![]() ![]() The FBI could keep fat files on “known homosexuals.” Bars could be raided and the patrons arrested and charged. ![]() Lesbians and gay men can be committed to psychiatric hospitals against their will (as I was by my parents as a teenager). We were treated as pariahs because we had been medicalized and psychiatrically profiled and deemed to be dangerous, unstable, even treasonous. Gay men and lesbians are pitted against every controlling body in America: the press demonizes us in service to the courts, the military, the schools, the psychiatric community. The battle as Faderman lays it out, is almost a class struggle-one of “the people” (lesbians and gay men) and society’s hierarchy, the “suits versus streets” that she illumines. It is, unquestionably, her crowning achievement as a historian. Faderman has plumbed the archives of libraries, newspapers, legislative bodies, lesbian and gay organizations, police files, and also interviewed more than 100 activists and others to get this meticulously researched book to us. But over 100 pages of footnotes allude to that breadth her research is extraordinary. The breadth of Faderman’s scholarship here may be lost to the non-academic reader who will be pulled in right from the prologue by Faderman’s easy, colloquial, immensely readable style. ![]()
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5/27/2023 0 Comments The color of law book![]() ![]() ![]() The Color of Law traverses the origins of public housing, racially exclusionary zoning laws, and a broad array of other federal and local housing policies that intended to and succeeded at oppressing and segregating African Americans. This book explains how government action weaponized the law to maintain racially segregated neighborhoods and led to generations of housing instability for many families of color. ![]() Now, as the federal and District government face a wave of unemployment, and the surge in housing instability that will result without purposeful government action, The Color of Law takes on renewed importance. I received it as a gift from the Washington Council of Lawyers as part of a training program on eviction defense. This thought-provoking book tells the story of how housing policy has entrenched racial segregation. A few weeks before I joined Legal Aid, I received a copy of The Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In France, Hugo's literary fame comes first from his poetry but also rests upon his novels and his dramatic achievements. He is considered one of the greatest and best known French writers. Victor Marie Hugo (French pronunciation: 26 February 1802 – ) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. A commanding and epic melodrama fully utilizing the extremes of passion and religion in the bygone Gothic era, Hugo's novel explores social justice through the suffering of his characters, though with a compassion and melancholy that belies the author's conviction in the impossibility of salvation in his existing world. ![]() Though still hated by everyone, Quasimodo's sleeping soul awakens and grows in an extraordinary conversion to the sublime, allowing him to care for and protect Esmeralda even as those who admired her come to fear and despise her. The severe priest, though he looks after the grotesque Quasimodo, ignores the public persecution that the man suffers whenever he leaves the Cathedral, and it is at just such moment of vulnerability that the lovely young Gypsy Esmeralda shows Quasimodo an act of kindness that leads to his inner transformation. It is there that the deformed Quasimodo has gone deaf ringing the grand church's bells for his adoptive father Dom Claude Frollo. Though written at the beginning of the Romantic era, this remarkable French historical romance takes place in medieval Paris at the Cathedral of Notre Dame. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Baldwin giovanni's room![]() While apparently raceless, the novel not only makes whiteness visible as a specific ethnic construct but also illustrates its dependence on other hegemonic categories, particularly masculinity and heterosexuality. Moving beyond these assumptions, however, this article is centrally concerned with race-ing James Baldwin’s early fiction, particularly Giovanni’s Room, illustrating the relevance of race in general to the novel, and of whiteness in particular. ![]() AbstractEven though criticism is increasingly challenging the traditional view of James Baldwin’s earlier novels as “whimsical detours,” these texts continue to be read as “white” and, therefore, studied in sexual rather than racial terms, in (white) gay studies rather than African American studies. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Connected by Kat Stiles![]() ![]() "I wanted to be in the insular bubble of college," she told Independent. Her refuge was Columbia University where she studied English Literature. While Stiles' peers, like Hilary Duff, dove headlong into their fame, Julia Stiles ran from it. ![]() "I had to learn to stick up for myself": Why Julia Stiles ditched rom-coms. Just not in the way most people expected. ![]() "I look forward to working with her when we’re both in our sixties." "Her intelligence and commitment and pure talent are going to allow her to have a beautiful career, with profound respect and longevity," her Save The Last Dance co-star Kerry Washington (now of Scandal fame) told Rolling Stone in 2001. ![]() The New York-born woman was one of the most popular young actors on film, pegged by critics and her co-stars as someone set to enjoy a decades-long career in a notoriously fickle industry. When actor Julia Stiles comes across her old movies, she cringes.ġ0 Things I Hate About You and Save the Last Dance may be the jobs that launched her Hollywood career two decades ago, but she looks at them the way most of us look upon an old photograph - with nostalgia and a whack of embarrassment about the person staring back.Įmbarrassment? To the rest of the world, the huge success of those movies signalled that she'd made it. ![]() ![]() ![]() He lingered this way, in pain and distress, until the end of July, when he succumbed to death-the last of the Smith brothers to be sacrificed. Now, hours later, he confided to his mother that he had been suffering a terrible pain in his side ever since the chase indeed, he had become so weak that he could not sit up without help. ![]() He escaped them in the end and was able to ride into Nauvoo in time to see his brothers’ bodies brought back to the Mansion House. When that failed, they chased after him on horseback for more than two hours. But some of the very mobsters who had been part of the deed, realizing who he was, attempted to shoot him on the spot. Samuel Smith, riding alone into Carthage on the day of the martyrdom, did not realize that his two older brothers lay dead. But Lucy had yet another personal anguish on her mind. ![]() 5/27/2023 0 Comments Alcasan that hideous strength![]() And, if so, they will not rest till they have got hold of you. It is not at all unlikely that they know you have, involuntarily, been spying on them. The people you have seen in your dreams are real people. If you do that, I warn you that you will almost certainly fall into the hands of other people who are at least as anxious as we to make use of your faculty and who will care no more about your life and happiness than about those of a fly. Or thirdly, you may tell someone else about it. If you do so, you will be much less frightened in the long run and you will be helping to save the human race from a very great disaster. ![]() On the other hand, you can put it at our disposal. You can try to suppress it, but you will fail, and you will be very badly frightened. The things you have seen concern something compared with which the happiness, or even the life, of you and me is of no importance. "You do not at all realise the seriousness of this matter. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Genghis khan books conn iggulden![]() ![]() In an argument over food, Temujin kills his older brother Bekter, much to his mother’s anguish.Īfter a few years of trading with other wandering families, the family establish a small home. The expectation was that Temujin’s family would perish in the unforgiving winter, but Temujin, along with his mother Hoelun, his four brothers Bekter, Khasar, Kachiun, Temüge, and his baby sister Temulun, survived against all the odds, albeit in poverty. Fearing the sons of the former khan may contest his leadership when they reach adulthood, Eeluk banishes Temujin’s family from the tribe, leaving them to fend for themselves on the harsh Steppes. Yesugei’s first bondsman, Eeluk, assumes control of the tribe. His father is attacked by assassins and soon dies from his injuries. The narrative follows the early life of Temujin, the second son of Yesugei, the khan of the Mongolian “Wolves” tribe. ![]() His series “Conqueror”, covers the Mongol Empire created by Genghis Khan – Iggulden covers Temujin’s humble beginnings and the background which resulted in him growing from Temujin to the man who would soon become Genghis Khan. In 2007, Iggulden became the first person to top the UK fiction and non-fiction charts at the same time. Connor Iggulden is a British author who writes historical fiction, most notably the Emperor series and Conqueror series. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments Penpal book jt![]() ![]() “Hey, bunny,” he says softly, his eyes shining with adoration. ![]() If you’re good, I’ll feed you a carrot later on.”Īt first I keep thinking of Elmer Fudd, but eventually this grew on me and I’m okay with that. If you can’t do what Aidan did for Kayla for me then I don’t want you. This story had me all over the place and the second twist just about did me in and I had to stop reading. When I found out why, it was already too late.Īnd nothing on earth could have prepared me for what happened next.Īs a seasoned romance reader I went into this story just knowing how it was going to play out and I was so wrong. We went back and forth, exchanging letters every week that grew increasingly more intimate. I said we’d never met, but he said I was wrong. I told the mystery man he had the wrong girl. Out of simple curiosity, I wrote back to ask him what exactly he was waiting for. It was signed by Dante, a man I didn’t know. It was postmarked from the state penitentiary, and contained a single sentence: The first letter arrived the day my husband was buried. This is at NO extra cost to you Goodreads ![]() If you buy the book using that link, I will receive a small commission from the sale. This post contains affiliate links you can use to purchase the book. Geissinger Incorporated on August 16, 2022 This book does contain sensitive topics that may be hard for some readers. ![]() 5/26/2023 0 Comments The aeneid john dryden![]() ![]() ![]() Several critics think that the hero Aeneas’ abandonment of the Carthaginian Queen Dido, is meant as a statement of how Augustus’ enemy, Mark Anthony, should have behaved with the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The poem was commissioned from Virgil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. LibriVox recording of The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil. ![]() |