![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Once there was a Goddess, and things were different. Most people believe that there has always been patriarchy, that women have always been treated like sex objects and chattel, blamed for men’s violent behavior, disrespected, dispossessed, disregarded, and treated like lesser humans unworthy of equality since the dawn of time. ![]() Have you ever wondered why women have become so devalued and debased that we are degraded routinely as pornographic images, driven into prostitution, sold as property, coerced into child marriages, our bodies violated and mutilated, our right to bodily sovereignty and self-determination threatened or non-existent? Has it always been this way? Is prostitution “the oldest profession”? Have we always been told we must be pure and virginal while men are allowed sexual license and even excused for rape? Or have we been systematically groomed to be subservient and obedient, taught that our only choice is between Madonna or whore, that we are to blame for the “fall from grace”, intimidated and silenced by belief systems that teach us we are inferior, and punished severely when we defy these messages? Role of Patriarchal Religion in the Global Oppression of Women Resource List Go to our YouTube channel in order to watch the video. Feminist Forum March 26th 11-1 PST on Zoom ![]()
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My first encounter with Coraline was with the movie, an unusual occurrence for me - usually the reverse is true. ![]() ![]() ![]() But when he comes face-to-face with the leader of the thieves, he's forced to reexamine everything he's known. ![]() When the Ghosts of Farthingale Forest are spotted in Wyndeshire, where he serves as assistant to the local earl, he might have found his chance. Timothy Grey, ninth child of the Baron of Greyham, longs to perform some feat so legendary that he will rise from obscurity and earn a title of his own. Bold and uniquely skilled, she is willing to go to any lengths to protect the orphaned children of her former village-a group that becomes known as "The Ghosts of Farthingale Forest." Merry finds her charge more difficult as their growing notoriety brings increasing trouble their way. Where Legend and History Collide, One Young Woman Will Fight for the Innocent Born a baron's daughter, Lady Merry Ellison is now an enemy of the throne after her father's failed assassination attempt upon the king. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With her childhood best friend - a Kenyan boy named Kibii - she learned to jump as high as her head, because Kibii’s elders from the Nandi tribe believed that no man who couldn’t was any good. As a little girl, she survived an attack by lion. Beryl Markham two waysīorn to English parents and raised by her single father, Beryl grew up in the untrammeled bush of East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, running barefoot and spear-hunting with the local boys and men. ![]() Known to the world as the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from East to West with the sweep of night, against headwinds and storms particularly ferocious in that direction, she is Amelia Earhart without the pomp, Thoreau with muscle and humor, a luckier Shackleton of the sky. No one has written more lusciously about that pilgrimage, nor undertaken it with more elemental daring, than Beryl Markham (October 16, 1902–August 3, 1986). “For a moment of night,” Henry Beston wrote in his exquisite century-old love letter to darkness, “we have a glimpse of ourselves and of our world islanded in its stream of stars - pilgrims of mortality, voyaging between horizons across eternal seas of space and time.” ![]() ![]() ![]() Raziel will do anything to defend his spirited lover against the forces of darknessbecause Allie may be the Fallen's only salvation. ![]() Facing impossible odds at every turn, the two must work together to survive. Now the Fallen are bracing for the divine wrath brought by his disobedience, and they blame Allie for the ferocious Nephilim clawing at the kingdom's shrouded gates. Raziel is unsure why he rescued Allie from hellfire against Uriel's orders, but she stirs in him a longing he hasn't felt in centuries. until death catapulted her into a seductive world she never imagined. Now she's surrounded by gorgeous fallen angels with an unsettling taste for bloodand they really don't want her around. Raziel Kristina Douglass sexy new series introduces a realm of fallen angels and ruthless demons, where an eternal rebellion is brewing. ![]() The last thing she remembers is stepping off a curb in front of a crosstown bus. ![]() I shuddered, forcing the agony back down my. Like the dark, angelically handsome man who ferried her to this strange, hidden land. She was going to have to help get me out of it, whether she wanted to or not. ' You're dead' is so not what Allie Watson wants to hear. and one unsuspecting woman can change the fate of the Fallen forever.She was just an ordinary mortal. Kristina Douglas's sexy new series introduces a realm of fallen angels and ruthless demons, where an eternal rebellion is brewing. ![]() ![]() ![]() But the path to the paradise of the achievement is not easier than any other. Dancing appears glamorous, easy, delightful. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.ģ. To practice means to perform, in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing, or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same.Ģ. _ Sayings by Martha Graham #1-5 I Am A Dancer, 1952ġ. Carlos and I went to my beach house.Įxcerpt from Wikipedia: Martha Graham (– April 1, 1991) was an American modern dancer and choreographer whose influence on dance has been compared with the influence Picasso had on modern visual arts, Stravinsky had on music, or Frank Lloyd Wright had on architecture. ![]() I would never behave like that as a guest in someone’s home. I have heard stories that it was love at first sight for both of us, that we disappeared to a guest room at Merle’s house, had our meals sent up, and didn’t emerge for several days. To me, a building-if it’s beautiful-is the love of one man, he’s made it out of his love for space, materials, things like that. #1 Martha Graham Reflects on Her Art and A Life in Dance, 31 March 1985, New York Times Interviewġ. Photo credit: Wikiquote, Martha Graham and Bertram Ross, 1961, Martha Graham Quotes and Sayings Martha Graham Love Quotes and Sayings ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Chaos and change are coming, including gigantic sea life and old folklore creatures of Nigeria… However, there are others that seek Ayodele for their own end, and not all of them are good. Adaora, Anthony and Agu team up, utilising their strange powers and jobs to help her. Their mission: seek an audience with the President of Nigeria to gain a home for her people in Lagos. This alien is given the name Ayodele and is the alien ambassador. The sea life changes and the three are quickly brought to the ocean, questioned by the aliens, and then returned to the mystery person. ![]() Right as their paths cross, a meteorite hits Lagos’ Sea and a person emerges from the waters. Anthony, a rapper, has left his concert instead after getting a headache and is having visions of trees grow through the crowd. Agu, a soldier, is seeking a mobile phone after losing his to contact his family, who might be threatened by his Ahoa or follow soldiers after he tried to stop them assaulting a woman. Adaora, a marine biologist and mum, is seeking calm and escape after her husband Chris slaps her for the first time, following his conversion to an extreme Christian group in making him believe his wife is a marine witch. Each of them goes to Bar Beach one night in January 2010 for different reasons. Lagoon by Nnedi Okorafor mostly follows three central characters. ![]() ![]() ![]() What was one of the most memorable moments of The World According to Bob?īob's complete devotion to James is unwavering and causes so many memorable moments. and still make rent? Bob and James have become a bit of a sensation, but has that changed their situation in any way? Seriously, how do people on the street live? How do Bob and James survive? Put food on the table? How does one of the invisible members of society get sick, find care. This isn't only an animal/buddy book, it's also about trying to rise from circumstances with few resources. This was another life-disrupting, "cover-to-cover" listen for me I just kept wanting to know what was going to happen. ![]() I'd listen to this book again because I couldn't get enough of the first book. Would you listen to The World According to Bob again? Why? ![]() ![]() ![]() Martin’s Song of Ice and Fire series is the baseline for “realistic” fantasy, I can already tell that Sanderson’s Mistborn series is the definitive “entertaining” fantasy. If Tolkein’s The Lord of the Rings is the standard for high fantasy and George R.R. ![]() I’m always in awe of the complexity of his magic systems, but with such simple concepts that I wonder, “Why didn’t I think of that?” After all, if it works, why change anything? In The Final Empire, the source of the magical superpowers is a set of metals utilized by “allomancers,” much like color was for Warbreaker and the energy of storms for The Way of Kings. ![]() While he has a consistent style that makes his world-building a bit predictable, the concise nature of his magic systems and fantastically-written fight sequences deliver time and time again. Having already read a few of Brandon Sanderson’s later works, I knew I eventually wanted to tackle his Mistborn series. ![]() |