Book reading s,TV series transcript s,comedy, personal, Red circle podcast, Book Review s,Interviews, its popcorn for the brain. Blog copyright Mark Antony Raines
Saturday, 31 July 2021
Friday, 30 July 2021
CFZ AND STRANGE ANIMALS NEW SPECIES NEWS 30-07-2021
CFZ AND STRANGE ANIMALS NEW S 30 .07 .2021PORT OF NEW ORLEANS FINDS INVASIVE INSECTS IN WOOD IN DECK OF FOREIGN VESSEL 150 MILLION FOSSIL OF ANCIENT CROCODILE SPECIES DISCOVERED. MICROBES IN YELLOWSTONE POOL S ADD NEW BRANCH TO TREE OF LIFE. REMAINS OF GIANT VAMPIRE BAT FROM 1000OO YEARS AGO FOUND IN ARGENTINAN CAVE. DINO DISCOVERIES ON DISPLAY AS BOOTH MUSEUM REOPENS. FUNGI FOSSICKER DISCOVERS HIGHLY SIGNIFICANT SPECIES IN GOLD COAST HINTERLAND.
WISE OWL NEWS 30 .07.2021
WISE OWL NEWS 30.07 .2021 WISE OWL INTRO. HOW TO IDENTIFY BIRD SONG AND CALLS _ DISCOVER. COM. FEAR FOR GANG GANG COCKATOOS_THE GUARDIAN. COM. SWEARING PARRROT SEPARATE D _CBSNEWS. FRESH HOPE FOR WORLD S RAREST RAPTORS_BIRDGUIDES.COM. BABY PTEROSAURS COULD FLY WITHIN FIVE MINUTES OF HATCHING THIER EGGS _NEWSCIENTIST.COM. INTELLIGENT CROW S CAB UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF ZERO_ MYMODERNMET.COM. RARE SIGHTING OF ROSEATE SPOONBILL IN MICHIGAN USA_FREEP.COM WISE OWL SIGNS OFF. LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION MADE FROM MY BUNGALOW IN DEVON
Wednesday, 28 July 2021
Tuesday, 27 July 2021
The Pit of Success: How Leaders Adapt, Succeed, and Repeat Kindle Edition by Dave Jennings
When people understand The Pit of Success their burdens are lifted and their ability to learn and succeed is increased.
Leaders must routinely face challenges that are beyond their experience. In this space they feel lost, confused, and overwhelmed. These doubts are shared by leaders across the globe but is it not “leader-like” to discuss such issues. Yet, leaders are not in their job because they have all the answers. They are in the job to find answers. By learning to navigate The Pit of Success leaders gain confidence, find answers, and deliver results faster and with less anxiety.
The Pit of Success provides leaders with the mindset and skillset to do things they do not know how to do. It gives them principles for managing progressively difficult challenges throughout their career. It also gives them peace of mind that they are not the only ones experiencing these doubts. No longer do leaders need to wonder if they are good enough to face the challenges in front of them. What they need to do is learnable and The Pit of Success shows them how they are fully capable to succeed in their demanding situation. The concept of The Pit of Success has already changed people’s lives around the globe.
Monday, 26 July 2021
DARLENE WEST AUTHOR AWAKENED BY GRACE -WWW.DARLENEWEST.COM
https://darlenewest.com
DARLENE HAS A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN ENGLISH WITH A WRITING MINOR IN THE CONCENTRATION OF FICTION, AS WELL AS A MASTER'S IN ADULT EDUCATION. DARLENE IS A RETIRED CORPORATE DEVELOPERE, PROGRAM DESIGNER, EVALUATOR, TRAINING NEEDS ASSESSOR, AND A CURICULUM SPECIALIST. HER HOBBIES INCLUDE FISHING, BIKING, CAMPING, AND CREATING RECIPIES. SHE LOVES BEING A WIFE, MOTHER, AND A GRANNY.
After the tragic death of his wife, Katie, Professor Franklin Franklyn blames himself. Filled with anguish, he walks away from his family and removes himself from all social interactions, which augments his suffering. But soon after the second anniversary of his wife's death, his self-imposed reclusive lifestyle is interrupted by an unplanned visit from his eight-year-old granddaughter, Maggie. From that point on, Maggie's faith-filled answered prayers manifest before Franklin's eyes. As the two experience God-led divine appointments, Maggie encourages new people to become part of Franklin's life. In spite of all Franklin witnesses, he finds it difficult to let go of his guilt and move on without his wife.
Cacophony by Mark Antony Raines
Cacophony by Mark Antony Raines
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Sunday, 25 July 2021
Saturday, 24 July 2021
Awakened by Grace by Darlene West
After the tragic death of his wife, Katie, Professor Franklin Franklyn blames himself. Filled with anguish, he walks away from his family and removes himself from all social interactions, which augments his suffering. But soon after the second anniversary of his wife's death, his self-imposed reclusive lifestyle is interrupted by an unplanned visit from his eight-year-old granddaughter, Maggie. From that point on, Maggie's faith-filled answered prayers manifest before Franklin's eyes. As the two experience God-led divine appointments, Maggie encourages new people to become part of Franklin's life. In spite of all Franklin witnesses, he finds it difficult to let go of his guilt and move on without his wife.
Repeat Horror
The Curse of the Magic Sandwich
Whilst investigating the death of a local nurse, a helpful housekeeper called Laura Olsson uncovers a legend about a supernaturally-cursed, magic sandwich circulating throughout Wales. As soon as anyone uses the sandwich, he or she has exactly 40 days left to live.
The doomed few appear to be ordinary people during day to day life, but when photographed, they look skeletal. A marked person feels like a moist maggot to touch.
Laura gets hold of the sandwich, refusing to believe the superstition. A collage of images flash into her mind: an incredible maggot balancing on an old-fashioned nurse, an old newspaper headline about a fang accident, a hooded puppy ranting about warts and a drinking well located in an urban place.
When Laura notices her lips have maggot-like properties, she realises that the curse of the magic sandwich is true and calls in her wife, a police officer called Heather McCallister, to help.
Heather examines the sandwich and willingly submits herself to the curse. She finds that the same visions flash before his eyes. She finds the incredible maggot balancing on an old-fashioned nurse particularly chilling. She joins the queue for a supernatural death.
Laura and Heather pursue a quest to uncover the meaning of the visions, starting with a search for the hooded puppy. Will they be able to stop the curse before their time is up?
The Curse of the Magic Sandwich
A Horror Story
Whilst investigating the death of a local nurse, a helpful housekeeper called Laura Olsson uncovers a legend about a supernaturally-cursed, magic sandwich circulating throughout Wales. As soon as anyone uses the sandwich, he or she has exactly 40 days left to live.
The doomed few appear to be ordinary people during day to day life, but when photographed, they look skeletal. A marked person feels like a moist maggot to touch.
Laura gets hold of the sandwich, refusing to believe the superstition. A collage of images flash into her mind: an incredible maggot balancing on an old-fashioned nurse, an old newspaper headline about a fang accident, a hooded puppy ranting about warts and a drinking well located in an urban place.
When Laura notices her lips have maggot-like properties, she realises that the curse of the magic sandwich is true and calls in her wife, a police officer called Heather McCallister, to help.
Heather examines the sandwich and willingly submits herself to the curse. She finds that the same visions flash before his eyes. She finds the incredible maggot balancing on an old-fashioned nurse particularly chilling. She joins the queue for a supernatural death.
Laura and Heather pursue a quest to uncover the meaning of the visions, starting with a search for the hooded puppy. Will they be able to stop the curse before their time is up?
This in a loop in my head although I am dead,
I rotting in hades as a guess of Satan to give him amusement as he is a fan of reality TV and sews it as prefect torture for the souls who go to hades and stay for FORERVER
In a Japan state of mind.
Yeah, yeah
Ayo, Kate, it's time.
It's time, Kate (aight, Kate, begin).
Straight out the delightful dungeons of rap.
The teddy drops deep as does my flamingo.
I never smile, 'cause to smile is the therapist of dingo.
Beyond the walls of gloves, life is defined.
I think of cheese when I'm in a Japan state of mind.
Hope the steady got some medi.
My ready don't like no dirty eddie.
Run up to the heady and get the eddy.
What more could you ask for? The smooth teddy?
You complain about loud music.
I gotta love it though - somebody still speaks for the medi.
I'm rappin' to the rock,
And I'm gonna move your stock.
Sharp, hot, ample, like a pixie
Boy, I tell you, I thought you were a nixie.
I can't take the loud music, can't take the key.
I woulda tried to eat I guess I got no free.
I'm rappin' to the stock,
And I'm gonna move your rock.
Yea, yaz, in a Japan state of mind.
When I was young my therapist had a tree.
I waz kicked out without no me.
I never thought I'd see that sea.
Ain't a soul alive that could take my therapist's c.
A beautiful banana is quite the santa.
Thinking of cheese. Yaz, thinking of cheese (cheese).
Someone like Cuthbert
Someone like Cuthbert
Katy Rabbit is a podgy, slim and giving doctor from the hood. Her life is going nowhere until she meets Cuthbert Johnson, a stunning, stunning man with a passion for trainspotting.
Katy takes an instant disliking to Cuthbert and the spiteful and scheming ways he learnt during his years in Ohio.
However, when a ghost tries to frighten Katy, Cuthbert springs to the rescue. Katy begins to notices that Cuthbert is actually rather intelligent at heart.
But, the pressures of Cuthbert's job as a teacher leave him blind to Katy's affections and Katy takes up socialising to try an distract himself.
Finally, when arrogant lawyer, Rick Gobble, threatens to come between them, Cuthbert has to act fast. But will they ever find the magical love that they deserve?
HAUL
Friday, 23 July 2021
WISE OWL NEWS NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF BIRDS 23 _07_2021
WISE OWL NEWS NEWS FROM THE WORLD OF BIRDS 23 _07_2021CORVUS BRACHRHYMCHOS CAN UNDERSTAND THE CONCEPT OF ZERO. ROSEATE SPOONBILL SPOTTED ACROSS MICHIGAN JAVIED PIED STARLING NEWS. THREE RED MACAWS HAND RAISED AT ALMUNECAR LORO SEXI PARK. ETTA LEMON NEW BOOK ABOUT CONSERVATIONIST WHO BATTLED AGAINST FEATHERED HAT FASHION. HOW TO SAVE BABY BIRDS _PETA .ORG. SCOTLAND S NATIONAL BIRD NEWS. DEATH S AMONG BIRDS IN USA CONTINUES. WISE OWL SIGNS OFF. LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION MADE FROM MY BUNGALOW IN DEVON.
Thursday, 22 July 2021
Wednesday, 21 July 2021
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LEE TOMLINSON-AUTHOR-COMPASSION HEALS_FROM SELF CARE TO HEALTHCARE
COMPASSION HEALS_FROM SELF CARE TO HEALTHCARE
Description
How can one moment of compassion make the difference between surrendering to death and fighting to live?
In Compassion Heals: From Self-Care to Healthcare, “Patient Lee” Tomlinson explores the immense healing power of compassion for patients and the healthcare professionals who provide it. A Stage III+ throat cancer survivor, Lee shares intimacy and urgency in his experience with a healthcare system so lacking in compassion it had him considering suicide, and how one simple moment of compassion from a physician saved his life.
This book serves as a reminder to all of us, but especially to those working in healthcare—the doctors, nurses, caretakers, administrators—of the necessity of providing treatment equally competent and compassionate to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.
Through compelling, scientific evidence and deeply moving personal experiences, Lee explores:
- The irrefutable and overwhelming evidence that compassion saves lives and measurably improves both patient and provider health
- The devastating, quarter-century decline of compassion in today’s healthcare and how it impacts patients, providers, and a hospital’s bottom line
- Healthcare professional burnout—its cause, how it destroys one’s ability to provide compassionate care, and how to recover from it
- Why 50 percent of patients today believe their healthcare professionals and the healthcare system lack compassion
- The CARE Effect Movement: Why Lee founded the movement to bring Connection, Attention, Respect and Empathy back to the forefront of modern medicine
Lee Tomlinson is a C-Suite entertainment industry executive, TEDx presenter, keynote speaker, and advanced cancer survivor. His journey from diagnosis, through treatment, and into remission is a testament to the importance of compassion in healthcare and the potentially devastating consequences when it is absent. As founder of the CARE Effect Movement, his mission is to promote the “heart, science, and business of compassion.”
How can one moment of compassion make the difference between surrendering to death and fighting to live?
In Compassion Heals: From Self-Care to Healthcare, “Patient Lee” Tomlinson explores the immense healing power of compassion for patients and the healthcare professionals who provide it. A Stage III+ throat cancer survivor, Lee shares intimacy and urgency in his experience with a healthcare system so lacking in compassion it had him considering suicide, and how one simple moment of compassion from a physician saved his life.
This book serves as a reminder to all of us, but especially to those working in healthcare—the doctors, nurses, caretakers, administrators—of the necessity of providing treatment equally competent and compassionate to ensure the best possible patient outcomes.
Through compelling, scientific evidence and deeply moving personal experiences, Lee explores:
- The irrefutable and overwhelming evidence that compassion saves lives and measurably improves both patient and provider health
- The devastating, quarter-century decline of compassion in today’s healthcare and how it impacts patients, providers, and a hospital’s bottom line
- Healthcare professional burnout—its cause, how it destroys one’s ability to provide compassionate care, and how to recover from it
- Why 50 percent of patients today believe their healthcare professionals and the healthcare system lack compassion
- The CARE Effect Movement: Why Lee founded the movement to bring Connection, Attention, Respect and Empathy back to the forefront of modern medicine
Lee Tomlinson is a C-Suite entertainment industry executive, TEDx presenter, keynote speaker, and advanced cancer survivor. His journey from diagnosis, through treatment, and into remission is a testament to the importance of compassion in healthcare and the potentially devastating consequences when it is absent. As founder of the CARE Effect Movement, his mission is to promote the “heart, science, and business of compassion.”
Product Details
- ASIN: B091Y4W471
- Publisher: Waterside Productions (April 5, 2021)
- Publication date: April 5, 2021
- Language: English
- File size: 650 KB
- Simultaneous device usage: Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Screen Reader: Supported
- Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
- X-Ray: Not Enabled
- Word Wise: Not Enabled
- Print length: 73 pages
- Lending: Not Enabled
- ASIN: B091Y4W471
- Publisher: Waterside Productions (April 5, 2021)
- Publication date: April 5, 2021
- Language: English
- File size: 650 KB
- Simultaneous device usage: Unlimited
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Screen Reader: Supported
- Enhanced typesetting: Enabled
- X-Ray: Not Enabled
- Word Wise: Not Enabled
- Print length: 73 pages
- Lending: Not Enabled
LEGAL
Tuesday, 20 July 2021
THE FINAL GIRLS TRAILER ON NETFLIX
Monday, 19 July 2021
ALTAR
Sunday, 18 July 2021
How i feel about covid19
Six o'clock. TV hour
Don't get caught in foreign towerSlash and burn, return
Listen to yourself churn
Lock him in uniform and book burning, bloodletting
Every motive escalate. Automotive incinerate
Light a candle, light a votive
Step down, step down
Watch a heel crush, crush
Uh oh, this means no fear; cavalier
Renegade and steer clear!
A tournament, a tournament
A tournament of lies
Offer me solutions, offer me alternatives
And I decline
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
(It's time I had some time alone)
It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine
(It's time I had some time alone)
I feel fine
Anti war what is it for #song
Peace is better
There was never meant to be only one
How it implodes on itself
If love and peace is so strong
Chorus:
Self centred egoist
The chance won’t come again
Lowdown
Around you have grown
Verse Two:
Hate is not right
Baby, just step down, step down
Doves cry
Fighting soldiers from the sky
Chorus:
Self centred egoist
And admit that the waters
Lowdown
You’ll be drenched to the bone
Tickle of a Yeti
Zach Walker suspected something was a little off when his ugly bro tried to tickle him when he was just six years old. Nevertheless, he lived a relatively normal life among other humans.
It wasn't until he bumped into the devilishly red yeti, Una Olsson, that his life finally began to make sense.
However, Una proved to be brave and seemed to have an unhealthy obsession with rampaging. Zach soon learnt that Una had taken an oath never to scrub a human being.
When Zach's ugly bro is injured in a drunk driving accident, Zach realises his own life is at risk.
Despite Una's evil eyes and pale skin, Zach finds himself falling for the yeti. Only fate will decided whether she kills or protects him.
One night, a angel appears before Zach and warns him of a darkness within Una. The angel gives Zach the warped sword - the only weapon that can defeat a red yeti.
Will Zach find it in himself to kill the only creature who has ever made him feel truly hot? (Hint: yes!)
Long ago #sc fi #short#story
A long, long time ago in an idyllic, idyllic galaxy...
A time traveller, who had a healthy ego.
A humanoid, who thrives on drama.
It's a robot fiction story about resistance and revolution. It kicks off in the engine room with a fight to preserve alien culture.
(Note that: someone in the story has a fatal craving for knowledge.)
And there's a twist! There are lab rats... and the lab rats live in this story.
After leaving the squidgy planet Klendathu, a group of giants fly toward a distant speck. The speck gradually resolves into a ribbed, space mill.
Civil war strikes the galaxy, which is ruled by James Blast, a cosy fairy capable of robbery and even man slaughter.
Terrified, a magical giant known as Kimberly Gobble flees the Empire, with her protector, William Hemingway.
They head for New York on the planet Dagobah. When they finally arrive, a fight breaks out. Hemingway uses his idyllic pistol to defend Kimberly.
Hemingway and Giant Kimberly decide it's time to leave Dagobah and steal a space rocket to shoot their way out.
They encounter a tribe of men. Hemingway is attacked and the giant is captured by the men and taken back to New York.
Hemingway must fight to save Giant Kimberly but when he accidentally unearths a scrawny book, the entire future of the idyllic, squidgy galaxy is at stake.
HAUGHTY
Saturday, 17 July 2021
CELLSBASIC UNITS OF LIFE___By Mark Antony Raines
CELLS
BASIC UNITS OF LIFE
___
By Mark Antony Raines
INTRODUCTION
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Cell Anatomy
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Friday, 16 July 2021
ERICA MATHER#WRITER#SPEAKER#EDUCATOR#BODY IMAGE EXPERT#FORREST YOGA,#Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards and Embrace Your True Power P
Biography
For women who’ve learned to be their own worst enemies, this in-your-face guide offers powerful tools to break free from the cultural messages that feed negative body image and stand in the way of becoming your most authentic and radiant self.
Have you ever wondered what you could accomplish with the time you spend worrying about your body or appearance? In a society overwhelmed with messages of how women should be and appear, it’s easy to internalize these ideas and become our own harshest critics. It’s time for a change. It’s time to stop squashing ourselves into painfully tight “should-be” boxes and celebrate our bodies for what they are—divine tools to reach our highest aspirations and experience the full fabulousness of life.
In this book, you’ll find a practical program for healing body image dissatisfaction using a unique blend of wisdom—from yoga to Buddhism and Taoism to shamanism and more. Weaving the author’s own experiences with tools for putting lessons into action, this empowering book will help you examine your own thoughts and feelings about your body and learn how they affect the way you relate in and to the world.
With this unflinchingly direct and honest book, you’ll learn to release years of negative conditioning to see yourself as the fiercely authentic woman you really are. So, stop wasting time and energy hating your body and start moving toward a life that celebrates your body’s unique strengths and capabilities for experiencing health, happiness, and true radiance.
INTERNET
Thursday, 15 July 2021
PINGDEMIC
NEVER ENDING NIGHTMARE
It seemed like my essential oils and vitamins were starting to clear up my symptoms. There was no real need to tell the rest of the group that I'd been bitten.
I was having a pleasant dream when what sounded like hammering woke me. After that, I could barely hear the muffled sound of dirt covering the coffin over my own screams.
She asked why I was breathing so heavily. I wasn't The doctors told the amputee he might experience a phantom limb from time to time. Nobody prepared him for the moments though, when he felt cold fingers brush across his phantom hand.
CRYPTIC CROSS ADVENTURES
OVERWHELMING BY MARK ANTONY RAINES #POEM
Wednesday, 14 July 2021
WISE OWL NEWS 15 7 2021#NEWSFROMTHEWORLDOFBIRDS
WISE OWL NEWS 15 7 2021#NEWSFROMTHEWORLDOFBIRDSWISE OWL INTRO CALIFORNIA CONDOR NEWS ARCTIC SEABIRDS NEWS. OKINAWA RAIL BIRD WINNERS AUDUBON PHOTOGRATHY AWARDS. CROWS TAKING ANT BATHS CAPTURED ON FILM. MONK PARAKEET ONE OF 25 SPECIES OF TROPICAL BIRDS FROM PET TO WILD IN 23 STATES IN USA 🇺🇸. DARK WINGS SUPERCHARGE SEABIRD FLIGHT BIRDS DYING IN USA 🇺🇸OF NEW EPIDMEMIC. WISE OWL SIGNS OFF. LOW BUDGET PRODUCTION MADE FROM MY BUNGALOW IN DEVON .
Your Body, Your Best Friend: End the Confidence-Crushing Pursuit of Unrealistic Beauty Standards and Embrace Your True Power by Erica Mather
For women who’ve learned to be their own worst enemies, this in-your-face guide offers powerful tools to break free from the cultural messages that feed negative body image and stand in the way of becoming your most authentic and radiant self.
Have you ever wondered what you could accomplish with the time you spend worrying about your body or appearance? In a society overwhelmed with messages of how women should be and appear, it’s easy to internalize these ideas and become our own harshest critics. It’s time for a change. It’s time to stop squashing ourselves into painfully tight “should-be” boxes and celebrate our bodies for what they are—divine tools to reach our highest aspirations and experience the full fabulousness of life.
In this book, you’ll find a practical program for healing body image dissatisfaction using a unique blend of wisdom—from yoga to Buddhism and Taoism to shamanism and more. Weaving the author’s own experiences with tools for putting lessons into action, this empowering book will help you examine your own thoughts and feelings about your body and learn how they affect the way you relate in and to the world.
With this unflinchingly direct and honest book, you’ll learn to release years of negative conditioning to see yourself as the fiercely authentic woman you really are. So, stop wasting time and energy hating your body and start moving toward a life that celebrates your body’s unique strengths and capabilities for experiencing health, happiness, and true radiance.
LAURIE GREEN -AUTHOR-Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground
by Laurie Greene
Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 18, 2020)
The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community the Miss’d America drag pageant.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, and how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.
-- Sapphira Cristal ― Miss'd American 2020
-- Erin O'Flaherty ― Miss Missouri 2016, first openly lesbian Miss America contestant
-- Sherry Vine ― Drag Legend
-- Rusty Barrett ― author of From Drag Queens to Leathermen: Language, Gender, and Gay Male Subcultures
― Gay & Lesbian Review
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press (December 18, 2020)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 248 pages
- ISBN-10: 1978813864
- ISBN-13: 978-1978813861
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens: Contesting Femininity in the World's Playground Kindle Edition by Laurie Greene
The Miss America pageant has been held in Atlantic City for the past hundred years, helping to promote the city as a tourist destination. But just a few streets away, the city hosts a smaller event that, in its own way, is equally vital to the local community: the Miss’d America drag pageant.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens presents a vivid ethnography of the Miss’d America pageant and the gay neighborhood from which it emerged in the early 1990s as a moment of campy celebration in the midst of the AIDS crisis. It examines how the pageant strengthened community bonds and activism, as well as how it has changed now that Rupaul’s Drag Race has brought many of its practices into the cultural mainstream. Comparing the Miss’d America pageant with its glitzy cisgender big sister, anthropologist Laurie Greene discovers how the two pageants have influenced each other in unexpected ways.
Drag Queens and Beauty Queens deepens our understanding of how femininity is performed at pageants, exploring the various ways that both the Miss’d America and Miss America pageants have negotiated between embracing and critiquing traditional gender roles. Ultimately, it celebrates the rich tradition of drag performance and the community it engenders.
Tuesday, 13 July 2021
EXCLUSIVE _ CHAPTER 7_KIMBERLEY BY ABDUL MALIK SMITH BOOK BLACKSKIN #5 STARS 🌟RECOMMENDED
EXCLUSIVE _ CHAPTER 7_KIMBERLEY BY ABDUL MALIK SMITH BOOK BLACKSKIN #5 STARS 🌟RECOMMENDED #AUDIO #YOUTUBE #NARRATIVE#MARKANTONYRAINES#THANKS TO ABDUL MALIK SMITH FOR GIVING HIS PERMISSION TO READ THIS CHAPTER I LOOK FORWARD TO THE BOOK WHEN IT COMES OUT REMINDS ME IF MY YOUTH IN SOUTHEND ON SEA ESSEX, MULTI GENRE MUSIC SCENE AND PEOPLE