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World Indigenous Games
Love the first one as an Asian Native who’s Polynesian Tahitian Indigenous Pasifika
nah too many people aren’t talking enough about Nakia Crawford and it ain’t sitting right with my soul
Nakia and her grandmother were in a their car and stopped at a red light when a white man decided to pull up next to them and he proceeded to shoot Nakia several times and she died at the hospital.
She was 18 a baby a precious human being and She just graduated. Why aren’t people mad? why aren’t y’all furious? why isn’t her named being said?? Our young black women are constantly targeted and murdered and no one says shit..it stops NOW!! IT ONLY HAPPENED 2 DAYS AGO !! why aren’t we talking about this?? say her name NAKIA CRAWFORD #JusticeForNakia #SAYHERNAME #NakiaCrawford
gay rights haha rb patreon insta
I respect ONE man
you know who’s gay? paul the real estate novelist who never had time for a wife and davey who’s still in the navy and probably will be for life
New headcannon: everyone in that song is gay except the Piano Man who has no idea he’s playing at a gay bar and the staff and regulars have a betting pool on how long he’ll take to finally figure it out. So far John is ahead.
fun fact
im weirdly knowlagable in the history of soda i dont even drink soda why do i know so much about it
coke and pepsi taste different because coke was invent before refrigeration so it was designed to be drunk warm, while pepsi was designed after refrigeration was invented so it was designed to be drunk cold. as a result the tastes are different but if you drink pepsi cold and coke warm theyll taste the same.
Why the fuck do you know this
i honestly have no idea
coke’s recipe was originally green but the designers made it brown so it looked more like tea
Had they never seen green tea?
i dont even know if green tea was invented in 1886 but they wanted to make the public more open to eating the fizzy drink
Green tea was invented in the 13th century and made up 22% of the tea thrown off the ship in the Boston Tea Party
alan i know about soda not green tea
i will trade u information abt bees and carrier pigeons for information abt the history of soda
no one knows where the origin of the name ‘7up’ started but it did have a mood stabilizer in the original recipe found in present day anti-depressants
i want facts about bees and carrier pigeons now
Carrier pigeons come from a species of Wild Rock pigeon, and their flights could be as long as 1800 km and were used as early as 3000 years ago.
You know in old cartoons where a character throws a beehive at someone, and you think ‘lol, but that wouldn’t work in real life’. Turns out it would, and did. People used to lob beehives at the approximate location of the enemy forces to expose them.
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Threads like this are pretty much the reason I come to Tumblr
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That. That is the entire high literature summed up. You just broke all man-written novels
here’s the link to donate to george floyd’s official memorial fund if you are able to contribute. if you can’t donate, please share. being black shouldn’t be a death sentence.
"Controlled blasting" for Mr Trump's border wall is taking place at sacred gravesites, tribes and lawmakers say.
Colonialism is not a concept of a bygone era.
It is a time to listen to native folx rn, partly as this isn’t being widely broadcast, because their voices are being shut down and shouted out, but also because the very laws that were agreed in term of what post colonial America decided was reasonable to place, is being violated. For capitalism and racism. Listen and support southern natives right now, and don’t think the American gov won’t trample on human rights and sacred places the minute it’s inconvenient for them not to.
My mother saw this, that arrived today, and started crying.
She was extremely emotional and told me to thank you guys who are kind enough to send us things from my Amazon Wishlist.
Mum said “you kids, whatsitcalled, you “millenials” are being so kind at this hard times, you guys are… I just, I don’t have words. But during this horrible crisis all around the world I see young people on the news helping in any way they can and to see that happening to our family… just… Obrigada. Thank you.”
She says for those who can donate and help us, to focus on cleaning supplies and food. Both me and my dad are on the risk groups and I’ve been told by my doctor to NOT leave the house at all because I’ve got extremely low immunity. So my mother cleans the house every single day because she knows me and dad are under extreme risk.
She told me to thank you guys very very much, that her husband (dad) has most of his chocolate orders cancelled and he got NO MONEY at all this month, except what you guys have been donating. Our groceries and household items are running out and when we receive something we are just so happy and so thankful.
You guys are keeping my family fed, safe and healthy and I cannot thank you enough.
{Check my Amazon Wishlist here}
I’ve added dollar estimates. The majority of the things on this list are under $5 and the rest mostly under $10
[FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS ON THIS POST BECAUSE IT’S A WISHLIST IN BRAZIL. IT’S TEN EASY STEPS!!!]
(Or: buy me a “coffee” on kofi)
My paypal email is [email protected]
If you can’t donate, it’s okay. Can you just share this post? Thank you friends.
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bitch this post is a lie those weird bars of soap at lush will last for months.
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Jewish People Problem #20
When you can’t find a single book with a Jewish protagonist that isn’t about the holocaust
I actually read a really nice novel that had decent Jewish representation when I was in college and its story was about a murder mystery. Due to how my memory works, I lost the book and I forgot the title :( :( :(
okay I wrote a really long thing and my phone deleted it so here is take 2 of my MASTERPOST OF NON-HOLOCAUST-CENTRIC JEWISH MC’s:
Historical Fiction
“All Other Nights” by Dara Horn - Jewish spy for the union in the civil war
“Shylock’s Daughter” by Marjam Pressler - retelling of the Merchant of Venice with a sympathetic Shylock and a historically accurate look at the Ashkenazi AND Sephardic Jewish community in 16th century Italy
“The Chosen” by Chaim Potok - Hassidic + Modern Orthodox Jewish boys ‘friendship’ (lbr we all ship it) in 1945-1948 NYC
“My Name is Asher Lev” by Chaim Potok - ultra-orthodox Jewish boy takes up art, paints a crucifixion scene, and sh*t hits the fan
“The Museum of Extraordinary Things” - Jewish photographer + (non-Jewish) daughter of a sideshow owner meet and fall in love in turn of the century Brooklyn, and also a subplot about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
“Escape from Egypt” by Sonia Levitin - retelling of the Passover story
“Daniel Deronda” by George Eliot - it’s like Jane Austen. With Jews! (And while everything is not all hunky-dory, it’s also not the antisemitic travesty I’ve come to expect from 19th century gentile writers).
Contemporary
“Hacking Harvard” by Robin Wasserman - 3 nerds take on a bet to get a slacker/stoner into Harvard (also a really nice critique of the college admissions process tbh)
“The Pact” by Jodi Picoult - (suicide tw) A tragedy hits 2 families. The novel centers on a trial and flashbacks to the event in question.
“Someone to Run With” by David Grossman - set on the streets of Jerusalem, a boy tries to return a lost dog to its owner, a girl who has run away from home in search of her brother (this is the English translation, obviously, but if you can read novels in Hebrew I highly recommend reading the original, משהו לרוץ איתו)
Urban Fantasy/Fantasy/SciFi
“The Mediator” series by Meg Cabot - teenaged girl starts seeing ghosts / YA romance (although the fact that the MC is Jewish is not even remotely relevant to the plot, it is mentioned outright several times which is more than most books)
“The Cure” by Sonia Levitin - futuristic dystopian society tries to cure one young man’s appreciation of music by sending him to a Jewish shtetl in 13th century Poland (fair warning for dystopian fans, though, the middle 2/3rds reads like historical fiction, so.)
Children’s (Middle Grade) Books
“All of a Kind Family” by Sydney Taylor - the classic “1920s NYC Jewish family”
“Dave at Night” by Gail Carson Levine - boy sneaks out of an orphanage in early 20th century NYC
“Witness” by Karen Taylor Hesse - told in free verse, the KKK visits a small town (I’m including it because it’s not a Holocaust book, and it’s really good, but it still might will set off your antisemitism sensors so fair warning)
“Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” by Judy Blume - Classic. (Also, takes on an interfaith family in a really interesting and nuanced way!)
“Samir and Yonatan” by Daniella Carmi - two boys (one Israeli, one Palestinian) end up in the same hospital and learn that they have more in common than they thought
Plays
“Angels in America” by Harold Kushner - I can’t even begin to describe this one just google it. (or: Jewish and Mormon gay people in NYC during the AIDS epidemic, and also angels)
“Thirteen: The Musical” by Dan Elish and Robert Horn, music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown - Jewish boy’s parents get divorced and he moves from NYC to Appleton, Indiana right before his Bar Mitzvah
Also for children’s books: Rebecca in the American Girl historical collection is a Russian Jewish immigrant.
Also for weird epic romances, I remember Cynthia Freeman having a lot of Jewish protagonists. One of her books (Illusions of Love) slightly discusses the Holocaust but it is from the perspective of an American Jewish character who served in World War II and it’s not presented as *the* thing that defines him. (Most of that book is a love triangle between this character, the Nice Jewish Girl his parents want him to marry, and an Irish-Catholic woman from a poor background who works her way into an advertising career.)
I haven’t read them [yet? to-read list miles long, concentration about an inch long] but if you’re down with indie-pub check out @shiraglassman who authors a series of fantasy novels featuring f/f couples. I’ll bet she knows more novels t add to the list too!
(sorry hope it’s cool i @’ed you ms glassman)
It is definitely cool! I actually didn’t get the @ notification for some reason but I found this post just poking around Jumblr and then checked the notes to see what people were saying on it. I do have books to add to this list; not just my own–as you said, fluffy f/f-focused fantasy starring Mostly Jews–but also:
Miss Jacobson’s Journey by Carola Dunn (review) - Regency-era spy romance about escaping from France and getting back to England. Hero and heroine are both Jewish and although they’re Ashkies, it has Sephardic rep as well
The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker (review) - 1900′s fantasy set in the immigrant communities of NYC. Beautiful epic drama about friendship.
…and wonderful graphic novels like The Rabbi’s Cat, the Rabbi Harvey books (our legends told as if they were set in the American Wild West), and the Mirka books (fantasy starring an Orthodox pre-teen girl.)
The YA LGBT contemporaries Gone Gone Gone by Hannah Moskowitz and My Year Zero by Rachel Gold have Jewish MC’s. And non-LGBT but YA about Orthodox teenager is Playing with Matches by Suri Rosen.
By the way, @dappercat, your concentration may have an easier time with the standalone short stories in my universe than my full-length novels: Tales from Perach. They range from 900 to 9000 words and 6 of the 7 of them have Jewish MC’s.
The Lions of Al-Rassan by Guy Gavriel Kay - very thinly-veiled account of life in the waning days of Golden Age Spain, with adventures and political intrigue, starring a Jew, Muslim, and Christian
Gentlemen of the Road by Michael Chabon - A pair of 10th century Jewish mercenaries (who are almost certainly a couple) go on a quest to return the kidnapped prince of Khazaria to his empire.
(I want to echo the recommendation of The Rabbi’s Cat, and of Shira Glassman’s Mangoverse stories, which are so lovely)
I haven’t read it yet but I’m desperately trying to get my hands on an audiobook of “He, She and It” by Marge Piercy
None of the books listed under Jewish here are about the Holocaust, and only The Spy With the Red Balloon is set during WWII: https://lgbtqreads.com/representation/religion/
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Hail and well met! After five years of toying around with concepts and beginnings, and a LOT of reworking, Laced with Blue is finally coming together! Not exactly sure what the update schedule is going to look like coming out of the gate, and I’d love any and all feedback! Here’s to a happy beginning!
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