Fellow Appalachians, I am currently working on a project that requires the opinions of Appalachians–other than myself. What I need from you is any memory that you may associate with Appalachia–what comes to mind when you hear the word Appalachia, or Appalachians? Is it a scene? Is it a smell? A memory? Food? Movie? Quote? Folklore? Superstitions? Anything is welcomed–except hate, I think there is plenty of that to find elsewhere. I am deeply grateful to anyone who can contribute, thanks!
(Oh! Also, if you have any Appalachian artists that you would recommend, I would love to hear of them–to get a feel of what they think Appalachia embodies. This can be poets, photographers, musicians, etc.)
-Kay
P.S.: Sorry for any typos, its finals week for me so I’m in a perpetual state of hurry. Thanks again!
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Presented apolitically.
I’m trying to walk a fine line of making a joke about a very real world experience for Keydets: consequences of social media activity. It’s not just VMI, any military personnel may be held accountable for their social media posts and activity online.
Northam’s explosive photos seemed like they could add some heft, so I included it. VERY. CAREFULLY.
For those who read about this down the road, here’s what you need to know.
Just some shameless posts of me with Nadira Serenity of the Serenity Dance studio. She surprised me with a last-minute request to be the closing act of her circus themed review, at the small, but popular and growing Serenity Tribal Cafe review!
Seriously good stuff, and she gets such amazing performers as Alyssum Pohl, Madame Onça and more.
No longer is this about the rights of students to access books. It’s now about the rights of private businesses to sell books. Anderson suggests this is a new avenue for parents to fight.
“We are in a major fight. Suits like this can be filed all over Virginia. There are dozens of books. Hundreds of schools,” he said.
Holy shit this is a BIG FUCKING WARNING SIGN. Challenges to school and public libraries aren’t cool obviously, but they’re not unusual and we have a framework for handling them. This is something new and alarming in a whole new way
Republican “free speech” y'all and don’t you forget it.
This is a direct challenge to the freedom of the press and if it isn’t struck down at the first hurdle we need to make sure it never sees the second one.
On the miniscule off-chance that anyone who sees my reblog might be thinking “oh, it’s just queer books that they’re trying to ban” - A Court of Mist and Fury is a het romance. It is a het romance containing het sex scenes, written by a straight white woman.
People have been warning all along that the right-wing thought police were never going to stop with queer lit or ‘woke’ lit, and that every time they got an inch they were going to take a mile until they’d banned absolutely everything that didn’t conform to their strict right wing fundamentalist Christian views. If you were waiting for proof of that, here it is.
adding this which I saw yesterday, which appears to indicate this judge is not just deciding whether to allow this bookstore to sell certain books to minors.
“regarding whether the books may be sold OR POSSESSED in Virginia by EITHER MINORS OR ADULTS”
I don’t even like Sarah Maas (not trying to start anything, I just didn’t get into the first one) but this makes me want to go get this book and maybe a couple of others, just for spite.
Screen shots of the WaPo article below and in the next reblog due to image limits.
Concerning highlights: both books are sexually explicit and there is every reason to think the judge will find them obscene by the standard in the old statue. A request to completelystop the sale of these books in the state while the case works its way through court has been filed and if the books are found obscene will likely be granted.
Technically this case is an attempt to prohibit the sale of the books to children but they’re likely to get a lot more than that both short and long term. If you were a publisher and had to select a book to publish that’s likely to incur court costs and be blacklisted or one that’s not which one are you going to buy?
Over the hill and far far away . . . #appalachiantrail #appalachianmountains #mtrogers #highlands #virginia #cows #horsetrail #virginiahighlands #wilderness #naturevibes #naturephotography #nationalgeographic ##greenaesthetic #greenphotography #roadlife #natureaesthetic (at Appalachian Trail) https://www.instagram.com/p/CPLhgv4N4cc/?utm_medium=tumblr
Reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward were shot to death during a live television interview Wednesday by a gunman who recorded himself carrying out the killings and posted the video on social media after fleeing the scene.
Authorities identified the suspect as a journalist who had been fired from the station earlier this year. Hours later and hundreds of kilometres away, he crashed a vehicle and troopers found him suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. He died at a hospital later Wednesday, authorities said.
The suspect was identified as Vester Lee Flanagan II, 41, of Roanoke, by the Augusta County Sheriff’s Office. Flanagan appeared on WDBJ as Bryce Williams.
Jeffrey Marks, WDBJ’s president and general manager, said Flanagan had to be escorted by police out of the station when he was fired. Marks described him as “an unhappy man” and “difficult to work with,” always “looking out for people to say things he could take offence to.”
“Eventually after many incidents of his anger coming to the fore, we dismissed him. He did not take that well,” Marks explained.
