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Deborah Frances-White insta story - 8/22
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“@dfdubz and I resting our tootsies @royalacademyarts #summerexhibition”
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written by Deborah Frances-White for Fleabag The Special Edition (2019)
#i love that first line so much. so real and trye#*true#anyway i just finished reading the original play for fleabag and believe it or not the tv show is a bit tame in comparison. i adore it 💞#fleabag
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On 14th March 1952 we saw the first TV programme to be broadcast in Scotland
The broadcast showed the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society performing the Duke of Edinburgh Reel.
The BBC’s new television studios, grandly called Broadcasting House, were located at 5 Queen Street. The invitation had specified “Dress -- Highland or Dinner Jacket”.
Guests included Scotland’s aristocratic and cultural elite (Highland attire), plus a handful of London-based BBC executives (Dinner Jackets) who had ventured to their new outpost in what they saw as the frozen North.
In the main studio, the VIP audience was in the focus of live television cameras and the atmosphere was tense. The pictures on the monitor screens were small and horizontally lined, and , of course, in black and white.
In his speech opening the transmitter, the Secretary of State for Scotland, James Stuart, found the time to put in a good word for John Logie Baird. This was followed by a Prayer of Dedication by the Very Rev Charles L. Warr, Dean of the Thistle and Chapel Royal.
After a Vote of Thanks by James Miller, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the stage was taken over by the first live television entertainment from Scotland: a performance by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, with Tim Wright and his band.
By 8 p.m. the studio was off the air and the tension relaxed. A buffet was opened and glasses of wine appeared while the guests watched the rest of the evening’s programme from London, starting with Television Newsreel.
The show was seen by a large audience in England but the Scottish viewing numbers were small, with only 2730 licence holders on record as of March 14 1952, this in a time where only the very few dared not to have a Licence! In Helensburgh, John Logie Baird’s birthplace, there were just ten licence holders.
Five years later it was the turn of STV.
"This is Scotland" was an hour of entertainment, anchored by James Robertson Justice, to mark the opening of STV on August 31st 1957.
STV dispensed with dignitaries and there was no prayer of dedication, but instead a big variety show featuring singers and dancers and other celebrities including Alastair Sim, Ludovic Kennedy and Stanley Baxter.
The STV programme has considerable Helensburgh interest, including Jimmy Logan in his prime, and a film clip from the south of France in which Deborah Kerr was interviewed with David Niven. John Logie Baird was not forgotten; James Robertson Justice paid him an elaborate tribute and showed a replica of the early 'Televisor' set.
Jack Buchanan in the inevitable top hat and tails; rather incongruously he led the audience in a chorus of " belong to Glasgow. It must have been one of Buchanan’s last public appearances, he was to die of cancer just two months after the STV opening.
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books (assuming it’s okay to submit more than one):
Ángeles Vicente, Zezé (1909)
Rosa Guy, Ruby (1976)
Deborah Hautzig, Hey, Dollface (1978)
Samuel R. Delany, Tales of Nevèrÿon (1979)
Elizabeth A. Lynn, Watchtower (1979)
Nancy Garden, Annie on My Mind (1982)
Alice Walker, The Color Purple (1982)
John Preston, Franny, the Queen of Provincetown (1983)
Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984)
Timothy Findley, Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984)
Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (1985)
Chrystos, Not Vanishing (1988)
Ian Iqbal Rashid, Black Markets, White Boyfriends, and Other Elisions (1991)
Crìsdean Whyte (Christopher Whyte), Uirsgeul / Myth (1991)
Carlos Sanrune, El gladiador de Chueca (1992)
Tom Lennon, When Love Comes to Town (1993)
Fernanda Farias de Albuquerque and Maurizio Jannelli, Princesa (1994)
Qiu Miaojin, Notes of a Crocodile (1994)
Shyam Selvadurai, Funny Boy (1994)
Gregory Maguire, Wicked (1995)
Christos Tsiolkas, Loaded (1995)
Nina Revoyr, The Necessary Hunger (1997)
Lola Van Guardia (Isabel Franc), Con pedigree (1997)
Tom Lennon, Crazy Love (1999)
Micheál Ó Conghaile, Sna Fir (1999)
Laurie J. Marks, Fire Logic (2002)
Nalo Hopkinson, The Salt Roads (2003)
Esdras Parra, Aún no (2004)
Barry McCrea, The First Verse (2005)
Manuel Tzoc, Gay(o) (2010)
Tama Wise, Street Dreams (2012)
Dane Figueroa Edidi, Yemaya’s Daughters (2013)
Jamie Berrout, Otros Valles (2014)
Niviaq Korneliussen, Homo sapienne (2014)
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, This Accident of Being Lost (2016)
Nathan Niigan Noodin Adler, Wrist (2016)
Trifonia Meliba Obono, La bastarda (2016)
Sofia Samatar, The Winged Histories (2016)
Kai Cheng Thom, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars (2016)
jia qing wilson-yang, Small Beauty (2016)
Billy-Ray Belcourt, This Wound Is a World (2017)
Elliot Cooper, Rogue Wolf (2017)
Kevin Lambert, Querelle de Roberval (2018)
Joshua Whitehead, Jonny Appleseed (2018)
Masande Ntshanga, Triangulum (2019)
Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Noopiming: The Cure for White Ladies (2020)
Tlotlo Tsamaase, The Silence of the Wilting Skin (2020)
Bendi Barrett, Empire of the Feast (2022)
Simon Jimenez, The Spear Cuts Through Water (2022)
Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou (2022)
if you’d rather keep it to one book at a time: Samuel R. Delany, Stars in My Pocket Like Grains of Sand (1984).
Thank you so much for this fantastic list! They're all queued.
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I'm over/sick of right wing zionists (in America) who clearly only care about using Israel as an issue to elect Republicans. People who gleefully take whatever shitty thing Cori Bush or Ilhan Omar (et al) tweeted/said and are like "look look! this is what Joe Biden thinks!" or tried to derail the conversation about Biden's Antisemitism combatting strategy because the Department of Ed sent a copy to CIAR (or whatever) Like are Democrats perfect? nope. But these Democrats in Congress are back bench fringe figures that Biden and others largely avoid, they've faced much more serious primaries (Omar nearly lost her seat in a primary) than you'd normally see and lots of Democrats want them gone, they are not representative of the party over all
and you SHOULDN'T want them to be! I'm as Democratic as they come but I'm Jewish and a Zionist, I know it will be DEEPLY unhealthy for Jewish Americans if Israel (or Jews) becomes a partisan issue. One party can not rule in Washington forever, and friends of Israel, true friends, should want Israel to be safe no matter which party is in office not yo-yo between one party that endorses the views of Ben-Gvir and Smotrich and a party that endorses BDS (not that the Democrats do or would, but if you listen to Republican Zionists...) like thats not whats best for Israel, the Jewish state needs to be able to count on a reliable ally no matter which party has the White House/Congress we should root out antisemites in deep blue/red districts with primaries and support the best candidate for Israel even if we don't like them on many other topics, like whatever Republican can take out Rand Paul, Thomas Massie, MTG or Paul Gosar as long as they like the Jews is a win in my book even though I'll likely not agree with them on anything else.
Very important message. A lot of sources I otherwise trust have been sniveling over Biden's antisemitism task force and I do not understand it at all. They were guided by Deborah Lipstadt! They endorsed the IHRA definition (which the government has already accepted anyway)! They are not turning it over to CAIR, there's some insignificant connection that they probably needed to make it look ecumenical. Honestly, people need to just take a win when one comes.
For a lifetime, American Jews have kept to our own brand of two-pronged, Democratic & Zionist political engagement. Unfortunately the rest of the country is no longer as bipartisan, and recent polling shows registered Democrats are visibly more sympathetic to Palestine than to Israel. As long as they are somewhat sympathetic to both and don't wish harm on either, we can work in that paradigm, but obviously I'd be more comfortable if our side were still the uniform favorite.
More unfortunately, I think most of the collapse of bipartisanship on Israel, and turning it into increasingly a Republican issue, was the result of personality and ego clashes between Obama and Netanyahu. The former was the best president in my lifetime and the latter did a pretty good job as PM until late 2022, but the two men just haaaated each other. Viscerally. Personally. And each of them magnified each other's worst aspects: Obama's sense of himself as a post-political avatar of change, Netanyahu's unstoppable douchebaggery and lying and general FoxNews-iness. Obama charged stupidly into the Iran Deal - his own version of the Iraq War, resting on false assumptions and applauded by false experts; Netanyahu then spit in Obama's face by attacking the Iran Deal on the floor of Congress.
There is an excellent overview of this time in the PBS documentary "Netanyahu At War." I think it is as honest and unbiased as any piece of reporting on Israel I've ever seen - and because it's PBS, the whole thing is available for free. Everyone reading this blog should watch it.
George W. Bush and Jacques Chirac also hated each other, personally. Each of them had staff members who recognized that the U.S. / France relationship was important enough that their personal feelings could not be allowed to get in the way, so the relationship was delegated to underlings and the two primaries rarely spoke to one another at all. That should have been the model for U.S. / Israel from 2008-2016. As is, things were set up for a split even BEFORE Trump came in and made a lot of high-profile moves in favor of Israel, and we are nowhere near seeing the full extent of the pain and damage that the mainstream Jewish community is going to suffer because of that poisoned pill.
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2023 Reading List
For absolutely no reason whatsoever I've decided to start keeping track of every book I finish during the year.
Some will have been left out because it's April, as would happen
What Happened in Vegas - Sylvia Day
Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen
Switch - Ingrid Law
Dying of Whiteness - Jonathan M. Metzl
The Westing Game - Ellen Raskin
Bambi - Felix Salten
Bunnicula - Deborah and James Howe
Morning Sun in Wuhan - Ying Chang Compestine
Cinderella - illustrated by K.Y. Craft
Moldilocks and the Three Scares - Lynne Marie
Sleeping Beauty - illustrated by K.Y. Craft
Cloud Tea Monkeys - Mal Peet
I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy
The Land of the Blue Flower - Frances Hodgson Burnett
I'm Just Saying - Milan Kordestani
Murder at the Mayfair Hotel - C.J. Archer
Nightmares! - Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller
Vera Warden and the Two-Faced Demon - J. Rose
Nightmares! The Sleepwalker Tonic - Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller
Island Affair - Priscilla Oliveras
Ancient Night - David Alvarez and David Bowles
Nightmares! The Lost Lullaby - Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller
Moving the Millers' Minnie Moore Mine Mansion - Dave Eggers
Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands - Kate Beaton
Murder at the Piccadilly Playhouse - C.J. Archer
A Cuban Girl's Guide to Tea and Tomorrow - Laura Taylor Namey
The Only Purple House in Town - Ann Aguirre
Yenebi's Drive to School - Sendy Santamaria
Murder in the Drawing Room - C.J. Archer
Murder at the Dressmaker's Salon - C.J. Archer
50 Below Zero - Robert Munsch
Murder at the Crown and Anchor - C.J. Archer
*I said every book and then immediately realized that wasn't exactly true. I read 2394803958 picture books a week for my kids, which I won't include, but if I pick up Sherlock Hound or something and read it because I want to it's going on the list.
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"Boys and girls were constant companions and it seems that neither work nor play was strictly differentiated on the basis of sex. There was almost no activity engaged in by girls that was not, at some time or another, also engaged in by boys. For instance, while girls were used as nurses, the term used by antebellum whites and blacks to describe someone who supervised infants and toddlers, so too were boys. Nelson Birdson of Alabama indicated that the first work he remembered doing was “nussing a baby boy.”4 Similarly, an Arkansas slave claimed that until he was old enough to chop cotton, all he did was “nurse babies.”5 That boys as well as girls were used as baby-sitters was also recorded by Frances Kemble, the English wife of a Georgia rice planter. She was incensed to find that girls and boys “from eight to twelve and older” did little more than “tend baby” while sickly women were forced to do field work.6 Both sexes performed a variety of other kinds of work, such as “toting” water to thirsty field hands, collecting the mail, and tending livestock."
- Ar'n't I a Woman? Revised addition by Deborah Gray White
#intersectional feminism#feminism#book quotations#feminist literature#feminist#feminist theory#intersectional feminism 101#intersectionality#intersectional politics#anti slavery#slavery tw#racism tw
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#guilty feminist#the guilty feminist#feminism#feminist#women’s rights#human rights#deborah frances white#woman’s rights#uk politics#uk news#trans rights#nhs#conservative conference 2023#women and trans women#politics#fuck the tories
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Never Have I Ever - review
Follow link to my review of NEVER HAVE I EVER by Deborah Frances-White at Chichester Minerva Theatre. It’s the world premier and running until the end of September so there’s ample time to see it. It’s set in a boutique restaurant run by Jacq and Kas. It’s about to go belly-up and they have to tell their friends, who invested in it. Heavy drinking and a game of ‘Never have I ever …’ ensues. It’s…
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On 14th March 1952, the first TV programme was broadcast in Scotland.
The BBC’s new television studios, grandly called Broadcasting House, were located at 5 Queen Street. The invitation had specified “Dress -- Highland or Dinner Jacket”.
Guests included Scotland’s aristocratic and cultural elite all in their Highland attire, plus a handful of London-based BBC executives in Dinner Jackets who had ventured to their new outpost in what they saw as the frozen North.
In the main studio, the VIP audience was in the focus of live television cameras and the atmosphere was tense. The pictures on the monitor screens were small and horizontally lined, in black and white, but they reminded me of Robert Burns’s lines:
O wad some Pow'r the giftie gie us
To see oursels as ithers see us!
In his speech opening the transmitter, the Secretary of State for Scotland, the James Stuart, found the time to put in a good word for John Logie Baird. This was followed by a Prayer of Dedication by the Very Rev Charles L. Warr, Dean of the Thistle and Chapel Royal.
After a Vote of Thanks by James Miller, Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the stage was taken over by the first live television entertainment from Scotland: a performance by the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society, with Tim Wright and his band.
By 8 p.m. the studio was off the air and the tension relaxed. A buffet was opened and glasses of wine appeared while the guests watched the rest of the evening’s programme from London, starting with Television Newsreel.
It was seen by a large audience in England but the Scottish viewing numbers were small, with only 2730 licence holders on record as of March 14th 1952. The event saw crowds gather outside electric stores to watch the broadcast.
In Helensburgh, John Logie Baird’s birthplace, there were just ten licence holders. Television has become a mass medium changing Scottish life and culture for ever, but it has been a mixed blessing.
On the plus side, the old cathode ray tube sets with their small screens have been replaced by digital flat screens, with much larger and sharper pictures in colour. On the minus side, most of the small town cinemas in Scotland have closed; for example, Helensburgh has lost its two cinemas.
Five years later it was the turn of STV.
"This is Scotland" was an hour of entertainment, anchored by James Robertson Justice, to mark the opening of STV on August 31 1957. This was a far more elaborate show than the little 30 minute segment at BBC Scotland marking the opening of their television in 1952.
STV dispensed with dignitaries and there was no prayer of dedication, but instead a big variety show featuring singers and dancers and other celebrities including Alastair Sim, Ludovic Kennedy and Stanley Baxter.
The STV programme had Jimmy Logan in his prime, and a film clip from the south of France in which Deborah Kerr was interviewed with David Niven.
John Logie Baird was not forgotten; James Robertson Justice paid him an elaborate tribute and showed a replica of the early 'Televisor' set.
There was also an appearance of Jack Buchanan in the inevitable top hat and tails; leading the audience in a chorus of "I belong to Glasgow" Jack, unknown to most folk, was ill at the time, was to die of cancer just two months after the STV opening, so this must have been his last appearance.
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#Repost Deborah Harkness FB page Thank you for joining us these past few months for the real time read of A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES and the read along of SHADOW OF NIGHT. I hope you enjoyed it as much as we did. We are hoping to jump back into a read along of THE BOOK OF LIFE sometime in February-so stay tuned. SHADOW OF NIGHT Read Along, chapters 40, 41, & 42 “This telescope is exactly the kind of gesture Diana would make if she had nothing left to lose.” Ysabeau brushed past her grandson. “Diana and Matthew are coming home.” “THE WORLD’S leading expert on early scientific instruments at Oxford University’s Museum of the History of Science, Anthony Carter, confirmed today that a refracting telescope bearing the names of Elizabethan mathematician and astronomer Thomas Harriot and Nicholas Vallin, a Huguenot clockmaker who fled France for religious reasons, is indeed genuine. In addition to the names, the telescope is engraved with the date 1591.” -SHADOW OF NIGHT 👉Let’s discuss. What did you notice when you read these chapters? In the comments below, please share your observations, favorite quotes, musings, questions, half-baked ideas, or deep dives with the rest of us! If this is your first time reading SON, what did you think? What are your questions? If this is your 2nd, 3rd…100th time reading SON, did you discover anything new? Did you discover anything new with your dive into THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS? 👉Other terms from these chapters to search in THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS, or topics to put into your Internet search engine: Characters: Margaret, Objects: white queen chess piece Activities/Driving:Spyker Spyder, Range Rover Locations-Amsterdam-Matthew’s home, Sept Tours Alchemy: Tree in Keeping Room - Cat. #SONRTR2022 #SONch40 #SONch41 #SONch42 #TheWorldofAllSouls Drawing by Colleen Madden-taken from THE WORLD OF ALL SOULS https://www.instagram.com/p/Cl4GuePMH0H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
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Tagged by @buffyathena
Fave colour: Dark red
Currently reading: Empire of Storms by Sarah J. Maas, and The Guilty Feminist by Deborah Frances-White
Last series: His Dark Materials
Last movie in the theatre: Either Thor: Love and Thunder or Elvis, I can’t remember.
Last song: The Walls by Chase Atlantic
Sweet/spicy/savory: Sweet
Currently working on: My Uni project and a cross-stitch for my friend
Tagging @thecollectionsof, @trashfromsomewhere, @ylaskayekaterina if they haven’t done it yet or want to, and anyone else who feels like it.
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Millie Bobby Brown
Millie Bobby Brown rose to fame at just 12 years old when Netflix’s Stanger Things premiered. Brown has been nominated for an Emmy for her portrayed of “Eleven” in the series. Having turned 18 this past February, Brown is no stranger to uncomfortable comments surrounding her age.
Brown became friends with rapper, Drake, in 2018, despite their 18 year age difference. The stars were fans of each other’s work which then turned into a solid friendship. This friendship concerned many people, inciting uncomfortable comments insinuating that Drake was “creepy” and had “ulterior motives.” Some even went as far to say that Drake was “grooming” Millie. In response to these comments, Millie stated in an interview,"Why u gotta make a lovely friendship ur headline? U guys are weird." Brown claimed that Drake was someone who has helped her navigate the entertainment industry, offering his "wisdom and guidance." Millie was only 14 at the time that people were sexualizing her and turning her friendship with Drake into something completely inappropriate. Although some of the comments may have been made out of sheer concern for the young star, the comments did not have to go as far as they did.
When Millie turned 18 in 2022, she opened up about the oversexualization that she has faced in the media. Mara Wilson, another child actor, expressed her concern over Brown after she read a slew of inappropriate comments about her. An article from Buzzfeed touched on this stating, “After reading tweets from grown men about Millie, who is a teenager, Mara said that she ‘felt sick’ and then ‘furious.’ ‘What’s really at play here [is] the creepy, inappropriate public inclination to sexualize young girls in the media’ she wrote.” This same article touches on an interview that Millie had with Deborah Frances-White and Susan Wokoma, just a few weeks after she turned 18. Millie stated that she had “definitely been dealing with [being sexualized] more within the last two weeks of turning 18 — definitely seeing a difference between the way people act and the way that the press and social media have reacted to me coming of age...It’s a very good representation of what’s going on in the world and how young girls are sexualized. I have been dealing with that — but I have also been dealing with that forever.” When Millie posted photos from her 18th birthday (seen below), the comment section was full of disturbing sexual comments.
There was also a forum posted to Reddit that had a “NSFW” warning attached to it that stated it would not be open to the public until Brown’s 18th birthday. A Reddit user explained that the page was intended to post “sexual images” of the child star once she was of legal age. Prior to the forum being banned, it had amassed over 6,000 subscribers. A screenshot of the forum can be seen below.
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