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Mary Armour
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New here, looking for poetry & fiction, book recommendations, fellow plant-lovers, conversation
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A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.
December 2, 2024 at 2:22 AM
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In the latest issue of House & Leisure: DOG & LEISURE and poetry by Kerry Hammerton, Lucienne Argent, Beatrice Willoughby and Justin Fox!
December 1, 2024 at 12:22 PM
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Hundreds march in Joburg demanding water: Residents of Phumla Mqashi informal settlement say they’re not getting enough water from trucks

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Hundreds march in Joburg demanding water
Residents of Phumla Mqashi informal settlement say they’re not getting enough water from trucks
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December 2, 2024 at 3:54 PM
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Fascinating review of recent editions of, and work on, the co-founder of the négritude movement, Aimé Césaire, by Mousab Younis in @londonreview.bsky.social: the v distinctive intellectual history of the Francophone Caribbean in the wider anti-/post-colonial context www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Musab Younis · The Mouth of Calamities: Césaire’s Reversals
Aimé Césaire can seem to be caught between worlds. For the politically minded, he is suspiciously literary and obscure...
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December 2, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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Beautiful essay by climate scientist @petergleick.bsky.social on the difference between dismayed and defeated. With a list of what's still unstoppable....
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The frustration my colleagues and I feel is almost palpable. We’ve been warning of these issues for so long that most of the pioneers in this field are now retired or dead. After giving more than a thousand lectures, talks, testimonies, and interviews I’m feeling old and worn. Still, I cling to my optimism that the worst outcomes can still be avoided because I see positive signs of progress. The cost of non-carbon energy alternatives has fallen so low, it is now cheaper to shut down existing coal plants than to keep running them. In 2023, China built as much solar photovoltaics capacity as the entire world did in 2022. Clean energy is the leading form of new electricity generation in the U.S., with solar reaching record levels in 2023. In 2024, wind and solar will generate more electricity than hydropower. In early 2025, renewable electricity generation will surpass coal to become the largest source of electricity globally. Most encouraging, the growing efforts of younger generations to raise awareness and fight for action on climate, often at great personal cost, show they understand the stakes and care deeply about their future.
November 26, 2024 at 2:17 AM
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How @nymag.com deftly speaks to the importance of editors:
November 25, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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A great book edited by @farhanasultana.com everyone should read! Especially the lovely humans from the sustainability class.
November 25, 2024 at 8:38 PM
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Sandra Gilbert was a titan of feminist litcrit but also a pioneer of trans studies. Highly recommend "Costumes Of The Mind" on transvestism in modernist literature (and Madwoman which hits a lot of the same themes)
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Sandra M. Gilbert, Co-Author of ‘The Madwoman in the Attic,’ Dies at 87
A poet, scholar and literary critic, she turned a feminist lens on 19th-century writers like Jane Austen and Charlotte Brontë, creating a feminist classic.
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November 19, 2024 at 10:34 PM
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Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87
Sandra Gilbert, co-author of The Madwoman in the Attic, dies aged 87
The writer was also a renowned academic and poet as well as being one of the leading figures of second wave feminism Sandra Gilbert, the American poet and literary critic who co-authored the landmark second wave feminist text The Madwoman in the Attic,…
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November 19, 2024 at 4:49 PM
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𝗣𝗥𝗘𝗦𝗦: 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗡𝗮𝗴𝘁𝗲𝗴𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗱

Good news for all playwrights!

The prestigious Nagtegaal Text Prize has been revived after 15 years in collaboration with the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees. Entries close on 7 Feb ‘25.

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PRESS: The Nagtegaal Text Prize revived in collaboration with the Toyota Stellenbosch Woordfees
Good news for all playwrights: The prestigious Nagtegaal Text Prize has been revived.
www.theatrescenecpt.co.za
November 22, 2024 at 6:56 AM