See on Scoop.it – New Great Depression
Dear Congress: if you can’t cope with the realities of democracy, then get out of the way.
Sen. Warren,
Could you please tell us what you REALLY think?
Thanks, C
See on Scoop.it – New Great Depression
Dear Congress: if you can’t cope with the realities of democracy, then get out of the way.
Sen. Warren,
Could you please tell us what you REALLY think?
Thanks, C
Happy Monday! We’re kicking off today’s Creative Resource piece with a very important message from our sister/warrior/collaborator Caits Meissner. Caits is a critically acclaimed poet, celebrated t…
I am all over CultureFphiles today. It’s good.
Devising performances, plays and theater techniques with a group of young people by yourself in a room, can be difficult. Yet say you worked for an organization that provided you, the artist, with …
Seeing how many different parts of my life I set down in words pleases me.
I need help organizing a website for myself that includes my writing, audio and video files. What’s the best platform? Pages? I know ziltch about the actual design part of it and I’m just working between my Blogger and Tumblr sites. Help! No seriously, HELP!!!!!
The excerpt below is from Simon Doonan’s Gay Men Don’t Get Fat, out today from Penguin.
“Why are we doing this to ourselves? Cameras are not our friends. Photographs are brutal and unkind. They ricochet images in which we look three times fatter than we thought we were. Back in Marilyn’s day it was only movie stars whose lives were so ferociously documented. Now it is every gay and every girl on earth.”
See on Scoop.it – Women
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Social entrepreneur Barkue Tubman tells her story and explains why she is optimistic about the future of Liberia.
Barkue Tubman is a friend of mine who is doing some amazing things back in her home country. I knew her when she still wanted to be a rapper. Good job sweetie.

Predicting What Happened After Breaking Bad Ended
• Jesse somehow managed to avoid any and all jail time. He’s taking care of Brock, maybe he’s also taking care of that little redheaded kid, and they play a lot of video games together. He draws web comics. He sometimes debates becoming a science teacher but doesn’t do anything about it. Once in a while, he jams with Badger and Pete in a shitty garage band. He go-karts with Brock every Saturday. He has a lot of nightmares, but he’s staying sober.
• Walt Jr./Flynn wrote a killer personal essay for college and was awarded enough in scholarships that he doesn’t need to take any of his father’s drug money. He tried to drink tequila at his first college party but vomits from the smell of it and decided to stick to beer instead. Girls love him. They think he’s tortured.
• Skyler enrolled in writing classes at the local community college. She’s working a novel, because everyone is always working on a novel, but it’s not about Walt. She would never write a novel about Walt. She quit smoking but keeps an unopened pack inside the top drawer on her nightstand. Just in case.
• Holly tried meth on her seventeenth birthday but it doesn’t stick. She’s forever stuck in a rebellious stage.
• Marie started shoplifting again but the police still feel so awful about Hank that they just let her get away with it. She worries that she’s in love with her therapist. She drinks a lot of wine. She hasn’t touched any of Hank’s minerals.
• Saul manages a laser tag place in Nebraska. He’s rebuilding his collection of suits. He watches Low Winter Sun and flinches at loud noises.
• Oddly enough, Louis is the only person who visits Walter White’s grave. It’s creepy.
• Badger and Pete live together in a nice house around the corner from Jesse. They’ve stopped doing hard drugs but they still smoke too much weed. Between them, they have twenty-six half-finished screenplays and one recorded podcast episode that they never got around to uploading. Sometimes, when Pete drinks too much, he thinks about kissing Badger.
• Huell is still in a hotel room, but this time it’s by choice. He’s been holed up with Wendy the hooker who is now Wendy the love of his life. Huell doesn’t judge Wendy’s occupation; Wendy brings Huell as many burgers as he wants. They have a karaoke machine. Huell is reasonably happy.
September is officially the month for NaNo Prep! To celebrate, we’re excerpting what some might call the NaNoWriMo Bible: No Plot? No Problem! by founder Chris Baty:
Writing 50,000 words of fiction really doesn’t take that much time. Slow writers find they can write about 800 words of novel per hour; a speedy writer (and good typist) can easily do twice that. Which means that the whole novel, from start to finish, will take and average writer about 55 hours to write.
If you had the luxury of writing eight hours a day, seven days a week, you could begin on a Monday morning and be wrapping up your epilogue in time for brunch on Sunday.
The truth is, though, that few of us have the luxury of writing eight hours a day, seven days a week. In fact, between school, jobs, and the host of other daily events that fill our lives, carving 55 hours of quiet time, however small that number looks on paper, ends up being quite a challenge.
Sexism and racism (and homophobia and classism and ableism—add your own identity oppression here) are so woven into the fabric of our daily life that that the barrage wears even the most open-…
These are what drive people crazy.
ATLANTA – MC Lyte said she was initially nervous following a video tribute that honored the veteran rapper for her career achievements at the eighth annual BET Hip-Hop Awards Saturday.
I used her song titles as titles in my masters thesis.