One of two cucumbers we grew on our balcony this summer

Rest in Peace, Don Hogan Charles

Santa is bringing this . 

missing NC and TN. sweet tea,  pop tarts at Barista Parlor n' biscuits at Biscuit Love . +  Julia Reed & Jessica Lange'...

Pantone 18-3838 Ultra Voilet is colour of the year 2018. yes, it is .

Alexandra Bell .

Kent Monkman .  I've said one time or another that he's my idea of the perfect artist. 

Women of the Bauhaus.  and a letter from Anand Giridharadas. 

I love this image of Lygia Clark's lap and hands cutting with scissors. I'm sure I've posted it before, and it's worth po...

Echoing Ida !  and this by Jenn Jackson: conditions of consent: teaching children body autonomy   and this by Yvette Dionne.

The Lip Bar , Detroit.

Fashion's most independent designer, whose work was more architecture and sculpture ("I dress women directly on their body, by i...

Native American Heritage Day falls on the one day each year when Americans ravenously indulge in material possessions — Black  Friday . So ...

There is this magical made-up time between Columbus Day (or Indigenous People’s Day for the enlightened) and Thanksgiving, where white Amer...

Q.  Do you feel like you’ve been able to make Thanksgiving your own? A.  You take the holiday and make it yours. That doesn’t strip it...

radish tips in the sink.

a friend in India sent this to me today.

“I was able to tell the truth of what happened in the face of all those people trying to completely silence me." + this

Julie Flett and David Alexander Robertson have just won the Governor General's Literary Award for their exquisite book When We ...

radical aftercare for revolutionaries

Liv Strömquist + this too.

Dee Rees. Pariah (2011) with Adepero Oduye as Alike Bessie (2015) with Queen Latifah as Bessie Smith  Mudbound (2017) with ...

tautog

“I must discover all the qualities which his family and friends have learned to value over a period of years.” Marcel Sternberge...

Sister Nancy " They danced as if they didn’t want to dance but couldn’t entirely contain themselves—the merest suggestion of move...

" I gave up working on my doctorate in gerontology to bake cookies in a restaurant basement (a job ...

Among the contents unearthed: a necklace with a figurine; two coins from Baghdad; and the bones of a rooster and a large dog. see...

Rei and Merce: Scenario < breaking beautiful > emergence!

Janusz Stanny via the wonderful  Julie Flett

Brilliant redefining. Alana Glazer Abbi Jacobson Issa Rae Yvonne Orji Jill Soloway Melina Matsoukas Jennifer Saunder...