![]() ![]() Daina Ramey Berry and Kali Nicole Gross offer an examination and celebration of Black womanhood, beginning with the first African women who arrived in what became the United States to African American women of today.Ī Black Women’s History of the United States reaches far beyond a single narrative to showcase Black women’s lives in all their fraught complexities. ![]() In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance to systemic racism and sexism. ![]() Honorable Mention for the 2021 Organization of American Historians Darlene Clark Hine AwardĪ vibrant and empowering history that emphasizes the perspectives and stories of African American women to show how they are-and have always been-instrumental in shaping our country 2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee: Outstanding Literary Work – Non-Fiction ![]()
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Iain mcgilchrist the divided brain6/30/2023 ![]() Introduction to the hemispheres/The Matter with Things. ![]() The titles of these talks, each lasting an hour, were: ![]() The purpose of the new book is to try and answer Plotinus’ question, ‘Who are We?’ What is the world and what are we to make of the cosmos and our place in it? The whole book and even, I would say, the Master and His Emissary describes a journey taken in quest of answering this question ‘Who are We?’ and ultimately ends up with the conviction (but not the only one) that we and our world lack a sense of the sacred.Ī friend, who also attended the Field&Field conference, commented that he was impressed by how Iain developed his argument through the series of talks that we listened to, and Iain himself said that he had attempted to unfold the argument. Our Brains, Our Delusions, and the Unmaking of the World, due to be published on November 9 th. This is also the title of the final chapter (Chapter 28, which Ian has called his ‘God’ chapter) of his new book The Matter with Things. ![]() The penultimate talk given by Iain McGilchrist at the 2021 Field&Field conference in the Cotswolds, UK, was ‘The Sense of the Sacred’. ![]() Reading capitalist realism6/30/2023 ![]() If SF/F is a reflection of the now, how do we imagine a different future? If SF/F is an imagination of the future, should we let it be constrained by the now? Is it even possible to escape where we are right now, and what does that mean for the futures we are able to imagine? 1 Reading recent SF/F, it has seemed to me that while there are plenty of extrapolations from our present into future dystopias, and a fair few stories about mutual aid carve-outs within a current-or-future dystopia, there’s less in the way of true alternatives, compared to the writings of people like Le Guin or Delany in the ’70s and ’80s. ![]() If we as writers want to envisage, to create, an anti-capitalist, socially just future, how do we get there from here, and just how limited are we by where we are now? ![]() But inevitably those stories are also a reflection of the now: writers in conversation with what’s around them, growing ideas in the substrate around our rooted feet. Science fiction and fantasy are uniquely positioned to give readers (whether deliberately or accidentally) a vision of possible alternative futures an imagination of what could be, good, bad, or more complex. ![]() Willa nash the bully6/30/2023 ![]() ![]() I didn’t realize I would hate to leave it because the emotional leverage of it grasped at me.Įven more, this is the first Willa Nash/Devney Perry story in a long time that didn’t feel like the ending was rushed after she carefully crafts the first three-quarters of her book. I went into this book thinking I would enjoy another great Willa Nash story. I found myself tearful over Cal’s representation of Nellie to him. When the culmination of it hits in this book, it manifests an emotional response. It would be simple to place our focus there, but the true beauty of The Bully is the evolution of Nellie’s and Cal’s understandings of each other. ![]() When she does, these two are the grand finale of your favorite fireworks show. Nash wastes very little time in getting them into bed. It’s interesting because you could call this a slow-burn in terms of the progression of Cal and Nellie’s adoration. The Bully is pure unadulterated enemies-to-lovers. And Cal has now wrestled the top spot away from Reese Huxley as my favorite hero in Willa Nash’s Calamity Montana series. ![]() That misunderstood hero trope? It’s a sure thing, as far as I’m concerned. There is nothing more romance catnip than a seemingly mean-spirited hero with depths of trauma to hide a big heart. ![]() What I didn’t realize, what took me by surprise, was how much I love Nash’s characterization of Cal. I knew from Pierce and Kerrigan’s book, The Brazen, that I would like Cal and Nellie’s book, Willa Nash’s newest book, The Bully. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nick is a Malachai, and therefore the key to victory in that war and while he attempts to control his emerging powers, others around him try to sway him between good and evil. He meets Nekoda, a new girl at school who he’s starting to fall for Ash, an immortal demons and werewolves and Squires and Dark Hunters under the power of goddess Artemis, all of whom are in a centuries-long war. Stranger things start happening, as all the jocks at school start turning into cannibalistic zombies, and Nick is exposed to the bustling supernatural life in New Orleans. Fortunately, Nick is saved by Kyrian Hunter, a mysterious, rich man who offers to front Nick’s hospital bills and give him a salary as long as Nick works for him everyday after school for a year. ![]() Nick gets bullied at school where he’s the only scholarship kid among the rich kids, and he has the worst luck ever – when he tries to stop his friends from mugging an old couple, his friends beat him up and try to shoot him. ![]() Category: ( Young Adult) Paranormal / Urban Fantasyįourteen-year-old Nick Gautier lives with his mom, who works as a stripper trying to make ends meet for Nick and herself. ![]() |