May 2013
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What a Good Week Looks Like
finishing Harry Potter 3 (in French)
listening to amazing stories from The MOTH’s community programming
getting named as AdLo Director for CY Community Service Day
lovely dinners with friends
meeting my 1700 hours requirement for graduating from Americorps
running another successful photobooth at our last student event
getting an essay published by the Feminist Wire
taking a half...
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Recently Read: A Wrinkle in Time
“It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.”
I had somehow never read this when I was in middle school, and after raiding our giant room of books at school I decided it was time. It’s so...
April 2013
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“One of the mixed blessings of being twenty and twenty-one and even twenty-three...”
– Joan Didion, “Goodbye to All That”
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NEW LAURA MARLING
March 2013
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My Name is Asher Lev →
It’s a primal scene of American drama: The angry, uncomprehending father argues with his rebellious son. The man’s wife — the boy’s mother — looks on, worried, her sympathy torn between the two.
Variations on that scene occur in “My Name Is Asher Lev,” Aaron Posner’s adaptation of Chaim Potok’s novel, now at the Westside Theater in a heartfelt production directed by Gordon Edelstein. Asher...
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My Mom Really is the Coolest
Monday, March 11, 2013, on JEOPARDY
Category: MacArthur Prize Winners
Statement: Nancy Rabalais won her fellowship for her work on the “Dead Zone” due to lack of this.
Correct Question: “What is Oxygen?”
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"Those Who Don't"
Those who don’t know any better come into our neighborhood scared. They think we’re dangerous. They think we will attack them with shiny knives. They are stupid people who are lost and got here by mistake.
But we aren’t afraid. We know the guy with the crooked eye is Davey the Baby’s brother, and the tall one next to him in the straw brim, that’s Rosa’s Eddie V., and the big one that looks like...
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Marianne of xojane. Gray-rape and HBO's "Girls"
We talk about rape a lot on xoJane. And the rape we talk about is often pretty clear cut. But we also try to talk about the experiences that are more nebulous. Julieanne wrote about it, but most of us have experienced it, too. It’s more than just wishing you’d said no — it’s feeling like you were not able to. That inability might come from a variety of sources: not...
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Worst-Paying Cities for Women →
4. Baton Rouge, La. > Women’s pay as pct. of men’s: 69.3% > Median income for men: $51,037 > Median income for women: $35,362
The median income for a woman working full time in Baton Rouge was nearly $16,000 less than the median income for a man. About 7.6% of the population works in the construction and extraction industry, the second-highest percentage of all metro areas measured. Many...
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“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels, but old men are guilty, if they...”
– Albus Dumbledore, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
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“FOLK NEUROSCIENCE Popular misconceptions
■ The “left-brain” is rational,...”
– Vaughan Bell debunks the myths of “folk neuroscience.” Also see how neuroscience became popular culture. (via explore-blog)
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“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the...”
– Ernesto Che Guevara, The Motorcycle Diaries
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“There’s a Chinese saying, ‘women hold up half of the world’. In the case of the civil rights movement it’s probably three-quarters of the world.” - Julian Bond
I love that March is Women’s History Month. To me, it’s the perfect extension of Black History Month in February because Women’s History Month allows us to shine a spotlight on the...
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February 2013
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What I've Read Since My Last Book Post (in...
Galapagos
Going After Cacciato
Black Sexual Politics
The Indespensible Zinn
Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?
Bossypants
The Last Unicorn
Copper Sun
Just Kids
Son of Neptune
Motorcycle Diaries
audio books : Harry Potter 1-4
what I’m currently reading:
HP 3 (en francais)
The Brothers Karamazov
HP 5 (audiobook)
I also just bought 6 books this weekend. Oops.
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A City Education: How One Special Math Problem...
cityyear:
New York’s state standardized tests are in April, and they’re pretty high stakes: if students don’t pass the math section, some of them, unfortunately, may not move on to the next grade. Since many students here at P.S. 154 struggle to keep their math scores up to par, I and my fellow City Year New York corps members often run multiplication drills during lunch, or play math games...
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January 2013
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“One in the air for the people ain’t here.
Two in the air for the father that’s...”
– Lupe Fiasco, “Show Goes On”
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Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.
- Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
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“No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and...”
– “Тоска” according to Vladimir Nabokov
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“Contemporary forms of oppression do not routinely force people to submit....”
– Patricia Hill Collins, Black Sexual Politics
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Quiz: Jay-Z Lyric or Line From The Great Gatsby? →
strandbooks:
Love it!
(6/10)
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Feminist Icon Dies at 89 →
Beate Sirota Gordon, an integral advocate for women’s rights in Japan, passed away on December 30 at the age of 89. At 22, Gordon became the only woman on the American board that wrote the post-war Japanese constitution. She created the portion on women’s rights and, having witnessed the inferior treatment of Japanese women for ten years, was focused on protecting and improving their quality...
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A Litany for Survival
For those of us who live at the shoreline standing upon the constant edges of decision crucial and alone for those of us who cannot indulge the passing dreams of choice who love in doorways coming and going in the hours between dawns looking inward and outward at once before and after seeking a now that can breed futures like bread in our children’s mouths so their dreams will not reflect...
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