Annie Edison dancing (requested by anon)
Shockingly similar to my I’m-graduating-from-college dance.
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May 2, 1963: The Birmingham Campaign’s Children’s Crusade Begins
On this day in 1963, the Children’s Crusade began as hundreds of students walked out of their classrooms to peacefully protest segregation laws in Birmingham, Alabama. They were met by police officers who were ready to escort them to jail, and later by high pressure fire hoses and police dogs.
It would become a major catalyst for the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and usher a new era of freedom and equality in the United States.
Revisit this moment in civil rights history with PBS Black Culture Connection’s Birmingham Campaign collection.
Photo: African American children are attacked by dogs and water cannons during a protest against segregation organized by Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth in May 1963 in Birmingham, Alabama (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images).
Also, it’s my birthday.
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Every writer has changed these stories, and I have changed them, and I’m sure someone else in I don’t know how many years will change them. These stories refuse to die—they are always expanding and shrinking, they have an organic life of their own. Usually, Arab women writers look down on Shahrazad, saying “Oh, she became a prisoner of the Shah, the bloodthirsty king.” No, in my opinion, she was stronger, he became her prisoner. He needed her stories; he depended on her to humanize him. She wasn’t doing it to save her life, but to educate him. That was what she set out to do, to humanize him.
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Author Q&A: Hanan al-Shaykh’s New Shahrazad | Library Journal
Hanan al-Shaykh’s new retelling of One Thousand and One Nights (with an intro by Mary Gaitskill!) comes out next month.
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Reminder courtesy of the 99th Avenue and Lower Buckeye Animal Clinic.
Temperatures are climbing. As we enter the triple digits, we would like to remind you that on a 100-degree day, the temperature in your car can reach 140 degrees in just 15 minutes. Please keep your pets safe at home with plenty of cool water and don’t forget to stay hydrated yourself :)
But whereas being a female reporter was once synonymous with tenacity, superior intellect, and wit, today’s fictional female reporter serves as shorthand for new media reporter/blogger: young, naïve, and morally bankrupt.
