Apr 4, 2025
new-to-me #207 - Nora (2025)
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new-to-me #207 - Nora (2025)
ship: anna & robert.♡
The House Beneath the Cliffs, Sharon Gosling
“For the greater good, I can endure a little kiss.”
He snickered softly and walked toward her, towing Daisy. “No need to cower, my wee village maiden. I’ll see that your first kiss is memorable.”
Cower? She’d show him cower. “It’s not my first kiss,” she snapped before she could stop herself.
Dear heaven, could she sound any more gauche? Mortified heat flooded her face, making a mockery of the cold day.
“Oh?” Now, plague take him, he looked more interested than ever. “The vicar’s daughter has a shady past. How intriguing. Perhaps you can teach me a thing or two.”
“Don’t be absurd,” she said shakily, curling her hands into fists until her fingernails dug into her palms. Daisy started to nibble at the dry winter grass.
“Who was the lucky laddie?” Channing’s eyes glinted with devilry. “Or was there more than one?”
“You’re not acting like a gentleman, my lord,” she said stiffly.
“But I am acting like a Scot, a pirate, and a libertine.”
“There’s no need to sound so proud of yourself.”
A Pirate for Christmas by Anna Campbell
ANNA CAMPBELL COUTURE
When Carola Rackete, a German ship captain of the migrant NGO rescue ship Sea-Watch 3, rescued 43 migrants off the coast of Libya and defied Italian authorities to bring them into the Mediterranean Island of Lampedusa, she defied state orders and risked arrest to do so. Recognising that human life is more precious than the bureaucratic systems of power that are premised on its extinction is solidarity in action.
Similarly, groups like Women on Waves, a Dutch non-profit organisation that sails boats to the coast of countries with the most restrictive abortion restrictions, picks up women and navigates them to international waters to provide free abortion pills and abortion support demonstrate that solidarity is an active, courageous principle. ‘The fact that women need to leave the state sovereignty to retain their own sovereignty – it makes clear states are deliberately stopping women from accessing their human right to health,’ Leticia Zenevich told the Huffington Post.
Anna Campbell, a 26-year-old woman from Bristol, was among seven British people who died volunteering for the YPJ, a group fighting ISIS based in Rojava in March 2018. She died after Turkish missiles struck her position, as she helped to evacuate citizens in Afrin. Solidarity requires us to risk something (our lives, citizenship, freedom) in order to support others; to put our theoretical principles to the test.
Lola Olufemi, Feminism, Interrupted
Memorial graffiti for Anna Campbell, a British anarchist who was killed by a Turkish airstrike on March 15, 2018 while fighting in a YPJ unit, to defend Afrin in Rojava / Northern Syria against a Turkish invasion.
