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A Revolution in Creativity: On Slow Writing
I Love Sally Rooney’s Novels But They Aren’t Written For Me
After Reconstruction, Black Women Found Opportunity for Revolt in Church
the tiny white people in our heads
We Are Not Ready
“Ultimately, we Black women are singing from the same hymnal, whether we are talking about food, love, our mothers, or the church”: An Interview with Deesha Philyaw
This Fall, Dress Like a “Cool Shrink”
Genre and linguistic expectation shift: Evidence from pop song lyrics
A Brief History of Cheesy Pasta
On the Trauma and Creativity Behind Kurt Vonnegut’s Classic Slaughterhouse Five
Rebecca Carroll Is Still ‘Surviving the White Gaze’
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson talks home, identity, and ‘My Monticello’
Black Bodies In White Words, Or: Why We Need Claudia Rankine
The Revolutionary Writing of bell hooks
Bros., Lecce: We Eat at The Worst Michelin Starred Restaurant, Ever
ENJOY OBVIOUSLY FAKE ADVICE-COLUMN LETTERS FOR WHAT THEY ARE: CATHARSIS
My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers
The Best Restaurant in New York Is The American Girl Café
How Rupert Murdoch’s Empire of Influence Remade the World: Part 1 Part 2 Part 3
Lewis R. Gordon on the Development of Black Consciousness
TARTT FOR TARTT’S SAKE: THE SECRET HISTORY AT 30
The Secret Genius of Toni Morrison’s Only Short Story
My Year of Reading Every Ursula K. Le Guin Novel
What Happened at The Root
When Did Reading Become a Competitive Sport
Gabble Like a Thing Most Brutish
Grief in Three Bodies: A Conversation
I Was Surrounded by “Final Girls” in School, Knowing I’d Never Be One
What the Haunting ‘Inner Passage’ Represented to the Enslaved
When Black Excellence Isn’t Enough
i hope the barbie movie is a cultural phenomenon. i hope it leaves the next christopher nolan film in the dust. i hope it changes modern cinema forever and all movies made after it is influenced by it in some way. i hope the most academic, in-depth essays are written about it. i hope it's studied in film classes. i hope it remains in the human psyche for generations
50 Years Since Bloody Sunday
30 January 1972
10,000 marchers take to the streets of Derry, Ireland to protest against the British policy of internment, which meant any member of the public could be imprisoned without trial on suspicion of being part of a paramilitary organisation.
British soldiers open fire on the crowd of innocent civilians, killing 14. Many were shot with their backs turned, running away from the soldiers.
It was the highest number of people killed in a shooting incident during the conflict and is considered the worst mass shooting in Northern Irish history.
Bloody Sunday fuelled Catholic and Irish nationalist hostility towards the British Army and support for the Provisional IRA rose
Patrick Doherty, 31. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety. Murdered by 'Soldier F'.
Gerry Donaghy, 17. Shot in the stomach while standing behind Gerard McKinney. Soldiers planted four nail bombs in his pockets to justify the killings.
Jackie Duddy, 17. Shot as he ran away from soldiers. Three witnesses said they saw a soldier take deliberate aim at him as he ran.
Hugh Gilmour, 17. Shot as he ran away from soldiers.
Michael Kelly, 17. Shot in the stomach while standing at the rubble barricade. Murdered by 'Soldier F'.
Michael McDaid, 20. Shot in the face while going to the aid of William Nash.
Kevin McElhinney, 17. Shot from behind while attempting to crawl to safety.
Barney McGuigan, 41. Shot in the back of the head when he walked out from cover to help Patrick Doherty. He had been waving a white handkerchief. Murdered by 'Soldier F'.
Gerry McKinney, 35. Shot in the chest by 'Private G'. Witnesses said that when he saw the soldier, McKinney stopped and held up his arms, shouting, "Don't shoot! Don't shoot!", before being shot. The bullet apparently went through his body and struck Gerard Donaghy behind him.
William McKinney, 26. Shot in the back as he attempted to flee. Murdered by 'Soldier F'.
William Nash, 19. Three people were shot while going to his aid, including his father Alexander Nash.
Jim Wray, 22. Shot in the back while running away from soldiers. He was then shot again in the back as he lay mortally wounded on the ground. Witnesses stated he was calling out that he could not move his legs before he was shot the second time. Murdered by 'Soldier F'.
John Young, 17. Shot in the face while crouching and going to the aid of William Nash.
John Johnston, 59. Shot in the leg and left shoulder on William Street fifteen minutes before the rest of the shooting started. Johnston was not on the march, but on his way to visit a friend.
Despite the British state issuing an apology in 2010, no soldier has ever been prosecuted for their involvement.
The same paratroopers murdered 11 innocent civilians outside their homes in Ballymurphy months earlier, including a priest who had been administering last rights to a dying man.
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spotify users!!! tell me the fourth song in your second daily mix playlist... mine is bbyong by saturday hehehe
kinda funny how with russians people acknowledge the boundary between a state and its people and how unilaterally rejecting russian things is bad TM but with china people comment under dumpling making vids on tiktok about xi jinpings policies🥱
to my fellow usamericans….in light of the supreme court overturning roe v wade, well known organizations like planned parenthood dont need your money right now - they have plenty - if you’re going to donate, donate to your local or state abortion funds
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