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Book Review: A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

March 6, 2021 by Pamela Mullins

When I began devising A Mirror of Me, I wanted a character that erupted occasionally to the world around her with a rhymed poem. I did not want her to be that poetically skilled, but authentically awkward and passionate—though brilliant at most everything else, her poetry is meant to be an aberration to all her scientific-techno genius that comes off quite clumsy at times, but endearing. I dunno if I succeeded since I’m not finished with the story yet—we’ll see. […]

Categories: On Books, Reviews • Tags: A Memory Called Empire, All Things Books, Arkady Martine, Book Review, Review

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Hear to Slay Podcast Review

March 4, 2021 by Pamela Mullins

Starring Roxane Gay and Tressie McMillan Cottom, this podcast is sublime and so worth the annual membership. With two seasons and 75 hour packed episodes, Dr. Gay and Dr. McMillan Cottom educate and deconstruct Black feminism down to its very core with such insightful wisdom and dark puckish wit, you’ll wonder how we ever got along without—hello, we did not. They allow their guests—some of the most brilliant and creative women alive—a platform to speak and share knowledge as they […]

Categories: In General • Tags: Commentary, Feminism, Podcast, Podcast Review

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Tavi Gevinson: Britney Spears Was Never in Control

February 26, 2021 by Pamela Mullins

This essay is a must read. If teen girls — or young women — are encountering adult men socially, they are navigating norms and expectations that were built to rationalize men’s behavior. They are not inured to power imbalances or how power may complicate consent. They are not historically taught to leave a sexual encounter the moment that it becomes violent or to subordinate men’s desires in favor of their own pleasure or safety. They are taught to be responsible […]

Categories: In General • Tags: Commentary, Feminism

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Book Review: Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World by Laura Spinney

February 7, 2021 by Pamela Mullins

I’m one of those people that likes to be informed—on everything really or as much as I can fit into my small mediocre brain and limited attention span. The positives of having a desktop, 27-inch plus monitor and high-speed internet in what began for photography/art now are numerous including running Tweetdeck with a number of lists of really bright people that I follow in real-time; these lists include people all over the world—smart, reliable, critical thinkers. At the beginning of […]

Categories: On Books, Reviews • Tags: All Things Books, Book Review, Laura Spinney, Pale Rider The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How it Changed the World, Review

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Book Review: A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold

February 7, 2021 by Pamela Mullins

While I’m finishing other books and forcing myself back into my daily writing habits, I wanted to comment on one of my favorite books in the interim—a book I loved long before it was popularized by Where the Crawdads Sing. I hope I’m not the only one that believes that since climate change is such a significant and serious existential threat, conservation ecology should become standard curriculum in all education from an early age. Why it hasn’t thus far eludes […]

Categories: On Books, Reviews • Tags: A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold, All Things Books, Book Review, Review

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Recalibrate – The Offset Accords

February 5, 2021 by Pamela Mullins

The Offset AccordsNiko Amalia Xeni Mwangi I had a friendShe proved not meekin light, I at once amendand must bespeak Wit and woke despite yours trulybeyond, above and even unrulycontend and favor and aid the restdeception unborn and stratagem attest In force and failour duties o’er pendfriendships need countervailfor kinships to transcend Consider the pluck and decree the pressureenlists indeed an alarming square measurebring burden bear nought in replete firsthandon equal and alike and unduly command For I was not […]

Categories: Poetry, Recalibrate, The Mirror Series, Writing • Tags: Poetry, Recalibrate, The Mirror Series

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