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On the Riots of 6 January 2021: Part 2
Readers-mine, there are terms being thrown around that many people do not truly understand. Some of the tweets, posts, and comments I'm reading online make me want to teach people how to use a dictionary, so I'm going to use this post to define those words in hopes of creating a clearer conversation. I am pulling all legal definitions from Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute.
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Lovecraft Country: What’s in a name?
This entry is going to be about the names in the television series, some of which differ from the book. Atticus Turner becomes Atticus Freeman, to match his father and uncle, and Caleb Braithwhite, who doesn't exist in the show, becomes Christina Braithwhite instead. I assume these changes were made to make the family relationships a little more clear as well as emphasize the racial and gender conflicts in the series. In both the book and the television show, the names are the first things that I noticed. Before we get into the episodic deep dives, this is background information that you should know.
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Interesting Article on Gender in History, Life, and Fiction
This is a bit of a long article, but take some time and read it. It really is an incredibly well-written editorial on women’s role in history, gender roles, reality, language, stories, and cannibalistic llamas. http://aidanmoher.com/blog/featured-article/2013/05/we-have-always-fought-challenging-the-women-cattle-and-slaves-narrative-by-kameron-hurley/