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I’m an adult, and processing these issues can be painful and difficult for me. It worries me to think how this bleak news affects our young people. Tweens concern me in particular, because they are are at an age where they’re just starting to understand the implications of the news. Despite all the negativity in the press, I want them to be hopeful for their future and believe that finding common ground between even the most dissimilar people and cultures is possible....
1.This epic couple’s costume of Percy and Annabeth from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. A post shared by madison murrah (@aletheia_cosplay) on May 31, 2017 at 8:36am PDT 2. This amazing Maze Runner costume. — Maze Runner Brasil (@TheMazeRunnerBR) October 31, 2014 3. This gang of Amelia Bedelia teachers. The Pin 4. This very clever take on Alice in Wonderland. The Pin 5. This lovely Cap from Captain America. The Pin...
Sound Observations “Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us.” “There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense....
Kaur is loved because she expresses relatable things many people can’t put into words. Not only so, but as a woman, particularly a woman of South Asian descent, she gives a voice to many who don’t have one. As she said in Rolling Stone: “This name [Kaur] is so important on a bookshelf. That’s the name of every Sikh woman. If I was six years old and I saw this in Barnes and Nobles, I would cry....
I feel like a queer elder, which is so weird because I literally only came out ten years ago, but things have changed SO much since then. I feel like I was just hunched over my laptop at 1 a.m. watching the livestream of the marriage equality debates in the Hawaii legislature (which is the sort of hedonistic lifestyle I indulged in in my 20s), and now here I am married to an awesome lady and no one in my life thought it was a whole big thing, because it’s already pretty dang normalized....
Creation right now feels like a mandatory output as opposed to a strike of inspiration. Since we have all this free time, we should be writing and learning and drawing or whatever else! That is not really true—we’re all stuck in the same highly stressful situation that restricts our ability to devote relaxed brainspace to creativity. Nonfiction about creativity and giving yourself some time has been extremely helpful in 2020 as well....
Editor’s Note: This post was written prior to our decision to stop promoting the works of J.K. Rowling in light of her transphobic statements. Siriusly Riddikulus Harry Potter Puns Where can you find Dumbledore’s Army? Up his sleeve-y! Why did Severus Snape stand in the middle of the road? So you’ll never know which side he’s on. How does Harry Potter get rid of a rash? With quit-itch. Anyone else who had committed Voldemort’s crimes would have been riddled with guilt....
I am not usually a “things could be worse” type of person. However, it feels like we’re living in the early pages (or maybe the prequel) of a dystopian novel right now. This pandemic is causing understandable feelings of uncertainty, fear, and anxiety for many people. (It’s me. I’m many people.) As a big fan of dystopian literature, I am reminded that authors have prophesied much worse fates for us....
Good data visualization helps you identify problem areas in a conversion funnel, predict future sales volume, determine product placement, and much more. Putting it into a visual format allows you to assess trends and patterns that would be hard to spot otherwise. Additionally, it gives you a reason to care about those trends and patterns once they are no longer random words and numbers. Sometimes it’s hard to grasp the impact of a dataset until it’s clearly laid out....
For me, I’ve found comfort in memoirs and essay collections that speak to people’s personal experiences. With one exception—Zadie Smith’s new essay collection—the books below were written before 2020, but they all help illuminate what it’s like to be alive right now. These are books about disasters, pain, and suffering, as experienced and understood by the writer. Some are about what it’s like to grow up Black in the U....
Is your literary travel lust still unsatisfied? Read about more YA teens who travel in 3 on a YA Theme: 3 YA Romances About Finding Love Abroad.
I know there are many Star Wars books in the world, but for those of you who want to read something set in a new galaxy even farther and farther away, here are five YA books for Star Wars fans. Mirage by Somaiya Daud Somaiya Daud’s love of Star Wars is a well-known fact. Unsurprisingly, Amani—the main character in Mirage—is inspired by Padme. When Amani is pulled from her home moon to serve as Princess Maram’s body-double, she is thrust into a world of hatred and racism....
Hey YA Readers! I love the trends we’re seeing when it comes to adaptation of YA books to comics and adaptation of comics into YA books. It makes these stories accessible to so many more readers, while offering a chance to test the waters in a new format that might otherwise feel off-putting to some readers. Let’s take a peek today at a handful of YA books that have been reimagined as comics in recent years (as well as one that will be coming out early in 2021)....
Sailor Moon is nostalgic for those of us who grew up with it, but it’s also an enduring franchise. Sailor Moon Crystal returned to the manga for a new, more faithful adaptation, and the final installment (a two part movie called Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon Eternal: The Movie) was released just this year. That’s 30 years of Sailor Moon since the character first appeared, in a serialized manga format in 1991!...
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Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white peers. After a messy break up from her boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “Who do you want to be?...
Ahem: Some spoilers to follow. The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie In the village of King’s Abbot, a widow’s sudden suicide sparks rumors that she murdered her first husband, was being blackmailed, and was carrying on a secret affair with the wealthy Roger Ackroyd. The following evening, Ackroyd is murdered in his locked study—but not before receiving a letter identifying the widow’s blackmailer. King’s Abbot is crawling with suspects, including a nervous butler, Ackroyd’s wayward stepson, and his sister-in-law, Mrs....
My peers began wearing bras in 5th grade. They showed off the colorful straps in the morning attendance lines. Rather than join them, though, I continued to avoid picking out or wearing a bra, preferring to wear tops that would allow me to slouch and hide what had only multiplied in middle school. Eighth grade brought boys taking turns throwing food down my top, seeing if they could score points by landing in the space between my breasts....
While not all of these books refer to the experience of attending a women’s college, I have no doubt that their shared background influenced these women in their writing. To discover the unique perspective and profound impact an environment of primarily women (and, as times change, frequently trans and nonbinary folks) can have, visit these six books by women’s college alumnae. 6 Books by Women’s College Alumnae The Clothing of Books by Jhumpa Lahiri, Barnard College Speaking from her own experiences as a previously published author, Lahiri explores the relationship between the covers of books and their contents....
