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maspower:

tyndalecode:

dreamsofbonnielea:

Themed Party challenge 48: movie posters

Movie adaptation of Noughts & Crosses by Malorie Blackman

this was better in my head :/

Has anyone read this series? I just wikied it and it looks interesting. I could probably be convinced to find and read it.

Summary: This novel describes an alternate history where humans evolved while Pangaea was still intact. Without the barriers to exchange of domesticable animals, among other factors, the natives of Africa gained a technological and organizational advantage over the humans of Europe rather than the other way around, and made Europeans their slaves. At the time of the story, slavery has been abolished, but Jim-Crow type segregation operates to keep the Crosses (the Africans) in control. Also, the close proximity of the various nations of the world in a single supercontinent and the lack of natural defenses have forced the nations of the world to learn to cooperate. An organization called the Pangaean Economic Community exists, and seems to be similar to the UN in scope but similar to the EU in powers, and it is playing a role in forcing change.

Persephone ‘Sephy’ Hadley is a Cross (meaning that she has dark skin) and the daughter of a wealthy politician. Callum McGregor is a nought (meaning that he has light skin). They used to play together when Jasmine Hadley (Sephy’s mother)—employed Meggie McGregor (Callum’s mother) as a Nanny. However, Jasmine fired her when Meggie could not provide an alibi for Jasmine when her husband confronted her about his suspicions of her infidelity (this is only revealed later in the novel, though it is strongly implied). Since then, Sephy and Callum’s friendship has been secret. As best friends, their relationship is frowned upon by society, in the same way that interracial friendships in the South were thought of before 1960, but in reverse.

Yup, I would so read these. 

Poster approved. Also, has anyone read the book? Sounds interesting.

Story seems interesting. Science seems terrible. I’d still read it, though.

thewordunheard:

Sitting in a Media Advocacy class—about 30 Ivy-educated adults—and the professor put up this photograph and asked us who knew what event this was. I was the only person who knew that it was the March for Women’s Lives in 2004.

I was there with my family and my closest friends, and I remember it pretty much changing my life, and I remember being horrified the next day when I saw how no one—no one!—covered it. And I remember that changing my life in a different way: the stark realization that the media have the ability to shape our understanding of history, and the responsibility is on each of us to get our message out, because we can’t trust anyone else to do it for us.

There’s a lot of eye-rolling about the capital-I Internet and the advent of Web 2.0, but I can tell you now that if blogging was then what it is now, you all would have known we were there.

It’s horrifying to me that I don’t remember ever hearing about this. Excuse me while I go remedy that problem.

markrosewater:

“Tales from the Pit” #195

I wish MaRo had come to my career day. Of course, if he had, I would have been the obnoxious little know-it-all asking, “What kind of computers do you use?” and “Do you still have that massive purpose-built D&D table I saw in InQuest ten years ago?”.

I believe this is the correct image to combine with the word “swag”.

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