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Dolly Parton's Collaboration with James Patterson is Pure Fun, Plus a Queer Mystery from Casey McQuisto
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(Books)
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I KISSED SHARA WHEELER: A Novel
By Casey McQuiston
(Wednesday Books)
I Kissed Shara Wheeler is a love letter to all of us queer kids who were high schoolers in the ‘90s. Especially those of ...
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Created on 17 May 2022
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Fight Back Against Book Censorship in The US With These 4 Actionable Steps
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(Books)
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... intellectual freedom, can be a quick, five-minute investment of effort or a long-term campaign of engagement. Use the tips below for some activist inspo.
Write a Letter to Your Library
Spend a few ...
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Created on 02 May 2022
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3.
Jewel Is Back With The R&B and Folk-Influenced "Freewheelin' Woman," Her First Album in 7 Years ...
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(Music)
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... write about culture. You know, not just trying to write a hit [but also writing] a love letter to humanity. So I feel like that has shaped every album.
So a song like “Intuition,” that was a pop song ...
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Created on 02 May 2022
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The Secret History of Women and Mushrooms: A Centuries-Old Tale of Empowerment, Enlightenment, Education, and Magic
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(Eat Me)
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... vegetable outcasts,” she once wrote in a letter. “Like beggars by the wayside dressed in gay attire, they ask for attention but claim none.” It took her 20 years to write The Fungi of Maryland. Filled ...
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Created on 28 April 2022
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Diane di Prima Blesses Us One Last Time With "Spring and Autumn Annals," A Previously Unpublished Memoir and Elegy To A Frien
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(Books)
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... first to show that being daring, angry, dangerous, and even ugly on the page was a weapon worth wielding against a patriarchal world. Best known for her books Loba and Revolutionary Letters, di Prima’s ...
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Created on 31 March 2022
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The Persian New Year, or Nowruz, is the Perfect Way to Refresh and Reset—And Also a Great Excuse to Stuff Your Face with Amazing Food (Family Recipe Included!)
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(Living)
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... with the Persian letter ‘s’. Each item is a symbol for a different aspiration for the new year. Everyone’s haft-seen varies slightly and is decorated with items that are personal for them or their families. ...
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Created on 18 March 2022
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Fiona Apple Is Using Her Star Power For An Urgent Legal Cause—And She Wants Your Help
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(Feminism)
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... only spent a day in there, but during her trial she was facing up to 10 years. However, it was a letter written by Apple's friend in India to all the judges she felt could help her case showing the courts ...
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Created on 18 March 2022
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Lizzo, Melanie Lynskey, Barbie Ferreira, And More Are Calling Out Body-Shamers
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(Entertainment)
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... help you with this.’”
Her three co-stars, Juliette Lewis, Christina Ricci, and Tawny Cypress defended Lynskey, and Lewis penned a letter confronting the Yellowjackets producers. Well done, squad.
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Created on 14 March 2022
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HOORAY, The Equal Rights Amendment Passed! Or DID It?!?
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(Feminism)
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... decision before turnover begins, and when midterm elections happen in November, there’s no telling which party the House or Senate will belong to.
In an open letter to President Biden, the founder and ...
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Created on 11 March 2022
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“Lucy and Desi," Amy Poehler's New Documentary About TV Pioneers Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Is An Intimate Look Into An Early Power Couple's Private Life ...
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(Movies)
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... the hardships and disappointments Ball and Arnaz experienced are looked at through a rose-tinted lens. The film is more interested in what worked than what didn’t, and the result is an absolute love-letter ...
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Created on 07 March 2022
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6 Things You Might Not Know About Judge Ketanji Brown-Jackson
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(Feminism)
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... Court judge to President Obama
Jackson and her husband have two daughters –Talia and Leila. Leila appeared to be following in her mother’s persuasive footsteps at age 11, writing an impassioned letter ...
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Created on 25 February 2022
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Phoebe Robinson on her Comedy Special, Book Release, and Starting a Publishing Imprint, Tiny Reparations
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(Entertainment)
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... goals back then were to get a set on Letterman and to get her own HBO Comedy Special—the latter of which came to fruition in October when her first solo comedy special, Sorry, Harriet Tubman, premiered ...
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Created on 08 February 2022
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13.
Shelf Life: Chronicles of a Cairo Bookseller
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(Books)
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... with a state censor that must be mediated by Wassef’s lawyer. “This book is my love letter to Diwan,” she writes. Fortunately, these unconventional chronicles are much more incisive, outspoken, and candid ...
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Created on 31 January 2022
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8 2022 New Years Resolutions That Don’t Involve Losing Weight
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(Living)
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... Collage art for instance is an art-form that doesn't require traditional painting and drawing skills. Last year, I took up embroidery and found that I have a knack for stitch lettering. Being able to make ...
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Created on 01 January 2022
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Over a Century Ago, Two Young Girls Pulled a Prank That Got Way Out of Hand—And Convinced The World that Fairies Really Exist
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(Arts)
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... than either can get singly.”
Privately, Doyle and Gardner were worried that, at ages 19 and 12, Elsie and Frances were already too old to make contact with the fairies. Gardner wrote in a letter reproduced ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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"Harlem," The New Sitcom by "Girls Trip" Writer Tracy Oliver, Just Might Be the Fluffy-Lighthearted TV Fare Black Women Need in these “Post-Pandemic” Tim
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(TV)
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... women characters, call the series a love letter to Black women and Harlem, and citing her time spent in Harlem as her most magical memories. “[Harlem] has been such an impactful, and influential neighborhood ...
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Created on 16 December 2021
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Gina Schock of The Go-Go's Shares Rare Photos of the Band's Early Days, Calls New Coffee Table Book "Made in Hollywood," A Love Letter to Go-Go's
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(Music)
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When you think of seminal all-female rock and roll bands, the chances of The Go-Go’s being the first group to come to mind are high. Their 1981 album Beauty and the Beat, featuring iconic tracks “Our ...
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Created on 06 December 2021
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Where is Peng Shuai? Chinese Tennis Player Disappears From Public Eye After Sharing Her #MeToo Story. She Reappears for Video Call with IOC President, But Why Are They Ignoring the Allegations?
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(Feminism)
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... November 2, including allegations of sexual assault. The post, written as an open letter to Zhang, was deleted within half an hour and searches for Peng Shuai’s name yielded no results. Zhang served as ...
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Created on 23 November 2021
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Titane, the Surprise Winner of the Palme D'Or, is Everything You've Heard It Is, But Is It Really a Gender-Bending Queer Fil
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(Movies)
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... It will be France’s Academy Award submission this year, and it is blowing minds all over Twitter and Letterboxd. It’s hyped as hell.
Enjoyed the wild hairpin turns of Julia Ducournau’s second feature ...
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Created on 01 November 2021
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South African Soul-Rocker Tuelo Honors her Mother in Video for “Saint Margaret”
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(Music)
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... consider herself a musician until she moved to New York City by herself at the young age of 17, where she worked as a vocalist. While in New York, Tuelo appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman ...
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Created on 27 October 2021