![]() I say all of that as a grown up reading it, a grown up who knows the extent to which racism goes to every single day. Even writing this and thinking back to these pages, my hands are curling into fists and shaking from the anger and frustration of it all. I'm so sad and so angry, sad for seeing the little girl's fear and the grandma's own sadness and angry for the injustices that bipoc people (latinx, in this case) have to face always, even when they aren't doing anything or interacting with anyone but you can see it in the eyes and the posture of those around them. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's the first time I finish reading a picture book and I feel a pang in my chest and tears forming behind my eyes that are trying to force their way out and spill all over. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s how they found it-I submitted it in the slush pile. I actually submitted it to Scholastic, way back when I wrote it. Shadowshaper was the first book I wrote, but it was before I had an agent. What inspired you to start writing YA?Īctually, I started with YA, it just took longer to get published. You published a short-story collection and an urban fantasy novel before Shadowshaper was released. PW spoke recently with Older regarding counter-narratives, writing for teenagers, and the We Need Diverse Books movement. The second book in the series, Shadowhouse Fall, releases this month. His first YA novel, Shadowshaper (Scholastic/Levine), was named a PW Best Book of the Year in 2015. Daniel José Older is the bestselling author of the Shadowshaper Cypher, a YA fantasy series featuring Brooklyn teenager Sierra Santiago, as well as the Bone Street Rumba urban fantasy trilogy. ![]() ![]() Brand New, Perfect Condition, allow 4-14 business days for standard shipping. Pabst, and others are collected here".Ĭhoose your shipping method in Checkout. Fields, Humphrey Bogart, William Paley, G.W. ![]() ![]() Eight autobiographical essays by Brooks, on topics ranging from her childhood in Kansas and her early days as a Denishawn and Ziegfeld Follies dancer to her friendships with Martha Graham, Charles Chaplin, W.C. "Louise Brooks (1906-1985) is one of the most famous actresses of the silent era, renowned as much for her rebellion against the Hollywood system as for her performances in such influential films as Pandora's Box and Diary of a Lost Girl. ![]() ![]() ![]() They've taken that to Ukraine but it's throughout the country.Īnd this man - a survivor of a machete attack in Rwanda. James Nachtwey: The part that was inhabited by the Chechens was pounded into rubble from artillery, and rocket fire, and air strikes for weeks and weeks on end, with the civilian population trapped inside. Nachtwey was in Chechnya's capital Grozny for weeks in 1995 and '96, as Russian forces relentlessly bombarded the city… ![]() James Nachtwey looking at a photo on his computer James Nachtwey: Somehow the Russians have stood apart, and not only in Ukraine, but in Chechnya. It was really, like, kind of butchery.Īnderson Cooper: In terms of brutality, of all the militaries you have seen does the Russian military stand apart in Ukraine for their behavior? These are images he took in Bucha shortly after Russian troops pulled out, leaving behind the bodies of civilians they'd executed. In Ukraine at the start of the war Nachtwey worked in and around Kyiv and Kharkiv for the New Yorker magazine. Because in a way you're, you might be fighting for peace or fighting against an injustice and the way you do it is by informing people about it, with the faith that people will want something done about it. ![]() James Nachtwey: I think it's a way of looking at it. ![]() ![]() Tesla began production of its first car model, the Roadster sports car, in 2008. According to Musk, the purpose of Tesla is to help expedite the move to sustainable transport and energy, obtained through electric vehicles and solar power. In February 2004, via a $6.5 million investment, Elon Musk became the largest shareholder of the company. The company's name is a tribute to inventor and electrical engineer Nikola Tesla. ![]() ![]() Tesla was incorporated in July 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning as Tesla Motors. Tesla Energy is also one of the largest global suppliers of battery energy storage systems, with 6.5 gigawatt-hours (GWh) installed in 2022. Through its subsidiary Tesla Energy, the company develops and is a major installer of photovoltaic systems in the United States. In 2022, the company had the most worldwide sales of battery electric vehicles, capturing 18% of the market. ![]() Tesla is one of the world's most valuable companies and, as of 2023, is the world's most valuable automaker. Tesla designs and manufactures electric vehicles ( electric cars and trucks), battery energy storage from home to grid-scale, solar panels and solar roof tiles, and related products and services. ![]() ( / ˈ t ɛ s l ə/ TESS-lə or / ˈ t ɛ z l ə/ TEZ-lə ) is an American multinational automotive and clean energy company headquartered in Austin, Texas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mikki Kendall does a great job of connecting feminism to topics such as the housing crisis, hunger, black women’s maternal health, and more, which often are ignored in a movement that centers cis, heterosexual white women. I would recommend starting with something classic like Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches, then following up with this to get a handle on those concepts in the context of modern issues.Īn engaging essay collection that I would recommend to those who want to learn more about intersectional feminism. I agree with almost everything she says, but I also found myself zoning out because I already know the issues and statistics so well, and I wasn't really the target audience for this book.Īlthough the writing was clumsy and repetitive at times, I think this could be a great resource for white women looking to learn how to be better allies, particularly to people of color. ![]() Kendall makes the argument that all these needs are feminist causes that need addressing, especially in poor communities/hoods where survival is paramount. I'm a black feminist, and most of this book is focused on educating white feminists on issues they may not typically consider feminist or associate with the feminist movement - such as housing, food, and education. The reasons for that, however, are mostly personal. This was a good book, but I had trouble finishing it. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Bieker expertly wrestles with the bonds between mother and child, her own relationship to Central California, and ultimately “trying to make sense of something that is really hard to name,” she says. Heartbroke explores the choices people make when there are few, if any, good ones presented to them. The characters in this collection are mothers, children, teenagers, sex workers, and, above all, people who dream, hope, desire, and act out of need or love, or both. Like Godshot, Heartbroke is set in Central California, but the new book’s lens on the place is wider. ![]() Now Bieker is back with her first short-story collection, Heartbroke. The book made all kinds of best-of lists and was a finalist for both the Oregon and California Book Awards. In 2020, Chelsea Bieker released her acclaimed debut novel, Godshot, which followed an adolescent girl named Lacey May through the abandonment by her mother and the cult takeover of her small Central California town during a time of intense drought. ![]() ![]() ![]() (Close your eyes, move round the room and notice how the faculty of touch is like a static, limited form of sight.) We never look at just one thing we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. To touch something is to situate oneself in relation to it. As a result of this act, what we see is brought within our reach - though not necessarily within arm's reach. (It can only be thought of in this way if one isolates the small part of the process which concerns the eye's retina.) We only see what we look at. Yet this seeing which comes before words, and can never be quite covered by them, is not a question of mechanically reacting to stimuli. ![]() When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match : a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate. ![]() Nevertheless their idea of Hell owed a lot to the sight of fire consuming and the ashes remaining - as well as to their experience of the pain of burns. In the Middle Ages when men believed in the physical existence of Hell the sight of fire must have meant something different from what it means today. The way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe. ![]() ![]() ![]() The overview of the area is not as perfect in the eyes of others as that of ‘Rip Van Winkle”. In ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” the setting is much different. Everything seems to be in place, and those that inhabit the area are content with their living situations. ‘They are a dismembered branch of the great Appalachian family and are seen away to the west of the river, swelling up to a noble height and lording it over the surrounding country, Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains, and they are regarded by all the good wives near an far as barometers.” (Levine, p.31) This exert from the text, is very descriptive in telling about how beautiful and radiant the area is. ‘Rip Van Winkle” is set in the Kaatkill Mountains. The first difference that can be seen in the two stories is the setting. ![]() “‘Rip Van Winkle” and ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”” ![]() ![]() Reeling from her latest break up, Freddy's best friend, Doodle, introduces her to the Seek-Her, a mysterious medium, who leaves Freddy some cryptic parting words: break up with her. There's just one problem: Laura Dean is maybe not the greatest girlfriend. ![]() Laura Dean, the most popular girl in high school, was Frederica Riley's dream girl: charming, confident, and SO cute. One of Bitch Media's Best Queer YA Novels of 2019Īuthor Mariko Tamaki and illustrator Rosemary Valero-O'Connell bring to life a sweet and spirited tale of young love in Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up with Me, a graphic novel that asks us to consider what happens when we ditch the toxic relationships we crave to embrace the healthy ones we need. ![]() One of FORBES Best Graphic Novels of 2019 ![]() |