Special thanks to Russell Quinn
My dear readers,
Here is my third blog post on Women's History Month recommendations. Remember to take note of the age ratings and beware of spoilers. First, read and listen to the empowering poem:
Still I Rise by Dr. Maya Angelou👩🏿🦱
Age Rating: 9+
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops,
Weakened by my soulful cries?
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own backyard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson👵🏿👩🏿🦳👩🏿👧🏿👶🏿
Age Rating: All Ages
"Greatness doesn't have anything to do with winning awards." -- Rugrats
From enslavement to the Emancipation Proclamation, through racial segregation and the U.S. civil rights movement, African-American author Jacqueline Woodson tells her family history over seven generations in this Newberry Honor-winning children's book illustrated by Hudson Talbott.
Read about the very special women in Woodson's family as they pass down, from generation to generation, the tradition of Show Way, stories that are told to remember the past and to fight for a better future.
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| "All the stuff that happened before you were born is your own kind of Show Way. There's a road, girl, my mama said. There's a road." -- Jacqueline Woodson, Show Way |
Age Rating: 12+
"If you are silent about your pain, they'll kill you and say you enjoyed it." -- Zora Neale Hurston
In 1979, African-American sci-fi author Octavia E. Butler had written Kindred.
Dana Franklin is an African-American woman living in 1970s U.S.A. with her white husband and fellow author, Kevin. On her twenty-sixth birthday, Dana gains the ability to time travel whenever she loses consciousness. She travels back and forth between the past and the present, experiencing the hardships endured by her enslaved ancestors, one of whom she recognises as Alice, a black woman who will be assaulted by her white owner, Rufus Weylin. Dana then realises that to ensure her own existence, she must save Weylin's life and see to it that he conceives a child with Alice.
Kindred is a powerful book that shows how discrimination affects people of all races and nationalities across generations. It has been made a recommended reading for students and adapted into an audio drama by the Seeing Eye Theater and a graphic novel by Damian Duffy and John Jennings.
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| "No entertainment on Earth can match a good story compellingly told." -- Octavia E. Butler |
If you want to know more about Octavia E. Butler, watch this TED-Ed video:
Age Rating: 17+
"It is also typical in shared paranoid disorder that one partner dominates the other, and the Papin sisters seem to be a perfect example of this." -- Elizabeth Kerri Mahon, Scandalous Women
During the 92nd Academy Awards, Parasite became the first non-English film to win the Oscar for Best Picture. The plot tells of a poor South Korean family leeching off their rich employers, only to suffer the consequences. What many don't know is that the director, Bong Joon-ho, partially based the box-office hit on a real life double-murder.
On the night of February 2, 1933, in Le Mans, France, solicitor M. Lancelin found his home unlit and locked from the inside. Concerned that his wife, his younger daughter, and their two maids had met foul play, he went to the police for help. The authorities were dispatched and entered the abode. At the top of the stairs, they were horrified to discover the Lancelin women brutally slain. The police expected the maids to be murdered as well but instead found them in their bedroom, alive and unharmed. The two, sisters Christine and Léa Papin, admitted to killing their mistresses.
Christine was sentenced to death by guillotine and Léa ten years of hard labour. Christine, whose sentence was commuted to life imprisonment, starved herself to death in 1937. Lea was released after serving eight years and worked as a hotel maid until she died in 2001.
Nearly ninety years later, people are still asking why exactly did the two sisters commit murder. Was it a class struggle as proposed by philosophers? Were the sisters paranoid? Were Mme. Lancelin and her daughter cruel and the maids killed them in self-defence?
The subject of plays and films, Christine and Léa Papin's story is retold in a new graphic novel by Katie Skelly.
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| Every day is the same, until it is not. |
Smaller and Smaller Circles: The Movie🕵🏾♂️🕵🏾♂️*
Age Rating: 17+
*In Filipino with English subtitles.
"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." -- Ida B. Wells
Two months into the COVID-19 pandemic, TBA Studios uploaded on their YouTube channel the 2017 Philippine mystery film Smaller and Smaller Circles.
Based on the 2002 novel by woman journalist and author F.H. Batacan, Smaller and Smaller Circles tells of two Jesuit priests, Fathers Gus (Nonie Buencamino; Heneral Luna) and Jerome (Sid Lucero; Selda), leading investigators on the hunt for a serial killer who murders impoverished boys and dumps their bodies at a landfill.
Featuring an all star cast which also includes Gladys Reyes (Mara Clara), Christopher De Leon (Hiram na Mukha), and Ricky Davao (Mula sa Puso), the film reminds audiences of the gap between the rich and the poor, and why justice delayed is justice denied.
Dolly Said No to Elvis: A Song by Mark Nevin🎸
Age Rating: All Ages
"Dolly Said no to Elvis
Dolly Said no no no no no no
Dolly Said no to Elvis
She told the King where he could…
Not fifty percent not twenty
Not ten percent not any
Even one is one too many
Thou shall not have a penny"
-- Mark Nevin, Dolly Said No to Elvis
In 1973, Grammy Award winner and Golden Globe nominee Dolly Parton recorded one of her best known songs, I Will Always Love You. Released as part of her 1974 album Jolene, Parton had written the track as a farewell to her former partner and mentor, Porter Wagoner, after leaving his eponymous variety TV show and pursuing a solo career.
"I said, 'I'm really sorry,' and I cried all night. I mean, it was like the worst thing. You know, it's like, 'Oh, my God … Elvis Presley.' And other people were saying, 'You're nuts. It's Elvis Presley. I mean, hell, I'd give him all of it.' I said, 'I can't do that. Something in my heart says, 'Don't do that.' And I just didn't do it, and they just didn't do it. But I always wondered what it would sound like. I know he'd kill it. Don't you? He would have killed it. But anyway, so he didn't. Then when Whitney [Houston's version] came out, I made enough money to buy Graceland."
-- Matt Alpert, The Surprising Backstory of Dolly Parton's 'I Will Always Love You'
In 2018, Mark Nevin collaborated with animator Heather Colbert to make a music video for his song Dolly Said No To Elvis, which retells the true story of Parton saying no to one singer and saying yes to another.
Age Rating: All Ages
"To dance is to be out of yourself. Larger, more beautiful, more powerful..." -- Agnes de Mille
Last year, I recommended a children's book on Broadway actresses. Written by John Robert Allman, A is for Audra is an abecedarian poem that has made me a bigger fan of musicals and inspired my 2019 Disney Princess post.
In his second abecedarian poem, B is for Ballet, Allman pays tribute to popular ballets, choreographers, dancers, and techniques, all brought to life with illustrations by British artist Rachael Dean.
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| I could have danced all night I could have danced all night And still have begged for more I could have spread my wings And done a thousand things I've never done before I'll never know What made it so exciting Why all at once My heart took flight I only know when he Began to dance with me I could have danced, danced, danced all night -- My Fair Lady |
Age Rating: All Ages
"Poems come out of wonder, not out of knowing." -- Lucille Clifton
Lauren Stohler is best known for inkpug:
Doggy artworks that give each heart a hug.
In the year 2020, she launched - in Month 8 -
A children's book Dr. Seuss would have made.
A Cat and a Pug, in a duel, agree
The winner must write the best poetry.
Puns and rhymes and laughs occur
As you read The Best Worst Poet Ever.
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| "From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere!" -- Dr. Seuss |
Age Rating: 12+
"A strong-minded woman is a different animal." -- Meryl Streep
Since 2016, I've been reading the relatable feel-good animal comics by Liz Climo, a former animator of The Simpsons.
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| Bear: "Really? It's not New Bear? Like, every year I get to reset and become a new bear?" Rabbit: "No." |
You'll laugh yourself silly as rabbits and bears, cats and dogs, sloths and birds, rats and snakes, alligators and hedgehogs, and other animals deal with various topics such as work, school, holidays, and parenthood.
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| "Becoming a mom is a pretty big deal." -- Liz Climo |
You can also purchase and read Liz's books featuring her animal characters and comics not found on her Facebook and Instagram profiles.
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| Published on May 4, 2021. |
Erstwhile: A Grimm's Fairy Tales Collection by Gina Biggs, Louisa Roy, and Elle Skinner🧚🏻♀️🧚🏼♀️🧚🏽♀️🧚🏾♀️🧚🏿♀️
Age Rating: All Ages
"Fairy tales just show kids how complicated life can be, and it does it on their terms." -- The Golden Girls
In December 1812, German brothers Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm collected two hundred fairy tales to ensure they aren't lost forever. Over two centuries later, Grimm's Household Tales continue to be read and have been adapted into Disney films, a Broadway musical, and even an anime TV series. On the other hand, only over a dozen of the stories are popular. So, how does one share with the masses the other entertaining tales?
From September 2011 to December 2015, a trio of American comics artists-Gina Biggs, Louisa Roy, and Elle Skinner-teamed up to select, adapt, and illustrate twenty-six of the unpopular Grimm's fairy tales. The result is Erstwhile, a collection of stories which can be purchased in a PDF bundle.
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| Careful the things you say, Children will listen. Careful the things you do, Children will see. And learn. Guide them along the way, Children will glisten. Children will look to you For which way to turn, To learn what to be. Careful before you say, "Listen to me." Children will listen. -- Into the Woods |
Age Rating: 15+
"A bird is three things: Feathers, flight and song, And feathers are the least of these." -- Marjorie Allen Seiffert, A Woman of Thirty
In 2018, Moore & Reppion-the duo behind The Complete Alice in Wonderland and Damsels-collaborated with artist Sally Jane Thompson to publish a YA fantasy graphic novel about girls of different feathers flocking together.
Anne Ravenhall is a pupil at a British all-girls' boarding school, studying for her final exams and dealing with her divorced parents' constant fights. One afternoon, the headmistress informs Anne that her great-great-aunt, Bronwen Ravenhall, has passed away. In her will, Bronwen has left her great-great-niece a bejeweled locket and their ancestral home, the eponymous Ravenhall.
Surprised to learn she even has a great-great-aunt, Anne is informed of her family history by her best friend Binky and Eve, Bronwen's robot housekeeper. Long ago, the King of Ravenhall's foes nearly deprived him of his castle. Help arrived in the form of a White Raven asking for his hand in marriage. The King agreed and the White Raven transformed into a woman and gave her husband a crown with five magical gemstones. The jewels were engraved with the images of five birds: the crow, the jackdaw, the jay, the magpie, and the raven. Empowered by his crown, the King defeated his enemies. When the King died, his Queen passed on the crown jewels to their five daughters.
For generations, five women of Ravenhall had been forming the superhero team called the Dissimulation. Using the stones passed down from mother to daughter and aunt to niece, the quintet protected humanity from supernatural threats. Then during Bronwen's generation, the team suddenly disbanded. Left with the stones and the castle, Brownwen kept the White Raven's legacy a big secret until her death.
When strange events start happening at school and at Ravenhall itself, Anne and Binky must find the White Raven's other female descendants, give them their family heirlooms, and convince them to form a new Dissimulation before it's too late.
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| Anne Ravenhall: "The power of the stones is ours! We are the Dissimulation!" |
Age Rating: 7+
"It takes a thief to catch a thief." -- A proverb
Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego? That's the question everyone has been asking since the 1980s. She has been featured in video games, on stage, and on television (even voiced by EGOT-winner Rita Moreno). People learn about history, geography, and culture as they track down the elusive lady thief in red. In 2019, Netflix launched a new animated series that asks another question: Who is Carmen Sandiego?
Abandoned at birth and raised by a string of nannies on an isolated island, Carmen (Gina Rodriguez; Jane the Virgin) studies at the VILE ("Valuable Imports, Lavish Exports") Training Academy for Thieves. The faculty trains students on physical combat, science and technology, trickery, and stealth, with the forty successful ones graduating at the end of the school year. Those who fail must retake their classes.
Carmen outranks her classmates and shows she has the skills required to become one of the next "forty thieves." One night, she discovers the truth: VILE actually stands for Villains' International League of Evil, and their M.O. is robbing countries of their historical artifacts. Armed with this knowledge, Carmen escapes the island and sets out on a mission: beat VILE operatives at their own game and return to nations the treasures that are rightfully theirs.
Aided by her friends-Canadian computer wiz Player (Finn Wolfhard; Stranger Things) and Bostonian siblings Zack (Michael Hawley) and Ivy (Abby Trott)-Carmen Sandiego stays one step ahead of her enemies and law enforcers working for the Chief (Dawnn Lewis) of ACME (Agency to Classify and Monitor Evildoers).
The reboot series ran for 33 episodes, spanning over four seasons.
The Parent Trap by Erich Kästner👨🏻👩🏼👧🏼👧🏼
Age Rating: All Ages
"What a crazy pair!" -- The Patty Duke Show
Erich Kästner was a German author who opposed Adolf Hitler. In 1949, Kästner and artist Walter Trier turned a screenplay rejected by the Nazis into a children's book titled Das doppelte Lottchen ("The Double Lottie") or The Parent Trap.
Mischievous, curly-haired Luise Palfy lives in Vienna, Austria with her father.
Responsible, pigtailed Lottie Körner lives in Munich, Bavaria with her mother.
The summer before their tenth birthday, Luise and Lottie enroll at a German all-girls' summer camp and are stunned to see how much they look alike. Despite their opposite personalities, the two become friends and discover the reason for their uncanny resemblance: they're twins. Years before, Luise and Lottie's parents divorced, each taking custody of one daughter and never telling her she has an identical twin sister.
When summer ends, Luise and Lottie switch places to meet the parents they never knew. No one suspects a thing… until Mr. Palfy decides to marry another woman.
With shenanigans only sisters can pull off, The Parent Trap is a classic children's book families will enjoy reading together.
Since 1950, the book has been made into localised films and TV series around the world. The best-known adaptation to date is the Disney film featuring the twins played by Hayley Mills (Pollyanna) in the 1961 original version and Lindsay Lohan (Mean Girls) in the 1998 remake.
In 1962, Cyrus Brooks translated Das doppelte Lottchen into English as Lisa and Lottie. Although the characters' names were altered for non-German readers, the plot remains unchanged.
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| "This will be an everlasting love This will be the one I've waited for This will be the first time anyone has loved me I'm so glad you found me in time And I'm so glad that you rectified my mind This will be an everlasting love for me..." -- Natalie Cole, This Will Be (An Everlasting Love) |
In 2014, The Parent Trap was retranslated into English by Anthea Bell, who had also translated the French comics series Asterix. Published by Pushkin Press, this edition retains the characters' original German names as well as Trier's illustrations. In 2020, Bolinda Audio released an accompanying unabridged audiobook narrated by Ruby Rees (Picnic at Hanging Rock).
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"Let's get together, yeah yeah yeah Two is twice as nice as one Let's get together, right away We'll be having twice the fun And you can always count on me A gruesome twosome we will be Let's get together, yeah yeah yeah" -- The Parent Trap (1961) |
Amidst the ongoing pandemic, The Parent Trap is being made into a British stage musical titled Identical. Disney also plans to remake The Parent Trap again for its streaming platform, Disney+.
The Last Belle: A Short Film Directed by Neil Boyle💘
Age Rating: 15+
"It is a difficult matter to keep love imprisoned." -- Apuleius, Cupid and Psyche and Other Tales from the Golden Ass
"This is the story of how I finally found love... In London." So begins Neil Boyle's 2011 award-winning animated short film, The Last Belle.
Rosie (Sienna Guillory; Love Actually, Eragon) is a single British woman desiring to have a boyfriend. While working one rainy spring day, Rosie gets thrilled when Wally, the man she met online, asks her out on a blind date with him that very night. Rosie goes home and tells the news to her best friend, Siobhan (Amanda Donohoe; Liar Liar, Castaway), unaware that her "Brad Pitt" is actually an alcoholic and obese creep. When Wally gets too drunk to leave on time, Rosie dresses in her finest and waits for him at a pub run by a caring barman (Colin McFarlane; Batman Begins, The Dark Knight).
Watch the short film below to see how Rosie found love.
Age Rating: 9+
"For some folks Death is release, and for others Death is an abomination, a terrible thing. But in the end, I'm there for all of them." -- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Issue 20: Façade
Cheltenham, England was home to one family: a man named Russell Quinn, his mum Linda Quinn, and his maternal nan Joan Bevis.
Born in 1928, Joan was a full-time homemaker. She was also active in her local community, volunteering at charity thrift stores and running a local window's club amongst others.
Born in 1954, Linda was a Teaching Assistant. She was married to Richard Quinn, a man two years her senior.
In December 1978, Richard succumbed to acute leukaemia. His only child with Linda, Russell, was born a few months later.
Growing up, Russell was very close with his mum and his nan.
In 1997, Russell moved out of Cheltenham and Linda was treated for breast cancer.
In 2005, Russell moved out of the U.K. He lived in Denmark, Switzerland, and rural California before settling in Los Angeles. He is an artist, developer, and programmer.
As the years flew by, Linda and Russell took turns visiting each other. Mother and son would tour popular destinations and take photos which Russell would send to his grandmother.
In 2013, Linda experienced some health problems. Doctors discovered that her breast cancer had recurred, metastasizing throughout her bones. She was given a Stage IV diagnosis. That same year, Joan lost her other daughter to bowel cancer.
Four years later, the Quinn family fell apart.
During the summer, Linda was prescribed a six-week course of chemotherapy. Russell returned to England to support his mum. However, the chemotherapy didn't work as before. Linda's condition deteriorated and Russell became her full-time caregiver. The post-treatment scan revealed that the cancer had metastasized into her organs. Sick and weakened, Linda moved to a hospice and died in December 2017.
Russell arranged his mum's funeral and cleared out his childhood home. He grieved together with his nan, who was heartbroken over losing both her children. Russell flew back to L.A. for a two-week break, only to receive more tragic news a few days later.
In January 2018, twenty-six years after her husband's death, Joan broke her hip in a fall and died during surgery. Russell returned to England once more to arrange his nan's funeral and to clear out her house.
Upon returning to L.A., Russell was grief-stricken over losing his family and the two houses he grew up in. He has since referred to 2017 as the worst year of his life.
After months of therapy, Russell began making a two-part video game dedicated to his mother and his grandmother.
The first part, Prologue: "Four Months Earlier", was released in 2020. Set in April 2017, the player guides Russell and Linda as they hike their way up toward the Griffith Observatory.
The forthcoming second part and main game, Linda & Joan, will take place in the winter of 2017. The player will take on the roles of the Quinn family as they cope with the inevitable.
To keep up with the latest updates on Linda & Joan, you can follow the game's official Facebook account and subscribe to the Press Kit for exclusive content.
--A. Eleazar
"Forget conventionalisms; forget what the world thinks of you stepping out of your place; think your best thoughts, speak your best words, work your best works, looking to your own conscience for approval." -- Susan B. Anthony, American women's rights activist
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