#stephen lawrence

[simbistardis]

On this day in 1993, Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racist attack at age 18 when he waited for the bus. His case proved the institutional racism of the Metropolitan Police Force, who only jailed two of his killers in 2012, whilst the rest walked free. Stephen Lawrence would've been 50 this year.

[obsidian-sphere]

Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December 1945.

Reprinting "The Ancient Allan" by H. Rider Haggard and "The Hashish Man" by Lord Dunsany.

Cover by Stephen Lawrence

[viarocker]

this idiot got on bbc news somehow

They asked me to spell my name and yet somehow still managed to misspell it. Gosh darn. (It's spelt with an i).

Well there I am I guess

I was interviewed about celebrating the legacy of Stephen Lawrence through looking at what he would've done, and studying the architectural design process. I was also interviewed for BBC Radio, and some other company that didn't tell me what they were all in the span of 10 minutes lol

[qnewsau]

NSW heritage listing for graves of gay bushrangers

New Post has been published on https://qnews.com.au/nsw-heritage-listing-for-graves-of-gay-bushrangers/

NSW heritage listing for graves of gay bushrangers

The graves of two Australian bushrangers, who were believed to be a gay couple, have been added to the State Heritage Register by the NSW Government.

The government announced today the final resting place of Captain Moonlite (Andrew George Scott) and James Nesbitt are now on the register.

The graves in Gundagai, 390 kilometres south-west of Sydney, are a rare symbol of 19th century gay male relationships.

The men died within weeks of each other in late 1879 and early 1880, at a time when homosexuality was illegal in NSW, punishable by life imprisonment.

“Captain Moonlite and James Nesbitt were outcasts even among outcasts, who might have lived very different lives in more contemporary times,” said NSW Minister for Heritage Penny Sharpe, in a statement released today.

“This listing on the State Heritage Register reflects the desire to tell the diverse stories that reflect the rich history of NSW,” she said.

Duty MLC for Cootamundra, Stephen Lawrence, said: “The protections afforded to the gravesites in North Gundagai Cemetery through listing on the NSW State Heritage Register ensure that this rare, one-of-a-kind site, and the life story it represents, are preserved.”

Moonlite + Nesbitt

Andrew George Scott – also called Alexander Charles Scott but best known as Captain Moonlite – was born in Ireland on 5 July 1842. Nesbitt, meanwhile, was born in Australia on 27 August 1858.

Moonlite committed his first serious crime in 1869, robbing a bank in Victoria.

After escaping to Sydney, where he was arrested and jailed, Moonlite was extradited to Victoria’s Pentridge Prison, where he met James Nesbitt, who was serving time for petty crimes.

Upon their release, the pair and four other young men moved to NSW where, in 1879, they held up Wantabadgery Station near Gundagai. During a shootout with police, Nesbitt was shot in the head.

It was reported that Moonlite held Nesbitt in his arms, sobbing uncontrollably as the 21-year-old died, on 17 November 1879. According to one report: “[Moonlite] wept over him like a child, laid his head upon his breast and kissed him passionately.”

Together in life – and death

Nesbitt was buried in Gundagai, as were two police officers and another bushranger killed during the shootout.

Moonlite was caught, sent to Sydney and imprisoned. While awaiting trial, he penned multiple letters outlining his bond with Nesbitt.

In one, addressed to Nesbitt’s mother, he wrote: “His hopes were my hopes, his grave will be my resting place, and I trust I may be worthy to be with him where we shall all meet to part no more.”

Moonlite was sentenced to death and executed by hanging on 20 January 1880. He went to the gallows wearing a ring woven from a lock of Nesbitt’s hair.

The authorities, who had not sent any of Moonlite’s letters, did not grant his wish to be buried alongside Nesbitt in Gundagai. Instead, he was interred at Sydney’s Rookwood Cemetery.

But, more than a century later, Captain Moonlite’s letters were discovered and two Gundagai women successfully campaigned for his dying wish to be fulfilled.

In January 1995, after 115 years apart, Moonlite’s remains were exhumed from Rookwood and reinterred at the North Gundagai Cemetery, under a eucalyptus tree next to Nesbitt.

The listing of the graves on the State Heritage Register highlights same-sex relationships from a time when they were suppressed and “shows respect for the many histories that shape NSW,” said Stephen Lawrence.

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[blackstarlineage]

Never forget! Stephen Lawrence (13 September 1974 – 22 April 1993) was a black British 18-year-old from Plumstead, southeast London, who was murdered in a racially motivated attack while waiting for a bus in Well Hall Road, Eltham, on the evening of 22 April 1993. Rest in Paradise.

[zkthepoet]

“What, what, nigger?”

this coon 

this grubby spear chucker 

this fuzzie 

chip-on-his-shoulder pickaninny with navy gums 

this lemon-eyed teapot 

musical wog 

this thieving zulu 

blubber-lipped savage, swinging his shlong 

this midnight 

chocolate convict 

nig-nog gorilla and golliwog 

jigaboo dancer, chalkie, tar 

negroid shadow-face 

darkie, spook 

nigger in the swimming pool 

in his monkey-suit 

uggah-buggah boogie 

nig-jig ape 

jungle bunny, african 

black, black, slave… 

but I don’t mind niggers 

a nigger’ll buy a round 

                 it’s these ungrateful, rag-headed, racialist pakis I wanna skin alive, torture and set alight    now  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

This was a poem I wrote in 2012 that won the Stephen Lawrence Poetry Prize presented by Doreen Lawrence, Stephen's mother.

The words that the racist gang that set upon Stephen that Eltham night shouted were 'what, what, n****r!' This piece squeezes all of that vile energy, finds its many incarnations and ends with the directive of later discriminatory language.

Over a decade later, I find this piece difficult. 'N*****' has been utilised to bring about so much suffering to those of colour, that persons of my race should not be allowed to employ it in virtually any context. In my younger days, experimenting with language and uncovering more innovative ways to express dismay at the multifaceted presence of racist thought, it felt very worthy. I wouldn't perform this now, as I did then, however I hope that its deliberately shocking nature reminds us that the end goal of these anti-non-white thinkers is death of those they hate and that three vicious words hide even more.

[fairytalemovies]

Craig T. Nelson - Man Without a Heart

[jenniferhills]

Walk, until there is only one of you left. There is one winner... and no finish line.

THE LONG WALK dir. Francis Lawrence

[drakudoll]

Making him writhe and squirm under your touch

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Mike munroe/Steve Rogers/Stephen Strange/Peter Quill/Tony Stark/Eddie Munson/Timothy Lawrence/Loki/

[the-lean-buddha]

The Long Walk characters are very different in the movie

As per the Vanity Fair article:

Garraty in the movie is "certainly the most big-hearted" of the Walkers. Which he isn't at all, in the book. He's very close to a few people, but if anything he seems less attached to his friends than McVries does (see: Harkness, Scramm, Pearson, Parker), and he's less caring towards random people than Baker. Mostly Garraty is motivated by curiosity when he talks to other Walkers. He's kind of an asshole to most people.

The article also says that Garraty "enters the race to get vengeance on leaders he despises, pursuing the wishes of his resistance-minded dad". Which in the book, he absolutely doesn't. His entire character revolves around repression, guilt, and insecurity that motivates him to join the Walk. It has nothing to do with vengeance. This isn't a small change - it makes Garraty's character, and the entire story, completely different.

Hoffman adds that "Garraty believed wholeheartedly that his father was fighting for the exact right thing, and his father could do no wrong", but Garraty goes into the Walk in the book thinking that his father is an idiot, or at least naive. He also explicitly says later that he didn't miss his father after he was Squaded. So Garraty in the movie will be very different, and the movie will apparently be a story of political rebellion.

"Jonsson, who’s 31, brings a more hardened and mature presence to McVries", but McVries is not even remotely mature in the book. He's full of teenage angst and emotional immaturity and a twisted sense of loathing towards himself and everything else. It doesn't look like he has that prominent scar in the movie, either.

Baker is black in the movie. In the book, he was a night rider for two years. Go figure.

This is Stebbins in the movie. Go figure.

So overall, I can't see any of the three main characters being at all similar to their book counterparts. Baker still has a shot, because the night riding isn't a core part of his character, but given the track record so far I'm not very optimistic.

Also, the numbers are random now! Garraty is still #47 and Barkovitch is still #5 but the others have changed, even Baker, for some reason.

Also, apparently Mark Hamill "brings complexity and and even some vulnerability" to the Major. To the Major. what

The only thing I'm excited for is Joshua Odjick as Parker, because this here is a very Collie Parker expression.

[artdecodude]

Lawrence Tenney Stephens #WPA era concrete sculpture Tribute to the American Farmworker #ArtDeco #Pomona #California #Fairplex 📸:me/04/2025 Full Set: flic.kr/s/aHBqjCbkhJ

[bitterkarella]

Midnight Pals: No Fun Allowed

Margery Lawrence: Submitted for the approval of the Midnight Society, I call this the tale of how Pan came to little ingleton Lawrence: ok so picture this Lawrence: there's this minister who hates fun King: what, all kinds of fun? Lawrence: all kinds Lawrence: he's a real stick in the mud

Lawrence: he's all like 'no dancing, no drinking' Barker: oh man this guy sounds booooooring Barker: couldn't be me King: yeah this guy sounds like a real killjoy King: i wouldn't want to hang out with him Lawrence: that's what his parishioners think too!

Lawrence: he's all 'no japery, no whimsy' King: no japery?! no whimsy?! King: but how can man live without japery and whimsy? King: those things nourish the very soul! Lawrence: exactly Lawrence: exactly my point

Lawrence: so he bans drinking and dancing and kissing Barker: i don't like where that's going Mary Shelley: this guy sounds like a proper misery Lawrence: and above all Lawrence: no shivving allowed! Shelley: man, if i were the kind to follow rules, i wouldn't have any fun in that town at all

Lawrence: so one day he's gonna give his usual boring sermon but no one shows up Barker: haha owned King: aw i kinda feel sorry for him Barker: don't feel sorry for him steve, this guy sucks Barker: i mean, right?! Lawrence: yeah clive is correct, this guy sucks Lawrence: he brought it on himself

Lawrence: so he goes out and who do you think he meets? King: Poe: Lovecraft: Koontz: Barker: Lawrence: he meets the great god pan, that's who Lawrence: you should have guessed from the story title

Arthur Machen: the great god pan?! is it a fearful and mystical experience that rattles him to the very core of his soul, leaving him forever changed?! Lawrence: well, he is changed Lawrence: cuz pan is all, 'hey doofus how about you fuckin lighten up? sheesh' Machen:

Lawrence: pan is all 'why spend all your life being a pinched little misery who just hates on people living their lives? you gotta die mad about it. that's loser shit' Lawrence: 'why not try being chill instead'

Lawrence: and wouldn't you know it Lawrence: well in little ingleton they say Lawrence: the minister's heart grew three sizes that day

Lawrence: and after that, everyone in little ingleton agreed Lawrence: this minister ain't so bad after all Lawrence: and he even got laid Barker: now THAT Barker: THAT is one COOL minister

[birdiebowers]

no surprises || terra nova expedition

112nd anniversary of finding the tent

series: the last place on earth (1985)

song: no surprises - radiohead

[maertyrer]

French School Saint Lawrence, Saint Stephen, Saint Vincent of Saragossa and Saint Bernard, Saint Hubert and Saint Anthony

Oil on oak panel, 76 x 122 cm, ca. 1500

[filmjunky-99]

s c a n n e r s, 1981 🎬 dir. david cronenberg

'I was there. I saw Revok in the control room. The production of Ephemerol is computerized. It's being manufactured and sent out in huge tankers.' - vale