Sarah Emily Duff

intheheatherbright: Fox-Lox. Ernest Rhys ed., Fairy-Gold A...

Sat, 18 May 2013 15:37:03 -0400

Fox-Lox.

Ernest Rhys ed., Fairy-Gold A Book of Old English Fairy Tales, illus. Herbert Cole, (London: J.M. Dent, (1934) [1906

intheheatherbright: Anne Carson, ‘By Chance the Cycladic...

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:32:20 -0400

intheheatherbright:

Anne Carson, ‘By Chance the Cycladic People’, London Review of Books, 25 April 2013, p. 35.

intheheatherbright: The fox in cunning not once did fail. Ian...

Mon, 13 May 2013 09:23:44 -0400

intheheatherbright:

The fox in cunning not once did fail.

Ian Serraillier, The Challenge of the Green Knight, illus. Victor G.Ambrus ( London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1981 [1967] ).

intheheatherbright: Mervyn Peake, from A Book of Nonsense...

Fri, 10 May 2013 02:11:25 -0400

intheheatherbright:

Mervyn Peake, from A Book of Nonsense (1972).

A farm with a city in it

Tue, 07 May 2013 11:41:00 -0400

A farm with a city in it:

‘Rob Small describes Cape Town as ‘a farm with a city in it.’ Cape Town has a population of about 3.7 million, slightly more than half of these live in the city’s informal settlements. When people speak of ‘Cape Town’ they tend to mean its older suburbs with their – still – mainly white inhabitants. It strikes me that so much of the city’s problem with urban agriculture is that its community projects maintain the distinction between the historically ‘white’ and wealthy and ‘black’ and poor parts of the city. Projects based in Constantia, Woodstock, and Oranjezicht ‘reach out’ to ‘educate’ and ‘uplift’ the ‘poor’ (whoever they may be), ignoring the fact that so much of the city’s informal settlements are being farmed – and are exceptionally productive.

It’s old women in Nyanga and farmers in Philippi who are the key to ensuring the city’s future food security. They are the ones who should be deciding Cape Town’s urban agricultural policies.’

intheheatherbright: Cordyline indivisa (Blue Dracaena). Frances...

Sat, 04 May 2013 16:13:55 -0400

intheheatherbright:

Cordyline indivisa (Blue Dracaena).

Frances Perry, Beautiful Leaved Plants, ( London: Scolar Press, 1979 ).

Alexis Madrigal, 'The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth'

Thu, 02 May 2013 04:00:00 -0400

Alexis Madrigal, 'The ’70s Photos That Made Us Want to Save Earth':

‘Two years after Richard Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency, the new institution sent out 100 photographers to document the nation’s environment writ large.
…
The photographers were charged with three broad goals: “to photograph America’s environmental problems, to document America’s natural and man-made beauty and to photograph the human condition.”
…
But as it happened, the photographers interpreted their task in different ways. What they captured was not simply a portrait of “nature,” but the environment as people knew it and lived in it.’

Bangladesh's Tragedy and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:39:00 -0400

Bangladesh's Tragedy and the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire:

‘for the last 200 years, garment manufacturing has flowed from ethnicity to ethnicity, as well as from region to region, from New England to the Middle Atlantic states, from North to South. Each group, when it begins to demand more accountability and a living wage, is discarded. Manufacturing change flows quickly to stay ahead of legislative change. Like water, industrial management seeks a route of least resistance — eventually flowing out of our shores altogether in the 1990s and, finally, flooding (among many other places) the alluvial plains of Bangladesh.’

"‘There is cold chicken inside it,’ replied the Rat briefly; ‘coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickled ..."

Wed, 01 May 2013 10:33:50 -0400

“

‘There is cold chicken inside it,’ replied the Rat briefly;

‘coldtonguecoldhamcoldbeefpickled
gherkinssaladfrenchrollscress
sandwichespottedmeatgingerbeer
lemonadesodawater ——’

‘O stop, stop,’ cried the Mole in ecstasies: ‘This is too much!’

”

- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows, 1908. (via intheheatherbright)

Jane Alexander's first solo exhibition in New York, 'Surveys (From the Cape of Good Hope)'

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:02:48 -0400

Jane Alexander's first solo exhibition in New York, 'Surveys (From the Cape of Good Hope)'

Emily Matcher, 'Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig?'

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 11:00:00 -0400

Emily Matcher, 'Is Michael Pollan a sexist pig?':

‘The rise of convenience food has to do with market forces, not feminism.’

intheheatherbright: Heiðr and Hamglama chant a spell. John...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 10:49:38 -0400

intheheatherbright:

Heiðr and Hamglama chant a spell.

John D.Stuart, Twenty-Six Viking Stories, illust. Ellis Silas (London: The Boys Own Paper, no date ).

Beet the System

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:36:58 -0400

Beet the System:

‘Last year, the City of Cape Town approved plans to build houses on a large area of the Philippi horticultural area. This poses a threat to local farmers, and means that all Capetonians – whether wealthy or poor – will have to pay more for their fresh produce. If we want to ensure that our city remains food secure, small farmers and particularly those in Philippi need our support.’

" the sky was black and bleeding like a Rothko."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 15:03:07 -0400

“” the sky was black and bleeding like a Rothko.””

- Peter Carey, The Chemistry of Tears ( London: Faber, 2012). (via intheheatherbright)

Vladmir Lenin, with cat.

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 16:52:23 -0400

Vladmir Lenin, with cat.

The Cult of Authenticity

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 08:25:00 -0400

The Cult of Authenticity:

‘My problem with the cult of authenticity – other than its tedious pedantry – is that it conflates eating ‘authentically’ with some ability to make meaningful difference in the world. More often that not, peasant food is labelled authentic food. Even the most passing familiarity with what most poor people eat will demonstrate that people’s diets improve as their disposable income increases. Peasant food in Italy before the mid-twentieth century was nutritionally inadequate: it consisted of bread and polenta with onions oil and, occasionally, cheap fish and vegetables.

There is nothing wrong with eating peasant food, but it is deeply problematic to believe that eating ‘real’ peasant food represents a solidarity with the struggles of the poor. In fact, it’s a distraction from the ways in which food and big agricultural companies exploit labourers and put small and peasant farmers out of business.’

intheheatherbright: ”I am the Queen of Olympus, Hera the wife...

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 04:45:37 -0400

intheheatherbright:

”I am the Queen of Olympus, Hera the wife of Zeus.”

Charles Kingsley, The Heroes, illustrated by Joan Kiddell-Monroe (London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, [1856] 1963 ).

"Things are the changeless mirror in which we watch ourselves disintegrate."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:20:16 -0400

““Things are the changeless mirror in which we watch ourselves disintegrate.””

- Bruce Chatwin, Utz (London: Vintage, [1988] 2005). (via intheheatherbright)

Feminist Utopian Fiction, Shulasmith Firestone, and Second Wave Feminism

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:07:53 -0400

Feminist Utopian Fiction, Shulasmith Firestone, and Second Wave Feminism:

‘William Marston’s Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s featured Paradise Island, a matriarchal all-female community of peace, loving submission, bondage, and giant space kangaroos.’

Kigali's Roadside Typists

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 06:05:00 -0400

Kigali's Roadside Typists:

‘Sitting on a wooden bench in one of the busiest bus stations in Rwanda’s capital, three women are typing furiously, seemingly oblivious to the passing commuter traffic.

The trio belong to an endangered army of “typewriter typists” who provide an essential service in Rwanda, producing CVs, business proposals and love letters for those with no access to printers or computers.’