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Alan Kotok<p>Photos of Heather Cox Richardson speaking at the National Press Club, 16 Jan. 2025, now available exclusively on Alamy: <a href="https://www.alamy.com/portfolio/1317563/dcnotables.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">alamy.com/portfolio/1317563/dc</span><span class="invisible">notables.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://journa.host/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/NewsPhotography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewsPhotography</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Alamy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Alamy</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Historian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Historian</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/Essayist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essayist</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/WashingtonDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonDC</span></a> <a href="https://journa.host/tags/NationalPressClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NationalPressClub</span></a></p>
Ms. Que Banh<p>When the living rot on the bodies of the dead<br>When the combatants’ teeth become knives<br>When words lose their meaning and become arsenic<br>When the aggressors’ nails become claws<br>When old friends hurry to join the carnage<br>When the victors’ eyes become live shells<br>When clergymen pick up the hammer and crucify<br>When officials open the door to the enemy<br>When the mountain peoples’ feet weigh like elephants<br>When roses grow only in cemeteries<br>When they eat the Palestinian’s liver before he’s even dead<br>When the sun itself has no other purpose than being a shroud</p><p>the human tide moves on . . .</p><p>By Etel Adnan, “XXXIX” from The Arab Apocalypse.</p><p>Etel Adnan was a <a href="https://beige.party/tags/Lebanese" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Lebanese</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/American" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>American</span></a> <a href="https://beige.party/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poet</span></a> , <a href="https://beige.party/tags/essayist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essayist</span></a> &amp; <a href="https://beige.party/tags/VisualArtist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>VisualArtist</span></a>. Adnan always lived between different languages &amp; cultures. She spoke French, English, Greek &amp; Turkish &amp; lived in Paris, Beirut &amp; California.</p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> was like home to her, something to hold on to; a language that transcends borders and cultures.</p><p>‘Colours make visible what the person is trying to say, but silent’.</p><p>One of her best-known works is Sitt Marie Rose (1978), in which she writes about the horrors of the Lebanese civil war.</p><p>Adnan began writing in French, but gradually discovered the language’s colonial undertones.</p><p>Etel Adnan grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, which was under French mandate at the time. Everyone learned French at school. Arabic, which most people spoke, became an inferior language.</p><p><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/etel-adnan" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">poetryfoundation.org/poets/ete</span><span class="invisible">l-adnan</span></a></p><p><a href="https://beige.party/tags/Decolonization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Decolonization</span></a><br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/poems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poems</span></a><br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a><br><a href="https://beige.party/tags/ResistancePoems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ResistancePoems</span></a></p>
Lorna Peel<p>Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OTD</span></a> in 1854 at 21 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Oscar Wilde by William &amp; Daniel Downey, c. 1881 - in or before 1891. Rijksmuseum.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/OscarWilde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OscarWilde</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Poet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Playwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Playwright</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Novelist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Novelist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Essayist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essayist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ShortStoryWriter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShortStoryWriter</span></a></p>
Jenny the Botanist<p>Time for an <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> post!</p><p>I'm Jenny the <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/botanist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>botanist</span></a> I live in northwest Washington between the mountains and the sea.<br>In my professional life I write copy on a variety of topics, mainly pertaining to <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/horticulture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>horticulture</span></a> , wild plants, and general <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>biology</span></a> . I'm also a <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/druid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>druid</span></a> <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/pagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pagan</span></a> , <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/Essayist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Essayist</span></a> native plant steward, <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/forager" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>forager</span></a> , amateur <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/herbalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>herbalist</span></a> , lifelong <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/autodidact" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>autodidact</span></a> , history nerd, embroiderer, <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/ethnobotany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ethnobotany</span></a> , enthusiast, proud wife to my <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> wife, mother of two, and a wandering <a href="https://pnw.zone/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poet</span></a></p>
Emily Ding<p>Read, roam, write; repeat. Travelling with purpose, that's what I love doing.</p><p>My stories—narrative nonfiction, essays, and news features, accompanied by my photographs—have been published in a range of global, regional, and local news &amp; literary media.</p><p>See my bio &amp; check out <a href="https://www.emilyding.me" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">emilyding.me</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> for more.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/introduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>introduction</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/reader" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reader</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/traveller" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traveller</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/essayist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essayist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/journalist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journalist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/photographer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>photographer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/editor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>editor</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/coach" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coach</span></a> </p><p>🧵 1/6</p>
Lisa Marie Simmons<p>🙋🏾‍♀️ And another adventure begins. Happy to join the Mastodon community- Hurrah! </p><p>In the interest of connecting with like-minded folks, here's a bit of me hashtagged. <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/TransracialAdoptee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TransracialAdoptee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/poet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>poet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/musician" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musician</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/essayist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>essayist</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/activism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/prochoice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>prochoice</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/love" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>love</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/black" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>black</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/expat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>expat</span></a> </p><p>The first post in a long series about my <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/adoption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>adoption</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/journey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>journey</span></a> <a href="https://lisamariesimmons.com/blog/memories-and-lemonade-20170825185845" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">lisamariesimmons.com/blog/memo</span><span class="invisible">ries-and-lemonade-20170825185845</span></a></p>
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