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Butler on needing the Humanities. https://lithub.com/judith-butler-to-imagine-a-world-after-this-democracy-needs-t...

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These are the prompts for January's #PoetryMatters. Everyone is welcome to play! Be sure to tag me @TheSpineView when you post a poem. Thanks everyone for playing. Love reading the poems!

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November is almost here, and these are the prompts for the month's #PoetryMatter. To play, post a poem, song, quote, etc, that you feel fits the prompt. Don't forget to tag me.

Thanks to everyone who played in October and to those who took the time to enjoy the poems. Looking forward to reading the November selections.

Romance fans, lots of free books today!

https://www.romancebooklovers.com/

#LittensLoveRomance

For day 14 of the #hauntedshelf book cover hunt we've got one of my very favourite grey books I've read recently! And it's a spooky one too.

#skeletoncrew

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Sometimes I can't get a thought out of my head. Friday it was, “wait are we a greek Chorus on Taylor Swift's new album?“ And here we are. https://youtu.be/_wWM3xuShR4

^p78 twisting language to preserve white character‘s agency & perspective in “To Have and Have Not.” Wesley can‘t even yell “Fish!”—Harry has to “saw he had seen” the fish.
“A better, certainly more graceful choice would have been to have the black man cry out at the sighting.” Observations, small details.

P30 “The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.”

Strong piece. “American Africanism” as an OTHERED Blackness, a “fabricated presence” as foil for white characters. 1992

P77 “Eddie is white, and we know he is because nobody says so.”

P93 “Studies in American Africanism, in my view, should be investigations of the ways in which a nonwhite, Africanist presence and persona have been constructed—invented—in the United States, and of the literary uses this fabricated presence has served.”

I feel this to my very core… I just need to make it to Friday and then I can enjoy 9 days off!! #teachersoflitsy