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uwmspeccoll · 1 year

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Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week

SUSAN POWER

March may have come to an end, but there is still time to celebrate! The next Indigenous writer I would like to give the spotlight to is Susan Power (1961-), a Native American novelist who is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe of the Dakotas. She was born in Chicago, Illinois and raised by her mother, Susan Kelly Power (Gathering of Stormclouds Woman, in Dakota) who is also an enrolled member, and her father Carleton Gilmore Power, who was a publishing sales representative. Her parents raised her to be politically and socially aware, and with their help became active in the Civil Rights movement. She was named Miss Indian Chicago when she was seventeen and after that went on to get an A.B. degree in Psychology at Harvard/Radcliffe, and later received her Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School. She worked her way up from a housekeeping job to being the editor of the University of Chicago Law Review, which was the catalyst for motivating her to pursue creative writing. Her mother used to recite stories about their native lineage, and her father read her stories at night; she states that her inspiration come from her mother’s native influence as well as Louise Erdrich, Toni Morrison, and Shakespeare. By the age of twelve she had memorized the entirety of Romeo and Juliet.

Power ultimately decided to end her law career and pursue creative writing fully while she was recovering from an appendectomy. The catalyst for this choice was a Dakota Sioux woman standing in her hospital room wearing a sky blue beaded dress; this vision spirit would later become a main character of her first novel The Grass Dancer, which was published by Putnam in 1994. This novel went on to win the PEN/Hemingway Award for First Novel in 1995. Her short fiction has also been published in Atlantic Monthly, Paris Review, Voice Literary Supplement, Ploughshares, Story, and The Best American Short Stories 1993.

Power focuses heavily on themes of ancestry, dream images, and intricate storytelling to fully engage her readers. She uses the strengths of these themes to relate her personal experience as a Native American woman while leaving room for the reader to interpret and respond to her writing in their own way without limiting the possibilities.

UWM Special Collection preserves Power’s Sacred Wilderness (Michigan State University Press, 2014) and Roofwalker (Milkweed Editions, 2002).

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- Elizabeth V., Special Collections Undergraduate Writing Intern

#Native American/First Nations Woman Writer of the Week #Women's History Month #Native Americans #native american writers #native american women writers #Susan Power #Dakota #Yanktonai Dakota #Standing Rock Sioux #Sacred Wilderness #Roofwalker #Elizabeth V.

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doverstar · 23 days

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it will always bother me that in the year of our Lord 1963, Susan said she made up the initials for the TARDIS, but that apparently every single other person on her planet and all over the universe for some reason call all of those ships TARDISes. they don’t have another name for it. Type 40 TARDIS. stole a TARDIS. did Susan name all of them? was Susan there at the conceptualization of the first one? why. why-

#use your writing powers to EXPLAIN THAT please chibnall. rtd. moffat.#can we stop trying to explain the doctor’s origins and start tying up 60-year-old loose ends that actually matter #let the TARDIS take priority people #she carries this show on her back #susan foreman #doctor #doctor who #the tardis #tardis #classic who #nuwho #new who #dw #opinion piece #text post #doverstar’s thoughts #first doctor #first doctor era

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preserves42 · 2 years

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There was a chair free at the companions anonymous meeting.

I've seen a lot of people point out the empty chair at the end of Power of the Doctor and suggest who it's for, but I think we know who's chair it is:

It's for the Martha Joneses, the Liz Shaws, and the Susan Foremans who have moved on from their time with the Doctor to do other things with their lives.

It's for the Rose Tylers, the Zoe Heriots, and the Jamie McCrimmons who leave not by choice and despite the Doctor's best efforts.

And most of all it's for the Sarah Jane Smiths, the Adrics, the Amy Ponds and Rory Williamses, the Clara Oswalds, the Bill Potts, the River Songs, all the ones who due to one reason or another have passed on but who will never be forgotton.

That is who's chair it is.

#doctor who #doctor who spoilers #power of the doctor #power of the doctor spoilers #martha jones #liz shaw #susan foreman #rose tyler #zoe heriot #jamie mccrimmon #sarah jane smith #adric #amy pond #rory williams #clara oswald #bill potts

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livelaughlove-write · 2 years

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So...if we can get a Lord of the Rings show, I think that we should also get a show about the Golden Age of Narnia, and they should recast the original siblings, because they are now the appropriate age of when the golden age took place. Just putting that out there...

#narnia #chronicles of narnia #lotr #rings of power #lucy pevensie #peter pevensie #edmund pevensie #susan pevensie #Aslan #Lord of the Rings #The Golden Age of Narnia #the white witch #aragorn #galadriel #halbrand #mr tumnus #elrond #rivendell

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cliffexcellent · 7 months

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#taskmaster #susan wokoma #greg davies #little alex horne #powerful art

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charnauk · 4 months

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I appreciate that in the middle of all the chaos, Sue is considerate to make a fun slippy slide for Reed. I feel like he was so distracted here that he would have fell onto the ground like a discarded party streamer if she didn't intervene.

#reed richards #susan storm #comic pages #The ways their powers can interact with each other is unlimited fun

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pratchettquotes · 11 months

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"I confess to strange feelings regarding his...self that was the clockmaker," said Unity. "Sometimes, when he smiled, he was normal. I wanted to help him, because he seemed so closed in and sad."

"You don't have to confess to things like that," Susan snapped. "How do you even know the word romantic, anyway?" she added.

"I found some books of poetry." Unity actually looked embarrassed.

"Really? I've never trusted it," said Susan. [...]

"I found it most curious. How can words on a page have a power like that? There is no doubt that being human is incredibly difficult and cannot be mastered in one lifetime," said Unity sadly.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

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venusonmercury · 3 months

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Susan Sarandon and Geena Davis in Thelma and Louise (1991).

#clearly lesbians #i love women #thelma and louise #susan sarandon #geena davis #lgbtq #cinema #cinemetography #movie screencaps #1990s #girl power #moodboard #venus films

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brandtandstein · 1 year

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A Susan Sto Helit from a couple of years ago. Soooooooo much hatching!

#Susan Sto Helit #discworld #terry pratchett #artists on tumblr #fan art #art #ink #Ted Brandt #Ro Stein #POKER POWER

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torpublishinggroup · 6 months

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Release Roundup - 11.7.23

omg! check out our new books!

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Tor Books

Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree

TorDotCom Publishing

A Power Unbound by Freya Marske

Forge

Vamp by Loren D. Estleman

Tor Teen

The Hunting Moon by Susan Dennard

#new book tuesday #bookshops & bonedust #travis baldree #a power unbound #freya marske #vamp #loren d estleman #the hunting moon #susan dennard

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kingsoverjacks · 1 year

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Charisma Carpenter and Susan Ward fantasy sandwich

#charisma carpenter #susan ward #rocking body #great legs #great thighs #great rack #legs for days #legendary legs #great body #great hips #dancer body #power thighs #bikini

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prismasartworks · 4 months

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Enchanted Flight - 2024 REDRAW

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#johnny test #fanart #cartoon #crossover #winx club #digital fanart #digital art #winx club crossover #winx #mary test #dukey #susan test #enchantix power #enchantix fairy #male enchantix #enchantix #redraw #redrawn #redo

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haveyoureadthispoll · 2 months

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From the lore of her people, the Sioux, Susan Power presents an extraordinary debut novel rich in drama and infused with magic. Set on a North Dakota reservation, this book weaves the stories of the old and the young, broken families, romantic rivals, and men and women in love and at war.