Karen Williams

8. Karen Williams – Mourning

Karen Williams of South Africa joins the shortlist with Mourning, a sharp and haunting meditation.

#IskanchiBookPrize #SouthAfricanWriters #GriefNarratives #AfricanFiction #IskanchiPress #ContemporaryFiction

I made the shortlist!

Here is a collection of inspiring communist and socialist posters designed to mobilize people for International May Day – not just art, but a call to action. Join your local May Day protest.

Posters are from the following countries in this order:
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Vietnam marked the 50th anniversary of the end of the Vietnam War on Wednesday with a boisterous parade in Ho Chi Minh City featuring soldiers, dancers and speeches celebrating what the country’s communist leader called "a triumph of justice." Read more: nyti.ms/3EF1JZ5

Walking the veld: angulate tortoise (Chersina angulata) 🐢

Why is the Security Council not intervening/convening?

IT HAPPENED TO ME: i accidentally bumped the font size to 110% and enjoyed it

‘Exiled’: India-Pakistan families split as border shuts over Kashmir attack Mothers have been forced to leave their children behind, the colour of their passport their only identity now.

“You’re caught in a place that is no longer your home — or it’s a home that you don’t recognise. And exile becomes your state of life.”

India-Pakistan families split as border shuts over Kashmir attack.

Unsolicited writing advice, no: 6:
The writing world is divided between people who really want to write, and those who want to be writers. To find out which one you are, visualize yourself as a writer. And if that visualization doesn't show you writing, then do yourself a favour: find another hobby.

Helen Frankenthaler, A Green Thought in a Green Shade, 1981

🤖 Vietnam celebrates 50 years since end of war with US
Key points:
• Military parade held in Ho Chi Minh City concludes celebration of 50th anniversary since the fall...
#Minh #Years #Parade
Source: Al Jazeera | What are your thoughts?

#OtD 28 Apr 1967 boxer and civil rights activist, Muhammad Ali, refused the Vietnam War draft. Learn more about the movement against the Vietnam War in our podcast series: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e43-...

Sharepic mit einem Foto eines vietnamesischen Panzers, dazu der Text: 30. April 1975. Befreiung Saigons und Kriegsende in Vietnam.

Heute vor 50 Jahren: Mit der Frühjahrsoffensive von 1975 drangen nordvietnamesische Truppen und Kräfte der Nationalen Front für die Befreiung Südvietnams (NFB) innerhalb weniger Wochen bis in die Außenbezirke der südvietnamesischen Hauptstadt Saigon vor.

#AnDiesemTag 🧵

a black and white photo of a wrought iron fence in a park . Alt: PRG tank crashes through palace gates in Saigon

50 years since the fall of Saigon. #ReunificationDay 🇻🇳

30 de Abril de 1975 con la caída de Saigón, en manos norvietnamitas, se pone fin a la Guerra de Vietnam que durante los casi 20 años que duró el conflicto se cobró la vida de millones de personas. #Efemerides

Siegesfeier in Saigon 1975

#otd 1975 befreite die im Westen etwas abschätzig als Vietcong bezeichnete südvietnamesische Nationale Befreiungsfront die südvietnamesische Hauptstadt Saigon und besiegte damit nach zwölf Jahren Krieg die Atommacht USA. Insgesamt hatte der Krieg 20 Jahre gedauert.
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‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent who is now 96, recalls the day she entered the city after South Vietnam’s surrender

‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war

These lambs didn't come running - they can't be my crew, can they?

i would be more surprised if we *didn't* start seeing bootleggers smuggling Canadian toilet paper and other sundries across to Detroit and Buffalo in the coming weeks

a blurry picture of a crowd of people watching a show ALT: a blurry picture of a crowd of people watching a show

What do you listen to while you write? For me I cannot have silence. There has to be some sort of music going on. I used to think it needed to an instrumental but now I'm able to listen to pretty much whatever I want. #wip #workinprogress #writing #writingsession #writinghacks
#writingcoach

BREAKING: Israel has carried out an air strike in southern Beirut after it issued a forced evacuation warning for residents of the southern suburbs of Dahiyeh.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/s4qydu

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Israel has warned residents of the Hadath neighbourhood in Beirut's Dahiyeh suburbs to evacuate the area around what it called a Hezbollah facility.

The order suggests Israel will strike southern Beirut for the third time since the November ceasefire.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/yacyo2

The return of diseases measles and whooping cough is not a failure of science or public health

It’s a failure of leadership and governance

Where is the UN Security Council?

My translation of the Italian poet Margherita Guidacci:

Unsolicited writing advice: no.2167
That thing you always wanted to do. That novel, that poem, that piece of art. Start it now. Don't wait. Make time. Give yourself permission to start. It will never be easier than it is now: maybe harder, but never easier.

Rooi Stoor padstal,
near Elandsbaai

There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep and still be counted as warriors.

ADRIENNE RICH

If I must die, If I must die Refaat Alareer you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so that a child, somewhere in Gaza while looking heaven in the eye awaiting his dad who left in a blaze-and bid no one farewell not even to his flesh not even to himself- sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above and thinks for a moment an angel is there bringing back love If I must die let it bring hope let it be a tale

If I must die, let it be a tale.

—Refaat Alareer