Advertisement · 728 × 90

Posts by Andrea Avery

Preview
Never Caught, the Story of Ona Judge - Social Justice Books Reviewed by Anndee Hochman Review Source: Broad Street Review Book Author: The summer I was 12, I spent weekday mornings on the tennis courts at Friends Central School in Wynnewood, swinging a clumsy ...

This book should be mandatory reading for every child in the US. socialjusticebooks.org/never-caught...

1 week ago 187 48 4 0
Propel Disability Poetry Book Series The Propel Series honors the best in disability poetry with publication and awards.

It's an honor to be part of the editorial board for this disability-centered series of poetry -- so happy to be helping publish new crip work. Thank you to @stevekuusisto.bsky.social for inviting me into this initiative.

www.ninemile.org/propel

1 week ago 16 3 2 0

it’s giving dangerous boyfriend

1 week ago 1 0 1 0
Preview
Bank Notes and Shinplasters – Penn Press The colorful history of paper money before the Civil WarBefore Civil War greenbacks and a national bank network established a uniform federal currency in the...

www.pennpress.org/978081225224...

2 weeks ago 5 3 0 0
Preview
Thy Will Be Done: George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory George Washington's Legacy of Slavery and the Fight for American Memory

My book on Americans’ centuries-long struggle to remember, forget, and manipulate George Washington’s history with slavery comes out Tuesday. It makes clear that today’s controversies *about* our history are deeply shaped *by* our history in ways we rarely recognize. bookshop.org/p/books/thy-...

2 weeks ago 20 8 0 0
Sonata Andrea, already a promising and ambitious classical pianist at twelve, was diagnosed with a severe case of rheumatoid arthritis that threatened not...

www.simonandschuster.com/books/Sonata...

2 weeks ago 1 1 0 0
Visiting Composer – MIAMI UNIVERSITY PRESS

sites.miamioh.edu/miami-univer...

2 weeks ago 3 2 0 0
Advertisement
Post image

In a recent TED Talk, ASU English Professor Mitchell Jackson traced an arc from Bill Russell to Lebron James and beyond, exploring how 🏀 players use fashion on and off the court to challenge the limits placed upon them.

Watch: https://ow.ly/EiCm50YyXIG #ASUHumanities

3 weeks ago 2 2 0 0

Listen. Only about 20% of mothers have three or more children so even if all of those mothers have only daughters (very unlikely), that’s not enough to account for how many people are moaning about being eldest daughters.

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0

Did a book event today and afterward a guy in the audience came up and said, “My name is Timothy. We had a French class together in 1998. I made you a mix tape and you called me a snob.” I said, “What was on the mix tape?” He said, “Kurt Weill. You said you were really more into RATT.”

3 weeks ago 2 0 0 0

Jo Polniaczek hardware running Blair Warner software

3 weeks ago 0 0 0 0

Nancy Mace looks like someone said “Hey Chat Show me Jo Polniaczek but make her MAGA”

3 weeks ago 0 0 1 0

he’s just so slight and unimportant and puffed up and boyish in all the worst ways

1 month ago 1 0 0 0

Santos calls Robby’s new son “Huck,” and there’s an ambulance bay betting pool going as to whether it’s a sweet variation on Huckleberry, to indicate soft, sororial affection or just a pronounciation of HCK

1 month ago 0 0 0 0

learning how to be in a family and be seen and known and cared for and also on long family bike rides, three broken boys in matching helmets. #ThePitt

1 month ago 0 0 1 0

adopts him on the spot, cancels his roadtrip, and sets up a loving multigenerational dads-raising-kids home with HCK and Grampa Duke and the sabbatical’s still on because he’s gotta take a break from the doctor thing tbh, and get some help, so he spends the time

1 month ago 0 0 1 0
Advertisement

that the mother did it deliberately, Robby has a furious but revealing epiphany in the animal mural room, natch, that happiness lies not in saving but in being **saved** and so when Hot Car Kid (HCK) miraculously revives, Robby

1 month ago 0 0 1 0

combined with the crushing weight of all the children he has failed to save, will threaten to break him once and for all unless he finally shows his real self at work and also takes his
home (it has to be both). While heroically working to save Hot Car Kid and simultaneously discovering

1 month ago 0 0 1 0

Terrible #Pitt takes from the dullest superfan you know, Part 2: Robby will finally discover that his supposedly impenetrable, impermeable work-life boundary is unsustainable, distracting, and toxic and this,

1 month ago 0 0 1 0

More like Chalameh

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

Terrible #Pitt takes that the dullest person you know will be advancing at the water cooler, part 1:
Suffering a crisis of confidence, Mohan will walk off the job, quit being a doctor, and sign up to be an ICE agent and then, finally, her family will quit trying to speak with her

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

Generative A.I. and prediction markets are soul-corroding and civilization-corroding and we’re all being hyper-exposed to both so that a few terrible people can get rich while everyone else gets poor and miserable

1 month ago 36 9 2 0

Chiming in from AZ, where it is 105 today, and where the local paper reported that the data centers that fuel this dystopia heat up the neighborhoods they’re in. The article didn’t highlight this, but they are often in poorer neighborhoods already shouldering more of the environmental burden.

1 month ago 1 0 0 0
Three photos are shown: a Victoria’s Secret pajama set, a Cabela’s camp jacket, and a big Ferragamo tote-style handbag that is unremarkable other than its $2,500 price tag

Three photos are shown: a Victoria’s Secret pajama set, a Cabela’s camp jacket, and a big Ferragamo tote-style handbag that is unremarkable other than its $2,500 price tag

Get the Look!

1 month ago 0 0 0 0
Fig. 1: In a screengrab from the show, “star” Taylor Frankie Paul of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is shown walkikg down the street in baggy camo pants (hunting party) with an itsy bitsy undershirt (pajama party), a business-lady handbag, a delicate gold chain, a deep tan, and full glam (Grand Old Party). The elements of the look are labeled with text boxes.

Fig. 1: In a screengrab from the show, “star” Taylor Frankie Paul of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is shown walkikg down the street in baggy camo pants (hunting party) with an itsy bitsy undershirt (pajama party), a business-lady handbag, a delicate gold chain, a deep tan, and full glam (Grand Old Party). The elements of the look are labeled with text boxes.

Fig. 1: Taylor Frankie Paul of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives models the look by pairing baggy camo pants with an itsy bitsy undershirt, a business-lady handbag, a delicate gold chain, and full glam.

1 month ago 1 1 1 0

Lago duh whatever you know the Bad Place where the fillers fill and the center parts part and the barrel waves wave and wave and wave

1 month ago 0 0 1 0
Advertisement

Petroleum-based shorty set in Necco wafer hue + big dumb jean jacket + Mara Laga glam =
MomTok

1 month ago 1 0 1 0

I figured it out: The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives “look,” if you can call it that, is equal parts pajama party, hunting party, and Grand Old Party.

1 month ago 0 0 1 0

If you haven’t read Justice Jackson’s memoir, Lovely One, I highly recommend it.

1 month ago 0 0 0 0

As good a time as any to point out that her name was Carolyn Bessette, as distinguished from Bissett (as in Josie) and Bassett (as in Angela)

1 month ago 1 0 0 0