![]() ![]() In 2019, Koa was was awarded the Joan Shorenstein Fellowship at the Harvard Kennedy School, publishing an academic paper entitled “Self-Optimization in the Face of Patriarchy: How Mainstream Women’s Media Facilitates White Feminism.”ġ. Koa was a guest editor for the 2019 special Pride section of The New York Times commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, editing such prominent voices as Kate Bornstein, Gavin Grimm, Julia Serano, and Barbara Smith, among other activists. She has also been interviewed by the BBC for her insight into American feminism. She has spoken at Harvard Law School, Columbia Journalism School, The New York Times, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, among other institutions. Her reporting and analysis on gender, identity, race, and culture have been published in, Out magazine, TIME, , The Globe and Mail, , among others. Patrisse Khan-Cullors, the cofounder of Black Lives Matter, describes Koa’s work as “intellectually smart and emotionally intelligent” while the Boston Globe has deemed her “a perceptive cultural critic” and “a visionary.” Previously, she was the editor-in-chief of Jezebel, the executive editor of, and the senior features editor at. ![]() Koa Beck is the author of the acclaimed nonfiction book White Feminism: From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind (Simon & Schuster, January 2021), praised by feminist writers Gloria Steinem and Rebecca Traister. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Many of those deaths were due to water quality issues impacting the growth of seagrass, one of the manatee’s primary food sources.īoat strikes, habitat loss and toxic algae blooms also threaten the species, but far too many are dying of simple starvation. During the first nine months of 2021, nearly 10% of Florida’s manatee population died-more than double the five-year average. ![]() Sadly, manatees are also dying at an alarming rate after only being taken off the endangered species list in 2017. There wasn’t red algae at the time, but I wonder if there were other environmental hazards like plastics that kill the manatees. The boats slow down near the island most of the time, but it could have been a boat collision. They didn’t know what killed the manatee. ![]() My kids went kayaking around the island and saw the saddest sight - a bone-white manatee floating upside down. They don’t need to do much - just emerge from the water to pop their heads out once in a while and our phones are all out ready to record them. There are always throngs of people parking their golf carts when the manatees come to this small dock to just hang out. My favorite thing about North Captiva Island in Florida is the manatee sightings. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Nations ceased to be what they were before.”īerger was a lifelong Marxist, a vehement critic of capitalism. “It seems to me that we have to return, to recapitulate what globalisation meant, because it meant that capitalism, the world financial organisations, became speculative and ceased to be first and foremost productive, and politicians lost nearly all their power to take political decisions – I mean politicians in the traditional sense. It was from there he gave one of his final interviews with the Observer’s Kate Kellaway, giving his view, among other things, on the bigger picture around the Brexit vote. More recently he lived in Antony, a suburb of Paris. He was an energy source in a depleted world.- JEANETTE WINTERSON January 2, 2017īerger lived for many years in a remote farmhouse in the French Alps, to where the British Library’s Jamie Andrews had to travel when the institution acquired Berger’s literary archive in 2009. ![]() ![]() ![]() The text states “For one hour at least we had maintained a profound silence…” (Poe, 1845). Auguste Dupin are by how they keep each other company. In the beginning of Poe’s short story, we are almost immediately given information of how good of friends the narrator and C. Removing unnecessary details and context leave the raw elements behind. ![]() ![]() The structure of the work itself and how the specific details function together are typically the primary aspects of this kind of analysis. I find literary theory to be really interesting, especially seeing how different a piece can become by looking at it from a different perspective.įor a brief overview of the theory: New Critical analyses focus on the specifics, and not the general details of a work. I’ve already posted one analysis of this piece, but I’d like to share my New Critical analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story, The Purloined Letter. Bc if you’re taking Lit Theory, you’re likely an English major or are even a writer like me, and guess who tweets about it all the time! Me, it’s me.) Not really…unless 0.0 my CashApp is $NikkiFantasea OR you could just follow me on Twitter You know, whichever works. Also remember plagiarism is unacceptable and please do cite me if you use any of my words. (Update: hello from future Nikki! If you’re a student struggling with this theoretical lens, I do sincerely hope this post will help you understand. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the palace there were great festivities, and the children played at receiving company but instead of having, as usual, all the cakes and apples that were left, she gave them some sand in a tea-cup, and told them to pretend it was cake. They knew this from the very first day after the wedding. Their father, who was king of the country, married a very wicked queen, who did not love the poor children at all. Oh, these children were indeed happy, but it was not to remain so always. Their sister Eliza sat on a little stool of plate-glass, and had a book full of pictures, which had cost as much as half a kingdom. They wrote with diamond pencils on gold slates, and learnt their lessons so quickly and read so easily that every one might know they were princes. The eleven brothers were princes, and each went to school with a star on his breast, and a sword by his side. Far away in the land to which the swallows fly when it is winter, dwelt a king who had eleven sons, and on daughter, named Eliza. ![]() ![]() Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18. I just hoped he wouldn’t shatter it for good.Īuthor's note – Neighbor Dearest is a full-length standalone novel. I thought my heart had been broken by Elec, but it was alive and beating harder than ever for Damien. And as much as he pushed me away, I knew he felt the same…because his heartbeat didn’t lie. But wow, this book seriously falls short in every way. Problem was, I was falling hard for him anyway. I saw this book 'highly' recommended by an avid romance book reader on YouTube and other readers who enjoyed the After series by Anna Todd (which I truly enjoyed) I was looking for other books that would be similar to After and supposedly 'Stepbrother Dearest' was claimed to be. He became a good friend, but Damien made it clear that he couldn’t be anything more. ![]() He set me straight with tips to get over my breakup. The sexy artist next door now knew all of my deepest secrets and insecurities. ![]() Or so I thought until one night I heard laughter coming through an apparent hole in my bedroom wall.ĭamien had been listening to all of my phone sessions with my therapist. ![]() The neighbor I’d dubbed “Angry Artist” also had two massive dogs that kept me up with their barking. A STANDALONE NOVEL that does NOT need to be read in conjunction with any other book.įrom New York Times bestselling author, Penelope Ward, comes a friends-to-lovers story with sexy new characters.Īfter getting dumped, the last thing I needed was to move next door to someone who reminded me of my ex-boyfriend, Elec. ![]() ![]() that the only female character, Kanga, is depicted as a bad mother). ![]() More recently, criticism has been levelled at the lack of positive female characters (i.e. Critical analysis of the book has held that it represents a rural Arcadia, separated from real-world issues or problems, and is without purposeful subtext. The book was published on October 14, 1926, and was both well-received by critics and a commercial success, selling 150,000 copies before the end of the year. Following this, Shepard encouraged Milne to write about his son Christopher Robin Milne's toys, and so they became the inspiration for the characters in Winnie-the-Pooh. ![]() Among the characters in the poetry book was a teddy bear Shepard modelled after his son's toy. Milne and Shepard collaborated previously for English humour magazine Punch, and in 1924 created When We Were Very Young, a poetry collection. It is the first of two story collections by Milne about Winnie-the-Pooh, the second being The House at Pooh Corner (1928). ![]() The book is set in the fictional Hundred Acre Wood, with a collection of short stories following the adventures of an anthropomorphic teddy bear, Winnie-the-Pooh, and his friends Christopher Robin, Piglet, Eeyore, Owl, Rabbit, Kanga, and Roo. Winnie-the-Pooh is a 1926 children's book by English author A. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Tyler’s eyes widen - and this, this is my favorite part. I put the phone in his twitching hand and lean over him, my body casting his in shadow. “Why-” he starts, but his throat is too constricted to speak. Scarlett studies them, meticulously plots their demise, and then ensures they can never harm another woman ever again. No, her preferred prey is awful men: rapists, perverts, abusers, dangerous narcissists. Securing tenure isn’t nearly as important to her as her all-consuming hobby.īut Scarlett is not hunting bucks or birds. When she’s not writing lesson plans or working on fellowship applications, she’s an avid hunter who spends hours stalking her prey. Scarlett Clark isn’t a typical English professor. They Never Learn by Layne Fargo is a feminist serial killer story and dynamic psychological thriller about two women who give bad men exactly what they deserve.ĭr. ![]() ![]() ![]() The extras in the book are What is Black Consciousness The Righteousness of our Strength, Our Strategy for Liberation and On Death. The series of articles, fifteen in total plus four extras, that form I Write What I Like are supplemented by two transcripts from Biko’s evidence in the SASO/ BPC Trial that took place in the first week of May 1976 an interview conducted by a European journalist in the first half of 1977 and an extract from an interview conducted by an American businessman month’s before Biko’s final detention and death. ![]() Aelred Stubbs edited the collection and also wrote the preface. This collection was published in 1978 a year after his death. ![]() I Write What I Like also comprises addresses, letters, reports and interviews he gave during the formation of SASO in 1969 until months before his death in 1977. ![]() These articles written using his pseudonym Frank Talkform the core of the book. The book’s title comes from the heading of the column in which Biko published his articles in the SASO newsletter. I Write What I Like is a book featuring the collection of articles written by Steve Bantu Biko. It is an exposition of the Black Consciousness Philosophy. A scholar of Black Consciousness, Thegatvolblogger, studying I Write What I Like which provides an exposition of Steve Bantu Biko’s Black Consciousness Philosophy. ![]() ![]() Yet, I felt something else" (spoiler: it was another pocket.) He describes a woman "staring down at me. "I checked the inside pocket," he relates at one point. ![]() He is addicted to italics, which festoon the pages, straining to turn ordinary words into jolts of surprise and excitement. And for a once-successful magazine journalist, he's an alarmingly bad writer. ![]() ![]() On the basis of a single anonymous phone call he had once – on live TV – more or less accused Cordova of being a child-murderer, and was then surprised to find his life falling apart and the work drying up. I say "hero", but Scott is plainly a bit of an idiot. ![]() |