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17 October 2020 | The days when I’m happy about having carpet are few and far between, but today is one of them. Currently sprawled out with too many books open working on the first bit of my Maximus paper. Something that made me even more excited to receive the edition of Disputations with Pyrrhus pictured here is that it was packaged and shipped by one of the hieromonks of the monastery that published the English translation. A text written by a monastic distributed by a monastic—how very fitting. 

Montreal-based illustrator, Gabriel Levesque (OSKA).

🎧- Crimson Peak soundtrack (Fernando Velázquez) 📚- The Storm Crow (Kayln Josephson)

Biology revision note🐥🌱

When editing the portraits I made of my father last weekend, I unconsciously selected the one that has the most in common with this self-portriat he did in the Army nearly 50 years ago, which has always been my favorite photograph of him. A happy accident.

Amplify BIPOC voices ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou (x from Bookshop.org) The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison (x from Bookshop.org) The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri (x from Bookshop.org) The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (x from Bookshop.org) Go Tell It on the Mountain - James Baldwin (x from Bookshop.org) Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates (x from Bookshop.org) One Thousand and One Nights - Anonymous (I II III IV from Project Gutenberg) The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (x from Project Gutenberg) Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass - Frederick Douglass (x from Project Gutenberg) Narrative of Sojourner Truth - Sojourner Truth (x from Project Gutenberg) Twelve Years a Slave - Solomon Northup (x from Project Gutenberg) Our Nig - Harriet E. Wilson (x from Project Gutenberg) Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Harriet Jacobs (x from Project Gutenberg) The Curse of Caste; or, The Slave Bride - Julia C. Collins (x from Bookshop.org) Behind the Scenes; or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House - Elizabeth Keckley (x from Project Gutenberg) Life Among the Paiutes; Their Wrongs and Claims - Sarah Winnemucca (x from Bookshop.org) Wynema: A Child of the Forest - S. Alice Callahan (x from Bookshop.org) Jubilee - Margaret Walker (x from Bookshop.org) Black Rain - Masuji Ibuse (x from Bookshop.org) Hawaii’s Story by Hawaii’s Queen - Queen Lili'uokalani (x from Bookshop.org) Up From Slavery - Booker T. Washington (x from Project Gutenberg) The Souls of Black Folk - W.E.B. DuBois (x from Bookshop.org) The Autobiography of Malcolm X - Malcolm X (edited by Alex Haley) (x from Bookshop.org) The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man - James Weldon Johnson (x from Project Gutenberg) The Weary Blues - Langston Hughes (x from Bookshop.org) Some Prefer Nettles - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (x from Bookshop.org) My People the Sioux - Luther Standing Bear (x from Bookshop.org) The Blacker the Berry - Wallace Thurman (x from Bookshop.org) Crusade for Justice: The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells - Ida B. Wells (x from Bookshop.org) Love in a Fallen City - Eileen Chang (x from Bookshop.org) The Living is Easy - Dorothy West (x from Bookshop.org) Invisible Man - Ralph Ellison (x from Bookshop.org) The Sound of Waves - Yukio Mishima (x from Bookshop.org) Memoirs of a Woman Doctor - Nawal El Saadawi (x from Bookshop.org)

my new desk set-up has got me feeling very productive. 

Eartha Kitt photographed by Ben Martin at home, 1957.

Credits: taina graham’ on we heart it

pppppunk’s not white 🔪⚡️

Still working on that project on medieval dress and status based on sumptuary laws. It's snowing on and off here, but is supposed to warm up again next week.

pictured is part of my half term checklist for work that i need to get done!

I think this goes to @athenastudying whose text posts actually ended up at my Instagram feed too!!

29|11 working in the cutest little space in the library today…this space is going to be a firm fave🌿💚🌿