of the domestic” because she is displaced, and therefore is in a state of passage that evades the domestic sphere, where the notion of the feminine resides. As the origins of the slave trade, and the displacement of African-Americans, Spillers discovers that the absence of the domestic sphere and the importance of the female was never fully recovered even after the middle passage, when women were still deprived of their abilities to operate within the feminine sphere by being deprived of both home and children. Davis in The Legacy of Slavery, provides analysis on the role of the slave women in society, the slave family and slave master. Commonly, the matriarch structure of the slave family was a result of her ability for reproducing and the value it provided to the slave master. Within slavery, men and women were both equally oppressed and the desire for freedom was the same. Davis situates the upcoming feminist struggle by highlighting the legacy of slavery among black people, and black women in particular. Slavery, as it turns out, is the one system where women enjoyed “equality” with men in terms of oppression. “Black women bore the terrible burden of equality in oppression,” Davis writes. She here states her recurring point that black women were productive both in manual and domestic labour, and that rape (of black women by white men, mostly their slave-owners) was a power weapon to remind black women of their femininity and vulnerability. This gender role division has created a lot of conflict within African families. Nevertheless, in the now generation, particularly in the African American community, both male and female do not want to marry a person who has no education or ambition to get a job. Most people base their choice on education, family background, and religious affiliation but mostly on education. Due to the changes in society and the economy, people are force to strive for success and a better life. However, some men still want both egalitarian and traditional family combined in one, so that they can still have control over their wives. Many do not want to marry someone they will have to support. We all want someone who can help us pay the bills and take care of the kids. Although women are still the care giver and the housekeeper, men are more helpful now than in the past decades. Men have become more caring and involved in family duties. Spillers, Hortense J. Black, white, and in color: essays on American literature and culture. Chicago: U of Chicago Press, 2003. Print. Davis, Angela Y. Women, race & class. London: Women's, 2001. Print. The New York Times. The New York Times, n.d. Web. 05 May 2017.

Stamped. "Hortense Spiller’s Mama’s Baby, Papa’s Maybe: an American Grammar Book." Kawika Guillermo. N.p., 26 Nov. 2009. Web. 05 May 2017.