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Sunday, September 30, 2012

Day 16: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 16 – Latino Art

my papi is an artist. here's what i got this yeah for my birthday.

click foto for full image

Saturday, September 29, 2012

Day 15: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 15 – Latinos in the Film Industry
There are, unfortunately, only a handful of Latin@s in the film industry, especially as directors.  There was a time I appreciated films such as “Illegal Tender” (b/c they centered LatiNegr@s, but also because Wanda de Jesus). However, folks who create those films are less than exceptional folks in general.

My favorite “Latin@” films include: I Like It Like That and Miracle At St. Anna  ”I Like It Like That” is phenomenal! It is a story about a radical woman of color, lisette (lauren velez) (puerto rican mom and jamaican father) coming into her own, an afralatina who is raising three children with a man (chino, john seda) whose mother (rita moreno) is a white supremacist and speaks all that “good hair’ bullshit. lisette character has a trans sister Alexis (jesse borrego) who is a owner of a botanica in the neighborhood. lisette finds her own space and independence with the help of her sister and community.

Miracle at St. Anna is a film by spike lee and stars laz alonso as the main character, hector negron. the film follows 4 US soldiers during WWII who are in Italy. Negron is the one surviving soldier to tell this narrative and we watch as he is struggles with the story and weight of what he survived. when else do we hear the stories of LatiNegr@ soldiers?

Friday, September 28, 2012

Day 14: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 14 - Favorite Latino Musician
too many to pick just one. but i do adore omar sosa. everything he touches and creates is gold to me. his chants. his jazz. his homage to the ocean and god/desses and to the earth.
they are home to me. and i hope i get to see him again perform.  here’s one of his videos.

Thursday, September 27, 2012

Day 13: 30 Days of Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 13 – What Do I know about indigenous culture (i.e.Tainos)
I know a lot about the Arawak, aka Tainos in Puerto Rico, as it’s part of my culture. I’ve also learned a bit by reading and experience of living among Mayans in Xhualtez, Yucatan (yes Mayans STILL exist so quit with all your “Mayan prophecies” bs where they were annihilated before finishing a calendar).

I do become suspicious of folks such as anthropologists who do not have any connection to our communities because they are outsiders telling us what our ancestors have left. Who are they? This is something I realized when learning about Mayan and Aztec images and writing. Some of the “leaders” and “experts” on deciphering those writings and images and symbols are racially white folks. Will they really ever be able to understand what those symbols mean? Will they ever truthfully share what they mean? What if the symbols are about their colonial legacy and current oppressive actions, would they cover them up?

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Day 12: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 12 – Latino Politics – What affects you?

If you follow this blog you know what issues I care about and what impacts me. Here's a letter from Barack Obama (staff) that was sent to me at a job I was working at in 2007. For a day about ending smoking we had a "graffiti" wall in the center I was working at and I had to organize activities for the day.

I decided to have pieces of newsprint for students to write encouraging letters of support encouraging Obama to quit smoking. I had a picture of him and a sentence that read "Barack Obama may be the US first Black president. He smokes, send him a note to encourage him to quit smoking tobacco and why it's important." Many students wrote things like "you need to quit smoking so you can be the president" and "If you stop smoking you are stronger and can lead" and similar things.

Here's the letter below. The letter arrived after I was "laid off" and the staff held on to it for me and sent it to my home address. I then scanned it and emailed it to my former supervisors. None of them responded. I now have this in my portfolio for when I go on interviews. Some folks are impressed. I'm more proud that there were adults who recognized that youth created something and someone in some kind of power responded. Had I still been employed I would have posted this letter for students to see.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Day 11: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 11 – Religion
I don’t know what to write about this topic. It’s not a question or a complete sentence. Instead I’ll share a foto, when in doubt share a foto.

Below is a foto of me with my offering for La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre in Santiago de Cuba (the southwestern part of Cuba) in January 2001. This city has the largest African ancestry as the transatlantic slave trade stopped here. La Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre is Black, her image in Cuba is Black and folks from all over the island and world come to bring offerings to her.

Offerings folks leave for her (including the Castro’s, which challenges the ideas about how religion was “outlawed” or “illegal” or some other term under Fidel Castro’s regime) all sorts of items from candles, to silver and copper images of the body part they need care and healing for (i.e. feet, hearts, arms, etc.).

Folks sell these batches of sunflowers on the road towards the site: El Cobre Basilica.  I asked that I be more open to the love that comes my way and recognize it as it arrives.

Monday, September 24, 2012

Day 10: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day  10 – Afr@Latin@s in the Media

Excuse me while I self promote, again! My homegirl, AfraLatina Puerto Rican and Dominican warrior and media maker Sofia Quintero created HomeGirl.TV, an online space where young folks of Color, especially young women, could ask advice from other women of Color on a range of topics. I was one of the many dope folks included who offered advice. I've posted these before but you can log into HomeGirl.TV to see them all.

Also, here's a video focusing on Afr@Latin@s where I was included talking about The LatiNegr@s Project!

Sunday, September 23, 2012

Day 9: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 9 -  My Feelings on Arizona
I feel like I miss Arizona. I have chosen family there and have been twice already! All of my chosen family are Xican@s who were born and raised there. Some identify as Native Xican@s. I know this question is re: their laws and ish, which honestly are triflin and scary and I think of the folks who are living in AZ who i love and adore and who are doing much needed work in the trenches while many of us just talk about AZ
I feel pissed I can’t afford to visit AZ, but happy that my homies have jobs that offer them pay and that they are coming for a visit soon! Here are some fotos from my last trip(s) to AZ:
Here i get off the plane, my homegirl elena picks me up, she wants to show me the desert. i think the desert is just dry and arid and bare. but it’s GREEN and i want to see catctus! so she takes me to some spots. i frolic as i hop to a cacti that i want to take a foto near, and then i step on one and get pinched. before helping me, elena takes a foot!
when i finally got that ish out of my foot, i took this foto between 2 ginormous cacti! mind you i’m 6ft tall:
Here we are on our way to Sedona (RED ROCK no mars). I wondered if the red rocks when held or sat on would leave a red debris, but it doesnt’. folks who live in Sedona have bank and spend it on some ridonkeylously isn, like homes crafted like pods with glass ceilings to watch the stars/aliens. here’s me gazing at the red rocks
Here’s an NYC license for Aliens
Here’s me (suggestively?) eating a chocolate covered peanut banana
Here’s the liquid silver necklace i purchased. i also purchased some earrings and the dudes selling the necklace in scottsdale (where dan majerle ads are STILL present b/c that’st he demographic!) the 2 older native women who worked there were sisters, brother owned the shop. they saw me in my leather motorcycle jacket and asked “are you from nyc?” and laughed when i said yes.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

day 8: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 8 -  What Latino Stereotype do I hate the most

There are many that I don't enjoy here are a few that work my nerves especially:
1. "good hair"/pelo malo. this is not Latin@ only, but it's def rooted in anti-Black racism that many Latin@s embrace and perpetuate.
2. Latin@s are all one religious belief system. no we aren't! we are present and reprsented in so many religious belief systems including having no belief system!
3. Latin@s are not pro-choice. um, yes many of us are! and those who think they would never get an abortion doesn't mean they would stand in the way of another person's options. that means being pro-choice too, minding your own business! (and there's research to support this)
4. You are not a "real" Latin@ if you don't speak Spanish. shut all the way up, callate ya.
5. Only Latin@s are immigrants. go read a book

Friday, September 21, 2012

Day 7: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 7 -  Post a picture about your culture and explain its significance

this is a foto from “our big fat puerto rican lesbian wedding” that happened 2 years ago. it’s my sister and her wife (and in the right my sister’s best friend). they are holding their marriage certificate. they got married in DC in June when DC legalized same gender marriage.
we were treated with respect, dignity, and congratulations as we walked into the court house. it was so hot. over 100 degrees. everybody cried. and they let us take fotos for 20 min before in the room and for 10 min after the ceremony.
a month later my dad married his wife in a court house in their state. i had just come back from spending a week with a homegirl on her honeymoon b/c she was stood up at the alter (literally, i was there to do her make up and old boy called and said he wasnt coming!). being with her was the hardest thing i’ve ever had to do in my life right now.
i chose this foto b/c that year my sister and father found love in the ways they desire. my papi cried when he said his vows. he cried when he told me how lucky he is to have had my mother love him and now his current wife love him.
he is very much learning with the same gender tip stuff. he has no one to talk to about my sisters b/c all his homies never talk about lesbians and he doesnt know how to bring it up or talk about it. when the wedding was being planned for my sister my dad asked me “bibi what do i wear to the ceremony” b/c he didnt think it was the same tradition/ritual as he’s used to. he’s learning. it’s all a process.
this is significant because so many folks think Latin@s are homophobic, and some are, but not all of us. Many of us, and our elders, are open to learning and that’s what makes my family dope.

Thursday, September 20, 2012

Day 6: 30 Day Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 6 - Immigration: For or Against?
I have no idea what this question refers to exactly. I think folks will read into this question and answer it based on their own perspectives. Folks may make arguments regarding DREAMers, immigration reform, secure communities (SCOMM), and other federal policies. But is that REALLY what this question is asking?
Am I for or against immigration, um who the hell am i to tell folks what to do with their bodies? To cross borders or to stay in homelands? Who am I to have an opinion when my homeland was FORCED into a migratory experience and then folks argue we aren’t “real immigrants” when our experiences of shock, isolation, expected assimilation, etc. are as “real” as many immigrants.
People immigrate and migrate all over the world. This is a fact. This is how we have the world we have today. That ish isn’t going to stop and if folks think they can stop it or try to regulate it they are really out of touch with the world and so focused on squirreling away resources for a day that may not ever come.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Day 5: Latin@ Blog Challenge

Day 5 - Romney or Obama?
Do I really have to go into why neither is a good choice? How about we rephrase the question and state “Which candidate do you think is a good choice for POTUS?” that does not perpetuate the 2 party system (that’s not democracy imho), and it still isolates the womenwomen of Color, etc. who are on the ballot. Bet some of ya’ll didn’t even KNOW there are women of Color on the ballot including Latin@s!!!!
now who is an educated voter? The folks who know many of the candidates running or the ones who only know about the above mentioned men?
I’m not saying this is the perfect tool, but go and see who you side with based on your interests and beliefs of how this country can be lead.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Day 4: 30 Day Latino Blog Challenge

day 4 what Latin@ blog i recommend
Um, the obvious would be MY OWN. who is going to shamelessly plug me but myself? It’s where I put all of my published writings, the link
then you got to go to The LatiNegr@s Project which is a communal space and run by 4 dope folks, of which I am one.
then yo got to go to where Maegan is always schooling folks and I’m sometimes writing about music and films.
i also suggest my column of 4 years on Reproductive, Sexual & Media Justice. it ended in July but the archives have some amazing pieces, interviews, films, commentary I’m so proud to have that as part of  my portfolio.

Monday, September 17, 2012

Day 3: 30 Day Latino Blog Challenge

Day 3 – Favorite Latin Cuisine
whatever my papi makes. it’s really that simple. my papi was the chef and cook in our house primarily. his cooking is like another form of artwork. the way he seasons things, the way he times everything to be done at the same time. how he plans out menus from basic and simply items.
when i go home for special visits i ask him to make me maizena. it’s a porridge made from cornstarch. he makes it so sweet and yummy it can be for breakfast or dessert! He adds lemon and lemon zest and then the top layer of the porridge gets a bit solid and when you dip your spoon into it the creamy filling on the inside is still warm and smooth. it’s like when you dig into a chocolate lava cake and the chocolate pours out. only this time it’s in a bowl, it’s homemade, it’s lemony goodness.
maybe this is not a “Latin@” cuisine but more a Caribbean one.

Sunday, September 16, 2012

Day 2: 30 Day Latino Blog Challenge

Day 2 – What Latin American Country/Island have I been to
I’ve lived in Xhualtez, Yucatan in Mexico. i worked at the Mayan House of Health for several months. It was the first health facility that had western trained and traditionally trained Mayan healers working at the same facility. I worked with the healers mostly as the western doctor didn’t really want to be bothered. I helped the healers who came in 1-week shifts, lived on the campus with us, and planted the herbs they needed to make ointments and medications.
I was present when one person needed to “have her period come” (i.e. have an abortion) and translated while the healers provided a tea and deep tissue massage. I used the balm they made for me and my mosquito bites. I slept suspended in the air in a pink and white hand woven hammock. It was amazing. I was there when it was voting time and witnessed how candidates send in baby chickens to sway voters. You may eat the chicken and have grub, or raise the chicken to lay eggs and still eat, or swap it with someone else for something else.
I’ve been to Cuba twice, once for a tour with MADRE in 2000, and again in 2001 for the World Association of Sexology (now the World Association of Sexual Health) conference where I presented on my work on Latin@ Teen Pregnancy Prevention efforts in the US. I also traveled to Santiago de Cuba for several days.
I’ve been to Puerto Rico, my homeland that is not sovereign.

Saturday, September 15, 2012

Day 1: 30 Day Latino Blog Challenge

1. what i like about being Latin@ in America
i used to think the term “AmeRícan” was witty and clever. Introduced to this wordplay by poet Tato Laviera (see full poem below).
I appreciate Laviera’s poem, but today i don’t connect with the term. i’m not happy about the forced removal and citizenship i’m demanded to have because of colonization. because of racism. because of xenophobia, ideas of decency, conquest, murder, rape, and the legacy of oppression that continues.
i dig that i can read poetry and have access to ideas such as these. that i’m not alone when desiring a sovereign homeland and willing to put the work in to make that happen one day at a time.
we gave birth to new generation,
AmeRícan, broader than lost gold
never touched, hidden inside the
puerto rican mountains.

we gave birth to a new generation,
AmeRícan, it includes everything
imaginable you-name-it-we-got-it

we gave birth to new generation,
AmeRícan salutes all folklores,
european, indian, black, spanish,
and anything else compatible:

AmeRícan, singing to composer pedro flores’ palm
———-trees high up in the universal sky!

AmeRícan, sweet soft spanish danzas gypsies
———-moving lyrics la española cascabelling
———-presence always singing at our side!

AmeRícan, beating jíbaro modern troubadours
———-crying guitars romatinc continental
———-bolero love songs!

AmeRícan, across forth and across back
———-back forth and forth back
———-forth across and back and forth
———-our trips are walking bridges!

it all dissolved into itself, the attempt
was truly made, the attempt was truly
absorbed, digested, we spit out the malice,
we stand, affirmative in action,
to reproduce a broader answer to the
marginality that gobbled us up abruptly!
AmeRícan, walking plena-rhythms in new york,
———-strutting beautifully, alert, alive,
———-many turning eyes wondering,

AmeRícan, defining myself my own way any way many
———-ways Am E Rícan, with the big R and the
———-accent on the i!

AmeRícan, like the soul gliding talk of gospel
———-boogie music!

AmeRícan, speaking new words in spanglish tenements,
———-fast tongue moving street corner “que
———-corta” talk being invented at the insistence
———-of a smile!

AmeRícan, abounding inside so many ethnic english
———-people, and out of humanity, we blend
———-and mix all that is good!

AmeRícan, integrating in new york and defining our
———-own destino, our own way of life,

AmeRícan, defining the new america, humane america
———-admired america, loved america, harmonious
———-america, the world in peace, our energies
———-collectively invested to find other civi-
———-lizations, to touch God, further and further,
———-to dwell in the spirit of divinity!

AmeRícan, yes, for now, for i love this, my second
———-land, and i dream to take the accent from
———-the altercation, and be proud to call
———-myself american, in the u.s. sense of the
———-of the word, AmeRícan, America

30 Day Latino Blog Challenge

From The LatiNegr@s Project

We are happy to bring back The 30 Day Latino Blog Challenge. 30 days, 30 blogs, 1 message to celebrate Latino Heritage Month. We challenge oursleves and any Latino blogger to write everyday for the next 30 days. The rules are simple. The blog must be at least 2 paragraphs on the selected topic, although there are 2 entries for poetry. The blog can be written in anyway chosen.
Latino/Hispanic Heritage Month is from September 15 - October 15. So this challenge will begin tomorrow. Have FUN and Good Luck! Below are the topics:
Day 1 – What I love most about being Latino in America.
Day 2 – What Latin American Country/Island have I been to
Day 3 – Favorite Latin Cuisine
Day 4 - What Latino Blog I recommend
Day 5 - Romney or Obama?
Day 6 - Immigration: For or Against?
Day 7 -  Post a picture about your culture and explain its significance
Day 8 -  What Latino Stereotype do I hate the most
Day 9 -  My Feelings on Arizona
Day  10 – Afro Latinos/Latinas in the Media

Day 11 – Religion
Day 12 – Latino Politics – What affects you?
Day 13 – What Do I know about indigenous culture (i.e.Tainos)
Day 14 - Favorite Latino Musician
Day 15 – Latinos in the Film Industry
Day 16 – Latino Art
Day 17 – Si No Puede Hablar Español, No Se Pone Latino.  Verdad?
Day 18 – A Poem (original or quoted)
Day 19 – Latinos, Police, and Prisons. What Say You/Que Te Dices?
Day 20 – Latino Superheros

Day 21 - Post an Image that Represents (Afro)Latinidad and explain why
Day 22 – Blogueros y Blogeras - Are Latinos on the ‘Nets Relevant?
Day 23 – Hispanic or Latino..What do you prefer?
Day 24 – Should USA lift the embargo on Cuba?
Day 25 - Post a picture about your familia and explain its significance
Day 26 – Favorite Latino Actor or Actress
Day 27 – Favorite Latino Author
Day 28 – Are Latinos Queer?
Day 29 – Are Latinos Black?
Day 30 – What I learned in the last 30 days.

Friday, September 7, 2012

How To Pay Homage To and Honor Henrietta Lacks?

originally published at RH Reality Check

I finished The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks two weeks ago. Yes, I’m about three years late and for good reason! I wasn’t ready to read the book. I knew there would be a lot of discussion about the anti-Black racism, xenephobia, ableism, and misogyny that I wasn’t ready to read about. Many of the folks in my life have shared how good the book was and encouraged me to read it as well. I didn’t have the same expectations of the book being a “good read,” but I also didn’t expect to have the reaction I had to the text.

Making a conscious effort not to read any written critiques or praises for the book, I began reading with a specific goal: How can I, someone who is benefitting from the misuse/abuse of Henrietta Lacks’ body, honor her without reinforcing the same oppressive experiences others have upon her and her family? How do I examine how I’ve benefitted from something heinous that I had nothing to do with but that allows for my existence today? As I read I was immediately questioning some things about the text. First, how was the text so comprehensive when it comes to sharing intimate and private moments Henrietta Lacks experienced when there were not witnesses? This book was said to be nonfiction, but some parts read as fictional to me. Half way through the text I wondered how do I see this form of data collection and methodology? Would I use this book as an example of “feminist ethnography” or “feminist research” and if I did would I support this approach? I think back to the forms of testimonio, oral narratives, that people of Color have shared. And then I remember the ways folks have tried to debunk our words and narratives. From Rigoberta Menchu, to the slave narratives, to youth questioning pop singer Rhianna’s experience with abuse, women of Color are often questioned, especially when we speak about our lives

When I remember my “Feminist Ethnography” class, and how, if I got the chance, would teach it similarly or differently, I considered if this book would be useful. How would I rationalize it being a “feminist” text if the methodology and data collection were so limited and unclear? Could this be a useful text to discuss some of those topics? There are many questions I still have unanswered from that class. Sometimes the questions are more important than the answers.

Then I read this critique An Open Letter to Those Colleges and Universities that have Assigned Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks as the “Common” Freshman Reading for the Class of 2016by Rebecca Kumar. I realized that I had the same questions and discomfort as did Skloot. Kumar specifically mentions parts of the text that I too had questions about their authenticity, such as a part of the book that Kumar describes as “voyeuristic.” Is it too fantastic to believe a woman knew her body so well that she knew there was a tumour on her cervix without having to feel for it with her fingers? What does this say about the ways women are expected to understand what is occurring in/to their own body? How does it set up the same situation the Lacks’ discuss of not questioning medical providers because they are doctors and know more? How does this fall into criticising alternative forms of knowing and knowledge, some of which Skloot calls “voodoo” and how Henrietta Lacks’ youngest daughter Deborah (and other family members) discusses Henrietta’s spirit being present?

When it comes to the questionable non-fiction parts of the text I too am troubled as Kumar. Upon sharing Kumar’s letter with folks in my network there were many racially white folks who have read the book and who did not agree with Kumar for different reasons. I had to admit that I was not surprised that many racially white people who praised the text would disagree with what a woman of Color was stating. Her points require us to examine our own ethical philosophies and ways we consume the bodies and narratives of women of Color. When women of Color speak about racism and misogyny and oppression we need to listen and not just focus on debunking their positions and statements because they make us uncomfortable being self-reflexive.

How did Skloot come to decide/know (I can’t tell if it was her choice/decision or if she found this out from someone else) that Henrietta Lacks’ husband had been cheating on her and thus transmitting various sexualy transmitted infections, such as syphilis? From what I read Skloot had limited interactions with David Lacks who was aging and ill. How did she come to this conclusion or did she decide that on her own? I’m not comfortable with a racially white woman deciding that a Black man’s infidelity was the reason for certain illnesses and outcomes especially when she had the opportunity to ask him directly. This goes back to believing what Black men say when they speak.

Also Skloot mentions a recorder she used, but never mentions it early on in meeting with the Lacks family. How does she get long conversations with the Lacks men long before they have consented to being recorded? Does she “sneak” the recorder and record the conversation in her pocket? If so, is that ethical? Is that what the Lacks family agreed to? How is this a misuse of obtaining information from living human subjects? Does she ever obtain consent to using those recordings?

Finally, the discussions of racism and race are odd for me to read. Not because I didn’t expect them, but because Skloot doesn’t discuss this at all in the text from her perspective. Instead she leaves it up to the Black folks in the text to bring up race and racism. This gives me the impression that she is “post-racial” and doesn’t think about how her whiteness may impact this narrative or how she’s normalized her own whiteness. She’s surprised how folks she contacts know she is white because it is only white folks who call asking about Henrietta Lacks and HeLa cells. Why not spend some time discussing how her whiteness was something that gave her access in ways others, even the Black doctors she interviewed, did not have? Why not discuss how her whiteness gave her some protections, even in the spaces she described as being locations many would interpret as “scary” or “undesirable” for a white woman to go alone?

As many folks who have discussed and critiqued the book have mentioned, Skloot includes discussions of herself in the text, some even argue it’s an overwhelming part of the text. Why not go into a first person voice to address some of this? I’d especially like to hear how Skloot came to the decision on her own that a educational fund was necessary to create. Did she even ask the family what they wanted or did she decide what was best for them? (I’m not even going to go into the problems with her receiving immoral amounts of money in honorariums to speak about this text and how she’s been known to be difficult and not want to engage with students when at universities who pay her this amount.)

This book is important, and I don’t question that at all. It gives us reminders that oppression by and among medical professionals exists in this country today and is embedded in the (re)memory of many communities of Color in the US. What I do appreciate from Skloot is she uses the voices of the Lacks family and does not change their vernacular for easier reading or more acceptable text. Some folks may not like this approach, yet I find it important to have readers understand the words and vernacular of those speaking in an authentic voice.

In addition to Kumar’s discussion of first year students and the faculty who teach them using this text, the book has also attracted readers some may not have expected. Now, the text and the narrative have been immortalized in a different way: in the Hip Hop genre by one of my favorite MCs: DOOM. In his latest track, “Winter Blues,” from his album JJ DOOM (he collaborated with Jneiro Jarel hence the JJ in front of the name which is explained at the beginning of the video), references Henrietta Lacks. Here are the video and lyrics, bolded are the ones in reference to Lacks.

Melanin on melanin

Your dude need to recharge off your velvet skin

Make ‘em feel like, like twelve again

Soon as you give the green light I’m delvin’ in (x2)

Learn to balance, it’s real tricky

Like The Incredible Hulk turned back to Bill Bixby

Fuck masturbating, I’d rather wait than

Keep enough of that good stuff for the trading in

Each and every day making cash with Satan

Can’t eat can’t sleep, it’s exasperatin’

Mad like burning off

All he needs is one warm hug to keep from turning off

I’m sure you could use a boost

Left the hooptie parked in hood with the screws loose

Bust the coupé out the driveway, stash house

Scooped you up, hit the highway and mash out

Matte-black like melanin on melanin

Of course the butter soft, black leather trim, set of rims

Let ‘er purr, not a scratch on it

Spin it back to the garage and put a latch on it

I need a handful of melanin

Feelin’ like the lambswool beard on your tender skin

It might give you a shock initially

As we reconnect up the flow, electricity

The phenomenal melanin bio-polymer

Follow with a glass a merlot, I could swallow her

Eat ‘er up like a SnackWell®

We could live forever like Henrietta Lacks cells

Melanin on melanin

Ask me where the hell I been soon as I felt her skin

Holdin’ hands, feet in the sand— grounded

Starin’ in them pretty brown eyes— astounded

I’ll share some solar power

If you let me pound it we could go for hours

And then again in the shower

Left her leg tremblin’— recharged the melanin

Girl you got it

Me too let that show

This is how you know

That’s that glow

Feel it yo

Love that glow

Even so

Feel it yo

I still remain with many questions, especially around how to honor and remember Lacks. What does it mean for me to recognize the privileges I have benefitied from by the misuse of a Black woman’s body? How do I pay homage and give thanks for her and her family while still holding myself accountable for the ways I’ve benefitted. This is something I’ve begun to discuss with my community. As my good friend Aaminah had mentioned when I shared I was working on this piece “You know, like how we talk about white privilege including the benefits that come from the system of slavery, even when white people say ‘but I didn't have slaves! that was so long ago!’ Well, we have to talk in the same way about how we continue to benefit from this thing that we didn't have anything to do with, we didn't do it, we are horrified that it happened, but the fact is we still benefit from it! I don't know how to have that convo with myself much less with anyone else yet. But I know it has to happen.”

I think it’s time for that conversation to begin. Let’s start.


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If you haven't noticed already I am totally addicted to bracelets!  I just love layering them on top of one another and mixing + matching different styles together.  I stopped by Liberty a couple weeks ago to do some browsing and have been obsessed with these tres cool Parisian bracelets by La Mome Bijou ever since.  The graphic super hero inspired bracelets on brightly colored silk cords add a youthful boyish touch to your wrists.  And how cool are the ones with the skulls?  I'm just loving the neon yellow skull mixed with the purple silk.  That will make any outfit just a little more funky.  The heart bracelets are just so sweet and with just a little sprinkle of pave diamonds gives it more va va voom.  Now I just need to convince the boys that I deserve to celebrate the American Mother's Day coming up since I am technically American!  Or better yet a girl's trip to Paris!

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Wednesday, October 3, 2012

So I did a tattoo design for a long time internet buddy of mine, and it's really cool to see a design I did, translated to skin!

Overall i'm incredibly happy with the result, but part of me knows it's not quite the same...
I honestly don't know how hard it is to draw on skin, or the process in how they copy a piece of work, so i'm apologizing in advance in case the following statement offends tattoo artists or anyone who knows their stuff...

Seeing how my drawing translates into a tattoo, while it looks absolutely fantastic no doubt, it's just not quite the same and I think it puts me off from getting tattoo work being done on me. I mean, if I were to get something done, it would be my own art, but I would want the artist to make it exactly the same or somehow better. If i'm not happy with the result, well...  unless you can afford laser removal it's there to stay. Again, I do apologize if how I feel is taken as an insult to tattoo artists, I mean, i've seen some pretty AMAZING stuff out there and this one still turned out great, i'm just a picky artist I guess!

A big thank you to Valentino for picking me to design a tattoo that will forever remain as a mark on him. It is an honour and despite what I said above, i'm still happy with the result and it really does look fantastic. I look forward to, someday, seeing the rest of the tattoos you get, and the smoke and fire added on.

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Saturday, January 23, 2010

Arabian Horses Attacked in Pinon Hills, California

Some time during the night of January 21st someone scaled our five foot fence and went after at least two of my horses with scissors or a similar cutting instrument. Our property is completely fenced and secured with a locked gate at all times. This happened between the hours of 7:30 pm 1/21 and 7:30 am 1/22 during a Winter storm.

My 25 year old grey gelding had his tail hacked off at the tailbone, a beautiful tail that dragged on the ground taking years to grow, and his mane was chopped off to a couple of inches when it was originally 8-10 inches long.

These vandals also tried to hack off my 12 year old black gelding's tail, which was done up in a tail wrap and now just hangs by a few strands of hair. They also chopped off the black horse's forelock and tried to get his mane. There are two places missing in the mane, but he apparently broke away from them and could not be caught again.

Fortunately, they could not catch my bay mare or my bay gelding to mutilate them.

All of the hair hacked off these horses was left behind strewn on the ground, except the grey horse's tail. That was taken as a "souvenir".

Both horses are Regionally titled and National Championship quality show horses who are now rendered unable to be presented in the show ring until their appearance can be restored through months of hair growth. This is resulting in a tremendous monetary loss in addition to the obvious loss of security in our own home and coming with that an intense feeling of helplessness in keeping our horses safe and secure.

As a result of this crime, the Sheriff's Department was called, a report was taken and an investigation has begun. All leads will be aggressively pursued.

We believe this to have been a deliberate act of violence and not a random act of mischief. Nothing was stolen or missing, nothing else was disturbed.

Photographs will be posted as soon as we are able.

Keep your horses safe.

  1. I am so sorry to hear what happened to your horses. It is atrocious! I am just glad that everything was cosmetic and that the horses were not permanently injured.
    I hope they catch the party responsible.

  2. I'm wondering if the "souvenir" is going to be made into horsehair jewelry. Is anyone around here into that sort of "craft" idea for horsey items?

    This just makes me sick and angry.

    I hope the sheriff's department nabs them and they are "outted" and made to pay.

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The Calm

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Another layout created using a combination of photos and manipulating them using blending modes, filters and masks. This one turned into one of my favorites. To create it I used the following photos, click on each to view the original photo.
A big thank you goes out to them all!
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Monday, January 25, 2010

Listen to the Picture

"This week we could either choose a song and photograph it or choose a photo and find a song and tell its history."

I wanted to put a photo to a song. There were so many of my favorite songs to choose from. I had so many ideas running through my head! I went with Nickelback:

"If today was your last day
Would you make your mark by mending a broken heart?
You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars
Regardless of who you are
So do whatever it takes
'Cause you can't rewind a moment in this life
Let nothin' stand in your way
Cause the hands of time are never on your side"

Lyrics by Chad Kroeger

I liked this photo and cropped it close because you can see movement on the hand of the clock.

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Great job, Linda!
At least you narrowed it down to one! Every time I go to the forum I get another song stuck!


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Full reveal of new BMW i8 Roadster

Full reveal of new BMW i8 Roadster

In addition to opening and closing in less than 16 seconds, BMW says the i8 Roadster's insulated fabric roof can be operated at speeds up to 31 miles per hour.

Of course you're going to need to make sure you're making some serious cash to afford either version of the i8 with a street price expected to be north of $150,000. They are replaced by black panels with aluminium trim etched with the word "Roadster".

A new E-Copper finish has been added, as has a Donington Grey metallic for both the Coupe and the Roadster.

BMW made the 2019 i8 greener than the current one by putting a bigger emphasis on pure electric drive. (60 kg) over the Coupe, at 3,514 lbs. The Roadster's fuel consumption suffers more next to the coupe, but then it still records 134.5mpg on the combined cycle. (91 L) of cargo space in cubby holes integrated into the rear bulkhead. The F90 BMW M5 will be arriving in US showrooms in spring 2018 with an MSRP of $102,600 plus $995 Destination and Handling. (22-cm) monitor or rotary control via a dial in the center console.

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It's taken a few years, but BMW has finally released a Roadster version of its futuristic i8 sports auto and the new body style coincides with a few upgrades to the Coupe, including a more powerful drivetrain. A tiny, turbocharged aluminum rattlebox of an engine powered the i8's rear wheels and an electric motor churned the front for all-wheel drive excellence.

The electric motor, however, is upgraded with an additional 12 hp (increasing its reserves to 141 hp), which is delivered together with the same 184 lb. -ft.

Inside, the cabin gets an updated steering wheel, a multifunction instrument display and an 8.8-inch freestanding touch screen. (569 Nm), although the latter is continually regulated dependent on grip and traction levels. That now rises to 74mph in eDrive electric mode. Neither is the acceleration, though the 0-60 miles per hour times now stand at 4.2 seconds for the Coupe and 4.4 seconds for the roadster; 155 miles per hour remains the limited top speed.

Accompanying the driveline changes is a revised lithium-ion battery.

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Monday, October 26, 2009

Unlikely Sanctuary

Unlikely Sanctuary= a quiet place of worship outside the four walls of tradition. My unlikely sanctuary happened to be my back patio on Sunday morning. After spending the night caring for my sick child then waking with a migraine, I found retreat and solace amongst a choir of birds and a congregation of trees. We all sat in quiet reverence to the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Causes and complications of Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( ALS)

complications of ALS

The main cause of ALS is not clear. It may be discovered that mutations in the gene that produces SOD1 enzyme is associated with ALS. This enzyme act as  antioxidant that protects body from Damage due to radicals. Free radicals are highly reactive molecules, produced by cells during normal metabolism of body. If not neutralized , these free radicals can accumulate and responsible for damage to DNA and proteins within cells. Yet it is not clear that how SOD1  gene mutation leads to motor neuron degeneration but it has been theorized that accumulation of free radical may result in faulty functioning of this gene.

Studies also foccused that role of Glutamate is also responsible for motor neuron degeneration. Glutamate is neurotransmitter in the brain and in ALS patients glutamate level is higher in serum and spinal fluid and the neurons began to die when they get longer period of exposure to glutamate. Auto immune responses suggest one of the important cause of motor degenerative disorders. Antibodies may directly or indirectly impair the function of motor neurons, interfering with the transmission of signals between the brain and muscles.

Other environmental factors is also responsible such as an exposure to toxic or infectious agents, dietary deficiency or trauma. Other research may show that genetic predisposition are also involved in the development of ALS.

complications of ALS

ALS degenerate the motor neurons and lead to the weakness of the muscles. Some common complications are as follows–

1) Problem in eating–

Patients with ALS, generally choke easily. Because of malnutrition, dehydration and weight loss occurs. These patients may aspirate their food or liquors and can cause pneumonia i.e. infection of the  lungs. Due to this infection  patient have shortness of breath, coughing, chills and fever. In order to overcome these eating problems, feeding tube is used, which delivers patient’s food right to the stomach.

2) Breathing problems–

In motor neuron disease due to degeneration of motor neurons, the muscles in the chest wall and diaphragm gets affected and leas to breathing problems. Due to this breathing problem, patient requires ventilator to breath properly or sometime surgical procedure like trachestomy in which opening of wind pipe help them to breathe is helpful. Studies show that ALS patients die from respiratory failure within 4-5 years.

3) Dementia–

ALS  patients have increased risk of dementia i.e. from fronto temporal dementia or Alzheimer’s disease. In fronto temporal dementia patients have shrinkage in the parts of temporal or frontal lobe and they find  difficulties in writing  speaking or in appropriate behavior and in Alzheimer’s disease, patient have memory problem or show withdraw towards society.

4) Inability to care–

As in ALS there is weakness in muscles that makes the patient finds difficulty in walking or climbing. Due to muscle problem  tremors, twitching or muscle spasm is also common.

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Sunday, May 29, 2005

In Which a Team of Consultants are Summoned to the Learning Curves Conference Room to Discuss What to Do about the Recent 20% Drop in Site Traffic

The script doctor:
I know, what about Die Hard on a blog!? Maybe you can add a love interest. I know, I know! You can have a member of the team be in danger! What about this-- Have you considered getting a hedgehog?

The publicist:
It's all about networking. Get out there, leave lots of comments. You really want to build up your link base. I could make a few phone calls, maybe try to get you a link from one of the top blogs.

The market researcher:
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The stylist:
Honey, it's very sweet that you designed your template yourself, but if you want to get anywhere, you're going to need a skin. There's this designer I know, I could have her mock up something for you. She's wonderful; you'll love it. And what's up with your hair? I mean, really.


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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Update from the Autistic Math Major

Title of Senior Thesis:
[Name]'s Treatise on Mathematics

Response to praise that his thesis is well-written:
He said that he was just copying Munkres' style.

Why he isn't applying to grad school here:
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Engaging students in curriculum design from a distance

In July 2016, the Learning Innovation team partnered with colleagues in the Institute of Educational Technology to launch its first Student Curriculum Design Panel as part of a partnership approach to student engagement in the development of learning and teaching activities, tools and services. The panel consists of 461 students from across a range of faculties who have volunteered to take part in up to four activities a year.

In both the 2014/15 Student Consultation round and the first OU Staff-Student Hack Day in January 2016, students enthusiastically expressed their desire to be involved in curriculum and learning design. Similarly, academic related staff in both IET and Translation expressed a desire to be able to work with students more directly and easily in the early development of activities, materials and tools, in both a planned and ad hoc way.

Students can volunteer to take part in activities such as workshops, surveys, and various kinds of usability and experience testing. The interaction is very much intended to mimic face-to-face student-teacher informal discussions. Activities are run face-to-face, through OU Live, and via the panel’s We Learn workspace.

Partnerships with students in curriculum development give the OU the chance to co-create and co-design engaging learning and teaching experiences with them. For students it provides the opportunity to have a direct impact on early development work and to experience professional engagement with a large institution, which may be used as evidence of collaborative professional experience in portfolios, job applications or continuing professional development.

So far, members of the 2016/17 panel have completed an in depth survey on their Study Behaviours and Hacks for the OpenCreate project, taken part in focus groups on both Accessibility Policy and Learning Design, tested the workload on parts of DD310 Counselling and forensic psychology, contributed to the definition of themes for E309 Comparative studies in primary education, and completed usability testing of the U116 Carbon Calculator prototype, as well as the Open Degree calculator prototype.

Students have shared feedback that highlights the value of this kind of engagement:

‘I really enjoyed participation. As a student on my last psychology module and as a trained counsellor it was interesting to preview material for a new module and see how the Open University estimate the time it takes to complete reading and activities.’

‘Thank you for such an interesting and engaging session today. It was very well organised and I think demonstrated how seriously OU students take their studies.’

Students who attended a face-to-face session contributed a wealth of ideas and insights into their own learning, for example:

‘Can the work be split into bite size pieces? Attention goes stale after about 20 mins…’

‘Can students be told explicitly from day one how to extract the course material to get a distinction?’

‘Could students be asked to do a variety of assignments/tasks rather than an even number of TMAs that are all about 2000 words? Variety may boost motivation, and it is vocational.’

Lessons learnt / top tips

  • Engaging students in curriculum design – at a distance – can be logistically tricky! Ensuring ad hoc activities are kept to a minimum of 45 minutes to an hour ensures that they can take part in depth, without worrying about lost study time.
  • Students given the chance to visit Walton Hall campus will jump at it if arrangements can be made.
  • Activities need to be planned carefully to take into account clashes with assessment periods or times of high workload, especially when targeting a cohort from within a particular qualification area.

An evaluation of the approach taken by the Student Curriculum Design Panel to engage students, including lessons learned, will be available in May 2017.


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Monday, January 3, 2011

New Book Series: The Legal History of the Civil War Era

Earlier I noted a reader on the legal history of the Civil War and Reconstruction by Christian G. Samito. It happens that he is also editing a book series for the Southern Illinois University Press, Legal History of the Civil War Era: From the Mexican War to Jim Crow. Here is the description of the series:
Abraham Lincoln identified a "new birth of freedom" during the Civil War era, when the government and people of the United States undertook the most comprehensive reconsideration of legal and political issues since the constitutional convention in 1787. Americans confronted the contours of governmental power and considered the boundaries of civil liberties during wartime. Legislation fueled national development, nationalized the monetary and banking system, and promoted both the coercive power of government, through taxation and conscription, and its role in taking care of citizens, though the provision of pensions for Civil War veterans.

Wartime experiences, and the triumph of unionism on the battlefield, allowed for the creation of a stronger nation-state. Millions of Africans Americans marched out of bondage into inclusion in a newly defined national citizenship, called for an enduring freedom, and began to enjoy civil and political rights for the first time. At the same time, a racist counter-revolution in the South sought to tamp out this new enjoyment of citizenship rights by African Americans, as well as to intimidate white Republican governments.

This exciting new series from Southern Illinois University Press is the first to focus on the rich legal history of the period from the Mexican War to Plessy v. Ferguson and Jim Crow. The series will explore legal history from different angles, ranging from presidential leadership to legislative mandates, and from judicial interpretation to the impact society had on legal development, and how law, society, and politics mixed during this period to shape American legal development. Broad topics to be covered include, but are not limited to:

* slavery
* abolitionism
* the Republican party
* civil liberties during wartime
* war powers
* economic development and modernization
* the expansion of the federal government
* Confederate legal history
* the redefinition of American citizenship
* changes in legal thought and education
* suffrage movements
* race relations
* Native Americans
* African Americans and the Union military
* rights developments during Reconstruction...
* the rise of Jim Crow

Books in the series will be written with a high scholarly caliber and will also be accessible to an interested non-academic audience. In addition to making significant contributions to historiography, these volumes will be important and relevant, often covering topics bearing on issues that continue to be debated today.

The primary audience for this series consists of professional historians, political scientists, law professors, and practicing attorneys, as well as students in undergraduate, graduate, and law school classes. The wider audience fascinated by the Civil War era and its legacy-and increasingly interested in the history of American legal development-will find these books particularly appealing as well. Although the majority of the books will be overviews and monographs, themed essay compilations and selected edited collections of papers from important legal thinkers will be welcome in the series. Ideally, books in the series will be up to 95,000 words in length and may include as many as twenty graphic images.

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April 02, 2007

Hometown heroism

(Thanks, Ryan, for the image!)

So now I'm starting to sound like a real hometown hero with all this puffing up of Seattle, but did you see Prevention Magazine's list of the top 100 "Most Walkable Cities"?

According to the story, which I saw on CNN,

Factors contributing to the ranking were air quality, the percentage of people who walk to work, access to parks, number of athletic shoes sold, and (believe it or not) weather.

While I'm here singing its praises, I might as well also mention that the city falls on the top ten list of "greenest cities", according to Green Magazine, which takes into consideration not the scenery, but the environmental policy, air and water quality and long-term sustainability strategy of a city.

All this "top ten" stuff got me thinking, though. What lists wouldn't we see Seattle on? I'll open the floor, but will throw a few out there to get the ball rolling:

"Best places to live if you hate hippies"
"Top 10 best cities in which to drive a stick-shift"
"Best places to open up a coffee shop"
"Most dendrophobic and technophobic-friendly cities"

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Kyla said...

"Top 10 places to live if you hate rain and clouds"

"Top cities in which to avoid flannel"

"Best traffic"

"Cities with the best late-night nightlife"


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Friday, June 8, 2012

On Being Humbled

Today, in God's infinite goodness and graciousness, He allowed me to see my blessings after starting the day in a cranky and foul mood...
My husband asked me this morning, "How are you?" knowing full well I was off.
I didn't want to talk about how I was feeling so I said, "I'm fine" without looking him in the eye.
I am in my ninth month of pregnancy and not sleeping well at night.
I am more fussy than usual.
I am frustrated in this election year with people who are unaware of what is happening in our country.
So in my tired and fussy state, I headed out in the late afternoon to visit one of my dearest friends and her daughter in the hospital.

On the way to the hospital I see what I think to be a prostitute on a corner of town where I wouldn't normally expect to see one.  I can only assume she is one from the way she is dressed and walking up and down the corner.  The only feeling I can experience is sheer sadness.  I cannot imagine what her life must be like.  I can only imagine her struggle to love herself or allow God to love her while living a life of others taking advantage of her.  I think of the danger she puts herself in. I imagine her sharing the most intimate part of her being with a selfish stranger. I start to feel sick and pray for her on the way to the hospital and thank God it is not me on the street corner.

I get to the hospital where my friend and her daughter have been for nine days now after coming through major brain surgery on Wednesday. I take one look at them and things fall into place for me pretty quickly. I can't believe I woke up feeling sorry for myself today.  I am ashamed and once again thank God for putting me in a place where I can put things in perspective.

When I am leaving the hospital a young mother approaches me looking to start a conversation about my very pregnant belly.  She asks me which baby this is for me.  When I tell her it is my seventh she can barely believe me.  She says, "Oh, you must be married to have so many children."  She tells me she is the mother of two young children with neither fathers around.  She works and raises her children on her own and tells me she doesn't spend her time with the right kind of men. We talk about hope and how there are always noble men out there waiting to be found. We talk about doing what is best for our children and try to rise above ourselves every day.  She tells me she has given up hope.  I try and share how Jesus' Passion, death and resurrection give us hope.  I say the words out loud and am quickly humbled by my own words regarding my feelings of hopelessness.

I continue to walk back to my car and see the most beautiful rainbow I've seen.  I don't know if this woman will notice the rainbow on her way out or equate it with God's message of hope for us.  I am humbled by her struggles in life and pray for her and her children.
I pray in thanksgiving for my noble and beautiful spouse.

On the way home I tune into Relevant Radio and for the first time am introduced to Msgr. J. Brian Bransfield.  He is continuing with the message of detachment from the world and God meeting us where we are and I am completely in awe of how God grabbed a hold of my attention and shook me with things I needed to hear today.

Thank you Lord for revealing my weaknesses and my blessings to me today.
Keep me far from despair, doubt and hopelessness as it is so easy to stumble into self pity some days.
And thank you most for revealing Yourself to me when I needed You most.


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The Burston Strike School, 1914-1939

Striking pupils and their parents, Burston, 1914

A short history of the longest schoolchildren's strike in UK history, when nearly all pupils at Burston school in Norfolk, England walked out in support of two unfairly sacked teachers who then started their own school with funds from the workers' movement.

The longest strike in history was not staged by miners but by minors - the children of a small village in Norfolk. On 1 April, 1914, pupils of the Burston village school, supported by their parents, took to the streets in protest at the dismissal of their teachers, Tom and Kitty Higdon. The strike lasted for over 25 years.

There really can be no peace or victory for us which does not bring with it freedom for the countryside, liberty and life for the labourer and prosperity and plenty to his home and family. The labourer must henceforth take his place industrially, socially and politically with the best and foremost of the land. He must do this himself - by the force and power of his union. And he can!
- Schoolteacher Tom Higdon, quoted in The Labourer, January 1917.

In 1902, a Parliamentary Education Bill was introduced offering education to 'working-class children'. 'Education' in this sense meant little more than instructing children as to their place in society, preparing them for service or factory/agricultural work. Though it's often omitted from modern performances, the 1848 children's hymn 'All Things Bright and Beautiful' contained a second verse that spoke directly to the discontent among the working classes: 'The rich man in his castle, the poor man at his gate / He made them, high or lowly, and ordered their estate.' It was this sentiment that was felt to be of greatest benefit to the children.

But there were many educated Working- or Middle-class people who saw through the indoctrination and felt that every person, regardless of background, should be treated with equal respect - or rather, that a person's breeding did not automatically guarantee them authority over 'lower' stock. Highly agricultural areas such as Norfolk were seen by the Agricultural Workers Union as ripe for recruitment.

Annie Katherine Schollick - known as 'Kitty' - was born in 1864 in Cheshire. Tom Higdon was born in 1869, the son of a Somerset farm labourer. The pair were married in 1896 and eventually moved to Norfolk in 1902, the same year that the Education Act came into force. They were proud of their beliefs as both Christians and Socialists, beliefs that made them idealists who hoped to use education as a means to making a better life for the next generation, rather in conflict with the thinking behind the Education Act as a means of preserving the status quo.

The Higdons began teaching at Wood Dalling County School, near Aylsham in Norfolk, on 14 April, 1902, with Kitty appointed as headmistress and Tom as assistant teacher. Almost immediately they found themselves at odds with the establishment, specifically the farm-owning managers of the school. In the view of the Higdons, the school was squalid and unsuitable for children to inhabit. Furthermore, the land owners insisted on pulling children out of school whenever the seasons dictated that they needed cheap labour. Tom Higdon's frustration with one land owner resulted in Tom being fined 40 shillings for assault.

By 1911, the Higdons found they were fighting a losing battle as the school managers refused to make concessions for the good of the children. The Norfolk Education Committee arranged that they be transferred to another Norfolk school, in the village of Burston, near Diss.

The Burston School

As in Wood Dalling, the Burston school's management was overseen by a committee comprising farm owners. The local Rector, the Reverend Charles Tucker Eland who, like the Higdons, was a new arrival to Burston, had recently been appointed chairman of the committee and was keen for the school to continue with the education of children as to The Way Things Are. As Rector, Eland demanded the respect of the people of Burston and saw it as his right to be the central, controlling, figure of the Burston community. It was an attitude that brought him into conflict with the Higdons, who felt that respect was something to be earned, not granted automatically. The luxury afforded to Eland, with his £580-a-year salary and the run of a large rectory contrasted greatly with the living conditions of his congregation, many of whom survived on an annual wage of just £35 and were in constant danger of being thrown out of their homes by greedy land owners.

Sadly, the Burston Council school was in a similar state to that of the Wood Dalling building and the Higdon's first task was to make the schoolroom as habitable as possible. Kitty Higdon was surprised to be criticised by the school management for not seeking their permission before lighting a fire in the schoolroom's grate with which to dry the clothes of children who had walked miles through the rain, or to prepare hot water for bathing those children whose hair was infested with lice. As before, the Higdons came up against land owners who insisted on valuing child labour over the children's education, a situation that was helped neither by the Higdons' steady stream of complaints to the management about the unhygienic, cold and damp conditions at the school, nor the common knowledge of their own political sympathies. Yet the Higdons were enormously popular among the parents of the children, most of whom recognised the efforts the Higdons were going to in order to give their children a better start in life.

The children themselves were encouraged to view their lessons as a pleasure, not a chore, and attendance at the school rose dramatically. Kitty Higdon ensured that her classes (and those of her husband) focused on the individual talents of each child. The children were encouraged to imagine possibilities through education that might otherwise have been well outside the horizons of their limited expectations. The classes also encouraged a sense of fair play and justice.

Still, the ruling management disliked the Higdons' refusal to accept their authority and continued to obstruct the couple in matters of school maintenance and attendance. Perhaps understandably, the land owners on the parish council invariably sided with the Reverend Eland in matters of policy, which ensured that all parish issues tended to fall in the interests of the ruling class, and only incidentally to the benefit of the parishioners themselves. After the issues at the previous school, Tom Higdon had abandoned his active role in politics. But having settled in Burston he eventually decided to stand for election to the parish council and encouraged other villagers to do the same. The sight of their 'own' people standing side-by-side with the traditional nominees helped to swing the vote and Tom and his friends were duly elected with a soaring majority - while simultaneously ousting the Reverend Eland and other domineering land owners. Suddenly, the balance of power had shifted.

But though they had lost control of the parish council, many of the usurped councillors still occupied positions on the school management committee. Feeling that 'something must be done', and led by the Reverend Eland, the school management targeted Kitty Higdon who, they claimed, had proven discourteous to the management when they had cause to rebuke her for lighting the schoolroom fire without permission. They also obtained testimony from the foster mother of two girls from Barnardo's in which it was alleged that Kitty had beaten the girls as a punishment for lying and had left them in class with soaking wet hair. With an apparently strong case, the management demanded the immediate dismissal of the Higdons from the Burston school.

A subsequent inquiry, which came about at the Higdons' request, found no evidence of mistreatment of the children in their care, nor of any contravention of rules regarding the lighting of the schoolroom fire. Only on the accusation of discourtesy to the managers could the Education Committee find any evidence but that, they judged, was sufficient for the Higdons to be removed from the school. Despite requests for help from the National Union of Teachers, the Higdons were given three months' notice to vacate the school. The Higdons reluctantly conceded defeat and prepared to move their equipment out of the school by the end of March, 1914.

On 1 April, 1914, as the management welcomed a new teacher to the school, they discovered writing on the classroom blackboard: 'We are going on strike tomorrow', presumably left there the previous evening once the Higdons had departed. Next, they heard some noise coming from outside. A group of children, led by pupil Violet Potter and assisted by the children's parents, were marching down the street and playing instruments. They had created placards that read: 'We want our teachers back' and a banner carrying the single word 'Justice' in protest against the dismissal of their teachers. As they marched through the village, the protestors came across the home of the foster mother who had testified against the Higdons in the inquiry. In her garden stood a proud sign - 'Victory' - which the protestors wasted no time in uprooting and claiming as their own.

The group eventually reached Crown Green in the centre of the village where the Higdons gave an emotional impromptu speech of gratitude to the villagers. It was soon decided by the parents - led by George Durbidge, the village fishmonger - that they preferred their children to be taught by the Higdons, whom they trusted and respected, than by a committee-selected stranger. So it was that an impromptu schoolroom was set up on the Green under a makeshift marquee, where 66 of the 72 pupils began to study under the Higdons' tutelage. Kitty Higdon insisted on strict timetabling and attendance as before and ensured as much as possible that her high standards were maintained despite the circumstances. The remaining six children from her old class continued attendance at the Council school.

As the months dragged on, it became clear that the schoolroom on the green could not continue when winter drew close. But any hopes on the Council's part that the strike would be cancelled were dashed when room for the children was found in an unused workshop facing the Green.

The School Management Committee continued with their plan of attack. 18 parents were summoned to court and fined for not sending their children to a state-recognised school (the fines were paid out of collections made outside the courtroom). Though the parents were fined repeatedly, it soon became clear that they had made a choice as to the education of their children and further intervention on the part of the courts would only lead to ridicule of the judiciary.

The land owners sacked the participating workers, threatened to evict them from their homes and ransacked their property and crops, but this simply made the village close ranks even further. Tom Higdon pointed out to the workers that with the country at war with Germany, able-bodied men were in short supply; suddenly, the downtrodden workers were a valuable resource that no land owner could afford to reject for long.

As the strike neared its first birthday, the lease on the workshop also drew to an end but support and donations from trade unions and branches of the Labour party across the country raised over £1,250 to keep the school going. In a time of distress in the country due to the horrific losses during the war, the Burston Strike School managed to offer a spark of hope for thousands who, prior to the protest, had never even heard of Burston. It also became a place of pilgrimage for trade unionists long after the strike itself had come to an end.

A suggestion from Kitty Higdon led to the building of a brand new purpose-built school with proper facilities paid for from the donations. The school was eventually opened by the leader of the strike, Violet Potter, on 13 May, 1917.

The Strike Ends

After the Reverend Eland left Burston in 1920, he was replaced by Francis Smith, a man who proved much more agreeable to the sensitivities of his parishioners. By all accounts he and the Higdons maintained a friendly rivalry with the two schools competing against each other in sports and with Smith frequently providing the children of the Strike School with additional religious education.

While the school didn't maintain a complete monopoly on the education of the children of Burston, by 1930 at least half of the children were still being sent to the Strike school in preference to the Council-run school and the school also accepted pupils from outside of the community, with children sometimes boarding in Burston itself free of charge.

No-one would argue that the Higdons themselves had made the school a thriving success. But conversely, the school could not continue without them. When Tom Higdon died in August, 1939, Kitty was 75 years old and unable to carry on alone. The Strike School closed just a few months after Tom's death and its pupils - the children and grandchildren of the original strikers - were taken to the Council School, where the facilities had been much improved over the years, largely as a response to the example shown by the Higdons.

The boycott of the Council School had lasted for over 25 years and earned its place in history as the longest-lasting strike ever.

Kitty Higdon died on 24 April, 1946. She was buried next to her husband, in Burston's churchyard.

The Legacy of the Burston Strike

In 1949, the Strike School was granted charity status with a view to turning it into a museum and archive of the village's history. The school is open to this day, all year round. Visitors need only request to borrow the key and promise to return it once they have finished looking around.

1984 saw the village of Burston play host to a rally to commemorate the 70th anniversary of that first protest in 1914. Since then, the rally has become an annual event, held on the first Sunday in September. The trustees now also maintain a website with photographs and articles commemorating the history of the school and of the village's inhabitants over the years.

BBC 2 dramatised the story in 1985 as a one-off film, The Burston Rebellion. Eileen Atkins starred as Kitty Higdon, with Bernard Hill as Tom Higdon, John Shrapnel the Reverend Charles Tucker Eland and Nicola Cowper as Violet Potter.1

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James MacBryde
Oct 26 2015 08:27

I once tried to forment a school children's strike in Slough, UK. I formed a solitary picket line. I approached the first boy and said, 'Why don't you go on strike?' He said replied, 'I want to go to school, I want to see my friends.'

Oct 26 2015 09:04
James MacBryde wrote:
I once tried to forment a school children's strike in Slough, UK. I formed a solitary picket line. I approached the first boy and said, 'Why don't you go on strike?' He said replied, 'I want to go to school, I want to see my friends.'

ha ha what was the strike about?

James MacBryde
Oct 29 2015 09:10

Thank you Steven: the strike was called by me because of ' particular injustice but of injustice in general...' However, to put it in some sort of context, I had just been ejected/rejected from the State of Israel after being held for 48 hours in the holding cell at Tel Aviv airport. I had spent my last shekel on the one-way ticket (I had planned to gain work on a moshav) and was walking west to my hometown.

Oddly, unbeknownst to me, whilst I was getting into all sorts of mischief on my journey (29/9/2000), the intifada had reared its head once again in Palestine. In the end, after being arrested for undisclosable reasons, the 'kind' members of the Berkshire constabulary gave me a rail ticket and sent me packing.

I have only given the article you posted a cursory glance but I judge the subject matter of crucial significance and I thank you for bringing it to my attention. If I have anything to add after resding, I will leave my comments here.

James MacBryde
Oct 29 2015 10:55

Now residing in an English country village, I can attest to the classist composition of the local Parish Council. The local school in this village was closed down some ten years ago. The reason cited was as always, 'economic', but I have long suspected that an element of class struggle was at the root of the closure. There certainly has been a strong trend towards gentrification here. All this points to the fact that this article is not an historic artifact but of contemporary relevance.

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Jun 13 2016 22:11

The Burston Strike School trustees now have a new website. One longer term objective is that it becomes an ever growing online educational resource into the Burston School Strike and Rally.


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Roger Ailes  was quoted as again complaining about the Democrats who decided against providing the appearance to credibility to Fox News at the Eric Breindel awards for opinion writing. “The candidates that can’t face Fox, can’t face Al Qaeda,” said Mr. Ailes. “And that’s what’s coming.”

It is fitting that this story appears in connection to an award for opinion writing, as opinion, and not news, is what Fox News is all about. It’s not that the Democrats can’t face Fox, but that they don’t believe an organization which has used previous coverage of Democrats to distort their message should be allowed to cover their debate as news.

In phrasing this as Democrats facing Fox we see the real story. Fox doesn’t want to honestly host a Democratic debate, but wants another forum to attack Democrats and distort what they say. We also see how far conservatives will use hysteria about terrorism to promote their cause.

If Fox were to put aside the claims of being fair and balanced, then a debate involving Democrats and Fox could be possible. If Fox would admit that their function is not to report news but to promote a conservative agenda, including partisan support for Republicans over Democrats, then there is an avenue for a debate. However, such a debate would have to be the Democrats versus Fox News. That’s a debate I’d love to see, but it makes absolutely no sense to allow Fox to cover a debate between Democrats.

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