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... birthday celebrations were always tinged with a distinctly educational theme, but my love for pencils was bigger than any classroom. One of the earliest rituals of my life was waiting on the front steps of our small white house at 3u West Oakland Avenue, Sumter, South Carolina, for the sight of my father...

...Ruth Forman Copyright © 2003 by Wesleyan University Press 2003 RUTH FORMAN lf YouLoseYourPen and all you find is a broken pencil on the floor and the pencil has no sharpener and the sharpener is in the store and your pocket has no money and if you look again and all you find is a black Bic...

... smelled of clinique & ironed linen. nellie wore chloe; granny, spearmint & blue hair grease. she smoked but never smelled like cigarettes. daddy smelled of hard work. 5. the walls have noses. the streets have noses. the neighbors have noses. 6. didn't otis blurt at the pencil sharpener that toffee, victim...

... for "alleged crimes against the state" under the regime of Anwar el Sadat. Possessing while incarcerated only a stubby black eyebrow pencil and a small roll of tattered toilet paper, she continued to write, and on her release she published Memoirfstom theWomen'sPrison, which continues her criticism...

... narcissus whose thin stellate shadows lance the room. 4. A thousandgradationsof.9ray. Eyes closed, the blind woman says isn't the moon made oflavender jade or a medicine cabinet for eye drops, a pair of wings and a jewel box, a box of pencil shavings and graphite, CARING FOR ANOTHER WOMAN 71 allotrope...

... of an oppositional consciousness, through a critique of the art history canon as it has operated through the exclusions of brown and black bodies. And in another famous example, Chicana activist, performer, and artist Judith F. Baca produced Las tres Marías in 1976, which includes two colored pencil images...

.... These political implications were made clear to me by the marginalia in the copy of Rotundamentenegragiven to me by Epsy Campbell. In the margins of the book, written in light pencil, appears the following: "Par las derechos humanos de [sic] "Por nuestros derechos humanos coma mujeres negras." "Reivindicamos...

..., and if you make a double knot, you can tie pencils together with them. The first time I really talked to her was today. Mr. Napolitano was reviewing for our test on world capitals. "Jordan, Salami?" "Amman, Mr. Napolitano." "Good. Of course that was an easy one for you." "Burkina Faso, Fatsy Patsy?" He can...

...) that they would like to explore and/or discuss. Students also are encouraged to bring from home any of the arts and crafts materials listed below. Writing and drawing materials (e.g., markers, crayons, colored pencils, charcoal) Paper for art (e.g., construction paper) Magazines for collages Scissors for cutting...

..., raising her pencil in her right hand like a politician. Tulsi, who writes from one end to the other of every book she has, so they don’t have to buy more notebooks. Tulsi, whose notebooks are nothing like Amma’s one-per-page al- bums . Bums, what a strange word, thinks Rani, as she feels herself smile...

... sellers of petty goods: snacks, cigarettes, pencils, and other necessities. Hawking was an apprenticeship in market trading and a component in the socialization of ordinary girls. It was a physically demanding activity. Girls navigated Lagos’s streets carrying the weight of their wares upon their heads...

... the hectic world ofWall Street Sammy and Rachel [the wives] hurriedly straighten their hair and dresses We pecked them [the men] gravely on the cheek, pretending to take off hats and hang them behind the door We picked up our pens and pencils and began to eat politely without further talk. The wives kept...

... course, my ass!” Gelareh blurted under her breath as she doodled a brown toothbrush mustache in the groove between Mrs. Vafai’s nose and upper lip and changed pencils to sketch a green distorted male anatomical figure over her head. “Have they no shame? My great- grandmother had a better sense...

... to Behar's personal approach to anthropology. In this image we see a woman returning our gaze, holding a pencil in one hand with her breasts exposed. In the background are many disembodied eyes of different shapes and colors-all wide open. The essays in WomenWritin9Cultureopen our eyes to "a different...

... to paint the cloak. Sewing needles, threads, scissors, pencils, paper, acrylic inks, and other materials were purchased online and/or at/near Mount Holyoke. The stories in the cloak—which we share after Figure 10 —were compiled by all four authors, with Kerri Clarke taking the lead, though always...

..., to discuss how sexuality and gender are disciplined, given the negotiation of identities in movement (Carillo 2004 ; Povinelli and Chauncey 1999 ). Alejandra was a soft-spoken, colored-pencil artist from Ponce. While she lived most of her life in Puerto Rico, she previously spent brief periods of time...

... is Mulberry. The description of the officer's cold professionalism in his manners and appearance makes evident the menace of the U.S. Immigration Service: he is dressed in a dark suit with a black and gray striped tie, wearing sunglasses, with bald head, sharp chin, high forehead, beak nose, and pencil-thin...