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November 29, 2017

Wednesday News: Royal engagement, Amazon imprint, and comic creation

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Art Spiegelman / Comics / Maus / Race / royal engagement / short fiction8 Comments

Meghan Markle, the Hallmark Star Set to Marry a Prince – Romance Twitter was very excited on Monday, when news of the royal engagement between Prince Harry and US across Meghan Markle was finally announced. Someone tamed the bad boy – how much better can it get for the Romance ... more >

November 6, 2017

Monday News: RIP Nancy Friday, disappearing women, and race in Wuthering Heights

JanetPublishing NewsCarmen Maria Machado / Emily Bronte / feminism / History / Nancy Friday / Race / rape fantasy / sexual fantasies / sexual-assault / slavery / Wuthering Heights13 Comments

Nancy Friday, 84, Best-Selling Student of Gender Politics, Dies – If you’re a Romance reader who has never heard of Nancy Friday, you’re not alone. Despite Friday’s groundbreaking work on women’s sexual fantasies (especially rape fantasies), when 50 Shades came out, Katie Roiphe seemed to think that talking about female ... more >

September 15, 2017

REVIEW: The Unquiet Grave by Sharyn McCrumb

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1930s / 19th century / American historical / dual-timeline / Historical / lawyer / law related / murder-investigation / Race / West Virginia6 Comments

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Lakin, West Virginia, 1930 Following a suicide attempt and consigned to a segregated insane asylum, attorney James P. D. Gardner finds himself under the care of Dr. James Boozer. Fresh out of medical school, Dr. Boozer is eager to try the new talking cure for insanity, and encourages his elderly ... more >

February 3, 2017

Friday News: Frederick Douglass, outdating iOS apps, the beauty of self-confidence

JanetPublishing Newsapps / Black History Month / Frederick Douglass / gender / History / iOS / photography / Race2 Comments

How Frederick Douglass Harnessed the Power of Portraiture to Reframe Blackness in America – If you’ve missed some of our latest national embarrassments, check out The Root‘s coverage of the Trump -Frederick Douglass snafu before reading the above essay on Douglass and 19th C U.S. portraiture. At least it’s an opportunity to ... more >

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April 1, 2016

Friday News: “Hamilton” & race, new BiblioTech branch, fighting fat stereotypes, and RBG coloring book

JanetPublishing NewsBiblioTech Library / coloring books / digital lending / fat shaming / Hamilton / Race / SCOTUS / subverting stereotypes / US history5 Comments

Race-Conscious Casting and the Erasure of the Black Past in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton – A friend sent this article to me a while ago, and now that I’ve had a chance to read it, I’m really curious to hear from people who have seen the musical “Hamilton” about Lyra Monteiro’s argument ... more >

March 29, 2016

Tuesday News: FBI cracks iPhone, UK libraries disappearing, and fighting the white, male gaze

JanetPublishing NewsApple / FBI / Libraries / publishing / Race / security / UK3 Comments

U.S. Says It Has Unlocked iPhone Without Apple – Now here’s a surprise (not). The US government dropped its case against Apple yesterday, admitting it has cracked the iPhone of the San Bernadino shooter. Which not only contradicts the original claim that the government had no other means than forcing Apple to ... more >

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