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princesssarisa · 3 years

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Cinderella September-through-November: "Faerie Tale Theatre: Cinderella" (1985 TV series episode)

Now we reach a TV series that countless children of the '80s and '90s will remember: Faerie Tale Theatre. Created, produced and hosted by actress Shelley Duvall, each episode is an hour-long adaptation of a classic fairy tale or fantasy story, performed by a cast of celebrities. Some episodes are played for irreverent laughs, others have a more serious tone, and others are somewhere in-between, but all are unique, whimsical and memorable. Well I remember watching the show on Monday nights at 7 PM during its syndicated run on The Disney Channel, or sometimes watching episodes on a classroom VHS player while eating pizza with my elementary schoolmates during evening PTA meetings.

Cinderella is one of those episodes that strikes a balance between quirky humor and genuine heart. It tells the classic story straightforwardly and faithfully: in fact apart from the standard adaptational choices of killing off Cinderella's father and of having the Prince himself search for her with the glass slipper instead of just sending a steward, this is one of the more faithful retellings of Perrault's version of the tale. True to Perrault, there are two balls instead of just one, with Cinderella losing her slipper at the second ball, and we even have Perrault's rarely-adapted detail of the Fairy Godmother scooping out the inside of the pumpkin before she transforms it. ("You don't want gigantic seeds inside of your coach, do you?" she asks Cinderella.) But the interactions between the characters are pure Faerie Tale Theatre.

Broad comedy is provided by the Stepmother (Eve Arden), who plays the pleasant, smiling gentlewoman even as she heaps chores on Cinderella and philosophically justifies treating her "like dirt," and from her ridiculous daughters Arlene (Jane Alden) and Bertha (Edie McClurg). But Jennifer Beals' sweet, gentle Cinderella earns genuine sympathy, and in her scenes with her playful, grandmotherly, Southern-accented Fairy Godmother (Jean Stapleton) and with the sweetly awkward and naïve yet chivalrous Prince Henry (Matthew Broderick), the perfect balance between gentle, wry humor and true warmth is present. The two ball scenes give Cinderella and the Prince ample time both for dancing and for "adorkable" conversations, making their romance especially believable, and Stapleton's Fairy Godmother is a show-stealer every time she appears.

While the budget is modest and the sets are stagy, the production is still appropriately pretty and atmospheric. The house of Cinderella and her stepfamily has a look of modest elegance, surrounded by colorful autumn leaves to justify the use of a pumpkin for a coach, while the royal ballroom has an appropriately romantic ambiance. The 19th century-inspired costumes are pretty too: the gold- and silver-embroidered white gowns worn by Cinderella to the balls and by the Fairy Godmother are especially beautiful. The magical effects are simple, but likewise effective. This is very much a character-driven Cinderella, though, carried by its performers. Besides the excellent main cast mentioned above, James Noble is also endearing as Prince Henry's supportive, down-to-earth father King Rupert, as are the rest of the minor roles with their touches of comedy, while Joseph Maher's British-accented voiceover narration sets the perfect tone of wryness and elegance.

This Cinderella might not be as flashy as other versions, but all the same, it's a classic childhood memory for many of us, and its warm, witty tone makes it just as enjoyable for adults, if not more so. The entire Faerie Tale Theatre series is one that I'm very glad to have grown up with.

@ariel-seagull-wings, @superkingofpriderock

#cinderella #cinderella september through november #fairy tale #faerie tale theatre #1985 #tv series #episode

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duggardata · 4 years

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Who, Exactly, Does Duggar Data Track?

Y’all may have noticed... There have been a lot of changes around here, lately! I’ve added so many new families to the Predictor that I’m thinking it might be a little difficult to keep track. Just so we are all on the same page, here is the full list of Predictor Families / Couples—i.e., those whose information is fully–input into my spreadsheets, allowing for instant analysis via the Predictor.

(Note—Couples that overlap two Predictor Families are italicized.)

The Duggar Family

Jim Bob + Michelle (Ruark) Duggar’s 19 Children, including 9 Married Couples—

Josh + Anna (Keller) Duggar

John + Abbie (Burnett) Duggar

Jill (Duggar) + Derick Dillard

Jessa (Duggar) + Ben Seewald

Jinger (Duggar) + Jeremy Vuolo

Joe + Kendra (Caldwell) Duggar

Josiah + Lauren (Swanson) Duggar

Joy (Duggar) + Austin Forsyth

Justin + Claire (Spivey) Duggar

... and 10 Non–Partnered Children—Jana, Jedidiah, Jeremiah, Jason, James, Jackson, Johannah, Jennifer, Jordyn, and Josie).

The Bates Family

Gil + Kelly Jo’s 19 Children, including 7 Married Couples—

Zach + Whitney (Perkins) Bates

Michaela (Bates) + Brandon Keilen

Erin (Bates) + Chad Paine

Alyssa (Bates) + John Webster

Tori (Bates) + Bobby Smith

Carlin (Bates) + Evan Stewart

Josie (Bates) + Kelton Balka

... 3 Not–Married–So–Far Couples (Lawson Bates + Tiffany Espensen, Nathan Bates + Esther Keyes, and Katie Bates + Travis Clark), and 9 Non–Partnered Children—Trace, Jackson, Warden, Isaiah, Addee, Ellie, Callie, Judson, and Jeb.

The Bontrager Family

Marlin + Becky’s 10 Children, including 5 Married Couples—

Chelsy (Bontrager) + John Maxwell

Mitchell + Bryn (Leppert) Bontrager

Allison (Bontrager) + Jeremiah Helferich

Carson + Carolina (Bowers) Bontrager

Joshua + Cassidy (Bowers) Bontrager

... 1 Engaged Couple (Denver Bontrager + Praise Helferich), and 4 Non–Partnered Children—Taylor, Liz, Hudson, and Rebecca.

The Caldwell Family

Paul + Christina Caldwell’s 8 Children (+1 On The Way), including 1 Married Couple—

Kendra (Caldwell) + Joe Duggar

... 1 Engaged–But–Probably–Broken–Up Couple (Lauren Caldwell + Titus Hall), 6 Non–Partnered Children (Micah, Nathan, Timothy, Olivia, Jesiah, and Isaiah), and 1 Still In–Utero.

The Keller Family

Half of Mike + Suzette Kellers’ Children. Just the quiverfull ones, comprised of 4 Married Couples—

Esther (Keller) + John Shrader

Priscilla (Keller) + David Waller

Anna (Keller) + Josh Duggar

Nathan + Nurie (Rodrigues) Keller

The Maxwell Family

Steve + Teri’s 8 Children, including 5 Married Couples—

Nathan + Melanie (Maher) Maxwell

Christopher + Anna Marie (Hamilton) Maxwell

Joseph + Elissa (Frost) Maxwell

John + Chelsy (Bontrager) Maxwell

Jesse + Anna (Craig) Maxwell

... plus, 3 Non–Partnered Children / Daughters—Sarah, Anna, and Mary.

The Rodrigues Family

Jill + David’s 13 Children, including 1 Married Couple—

Nurie (Rodrigues) + Nathan Keller

... and, 12 Non–Partnered Children—Timothy, Kaylee, Renée, Phillip, Samuel, Gabriel, Tessie, Hannah, Olivia, Sadie, Sofia, and Janessa.

Miscellaneous Couples

... and why they’re notable—

Karissa (Goering) + Mandrae Collins (Prolific Instagrammer)

Sierra (Baird) + Mark Dominguez (Counting On; Friends of the Duggars)

Courtney (Harkins) + Christopher Rogers (Prolific Instagrammer)

Kristen + Justin Young (Counting On; Friends of the Duggars)

Also, I’ve decided to stop tracking Bethany (Baird) + David Beal... Honestly, I just find her so annoying, I can’t handle following her Instagram anymore. I’m not planning to follow any of the Girl Defined girls, I find them insufferable.

Duggar Data also casually follows several others—e.g., Amy (Duggar) + Dillon King, Sue + Noel Radford, the Kody Brown Family, and a few of the Predictor In–Laws (e.g., Dan + Deena Dillard and Meagan [Forsyth] + Bobby Ballinger).

#predictor

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olympianpandback · 3 years

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My cousin Melissa not able to come back on Monday to talk more about the family because her youngest daughter got sick and it turned out she had appendicitis. Everything is OK but we were sorry we didn't get to visit with her some more. That afternoon our neighbors in the campground behind us came home with a smoker grill. I asked if he needed any unloading it, but they were OK. We watch them put that grill together for the next 2 and a 1/2 hours. They worked really well together, unlike most married couples. After it was over, he asked if I wanted a beer. My initial reaction was no, but then my upbringing kicked in and if someone offers you a beer you take it and we socialized with them for an hour or so. They had just sold their house and bought a fixer upper at quite a discount so there having it remodeled. Russ is a pipeline inspector and he had worked for a Tulsa company for a while but had never been there or met the owners. It turns out his family is from Sicily and we had a lot to talk about. His wife Sandra is retired Special ED teacher at a junior college . We had a really good visit for a couple of hours before they had to make dinner and get ready for work the next day. We tried to find 2 batteries for the RV at Sam's Club but they only had one so we headed for Rocklin to visit that evening with Allison and her friend/fiancé’ Andre. We didn't know what to expect, but it was a warm welcoming. They had ordered brisket and barbecue chicken with baked potatoes and some corn bread rolls. It couldn't have been better. They are also members of a local winery so they had some of their own wine that we could try. We spent the next 4 hours reminiscing, recalling visits with her dad and his memorial service, etc. Turns out they had traveled to New Zealand on the North island. When I said I had jumped out an airplane in Australia Allison said she had done the same thing recently. She is a nurse at a urgent care center and Andre is a project manager for PGE so he works out of his home. They were both physical fitness buffs and Andre has a wall of medals and certificates from all the half marathons, five-and-ten K races and triathlons he has done. Allison did CrossFit until she tore ACL and her right bicep. I think now they more or less just try to stay in shape. They are really a fun couple and we predict years of happiness for them in the future. They are just moved into their new house a few months before we got there and they have been able to make a lot of the selections for the granite flooring etc. They live in a strict HOA a community and are still awaiting approval for their backyard landscaping even though no one could see it but them. It's a weed patch now.

May 5

We drove to Beale Air Force base by way of Forest Hills bridge, a cantilever bridge that is 730' above the river. It’s the tallest bridge in California and either the 3rd or 4th highest bridge above the river in United States. I just had to go see it. When we got to the Air Force Base we had to get a visitor's pass versus just going on base like we have been doing. They were very friendly and helped us get it done as quickly as possible. We thought we only had one night with full hookups and one night dry camping, but as luck would have it the person who was coming in on the 6th cancelled so we got to spend 2 nights in a regular campsite. It's nice with a lot of families living here who probably work on base.

May 6

It is very warm 91 yesterday and a high of 86 today. There is a good breeze and the AC is working. Not sure where we will head tomorrow because a lot of the national parks we want to see and some have roads still blocked by snow pack. Again, we won't get to see everything we thought we would on this trip. It's better than nothing though.

My freezer hinge repair didn't hold up so I had to find a piece of sheet metal to repair the hinge today. Luckily, I found a guy who thought Outside the Box. The auto repair shop Lady said I would have to go to the Body repair shop to get a piece of metal, but this young gentleman said we have a scrap metal box outback. He said let's go look there and the 1st thing I saw was an old fluorescent light fixture that had “tab” on it that was exactly what I needed. He got some tin snips and we fashioned a piece to match the paper model I had. I predict he will go far wherever he works. The part worked perfectly and we think our hinge will work well enough to get us back home. One of our neighbors stopped to talk. She and her family had just arrived a week ago from Madrid. Her husband is a fighter pilot and they have 2 young children 2 and 5. We had a nice conversation with Jennifer. Their background is farming from Illinois, around Springfield. She said you probably don't know where that is. It’s just where my ex-wife was born. We had a nice talk and they are living in the RV waiting for housing on the base. More to follow in a few days.

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atlanticcanada · 4 years

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Racist graffiti in Windsor shows there is still much teaching -- and learning -- to do

Rural Nova Scotia is known for its welcoming signs, but on the road into Windsor, two are missing.

They were sprayed with racist and profane graffiti sometime over the long weekend.

The "n-word" was scrawled on at least one, but it was removed quickly by the municipality on Tuesday.

"The damage is already done," said Sharmay Beals-Wentzell, who along with her daughter Shartelle Lyon is an organizer behind the local Black Lives Matter movement.

For them, it's a sign their work, must continue

"To me, there's no such thing as using it as 'just a kid' or someone who doesn't know any better," Lyon said. "You know better."

Beals-Wentzell says it feels likewe take two steps forward, and then take four steps back.

Windsor isn't only community to have to deal with racist graffiti. Police are investigating incidents in Dartmouth and New Glasgow last month.

RCMP in Windsor are investigating, but refused CTV's request for an interview.

Municipal officials say staff are working on fixing or replacing the signs, which could cost the municipality up to $1,000.

Residents say what happened doesn't reflect who they are.

"It's disgraceful," said resident Tom Courtney.

Jennifer Daniels owns a flower shop just a few blocks away and was a municipal councilor for nine years.

"You want to make the community look inviting, and welcoming," Daniels said."It's embarrassing; it doesn't represent this community at all."

Another business owner echoes those sentiments.

"You know, I'm from Lebanon, and you know people are wonderful," said Mary Ruffell."Basically 99.99 per cent are wonderful."

Abraham Zebian is the mayor of the Municipality of West Hants.

"The actions of a few by no means speak for the entire municipality," Zebian said. "We are taking steps to correct that, and it's going to be a process, but we're 100 per cent committed."

Beals-Wentzell says they aren't giving up their efforts to eliminate racism in their community and beyond.

"We just want people to know that we matter, we really do matter, and we want people to understand that we matter," she said.

from CTV News - Atlantic https://ift.tt/2FqTznS

#new brunswick #prince edward island #nova scotia #news #politics #canada #CTVAtlantic

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chiseler · 4 years

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Eve Arden: She Knew All the Answers

“When men get around me, they get allergic to wedding rings,” says Eve Arden’s Ida in Mildred Pierce (1945), a film that won Arden her only Academy Award nomination. Ida is a good egg, a steady, loyal friend to Joan Crawford’s Mildred. “You know, big sister type,” she says, in that inimitably sardonic, wised-up, swooping voice of hers, as she pours herself a stiff drink. “Good old Ida, you can talk it over with her man to man,” she says, of those men who treat her as if she isn’t a woman. Ida says that men are “stinkers” and “heels,” but she doesn’t sound all that mad about it. There isn’t a trace of self-pity in her tone, either. Arden never asks for sympathy. In fact, she never asks for anything. Some things seem to confuse, or bemuse, her on screen, but she was usually just playing that for laughs.

Born Eunice Quedens in 1908 in Mill Valley, California, she was a child of divorce raised mainly by her mother, who encouraged her to drop out of high school and go on the stage. She toured with a stock company and made her film debut in Song of Love (1929), a creaky musical where she played a romantic rival to the heroine. She went back to the stage, only making a brief, uncredited appearance in the Joan Crawford vehicle Dancing Lady (1933) as a blond actress who gets fired when she objects to her treatment in rehearsal. She speaks in a thick Southern accent but then drops it: “I told you that Southern accent would sound phony!” she tells her agent in her own voice. There could be no such artifice for her. Even when she later did Russian and French accents on screen, they were burlesque routines and not meant to be taken seriously.

Statuesque at 5 foot 8 inches, she joined the Ziegfeld Follies in 1934 and was encouraged to change her name. Spotting a perfume bottle in her dressing room with the name Evening in Paris and a cosmetics bottle labeled Elizabeth Arden, she came up with her new name: Eve Arden. There were a few more years on stage before she returned to the movies in 1937 to play a girl called Eve in Gregory La Cava’s Stage Door. If that movie makes a religion of wisecracking, then Arden is its high priestess, lounging around the Footlights Club for out-of-work actresses with a white cat named Henry draped around her shoulders like a stole.

Eve has lines under her eyes and looks a little tired; she always seems to be reclining. She’s mainly an audience for the other girls, waiting out their carbonated and inventive complaining until the moment when she can add her own topper and make the whole place explode with laughter. “There’s no such thing as a fifty dollar bill,” she insists, and of all the girls she gives Katharine Hepburn’s society dilettante the hardest time. “Is it against the rules of the house to discuss the classics?” asks Hepburn, to which Arden replies, “No-o-o, go right ahead…I won’t take my sleeping pill tonight.”

I’ve seen Stage Door countless times, and so I know what Arden will say and when she will say it and how, but when I try to re-create some of her line readings by saying them out loud, I am unable to get them right. I think it’s because she weights every single word heavily as her reading goes playfully up and down the vocal scale but her overall delivery is still somehow airy, both throbbing with thick sarcasm and strangely light. “Olga wants peace, peace at any price!” cries one of the girls, to which Arden sharply cracks, “Well, you can’t have peace without a war.” That “war” comes out as “wa-a-er,” as if she likes to pick one word to spread her thickest sarcasm over.

When Hepburn asks her what she’s done in the theater, Arden says, “Everything but burst out of a pie at a Rotarian banquet,” a weird line, but one that Arden plays against with her facial expression. She seems to be signaling that Eve has done things like that, but she’s too tired now for chorus girl hanky-panky with jerky businessmen. “Never heard of him,” she says, when Hamlet gets mentioned. “Oh certainly you must have heard of Hamlet,” says a dim Southern girl, to which Arden replies, “Well, I meet so many people,” in a “nice,” polite, nearly ghostly fashion. It’s a profound kind of wisecrack in the very original way that Arden delivers it. She was capable of hitting a pure note of comic exhaustion, like a faded memory of a past life that does not touch her anymore.

Arden never signed to one studio for long, and she made a surprising number of poverty row and independent productions in the 1940s and early ‘50s. She wrestled with Groucho Marx in At the Circus (1939), meeting his aggression with her own, but she often found herself dead last in the cast list. In a bit in Raoul Walsh’s Manpower (1941), the 33-year-old Arden says to pal Marlene Dietrich, “I’m 25, look 35 and feel 50,” and this pitiless line got at something essential about Arden, because there isn’t much difference between her at age 30 or 50 or 70. Her type stays the same no matter what her age, a woman who is past it all and unimpressed and just making the best of things.

Weary of typecasting as sarcastic secretaries and good sports, Arden returned to the stage for a bit but soon went back to support glamour girls like Rita Hayworth in Cover Girl (1944) and Ava Gardner in One Touch of Venus (1948), which is really a film about Arden and her deepening existential dilemma as she looks at gorgeous Ava and looks at herself and wonders, “Why am I me, and why is she that?” Arden flirted with prettiness whenever she opened her blue eyes wide, but she usually did this only for parody purposes. She seems uncomfortable as a promiscuous actress in The Voice of the Turtle(1947), as if she knew that her natural role on screen was to patiently listen to the Joan Crawford’s of this world and gently mock their emotional grandiloquence from the sidelines.

After years of playing support, Arden finally won a star vehicle of her own, first on radio and then on television, as schoolteacher Connie Brooks in Our Miss Brooks, which ran through most of the 1950s. Arden was consistently, tirelessly inventive in that long-running series, mastering the art and timing of situation comedy and providing a template for later players. In the twenty or so minutes of each Our Miss Brooks episode, Arden generally manages to get at least three to four laughs. The writing for that show was usually good or at least serviceable, and if it was ever a little less than that, Arden would still find her laughs in between the lines with little looks and reactions of distaste, disgust or dismayed confusion. She could get a laugh just by smoothing down her skirt, or wincing slightly.

She returned to the screen in Otto Preminger’s Anatomy of a Murder (1959), wearing some grey in her hair as James Stewart’s loyal, kindly and largely unpaid secretary, a woman who will pour some more coffee for you in the middle of the night. It might do to say that Arden’s film characters are stoic or resigned, but that’s not quite it. There’s something else about them, something unclear but suggestive. There’s something even a little mysterious and unplaceable about Eve Arden on screen, as if she isn’t giving too much of herself away for us. She does her job, like her characters do, and we get to enjoy the sound of her helplessly skeptical voice, which enlivened many movies less classic than Stage Door, Mildred Pierce and Anatomy of a Murder, but we don’t ever really get the real her and how she actually feels. She and her characters have retreated somewhere private where they cannot be reached. Maybe that’s why she had such a long career, because audiences always wanted more of her.

She appeared on television a lot as an older woman, dryly reacting to the wacky Kaye Ballard in another series, The Mothers-In-Law, and matching her sour comic timing with Bea Arthur in an episode of Maude. She was still at school as the principal in Grease ( 1978), as if Connie Brooks had climbed up the ladder but still had to put up with inane students and low-level jokes. One of her last credits was as the Wicked Stepmother in Cinderella for Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theatre series in 1985. Rather satisfyingly, the 77-year-old Arden is asked to gloat over treating the pretty young Jennifer Beals “like dirt” because she and her daughters have not been as well-favored by dissembling nature.

Arden married twice, the second time happily to actor Brooks West, and she raised four children, three of whom were adopted. After her death in 1990, her long-time publicist and manager Glenn Rose said, “She kept being cast as this sarcastic, acid-tongued lady with the quick retort and put-down. In real life, Eve would have never put anyone down. She wasn’t that kind of person.“

by Dan Callahan

#Dan Callahan #Evre Arden #The Chiseler

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chriscdcase95 · 4 years

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Chapter Three of Love’s Sacrifice is up.

Sorry I couldn't get to it fast enough. Had a family tragedy recently, mixed with my work on other crossover work on Unlife is Strange; which mixes Life is Strange, Vampy and indirectly, Until Dawn. I recommend checking that story out as well. The first four chapters are up, but I’ll share them when Chapter Five is up.

Speaking of indirect crossovers, I should probably note that while this story includes a sort of indirect crossover with Ginger Snaps, I am planning a proper Ginger Snaps story, that will also be a crossover with The Craft and Jennifer's Body. It may end up being a prequel to this one, but it's still in the planning stages.

Summary for Love’s Sacrifices.

Carmilla Karnstein and Laura Hollis are trying for a baby, and find themselves in need of a surrogate. Through mutual friends of theirs, they are introduced to Chloe Beale, who has joined a polyamorous relationship with Beca Mitchell, Aubrey Posen and Stacie Conrad. Due to help raising Stacie's daughter Bella, Chloe wants to know what it's like carrying a baby to term, and agrees to be a surrogate for Carm and Laura, to the great concern of Beca, who due to a past incident, is cautious when it comes to vampires. For nine months, Carmilla and Laura must stay by Chloe's side, and help raise Bella as well to prepare for parenthood. As if a risky pregnancy for a damphir baby wasn't enough, yet another instance of Carmilla's past comes back to haunt her, and threatens all she knows and loves.

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thesustainableswap · 4 years

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BLM Master Post / Resources

No blog post this week. I felt like this was much more important. Here is a master post of everything I’ve found regarding the BLM movement, from petitions, to where you should donate, to reading, to accounts, to business... hopefully most of what you’re looking for can be found below. If I’ve missed anything vital please let me know and I will add it.

Petitions:

Justice for George Floyd (White House) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (change.org) | Justice for George Floyd (color of Change)

RAISE THE DEGREE - Remove bail for Derek Chauvin, murderer of George Floyd (White House) | Arrest The Other Three (White House) | Raise The Degree (change.org) | The Minneapolis Police Officers to be charged for murder (change.org)

#JusticeforBre (MoveOn.org) | #JusticeforBre (color of Change)

Justice For Ahmaud Arbery (change.org) | Justice for Ahmaud Arbery- Pass Georgia Hate Crime Bill (change.org) | Disbarment of George E. Barnhill (change.org)

Trayvon Martin Law (change.org)

Hands Up Act (change.org)

Justice for Belly Mujinga (change.org)

Justice for Tony McDade (change.org)

Justice for Alejandro Vargas Martinez (change.org)

Justice for Regis Korchinski-Paquet (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Julius Jones is innocent (change.org)

Wrongful Conviction: Kyjuanzi Harris (change.org)

Willie Simmons has served 38 years for a $9 robbery (change.org)

Defund The Police Minneapolis (Every Action / Reclaim The Block) | Mandatory Life Sentence for Police Brutality (change.org) | National Action Against Police Brutality (change.org) | Against Police Brutality in France (change.org)

Demand Racial Data on Coronavirus (BLM) | Coronavirus: Demand More from the Government (BLM)

Get Schools to Speak Up (change.org)

Stand with BLM (organizefor.org)

Organisations to Donate to

George Floyd Memorial Fund

Minnesota Freedom Fund

Black Visions Collective

Reclaim the Block

Campaign Zero

Black Lives Matter

UKBLM

National Bailout Fund

Black Earth Farms

Communities United Against Police Brutality

Unicorn Riot

Louisville Community Bail Fund

Rebuilding the Community (We Love Lake Street)

United Families and Friends Campaign

COVID-19: Supporting BAME Communities

House of GG

Trans Justice Funding Project

The Okra Project

Youth Breakout

SNaPCo

Black AIDS Insitute

Trans Cultural District

LGBTQ+ Freedom Fund

For If You Have Little Money to Spare:

Check out these YouTube videos and play them while you go about your day (or actively watch! Up to you.) The ad revenue will be donated to organisations supporting black lives - but make sure you turn off your adblocker first.

By Zoe Amira

By Francesca Grace

By Cindy Marshall

By Danni and Emmyn

Instagram Accounts (source)

Nova Reid

Layla Saad

Rachel Cargle

Check Your Privilege

Rachel Ricketts

The Great Unlearn

Reni Eddo Lodge

Ibram X. Kendi

Galdem

The Irin Journal

Women Who

For Working Ladies

Thyself

Black Girl Fest

UK isn’t Innocent

Readbyrachelaa

Mikaela Loach

Podcasts

About Race with Remi Eddo-Lodge

Conversations with Nova Reid

iWeigh with Jameela Jamil

The YIKES podcast

Have You Heard George’s Podcast?

The World Wide Tribe

Zero Hour Talks

1619 by the New York Times

TV / Film (source)

13th

When They See Us

Selma

The Black Power Mixtape 1967 - 1975

I Am Not Your Negro

The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution

If Beale Street Could Talk

The Hate U Give

American Son

Trial by Media

Books: (Source)

How To Be Anti Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

Me and White Supremacy by Robin Diangelo and Layla Saad

Why I’m No Longer Talking To White People About Race by Remi Eddo-Lodge

So You Want To Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

Minor Feelings by Cathy Park Hong

America’s Original Sin By Jim Wallis and Bryan Stevenson

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

Blindspot by Mahzarin R. Banaji & Anthony G. Greenwald

Good Talk by Mira Jacob

Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

How Does It Feel To Be A Problem by Moustafa Bayoumi

The Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward

White Fragility by Robin Diangelo

I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

When They Call You A Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors, Asha Bandele, et al.

An African American and Latin History of The United States by Paul Ortiz

Citizen by Claudia Rankine

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of The United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Mindful of Race by Ruth King

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Tears We Cannot Stop by Michael Eric Dyson

Stamped From The Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi

Have Black Lives Ever Mattered? By Mumia Abu-Jamal

The Coloraturas of Law by Richard Rothstein

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Why Are All The Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? By Beverly Daniel Tatum

Stamped by Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi

This Book Is Anti Racist by Tiffany Jewell and Aurelia Durand

Brit(ish) by Afua Hirsch

Children’s Books: (Source)

Malcolm Little by Ilyasah Shabazz

Let It Shine: Stories of Black Women Freedom Fighters by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child’s Story About Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano, Marietta Collins and Ann Hazzard

My Hair Is A Garden by Cozbi A. Cabrera

Separate Is Never Equal by Duncan Tonatiuh

Young Water Protectors by Aslan Tudor

My Family Divided by Diana Guerrero

We Are Grateful by Traci Sorell

I Am Not A Number by Jenny Kay Dupuis and Kathy Kacer

Schomburg: The Man Who Built A Library by Carole Boston Weatherford

Lailah’s Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi

The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson

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When Harriet Tubman Led Her People To Freedom by Carole Boston Weatherford

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Us, February 17

Cover: Inside Scientology’s trial of the century

Page 2: Red Carpet -- hip-side sash -- Camila Cabello, Rosalia, Renee Zellweger, Laura Carmichael, Yara Shahidi, Scarlett Johansson

Page 4: Who Wore It Best? Elle Fanning vs. Amber Valletta, Keltie Knight vs. Jeannie Mai

Page 6: Loose Talk -- Kumail Nanjiani, Kiernan Shipka, Kristen Bell

Page 8: Contents

Page 10: Hot Pics -- Super Bowl -- Shakira and Jennifer Lopez perform at the halftime show, J.Lo’s daughter Emme

Page 11: Kansas City Chiefs quarterback and MVP Patrick Mahomes, Jay-Z and daughter Blue, Alex Rodriguez and daughter Natasha, Cardi B and Bruce Beal, Demi Lovato

Page 12: Duchess Kate Middleton visits Stockwell Gardens Nursery, Justin and Hailey Bieber

Page 13: Former cheerleader Kendall Jenner shows off her moves with the stars of the Netflix hit docuseries Cheer on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Charlize Theron at the Costume Designers Guild Awards, Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas head to the Ivy in London

Page 14: At the Oscar Nominees Luncheon Cynthia Erivo chatted with Brad Pitt and Renee Zellweger, Aly Raisman and her fellow #AerieReal Role Models Beanie Feldstein and Lana Condor, Margot Robbie and Jurnee Smollett-Bell embrace in Mexico City

Page 16: Blake Lively wears six outfits in less than 48 hours to promote The Rhythm Section

Page 18: A-listers hit the slopes -- Gwyneth Paltrow and Brad Falchuk in Aspen, Sydney Sweeney in Sandpoint, Kate Hudson and Danny Fujikawa in Switzerland

Page 19: Shawn Johnson in Park City, Kevin Hart and wife Eniko and kids Kenzo and Hendrix and Heaven in Aspen, Cassie Randolph and Colton Underwood in Denver, Chelsea Handler and her assistant Brandon

Page 20: Stars They’re Just Like Us -- Jenny McCarthy shovels show outside her house in Chicago, Mark Wahlberg hits the gym

Page 21: Dove Cameron helps with beach cleanup, Duchess Camilla learns how to restore furniture

Page 22: Billie Lourd and Margaret Qualley at the Casting Society of America’s Artois Awards, Lizzo at the Sirius XM and Pandora Opening Drive Super Concert Series in Miami

Page 23: Sundance Film Festival -- Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus promote their film Downhill, Kajillionaire’s Evan Rachel Wood and Gina Rodriguez and Richard Jenkins, director Dee Rees with Anne Hathaway and Rosie Perez of the film The Last Thing She Wanted

Page 24: Carlin and Evan Stewart show off newborn daughter Layla Rae, Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Page 25: BAFTA Awards -- Prince William and Duchess Kate, Kate Middleton meets Hildur Gounadottir and Laura Dern, Renee Zellweger and Joaquin Phoenix, Emilia Clarke, Elizabeth Banks is Hasty Pudding’s woman of the year

Page 26: Love Lives: A little more than a year into their marriage Priyanka Chopra and Nick Jonas are as starry-eyed as ever

Page 27: Deborra-Lee Furness says husband Hugh Jackman is funny but not as funny as she is, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach are competitors at this year’s Oscars but Noah says they’re purely supportive, after a brief split Channing Tatum and Jessie J are stronger than ever

Page 28: Hollywood Moms -- The Bachelor’s Catherine Giudici on kids Samuel and Isaiah and Mia

Page 29: Sienna Miller’s daughter Marlowe loves going to the set with mom, unless she’s filming with other kids, B.J. Novak is a great babysitter for Mindy Kaling and daughter Katherine, June Diane Raphael and her husband Paul Scheer aren’t committed to their sons’ genders

Page 30: Hot Hollywood -- Lady Gaga’s new man is Michael Polanski

Page 31: Meghan Markle’s dad has badmouthed her and she and Prince Harry are on the outs with the royal family since fleeing the kingdom with son Archie so that leaves one relative in the couple’s inner circle -- Meghan’s mom Doria Ragland, except they’re not really all that close, Nick Lachey is not a fan of Jessica Simpson’s memoir, VIP Scene -- Jaime King (pictured), 2 Chainz, Jennifer Beals, Paul McCartney and Rande Gerber, The Rock, Paris Hilton, Blair Underwood, Demi Lovato, Swae Lee

Page 32: Orlando Bloom’s ex Miranda Kerr and fiance Katy Perry actually like each other, Katy and Orlando will wed in April

Page 34: What’s in my Bag? Jamie-Lynn Sigler

Page 36: Cover Story -- Scientology scandal trial and error -- inside the court case that could finally bring down the controversial church

Page 40: Lori Loughlin’s desperate plea -- in a last-ditch effort to stay out of prison, the disgraced actress goes on the offensive

Page 42: Jesse Tyler Ferguson -- the new host of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition on life after Modern Family

Page 50: Oscar Stars’ Evolution -- Scarlett Johansson, Cynthia Erivo, Renee Zellweger

Page 52: Us Musts -- Fran Drescher is back with a new sitcom and a Broadway show

Page 54: Jeff Probst on Survivor: Winners at War

Page 55: Sundance Film Festival

Page 58: Fashion Police -- Retta, Alessandra Ambrosio, Rachel Brosnahan

Page 59: Robert Downey Jr., Tove Lo, Emma Mackey

Page 60: 25 Things You Don’t Know About Me -- Hector Elizondo

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books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèlí Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums - P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

Tentacle - Rita Indiana

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko

The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way

Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala

Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

Polite Society - Mahesh Rao

Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay

The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan

A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Travelers - Helon Habila

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila

Brood - Kimiko Hahn

Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi

Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal

Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara

Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki

Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson

Slay - Britney Morris

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee

North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong

The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai

Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett

Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok

Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir

Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang

It - Stephen King

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi

Bunny - Mona Awad

The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib

Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Last Day - Domenica Ruta

Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor

The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib

Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas

Crier’s War - Nina Varela

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Supper Club - Lara Williams

#books #2019 #my lists #year in books

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hey ! do you have fc suggestions of who could play an older version of laura harrier and a fc for her daughter or son (late teens, early twenties) ?

for an older version of laura harrier, i could see either jennifer beals (56), halle berry (53), or gugu mbatha raw (37) working! for her daughter, i could see zendaya (23) or madison pettis (21). for the son, i could see justice smith (24). hope this helps!

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'The L Word: Generation Q' Review: One Small Step for Queer-kind - Rolling Stone

When The L Word first hit the airwaves in 2004, there was nothing else like it on TV. It was a show that didn’t just prominently feature queer women — it put them front and center, earning itself a devoted fanbase who were seeing themselves writ large on the small screen for the first time ever.

Well, something like themselves, at least. The characters on the Showtime series inhabited a soap-operatic bubble of West Hollywood full of big romances and bigger betrayals. They were almost entirely white, affluent, and oriented on the femme end of the lesbian spectrum. And the show could be ham-fisted and sometimes downright offensive in its portrayal of transgender and bisexual characters. Still, for countless queer and lesbian women coming of age in the aughts and beyond, Ilene Chaiken’s groundbreaking drama was a major touchstone.

In the 10 years since the series’ finale episode, a great deal has changed for the LGBTQ world, from increased mainstream visibility to deeper conversations within the community itself. Enter The L Word: Generation Q, a reboot that picks up where the first series left off, and makes a valiant effort to atone for some of the original’s shortfalls. Helmed by new showrunner Marja Lewis-Ryan (though Chaiken is still involved as an executive producer), Generation Q catches up with three of the main players from the original series while also introducing a handful of new twentysomething characters.

The members of the old gang are now middle-aged and established in life, but as romantically fraught as ever. Bette (Jennifer Beals) is running to be the first lesbian mayor of Los Angeles while raising her teenage daughter Angie (Jordan Hull) and dealing with an infidelity scandal that threatens to topple her campaign; Alice (Leisha Haley) is now the host of an Ellen-esque talk show and struggling to connect with her girlfriend Natalie’s (Stephanie Allynne) ex-wife Gigi (Sepideh Moafi of The Deuce) and their two kids; and Shane (Katherine Moennig), the original series’ resident heartbreaker, has returned to L.A. after a long time away while in the throes of a wrenching divorce.

Then there’s the proverbial Generation Q, which, true to the new series’ stated purpose, represents a vastly more diverse array of human beings. Among the millennial set are Dominican-American Sophie (Rosanny Zayas), who works behind the scenes on Alice’s talk show; her Chilean-Iranian girlfriend, Dani (Arienne Mandi), who does PR for her father’s pharmaceutical company; and their roommate Micah (Leo Sheng), a Chinese-American trans man who’s navigating the dating app scene. (Lizzo’s “Better in Color,” fittingly, plays over the pilot’s opening titles.) Finley (Jaqueline Toboni), a production assistant on Alice, appears to be the lone white person in the group.

As in the first series, the characters populate an insular micro-L.A. where everyone is connected via an elaborate web of coworkers, roommates, lovers, and hookups. Shane becomes Finley’s ad hoc landlord and reluctant mentor, and Dani quickly gets involved in Bette’s mayoral campaign. When the larger world does encroach, it’s often in a threatening way: male television execs who want to make Alice’s show more easily digestible for a mainstream (read: straight) audience; Dani’s father (Carlos Leal), who views his daughter’s same-sex relationship as merely a phase; the angry husband of Bette’s paramour, who publicly confronts the candidate at a press conference.

Generation Q packs a whole lot — probably too much — into its first three episodes, touching on a laundry list of issues ranging from the interpersonal (divorce, parenting, online dating) to big-picture talking points (religion, teen homelessness, the opioid epidemic). And particularly in the overstuffed pilot, the show can take on the artificial sheen of an after-school special, dutifully name-checking every capital-I Issue it can, and virtue-signaling to an exhaustive degree. (In one particularly awkward moment, the line “Rings are just a symbol of the patriarchy!” gets blurted out in the middle of a marriage proposal.) Part of what made the original series fun was its unabashed soapiness; and, at least in its early episodes, Generation Q gets bogged down in its efforts to make sure it’s saying all the right things.

But if that all sounds like way too much, consider that Lewis-Ryan’s series carries a whole lot of weight on its shoulders. Because, even though a lot more TV shows now feature queer female characters than was the case a decade ago, series in which their experiences, or indeed the community itself, are centered are still rare. Still, in the age of shows like Vida, Pose, and Orange Is the New Black, to name a few, Generation Q is less alone in the television landscape than its predecessor was.

And there’s plenty it gets right. Generation Q features a lot of aspects of the queer female experience that The L Word shied away from. For one, physical realities like armpit hair and period blood make their way into sex scenes in a way they never did in the original series. What’s more, people of color and transgender characters (played by actual trans people) are notably centered in a way that feels organic to contemporary L.A. And even though some of the dialogue is stilted, there’s usually enough chemistry, both platonic and romantic, to make up for the script’s shortfalls. (In a particularly sweet scene in which Micah is dealing with the fallout of dating drama, Sophie tells him, “It’s OK to be hurt, and it’s OK to fuck somebody.”)

Perhaps the show’s most interesting and relevant thread concerns a onetime gay bar that has since become a sports bar, to L.A. expat Shane’s dismay. She points out the total lack of lesbian bars in the city, which is true to life; L.A. currently has zero lesbian bars, an alarming fact brought to attention by a pop-up cocktail spot a few months ago. A side effect of society becoming increasingly accepting of LGBTQ people is that dedicated queer spaces are vanishing, particularly those for women — an issue explored in Alexis Clements’s recent documentary, All We’ve Got.

The story of reclaiming the lesbian bar is a potent metaphor for the world The L Word finds itself in today. The struggles in Generation Q are different than the struggles in the original. No one is in the closet, same-sex couples can legally get married in the United States (they had to travel to Canada in the old series), and the characters are all well-versed in the language of the LGBTQ spectrum. But in an age of greater integration and acceptance, there’s still a lot to be said for carving out an exclusive space on television for queer women and trans people. Generation Q might not necessarily be breaking new ground, but it is staking a claim.

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When fiction feels real. Two books by Taylor Jenkins Reid

Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid

My rating: 5 of 5 stars

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Review by: @jennym91 View all my reviews

I felt like lumping these two together because they have several things in common: (1) they are both written by Taylor Jenkins Reid, (2) an interviewer is driving the story along either in front of or behind the scenes, (3) L.A. is an important scene in both, (4) I totally thought both where nonfiction, and (5) their portrayal of women is interesting and diverse.

Why rate Daisy & the Six higher than the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo? I liked the characters in Daisy Jones & the Six more. Not only were they interesting, relatable, and simultaneously likable and unlikeable. The way we got to experience the characters was unique. What sets Daisy Jones & the Six apart is the writing style. It demands more from the reader, but it also gives more back. One thing that is cool about the interview transcript style is that prompts us to read like a researcher, i.e. constantly question what is true or not.

But I think what ultimately pushed this book over the 4-start edge, was the audiobook performance by the full cast (read by Julia Whelan, Holter Graham, Jennifer Beals, +more). Every voice sounded authentic: full of emotions and personality. I usually don't like full casts audio books because they sound like awkward theater pieces, but this was unlike anything I've heard before.

(small spoilers ahead)

Why did you think that they were nonfiction?

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo is about the legendary Hollywood actress, Evelyn Hugo. She got into showbiz in the 50s and left in the 80s. Since then she has not done any interviews but is now requesting to speak with Monique Grant. Monique is a relatively unknown journalist at Vivant. This interview is a big deal for Monique, it’s her chance to advance her career. But why did Evelyn request to speak with her? Without spoiling anything, let’s just say she gets to learn more about Evelyn Hugo’s past and in the end we get to know the reason why. The first surprise is that Evelyn Hugo was actually born Elena Herrera, the daughter of Cuban immigrants. She had a tough time growing up in Hell’s Kitchen (a neighborhood in New York City). - So at this point in the book, I get invested, Evelyn actually sounds like an interesting person and I’m wondering how this unfortunate girl became a star.

So, I type in Evelyn Hugo in the search bar. The first results I see links to book review. That is not what you expect to see when you have googled a real person! Fortunately, the book is equally enjoyable knowing that Evelyn is fictitious.

But then Taylor Jenkins Reid fools me again with Daisy Jones & the Six. The book is about a rock band in L.A. that was very successful in the 70s. We get to learn the story about how Daisy ended up joining the band, her time in the band, and her split from the band. The band members, Daisy, friends, and others tell the story like it was a documentary. We, the readers, only get to hear the answers to unknown questions. The answers are cut and pasted together in such a way that they make a fluent story. I listened to the audiobook version with a full cast. Every voice sounded authentic: full of emotions and personality. So I thought, hmm, maybe this is real. I know this is written by Reid, but maybe she started writing in a different genre. So I Googled it.

If Taylor Jenkins Reid ever writes a true store I won’t believe it. Fool me three times, no fucking way.

Why was their portrayal of women interesting?

The portrayal was interesting because the characters were complex: it showed us that feminine personalities can come in many different shapes and sizes. It was also a reminder that we still have something to fight for, either it is being able to dress however we want to or to be paid the same as men.

In the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, we have Evelyn and Monique. Monique is 35 years old. Her husband, David, has just left her. She used to write for a small independent newspaper, where she wrote about things that mattered. But she had aspirations. She lands a job at prestigious Vivant. However, there she only gets to write puff pieces. Monique and Evelyn are similar in the way that they both are ambitious. However, Evelyn is ruthless and unapologetic.

In Daisy Jones & the Six we have Daisy, Camila, Karen, and Simone. Daisy Jones is a spoiled rich girl who has always gotten what she wanted, except for her parents' love. Her parents did not even notice when she was gone for two weeks when she was 15 years old. She is outspoken, bold, demanding, and self-involved. However, she is also desperate to be loved. Maybe that's why she becomes a groupie at fourteen. When she was 17, one of the guys she was seeing was writing a song about her. She helped him with some of the lyrics. Daisy did not like being somebody's muse or helping out without getting credit for it. Daisy says that’s why she wanted to be a songwriter.

“I had absolutely no interest in being somebody else's muse. I am not a muse. I am the somebody. End of fucking story.” ― Taylor Jenkins Reid, Daisy Jones & The Six

While Daisy is a hard character to label. Camila is a bit more like the classical stay-at-home mum, and Karen is like ‘one-of-the-guys’. But they do not fit the stereotype perfectly.

The reason I liked the female characters in Daisy Jones & the Six more than the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, is because they were more relatable. Evelyn Hugo felt more like one of a kind. But did I like Daisy more than Evelyn? That’s hard to answer. As a person, I liked Evelyn more than Daisy. Evelyn starts out as a one-dimensional character. As we get to learn more about her we see sides of her that is both likable and unlikable. What I found unlikable about her is that she first and foremost looks out for herself. While Daisy barely looks out for herself, she is similar because she does not seem to consider people around her. Daisy does get redemption in the end. Evelyn does not. Yet, Evelyn is more likable. Why is that? Maybe I like Evelyn because she is strong and I admire that, and I don’t like Daisy because it reminds me of the weakness in myself. Or maybe it is because I have more empathy for Evelyn’s situation and less for Daisy who came up rich. So, why is it that, although I did not like Daisy as much as a person, I liked her as a character? I think it is because Evelyn got to control her story more. While Daisy’s story is told from multiple perspectives. Sometimes Daisy tells us what happened and why. Other times Simone or some of the band members tells us. Since we get to see Daisy from so many perspectives, not only does it add dimensions to her character it adds dimensions to our view of reality. It’s like Evelyn is a 3D movie that we watch without 3D glasses and Daisy is a 3D movie that we watch with 3D glasses.

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