#michelle mccarthy

[oliviaandthelovers]

Tonight!

Dec 4th Cafe Mustache 2313 N Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 7pm Doors/8pm show

with Michelle McCarthy and Iris Marlowe

[theriserpg]

[theriserpg]

Welcome to the roleplay, EMILY. We’re super happy that you’ve decided to join us here at The Rise as MICHELLE MCCARTHY. Remember to check over the checklist, and let us know if you have any questions!

all about you.

i’m emily and all of my info is the same as on my first application.

character basics.

Character: Michelle “Mickey” Marguerite McCarthy

Faceclaim: Laura Dreyfuss

Age & birthday: 22, 6/10

Birth order: younger twin

Family details: i’m down for a mason twin or a madison twin, whichever is cool.

Gender identity: cis female.

Pronouns: she/her

Hometown: San Francisco, CA.

Orientation: bisexual, biromantic

social media & fame.

Main Platform: Youtube

Notable for: Political activism, education about social justice issues and environmental issues, vlogs of protests she attends.

Follower/subscriber count: 5.2 subs.

Tweet: @EdSheeran wrote, “We can change this whole world with a piano.” I agree, except he probably wasn’t talking about dropping the piano on @therealdonaldtrump’s head.

Instagram: (photo) - when your cousin makes you a bridesmaid in her wedding but you are not someone who can wear a dress and be taken seriously…this is the shit that happens.

Emojis: ✌️🌵💖💁

Headline: Exclusive: Mickey McCarthy Talks Intersectionality, People On Twitter Being “Fake Woke” and More!

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MEET MICHELLE MCCARTHY. 

NAME: Michelle Marguerite McCarthy.

NICKNAMES: Mickey.

BIRTH ORDER: Oldest.

AGE: Twenty-two.

HOMETOWN: Boston, Massachusetts. 

GENDER IDENTITY/PRONOUNS: Female, she/her.

ORIENTATION: Bisexual biromantic.

OCCUPATION/EDUCATION: She’s in college, but out for the summer. She works at a retail clothing store and high key hates it because capitalism is the devil, but girl’s gotta make her money.

FACECLAIM: Laura Dreyfuss.

MICHELLE’S LIFE SO FAR.

POSITIVE: Generous, witty, adventurous. 

NEGATIVE: Impulsive, sarcastic, stubborn. 

** TW PARENTAL NEGLECT. **

Her name is MIchelle McCarthy, but if you prefer not to have a small girl stare daggers at you, you’re better off calling her MIckey, a nickname she chose mostly because being named after her mother eventually started to sicken her. Being born to generally wealthy parents, Mickey grew up comfortably, never really having to ask for anything, but that didn’t matter when the only thing she really wanted to ask was for her parents to stay home and pay attention to her and her brother. It was like pulling teeth to get them to spend one day at home. They generally couldn’t bother - being a famous song and dance duo who toured the world took most of their time up, leaving Mickey and her brother with nannies most of the time.

The relationship with her brother is perhaps the most important relationship, and in fact, the first relationship she ever had. For a long time, all they really had was each other and a few nannies who viewed them as their own in a way. In many ways, Mickey ended up stepping up and acting as the mother in the family, making the lunches for both of them, making sure that her brother looked both ways when they crossed the street, and spending so much time not only worrying about weird existential things that no kid should have to worry about, but worrying about whether or not he was happy.

It was lucky that they grew up in Boston. There was always something to do there, and when she was a little girl, all she wanted to do was go to the library and read everything she could. She’d drag her brother with her, feeling that it was her responsibility to make sure he stayed out of trouble. Plus, she just got lonely without her permanent shadow with her. There, she read everything she could. She read about the things they wouldn’t teach her in school and about things most people would say she was too young to know about some of the things she read, but it didn’t matter. Who was going to stop her?

Her thirst for knowledge is what ultimately led to inspiring her to get involved involved in causes. She started by collecting money for various charities and working in soup kitchens on Thanksgiving Day, and eventually grew to filling her days with finding protests to go to for causes she believed in. This helped her define who she was and what she thought about things and kept her mind off of the anger she felt at the virtual abandonment of her parents.

As college came closer, she toyed with the idea of running off and joining the Peace Corp, but decided she couldn’t leave her brother and stayed in Boston. She figured that she could do just as much on American soil as in a third world country, and decided to go to Boston University to study Women’s Studies and Political Science. She just finished her second year there and is currently living at Kings Terrace. She likes that she can live close to her brother and also not lose all of her money on rent. She’s spending time figuring out new ways to fight for human rights, especially in today’s horrific political climate, and…sometimes finding time to sleep in between all of that.

SOCIAL NETWORKING.

@mickeysavestheworld: pretty sure ed sheeran said it best “we can change this whole world with a piano.” However, he forgot to leave out that we have to drop the piano on Trump’s head. Happy Monday!

@mickeysavestheworld: you’d think that this dude would know better than to start talking about how “meninism” is completely legitimate in a women’s studies class…like ok neckbeard sit down.

@mickeysavestheworld: this barista put a heart next to my name on my starbucks cup but she spelled it like “Mikki” so I guess we’re not getting married </3

OUT OF CHARACTER.

OOC: Emily, 23, EST, she/her.

SHIPS: Chemistry.

ANTI-SHIPS: No chemistry.

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EMILY will be switching from CADEN SMYTHE to MICHELLE MCCARTHY.

OUT OF CHARACTER.

NAME: emily AGE: 23 TIMEZONE: est. ACTIVITY LEVEL: when i have muse i can be about a 7/10. i didn’t have a ton of muse for caden as it turned out, but i know this character a lot better so i think I’ll be more on point. PRONOUNS: she/her SHIPS: chemistry ANTI-SHIPS: no chemistry. TRIGGERS: Removed. PASSWORD: Removed. ANYTHING ELSE: Removed. 

IN CHARACTER.

DESIRED CHARACTER: Michelle Marguerite McCarthy NICKNAMES: Mickey. AGE/BIRTH ORDER: twenty-two, oldest. FACECLAIM: laura dreyfuss. GENDER IDENTITY/PRONOUNS: female, she/her. SEXUAL/ROMANTIC ORIENTATION: bisexual biromantic. HOMETOWN: Boston, Massachusetts. OCCUPATION/EDUCATION: she's in college, but out for the summer. she works at a retail clothing store and high key hates it because capitalism is the devil, but girl's gotta make her money.

(MORE) IN CHARACTER.

POSITIVES: generous, witty, adventurous NEGATIVES: impulsive, sarcastic, stubborn.

@mickeysavestheworld: pretty sure ed sheeran said it best “we can change this whole world with a piano.” However, he forgot to leave out that we have to drop the piano on Trump’s head. Happy Monday! @mickeysavestheworld: you’d think that this dude would know better than to start talking about how “meninism” is completely legitimate in a women’s studies class…like ok neckbeard sit down. @mickeysavestheworld: this barista put a heart next to my name on my starbucks cup but she spelled it like “Mikki” so I guess we’re not getting married </3

BIOGRAPHY.

** TW: PARENTAL NEGLECT. **

Her name is MIchelle McCarthy, but if you prefer not to have a small girl stare daggers at you, you’re better off calling her MIckey, a nickname she chose mostly because being named after her mother eventually started to sicken her. Being born to generally wealthy parents, Mickey grew up comfortably, never really having to ask for anything, but that didn’t matter when the only thing she really wanted to ask was for her parents to stay home and pay attention to her and her brother. It was like pulling teeth to get them to spend one day at home. They generally couldn’t bother - being a famous song and dance duo who toured the world took most of their time up, leaving Mickey and her brother with nannies most of the time.

The relationship with her brother is perhaps the most important relationship, and in fact, the first relationship she ever had. For a long time, all they really had was each other and a few nannies who viewed them as their own in a way. In many ways, Mickey ended up stepping up and acting as the mother in the family, making the lunches for both of them, making sure that her brother looked both ways when they crossed the street, and spending so much time not only worrying about weird existential things that no kid should have to worry about, but worrying about whether or not he was happy.

It was lucky that they grew up in Boston. There was always something to do there, and when she was a little girl, all she wanted to do was go to the library and read everything she could. She’d drag her brother with her, feeling that it was her responsibility to make sure he stayed out of trouble. Plus, she just got lonely without her permanent shadow with her. There, she read everything she could. She read about the things they wouldn’t teach her in school and about things most people would say she was too young to know about some of the things she read, but it didn’t matter. Who was going to stop her?

Her thirst for knowledge is what ultimately led to inspiring her to get involved involved in causes. She started by collecting money for various charities and working in soup kitchens on Thanksgiving Day, and eventually grew to filling her days with finding protests to go to for causes she believed in. This helped her define who she was and what she thought about things and kept her mind off of the anger she felt at the virtual abandonment of her parents.

As college came closer, she toyed with the idea of running off and joining the Peace Corp, but decided she couldn’t leave her brother and stayed in Boston. She figured that she could do just as much on American soil as in a third world country, and decided to go to Boston University to study Women’s Studies and Political Science. She just finished her second year there and is currently living at Kings Terrace. She likes that she can live close to her brother and also not lose all of her money on rent. She’s spending time figuring out new ways to fight for human rights, especially in today’s horrific political climate, and…sometimes finding time to sleep in between all of that.

IN CHARACTER QUESTIONNAIRE.

WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST STRENGTH? HOW DOES IT COME IN HANDY?

I would say maybe it’s the fact that I don’t give up easily. Well, not on things I believe in. I gave up on my parents pretty quickly - we had to for our sanity, growing up. However, I’ll probably be in my nineties and still be burning my bras in the name of feminism, but let’s hope that by then we’ll live in a world where I’m not looked down on by our government for having a vagina.

WHAT IS YOUR GREATEST WEAKNESS? HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOUR DAY-TO-DAY LIFE?

I have none. I’m made of steel.

That’s a lie.

Anyway, I guess it would be giving too much of a shit about things to the point where it’ll make me cry out of anger. I’ve always kinda been like that, I guess. Things get to me like someone being mean to a dog out on the street and I’ll clench my fists and just start crying. It tends to get in the way of things on my bad days and I can’t stand it.

WHERE DO YOU SEE YOURSELF IN TEN YEARS?

Saving the world somewhere, maybe I’m in office or maybe I’m doing something less stuffy, but either way I’m making things happen and making things better for my fellow humans. Also, no matter what, I am by my brother’s side.

WHAT BROUGHT YOU TO KING’S TERRACE?

The fact that it’s in Boston and not too expensive - I don’t live off of my parents even though they’ve offered to allow me to do so. I don’t need their money or to have to see their faces under any circumstance, thank you very much. I have enough money to live here independently and I love that.

IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME AND TELL YOUR YOUNGER SELF SOMETHING, WHAT WOULD IT BE?

“Please stop wondering if your parents will be home for Thanksgiving. They won’t be. Go feed the homeless and don’t feel guilty about it.”

[16thstreet]

We congratulate winners of the Jewish Book Awards – and took a look at some of the sources used

Michelle McCarthy, M.S.L.I.S., Reference Services Assistant, Center for Jewish History

On Wednesday, March 11th, the 64th Annual Jewish Book Awards for 2014 were held at the Center for Jewish History. The awards are distributed each year in 15 categories by the Jewish Book Council to promote the “reading, writing, and publishing of modern Jewish content in American literature.” These categories encompass a strong variety of subjects, including modern Jewish thought and experience, women's studies, biography, Sephardic studies, and young adult literature.  More information on the Jewish Book Council can be found here.

As a major resource center for documentary history, the Center for Jewish History and collections from its five partners, the American Jewish Historical Society, the American Sephardi Federation, Leo Baeck Institute, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, and the Yeshiva University Museum, have played an integral part in supporting the collective memory presented in many of the celebrated genres:

Kathryn Hellerstein was awarded the Barbara Dobkin Award for Women's Studies for her work, A Question of Tradition: Women Poets in Yiddish, 1586-1987.  Hellerstein provides a study of Yidishe Dikherins: Antologye (Yiddish Women Poets: Anthology), written by Ezra Korman and published in 1928, she discusses the poets, their work, and their relationship to tradition in Yiddish poetry. Hellerstein worked with the YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe, the YIVO Bleter, and archival resources from the YIVO Ethnographic Commission. Other material drawn from the YIVO archival collections included the Ezra Korman papers, the Malka Heifatz Tussman archives, and the Anna Margolin archives.

In Sephardic studies, Julia Phillips Cohen and Sarah Abrevaya Stein were awarded the Mimi S. Frank Award in Sephardic Culture for their editing work on, Sephardi Lives: A Documentary History, 1700-1950. This publication provides an extensive collection of documents relating to various aspects of Sephardic history. Using primary materials from YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, Cohen and Stein provide an in-depth compilation of experiences in the everyday life of the Sephardim and during historical events in Europe and America over the course of five centuries. Randall C. Belinfante, Librarian of the American Sephardi Federation, provides a richly articulate review for the work here.

 Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, author of The Golden Age Shtetl: A New History of Jewish Life in East Europe, was awarded the Gerrard and Ella Berman Memorial Award in History. Petrovsky-Shtern seeks to remedy the historically idealized concepts of shtetl life.  He argues that these communities saw a golden age that was thriving and had a vibrant Jewish culture before the mid-nineteenth century. Petrovsky-Shtern studied essays such as "The 'Vilna Shas' and East European Jewry," by Michael Stanislawski from Printing the Talmud: Bomberg to Schottenstein, published by the Yeshiva University Museum in 2005, to illuminate book-printing activities of Jewish communities in Eastern Europe during the nineteenth century.

Gary Phillip Zola was named a finalist in the History category for his work, We Called Him Rabbi Abraham: Lincoln and American Jewry, A Documentary History. Zola gives historical insight into the relationship between Abraham Lincoln and American Jews in the mid-nineteenth century. Through photographs, correspondence, and newspaper accounts, Zola shows a connection between President Lincoln and Jewish community leaders in the Northern and Southern states before and during his presidency. To accurately illustrate this history, Zola used selected issues of the Publications of the American Jewish Historical Society as well as the Board of Delegates of American Israelites Minutes Book, 1859-1870, held by AJHS. This material has been digitized and can be accessed by clicking on the links in the finding aid to the collection.

The Impossible Exile: Stefan Zweig at the End of the World, by George Prochnik, was celebrated as winner of the Krauss Family Award in Biography, Autobiography, and Memoir. This biographical work follows the life of Stefan Zweig, one of the most controversial and widely translated authors of the twentieth century. Prochnik cites Joseph Leftwich's study, "Stefan Zweig and the World of Yesterday," published in the third volume of the Leo Baeck Institute yearbook in 1958, while reflecting upon Zweig's feelings about Jews that remain in Germany. It provides an honest look into Zweig's life in exile as well as Zweig's sentiments towards Zionism, the Nazi Regime, and the identity of twentieth century Jews as a people.

These are just a few examples of how the partner collections at the Center for Jewish History have made lasting contributions to modern Jewish scholarship. The Center is proud to serve the modern research community and to preserve a rich history for future generations. Our online catalog is available here: search.cjh.org. More information on the Lillian Goldman Reading Room, including hours and policies, can be found here: http://www.cjh.org/p/33.

[kiroran]

I watched the majority of this in my theatre class. It was a genius performance! Can not say I didn't cackle like an old woman.

Makes me wish I did forensics.