The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Bobcat RondoMystery Meat is a sound collage podcast based in Charlotte, Asheville, and New Orleans. Each episode is made up of audio submitted by listeners. Anything within your rights to submit is welcome. From that they create monthly collages meant to challenge, delight, and encourage the audience to listen to their environment in new ways. Mystery Meat is, by its nature and relationship to its audience, a chance operated podcast and a conversation between the listener and the editor. They also manage a mail art campaign, create sound design for theatre and film, and create installations and events which explore the act of listening. Find out more or contact them through mysterymeatpodcast.com. Click here to listen.The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
CARITAS to Open Recovery Program for WomenBy Carolanne Wilson VCU Capital News Service QuailBellMagazine.com *Editor's Note: We love the effort our hometown is making to change women's lives for the better. We encourage you to keep fighting for women's rights every day. RICHMOND – CARITAS, a nonprofit that strives to end homelessness, plans to start a long-term recovery program for women in Richmond after the success of its program for men, The Healing Place. The women’s facility is tentatively scheduled to open in late 2017 or early 2018. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
What I Learned From Not Becoming a Wiccan The Wiccan Rede: An ye harm none, do what ye will.
I read that about ten years ago and I was intrigued, maybe even hooked. I was researching religions. Having been raised without religion or spirituality, I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. I grew up in a community with a strong religious influence. Mostly, it didn’t affect me, but every now and then it would intrude in my world: the boy I was interested in couldn’t take me out because I wasn’t a member of the church, or the unfairness of classmates who were members taking seminary and basically having a free period while I was taking calculus. Things like that made me glad I didn’t have to go to church. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Writing On It All in Governors IslandInterview by Valentina Steiner QuailBellMagazine.com Writing On It All is a project that encourages participants to paint and write whatever they want on both the inside and outside walls of an old house in Governors Island. Participants and facilitators are given the opportunity to write or paint about anything they want, whether that is a current issue, pain, life choice, or joy they feel the urge to release onto the old house’s walls. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Keep Protesting Trump. It's Good For You.The United States has experienced a seismic political shift in the past few months. This hasn’t been just in D.C. offices, but in living rooms, campuses, and street corners across the country, which have seen an outpouring of activism that is quick-moving, grassroots, and progressive. As Randy Block, who leads an intergenerational activist group called the Gray Panthers of Metro Detroit, told me, “I’ve never seen so much to desire to become active for justice since the 1960s, and perhaps it’s even more urgent now than then.” From New York to New Orleans, Seattle to Cincinnati, citizens are getting organized. They’re demonstrating in the streets, writing petitions, coordinating mass phone calls, and getting very familiar with their members of Congress. And all of this civic participation might carry with it some healthy side effects. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
The Woman’s ArmyBy Danielle Lowery QuailBellMagazine.com It’s roughly 600 A.D. Right at the tail end of China’s Sui Dynasty. Emperor Yang sits on the throne and no one likes having him there. For starters, Yang schemed against and framed his own brothers to secure power. But instead of stopping there, he thought it would be a marvelous idea to continue such brutality once on the throne. He launched invasions into Tibet, Mongolia, modern-day Vietnam, Turkish territories, modern-day Korea, Taiwan, and then threw in Sumatra at the end just because he could. Plus, Emperor Yang decided improving China’s infrastructure would make him look more powerful and totally awesome. Too bad it resulted in the death of over six million men to renovate the Great Wall of China and build the Grand Canal. But hey, who needs living subjects to rule when you have eleven huge houses on the Grand Canal to party in? Turns out Yang did. He needed some extra cash to party with. So he severely taxed all the living subjects he had left. That’s the way ever great ruler ensures the love of his people. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Too Freaking Accurate: A Review of Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud by Anne Helen PetersenThe cover of Anne Helen Petersen’s Too Fat Too Slutty Too Loud is unassuming with a first quick look. Bright happy colors of pink, yellow, white dominate it. But if you look closer, the words Too Gross, Shrill, Fat, Slutty, Loud, Pregnant, Old, Strong, Queer catch your eye. There’s the black handwritten subtitle: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman scrawled across the cover along with Petersen’s name. As the old cliché says, you should never judge a book by its cover, but this cover is perfect for the collection of essays. The cover could easily represent the women that Petersen writes about. Celebrities we all know, they’re always underestimated, always only seen by their glamorous covers, but inside is a fierce, independent woman that always comes out on top. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Distill My Heart 13: Encounters with Milkweed HydrosolBy Dr. M. Leona Godin, Cathy Skipper, & Florian Birkmayer MD Images by Cathy Skipper, Florian Birkmayer, and Gabriel Mojay QuailBellMagazine.com This is a special Distill My Heart about the appreciation and distillation of milkweed hydrosol in three acts:
Act One by Dr. ML Godin about her encounter with milkweed hydrosol in a class taught by Cathy Skipper & Florian Birkmayer MD. Act Two is a poem written by Cathy Skipper, who created the online hydrosols certification program through The School for Aromatic Studies. Act Three details the collection and distillation of milkweed in the beautiful Taos region of New Mexico by Cathy Skipper & Florian Birkmayer MD. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Bleeding Sorrow
August the fifth, nineteen seventy-two: The Moody Blues released Nights in White Satin, Grandma Murphy died, and I bled sorrow right through my new pink seersucker pajamas from Sears. ‘Cause I love you, yes I love you, oh… I was thirteen years old, and I still thought my family was normal. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Questioning Everything: A Review of The Answers by Catherine LaceyThe Answers by Catherine Lacey explores the very idea of what feelings are and why we feel them. The idea of our identity being something that either everyone knows or no one knows. If we didn’t have names for feelings, would we feel any at all? What ties these questions together is the Girlfriend Experiment, an impossible idea. Using expert world building, the novel is set in New York that’s pretty present. Lacey interjects pop culture references like actor, Shia Labeouf’s antics and the Met Gala. Lacey brings up feminism and sexism. Characters have debts. It’s so real yet, there is this experiment happening that seems like something out of a sci-fi novel. Lacey creates a dynamic novel that flirts between thriller and literary exploration.
The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
What I Would Tell You if I CouldBy Talia Lieberman QuailBellMagazine.com If I could speak to you, I’d tell you that I love you. Even though I ignore you sometimes, when you paw at the screen door or climb up onto the table and walk across my laptop keyboard while I’m trying to focus, I still really, really love you.
The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
In Need or a Scam? Video Sparks Debate Over PanhandlersA video of a woman seeking handouts at an intersection in a Virginia county has sparked a national debate over whether panhandlers’ pleas for help can be trusted. In the Facebook Live video, two men accused Micha Dominguez, 40, of falsely portraying herself as disabled and homeless. The video, titled “Fake Homeless Woman,” has received hundreds of thousands of views on social media. Many people have posted comments accusing Dominguez of scamming potential donors. “She’s playing on people’s emotions and getting money under false pretenses!” one woman wrote on Facebook. But advocates for the homeless caution that people shouldn’t be so quick to judge. Although some panhandlers may be scams, it’s impossible to know by looking at someone on the street, Kelly Horne said. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Nietzsche (To Be Read Eternally, And Eternally, And Eternally)Nietzsche was my favorite philosopher when I was in college. This was in the seventies and eighties and nineties so I had plenty of time to study. So I studied Nietzsche.
The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
Sharp Eyes, Sharp Wit: A Review of One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter by Scaachi KoulIt’s hard to be funny and point out all the systematic oppression within cultures, but somehow Scaachi Koul does it in One Day We’ll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter. Koul uses her sharp eyes and sharp wit to discuss a range of topics from classism and shadism in India to rape culture to her relationship with her father in this collection of essays. The Breadcrumbs widget will appear here on the published site.
A Heads Up on Kathy Griffin's Trump Head DepictionThese words appear at the bottom of Belgian surrealist artist René Magritte’s painting of a pipe: “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” Magritte indicates that the pipe depicted on the canvas is the image of a pipe, not a real pipe. Similarly, Kathy Griffin’s use of a picture portraying a bloody decapitated Trump head is a representation, not Trump’s real head. It is a crime to threaten the President with decapitation. It is no crime to create a feminist art work which comments upon the President’s overtly sexist remarks about a woman. (The bloody head addresses Trump’s infamous comment about blood and Megyn Kelly.) The most important concern is not whether or not Griffin crossed a subjective good taste line. The most important concern is recognizing the difference between art and life and protecting a female artist’s creative freedom to decry sexism. |
|