The Diary of a Young Girl, commonly referred to as The Diary of Anne Frank, is a book of the writings from the Dutch-language diary kept by Anne Frank while she was in hiding for two years with her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands. The family was apprehended in 1944, and Anne Frank died of typhus in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.
Banned Books Week/Day 3
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, is the first of seven autobiographical works by American writer Maya Angelou, published in 1969. The book chronicles her life from age 3 through age 16, recounting an unsettled and sometimes traumatic childhood that included rape and racism. It became one of the most widely read and taught books written by an African American woman.
Nora Maier Forster (née Maier; 6 November 1942 – 6 April 2023) was a German-British music promoter, publishing heiress, actress, and model. Before moving to London in the late 1960s, she worked in West Germany with Jimi Hendrix, Wishbone Ash, and Yes. In London, she helped to financially support the punk bands the Slits, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash. She was married to John Lydon of the Sex Pistols.
After moving to London, she became a nurturer of punk who guided her daughter Ari Up's musical pursuits and supported the development of her band, the Slits, when Ari was just fourteen or fifteen. Forster hosted numerous musician house guests and her home in Shepherd's Bush became a crash pad, salon, and meeting place for rock musicians. She helped to financially support punk bands the Slits, the Sex Pistols, and the Clash.
Catharina "Nina" Hagen (born 11 March 1955)is a German singer, songwriter, and actress. She is known for her theatrical vocals and rise to prominence during the punk and Neue Deutsche Welle movements in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She is known as "The Godmother of German Punk".
Born and raised in the former East Berlin, German Democratic Republic,Hagen began her career as an actress when she appeared in several German films alongside her mother Eva-Maria Hagen. She went on to join the band Automobil and later formed the Nina Hagen Band. She has produced seventeen albums, acted in over ten films and has written three autobiographies. She is also noted for her human and animal rights activism.
I saw a show at the Castro Theatre recently and was struck by the dark and mysterious interior! Anyone else have interiors (or exteriors) that feel straight out of a Lynch film?
‘This Guy Has No Idea What He’s Talking About,’ Says Son Of Perdition
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Opal Lee (born October 7, 1926) is an American retired teacher, counselor, and activist in the movement to make Juneteenth a federally recognized holiday. She is often described as the "grandmother of Juneteenth". Lee campaigned for decades to make Juneteenth a federal holiday. She promoted the idea by leading 2.5 miles (4.0 km) walks each year, representing the 2.5 years it took for news of the Emancipation Proclamation to reach Texas. At the age of 89, she conducted a symbolic walk from Fort Worth, from which she departed in September 2016, to Washington, D.C., where she arrived in January 2017. In June 2021, at the age of 94, her efforts succeeded as a bill to make Juneteenth a federal holiday was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Joe Biden.
Lorna Simpson (born August 13, 1960) is an American photographer and multimedia artist whose works have been exhibited both nationally and internationally. In 1990, she became one of the first African-American women to exhibit at the Venice Biennale. She came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s with photo-text installations such as Guarded Conditions and Square Deal that questioned the nature of identity, gender, race, history and representation. Simpson continues to explore these themes in relation to memory and history using photography, film, video, painting, drawing, audio, and sculpture. Her work is displayed at the Obama Presidential Center.
Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama(née Robinson; born January 17, 1964) is an American attorney and author who served as First Lady of the United States from 2009 to 2017. Born in Chicago and raised on the South Side of the city, Obama is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School. As first lady, Obama worked as an advocate for poverty awareness, education, nutrition, physical activity, and healthy eating. She has written four books, including her New York Times best-selling memoir Becoming (2018) and The Light We Carry (2022). After leaving office, Obama ranked first in the Gallup poll for the most admired woman in the United States for three straight years. She holds significant cultural influence and continues to advocate for voter participation in elections.
Born in 1932, Barbara Gittings faced discrimination for who she loved from a young age when she was rejected from her high school's National Honor Society for “homosexual inclinations.”
In 1958, Gittings started New York’s first chapter of Daughters of Bilitis, the first lesbian rights organization in America. She marched in the country’s first LGBTQ+ picket lines in 1965 in D.C. to protest federal workers being fired for their sexuality.
Gittings joined the LGBTQ+ caucus in the American Library Association, the country’s first LGBTQ+ caucus in a professional association. Years later, she would be given their highest award, lifetime honorary membership. She then went on to successfully lobby the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality from its list of mental disorders in 1973. In the same year, she helped start what is now the National LGBTQ Task Force.
Today, GLAAD and the American Library Association both bestow awards named in her honor and she is still known as the “Mother of the LGBT Civil rights Movement.”
Happy Pride Month!
I know she’s just looking for support but now that we’ve all seen this, I believe we have a duty to warn her.