I finally had time to sit down and dig into this excellent article. This is fantastic:
“The company has forged a chain uncommon in mainstream publishing: an unbroken line of black women, from the novel’s protagonist, via the author, to the editor, to the art director who created the cover art (featuring a black woman).
“This was a ‘black on all sides’ mainstream publishing project. And it worked.”
But I think my favorite detail is this one:
“For The Loyal League’s Civil War setting, Noble wanted to make sure the woman on the cover embodied strength. ‘They kind of got us beaten up and down, and I kept saying, “This artist has to make sure this woman is powerful.”’ Then, she says, with a proud smile, ‘I art-direct. Every detail, down to the ribbon on her dress. I need it to be historically accurate, I need it to be powerful.’“
That attention to detail shows too. The covers of Alyssa Cole’s Loyal League series are some of the best to come out in years. You get a wonderful look at the cover of An Unconditional Freedom (out this fall) at the link. Please revel in the small details, like the mossy trees in the background, or the texture on the hero’s vest, or the soft glow from his lantern. Gorgeous.
Tag: ugh
I’ve always thought Jesus Christ Superstar was an angsty gay tragedy between Judas and Jesus, but somehow Jesus Christ Superstar Live is EVEN GAYER than I remember.
ICE Wants to Be an Intelligence Agency Under Trump
I have been rolling my eyes at a lot of the “ICE will be the spearpoint of the new Trumpian reich” stuff coming out of the left recently but this… is actually something worth keeping an eye on.
“The Government” is not a monolithic whole but a semi-integrated collection of squabbling feifdoms and “The FBI is the agency in charge of federal domestic policing/repression” is a descriptive statement, not a normative one. At various points in American history the equivalent role’s been filled by the US Marshals, the US Postal Inspection Service, Treasury Department agents – the Secret Service and “revenuers” presaging the modern BATF. For a while in the Gilded Age it was the Pinkerton National Detective Agency acting directly under leading capitalists with the government cut out of the loop entirely.
The FBI’s 20th century preeminence was not foreordained but a consequence of bureaucratic maneuvering in reaction to specific moments and events – the anarchist wave of the early 1900s; WWI; the First Red Scare; Prohibition; the early automobile-era motorized bandit gangs; the Kansas City Massacre (before which the FBI didn’t carry guns or make arrests); WWII; the rise of TV (and J. Edgar Hoover’s cooption of same); the Second Red Scare; COINTELPRO; Cold War cocaine ‘80s Miami; the 1993 Waco seige (starting as a backfired ATF attempt at profile-raising and positioning in the face of Clinton-era budget trimming).
And now, with the FBI and the old-line three letter agencies at loggerheads with the elected executive and his party in Congress, a young upstart agency known for its enthusiastic loyalty to said executive, in the middle of a massive staffing-up, bids to expand its capabilities and portfolio…
that’s exactly the scenario under which things might change
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
Mirai didn’t go for the 3A today, and still skated wonderfully with a smile on her face.
The good timeline has it where Emma falls back into villiany not because “she lost her lover and it breaks her heart :(” but because she saw scott as an important symbol for mutantkind and one of their last hopes, and therefore pulls some OG magneto-level drastic and misguided shit. But that would require like, thought? and seeing Emma as a character with depth.
We’re in the cursed timeline
Russian Trolls Ran Wild On Tumblr And The Company Refuses To Say Anything About It
Russian trolls posed as black activists on Tumblr and generated hundreds of thousands of interactions for content that ranged from calling Hillary Clinton a “monster” to supporting Bernie Sanders and decrying racial injustice and police violence in the US, according to new findings from researcher Jonathan Albright and BuzzFeed News.
While Facebook and Twitter continue to face intense public and congressional pressure over the activity from trolls working for the Russian Internet Research Agency, Tumblr has somehow managed to escape scrutiny. But the blogging platform was in fact home to a powerful, largely unrevealed network of Russian trolls focused on black issues and activism.
“The evidence we’ve collected shows a highly engaged and far-reaching Tumblr propaganda-op targeting mostly teenage and twenty-something African Americans. This appears to have been part of an ongoing campaign since early 2015,” said Albright, research director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University.
Russian Trolls Ran Wild On Tumblr And The Company Refuses To Say Anything About It
Roxane Gay wrote “World of Wakanda” which sold over 50,000 copies upon
its release. This is connected to MoNique, this is connected to what
black women have been saying all along.
Here’s The Inside Story On That Devastating “Star Trek” Death
*Holds a axe* YOU BETTER DO THIS RIGHT.
Here’s The Inside Story On That Devastating “Star Trek” Death
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