![]() ![]() Nestle's Upper West Side apartment turned into a community center, with weekly visitors, readings and art shows, all growing from the exploding collection. Poets Adrienne Rich and Audre Lorde donated personal papers. Soon after, their post office box began to fill.įamilies sent mementos of daughters and sisters who had died. They sent out a newsletter appeal to lesbian groups around the country: "For us, there is excitement and joy in sharing the records of our lives, and our Archives will be as living as the material we can collect and you can send us." The sense of mission was not lost on either one: "turning rejection into cherishing," says Nestle. They scoured church bazaars, garage sales and old general stores, biting back excitement when they discovered a book by Colette or a tattered photograph of women dancing together. ![]() It was New York City, 1974, when the women decided to stockpile pieces of a neglected history.ĭeborah Edel and Joan Nestle drove across New England, veering onto back roads and through tiny towns. ![]()
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Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Pages 149-End Summary and Analysis ![]() ![]() ![]() The premise for this work, at least as far as I am able to understand it from my external vantage, is the persistence of the integrated material cluster of lifeways, land, stories, logics, relationships, ceremonies, systems of perception and meaning and knowledge, and ways of organizing communities and lives that constitute, in a very practical and bottom-up sense, Indigenous nations. It builds from her earlier book Dancing On Our Turtle's Back – which I read and reviewed last year – and outlines a comprehensive vision, grounded in Nishnaabeg thought but relevant to other Indigenous nations as well, for radical resurgence. ![]() This book is written by Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, and artist Leanne Betasamosake Simpson. ![]() So given that, how do I read? What can I learn? How should I listen? 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Inspired by Neil Gaiman, Kurt Vonnegut, Frank Miller, Joss Whedon, Chrissie Pappas, Charles Bukowski, Stephen King, Douglas Adams, Issac Asimov, and countless classic literary influences, Dennis continues with the ability to write what at a glance might seem absurd, but quickly begins to resonate with our own thoughts and emotions. The voices in his head don't ever stop talking to him, and so sooner or later he has to get out onto a page all that they've filled him up with. He has spent many late nights at diners and dives, drinking coffee with a tattered notebook to put a voice to his feelings of himself and the world around him, and other worlds that can exist only in fiction. ![]() His mother has told many people about the fantasy and science fiction stories he'd write on scraps of paper, and staple together as his 'books', before he'd attended his first day of formal education. Born and raised in the middle of the American Midwest, Dennis Sharpe has been a writer as long as he can remember. ![]() ![]() ![]() Pinhead is one of the leaders of the Cenobites, said to be humans who were later transformed into demonic creatures blindly devoted to the practice of experimental sadomasochism. The name was then used in press materials, tie-in media, and on-screen in some of the film's sequels, although Barker himself despises the moniker. ![]() The production and make-up crew nicknamed the character "Pinhead"-derived from his bald head studded with nails -and fans accepted the sobriquet. When Clive Barker adapted the novella into the 1987 film Hellraiser, he referred to the character in early drafts as " the Priest" but the final film gave no name. The character first appeared as an unnamed figure in the 1986 Clive Barker novella The Hellbound Heart. Pinhead (also known as Lead Cenobite or the Hell Priest, among other names and titles) is the main antagonist of the Hellraiser franchise. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYįrom 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER ![]() In this epic, beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson chronicles one of the great untold stories of American history: the decades-long migration of Black citizens who fled the South for northern and western cities, in search of a better life. ![]() ![]() Aristotles beliefs lead to him seeing only one level of reality. These different approaches to metaphysics lead to the issue of Aristotles imminent reality versus Platos dualistic, transient reality. Conversely, Aristotle took the views from the world around him and applied them within. This simply means that Plato developed his ideas from within and applied them to the outside world. Plato was an inside/out philosopher as opposed to Aristotles outside/in thinking. He grew from being Plato's pupil to being an independent thinker and rival. Although both men believed in the concept of forms, they both defined this concept differently. The two men held different approaches to forms. They both held different views on the levels of reality. Both of the two thinkers approached metaphysics differently. These two philosophers had ideas that held very contrasting differences that can be narrowed into a strong, select few. Two of the earliest known thinkers on the topic are Plato and Aristotle. There are many ways to approach metaphysics. It simply asks what is the nature of being? Metaphysics helps us to reach beyond nature as we see it, and to discover the `true nature' of things, their ultimate reason for existing. ![]() ![]() The Opposing Views of Great Minds The word metaphysics is defined as The study or theory of reality sometimes used more narrowly to refer to transcendent reality, that is, reality which lies beyond the physical world and cannot therefore be grasped by means of the senses. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Daphne is intrigued by the news in Lady Whistledown’s Society Papers, a fashionable anonymous gossip column, that Simon Basset has returned from abroad to claim his title as the Tenth Duke of Hastings. Daphne faces another social season and her domineering mother, Lady Violet Bridgerton, has great hopes for whom Daphne might secure as a husband. The novel’s main action opens with Daphne Bridgerton, a young woman and one of eight children from a prominent London family. Simon, proud and self-reliant, decides to reject all his father stands for. The Duke rejects Simon and attempts to deny him education and resources. The duke’s obsession with family legacy and his high expectations results in tragedy for his son, Simon, who stutters. The Ninth Duke of Hastings celebrates the birth of a son after years of infertility despite his wife dying in childbirth. ![]() The prologue introduces the Basset family, who hold the title to Great Britain’s dukedom of Hastings. Quinn’s characters use both “stutter” and the British English term “stammer” in analytical sections and paraphrases, this guide uses the term “speech disability.” A note on disability and language: though stuttering is no longer the preferred medical term for what is now called Childhood Onset Fluency Disorder, the term is still in popular use. Content warnings for this text include childhood trauma, ableist language, and issues of sexual consent. ![]() |