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How would you describe this person’s expression? What emotions do you associate with these colors? How do artists create works of art that empower people and imagine a more just future?

Let’s start by looking closely at how this woman is depicted. She is placed in the center of the painting, filling the majority of the space on the canvas. Her mouth is open as she speaks into the microphone she holds in her hand, and her eyes look left into the distance, somewhere beyond the frame. Her hairstyle radiates like a halo around her head. The bright, vibrant colors almost seem to pulse with energy, and the whole composition - from her central position, to the lines that lead from the bandolier-like trim of her jacket, to the vivid colors around her head - pulls the viewers’ eyes again and again towards her face.

The artist, Wadsworth A. Jarrell, incorporated various words throughout the painting; in fact, they actually make up the figure, her clothes, and her background as though they were tiles in a mosaic. Looking near the woman’s face we can see the words “Beautiful,” “Resist,” and “Seize the time;” near her head is the phrase “Get ready for revolution.” These are phrases of the Black Power Movement, which was thriving when this painting was created in 1971. The Black Power Movement sought to fight racial, economic, and political inequities experienced by African Americans, and to empower black communities in all facets of their lives. Jarrell belonged to a black artist collective known as AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists), which sought to demonstrate the “expressive awesomeness that one experiences in African art and life in the U.S.A.” through the use of bright colors and inclusion of meaningful text. The artists in the collective were interested in shining a light on the richness and abundance of joy, beauty, and resilience of their communities.

Over the woman’s shoulders are the words: “I have given my life to the struggle. If I have to lose my life to the struggle that’s the way it will have to be.” These words were spoken by the subject of the painting herself, Angela Davis. Davis is a professor, activist, and prominent member of the Black Power Movement. At the time of this painting, Davis was fleeing a warrant for her arrest in connection with the murder of a prison guard - an accusation of which she was later found not guilty. In an interview, Wadsworth Jarrell stated that, when painting public figures like Angela Davis, he “presented their positive strength as leaders. During the 1960s, most African American artists rooted their art in the European aesthetics taught them in art schools. In AfriCOBRA we were more interested in developing an aesthetic rooted in African American and African cultures - a new language, which we called an African American or Black aesthetic. Ours was art for the people.” Looking at the painting, how do you think the “positive strength” of Angela Davis has been communicated? What tools has the artist employed? How does this change the way you see the painting?

Davis remains an active advocate of racial, gender, and economic justice. In 2016, she was asked by an interviewer, “Is the struggle endless?” Davis responded: “I would say that as our struggles mature, they produce new ideas, new issues, and new terrains on which we engage in the quest for freedom. Like Nelson Mandela, we must be willing to embrace the long walk toward freedom.”

Black lives matter. The lives of Black people deserve to be held sacred and to be protected; Black people deserve to be free of violence. The experiences of Black people need to be heard and believed. We live in a country where this is not the case and has never been the case, and it is the responsibility of those of us who continue to benefit from systems of white supremacy to engage in the work of taking those systems apart and joining in the radical reimagining of what society can and should be. It is and will be an ongoing process; it is work that may never be "finished" and it is work that cannot be allowed to fall to the wayside when the news and social media feeds have focused attention elsewhere. For me, it means understanding my own positionality, how I can contribute to the work of people who know much more than me, and how I can listen to others more deeply. As a white, cisgender woman I struggle with how I can be a part of that long walk to freedom, and how I can be an ally and an advocate while amplifying the voices of people of color. Jarrell’s painting of Angela Davis reminds me to consider whose voices I listen to, when I listen to them, and how I listen to them. In a similar way, this painting asks those questions of artists and institutions as well. How can artists use their voices to empower and imagine a more just world today? How can art, artists, and art institutions be used as positive vehicles for moving our communities and our nation to a place of greater equity? Join us in the comments below to continue the conversation.

Posted by Christina Marinelli Wadsworth A. Jarrell (American, born 1929). Revolutionary (Angela Davis), 1971. Acrylic and mixed media on canvas, 64 x 51 in. (162.6 x 129.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of R.M. Atwater, Anna Wolfrom Dove, Alice Fiebiger, Joseph Fiebiger, Belle Campbell Harriss, and Emma L. Hyde, by exchange, Designated Purchase Fund, Mary Smith Dorward Fund, Dick S. Ramsay Fund, and Carll H. de Silver Fund, 2012.80.18. © artist or artist's estate

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Black Nationalism, Feminism, and the Moynihan report

Selection from Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second Wave, by Benita Roth, 2010.

Black Women and Changes in the Civil Rights Movement The Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s featured Black women activists in prominent roles (Crawford et al. 1990; Giddings 1984; Gray White 1999; hooks 1981; Joseph and Lewis 1981; McNair Barnett 1993; Payne 1989,1990; Robnett 1997; Standley 1990; Terborg-Penn 1978). Although the most public leaders were men, Black women played significant parts in the movement, both on local and national levels, contributions that were noted within the Black community at the time (see Bender 1969; Thomas 1964). Southern Black women's networks were central to the struggle, since Black women had been active in clubs and other political organizations that agitated on behalf of the race, such as the Montgomery Women's Political Council. Among Black college students, 48 percent of participants in sit-ins and Freedom Rides were women (Prestage 1980); Orum's (1970:72) survey of Black college students' participation in Civil Rights protest found that nearly twice as many women as men in the sample participated in protest (2,047 women versus 1,142 men).

Black women probably participated in the movement in disproportionate numbers (Payne 1990), filling roles that formed the backbone of the movement and exercising leadership "behind the scenes." Women were most often "bridge" leaders (Robnett 1997), using local networks to link new activists to national organizing. Their "invisibility" as leaders within the movement (McNair Barnett 1993) has been exacerbated by the tendency to define leadership as belonging only to those with public-speaking roles. For example, Ella Baker chose a place in the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) that was out of the spotlight so as not to threaten male egos; nonetheless, she was a key participant in that organization (at one point its interim executive director) and also helped "midwife" the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) into existence. Baker insisted that women's work was at the core of the Civil Rights struggle:

“All the churches depended... on women, not men. Men didn't do the things that had to be done and you had a large number of women who were involved in the bus boycott. They were the people who kept the spirit going.” (Payne 1989:890)

And Ella Baker was not alone. Gloria Richardson, Fannie Lou Hamer, Rosa Parks, Ruby Doris Smith Robinson, Diane Nash, and Jo Ann Robinson form an incomplete list of women who were heroes of the movement, if not as widely visible to the public as someone like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (Brock 1990; Fair Burks 1990; Giddings 1984; Locke 1990).

Much of Black women's energy in the movement was used for stereotypical "female" tasks, but the Civil Rights movement also gave Black women a chance to work alongside men in "nontraditional ways" (Marable 1978; Omolade 1994). Women went to jail (and were beaten there) as they handled bus boycotts, field projects, voter registration drives, and challenges to state and national Democratic party leadership. Cynthia Washington had her own voting rights project in Bolivar County, Mississippi, which she did not consider to be an "exceptional" thing for a woman to be coordinating (Washington 1979:238). Even later Black feminist critiques of sexism within the Civil Rights movement acknowledged that women have been given the opportunity "to do far more significant work than white women in their movement" (Bender 1969, citing Eleanor Holmes Norton). Omolade (1994:124) even argued that "traditional" female work took on new meaning in the "radical context and communal settings" of the movement, enabling women to become not just "wives, mothers, or maids," but also "lovers, friend, and comrades."3

Two intertwined changes in the Civil Rights movement of the mid-1960s affected Black women's roles within the movement. First, the social base of the movement shifted; it became younger and more northern. The southern community base that had fostered women's participation became less important to the Civil Rights movement as the student vanguard changed that movement. Second, an ideological program of advocating middle-class, traditional gender roles as a means of remaking the revolutionary Black family developed as part of Black Liberation ideology. Black women who had been active in social protest organizations were asked to become merely supportive and secondary to men. [...]

The Black Liberation ideology that accompanied the Civil Rights movement's shift to a northern, younger social base was characterized by what Giddings (1984) has called a philosophy of "masculinism." This ideological development proved crucial to the emergence of Black feminism. By the mid-1960s, integrationist approaches in the Civil Rights movement gave way to Black Power strategies and resurgent Black nationalism, forming the two major ideological components of Black Liberation. Black Liberation as an ideology was more suited to working within urban and northern contexts, and more popular with younger African Americans; sympathy for the "Black Power" slogan was greater among the young and those born in the North, whose southern roots were more attenuated (Aberbach and Walker 1971).

There were initially significant differences between Black Power and Black nationalism, but by the end of the decade, the two were difficult to distinguish from each other. SNCC was instrumental in the development of Black Power ideology; Stokely Carmichael and Charles Hamilton--authors of Black Power: The Politics of Liberation in America--were SNCC leaders when they began to formulate their ideas in 1966 and when their book was published in 1967 (Matusow 1971). Black Power political philosophy held that African Americans should strive for self-sufficiency and economic progress. Carmichael and Hamilton, holding up ethnic immigrant groups as models, argued that Black people needed to question the benefits of mere formal equality; to become economically empowered, they needed to turn inward, toward strengthening Black communities. Building on older nationalist ideas of self-sufficiency within the Black community, they expressed frustration at the limits of the Civil Rights agenda.

Carmichael and Hamilton were silent about Black women helping the community to gain economic empowerment. Virtually the only mention they make of women's roles was that of

“another set of leaders in the Black community in Lowndes County. This was a group of middle-aged ladies, who knew the community well and were well known. They were to play a very important role in the political organization of the Blacks. They had considerable influence in the Black community--being staunch church members, for example--but they possessed no power at all with the white community.” (Carmichael and Hamilton 1967:102-103)

In contrast to Black Power's silence about Black women, Black nationalism in the mid-1960s was strongly characterized by masculinist discourse and practice.4 According to the nationalists, the truly "revolutionary" Black woman was a supportive one, who kept house while the Black man kept revolution, so as to allow him to reclaim his public manhood (Marable 1983). Despite the work of Black women in the Civil Rights movements, and the very public presence of a small number of women in Black nationalist organizations themselves (e.g., Angela Davis, Kathleen Cleaver, and Elaine Brown), Black nationalist organizations such as Maulana Ron Karenga's US movement and the Black Muslims advocated restricting opportunities for activism by women (Brown 1992). In this traditionalist take on women's roles, the Black nationalist resurgence of the 1960s differed from the older formulations. Whatever tensions existed between Black men and women in activist groups (see Gray White 1999), older Black nationalism did not seem to require as rigid an ideology of traditional sex roles, as was evidenced by Amy Garvey's strong advocacy of women's equality and the key role she played in the 1920s Garveyist movement (Adler 1992; Gray White 1999; White 1984).5

During the 1960s, masculinism was very much present in other parts of the Left and in other parts of the Black community; for example, the traditional gender role ideology of the much-admired Black Muslims added legitimacy to masculinist ideas about delimiting women's roles in the movement (Kashif 1970). However, Black feminists (both then and now) have argued that the masculinist cast of Black nationalism in the 1960s was a reaction to the "Black matriarchy" theory in the 1965 Moynihan report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action (Dubey 1994; Giddings 1984; Gray White 1999; hooks 1981; Murray 1975; see Pittman quoted in Cantwell 1971; Wallace 1996). The resurgent masculinism of Black Liberation was therefore tied to state intervention into the relationships that existed within the Black family; Black feminism in part responded to the aftereffects of this intervention. In reaction to the Moynihan report, Black masculinists attempted to counter the depiction of Black men as the most abject victims of racial discrimination, with Black women putatively better off by virtue of participation in the labor force. The report concluded that the Black family was "matriarchal" and "deviant," because women held an inappropriately large amount of power (this despite the fact that Black women's status as the most economically deprived group in the country was also noted). This "deviant" family structure hindered the progress of Black men, and, by extension, that of the Black community itself (Dubey 1994; see also Marx Ferree and Hess 2000).

Black nationalists condemned the report as racist, but many responded that the patriarchal family had to be reinstituted so as to right the historical wrongs done to the Black male. With this analysis in place, Black nationalist organizations "prescribed clearly restricted roles for black women in the movement" (Dubey 1994:18). The behind-the-scenes roles that women played in the Civil Rights movement were no longer far enough behind the scenes; women were to be supportive and subordinate, producing "male warriors for the revolution" within newly patriarchal families (Dubey 1994:18). Existing Black family structures, which were based on extended kinship networks, and where illegitimacy carried less stigma than in middle-class white society, were to be changed in favor of the nationalist model of a nuclear patriarchal family. This stance on the need to return to "traditional"--even if largely fictional--gender roles in the Black community was also accompanied by calls for Black women to end their use of birth control. At the Black Power conference held in Newark in 1967, organized by Amiri Baraka, an anti-birth control resolution was passed (Ross 1993); the possibility of Black women helping to carry out Black genocide by using birth control would continue to be a hotly contested issue between Black nationalists and emerging Black feminists, as will be discussed later.

In general, then, the Moynihan report was seized upon by many Black male activists as both a manifestation of white racism and proof that Black women out of their traditional place were abetting that racism. As Gray White (1999:200) argued, the report "legitimized the perception of black women as unnaturally strong and emasculating." But the masculinist reaction to Moynihan also found itself challenged by Black feminist organizing, as some Black women activists, facing problems in their ongoing struggles as activists, responded by uncovering the contradictions that confronted them.

Black Feminists Respond: Early Organizations By 1968, Black feminists had responded publicly to the Black Liberationist/nationalist emphasis on traditional gender roles. Their critiques were nuanced ones, directed as much at white society as at the changes in the Black movement. They condemned advocacy of a patriarchal family structure by Black Liberationists even as they attacked the racism they found in Moynihan's depiction of the Black family. Additionally, Black feminists were staunchly anticapitalist, attributing the shortcomings of existing movements to a failure to carry through on the full implications of revolutionary politics. [...]

The Black Woman, Black Liberation, and Middle-Class Style The members of TWWA [Third World Women’s Alliance] and the Mount Vernon Group were not entirely on their own; Toni Cade (Bambara) (1970a:107) wrote that in the late 1960s, it seemed "that every organization you can name has had to struggle at one time or another with seemingly mutinous cadres of women getting salty about having to man the telephones or fix the coffee while the men wrote the position papers and decided on policy." By 1970, the voices of the "mutinous cadres" of women described by Cade (Bambara) were gathered into her watershed edited collection entitled The Black Woman. Conceived as a dialogue with the Black movement--but unable to avoid some dialogue with white women's liberation--the book was organized out of her "impatience" with the lack of real information about the lives and politics of Black women (1970b: 10). The contributors to the collection were primarily writers and activists who spoke as members of older women's groups, Black liberation groups, Civil Rights groups, New Left groups, and no groups at all.

As might be expected, many of the pieces in The Black Woman were characterized by concerns over Black Liberationist/ nationalist reactions to the Moynihan report, and the specific failure of those reactions to maintain revolutionary consistency regarding gender roles. As noted, [Frances] Beal's "Double Jeopardy" appeared in the collection; one of the Mount Vernon Group's position papers appeared, entitled "On the Position of Poor Black Women in this Country" (which, like "Statement on Birth Control," was widely reprinted and distributed throughout the white women's liberation movement). In this piece, [Patricia] Robinson and her group continued criticism of middle-class Black leaders as a self-interested elite leading poor Blacks down the garden path of capitalism, linking class, gender, and racial oppression as belonging to one grand package:

“Capitalism is a male supremacist society.... All domestic and international political and economic decisions are made by men and enforced by males.... Women have become the largest oppressed group in a dominant, male, aggressive, capitalistic culture.... Rebellion by poor black women, the bottom of a class hierarchy... places the question of what kind of society will the poor black woman demand.... Already she demands the right to have birth control, like middle class black and white women.... She allies herself with the have-nots in the wider world and their revolutionary struggles.... Through these steps ... she has begun to question aggressive male domination and the class society which enforces it, capitalism.” (Robinson et al. 1970a:196)

Robinson and the group argued for a united front of middle-class Black and white women who would join poor Black women in continuing to expose male oppression. At the "bottom of a class hierarchy," poor Black women in concert with others would be able to lead this united front toward liberation for all exploited people (1970a: 196).

The anticapitalist critique of American society and the Black Liberation movement was present in other contributors' work in The Black Woman. In her essay, Gwen Patton (1970) also argued that capitalism was at the root of what she called the "Victorian Philosophy of Womanhood." According to Pam Allen, herself an activist in the Civil Rights and white women's liberation movement, Patton sent Bob Allen (Pam Allen's husband) a draft of her piece for the collection in August of 1968; Pam Allen thought it should be published because "it would be the first time we (or perhaps any paper) have printed a black woman's objection to women assuming supportive roles to black men" (Allen 1968b). Arguing that Black male militants should be more savvy about the intent and impact of the Moynihan report, Patton chastised Black male activists for not seeing through the report:

“Black men... responded] positively toward Black Power and could assert their leadership, which included a strengthening of their masculinity Black women will now take the back position [A] victory for the capitalistic system! Black men are now involved with keeping their women in line by oppressing them more, which means that Black men do not have time to think about their own oppression. The camp of potential revolutionaries has been divided.” (1970:146-147)

Patton recommended that Black women challenge Black men directly, so that the Victorian philosophy "of men on top, women on bottom" (1970:147-148) could be destroyed and the road could be cleared for real revolution.

Besides Patton, other contributors to The Black Woman wrestled directly with the Moynihan report, with the Black Liberationist "manhood" preoccupation that was restricting Black women's activism, and with the effects of capitalism on the Black community (Cade [Bambara] 1970a; Carey Bond and Perry 1970; Lincoln 1970; Lindsey 1970). Kay Lindsey's essay in The Black Woman echoed the idea that Black militants had been seduced by capitalist promises, and that the "Black middle class" were "pseudo-escapees into the mainstream" who had assumed "many of the institutional postures of the oppressor, including the so-called intact family" (1970:86). Lindsey argued that white establishment efforts to "encourage the acquisition of property among Blacks via Black Capitalism... would probably serve to further intensify the stranglehold on women as property" (1970:86-87).

And contributors also had concerns about Black Liberation's anti-birth control stance, following the stance first articulated by the Mount Vernon Group. Black Liberationist anti-birth control politics did not stop at rhetoric; in 1969, Black nationalists from the United Movement for Progress closed down a birth control clinic in Pittsburgh, which was subsequently reopened by community women (Lindsey 1970). Cade (Bambara) (1970c: 163-164) wrote of attending a workshop given by a Black Liberation group that degenerated into a diatribe against birth control. She described how "one tall, lean dude... castigated the Sisters to throw away the pill and hop to the mattresses and breed revolutionaries and mess up the man's genocidal program." One of the women present responded with a question about the "dude's" financial responsibility in this: "[W]hen's the last time you fed one of them brats you been breeding all over the city, you jive-ass so-and-so?"

The writings contained in The Black Woman represented a polyphonous response to the traditional gender ideology that Black Liberationists were espousing as revolutionary; in other places, Black feminists were agreeing that Black Liberation's sexism was rooted in their unquestioning adoption of middle-class values alien to the Black community. On the West Coast, in Seattle, Nina Harding, then a thirty-one-year-old Black Studies major at the University of Washington, a mother, and an employee of the Seattle Opportunities Industrialization Center, wrote a position paper entitled "The Interconnections Between the Black Struggle and the Woman Question," which she presented at the annual conference of the Seattle Radical Women in February 1970. In it, Harding also argued that Black Liberation, otherwise critical of capitalism, had accepted traditional ideas about women's roles, and she blamed these retrograde attitudes on unquestioning acceptance of the Muslims; but she was also critical of Black "bourgeois sisters and silent sisters," who hold to "WASP standards, be those standards interpreted by the Muslim or Nationalist advocates" (1970:4). Other Black feminists in other cities echoed the idea that Black Liberation was importing white middle-class values into the heart of the Black community (Holmes Norton 1970). When interviewed by a Los Angeles Times reporter in June of 1970, Margaret Wright, a member of the Los Angeles Black women's liberation group, declared it impossible for Black families to be shaped like white ones because of class domination:

“[T]he black man is saying he wants a family structure like the white man's. He's got to be head of the family and women have to be submissive and all that nonsense. Hell the white woman is already oppressed in that setup.” (1972:608)

On both coasts, then, Black feminists rejected attempts by Black Liberationists to use middle-class gender ideology to bolster Black male "manhood."

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How to Escape the Confines of Time and Space According to the CIA

She turned to me the other morning and said, “You heard of The Gateway?” It didn’t register in the moment. She continued, “It’s blowing up on TikTok.” Later on, she elaborated: it was not in fact the ill-fated 90s computer hardware company folks were freaking out about. No, they’ve gone further back in time, to find a true treasure of functional media.

The intrigue revolves around a classified 1983 CIA report on a technique called the Gateway Experience, which is a training system designed to focus brainwave output to alter consciousness and ultimately escape the restrictions of time and space. The CIA was interested in all sorts of psychic research at the time, including the theory and applications of remote viewing, which is when someone views real events with only the power of their mind. The documents have since been declassified and are available to view.

This is a comprehensive excavation of The Gateway Process report. The first section provides a timeline of the key historical developments that led to the CIA’s investigation and subsequent experimentations. The second section is a review of The Gateway Process report. It opens with a wall of theoretical context, on the other side of which lies enough understanding to begin to grasp the principles underlying the Gateway Experience training. The last section outlines the Gateway technique itself and the steps that go into achieving spacetime transcendence.

Let’s go.

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THE TIMELINE

• 1950s – Robert Monroe, a radio broadcasting executive, begins producing evidence that specific sound patterns have identifiable effects on human capabilities. These include alertness, sleepiness, and expanded states of consciousness.

• 1956 – Monroe forms an R&D division inside his radio program production corporation RAM Enterprises. The goal is to study sound’s effect on human consciousness. He was obsessed with “Sleep-Learning," or hypnopedia, which exposes sleepers to sound recordings to boost memory of previously learned information.

• 1958 – While experimenting with Sleep-Learning, Monroe discovers an unusual phenomenon. He describes it as sensations of paralysis and vibration accompanied by bright light. It allegedly happens nine times over the proceeding six weeks, and culminates in an out-of-body experience (OBE).

• 1962 – RAM Enterprises moves to Virginia, and renames itself Monroe Industries. It becomes active in radio station ownership, cable television, and later in the production and sale of audio cassettes. These cassettes contain applied learnings from the corporate research program, which is renamed The Monroe Institute.

• 1971 – Monroe publishes Journeys Out of the Body, a book that is credited with popularizing the term “out-of-body experience.”

Books by Robert Monroe.

• 1972 – A classified report circulates in the U.S. military and intelligence communities. It claims that the Soviet Union is pouring money into research involving ESP and psychokinesis for espionage purposes.

• 1975 – Monroe registers the first of several patents concerning audio techniques designed to stimulate brain functions until the left and right hemispheres become synchronized. Monroe dubs the state "Hemi-Sync" (hemispheric synchronization), and claims it could be used to promote mental well-being or to trigger an altered state of consciousness.

• 1978 to 1984 – Army veteran Joseph McMoneagle contributes to 450 remote viewing missions under Project Stargate. He is known as “Remote View No. 1”. This is kind of a whole other story.

• June 9th, 1983 – The CIA report "Analysis and Assessment of The Gateway Process" is produced. It provides a scientific framework for understanding and expanding human consciousness, out-of-body experiments, and other altered states of mind.

• 1989 – Remote viewer Angela Dellafiora Ford helps track down a former customs agent who has gone on the run. She pinpoints his location as “Lowell, Wyoming”. U.S. Customs apprehend him 100 miles west of a Wyoming town called Lovell.

• 2003 – The CIA approves declassification of the Gateway Process report.

• 2017 – The CIA declassifies 12 million pages of records revealing previously unknown details about the program, which would eventually become known as Project Stargate.

THE REPORT

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Personnel

The author of The Gateway Process report is Lieutenant Colonel Wayne M. McDonnell, hereon referred to simply as Wayne. There isn’t a tremendous amount of information available on the man, nor any photographs. In 1983, Wayne was tasked by the Commander of the U.S. Army Operational Group with figuring out how The Gateway Experience, astral projection and out-of-body experiences work. Wayne partnered with a bunch of different folks to produce the report, most notably Itzhak Bentov, a very Googleable American-Israeli scientist who helped pioneer the biomedical engineering industry.

A scientific approach

From the outset of the report, Wayne states his intent to employ an objective scientific method in order to understand the Gateway process. The various scientific avenues he takes include:

• A biomedical inquiry to understand the physical aspects of the process.

• Information on quantum mechanics to describe the nature and functioning of human consciousness.

• Theoretical physics to explain the time-space dimension and means by which expanded human consciousness transcends it.

• Classical physics to bring the whole phenomenon of out-of-body states into the language of physical science (and remove the stigma of an occult connotation).

Methodological frames of reference

Before diving into the Gateway Experience, Wayne develops a frame of reference by dissecting three discrete consciousness-altering methodologies. He’s basically saying, there’s no way you’re going to get through The Gateway without a solid grounding in the brain-altering techniques that came before it.

1) He begins with hypnosis. The language is extremely dense, but the basic gist is as follows: the left side of the brain screens incoming stimuli, categorizing, assessing and assigning meaning to everything through self-cognitive, verbal, and linear reasoning. The left hemisphere then dishes the carefully prepared data to the non-critical, holistic, pattern-oriented right hemisphere, which accepts everything without question. Hypnosis works by putting the left side to sleep, or at least distracting it long enough to allow incoming data direct, unchallenged entry to the right hemisphere. There, stimuli can reach the sensor and motor cortices of the right brain, which corresponds to points in the body. Suggestions then can send electrical signals from the brain to certain parts of the body. Directing these signals appropriately, according to the report, can elicit reactions ranging from left leg numbness to feelings of happiness. Same goes for increased powers of concentration.

2) Wayne continues with a snapshot of transcendental meditation. He distinguishes it from hypnotism. Through concentration the subject draws energy up the spinal cord, resulting in acoustical waves that run through the cerebral ventricles, to the right hemisphere, where they stimulate the cerebral cortex, run along the homunculus and then to the body. The waves are the altered rhythm of heart sounds, which create sympathetic vibrations in the walls of the fluid-filled cavities of the brain’s ventricles. He observed that the symptoms begin in the left side of the body, confirming the right brain’s complicity. Bentov also states that the same effect might be achieved by prolonged exposure to 4 – 7 Hertz/second acoustical vibrations. He suggests standing by an air conditioning duct might also do the trick. (David Lynch and other celebrities are committed adherents to transcendental meditation today.)

3) Biofeedback, on the other hand, uses the left hemisphere to gain access to the right brain’s lower cerebral, motor, and sensory cortices. Whereas hypnosis suppresses one side of the brain, and TM bypasses that side altogether, biofeedback teaches the left hemisphere to visualize the desired result, recognize the feelings associated with right hemisphere access, and ultimately achieve the result again. With repetition, the left brain can reliably key into the right brain, and strengthen the pathways so that it can be accessed during a conscious demand mode. A digital thermometer is subsequently placed on a target part of the body. When its temperature increases, objective affirmation is recognized and the state is reinforced. Achieving biofeedback can block pain, enhance feeling, and even suppress tumors, according to the report.

Image: e2-e4 Records.

The Gateway mechanics

With that, Wayne takes a first stab at the Gateway process. He classifies it as a “training system designed to bring enhanced strength, focus and coherence to the amplitude and frequency of brainwave output between the left and right hemispheres so as to alter consciousness.”

What distinguishes the Gateway process r from hypnosis, TM, and biofeedback, is that it requires achieving a state of consciousness in which the electrical brain patterns of both hemispheres are equal in amplitude and frequency. This is called Hemi-Sync. Lamentably, and perhaps conveniently, we cannot as humans achieve this state on our own. The audio techniques developed by Bob Monroe and his Institute (which comprise a series of tapes), claim to induce and sustain Hemi-Sync.

Here, the document shifts to the usage of quotes and other reports to describe the powers of Hemi-Sync. Wayne employs the analogy of a lamp versus a laser. Left to its own devices the human mind expends energy like a lamp, in a chaotic and incoherent way, achieving lots of diffusion but relatively little depth. Under Hemi-Sync though, the mind produces a “disciplined stream of light.” So, once the frequency and amplitude of the brain are rendered coherent it can then synchronize with the rarified energy levels of the universe. With this connection intact, the brain begins to receive symbols and display astonishing flashes of holistic intuition.

The Hemi-Sync technique takes advantage of a Frequency Following Response (FFR). It works like this: an external frequency emulating a recognized one will cause the brain to mimic it. So if a subject hears a frequency at the Theta level, it will shift from its resting Beta level. To achieve these unnatural levels, Hemi-Sync puts a single frequency in the left ear and a contrasting frequency in the right. The brain then experiences the Delta frequency, also known as the beat frequency. It’s more familiarly referred to these days as binaural music. With the FFR and beat frequency phenomena firmly in place, The Gateway Process introduces a series of frequencies at marginally audible, subliminal levels. With the left brain relaxed and the body in a virtual sleep state, the conditions are ideal to promote brainwave outputs of higher and higher amplitude and frequency. Alongside subliminal suggestions from Bob Monroe (naturally), the subject can then alter their consciousness.

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The Gateway system only works when the audio, which is introduced through headphones, is accompanied by a physical quietude comparable to other forms of meditation. This increases the subject’s internal resonance to the body’s sound frequencies, for example the heart. This eliminates the “bifurcation echo”, in which the heartbeat moves up and down the body seven times a second. By placing the body in a sleep-like state, The Gateway Tapes, like meditation, lessen the force and frequency of the heartbeat pushing blood into the aorta. The result is a rhythmic sine wave that in turn amplifies the sound volume of the heart three times. This then amplifies the frequency of brainwave output. The film surrounding the brain—the dura—and fluid between that film and the skull, eventually begin to move up and down, by .0005 and .010 millimeters.

The body, based on its own micro-motions, then functions as a tuned vibrational system. The report claims that the entire body eventually transfers energy at between 6.8 and 7.5 Hertz, which matches Earth’s own energy (7 – 7.5 Hertz). The resulting wavelengths are long, about 40,000 kilometers, which also happens to be the perimeter of the planet. According to Bentov, the signal can move around the world’s electrostatic field in 1/7th of a second.

To recap, the Gateway Process goes like this:

• Induced state of calm

• Blood pressure lowers

• Circulatory system, skeleton and other organ systems begin to vibrate at 7 – 7.5 cycles per second

• Increased resonance is achieved

• The resulting sound waves matches the electrostatic field of the earth

• The body and earth and other similarly tuned minds become a single energy continuum.

We’ve gotten slightly ahead of ourselves here though. Back to the drawing board.

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A psycho-quantum level deeper

Wayne then turns to the very nature of matter and energy. More materially (or less if you will), solid matter in the strict construction of the term, he explains, doesn’t exist. The atomic structure is composed of oscillating energy grids surrounded by other oscillating energy grids at tremendous speeds. These oscillation rates vary—the nucleus of an atom vibrates at 10 to the power of 22, a molecule vibrates at 10 to the power of 9, a human cell vibrates at 10 to the power of 3. The point is that the entire universe is one complex system of energy fields. States of matter in this conception then are merely variations in the state of energy.

The result of all these moving energies, bouncing off of energy at rest, projects a 3D mode, a pattern, called a hologram, A.K.A our reality as we experience it. It's best to think of it as a 3D photograph. There's a whole rabbit hole to go down here. Suffice it to say, the hologram that is our experience is incredibly good at depicting and recording all the various energies bouncing around creating matter. So good, in fact, that we buy into it hook, line, and sinker, going so far as to call it our "life."

Consciousness then can be envisaged as a 3D grid system superimposed over all energy patterns, Wayne writes. Using mathematics, each plane of the grid system can then reduce the data to a 2D form. Our binary (go/no go) minds can then process the data and compare it to other historical data saved in our memory. Our reality is then formed by comparisons. The right hemisphere of the brain acts as the primary matrix or receptor for this holographic input. The left hemisphere then compares it to other data, reducing it to its 2D form.

In keeping with our species' commitment to exceptionalism, as far as we know humans are uniquely capable of achieving this level of consciousness. Simply, humans not only know, but we know that we know. This bestows upon us the ability to duplicate aspects of our own hologram, project them out, perceive that projection, run it through a comparison with our own memory of the hologram, measure the differences using 3D geometry, then run it through our binary system to yield verbal cognition of the self.

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The click-out phase

Wayne then shows his cards as a true punisher, issuing, "Up to this point our discussion of the Gateway process has been relatively simple and easy to follow. Now the fun begins." Shots fired, Wayne. What he's preparing the commander reading this heady report for is the reveal—how we can use the Gateway to transcend the dimension of spacetime.

Time is a measurement of energy or force in motion; it is a measurement of change. This is really important. For energy to be classified as in motion, it must be confined within a vibratory pattern that can contain its motion, keeping it still. Energy not contained like this is boundary-less, and moves without limit or dimension, to infinity. This disqualifies boundary-less energy from the dimension of time because it has no rate of change. Energy in infinity, also called "the absolute state," is completely at rest because nothing is accelerating or decelerating it—again, no change. It therefore does not contribute to our hologram, our physical experience. We cannot perceive it.

Now back to frequencies. Wave oscillation occurs because a wave is bouncing between two rigid points of rest. It's like a game of electromagnetic hot potato (the potato being the wave and the participants' hands being the boundaries of the wave). Without these limits, there would be no oscillation. When a wave hits one of those points of rest, just for a very brief instant, it "clicks out" of spacetime and joins infinity. For this to occur, the speed of the oscillation has to drop below 10 the power of -33 centimeters per second. For a moment, the wave enters into a new world. The potato simply disappears into a dimension we cannot perceive.

Theoretically speaking, if the human consciousness wave pattern reaches a high enough frequency, the “click-outs” can reach continuity. Put another way, if the frequency of human consciousness can dip below 10 to the power of 33 centimeters per second but above a state of total rest, it can transcend spacetime. The Gateway experience and associated Hemi-Sync technique is designed for humans to achieve this state and establish a coherent pattern of perception in the newly realized dimensions.

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Passport to the hologram

In theory, we can achieve the above at any time. The entire process though is helped along if we can separate the consciousness from our body. It’s like an existential running head start where the click-out of a consciousness already separated from its body starts much closer to, and has more time to dialogue with, other dimensions.

This is where things get a little slippery; hold on as best you can. The universe is in on the whole hologram thing, too, Wayne writes. This super hologram is called a "torus" because it takes the shape of a fuck-off massive self-contained spiral. Like this:

Give yourself a moment to let the above motion sink in…

This pattern of the universe conspicuously mirrors the patterns of electrons around the nucleus of an atom. Galaxies north of our own are moving away from us faster than the galaxies to the south; galaxies to the east and west of us are more distant. The energy that produced the matter that makes up the universe we presently enjoy, will turn back in on itself eventually. Its trajectory is ovoid, also known as the cosmic egg. As it curls back on itself it enters a black hole, goes through a densely packed energy nucleus then gets spat out the other side of a white hole and begins the process again. Springtime in the cosmos, baby!

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The entire universe hologram—the torus—represents all the phases of time: the past, present, and future. The takeaway is that human consciousness brought to a sufficiently altered (focused) state could obtain information about the past, present, and future, since they all live in the universal hologram simultaneously. Wayne reasons that our all-reaching consciousness eventually participates in an all-knowing infinite continuum. Long after we depart the space-time dimension and the hologram each one of us perceives is snuffed out, our consciousness continues. Reassuring in a way.

And that is the context in which the Gateway Experience sits.

[Deep breaths.]

THE TECHNIQUE

The following is an outline of the key steps to reach focus levels necessary to defy the spacetime dimension. This is an involved and lengthy process best attempted in controlled settings. If you’re in a rush, you can apparently listen to enough Monroe Institute Gateway Tapes in 7 days to get there.

The Energy Conversion Box: The Gateway Process begins by teaching the subject to isolate any extraneous concerns using a visualization process called “the energy conversion box.”

Resonant Humming: The individual is introduced to resonant humming. Through the utterance of a protracted single tone, alongside a chorus on the tapes, the mind and body achieve a state of resonance.

The Gateway Affirmation: The participant is exposed to something close to a mantra called The Gateway Affirmation . They must repeat to themselves variations of, “I am merely a physical body and deeply desire to expand my consciousness.”

Hemi-Sync: The individual is finally exposed to the Hemi-Sync sound frequencies, and encouraged to develop a relationship with the feelings that emerge.

Additional Noise: Physical relaxation techniques are practiced while the Hemi-Sync frequencies are expanded to include “pink and white” noise. This puts the body in a state of virtual sleep, while calming the left hemisphere and raising the attentiveness of the right hemisphere.

The Energy Balloon: The individual is then encouraged to visualize the creation of an “energy balloon” beginning at the top of the head, extending down in all directions to the feet then back up again. There are a few reasons for this, the main one being that this balloon will provide protection against conscious entities possessing lower energy levels that he or she may encounter when in the out-of-body state.

Focus 12: The practitioner can consistently achieve sufficient expanded awareness to begin interacting with dimensions beyond their physical reality. To achieve this state requires conscious efforts and more “pink and white noise” from the sound stream.

Tools: Once Focus 12 is achieved, the subject can then employ a series of tools to obtain feedback from alternative dimensions.

Problem Solving: The individual identifies fundamental problems, fills their expanded awareness with them, and then projects them out into the universe. These can include personal difficulties, as well as technical or practical problems.

Patterning: Consciousness is used to achieve desired objectives in the physical, emotional, or intellectual sphere.

Color Breathing: A healing technique that revitalizes the body’s energy flows by imagining colors in a particularly vivid manner.

Energy Bar Tool: This technique involves imagining a small intensely pulsating dot of light that the participant charges up. He or she then uses the sparkling, vibrating cylinder of energy (formerly known as the dot) to channel forces from the universe to heal and revitalize the body.

Remote Viewing: A follow-on technique of the Energy Bar Tool where the dot is turned into a whirling vortex through which the individual sends their imagination in search of illuminating insights.

Living Body Map: A more organized use of the energy bar in which streams of different colors flow from the dot on to correspondingly-colored bodily systems.

Seven days of training have now occurred. Approximately 5 percent of participants get to this next level, according to the report.

Focus 15 – Travel Into the Past: Additional sound on the Hemi-Sync tapes includes more of the same, plus some subliminal suggestions to further expand the consciousness. The instructions are highly symbolic: time is a huge wheel, in which different spokes give access to the participant’s past.

Focus 21 – The Future: This is the last and most advanced state. Like Focus 15, this is a movement out of spacetime into the future.

Out-of-Body Movement: Only one tape of the many is devoted to out-of-body movement. This tape is devoted to facilitating out-of-body state when the participant’s brain wave patterns and energy levels reach harmony with the surrounding electromagnetic environment. According to Bob Monroe, the participant has to be exposed to Beta signals of around 2877.3 cycles per second.

CONCLUSIONS

Wayne expresses concern about the fidelity of information brought back from out-of-body states using the Gateway technique. Practical applications are of particular concern because of the potential for “information distortion.”

The Monroe Institute also ran into a bunch of issues in which they had individuals travel from the West to the East Coast of the U.S. to read a series of numbers off of a computer screen. They never got them exactly right. Wayne chalks this up to the trouble of differentiating between physical entities and extra-time-space dimensions when in the out-of-body state.

Wayne swings back to support mode though, lending credence to the physics foundation of the report. He cites multiple belief systems that have established identical findings. These include the Tibetan Shoug, the Hindu heaven of Indra, the Hebrew mystical philosophy, and the Christian concept of the Trinity. Here he seems more interested in hammering home the theoretical underpinnings that make The Gateway Experience possible, rather than the practical possibilities promised by The Gateway Tapes.

Possibly with his CIA top brass audience in mind, Wayne then gives an A-type nod to The Gateway Experience for providing a faster, more efficient, less subservient, energy-saving route to expanded consciousness. This finishes with a series of recommendations to the CIA for how to exploit Gateway’s potential for national defense purposes.

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The missing page

One curious feature of The Gateway Report is that it seems to be missing page 25. It’s a real cliffhanger too. The bottom of page 24 reads “And, the eternal thought or concept of self which results from this self-consciousness serves the,” The report picks back up on page 26 and 3 sections later as if Wayne hadn’t just revealed the very secret of existence.

The gap has not gone unnoticed. There's a Change.org petition requesting its release. Multiple Freedom of Information Act requests have demanded the same. In all cases, the CIA has said they never had the page to begin with. Here’s a 2019 response from Mark Lilly, the CIA’s Information and Privacy Coordinator, to one Bailey Stoner regarding these records:

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One theory goes that that rascal Wayne M.-fricking-McDonnell left the page out on purpose. The theory contends that it was a litmus test—if anyone truly defies time-space dimensions, they’ll certainly be able to locate page 25.

[Cosmic shrug.]

Thobey Campion is the former Publisher of Motherboard. You can subscribe to his Substack here.

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The Tendrils of the Sweet Pea

The tendrils of sweet peas wrap around my heart and mind. Today, my first sweet peas bloomed. Here are some incidental reflections on sweet peas.

There are few pleasures like really burrowing one’s nose into sweet peas. —Angela Thurkell

The painting is by the Belgian Painter and Botanist, Pierre-Joseph Redouté, (1759-1840) who was nicknamed the “Raphael of flowers”.

Here are sweet peas, on tip-toe for a flight: With wings of gentle flush o’er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings. —John Keats, in I Stood Tiptoe on A Hill, 1817

The scientific name of sweet pea flower is Lathyrus odoratus. Sweet peas are associated with the ideas of departures and goodbyes, as well as those of blissful pleasure. The flower can also be used to say thank you. The sweet pea is the official birth flower of April.

As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint. —Joan Aiken

The bi-color sweet peas in the thumbnail are available as ‘Point Loma Pops’ at San Diego Seed Company. Floret offers 65 varieties of sweet pea seeds, all of which are sold out at this time. How to Grow Sweet Peas on the Floret site offers excellent advice.

Many years ago these words might have approximated my life.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy. —Blythe Danner

Credits: Blogpost title and sweet pea painting from silkannthreades.

#sweet peas #sweet pea tendrils #San Diego Seed Company #Pierre-Joseph Rodoute #Blythe Danner #Joan Aiken #Angela Thurkell #John Keats

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Election 2020 Presidential Candidates Assessment

Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker, Green: Listed in the campaign are some nodes of action to take. Nothing super comprehensive but to sum up what is listed, there is talk about ending fossil fuels, reaching zero carbon emissions, reaching 100% clean energy and ending nukes. There are some other pragmatic daily living thing’s such as a electric rail system as transportation in cites, and civilian corps protecting habitation and animal. I’m totally ok with this position, I think comprehensive action is needed and this doesn’t dis-include that. This is similar to the party platform as it is also broad, lack’s specific’s but seems adamant on climate change, but also climate justice.

Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence, Republican: Main action’s in addressing climate change have been rescinding Obama Plan’s thought to be costly by the president. The campaign believes the free market will solve climate change issues independent of the Federal Government: no government action is favorable because don’t want to impede remarket. Expanded oil and gas industry. Enacted The Affordable Clean Energy which encourages energy independence in states and is listed to lower, and added funding to EPA super fund cleanup which cleans up oil spills and other environmental hazards. I don’t see any addressment of climate change just some environmental policies listed. I don’t agree with a government that doesn’t involve itself in ensuring climate change is combatted, by stimulating certain changes in industry and energy. Both this and the GOP platform are withdrawn and don’t recognize climate change, or any urgency towards the climate, so I believe they are similar.

Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman, Peace and Freedom: Capitalism and profit motives inherently enable climate change, as large corporations have too much power and incentive to continue pollution in favor of making money. Campaign believes in a socialist system, so the means of polluters would be controlled by government. The party platform is almost identical to the campaign platform. I think understanding how socialist they would make the country is important to know, and I would have to probably inquire pretty deeply into the question. I will say that I do believe capitalism does promote profit motive, which becomes immoral greed and I think that does enable disgustingly irresponsible things like climate change to happen. I also believe that a very socialist government gives government too much power, but I think socialism can be effective and would be and many instances. So, do I agree? It depends.

Roque De La Fuente "Rocky" Guerra/Kanye Omari West, American Independent: Addresses climate change as an existential and intends to transfer to 100% clean and renewable energy and protect our natural resources. Wants to guarantee rights to clean air and water. I never looked the American Independent parties platform, but I am relieved they do have a plan for climate change and take it seriously. Listing Kanye West as the VP, made me unsure of what their position would be. I agree with the plan, I think that it doesn’t do much more then the moral minimum but it wants to take action.

Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy "Spike" Cohen, Libertarian: An approach that mostly entrusts the free market to carry the burden of climate change. There was some content on making sure big oil business’ aren’t being paid out and that we transition to nuclear energy as it’s more efficient. Also mention’s most pollution is from developing nation’s not the USA. This is a right wing approach that actually addresses the issue unlike the republican's platform. I disagree with the platform because I think in our system it is is necessary for the government to facilitate this change. But this is the most rational right-wing, withdrawn approach I’ve seen with enough details that I think it is valid and legitimate. I think the party platform didn’t address or ponder climate change to this extent. I’m surprised as the Libertarian's party is referred to as the more right branch, but out does the republican's platform by so much in this politically progressive issue.

Joseph R. Biden/Kamala D. Harris, Democratic: The platform calls for a climate revolution. It calls the green new deal, an ambitious plan originally put together by the green party crucial framework towards his response. The response includes reaching 100% clean and renewable energy, as well as guaranteeing new good paying jobs in this process. The Biden Kamala platform is by the far the most detailed plan with pages of writing and plenty of substance. I was taken aback by the amount of detail and it certainly makes me more confident of a Biden presidency and the climate initiatives. It follows a lot of the same guidelines and logic as the party platform but elaborates and builds off it a lot, something most campaigns didn’t do.

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Election 2020 Presidential Candidates Assessment

Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker, Green Party:

Howie Hawkins and Angela Walker are socialists who believes in independent political action, self-organization, and that a society of freedom, equality, peace, and many other things can be built with solidarity of the working class and oppressed people for full political and economic democracy. This party plans to make viable actions on covid-19 which many may think are rash. Other than covid-19, their policies are similar to as they always have been. In my opinion, I believe the green party may have good policies, but I do not trust them because my life will be changed drastically.

Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence, Republican:

Donald Trump and Mike Pence are republicans who have secured their spot on the ballot via the primary election and subsequent party nomination. On covid-19, Donald Trump lets his administration handle problems and does not let it get in the way of his campaign. His rallying cry of “build the wall” still echoed in his re-election campaign after covid-19 hit the white house. Although there has been no construction of a wall on the southern border, an immigration crackdown has remained one of the policy issues that enlivens his base. Trump has also made eliminating federal regulations a priority, with a focus on dismantling Obama-era environmental regulations. So far, he has not achieved his top legislative priority when he came into office: repealing the Affordable Care Act. But he has pleased Republicans, in particular, with his commitment to appointing conservative judges to the federal bench at a record-setting pace. Many of my beliefs align with Donald Trump and I somewhat believe in the republican party despite the kind of person that is, Donald Trump.

Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman, Peace and Freedom:

Gloria La Riva and Sunil Freeman want to implement the essentials of life into constitutional rights, replace the capitalist system with a socialist system. The party also wants to end racism, police brutality and mass incarceration-Pay reparations to the African American community, give full rights for all immigrants, shut down all U.S. military bases around the world—bring all the troops, planes & ships home, and honor Native treaties. They also want full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer people, and equality for women and free, safe, legal abortion on demand. In a sense, these ideas are good, but I believe they are too good to be true. I believe this party is one of the more supported third-parties this year, but I will not be supporting them.

Roque De La Fuente "Rocky" Guerra/Kanye Omari West, American Independent:

Roque De La Fuente Guerra and Kanye West have strong ideals on the economy, immigration, military, education and the environment. They believe they must tax individuals and corporations equitably and aggressively eliminate tax preferences, remove barriers to access to quality public education, develop a choice-driven public-school system, transform to a low-carbon economy by investing in 100 percent clean and renewable energy, and put a generation to work with the creation of 10 million new public and private industry jobs over the next 10 years. These policies may align with many people and many other people will disagree. I believe this party helps the working class the most, and citizens in rural areas.

Joseph R. Biden/Kamala D. Harris, Democratic:

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are Democrats who have secured their spot on the ballot via the primary election and subsequent party nomination. As the US faces challenges from coronavirus to racial inequity, he wants to create new economic opportunities for workers, restore environmental protections and healthcare rights, and international alliances. Joe Biden wants free testing for the corona virus, raise minimum wage and invest in green energy, instill universal pre-school and expand free college, advance criminal justice reform, rejoin global climate accord, restore America's reputation, expand Obamacare, and undo Trump's immigration policies. Joe Biden’s policies are practical, but underwhelming. When it comes to Joe Biden and Donald Trump, I cant believe I have to make a sure choice between the two because both of them have many, many flaws.

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ELECTION 2020 PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ASSESSMENT

Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker, (Green): While I couldn't find their exact stance on Climate change, I did find solutions to battle Climate change in "The green new deal," a 15-page framework that describes having 100% Clean Energy by 2030, banning Fracking and New Fossil Fuel Infrastructure, and other reusable energy solutions. I agree with all of "The green new deal," specifically the Green parties version of "The green new deal," which is more detailed and thought out than the one A.O.C pushed. Hers included eliminating cows since they produce Co2 from their bodily gases and the elimination of airplanes. And those demands aren't wrong; they seem too far out of our reach, and maybe a bit of an overstatement to what we need. However, Howie and Angela most definitely support the party like the Green Parties' sole purpose is to defeat climate change and have a clean and peaceful planet, which they establish in their policies.

Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence, (Republican): Donald Trump's environmental stance is an interesting one, as most of his "plans" to help the environment are his accomplishments and his proposal to do the same thing he's been doing for the past four years. This includes more shore drilling, as they've seen the most oil in the Gulf of Mexico than in the past 78 years. This came from the tearing down of Obama's regulations that stopped these drilling sites from even happening in the first place. Including areas that are already susceptible to have large oil spills that endanger wildlife. Trump does have a plan to expand American Energy, which includes 42,000 jobs to pipeline companies, to help the drill sites he made. I'm afraid I have to disagree with this stance because it completely bites the idea of having an "environmental plan" by trampling with backward nonsense. However, it aligns with the Republican Party as they don't like the idea of having a progressive thinking party. This would prove that they are just a weaker Democratic party that follows up on what the Liberals do. The image of that future haunts republicans as they would never want to be associated with democratic ideas. So they choose the complete opposite of what they do to rally the supporter to think mindlessly about their decisions.

Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman, (Peace and Freedom): The Ten point Program is a set of guidelines that Gloria and Sunil promise to stand up by if elected into office. These guidelines all stem from different problems, but all come from the issue of Capitalism. The core of the issues they describe comes from a capitalistic society, and when it comes to Climate Change, it is no different. They say Capitalism profits off the production and distribution of products, and with that comes the demand for new resources and with new resources require more necessities. As they establish, a socialist society would answer the problem we didn't know we had. With their plan tackling Capitalism, it is meant to trickle down and tackle other issues, basically solving themselves in their way. I don't entirely agree with their view, but for the most part, I do. I think the production of oil and necessities through Capitalism can destroy us as we know it. However, their ideas trickling down to other problems come off as lazy and don't show the full effort to tackle. This is the next human extinction we are describing here. I wouldn't rely on a system that's only used in economic and other less pressure-filled situations to tackle global warming. This is also shown through their party's stance, as their party is influenced by the ideas of Socialism and Global warming as they take that head-on. However, at the party, they never mention the blending of those two ideas to solve the problems they're meant to solve. This is likely to confuse people as they might not think the candidate and party are entirely on the same page.

Roque De La Fuente "Rocky" Guerra/Kanye Omari West, (American Independent): Roque has a quite intriguing environmental stance as he comes from a very democratic display that shows the resemblance of Joe Bidens. He wants to have 100% renewable clean energy, protect our natural resources, and put a generation to work with new jobs that help tackle the existential threat of climate change. I agree with his stance as it most nearly resembles the democratic view of the smallest details. However, this idea clashes with the Independent party the most out of the three just mentioned parties. They want to try and go off natural gas and focus on taxing internationally. Simultaneously, trying to keep the idea that climate change is their “real problem” while they are just using it to try and solve other problems like the national debt and market costs. Which are real problems, but when you’re mentioning ideas on how to help climate change, don’t try to kill two birds or more with one stone; it won’t work.

Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy "Spike'' Cohen, (Libertarian): Jo Jorgensen's stance on environmental issues is a bold one. She's not a politician that's going to side with one party's decisions; she understands the repercussions and downside to each solution presented. For example, she opposes "The green new deal," saying it would cost nearly 100 trillion dollars and cripple our workers and consumers. While also saying that giving 15 billion to oil and coal companies is nothing but corporate welfare. After understanding her policies, what is she willing to do to be the middleman and give people the right solution. It's simple in her eyes, "nuclear" is the future of reducing the carbon footprint. Saying it outmatches the efficiency and makes the cost look like the clear winner of a climate problem. Now I am no genius, let's make that clear. However, Jo's stance might be flawed. The U.S has 96 Nuclear power plants in use, most of them on the south and east coasts. Now let's say that we can stretch out nuclear power plants to the mid and west, buying past laws or changing them. The number of power plants you would need to compete and overtake other energy sources would be absurd, and the amount of time to even make one would be too much. Jo would be two months into her 3rd year as president before the first nuclear plant would even be built now, as I don't agree with Jo's stance being that I understand how history just so conveniently repeats itself, even in the modern era (Chernobyl, Fukushima, and Dauphin County). I would be willing to say that putting tons of power plants near each other or just an abundance of them spread through the U.S. would be a lousy stance to have. I'm pretty sure the party would agree with that too, as in the various party stances I've seen, none mention the ideas of making nuclear the primary source of energy. They mostly say taxes and suing polluters, which are good ideas but not what Jo had suggested to the people.

Joseph R. Biden/Kamala D. Harris, (Democratic): As I mentioned previously in Roque's stance, I said that he most nearly resembled Joe Biden's plan. This included adding jobs to climate-related areas to help influence the amount of work and job opportunities presented. However, after reading more into Joe Biden's plan, I was pleasantly surprised to find even more than what I expected. Biden has not only shown what he plans to do but the foundations he is willing to lay to make it happen. Like creating a task force to decrease climate risk to children, establish an office for climate change and health equity, and select interagency teams to address targeted issues and partner directly with communities. This is very important, especially when it comes to having a start and end to a problem, which makes me agree with this stance. Biden is creating a foundation to ensure that if he doesn't entirely succeed in his first or second term as president, that work will still be going on past his time in office, which is precisely what Obama did with health care and the auto industry and attempted to do with Climate change. He's taking on the steps that his party most desperately wants to take advantage of by adding more to this plan. Many democrats wish for a green new deal or a form of help that has ideas from the green new contract to be put in place. And with Biden's stance/plan, it cast a broad net that tents all of these people and ensures tranquility and peace for the years to come.

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Blog Post #4

Howie Hawkins/Angela Nicole Walker, Green Party

Hawkins and Walker run a campaign strong against climate change and achieving zero net energy, and waist as soon as possible, which means less fossil fuel and mining. I agree with their position about achieving zero waist and net energy but i believe that there is no smart way we can move this country forward and fund the things we need to and reach those goals by 2030. the parties candidates run true to the party platform which is strong on combating climate change at all costs and less worried about anything else.

Donald J. Trump/Michael R. Pence, Republican Party

loves oil, coal and fossil fuels, expanding oil production in the USA, he has gotten rid of many of obamas climate change policies and left the Paris climate agreement. this is very similar to the party platform which is huge on oil and the effect it has on the economy rather then preventing climate change. climate change is both low on the republicans and Donald Trumps agenda. I disagree with this because I believe that there are so many other sources of clean energy that are better than fossil fuel that we can gradually begin to lean on. while still maintaining a strong economy and creating jobs

Gloria La Riva/Sunil Freeman, Peace and Freedom Party

Get rid of capitalism in the US and create a socialist economy in order to combat climate change. capitalism leads to the unethical energy practices for more profit. They want to get rid of big oil coal and fossil fuel companies. I do not agree with this because I think the repercussions of it are too great, I do not believe we can just switch to a socialist economy and keep our strong economy and be a leader in the world. I like how they are trying to limit coal oil and fossil fuel to reduce carbon emissions but i don’t believe this is the right way to do it. This agrees with their party platform which is big on socialism in order to solve all of our problems.

Roque De La Fuente "Rocky" Guerra/Kanye Omari West, American Independent Party

They believe every decision they make they have to think about the effects of climate change with that decision in order to make the right decision. They want to create a low carbon, green economy, protect water air and natural resources, and promote urbanization. I agree with this because climate change is such a big problem today that every decision should have climate change in mind, and building the economy but in a clean energy was is the right path.

Jo Jorgensen/Jeremy "Spike" Cohen, Libertarian Party

keep in mind the scientific and economical aspects of their decisions, mainly the economic side though. although climate change is an issue they believe in they put the economy first and want to discus with both scientists, entrepreneurs and investors before they make decisions. big on nuclear energy. this is a more right wing approach to climate change to the libertarian party climate change should only be acted upon if it helps the economy which i disagree with i think we need to maintain a strong economy but there needs to be things done soon in order to prevent irreversible changes. This agrees with there party platform because it wasn’t very important to them.

Joseph R. Biden/Kamala D. Harris, Democratic Party

Big on building a clean energy economy. They want to promote urbanization and public transit to combat carbon emissions. but in this economy they want to create equality and get rid of environmental racism. I agree with this platform the most because they have a plan to both promote the economy and keep the US on top of the world but also combat a problem that effects us all. this goes almost exactly with their party platform.

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books I read in 2019 (not including rereads, favorites are bolded!)

Come Close - Sappho

Shanghai Baby - Wei Hui

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair - Pablo Neruda

Bad Feminist: Essays - Roxane Gay

The Mother of Black Hollywood: A Memoir - Jenifer Lewis

Sula - Toni Morrison

Reinventing the Enemy’s Language: Contemporary Native Women’s Writings of North America - ed. Joy Harjo and Gloria Bird

How to Write an Autobiographical Novel - Alexander Chee

Night Sky With Exit Wounds - Ocean Vuong

If They Come For Us - Fatimah Asghar

Heart Berries: A Memoir - Terese Marie Mailhot

Less - Andrew Sean Greer

The Astonishing Color of After - Emily X.R. Pan

Goodbye, Vitamin - Rachel Khong

Darius the Great is Not Okay - Adib Khorram

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Homegirls and Handgrenades - Sonia Sanchez

Heavy: An American Memoir - Keise Laymon

All You Can Ever Know - Nicole Chung

Unaccustomed Earth - Jhumpa Lahiri

The Wife Between Us - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Way You Make Me Feel - Maureen Goo

A Very Large Expanse of Sea - Tahereh Mafi

Water By the Spoonful - Quiara Alegría Hudes

I Can’t Date Jesus: Love, Sex, Family, Race, and Other Reasons I’ve Put My Faith in Beyoncé - Michael Arceneaux

Bury It - Sam Sax

White Dancing Elephants - Chaya Bhuvaneswar

Pulp - Robin Talley

Shit is Real - Aisha Franz

Silencer - Marcus Wicker

Forget Sorrow: An Ancestral Tale - Belle Yang

Bestiary: Poems - Donika Kelly

Monster Portraits - Sofia Samatar

No Matter the Wreckage - Sarah Kay

Violet Energy Ingots - Hoa Nguyen

Olio - Tyehimba Jess

The Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow - Rick Riordan

There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé - Morgan Parker

Nylon Road: A Graphic Memoir of Coming of Age in Iran - Parsua Bashi

The Wedding Date - Jasmine Guillory

Fruit of the Drunken Tree - Ingrid Rojas Contreras

An American Marriage - Tayari Jones

Family Trust - Kathy Wang

Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - ed. Roxane Gay

Little & Lion - Brandy Colbert

A Girl Like That - Tanaz Bhathena

Suicide Club: A Novel About Living - Rachel Heng

The Disturbed Girl’s Dictionary - NoNieqa Ramos

My Old Faithful: Stories - Yang Huang

Crazy Rich Asians - Kevin Kwan

Girls Burn Brighter - Shobha Rao

Moon of the Crusted Snow - Waubgeshig Rice

Kingdom Animalia - Aracelis Girmay

Happiness - Aminatta Forna

Devotions - Mary Oliver

The Proposal - Jasmine Guillory

The Kiss Quotient - Helen Hoang

When Katie Met Cassidy - Camille Perri

Heads of the Colored People - Nafissa Thompson-Spires

Friday Black: Stories - Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah

The Word is Murder - Anthony Horowitz

Miles from Nowhere - Nami Mun

The Lost Ones - Sheena Kamal

All the Names They Used for God - Anjali Sachdeva

Confessions of the Fox - Jordy Rosenberg

Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir - Padma Lakshmi

On the Come Up - Angie Thomas

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society - Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows

The Love & Lies of Rukhsana Ali - Sabina Khan

See What I Have Done - Sarah Schmitt

Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata

I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter - Erika Sánchez

For Today I Am A Boy - Kim Fu

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid

Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings - Joy Harjo

They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us - Hanif Abdurraqib

Mongrels - Stephen Graham Jones

If Beale Street Could Talk - James Baldwin

Death of Innocence: The Story of the Hate Crime that Changed America - Mamie Till-Mobley and Christopher Benson

The Gilded Wolves - Roshani Chokshi

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before - Jenny Han

The Perfect Nanny - Leila Slimani, translated by Sam Taylor

The Travelling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa, translated by Philip Gabriel

Things We Lost in the Fire - Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell

Sunburn - Laura Lippman

The House of Impossible Beauties - Joseph Cassara

Freshwater - Akwaeke Emezi

A Private Life - Chen Ran, translated by John Howard-Gibbon

Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster - Stephen L. Carter

Undead Girl Gang - Lily Anderson

They Both Die at the End - Adam Silvera

The Friend - Sigrid Nunez

Severance - Ling Ma

Tiny Crimes: Very Short Tales of Mystery & Murder - ed. Licoln Michel and Nadxieli Nieto

Mapping the Interior - Stephen Graham Jones

Give Me Some Truth - Eric Gansworth

How to Love a Jamaican - Alexia Arthurs

All of This is True - Lygia Day Peñaflor

Swimmer Among the Stars - Kanishk Tharoor

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 7: Mothering Invention - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

This is Kind of an Epic Love Story - Kheryn Callender

Gingerbread - Helen Oyeyemi

Where the Dead Sit Talking - Brandon Hobson

The Ensemble - Aja Gabel

My Education - Susan Choi

More Happy than Not - Adam Silvera

Nobody Cares: Essays - Anne T. Donahue

Kiss and Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 - Marinaomi

Oculus: Poems - Sally Wen Mao

Let’s Talk About Love - Claire Kann

History is All You Left Me - Adam Silvera

Opposite of Always - Justin A. Reynolds

The Crown Ain’t Worth Much - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Weight of Our Sky - Hanna Alkaf

If You See Me, Don’t Say Hi - Neel Patel

Girls of Paper and Fire - Natasha Ngan

What if It’s Us - Becky Albertalli and Adam Silvera

The Map of Salt and Stars - Jennifer Zeynab Joukhadar

October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard - Lesléa Newman

The Big Smoke - Adrian Matejka

Dissolve - Sherwin Bitsui

The Woman Next Door - Yewande Omotoso

The Refugees - Viet Thanh Nguyen

White Tears - Hari Kunzru

Electric Arches - Eve Ewing

The Black Maria - Aracelis Girmay

Bloodchild and Other Stories - Octavia Butler

Soft Science - Franny Choi

The White Card - Claudia Rankine

Mad Honey Symposium - Sally Wen Mao

The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls - Anissa Gray

Next: New Poems - Lucille Clifton

The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance: Poems 1987-1992 - Audre Lorde

Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Arab of the Future - Riad Sattouf

Ghosts in the Schoolyard: Racism and School Closings on Chicago’s South Side - Eve L. Ewing

Gruel - Bunkong Tuon

Marriage of a Thousand Lies - SJ Sindu

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

Good Night, Willie Lee, I’ll See You in the Morning - Alice Walker

That Kind of Mother - Rumaan Alam

Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows - Balli Kaur Jaswal

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Queenie - Candice Carty-Williams

And Still I Rise - Maya Angelou

The Man Who Shot Out My Eye Is Dead - Chanelle Benz

Everyone Knows You Go Home - Natalia Sylvester

Naming Our Destiny: New and Selected Poems - June Jordan

The 100* Best African American Poems (*But I Cheated) - ed. Nikki Giovanni

The Haunting of Tram Car 015 - P. Djèl�� Clark

Bury My Clothes - Roger Bonair-Agard

Selected Poems - Langston Hughes

Their Eyes Were Watching God - Zora Neale Hurston

Sonata Mulattica - Rita Dove

Winnie - Gwendolyn Brooks

Bicycles: Love Poems - Nikki Giovanni

The Black God’s Drums - P. Djèlí Clark

Kid Gloves: Nine Months of Careful Chaos - Lucy Knisley

Annie Allen - Gwendolyn Brooks

Parable of the Talents - Octavia Butler

After Disasters - Viet Dinh

Passing for Human: A Graphic Memoir - Liana Finck

Teeth - Aracelis Girmay

A Surprised Queenhood in the New Black Sun: The Life & Legacy of Gwendolyn Brooks - Angela Jackson

Peluda - Melissa Lozada-Oliva

A Map to the Next World - Joy Harjo

Magical Negro - Morgan Parker

Corpse Whale - dg nanouk okpik

Hawkeye: Volume 1 - Matt Fraction

Cenzontle - Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric - Claudia Rankine

Selected Poems - Gwendolyn Brooks

She Had Some Horses - Joy Harjo

The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hope - ed. Kevin Coval, Quraysh Ali Lansana, and Nate Marshall

Beyond Uhura: Star Trek and Other Memories - Nichelle Nichols

The Past and Other Things that Should Stay Buried - Shaun David Hutchinson

Difficult Women - Roxane Gay

The Woman Who Fell From the Sky - Joy Harjo

The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays - Esmé Weijun Wang

Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest - Hanif Abdurraqib

The Frolic of the Beasts - Yukio Mishima

Hawkeye Omnibus - Matt Fraction

Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations - Mira Jacob

Karamo: My Story of Embracing Purpose, Healing, and Hope - Karamo Brown

Tipping the Velvet - Sarah Waters

When My Brother Was an Aztec - Natalie Diaz

Toxic Flora: Poems - Kimiko Hahn

Virgin - Analicia Sotelo

Easy Prey - Catherine Lo

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me - Mariko Tamaki and Rosemary Valero-O’Connell

Saints and Misfits - S.K. Ali

Intercepted - Alexa Martin

Love from A to Z - S.K. Ali

Gemini - Sonya Mukherjee

The Atlas of Reds and Blues - Devi S. Laskar

My Brother’s Husband Vol. II - Gengoroh Tagame

Black Queer Hoe - Britteney Black Rose Kapri

Internment - Samira Ahmed

Dothead: Poems - Amit Majmudar

With the Fire On High - Elizabeth Acevedo

Sabrina & Corina: Stories - Kali Fajardo-Anstine

Milk and Filth - Carmen Giménez Smith

The Key to Happily Ever After - Tif Marcelo

If You’re Out There - Katy Loutzenhiser

Farewell to Manzanar - Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

New Poets of Native Nations - ed. Heid E. Erdrich

Bodymap: Poems - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Wolf by Wolf - Ryan Graudin

Tell Me How It Ends - Valeria Luiselli

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood - Trevor Noah

Down and Across - Arvin Ahmadi

The Tradition - Jericho Brown

About Betty’s Boob - Vero Cazot and Julie Rocheleau

Fake It Till You Break It - Jenn P. Nguyen

Storm of Locusts - Rebecca Roanhorse

Silver Sparrow - Tayari Jones

Pride, Prejudice, and Other Flavors - Sonali Dev

Mongrel: Essays, Diatribes, Pranks - Justin Chin

When I Grow Up I Want To Be a List of Further Possibilities - Chen Chen

The New Testament - Jericho Brown

Fumbled - Alexa Martin

If It Makes You Happy - Claire Kann

Brave Face - Shaun David Hutchinson

Words in Deep Blue - Cath Crowley

Lost Children Archive - Valeria Luiselli

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Anger is a Gift - Mark Oshiro

The Bride Test - Helen Hoang

Not Your Backup - C.B. Lee

Prelude to Bruise - Saeed Jones

The Night Wanderer: A Graphic Novel - Drew Hayden Taylor and Michael Wyatt

Naturally Tan - Tan France

Bloom - Kevin Panetta and Savanna Ganucheau

Like a Love Story - Abdi Nazemian

I’m Afraid of Men - Vivek Shraya

Juliet Takes a Breath - Gabby Rivera

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous - Ocean Vuong

Let Me Hear a Rhyme - Tiffany D. Jackson

I Wanna Be Where You Are - Kristina Forest

Hurricane Season - Nicole Melleby

Split Tooth - Tanya Tagaq

Hungry Hearts: 13 Tales of Love and Food - ed. Elsie Chapman and Caroline Tung Richmond

The Night Tiger - Yangsze Choo

Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls - T Kira Madden

Miracle Creek - Angie Kim

Ayesha at Last - Uzma Jalaluddin

Shout - Laurie Halse Anderson

The Breakbeat Poets Vol. 3: Halal if You Hear Me - ed. Fatimah Asghar and Safia Elhillo

The Tenth Muse - Catherine Chung

This Place: 150 Years Retold - various authors

Kings, Queens, and In-Betweens - Tanya Boteju

Midnight Chicken (& Other Recipes Worth Living For) - Ella Risbridger

Library of Small Catastrophes - Alison C. Rollins

Natalie Tan’s Book of Luck and Fortune - Roselle Lim

No Ashes in the Fire: Coming of Age Black and Free in America - Darnell L. Moore

The Book of Delights - Ross Gay

The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton

Speak No Evil - Uzodinma Iweala

How We Fight White Supremacy - Akiba Solomon and Kenrya Rankin

A Love Story Starring My Dead Best Friend - Emily Horner

Here and Now and Then - Mike Chen

The Ghost Bride - Yangsze Choo

Red White and Royal Blue - Casey McQuiston

Becoming - Michelle Obama

The Wedding Party - Jasmine Guillory

Magic for Liars - Sarah Gailey

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer - Michelle McNamara

Brain Fever - Kimiko Hahn

Life on Mars - Tracy K. Smith

Notebooks of a Chile Verde Smuggler - Juan Felipe Herrera

Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude - Ross Gay

Tentacle - Rita Indiana

Hapa Tales and Other Lies: A Memoir About the Mixed Race Hawai’i That I Never Knew - Sharon Chang

Loose Woman - Sandra Cisneros

Duende - Tracy K. Smith

Mostly Dead Things - Kristen Arnett

1919 - Eve L. Ewing

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race - Reni Eddo-Lodge

Negroland - Margo Jefferson

For Black Girls Like Me - Mariama J. Lockington

Super Extra Grande - Yoss

Home Remedies - Xuan Juliana Wang

You Can’t Touch My Hair: And Other Things I Still Have to Explain - Phoebe Robinson

An Anonymous Girl - Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen

The Abundance - Amit Majmudar

I Shall Not Be Moved - Maya Angelou

Helium - Rudy Francisco

Teaching My Mother to Give Birth - Warsan Shire

Tomie - Junji Ito

Everything’s Trash, But It’s Okay - Phoebe Robinson

This Time Will Be Different - Misa Sugiura

Junji Ito’s Cat Diary: Yon & Mu - Junji Ito

Stag’s Leap - Sharon Olds

Black Card - Chris L. Terry

It’s Not Like It’s A Secret - Misa Sugiura

Washington Black - Esi Edugyan

From Here To Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death - Caitlin Doughty

I’m Telling the Truth, But I’m Lying: Essays - Bassey Ikpi

A House of My Own: Stories from my Life - Sandra Cisneros

The Terrible - Yrsa Daley-Ward

The Black Tides of Heaven - JY Yang

The Red Threads of Fortune - JY Yang

Little Fish - Casey Plett

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion - Jia Tolentino

The Black Condition ft. Narcissus - Jayy Dodd

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

Dealing in Dreams - Lilliam Rivera

The Tiger Flu - Larissa Lai

The Island of Sea Women - Lisa See

America is Not the Heart - Elaine Castillo

Feel Free - Zadie Smith

Walking on the Ceiling - Aysegul Savas

My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education - Jennine Capo Crucet

The Unpassing - Chia-Chia Lin

Maurice - E.M. Forster

Permanent Record - Mary H.K. Choi

The Downstairs Girl - Stacey Lee

Red Dust Road: An Autobiographical Journey - Jackie Kay

The Ungrateful Refugee: What Immigrants Never Tell You - Dina Nayeri

I Married My Best Friend to Shut My Parents Up - Naoko Kodama

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Ordinary Light - Tracy K. Smith

Cantoras - Carolina De Robertis

Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness - Susannah Cahalan

How to Be Remy Cameron - Julian Winters

The Marriage Clock - Zara Raheem

Moon: Letters, Maps, Poems - Jennifer S. Cheng

Where Reasons End - Yiyun Li

Pet - Akwaeke Emezi

Meddling Kids - Edgar Cantero

A Lucky Man - Jamel Brinkley

Maiden, Mother, Crone: Fantastical Trans Femmes - ed. Gwen Benaway

What is Obscenity? The Story of a Good for Nothing Artist and her Pussy - Rokudenashiko

The Umbrella Academy Vol. III: Hotel Oblivion - Gerard Way

Who Put This Song On? - Morgan Parker

The Souls of Yellow Folk: Essays - Wesley Yang

Wave - Sonali Deraniyagala

Love War Stories - Ivelisse Rodriguez

Baby Teeth - Zoje Stage

A Fortune for Your Disaster - Hanif Abdurraqib

Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers - Jake Skeets

Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen - Jose Antonio Vargas

The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline

Polite Society - Mahesh Rao

Patron Saints of Nothing - Randy Ribay

The Body Papers: A Memoir - Grace Talusan

A Woman is No Man - Etaf Rum

Travelers - Helon Habila

Trust Exercise - Susan Choi

The Silent Patient - Alex Michaelides

The Intuitionist - Colson Whitehead

A People’s History of Heaven - Mathangi Subramanian

The Buddha of Suburbia - Hanif Kureishi

This is Paradise: Stories - Kristiana Kahakauwila

Brood - Kimiko Hahn

Don’t Look Now - Daphne du Maurier

How We Fight for Our Lives - Saeed Jones

I Hope You Get This Message - Farah Naz Rishi

Unmarriageable - Soniah Kamal

Bad Endings - Carleigh Baker

The Water Dancer - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick - Mallory O’Meara

Shapes of Native Nonficton: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers - ed. Elissa Washuta and Theresa Warburton

Harley Quinn: Breaking Glass - Mariko Tamaki

Even the Saints Audition - Rachel Jackson

Slay - Britney Morris

#NotYourPrincess: Voices of Native American Women - ed. Lisa Charleyboy and Mary Beth Leatherdale

The Starlet and the Spy - Ji-min Lee

North of Dawn - Nuruddin Farah

Daisy Jones & The Six - Taylor Jenkins Reid

The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water - Cameron Barnett

They Called Us Enemy - George Takei

Dear Girls: Intimate Tales, Untold Secrets, and Advice for Living Your Best Life - Ali Wong

The Right Swipe - Alisha Rai

Full Disclosure - Camryn Garrett

Searching for Sylvie Lee - Jean Kwok

Gideon the Ninth - Tasmyn Muir

Stubborn Archivist - Yara Rodrigues Fowler

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 8: Old is the New New - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

Never Grow Up - Jackie Chan

“All the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans - Roxanna Dunbar-Ortiz

In the Dream House - Carmen Maria Machado

Blame This on the Boogie - Rina Ayuyang

It - Stephen King

Sea Monsters - Chloe Aridjis

My Fate According to the Butterfly - Gail D. Villanueva

The Wicked + the Divine, Vol. 9: “Okay” - Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie

The Deep - Rivers Solomon

I Hope We Choose Love: A Trans Girl’s Notes from the End of the World - Kai Cheng Thom

Mooncakes - Suzanne Walker

BTTM FDRS - Ezra Claytan Daniels and Ben Passmore

Hot Comb - Ebony Flowers

Notes from a Young Black Chef - Kwame Onwuachi

Bunny - Mona Awad

The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

Shuri, Vol. 1: The Search for Black Panther - Nnedi Okorafor

I Was Their American Dream: A Graphic Memoir - Malaka Gharib

Thick: And Other Essays - Tressie McMillan Cottom

Royal Holiday - Jasmine Guillory

Boxers - Gene Luen Yang

Saints - Gene Luen Yang

Fox 8 - George Saunders

The Memory Police - Yoko Ogawa

Last Day - Domenica Ruta

Wakanda Forever - Nnedi Okorafor

The Revisioners - Margaret Wilkerson Sexton

The Future of Another Timeline - Annalee Newitz

We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir - Samra Habib

Somewhere in the Middle: A Journey to the Phillipines in Search of Roots, Belonging, and Identity - Deborah Francisco Douglas

Crier’s War - Nina Varela

Something in Between - Melissa de la Cruz

The Secrets We Kept - Lara Prescott

The Tao of Raven: An Alaska Native Memoir - Ernestine Hayes

One of Us is Lying - Karen M. McManus

Piecing Me Together - Renee Watson

Binti - Nnedi Okorafor

The Nickel Boys - Colson Whitehead

Recursion - Blake Crouch

Supper Club - Lara Williams

#books #2019 #my lists #year in books

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