![]() ![]() ![]() I tweeted about my dream to make an anthology of feminist essays for teens and the responses to that tweet were incredible. But reading and listening to the words coming from voices unlike mine made something inside me click. ![]() ![]() I’d worked with people - teenagers, especially - of all shapes and colors and backgrounds since I started my career in librarianship. There’s been rich conversation online about feminism for a long time, and because of how social media allows those whose voices have been marginalized to have a space to share, the importance of intersectionality became more and more a conscious part of my personal feminism. Here We Are: Feminism For The Real World began with a tweet. I believe feminism and, by extension, social justice are more than words we share. Today, we are honored to have Kelly Jensen here to talk with us about how and why this book came about. It’s exciting to see this book launch just days after somewhere around 3 million people marched in protests organized and promoted by women around the world. We’re also doing a t-shirt giveaway (see below!). This week, as part of our Social Justice in YA Lit Project, we will have a new piece about this book each day. Tomorrow, Here We Are: Feminism for the Real World edited by Kelly Jensen is released out into the world. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() Tan, the daughter of immigrants, had never been to China prior to 1987. The Joy Luck Club was inspired in part by a trip to China. Becoming a novelist was the furthest thing from her mind, but Tan did have an interest in short fiction and attended a writer’s group led by Molly Giles, setting her on the path to becoming a full-time fiction writer. to travel Europe before Tan graduated from high school in Switzerland.Īfter stints at five different colleges, Tan emerged with degrees in English and linguistics and became a language development specialist before turning to freelance business writing. At 15, her father John and brother Peter both succumbed to brain tumors, prompting her mother to take Tan and her younger brother John Jr. Before the age of 18, Tan had lived in 12 homes around the San Francisco area. If lived experiences inform a writer’s best work, then Amy Tan has a deep reservoir to draw from. The Academy Presents "The Joy Luck Club" (1993) 25th Anniversary / Alberto E. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not out of recognition or acknowledgement but out of respect of the voices and communities that have the authority to be heard and should be given the space to do so.Ī Word On Dread Nation (There will be spoilers for Dread Nation Only) I will stick to my lane and speak to the story. There are so many things about Deathless Divide’s brilliance that are not my voice, my lane or my position to speak. then our recent bonding over Weekend Update- plus she’s been living in my head, gargoyles and all… so now I figure we are full on blogging bromance like…īut her review is just more succinct and lovely in ways mine could never be and so please go read it… Although we did both use the same exact quote from Katherine Like whaaaa…. Please check out her review as it hits on notes I did not. As in much as we read it at the same time and then screamed at each other via Twitter DMs. ![]() After I finished my review of Deathless Divide, I went back and read Sam Writerly Way’s review because we loosely did a buddy read of Deathless Divide. ![]() ![]() During this period it is expected that the basement temporary exhibition galleries will be closed and shows will be held in the main Wilkins building. As the Sainsbury Wing is Grade-I listed, the plans will be very carefully scrutinised.īuilding work is likely to start next year. ![]() It is hoped that a planning application will be submitted to Westminster City Council in the summer. ![]() ![]() After plans have been refined, there will be a further consultation in May-June. The initial public consultation on NG200 will take place in the next few weeks. But he predicts that the gallery’s visitor numbers will recover to the pre-pandemic level of nearly six million a year by 2024-25. Gabriele Finaldi, the National Gallery director, admits that Covid-19 has had “a catastrophic impact on the arts and culture sector”. ![]() The exterior area around the Sainsbury Wing will be upgraded, creating a more attractive pedestrian route from Trafalgar Square to Leicester Square. Along with the main Sainsbury Wing staircase, the basement link will also provide another route to the galleries on the main upper floor of the original building. An illustration of how the outdoor space outside the Sainsbury Wing on Trafalgar Square could look like on completion © Selldorf ArchitectsĪ Research Centre and a Members area will be inserted into the corner of the 19th-century Wilkins Building, accessible from a new basement link with the Sainsbury foyer and from street level. ![]() ![]() ![]() Sage is a quick wit, and Nielsen showcases it with terrific dialogue. Praise for THE FALSE PRINCE"This kickoff to her new Ascendance Trilogy is a swashbuckling origin story. Will he ever be able to return home again? Or will he have to sacrifice his own life in order to save his kingdom? The stunning second installment of The Ascendance Series takes readers on a roller-coaster ride of treason and murder, thrills and peril, as they journey with the Runaway King! And don't miss the highly anticipated fourth book in the series, The Captive Kingdom, coming October 2020! But the further Jaron is forced to run from his identity, the more he wonders if it is possible to go too far. Soon, it becomes clear that deserting the kingdom may be his only hope of saving it. Rumors of a coming war are winding their way between the castle walls, and Jaron feels the pressure quietly mounting within Carthya. Just weeks after Jaron has taken the throne, an assassination attempt forces him into a deadly situation. ![]() Nielsen's New York Times bestselling blockbuster The False Prince! Who will survive? Find out in the thrilling sequel to Jennifer A. A kingdom teetering on the brink of destruction. ![]() ![]() Jhumpa Lahiri plumbs the despair of a husband and wife sundered by tragedy while Lorrie Moore movingly portrays a couple brought together by it. ” The objects of passion in these stories range from a glamorous silent-movie starlet in Elizabeth Bowen’s haunting “Dead Mabelle” and a faithful ghost in Yasunari Kawabata's "Immortality" to a heart surgeon in Margaret Atwood’s “Bluebeard’s Egg” who spends his days penetrating the mysteries of the human heart but who seems oddly emotionally opaque himself. Scott Fitzgerald’s “Winter Dreams” to the agonizing madness of jealousy in Vladimir Nabokov’s “That in Aleppo Once. Lawrence and Colette to the wickedly cynical comedy of Dorothy Parker and Roald Dahl, from the yearning of unrequited romantic illusions in F. Here are nineteen stories from a rich array of writers, and here is every kind of romantic entanglement: from the raw, erotic passion of D. ![]() An anthology of literary love stories-in a beautiful hardcover Pocket Classics edition-perfect for Valentine’s Day. ![]() ![]() Between her many hijinks regarding potential suitors, Catherine also navigates some familiar teenage problems, such as starting her period and having her first kiss. This, of course, is much to Catherine's dismay, so she sets to foil any of her father's plans. ![]() Due to Scott's character, Lord Rollo, and his excessive spending, Catherine has to be married off as she is his only living daughter. ![]() Like many of the characters Dunham writes about, Catherine is not the most likable, but she is full of personality and, more importantly, comedy. Īlongside Bella Ramsey as Catherine is a star-studded cast including Joe Alwyn, Billie Piper, Andrew Scott, and Isis Hainsworth. Often inventing curse words and longing to become a saint, Catherine is the 13th-century version of Anne Shirley, equally headstrong, ill-tempered, and loyal as the other beloved children's book character. ![]() ![]() Set in medieval England, Catherine Called Birdy is the fictional account of 14-year-old Lady Catherine, who is only a lady in name and not in spirit. Nearly thirty years post its literary release, Karen Cushman's Catherine Called Birdy has its theatrical debut thanks to Amazon Studios and director Lena Dunham. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ruso “buys” the uncommunicative Tilla and installs her as his house servant and cook, eventually gleaning from her information that suggests somebody is kidnapping freeborn girls and selling them as slaves. But these problems are trivial compared with the nightmare that builds from the discovery of a murdered slave girl’s body, then the rescue of a girl named Tilla with a broken arm evidently caused by a savage beating, then another female slave’s dead body. He’s recently divorced, overworked, at constant odds with military authorities and further burdened by demands made by his civilian brother on behalf of their financially strapped family. The title character, Gaius Petreius Ruso, is an army physician attached to a legion based in Deva (later Chester). ![]() Dark doings in Roman-occupied “Britannia” are investigated in this nifty historical mystery, the award-winning English author’s first novel. ![]() ![]() The Golden Day is about a class of 11 girls and their teacher, Miss Renshaw. Eventually a news report is released with details of Morgan's past and Miss Renshaw is declared dead. Bethany breaks her promise in the end under pressure from Mr Dern. Only, Miss Renshaw told the schoolgirls never to tell what happened that day. And so, Miss Renshaw is declared missing while the rest of the teachers scramble to get an answer. The girls return to school that day without a teacher. ![]() There, they meet the mysterious Morgan and take a trip into a deep, dark cave. In a class of only eleven schoolgirls, the young and enthusiastic teacher Miss Renshaw disappears after an unexpected excursion to the Gardens. The Golden Day (2011) is a young adult mystery novel by Australian author Ursula Dubosarsky. ![]() ![]() ![]() When a copy of Jennifer’s death certificate arrives in the mail, emblazoned with a red question mark, Bentz follows the postmark trail to Los Angeles. Could she still be alive? He can’t tell his new wife, Olivia, about the sightings or his secret fear that he’s losing his mind-though he knows she suspects something is wrong. Once out of the hospital, Bentz begins to see Jennifer everywhere, haunting and taunting him, then vanishing without a trace. ![]() Then Jennifer blows him a kiss and disappears. Opening his eyes in the hospital room where he’s recovering from an accident, New Orleans detective Rick Bentz sees her standing in the doorway. The scent is unmistakable-gardenias, sweet and delicate, the same perfume that his beautiful first wife, Jennifer, always wore. ![]() In this twisted thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author, featuring New Orleans detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya, the past comes back to haunt Bentz, and it’s deadlier and closer to home than ever. ![]() |