Prison Poems by Mahvash Sabet6/12/2023 ![]() But unlike many prison poems, hers are not merely a catalogue of hopes and fears. Her poems have allowed her to speak when words were denied, to talk when no one was listening to her. ![]() Beneath all the false accusations - those usually fabricated against the Bahá'ís in Iran - there was nothing more than her belief in her Faith and her commitment to running the affairs of the Bahá'í community. ![]() She was finally convicted and condemned in 2010, together with her fellow members of the Yaran, to twenty years imprisonment. In 2008 she was arrested and jailed for two-and-a-half years without a proper hearing. However, despite all their hardships, their will remained unbroken.' Mahnaz Parakand, Member of the Center for Human Rights defenders and one of the four lawyers for the Yaran Mahvash Sabet served for several years as secretary of an informal council of seven individuals known as the Yaran, who have been responsible for managing the affairs of the Iranian Bahá'í community. it was obvious that the Bahá'í prisoners had been deprived of fresh air and daylight for a long time their entire beings seemed thirsty for the energizing heat and light of the sun. After many hours of tedious waiting in a special room set aside for lawyers, I was finally allowed to meet her in the presence of two women guards. 'My first encounter with Mahvash Sabet took place on a hot summer's day. Mahvash Sabet has been named as the PEN Pinter International Writer of Courage 2017. ![]()
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How to break a dragon's heart6/12/2023 ![]() However, Stoick is wrong and Ug and his men savagely wake the Hooligans in the middle of the night at swordpoint. As they settle down for the night, Stoick reassures them UG the Uglithug, the merciless slavetrading chief of the Uglithug tribe, rarely visits the beach where they camp because he believes it to be haunted. While searching for said spot, they see a mysterious object on the beach and investigate, Stoick inadvertently causes his boat to run aground and sink and the tribe is forced to camp in Uglithug territory on a beach that is supposedly haunted the mysterious item turns out to be a spooky ancient throne covered in Hooligan ruins that washed ashore in the storm. Unfortunately, darkness creeps up on them and the Hooligans are forced to find a suitable spot to camp until morning. ![]() ![]() Camicazi was lost while sailing through the storm and both the Bog-Burgulars and Hairy Hooligans search for her in the dangerous and inhospitable Eastern Archipelago-home to the haunted beaches and both the slavetrading Uglithug and crazy Berserk tribes. The novel opens in the wake of the greatest storm to sweep through the Barbarian Archipelago in more than a century. ![]() Audre lorde essays and speeches6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() Lorde died of cancer at the age of fifty-eight in 1992. She is the author of twelve books, including Zami and The Black Unicorn. She earned a master's degree in library science from Columbia University, received a National Endowment for the Arts grant for poetry, and was New York State's Poet Laureate from 1991 to 1993. These landmark writings are, in Lorde's own words, a call to never close our eyes to the terror, to the chaos which is Black which is creative which is female which is dark which is rejected which is messy which is.Ī writer, activist, and mother of two, Audre Lorde grew up in 1930s Harlem. This commemorative edition includes a new foreword by Lorde scholar and poet Cheryl Clarke, who celebrates the ways in which Lorde's philosophies resonate more than twenty years after they were first published. Her prose is incisive, unflinching, and lyrical, reflecting struggle but ultimately offering messages of hope. In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change. During this time, she was politically active in civil rights, anti-war, and feminist movements. Lorde's poetry was published very regularly during the 1960s in Langston Hughes' 1962 New Negro Poets, USA in several foreign anthologies and in black literary magazines. ![]() The leader of contemporary feminist theory discusses such issues as racism, self-acceptance. Audre Lorde was a revolutionary Black feminist. Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature. Sister outsider : essays and speeches / by Audre Lorde. ![]() The Murder Complex by Lindsay Cummings6/11/2023 ![]() ![]() 20 YA Ebooks Under $2! #YAlit #KindleDeals #FridayReads.How I Write: Carrie Firestone (The Loose Ends List).Release+Giveaway | Signs of Life by Selene Castrovilla.The Suspects of THE DARKEST LIE by Pintip Dunn | Release+Giveaway.Tour+Giveaway | Rough Romance Trilogy by Selene Castrovilla.Release+Giveaway | Chasing Impossible by Katie McGarry.Top 10 Summer Reads by Lara Avery (The Memory Book).Interview with Beth Lewis, author of THE WOLF ROAD.Interview with Mark Perini (You Before Anyone Else).Release Blitz | UNKNOWN by Wendy Higgins.Roald Dahl 100 Celebratory Blog Tour | THE MAGIC FINGER.Release+Giveaway | REMEMBER YESTERDAY by Pintip Dunn.Release+Giveaway | BLACK FLOWERS, WHITE LIES by Yvonne Ventresca. ![]()
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Anna Zaires is one of the USA Today, New York Times, and international bestselling author from America, who likes to write her books based on the sci-fi romance and contemporary dark erotic romance genres. ![]() ![]() ![]() Your potential is those things you can do but have not done yet. Walking is a potential for a three-month-old baby but it is not a potential for you because you have walked already. The moment you achieve it, it is no longer a potential. All that power to become is hidden within the seed and that is its potential. As tiny and unseeming as a seed looks, it possesses the ability to be transformed into a tree, two trees, and even a forest. The most graphical representation of what potential means is a seed. 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