Gail Nyoka

Her passion is to write about women who should be famous, but aren't.
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YouTube video by Crone Chronicles When You Are Old and Grey - the poem and the woman

New short video: the poem and the woman. youtu.be/nY-NNf_seCE?...

YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Olive Senior would like us to rethink the history of the Caribbean

I had a wonderful talk with Olive Senior about how the history of the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean has been hidden, and her new book set in the time of when the old world met the new world. #Taino, #Poet Laureate of Jamaica, #Writing #Caribbean History, #Paradise Once
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YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Heather Roan Robbins and her Choice-Based Approach to Astrology

Astrology to empower. youtu.be/b7ISXS6nuCk?...

YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Morris Dance, Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket

A one-minute video on Crone Chronicles: youtu.be/Wj2GZkPd46Q?...

NEW: Hegseth is deploying Marines against U.S. citizens. Mayor Bass says to know your rights :

YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Theatre Maker Diane Roberts and her role as Cultural Animator

Diane Roberts, Director and Cultural Animator talks about Canadian theatre and her Garifuna roots. youtu.be/ppdoEQ-7Sqc?...

YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Mella and the N'Anga: An African Tale - short excerpt

A folktale from Zimbabwe was this story. I'm reading from the prologue. youtu.be/9k8zyxkzetM

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
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You gave me a chuckle with that one.

Who would’ve thought we’d be living these books out? We are in perilous times.

In today’s atmosphere, it’s obvious why a book warning of totalitarian censorship would be in the American Library Association’s list of most commonly challenged books

Wonderful!

‘You must read my diaries’: unlocking the private life of Edna O’Brien Towards the end of her life, the groundbreaking Irish novelist granted film-maker Sinéad O’Shea access to her most personal writing. What she revealed was shocking and inspiring

Great article, and I especially liked the video interview that's included. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Old Women and the Devil

I had fun making this short video. youtu.be/_9ZhAC1TCxo

Want to buy Canadian? There's an app for that | CBC News Wouldn't it be great if your phone could just magically tell you whether the products you want to buy are Canadian or not? Well, now it can — thanks to savvy entrepreneurs across the country who've cr...

CBC: "Want to buy Canadian? There's an app for that - Entrepreneurs across the country creating barcode-scanning apps for Canadian items"

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The Case for Returning U.S. Public Lands to Indigenous People "If the U.S. won’t properly care for its public lands, why not return them to their original caretakers?" asks Joe Whittle.

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YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Zainab Amadahy talks about indigenization, decolonization, oracle reading and Rumi

Translations of Rumi's writings aren't quite accurate says Zainab Amadahy. She is a contributor to Rumi Roaming where writers and artists from around the world look at how Rumi's words apply to our lives today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKgi...
#Crone #Rumi #Indigenization #Decolonization

#Dementia

Excellent discussion.

Art as Resistance, Folklore as Magic With Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran

As promised, Andreas' interview with me on the Hagstone Podcast. I had forgotten how wide-ranging it was; folklore, art, the climate crisis, politics, magic. Hope you enjoy it.

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#northernspirithouse #folklore #art #writer #magic #ballads #sleipner #seiðr #runes #bards

Where do the clothes go after we put them in a recycling bin? An 11-month investigation covering thousands of kilometers EL PAÍS followed the path of 15 geolocated garments for months and over thousands of kilometers to gauge the environmental and social costs of the mass consumption of fast fashion. Dubbed in Africa as...

El Pais fast fashion article - what happens to clothes when you donate them? They placed GPS trackers in 15 garments and put them in textile recycling bins. The story of what happen is next is a long and abysmal read

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YouTube video by Crone Chronicles Survival is a Promise: The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde

I talked to Audre Lorde biographer, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, about her book and how societal dangers have not much changed. youtu.be/ZO5Hrs2eGVY?...

YouTube video by Crone Chronicles When telling the story of her life, Rubena Sinha says, Sita should dance with me

Storyteller Rubena Sinha's grandmother fed milk to cobras and spoke to tigers. youtu.be/da_6plwElZw?...

Take good care of yourself. Hope you start to feel better soon.

Album cover for The Folklore & Fiction Ballads.

Okay. I just want to say that if you buy my EP from Bandcamp (pre-orders start on Feb. 17th - I'll have links then), you'll get my liner notes. They're sixteen, SIXTEEN pages long and crammed full of lyrics, musical info, and scholarship about the ballads, and I'm freakin' proud of 'em. That is all.

Think Chatbots Are Bad Now? You Have No Idea What’s Coming Next. Ed Zitron is worried about the “future that tech’s elite wants to build,” and thinks you should be too.

Worth considering. slate.com/technology/2...

‘I want to be hopeful’: Nobel prize-winning novelist Han Kang on the crisis in South Korea With protests on the streets of Seoul, the celebrated writer talks about the painful process of uncovering her country’s brutal past - and how it felt to win the Nobel prize

I enjoyed "Greek Lessons" very much, and am looking forward to reading "We do not Part." www.theguardian.com/books/2025/f...

Agree.