#the captured

[dabisqueen]

Part 4 of the Captured is out now!

I had such a ridiculous amount of fun writing it 😁💙🖤 all horniness, giggles and shivers.

Hope you enjoyed it so far!

[dabisqueen]

Ok, I am working on Pt. 2 and 3(!!) of "The Captured" but I am also working PT, doing house hold chores, having two kids, yadda yadda yadda... Be patient! Pt. 2.will happen sometime soon!

[readreadbookblog]

The Captured: A True Story of Abduction of Indians on the Texas Frontier by Scott Zesch

https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Captured.html?id=7ArCXr3e7eoC

Author Scott Zesch had a little discussed great uncle named Adolph Korn whom the family didn’t know much of beyond that as a young boy he was kidnapped and lived among the Comanche Indians. Zesch tries to find out more about his uncle Korn and then decides to research the experiences of other Texan abductees to find out more about his uncle’s experience.

First of all, this book isn’t for kids. There are brutal scenes of violence with traditionally family members being slaughtered. Despite reading the wholesale slaughter and massacre of Indian families in another book that I read earlier, the impact of reading the murder’s families being killed doesn’t lower and prepare one for the horrible acts of murder that is committed. Younger readers might not be use to the idea of family abandonment and the return to society stunning them, which much of the former child abductees experienced following their return to white society.

But if you can handle all that, this book is a great read. The lack of Korn’s records or anything close to accounts of his experience means that Zesch really has to read and analyze other abductees’ accounts. He does tend to massively quote their accounts but his analyze are good, examining factors such as the German immigrant background of some of the children and how they would respond to the Native American’s life and culture. Zesch did deep research into this book and the sources he finds will probably be a list for further reading if anyone is interested.

Zesch ends the book with him personally visiting the last refugee of his great uncle who self isolated himself in a cave, emulating his former Indian lifestyle. It is where academic research and real life exploration and discovery meet and overall a perfect end to the book. I was afraid that the book would go racist at times but Zesch seems to have respect for the Native Americans despite their violent resistance to the white settlers having a personal connection to him. This is a good read on a footnote of history that is rarely talked about beyond the 19th century.

[ever-squish]

My Jun and Cara series is now on Wattpad!

It's a good thing I had them saved because I searched for the tags and tumblr was broken and i couldnt find the original posts :( but anyways here

[hyperallergic]

Some of the portraits seem fit for the walls of a boardroom; others, the display tables of sketch artists on a boardwalk. All were created by people incarcerated in the United States, and each one — stony-faced or smiling — depicts a major figure guilty of corporate crimes yet still walking free. These 29 portraits of CEOs and chairmen make up The Captured, an extensive project by Jeff Greenspan and Andrew Tider. If their names sound familiar, it might be because they were the pair behind the Edward Snowden bust; while they were critiquing the government’s surveillance systems with unsanctioned public art, Tider and Greenspan were also deep into researching the tainted histories of some of America’s most powerful people and commissioning prisoners to produce portraits to help them expose what the duo calls “crimes masquerading as commerce.”

Incarcerated Artists Draw Portraits of America’s Corporate Criminals

[fromthecheapestseats]

Meg Mac at the Corner Hotel, 26th September 2015

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Groovin the Moo Bendigo