Warsan Shire, the celebrated and award-winning British poet, has a poem titled ‘Home‘ that has become the rallying cry for immigrants everywhere. Throughout the piece, she explains why immigrants choose to leave their homes in search of a better life in a new country. no one leaves home until home is a sweaty voice in your ear saying- leave, run away from me now i dont know what i’ve become but i know that anywhere is safer than here The poem does a beautiful job of sparking empathy in readers who may not otherwise understand what is going …
Call me crazy, but I like seeing pretty things, particularly while scrolling through Instagram. I like well-captured photographs with good lighting. I like pictures that feel intentional in their composition. I like scrolling through Instagram and seeing aesthetically pleasing content— no memes, no blurry, pixelated pictures that feel like they were taken on a Motorola Razr in 2006, no yellowish florescent lighting. Also, I like Harry Potter. If you’re like me and you like pretty things and Harry Potter, check out these six aesthetically pleasing Potter-inspired Instagrams. 1. Ephemeral Creature @_ephemeralcreature_ G R Y F F …
Stephen A. Geppi, a collector and entrepreneur based out of Baltimore, is donating over 3,000 comic books and pop-culture collectables to the Library of Congress. The new additions to the library include the 1938 comic book in which Spiderman makes his debut, Beatles memorabilia, and American cartoonist Richard Outcault’s printing blocks. The donation even includes Mickey Mouse storyboards from the 1929 cartoon Plane Crazy, which has the single greatest synopsis on IMDB I have ever read: “Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip involving some necking, though Minnie objects to the necking.” Nice. The donation is valued in the millions, …
It’s easy to forget that your favorite books were once a draft, an incomplete manuscript, a sliver of an idea conceived on a train. When you hold a book in your hands, you don’t often think of everything the author struggled through to get that book to you. It’s difficult to imagine a world in which a world-famous author struggles with something as common and human as writer’s block. On Twitter last week, J.K. Rowling opened a door to that world, admitting to the difficulties she faces everyday as a writer. She told the Twittersphere on Thursday, “Upon rereading, the best …
Kristen Stewart announced her upcoming directorial debut yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival. She is set to direct an adaptation of the award-winning memoir The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch. Yuknavitch’s memoir is a deeply personal tale of her journey with alcohol and drug addiction, sexual abuse, and bisexuality. In an interview, Stewart revealed the connection she feels with Yuknavitch, “She’s in my blood and I knew that before I met her. As soon as I met her it was like we started this race without any sense of competition.” Image via Lit Up Podcast Plans for the …
