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Footnotes 101 - 188

[101] Toby Rollo, “Feral Children: Settler Colonialism, Progress, and the Figure of the Child,” Settler Colonial Studies (June 2016), 1–20.

[102] Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on the Societies of Control,” October 59 (1992), 3–7.

[103] Institute for Precarious Consciousness, “We Are All Very Anxious,” WeArePlanC.org, April 4, 2014, http://www.weareplanc.org/blog/we-are-all-very-anxious/.

[104] Sitrin, Everyday Revolutions, 37.

[105] Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 12.

[106] Our readings and understandings of Illich’s work, and our understanding of conviviality in particular, is indebted to conversations with friends who either knew Illich personally or worked closely with his ideas, including Gustavo Esteva, Madhu Suri Prakash, Dan Grego, Dana L. Stuchul and Matt Hern.

[107] Quoted in The Invisible Committee, To Our Friends, 232–3.

[108] Marina Sitrin, ed., Horizontalism: Voices of Popular Power in Argentina (Oakland: AK Press, 2006); Sitrin, Everyday Revolutions.

[109] Rebecca Solnit, A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (New York: Penguin Books, 2009), 2.

[110] Idem, 7.

[111] Leanne Simpson, “Dancing the World into Being: A Conversation with Idle No More’s Leanne Simpson,” Yes! Magazine, March 5, 2013, http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/dancing-the-world-into-being-a-conversation-with-idle-no-more-leanne-simpson.

[112] Quoted in Tony Manno, “Unsurrendered,” Yes! Magazine, 2015, http://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=b24e304ce1944493879cba028607dfc7.

[113] INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence, “INCITE! Critical Resistance Statement,” 2001, http://www.incite-national.org/page/incite-critical-resistance-statement.

[114] Rachel Zellars and Naava Smolash, “If Black Women Were Free: Part 1,” Briarpatch, August 16, 2016, http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/if-black-women-were-free.

[115] Victoria Law, “Against Carceral Feminism,” Jacobin, October 17, 2014, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/10/against-carceral-feminism/.

[116] Creative Interventions, “Toolkit,” CreativeInterventions.org, http://www.creative-interventions.org/tools/toolkit/ (accessed December 1, 2016).

[117] Quoted in carla bergman and Corine Brown, Common Notions: Handbook Not Required, 2015.

[118] Gustavo Esteva, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, video, 2012.

[119] Kelsey Cham C., Nick Montgomery, and carla bergman, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery, October 26, 2013.

[120] Marina Sitrin, “Occupy Trust: The Role of Emotion in the New Movements,” Cultural Anthropology (February 2013), https://culanth.org/fieldsights/75-occupy-trust-the-role-of-emotion-in-the-new-movements.

[121] Gustavo Esteva and Madhu Suri Prakash, Grassroots Postmodernism: Remaking the Soil of Cultures (London: Zed Books, 1998), 91.

[122] Day, Gramsci Is Dead, 200.

[123] Zainab Amadahy, Wielding the Force: The Science of Social Justice, Smashwords edition (Zainab Amadahy, 2013), 36.

[124] Esteva and Prakash, Grassroots Postmodernism, 89.

[125] Amadahy, Wielding the Force, 149.

[126] Emma Goldman, “The Hypocrisy of Puritanism,” in Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader, ed. Alix Kates Shulman (Amherst: Humanity Books, 1998), 157.

[127] Chris Dixon, “For the Long Haul,” Briarpatch Magazine, June 21, 2016, http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/for-the-long-haul.

[128] We first encountered the concept of “public secret” as a way of getting at the affect of anxiety today, described by the Institute for Precarious Consciousness. Earlier uses can be traced to the work of Ken Knabb (which credits the concept to Marx) and his curation of Situationist writing, as well as Jean-Pierre Voyer’s reading of Reich. See Institute for Precarious Consciousness, “Movement Internationalism(s),” Interface 6/2; Jean-Pierre Voyer, “Wilhelm Reich: How To Use,” in Public Secrets, trans. Ken Knabb (Bureau of Public Secrets, 1997), http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/reich.htm; Jean-Pierre Voyer to Ken Knabb, “Discretion Is the Better Part of Value,” April 20, 1973, http://www.bopsecrets.org/PS/Reich.add.htm.

[129] This was suggested to us by Richard Day.

[130] brown, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery.

[131] Amador Fernández-Savater, “Reopening the Revolutionary Question,” ROAR Magazine 0 (December 2015).

[132] Federici, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery.

[133] Touza, interview by carla bergman and Nick Montgomery.

[134] Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, ed. Walter Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1989), 32.

[135] Foucault, “Preface.”

[136] Cited in Ashanti Alston, “An Interview with Ashanti Alston,” interview by Team Colours, June 6, 2008, https://inthemiddleofthewhirlwind.wordpress.com/an-interview-with-ashanti-alston/.

[137] Thoburn develops his conception of a “militant diagram” through a reading of Deleuze and Guattari, and we have found it useful in thinking about rigid radicalism as an affective tendency that is irreducible to the gestures, habits, practices, and statements that are simultaneously its fuel and its discharge. See Nicholas Thoburn, “Weatherman, the Militant Diagram, and the Problem of Political Passion,” New Formations 68/1 (2010), 125–42.

[138] Colectivo Situaciones, “Something More on Research Militancy: Footnotes and Procedures and (In)Decisions,” 5.

[139] Thoburn, “Weatherman, the Militant Diagram, and the Problem of Political Passion,” 129; Cathy Wilkerson, Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2007), 265–300.

[140] Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, and Jeff Jones, eds., Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiques of the Weather Underground 1970–1974 (New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006), 18.

[141] Bill Ayers, Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Antiwar Activist (Boston: Beacon Press, 2009), 154.

[142] Esteva, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[143] Thoburn, “Weatherman, the Militant Diagram, and the Problem of Political Passion,” 134.

[144] Esteva, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[145] Sitrin, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[146] Emma Goldman, Living My Life (New York: Dover Publications, 1970), 54.

[147] amory starr, “Grumpywarriorcool: What Makes Our Movements White?,” in Igniting a Revolution: Voices in Defense of the Earth (Oakland: AK Press, 2006), 379.

[148] Idem, 383.

[149] crow, Black Flags and Windmills, 81.

[150] Alston, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[151] Richard J. F. Day, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, phone, March 18, 2014.

[152] Alston, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[153] CrimethInc., “Against Ideology?,” CrimethInc.com, 2010, http://www.crimethinc.com/texts/atoz/ideology.php.

[154] Erich Fromm, Man for Himself: An Inquiry Into the Psychology of Ethics (Oxon: Routledge, 1947), 235.

[155] See Raoul Vaneigem, The Movement of the Free Spirit, trans. Randall Cherry and Ian Patterson, revised edition (New York, Cambridge, MA: Zone Books, 1998); Federici, Caliban and the Witch, 21–60.

[156] Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo, 33.

[157] Idem, 36.

[158] Quoted by Maya Angelou in Malcolm X, Malcolm X: An Historical Reader, ed. James L. Conyers and Andrew P. Smallwood (Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2008), 181.

[159] Kelsey Cham C., “Radical Language in the Mainstream,” Perspectives on Anarchist Theory 29 (2016), 122–3.

[160] Asam Ahmad, “A Note on Call-Out Culture,” Briarpatch, March 2, 2015, http://briarpatchmagazine.com/articles/view/a-note-on-call-out-culture.

[161] Ngọc Loan Trần, “Calling IN: A Less Disposable Way of Holding Each Other Accountable,” Black Girl Dangerous, December 18, 2013, http://www.blackgirldangerous.org/2013/12/calling-less-disposable-way-holding-accountable/.

[162] Ibid.

[163] Chris Crass, “White Supremacy Cannot Have Our People: For a Working Class Orientation at the Heart of White Anti-Racist Organizing,” Medium, July 28, 2016, https://medium.com/@chriscrass/white-supremacy-cannot-have-our-people-21e87d2b268a.

[164] Ibid.

[165] Ursula Le Guin, The Lathe of Heaven (New York: Scribner, 1999), 137.

[166] This section title is borrowed from Eve Sedgwick, from whom we’ve also taken the concept of paranoid reading. See Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, Or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You,” in Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity (Duke University Press, 2003), 124–51.

[167] Killjoy, Interview with Margaret Killjoy.

[168] Sedgwick, “Paranoid Reading and Reparative Reading, Or, You’re so Paranoid, You Probably Think This Essay Is about You.”

[169] Day, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[170] Mik Turje, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, March 4, 2014.

[171] Walidah Imarisha, Angels with Dirty Faces: Three Stories of Crime, Prison, and Redemption (Oakland: AK Press, 2016), 113–15.

[172] Walidah Imarisha, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, email, December 22, 2015.

[173] Federici, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[174] John Holloway, Change the World Without Taking Power: The Meaning of Revolution Today, 2nd Revised Edition (London: Pluto Press, 2005), 215.

[175] Coulthard, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[176] This turn of phrase comes to us from Stevphen Shukaitis’s wonderful book Imaginal Machines: Autonomy & Self-Organization in the Revolutions of Everyday Life (New York: Autonomedia, 2009), 141–2, http://www.minorcompositions.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/ImaginalMachines-web.pdf.

[177] This idea is paraphrased from Lauren Berlant and her conception of “cruel optimism,” a relation in which our attachments become obstacles to our flourishing. See Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism (Durham: Duke University Press, 2011).

[178] Federici, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman.

[179] Zainab Amadahy, interview by Nick Montgomery and carla bergman, January 15, 2016.

[180] Jo Freeman, “Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood,” JoFreeman.com, n.d., http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/trashing.htm.

[181] Marge Piercy, “The Grand Coolie Dam,” (Boston: New England Free Press, 1969).

[182] See Jo Freeman, “The Tyranny of Structurelessness,” Ms. Magazine, July 1973.

[183] Silvia Federici, “Putting Feminism Back on Its Feet,” Social Text 9/10 (1984), 338–46.

[184] See Raúl Zibechi, Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces, trans. Ramor Ryan (Oakland: AK Press, 2010); Zibechi, Territories in Resistance.

[185] Silvia Federici, “Losing the sense that we can do something is the worst thing that can happen,” interview by Candida Hadley, Halifax Media Co-op, November 5, 2013, http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/audio/losing-sense-we-can-do-something-worst-thing-can-h/19601.

{1} BIPOC is an acronym for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. We understand these not as ethnic categories or essentialist identities, but complex political categories forged in struggles against white supremacy and settler colonialism. For instance, the creation of BIPOC-specific spaces or “caucuses” within various struggles has created opportunities for understanding how racism or whiteness is playing out, and how it can be confronted effectively.

{2} ISIL stands for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, often used interchangeably with Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

{3} Note: when we interviewed Silvia Federici, we were still using the phrase “sad militancy” in place of “rigid radicalism.” The original terminology is retained throughout.

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Wild Cards V: Down and Dirty

Editor: George R. R. Martin

Authors: John J. Miller, Roger Zelazny, Leanne C. Harper, Arthur Byron Cover, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Edward Bryant, Stephen Leigh, Pat Cadigan, and Walter Jon Williams

Cover: Michael Komarck

As a gang war breaks out across the Jokertown ghetto, a new mutated version of the wild card virus strikes New York causing more deaths and transformations. Now the local Aces and Jokers find themselves fighting on two fronts just to stay alive. After the globe-trotting escapades of the previous volume, Martin and friends return us to New York and some fan favorite characters. It's great to see the Sleeper, Turtle, Bagabond, and others take the stage again. Like that earlier installment, this is a series of inter-related short stories, this time detailing the events around the gang war. We actually pick up with some characters during the events of the last book before everything moves forward in the timeline. Continuity is becoming a big part of this series now and each story builds on the previous like a literary house of cards. There are a number of stories that are serialized throughout this book, meaning they're kind of broken up in chapters between other stories. We've seen a little of that previously in the series, but this time Martin intertwines three different stories throughout the book. Disappointingly, the gang war story is really more of a background to this overall mosaic. Only a few stories really spotlight that storyline. The good news is the wild card virus outbreak and the escalating political intrigue more than make up for any lack in the gang war story. I found myself more interested in those plotlines as the book went on. There are also some very personal journeys for the Turtle and Dr. Tachyon in this book that really had me looking for the next chapter relating their stories. Most of the stories were very engaging and kept me actively turning pages. I felt Edward Bryant's "The Second Coming of Buddy Holley" was a bit of a weak point for me. Not only did the story not really fit into any of the storylines, but Cordelia Chaisson doesn't seem to make for a great protagonist. This is two books in a row where I hit a bump on stories focusing on her. I didn't think I was going to enjoy "Jesus was an Ace" by Arthur Byron Cover, but it really did give me a great insight into Reverend Leo Barnett. I'm sure there are bigger things in store for that character in future books. Overall, this was a better and more interesting read than the last one. While there was a bit of jumping around between stories, it still kept me interested and wanting to read more. My head was spinning at possibilities and I can't wait to see what the gang has in store for the future! 

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2019 Arkansas Times Academic All-Stars Nominees

Listed by their hometowns. Here are the students nominated to be Academic All-Stars. They are listed by their hometowns as indicated by mailing addresses. ALMA EMILY FOWLER Mulberry High School BAY JACOB HARLEY OSTER Bay High School BEARDEN CASSIDY CLEMENS Bearden High School GARRETT MCWHORTER Bearden High School BEEBE TAYLOR DWAYNE BOYCE Beebe High School JOLEY MARIE MITCHELL Rose Bud High School MARIANNA KERSEY RICHEY Beebe High School BEE BRANCH ANDREA DE TOUR Arkansas Virtual Academy High School BENTON JULIANNA DEMI SORVILLO Bauxite High School KAYLA M. TREASITTI Glen Rose High School BENTONVILLE KENDRA RISENER Haas Hall Academy ANGEL SOTERO Bentonville West High School JESSICA YIN Bentonville West High School BERRYVILLE ALEX RUBEN MALDONADO-LOPEZ Berryville High School AMBER NICOLE VEACH Berryville High School BISMARCK LAUREN ELIZABETH CORLEY Bismarck High School BLACK ROCK PAIGE LEANN PENN Hillcrest High School BLYTHEVILLE CHANDLER SPROUSE Gosnell High School SHAKIAH WILLIAMS Blytheville High School BONNERDALE HANNAH DIGGS Centerpoint High School BOONEVILLE JUSTIN RONGEY Magazine High School BRINKLEY KEVON MALOID DILLWORTH Brinkley High School EMILY ANN TAYLOR Brinkley High School BRUNO LANE BOGLE Valley Springs High School BRYANT SYDNEY ELAINE BOWMAN Bryant High School HARRISON BENNETT DOWNS Bryant High School CABOT ZHENG HUI ZHANG Cabot High School CAVE CITY KENDALL TOWNSLEY Cave City High School CENTER RIDGE SOPHIA FRANCESCA ISELY Nemo Vista High School CLARKSVILLE BRADLEY SCOTT BUCK Johnson County Westside High School CLINTON JACOB ALLEN BURROUGHS South Side High School CONWAY MARY KATHERINE FREYALDENHOVEN Conway High School KENDON CRAIG MOLINE Conway High School CORNING CAROLINE GOODMAN Corning High School CROSSETT DAILEY MARIE CHAVIS Crossett High School BRYCE RICHARD MOON Crossett High School DAMASCUS CLAIRE ELIZABETH DREWRY South Side High School DES ARC LINDSEY NICOLE REIDHAR Des Arc High School DEWITT RACHEL DANIELS DeWitt High School ZONTRAY KENDALL DeWitt High School DONALDSON DYLAN JASHUN CLAYTON Bismarck High School DOVER Ethan Seth Owen Jacobs Dover High School EUREKA SPRINGS KAYDEN ECKMAN Eureka Springs High School EVANSVILLE JESSICA ANN GOLDMAN Lincoln High School FARMINGTON NICHOLAS JAMES ERICKSON Farmington High School REAGAN SIERRA WHITE Farmington High School FAYETTEVILLE CHLOE AUGUST BOWEN Springdale High School SOPHIE FERNANDO Haas Hall Academy JEREMIA LO Fayetteville High School HAMAAD MEHAL Haas Hall Academy SPENCER LEE WALKER Fayetteville High School FISHER ANNA CHAPLAIN Harrisburg College and Career Prep FORT SMITH JOHN TYLER FREENY Southside High School MADISON ISABELLA RENEE MARSH Southside High School GOSNELL KAYLEE JO MILLER Gosnell High School GREENBRIER MADELYN RENEE JAMESON Greenbrier High School CALEB WADE TAPLEY Greenbrier High School GREENWOOD JULIA KATHLEEN BRIXEY Greenwood High School TYLER LAWRENCE MERREIGHN Greenwood High School GREERS FERRY FAITH MARIE BIRMINGHAM West Side High School HAMBURG NIGEL LEWIS Hamburg High School BRENDA FAITH O'FALLON Hamburg High School HARRISON GRACE ESTELLE BRANDT Harrison High School BLAKE JOHN WILLIAM WHITMER Harrison High School HAZEN ROSS TIMOTHY HARPER Hazen High School HICKORY PLAINS JEREMIAH DESHONE WILLIAMS Des Arc High School HIGDEN NATHANIEL WYATT SMITH West Side High School HORATIO GRACE ELIZABETH HARRIS Horatio High School HOT SPRINGS RHETT BARRETT Cutter Morning Star High School FAITH ELIZABETH CARNIE Lake Hamilton High School JORDAN C. ERICKSON Lake Hamilton High School EMMA KIRSTEN FERGUSON Lakeside High School THOMAS IAN HOLLIS Lakeside High School ANTHONY ALEXANDER REITER Hot Springs High School MICAH TRAVIS Mountain Pine High School HUTTIG NASTAJAE ALIYAH ALDERSON Strong High School JACKSONVILLE BASIA YVONNE BROWN Jacksonville High School GERALD ANTONIO DONOHUE Jacksonville High School JONESBORO OPHIE COPELIN Nettleton High School JETT JACKSON Harrisburg College and Career Prep ISABELLE FLORENCE JONES The Academies at Jonesboro High School JOSHUA MILNES Nettleton High School ANNA ELISE OPPENHEIM Bay High School NIKKOLETTE AMANDA PERKINS Brookland High School SEAN A. ROADES Valley View High School KALLEN SMITH Brookland High School TRACY N. TANNER Valley View High School LEACHVILLE HALLIE ELIZABETH BROWN Buffalo Island Central High School KYLE BRADLEY THRASHER Buffalo Island Central High School LITTLE ROCK MOHAMMED ABUELEM Pulaski Academy MILLER CLARK BACON eStem High School NATHAN THOMAS BARBER The Academies at Jonesboro High School CAROLINE BLANSCET Little Rock Christian Academy ANA ABARCA CHAVEZ Hall High School REBECCA SUSAN DIXON Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School SARAH J. DOUGLASS Joe T. Robinson High School SULLIVAN WALTER FITZ Catholic High School for Boys CELIA KRETH Episcopal Collegiate School FELIPE MORALES OSORIO Parkview Arts and Science Magnet High School CLAUDIA CATHERINE SMITH eStem High School ETHAN STRAUSS Episcopal Collegiate School LUKE WEINER Little Rock Christian Academy MICHELLE XU Little Rock Central High School RAMY YOUSEF Little Rock Central High School MCCRORY CHRISTIAN LITTLE McCrory High School MABELVALE HALEY AMBER STANTON LISA Academy West High School MAGAZINE EMILY STATON Magazine High School MAMMOTH SPRING DEVON CRAY Mammoth Spring High School MARION WESLEY JAMES BARRETT Marion High School MORGAN BRADFORD WHITED Marion High School MAUMELLE GARRETT MICHAEL BAKANOVIC Maumelle High School CHAD BOYD Maumelle Charter High School GENRIETTA CHURBANOVA Pulaski Academy LINCOLN MOSES Maumelle Charter High School VICTORIA ORTEGA Maumelle High School MAYFLOWER HAYDYN HUDNALL Mayflower High School MULBERRY JARRET CHAMBERS Mulberry High School NEWPORT NOAH BLAKE RABY Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts NORTH LITTLE ROCK SOPHIA LYNN CHIER Mount St. Mary Academy CHASE CHRISTIAN MOHR-MCELROY North Little Rock Center of Excellence Charter KATHERINE RAMIREZ North Little Rock High School CARRE'LLA SADLER North Little Rock High School IOAN BROWN SANDERS North Little Rock High School OZARK AUTUMN PAIGE FLAHERTY Johnson County Westside High School PARAGOULD EMMA FARMER Marmaduke High School MICHALA ANN MCPHINK Paragould High School JACKSON CHANDLER PARKER Paragould High School MADISON SHEA ROBINSON Greene County Tech High School PARON JOHN MATTHEW HOWARD Joe T. Robinson High School PEA RIDGE HALLEY LASTER Pea Ridge High School ALEC ANDREW MEREDITH Pea Ridge High School PINE BLUFF MORGAN EDWARDS Watson Chapel High School A'DARIUS LEE Watson Chapel High School PINEVILLE KENLEE KAY KILLIAN Calico Rock High School PLUMERVILLE GARRETT R. HENDRIX Morrilton High School POWHATAN CREEDEN JAMES RICHEY Hillcrest High School RAVENDEN SPRINGS EMILY CHEYENNE LUFFMAN Sloan-Hendrix High School REYNO CHANDLER CONYERS Corning High School RISON JUSTIN JACOBS Rison High School MACY RATLIFF Rison High School ROGERS ALISHA AJAY CHATLANI Rogers High School MORGAN DIBASILIO Rogers Heritage High School SIDRA NADEEM Rogers New Technology High School NATHAN POWELL SKINNER Rogers High School ADAM RYSZARD SIWIEC Rogers Heritage High School ROSE BUD CARSON DAVID LUCENA Rose Bud High School ROYAL ANASTACIA GLASCO Mountain Pine High School RUSSELLVILLE KAYLEE FREEMAN Hector High School SEARCY JACKSON TANNER BENIGHT Searcy High School LAUREN ELIZABETH BROWN Searcy High School SHERIDAN LAINEY FAITH HILL Sheridan High School LOGAN JAMES INGRAM Sheridan High School SHERWOOD TIMOTHY NATHANIEL ESPEJO Sylvan Hills High School CHASE MARIE SWINTON Sylvan Hills High School SILOAM SPRINGS CHRISTINE NICOLE HONN Siloam Springs High School OLIVER MONROE REID Siloam Springs High School SMACKOVER ROBERT THOMAS DIXON Smackover High School KAYLEIGH AMANDA YEAGER Smackover High School SPRINGDALE EDUARDO AGUILAR Springdale High School SPRINGFIELD CAROLYN HOPE HOPKINS Morrilton High School STUTTGART MARY SALLAH JIA Arkansas School for Mathematics, Sciences and the Arts TRUMANN ZACHARY DAVID BURCHFIELD Trumann High School WALNUT RIDGE DEVIN FOSTER SMITH Greene County Tech High School WARD JESSICA DAWN VAUGHN Cabot High School WHITE HALL JUSTIN ROBERT DADY White Hall High School WINSLOW JOSEPH ANDREW TAYLOR Lincoln High School WYNNE KYRA LIANE DOBSON Wynne High School JACKSON CHARLES GEORGE Wynne High School 2019 Arkansas Times Academic All-Stars Nominees

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━  ❛  •  MASTERLIST 001:  feminine names.

below the cut, you’ll find 100+ ‘feminine’ names categorized alphabetically. they’ve been gathered from baby name websites and general interactions overtime !  keep in mind that i grew up in a small, southern town-- so some names may seem a little plain. please like or reblog if this list was helpful.

A --

aly / ally / allie.

alyssa.

amanda.

amber.

amelia.

amy.

andrea.

annalise.

arden.

ashayla.

aubrey.

audrey.

autumn.

ava.

avery.

B --

bailee / bailey.

bambi.

bea.

beatriz.

bella.

bellamy.

bentley.

brianna.

brooklyn.

C --

cali / callie.

calista / callista.

caroline.

carson.

cat.

catalina.

cece.

cecilia.

celeste.

charolette.

cindy.

crystal.

D --

dawn.

devyn.

E --

eiza.

elena.

eliza.

elizabeth.

ella.

ellie.

emma.

emerald.

esme.

eva.

eve.

evie.

F --

fae / fay.

fawn.

fiona.

G --

glenda.

gloria.

H --

hailey / haley / hayley.

hanna / hannah.

harper.

I --

isabella.

ivana.

J --

jackie.

jaclyn.

josephine.

K --

kehlani.

kennedy.

kiana.

kim.

kimberly.

L --

leanne / leighanne.

leigh.

lelani.

lena.

lili / lilly.

liliana.

lilo.

liv.

M --

macey / macy.

mackenlyn.

maddie.

madeline.

madison.

mae / may.

marceline.

marcy.

mia.

mikaela / mikaelah.

mini / minnie.

moana.

mona.

N --

nina.

nicole / nichole.

nioka.

O --

olivia.

ophelia.

P --

penelope.

peyton.

poppie / poppy.

Q --

quinn.

R --

raleigh.

rowan.

ryland.

S --

sadie.

sam.

sammy.

samantha.

santana.

sav.

savanna / savannah.

selena.

serenity.

sophia.

sophie.

sydney.

T --

tati.

tatiana.

tiffany.

U --

ursela.

V --

valarie.

valentina.

veronica.

W --

whitney.

winnie.

winter / wynter.

X --

xiomara.

xo.

Y --

yovanna.

Z --

zara.

zoey.

[nightvindicta]

ROLEPLAYING HISTORY

The rules are simple! Post ten characters you’d like to role play as, have role played as, and might bring back. Then tag ten people to do the same (if you can’t think of ten characters, just write down however many you can and tag the same amount of people). Aside from that, please repost instead of reblogging!

CURRENTLY PLAYING

Lightning Farron - Final Fantasy XIII Saeko Busujima - Highschool of The Dead Esdeath - Akame Ga Kill Velvet Crowe - Tales of Berseria

WANT TO PLAY

Mahiru Hiragi - Seraph of The End Kamui - Fire Emblem Camilla - Fire Emblem Leanne - Resonance of Fate Aranea Highwind - Final Fantasy XV Zero - Drakengard 3  Seri Awashima - K Project Victor Kresnik - Tales of Xillia 2 Saya Kisaragi - Blood C Four - Drakengard 3

HAVE PLAYED

Chloe Valens - Tales of Legendia Legretta The Quick - Tales of The Abyss Fayt Leingod - Star Ocean 3 Lenalee Lee - D.Gray Man Lelouch vi Britannia - Code Geass Anya Alstreim - Code Geass Soifon - Bleach Ryfia - Arc Rise Fantasia Stella Nox Fleuret - Final Fantasy Versus XIII (XV) Atoli - .Hack//GU Helena Harper - Resident Evil Jin Kisaragi - Blazblue Zephyr - Resonance of Fate Three - Drakengard 3 Mikaela Hyakuya - Seraph of The End

WILL/WOULD PLAY AGAIN:

Three Zephyr Helena Mikaela Jin

TAGGED BY: @queen-yggdrasil

Tagging: @einsofaur , @niakheran , @chosenbychronos , and anyone else who wishes to.

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happy to report that leanne c harper has once again proven herself to be the only wild cards writer who gets it. she said, gina torres should play bagabond, and i had to pause the obscure interview i found on the dark web for a solid 20 seconds because o hm y go d

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B.C. Judges Finds Provocation Defence Unconstitutional

A British Columbia Supreme Court judge has ruled that a 2015 amendment to the Criminal Code, which limits when an accused killer can use the defence of provocation, is unconstitutional.

Justice Douglas Thompson ruled that the amendment in question only allowed for the partial defence of provocation in murder cases if the victim committed an indictable offence (most serious of offences) punishable by a sentence of five or more years, which is contrary to the rights and freedoms set out in the Charter.

THE DEFENCE OF PROVOCATION

Stephen Harper’s Conservative government amended the definition of provocation prior to the 2015 election through the Zero Tolerance for Barbaric Cultural Practices Act.

This legislation changed the definition of provocation from “a wrongful act or an insult that is of such nature as to be sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of the power of self-control …if the accused acted on it on the sudden and before there was time for his passion to cool” to “conduct of the victim that would constitute an indictable offence …punishable by five or more years of imprisonment and that is of such a nature as to be sufficient to deprive an ordinary person of the power of self-control is provocation for the purposes of this section, if the accused acted on it on the sudden and before there was time for their passion to cool”.

The intention of the government in amending the law was that a victim had to have committed a crime so serious against an accused to argue that the accused was provoked into killing, not merely upset by the victim.  However, Justice Thompson found that the law as it was written denied vulnerable victims of domestic abuse and racism the ability to claim provocation when they are incited to respond violently by behaviour that is not quite criminal. 

Justice Thompson wrote in his ruling:

It is an unfortunate but notorious fact that people of colour and members of other marginalized communities are sometimes subject to despicable and hateful rhetoric, and that women are sometimes subject to intense psychological abuse by their male partners. … Although the provoking behaviour does not constitute an indictable offence punishable by at least five years’ imprisonment, it is reasonably foreseeable that the targets of this conduct may respond violently.

WHAT HAPPENED?

Michael Philip Simard (“Simard”) was in an “on again, off again” relationship with Leanne Larocque since 2014.  On October 5, 2016, Simard, armed with an assault rifle, entered the home of Larocque and proceeded to kill her and Gordon Turner.   Simard called 911 and then proceeded to shoot himself before the police arrived.

Simard was charged with two counts of second-degree murder. 

Michael Philip Simard challenged the constitutionality of amendments to section 232(2) of the Criminal Code arguing that the wording infringed his section 7 rights to life, liberty and security of person under the Charter, preventing him from raising a partial defence to reduce his charges of second-degree murder to manslaughter.

Justice Thompson agreed with Simard’s Charter arguments and found that the section in question in the Criminal Code to be overly broad and arbitrary.  Justice Thompson stated in his ruling:

…it is clear that s. 232(2) engages s. 7 of the Charter.  Second-degree murder carries a mandatory minimum sentence of life in prison.  On the other hand, manslaughter has no mandatory minimum sentence (unless a firearm is used in the commission of the offence…).  Circumscribing the available of the partial defence affects the liberty of anyone who would previously have been able to advance a provocation defence.

Justice Thompson struck down the current wording, thus returning the law to its original wording.  However, he proceeded to convict Simard of second-degree murder.

The government’s objective in amending the definition of provocation in the Criminal Code in 2015 may have been to protect vulnerable women by ensuring that those who might attack them would not be allowed to argue the defence of provocation after the fact.  However, Justice Thompson ruled that the “amended provisions extend to behaviour far beyond the object of the legislation.  Provocation has never been confined to situations in which the victims are vulnerable women.”

Simard’s lawyer, Matthew Nathanson, considered Justice Thompson’s ruling to be significant as it was the first time a court had considered the new limits on the defence of provocation in Canada.  Nathanson stated:

The court found that the purpose of the law was to protect vulnerable women.  Clearly this is an important and appropriate goal.  However, the court also found that in certain situations the law would deny the defence of provocation to women who killed in the context of serious domestic violence.  In this way, a law designed to protect vulnerable women would deny them an important defence.  This is counterintuitive and unfair.  In constitutional terms, it means the law is arbitrary, overbroad, and had to be struck down.

Simard will return to court on May 7, 2019 for sentencing.  The offence of second-degree murder carries a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment.

If you have any questions regarding charges that have been laid against you or your legal rights, please contact the knowledgeable criminal lawyers at Affleck & Barrison LLP online or at 905-404-1947.  Our skilled criminal lawyers have significant experience defending a wide range of criminal charges and protecting our client’s rights.  For your convenience, we offer a 24-hour telephone service to protect your rights and to ensure that you have access to justice.

Full Article: https://criminallawoshawa.com/b-c-judges-finds-provocation-defence-unconstitutional/

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Robert Morris Wood, Sr. of Greenville passed away Nov. 17, 2017, at the McCall Hospice House in Simpsonville, S.C. Born March 29, 1938, in Lawrenceville, Ga., Bob grew up in Tucker, Ga. The son of Robert Oren Wood and Evelyn Townsend Wood, Bob graduated from Tucker High School and attended Washington University in St. Louis. Although he grew up in a Christian home, he was in his early twenties when God became very real to him and he trusted Jesus to save him.

After starting his business career in medical sales in the 1960s, Bob joined the family transportation business, working with Brown Transport and Harper Motor Lines during the 1960s and 1970s. During this time, he was active in his church where he met his wife, Mary Cotter, and the Lord began drawing him into Christian work. Bob and Mary's home was a haven to many. They held Bible studies and provided a biblical example to young people of how to love each other and serve the Lord together. These Bible studies grew to about 90 people and became the nucleus for the Killian Hill Baptist Church, which Bob began pastoring in 1972.

In 1977, Dr. Wood answered the call to become executive vice president of Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C., a position he held for nearly 29 years. In addition to managing the operation of the University, he personally helped thousands of students, faculty and staff who sat under his chapel ministry and experienced his friendship and mentoring. After his retirement in 2005, he served as executive vice president emeritus until 2014. He also served as a member of the BJU Board of Trustees from 1974 until his death. 

Bob had a long, meaningful life with many interests. He loved hunting, fishing, golfing, and flying. He held private, instrument and multi-engine pilot ratings. He was a people-person who never met a stranger. In addition to BJU, he served on numerous boards over the years, including the Wilds Christian Camp, Woodlands Camp, Gospel Fellowship Association, Pinnacle Bank (now Carolina Alliance Bank) and US AeroTech. Bob attended Morningside Baptist Church where he enjoyed the practical preaching and edifying fellowship. Above all, he enjoyed studying the Scripture and preaching what God taught him. He tried to instill in others the desire to "think Bible" and apply Biblical principles in every situation of life. 

Bob is survived by his wife of 54 years, Mary Cotter Wood; his sons Robert (Bobby) M. Wood, Jr (Robin) and Stephen C. Wood (Tamara); five grandchildren, Cotter, Caeden, Caeleigh Joy, Ella Grace and Stephen (Finn); one sister, Beverly Wood Manus (Larry) of Dacula, Ga; two sisters-in-law, Doris C. Sprout (Jerry) of Greer, S.C., and Jenell C. Shafer (Thomas) of Lilburn, Ga; five nieces, Candie Morgan (Jerry), Luellen Pavluk (Jim), Sherri S. Stanley (Jon), Sandy Waterworth (Rich), Kristi Palmer (Daniel); and three nephews, Tom Shafer (Dianne), Stacy Manus (LeAnne), and Jerry Sprout.

Dr. Wood's love for his family and friends was surpassed only by his love for his Lord. He always encouraged people to turn their eyes upon Jesus and "keep on keeping on." He was ready to meet his God whom he had faithfully served for nearly sixty years. His desire was to finish strong and to hear the words, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant," Matt. 25:21.

Friends may call at the Mackey Mortuary, Sunday, Nov. 19, 4 - 6 p.m. Funeral Services will be held at Morningside Baptist Church, Greenville, Monday, Nov. 20, at 2 p.m. Interment will be at the Pleasant Hill Community Cemetery in Dacula, Ga.

Condolences may be made at www.mackeymortuary.com

Published in The Greenville News on Nov. 18, 2017

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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson

“resisting, renewing, and regeneration”“For me, living as a Nishnaabekwe is a deliberate act – a direct act of resurgence, a direct act of sovereignty.” (1) 

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson is a prolific Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg artist, writer, academic, activist and a member of Alderville First Nation. Through her work and activism, she has played a central role in the decolonization and resurgence of Indigenous nations in Canada. She received her PhD from the University of Manitoba and teaches in colleges and universities across Canada. Currently she is a distinguished visiting professor at Ryerson University. (2) She has published two edited volumes including Lighting the Eighth Fire: The Liberation, Resurgence, and Protection of Indigenous Nations (2008) and This is an Honor Song: Twenty Years Since the Barricades (2010) and The Winter We Danced (2014) and has written a number of non-fiction books, including Islands of Decolonial Love (2013) and This Accident of Being Lost (2017). (3) She has written for publications such as Now Magazine, Spirit Magazine, The Link, Briarpatch Magazine, Huffington Post, and Canadian Art Magazine. 

“We are also in our fourth century of gendered colonial violence and so I think we can’t afford to be anything but political. Teaching our kids our languages is political. Breastfeeding is political. Learning from our youth is political. Every time we connect to any piece of our homelands, that’s political.” (4)

Leanne was a strong voice in the worldwide Indigenous protests known as Idle No More (http://www.idlenomore.ca/), protests which have taken the form of civil disobediance, hunger strikes, and public demonstrations like flash mobs and Round Dances. These actions which originated in Canada have sparked further action as far away as Gaza, and . (5) Idle No More is a movement organized in 2012 by Indigenous Women in Canada as a means to “assert Indigenous inherent rights to sovereignty and reinstitute traditional laws and Nation to Nation Treaties by protecting the lands and waters from corporate destruction.”(http://www.idlenomore.ca/story) Sparked by the introduction of Bill C-45 and the Navigable Waters Protection Act which allowed for developers to build around lakes and rivers without notifying the government - just the latest in terms of governmental oppressions of Native people - Idle No More is a movement that centers the contemporary legacy of colonialism and dispossession. (6) 

Leanne wrote one of the central texts of the movement, Aambe! Maajaadaa! (What #IdleNoMore Means to Me). She explains Idle No More as “the latest—visible to the mainstream—resistance and it is part of an ongoing historical and contemporary push to protect our lands, our cultures, our nationhoods, and our languages. To me, it feels like there has been an intensification of colonial pillage, or that’s what the Harper government is preparing for—the hyper-extraction of natural resources on indigenous lands.”(7) Much of Leanne’s work, has been about “resisting, renewing, and regeneration” in opposition to extraction of land, culture, resources, people. Her art, activism, writing and teaching is centered around creating an alternative to oppression, rather to  create a movement that is replenishing, a “continuous rebirth.” (5)  

((Simpson speaking at an Idle No More protest in Peterborough, Ontario. Source: http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/dancing-the-world-into-being-a-conversation-with-idle-no-more-leanne-simpson)

When asked, “How does your activism intersect with your writing?” Leanne Simpson answered;

“The base of both my writing and my activism and really everything I do is a fugitive desire to be Nishnaabekwe in every way I can. I want to connect with every piece of our land. I want to know how my ancestors thought. I want to know our language and our ceremonies. I want to know all of our place names and stories. I want to sing every song and dance every dance. I want to be part of a community that creates the next moments in the most beautiful of ways. And I need my homeland to do that.” (8)

Creative interpretation of Leanne Simpson’s poem, “Leaks” from the book Islands of Decolonial Love with the quote “you are not a vessel for white settler shame / even if i am the housing that failed you”  (8) 

(By Leah Parker-Bernstein) 

Works Cited: 

(1) Simpson, Leanne. "Aambe! Maajaadaa! (What #IdleNoMore Means to Me)." Decolonization. December 21, 2012. Accessed October 18, 2017. https://decolonization.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/aambe-maajaadaa-what-idlenomore-means-to-me/.

(2) "Leanne Betasamosake Simpson appointed distinguished visiting professor." Ryerson University. March 21, 2017. Accessed October 18, 2017. http://www.ryerson.ca/news-events/news/2017/03/leanne-betasamosake-simpson-appointed-distinguished-visiting-pro/.

(3) Simon Fraser University. “Restoring Nationhood: Leanne Betasamosake Simpson”. Filmed [November  2014]. YouTube video, 01:08:13. Posted [January 2014]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH1QZQIUJIo.

(4) Winder, Tanaya . "Interview with Leanne Simpson." As Us. Accessed October 18, 2017. https://asusjournal.org/issue-4/interview-with-leanne-simpson/.

(5) Klein, Naomi. "Dancing the World into Being: A Conversation with Idle No More's Leanne Simpson." YES! Magazine. March 05, 2013. Accessed October 18, 2017. http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/dancing-the-world-into-being-a-conversation-with-idle-no-more-leanne-simpson.

(6) Flegg, Erin. “Changes to Navigable Waters Protection Act dangerously undermine environmental protection, say critics.” The Vancouver Observer, 1 Jan. 2013, www.vancouverobserver.com/politics/changes-navigable-waters-protection-act-dangerously-undermine-environmental-protection.

(7) Simpson, Leanne. "Idle No More: Where the Mainstream Media Went Wrong." The Dominion. February 27, 2013. Accessed October 18, 2017. http://dominion.mediacoop.ca/story/idle-no-more-and-mainstream-media/16023.

(8) "RBC Taylor Emerging Writer Award Leanne Simpson on the significance of storytelling." Canada Writes. June 20, 2014. Accessed October 18, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20150424185103/http://www.cbc.ca/books/canadawrites/2014/06/rbc-taylor-emerging-writer-award-leanne-simpson-on-the-significance-of-storytelling.html.

(9) Simpson, Leanne. Islands of decolonial love: stories & songs. Arbeiter-Ring Publ., 2016.

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New Audiobook has been published on http://www.audiobook.pw/audiobook/wild-cards-v-down-and-dirty-2/

Wild Cards V: Down and Dirty

Let the secret history of the world be told-of the alien virus that struck Earth after World War II, and of the handful of the survivors who found they now possessed superhuman powers. Some were called Aces, endowed with powerful mental and physical prowess. The others were Jokers, tormented by bizarre mind or body disfigurements. Some served humanity. Others caused terror. And now, forty years later, as a gang war between the Shadow Fists and the mafia rages out of control in the streets of Jokertown, Aces and Jokers go underground–to wage their own war against the powers of the netherworld. Here, in the fifth volume of the exciting series, ten of science fiction’s most gifted writers take readers on a journey of wonder and excitement in an astounding alternate history. Featuring the talents of John J. Miller, Roger Zelazny, Leanne C. Harper, Arthur Byron Cover, Melina C. Snodgrass, Edward Bryant, Stephen Leigh, Pat Cadigan, Walter Jon Williams, and George R. R. Martin.

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Wild Cards 1

Edited by George R. R. Martin, with the assistance of Melinda M. Snodgrass

Authors - George R. R. Martin, Howard Waldrop, Roger Zelazny, Walter Jon Williams, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Michael Cassut, David D. Levine, Lewis Shiner, Victor Milan, Edward Bryant & Leanne C. Harper, Stephen Leigh, Carrie Vaughn, and John J. Miller

Cover - Michael Komarck

Shortly after World War II, an alien virus is released over New York City.  The virus immediately kills 90% of those infected, and the remaining people develop strange mutations, some that resemble superpowers, and others that are disfiguring and possibly dangerous. This begins an alternate history which these "Wild Cards" affect the world as we know it - for better or worse.

This book is a collection of interrelated short stories that build on each other and create an alternate history.  Its referred to as a "mosaic novel" because each story and each author fit another piece into the world to build an overall picture of the universe.  It's actually a really cool concept.  Some characters appear in several stories as time goes by in the book.  Many references are made to earlier material and it really feels like individual pieces of a greater story - very much like a Marvel Comics series might contribute to the overall Marvel Universe.  Clever idea!

If you're looking for something totally complete in this volume, this book may not be for you - this is the beginning of a universe.  Many of these characters will appear again and again and their stories will build across multiple volumes of this series and they will develop further.  Also, many of the stories in this volume have a background that's very political in nature (McCarthyism, New York politics, drug culture, and more).  If you don't want to explore how those events might have influenced or been influenced by the actions of these characters, maybe this book isn't for you.

With all of that said, there are several fascinating characters in this book and I look forward to seeing where they go and meeting more of them in subsequent books.  Roger Zelazny's character "the Sleeper" is a man who wakes up with a new appearance and set of powers after each time he sleeps.  His story is focused on dealing with these powers and helping his family survive the challenges in the wake of Wild Card Day. He also appears a few more times in the book in small roles, but I was always happy to see what he was up to.  Fortunato (Lewis Shiner)is really a New York pimp who discovers "Sorcerer Supreme" type powers through Tantric sex.  Believe it or not, he's actually a sympathetic character and I'm curious to see where his story goes.  Other characters are the Puppetman (written by Stephen Leigh) who can push people to commit actions that are their dark desires; Sewer Jack (Victor Milan) who can shapechange into an alligator in the New York sewers; and the Great and Powerful Turtle (Martin, himself) who is a powerful telekinetic who conceals himself inside a "shell" of steel hovering over the city.

I recently read the Expanded Edition of this book that includes three new stories added in 2010.  I hadn't read any of these authors (David D. Levine, Micheal Cassutt, and Carrie Vaughn) previously and I enjoyed the new additions for the most part.  Cassut's story felt a little flat to me and dealt with Hollywood in the 1950s (think of the movie <I>Hollywoodland</I>).  Vaughn's story was fun with a lot of the feel of the movie <I>Adventures in Babysitting</I> as a young girl takes a one-night journey through the seedier parts of New York and finally puts her powers to use.  Not sure if any of these characters will appear again since they were late additions, but it might be fun to see Ghost Girl again at least.

I feel this book, if not the series as a whole, is one of the most successful at using this interlaced format to tell stories.  It truly is a shared universe with each author adding to the mythos, and able to "borrow" other characters occasionally to keep things unified. It provides for a lot of variety in storytelling from very dark and violent stories to those that are lighter and have a humorous tone. I can see where some readers might feel this is inconsistent, but I feel it gives variety and a relief from the darker tales. There are also a lot of homages to comic books, classic and more modern in this collection as well that will delight some readers with a "wink wink nod nod" sensability.

In addition to the stories themselves, there are several "interludes" included that mirror articles in popular publications like <I>Rolling Stone</I> magazine or the <I>New York Times</I>.  There's even an appendix excerpting scientific journals discussing the nature of the Wild Card virus itself.  These serve to cement the stories in history and give a framework to the changes in the world.  Some are more successful than others, but it was a fun concept that I felt added to the feel of the book.

I felt this was a wonderful start to the universe and can be enjoyed by fans of comics or even straight science fiction.

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