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“The Selected Works of Audre Lorde”
Parul Sehgal’s review of “The Selected Works of Audre Lorde” is a beautiful reflection on the depth and brilliance of Lorde’s work and continued influence. “Lorde, like James Baldwin and Toni Morrison, is vulnerable to selective quotation. Black writers can be treated as oracles, read symbolically, with lazy reverence; their work is flattened into self-help…
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Links for the Voracious
A little something from around the internet. “To be able to have the ability to bring other people in, who I think are massively more talented, it’s something that brings me so much excitement.” -Issa Rae, creator and star of “Insecure” “And of course we want an economic recovery! But we’re never going to have…
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The One and Only Yola
Yola’s “Walk Through Fire” is an album I can’t stop recommending to people. It is gorgeous and generous, entrancing from the first note to the last. Yola’s voice and guitar playing are tender, precise, and powerful. She commands her musical gifts with singular grace. Yola has the rare ability to create the simultaneous and contradictory…
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“Life is art, it’s connections,” he said. “I want to live my life fully, to love fully, instead of just existing. I try to enjoy every moment — and those moments, for me, are understanding art.”- Ben Barcelona, superfan of LA’s art museums
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-04-23/81-year-old-ben-barcelona-lives-and-breathes-museums-but-what-happens-when-culture-collapses
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Gordon Sondland’s Greatest Hits:
“I’m A Throw You Under A Bus” “Everyone Was In The Loop” “Quid Pro Better Believe It’s Quo” “Let Me Read These Emails To You” “Zelensky (House impeachment remix)” “I Bought An Ambassadorship, I’m Not Going to Prison” “Me and Mr. Giuliani” “Devin Nunes Eyes” #demdebate
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Dispatch From Ontario, Oregon
On a Monday morning, I flew from Portland, Oregon to Boise, Idaho. From Boise, I drove an hour west back to Oregon. The drive was longer than the flight. When I got out of my rental car in Ontario, it was 102 degrees. My hosts and colleagues told me it was a dry heat, so…
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Toni Morrison in Her Own Words
The function of freedom is to free someone else. 1. Whatever the work is, do it well- not for the boss but for yourself. 2. You make the job; it doesn’t make you. 3. Your real life is with us, your family. 4. You are not the work you do; you are the person you…
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What I Like To Do- Summer 2019
Hang out in the woods Listen to Pepe Aguilar Take pictures of murals Consider adding to my art collection Walk around downtown
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