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JenniferEgnor

JenniferEgnor

Joined June 2016

Medium, medievalist, book nerd, dog/cat mom, clinic escort, hospice volunteer, death doula, atheist, pan, activist 4 RJ. Anti-Fascist, she/her
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Sally Hemings by Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Sally Hemings | Barbara Chase-Riboud
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Oh okay I see how it‘s going to be. Back and forth, back and forth, up and down through time 😑

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What a heart breaking historical journey. These are the kinds of books we need: books that tell the truth about America‘s history: visceral, raw, and brutally honest. Slavery was much worse than what we can imagine. My home city, Charleston, will forever carry this shameful, ugly stain. This book centers on the journey of Ashley‘s sack, gifted to her by her mother Rose, on the eve of her sale, sometime in the 1850s—before finding its way to⬇️

JenniferEgnor Ruth, who stitched the words on it. The rough, stained cotton sack contained pecans, a dress, hair, and the most important, indestructible thing of all: love. The author goes into detail about the meaning of each item in the sack and why it was so important; she also goes into detail about what life was like for enslaved peoplx. Everything in this country‘s history and be traced back to slavery—even pecan pie. Read this book, share it. If not⬇️ 1w
JenniferEgnor yet banned, it will be. Don‘t look away from the truth. Learn it. 1w
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Singout I think this is going to be my mom‘s next birthday gift. I was describing it to her, and she was intrigued: not available in her library. 1d
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An auction block was a real thing. We sometimes forget this. We allow the physicality of a rock worn smooth by time and the press of bare, stolen feet to slip from our awareness. But these mundane things – a concrete block, a wooden set, a hollow stump – were props for the ritual dehumanization of a people. Much like the “uniform” of Negro cloth, the auction block set a group apart in order to lower their social status and justify their⬇️

JenniferEgnor contemptuous treatment. The rock or stump functioned like a department store window where “the human – commodity is put on display,” raised up and set apart. The auction block‘s structuring presence made one thing clear: if you were someone who could be treated to the indignity of sale, then you were barely a person at all. 1w
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Enslavers tended to name their human property in ways that reaffirmed their own status and authority, while simultaneously demeaning the people named. The result was a denial of enslaved people‘s surnames, a slew of personal names that were the shortened form of European names (like Beck, Harry, or Jenny), names more fitting for household pets (like Hero, Cupid, or Captain), and names reminiscent of classical figures (like Dido, Caesar, or Venus)

JenniferEgnor . The excision of surnames had the effect of rhetorically severing Black family lines, erasing rights of natal, belonging, and denying maturity and adulthood. The bestowal of diminutive nicknames or cutesy pet names, belittled recipients as perpetual children or domesticated animals rather than recognizing them as the subjects who would mature into their own lives. Enslavers also appreciated, perhaps, their own sardonic wit in naming people with 1w
JenniferEgnor little social power after characters with great cultural recognition. Every time a master or mistress called upon “Hercules,” “Sampson,” or “Prince,” they rubbed enslaved people‘s noses in the shame of their assigned inferiority. 1w
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How did we arrive here, with the memory of a tattered dress and yet another Black mother‘s daughter on an auction block? How did South Carolina become a place where the sale of a colored child was not only possible but probable? The answer lies in the willingness of an entire society to bend its shape around a set of power relations that structured human exploitation along racial lines for financial gain. While vending Black people to underwrite⬇️

JenniferEgnor material pleasures, South Carolina sold its soul. 1w
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Today the brick walls of Charleston seem picturesque, luxuriously fringed by palmetto fronds, burnt-orange trumpet vines, and snow-white gardenias hot with perfume. We admire the Old World intricacy of this storied city while taking photos of Charleston‘s famous iron gates. We see the tall, striking walls as elaborate garden boxes resplendent here as nowhere else in the nation. We gaze with longing glances at the seeming romance of another age⬇️

JenniferEgnor , lapped by gentle waves and bathed in sunlight. But in the early and middle 1800s, when Rose likely lived in this city, these walls were barrier fences. The urban estates inside functioned like prisons, with every white person a virtual garden. The walls could double as weapons, too, when spangled on their upper ledges with sharp barbs of broken bottles placed at the master‘s direction. Elaborately worked wrought-iron gates adjoined the thick⬇️ 1w
JenniferEgnor segments of brick, spiked in their decorative aspect like knives and swords. To Charleston‘s elite slaveholding residents, like Ralph Izard of Meeting Street, these weaponized walls bestowed “an air of comfort to the premises.” The walls represented social order, the proper structuring of life, in which certain classes of people (white, Black, free, slave, men, women) and different types of activities (business versus domestic affairs) were kept 1w
JenniferEgnor to their appointed places. Comfort and structure for the owners meant danger and chaos for the enslaved. Walls barricading family homes from the sight lines of the streets prevented freedom of movement, escape, and revolt by enslaved people and, more subtly but just as ominously, veiled the sights and sounds of physical and sexual abuse. The romantic walls of Charleston, as an art historian of the city put it, “forced slaves to focus on the ⬇️ 1w
JenniferEgnor master‘s world.” 1w
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The Miles Brewton House fence with mounted spikes, 27 King Street, Charleston. The spikes were added to the plain ironwork fence after Denmark Vesey‘s rebellion plot of 1822.

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The particular Rose recalled to memory by Ruth Middleton‘s looping stitch may have been given this name by a mother or a caretaker. She could have been called Rose, a flower of Old English derivation, by one of the people who owned her. She may have garnered the nickname Rose because she loved summer blossoms. She may have borne a rose-shaped scar on the tender skin of her back. And she was not alone, this woman named Rose, whose naming remains⬇️

JenniferEgnor , whose parents remain, whose origins remain a mystery. She rises from the documents of South Carolina slavery along with many others who bear the same name, a sorrowful garden of captured Roses. 1w
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It is a madness, if not an irony, that unlocking the history of unfree people depends on the materials of their legal owners, who held the lion‘s share of visibility in their time and ours. Captive takers‘ papers and government records are often the only written accounting of enslaved people who could not escape and survive to tell their own stories. The wealthier and more influential the slaveholder, the more likely it is that plantation and ⬇️

JenniferEgnor estate records were kept and preserved over centuries in private offices and, later, research repositories. South Carolina has more than its share of these tainted but crucial, documents. The records are thin and flaked, yellowed and faded into pale lunar shades, tattered around the edges. They exist in the hundreds and thousands of pages, neatly filed in folders or compiled in heavy, aged books, leather-bound and massive. They are kept in⬇️ 1w
JenniferEgnor tucked-away places: the official archives of the state, special collections of libraries, city deed offices, plantation attics, and the private files of personal homes. 1w
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It is the world‘s shortest slave narrative , stripped down to its essence, sent back to us through time like a message in a bottle.

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The supple bends of the Ashley River ribbon the edge of the property. Dirt paths lead to stone ruins and delicate reflecting ponds shaped like butterfly wings—ponds that enslaved people dug by hand out of steaming, mosquito-thick mud banks. These pools are among the many luxuries exorbitant wealth bought in Charleston, one of this country‘s richest towns in the era of the American Revolution, due to rice and cotton profits of legalized slavery.

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Just as Rose and Ashley found on their forced journeys through slavery landscape, there is no safe place of escape left for us. The walls of the world are closing in. We need to get out of here in a hurry. We need to get out of these frames of mind and states of emotion, that elevate mastery over compassion, division over connection, and greed over care, separating us one from another, and locking us in. Our only options in this predicament, ⬇️

JenniferEgnor this state of political and planetary emergency, are to act as first responders or die not trying. We are the ancestors of our descendants. They are the generations we‘ve made. With a “radical hope” for their survival, what will be packed into their sacks? 2w
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Based on the hit BBC show of the same name, this is the first of several memoirs of midwifery in Poplar, England, in the 1950s. Nonnatus House isn‘t a real place but it is named after a 13th century Saint, Raymond Nonnatus. Here, Jennifer shares the humbling experiences she had while working as a midwife and living with nuns.Life was hard and inequities rampant. During this time, forced sterilization, the lack of contraception, lack of access to⬇️

JenniferEgnor abortion care, lack of housing and clean water, living wages, made pregnancy, birthing and parenting even more dangerous and harder than it already was. Sadly, we still see these inequities occurring today. 2w
JenniferEgnor At times I felt the author was a little mean. The stories made me more grateful for the rights we have today, though they are being taken away at an alarming pace. I wouldn‘t want to have been a pregnant capable person in the 1950s. Stories like these are important to remember. We cannot forget what it looks like when we don‘t have access to basic things. Medicine has made great progress but there is still a long ways to go. Medical⬇️ 2w
JenniferEgnor racism, transphobia, homophobia, and misogyny continue to thrive in this space. We can and we must do better. These stories are a reminder that the only way to create real change is through the lens of Reproductive Justice. Link on the real midwives and nurses of Poplar: https://poplarlondon.co.uk/call-the-midwife-real-stories/ (edited) 2w
lazydaizee I love Call the Midwife , have watched all the episodes so far and read the original book. 2w
JenniferEgnor @lazydaizee I love it too! I haven‘t finished watching the last season yet though. Sister Monica Joan and Trixie are my favorites! 2w
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This is a heart warming book that‘s about several things. One woman and how she touched the lives of everyone around her, the difference she made in the world, always striving to be of service to others. The relationship she had with her son, her love of books and how she took what she learned from them and applied it to her being. And finally, how she chose to face death and did the things she loved until her final moments. Recommended.

Suet624 I agree. This book was really wonderful. 3w
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She never wavered in her conviction that books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose—electronic (even though that wasn‘t for her) or printed, or audio—is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.Mom taught me that you can make a difference in the world and that books really do matter: they‘re how we know what we need to do in life⬇️

JenniferEgnor and how we tell others. Mom also showed me, over the course of two years and dozens of books and hundreds of hours in hospitals, that books can be how we get closer to each other, and stay close, even in the case of a mother and son who were very close to each other to begin with, and even after one of them has died. 3w
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When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi
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This book reminded me a lot of Lily and the Octopus. I will always think of cancerous growths as octopi from now on. I asked AI for an image a man with an octopus sitting on his chest and this is what it gave me. I suppose it fits. Brown skin, and the octopus seems to be spreading itself everywhere.

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Farenhajt 451 | Ray Bradbury
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This AI image makes the firemen look happy to see books burning. Let‘s hope this isn‘t our future…we‘re nearly there.

IuliaC Let's hope that doesn't ever happen! 4w
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I have been trying to read as much as I can about neurological conditions such as Alzheimer‘s and Dementia. Volunteering in Hospice, and working a for few months in home health has taught me a lot. My father and step-mom both have Alzheimer‘s, so these books are very helpful but it‘s still hard. This book discusses some history of mental illness and its institutions, and stories of loved ones who have had these diseases. It discusses the⬇️

JenniferEgnor problems with funding, visibility and compassion. It also discusses the ongoing search for a cure. The author lays out her own plans should this happen to her, as it did her mother. Unfortunately, as of now, there is no medically assisted death available for Alzheimer‘s and Dementia, given the requirements the diseases fail to meet along timelines and cognition. For me, that is what I would want; just to check out and call it a night, by any⬇️ 4w
JenniferEgnor means within my availability. I don‘t want to exist as a shell, the real me being lost forever. If you are looking for a book about caregiving, this isn‘t it, though it is educational and worth reading. Shown: my husband and I with my father and step-mom, last weekend. She told me her grandmother was 200 years old; she gave the cat human cereal with milk in a bowl instead of her cat food; and we saw banana peels that my father placed inside⬇️ (edited) 4w
JenniferEgnor the storm door frame. You don‘t know what the next moments might bring; you just have to go with it and love them through it. 4w
TieDyeDude ❤ It is great that you work in home health, but it must be tough having to “bring your work home,“ for lack of a better term. I'm glad you were able to get something out of this book. 4w
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When Breath Becomes Air | Paul Kalanithi
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This is a raw, heartbreaking and beautiful story about a neurosurgeon becoming the patient when he is diagnosed with cancer. He chose to keep going and meet it head on, living authentically until he took his last breath. His wife wrote such a beautiful epilogue in addition to the story he wrote of this journey. A book about courage, loss, death, and living. Highly recommend.

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The Escape Artist | Jonathan Freedland
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Rudolf Vrba/Walter Rosenberg, was the first of 60,000 Jews who were deported from Slovakia between March and October 1942. He was the first to escape the hell of Auschwitz and just one of only four to do so. His friend Fred Wetzler escaped with him. Walter was caught and taken to Majdanek and was there for twelve days; from there he went to Auschwitz, having heard of something better called ‘Kanada‘. He had no idea what nightmares awaited⬇️

JenniferEgnor him. He would be at Auschwitz and Birkenau for 10 months. There, he was tattooed as 44070. He was only 18 when this all began. Forced to bear witness and take part in unspeakable things, he was determined to get out. He committed names, numbers, dates, maps, and much more to his memory. After their escape, he began to spread the word of what was happening there. It was called ‘The Auschwitz Report‘; and most did not believe him. The⬇️ 1mo
JenniferEgnor Hungarian Jews would be next on the Alte Judenrampe and he was desperate to try and stop it. His efforts saved 200,000 lives. He and Fred went on to piece their lives back together; neither were ever the same. A horrifying and necessary read. I learned about things that happened within Auschwitz here, that I did not know. At times I had to stop and just take a breath. Fascism has never gone away but was left to metastasize and we are seeing⬇️ 1mo
JenniferEgnor it begin to take hold in many places around the world. We are in America, but, please remember that it CAN happen here. It HAS happened here. In the 1930s America had its own Nazi Party. And now, it is coming back again. Do not stand by and let it happen. Walter‘s story is a testament and warning to all of us: If you see/hear something, SAY something, DO something! Shown: an exhibit from the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC. I was there⬇️ 1mo
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JenniferEgnor last year and it was incredibly difficult. I recommend that everyone go see it. Follow ADL, SPLC to stay informed about hate groups. (edited) 1mo
JenniferEgnor *Another Nazi group was marching around the capitol in Tennessee just this past weekend. Do not let this poison spread. Fascism must be stamped out wherever it is found. 1mo
Blueberry Sounds powerful. 1mo
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Gorgeous, clever and cool bookmarks I found at Target recently. You can never have too many bookmarks, am I right?! Link to purchase your own if you feel like you or someone you know needs them in your/their life: https://www.target.com/p/dabney-lee-bookmarks-set-of-3-faux-leather-tassel-bookm.... (Only $8 for the set)!

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I finally made it to the Timrod Library since becoming a member a few weeks ago. It was my first time looking around. I went in looking specifically for the Sally Hemings novel, having seen the spine when there a few weeks ago. I had to explore the whole library (it‘s bigger than the one by my house), and told myself don‘t get too carried away! Before I can start these, I have to finish the one I just started today, from my own library!

JenniferEgnor Librarian at the desk: “You‘re a READER, I can tell!” 1mo
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Our former SC State Representative talks about poverty and growing up in rural Denmark, the little known Orangeburg Massacre, running for office, equity, equality, the ongoing problem of Black Womxn‘s mortality & morbidity in healthcare, and the continuing legacy of the stain of slavery. He talks about what anll of this is like while being Black, especially in the Deep South. Denmark isn‘t far from where I currently live, and I was never taught⬇️

JenniferEgnor about the Orangeburg Massacre—it‘s an hour away. Nor was I ever taught about the deep inequities, the daily struggle of what it means to be Black, especially in a place where a remarkable amount of people are still so hateful.I hope my state will finally see deep change soon—its peoplx can‘t wait. As the next election approaches I am deeply afraid for what is coming. This book once again reminds us how much work is still to be done. Recommended.
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How many of us have to be murdered before someone does something? And if we wait on older Americans to do something, then the likelihood of it getting done isn‘t high at all. It‘s an undeniable fact that black lives matter, but some people like to say, “All lives matter.” However, that‘s like saying at a breast cancer awareness rally that all cancer matters. It‘s true: all lives matter; but there‘s not a question about the value of police⬇️

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I‘d have to write another book to explore the issues surrounding race and religion. But if I did, I‘d argue that one of the more disappointing narratives of this racial divide in our country has been the silence of white, male, Christian evangelicals. People may roll their eyes about this, but I firmly believe that in my relationship with God, I‘m probably going to be in line ahead of Jerry Falwell Jr. and other evangelical heirs like Franklin⬇️

JenniferEgnor Graham III as they try to get into heaven. Why haven‘t these Christian leaders spoken up about the killings of black men by police? Why haven‘t they supported the #MeToo movement or railed against immigrant children being taken from their families? Why were they silent in the aftermath of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia? Race, religion, and power might be complicated, but ignoring compassion is malpractice. 1mo
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The fact that South Carolina is a deep red state makes it pretty likely that their friends and relatives will vote Republican, and have in the past, and therefore against policies that could help them eat and help them survive. But the legislators whom they choose vote against such policies because some people in certain political and media circles consider those policies to be geared toward helping only poor black people. How do poor whites⬇️

JenniferEgnor square voting against their own interests? My father believes that it all boils down to stereotypes and the alternate history South Carolinians have been taught to believe—that we black people didn‘t have a thing to do with building this country, that we are lazy and childlike, that we were treated kindly by slaveholders. Some people still to this day believe that the Civil War was not fought over slavery and that we nearly destroyed South⬇️ 1mo
JenniferEgnor Carolina during Reconstruction. Some writers have observed that South Carolina exists in a parallel universe. Well, just maybe that has something to do with miseducation. 1mo
Chrissyreadit Yes. It is purposeful by people who want to maintain control to keep poor people fighting each other and defending their oppressors. I live in WV and constantly try to find supports for people who have voted against those very supports. 1mo
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Why does dark skin so offend white people? There‘s no value in skin color itself. It adds nothing to or detracts from a person‘s skills, heart, or humanity, any more than eye or hair color does. So why have people with dark skin been terrorized for centuries, to this very day, and held in such contempt? Why were we enslaved for 250 years?

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Rebuilding a white community and a black community are two totally different things. Because black folk were stripped of everything, we have to rebuild our communities mentally, physically, spiritually, and economically.

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I know people say we almost pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, but that doesn‘t give value to being poor, black, and isolated in America. In rural segregated areas like Denmark and Orangeburg, black people live similarly to how they lived during the Jim Crow era. Regardless of class, we reside in the same black neighborhoods, often attending the same black schools in the same black churches.The children play and grow up together among the same⬇️

JenniferEgnor black families, regardless of who their parents are, and how much money their parents make. Segregation wasn‘t some remembrance of the past for us; it was, and is, our reality. (edited) 1mo
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‘Fresh Ginger Gingerbread‘. Omg it smells divine and tastes even better. There are bits of crunchy ginger scattered within, and fresh ginger root was thrown in the batter. I‘ve already had several pieces! Sharing with co-worker friends tomorrow. It‘s so good, I may have to make more this weekend!

Soubhiville Yum! A favorite of mine 😋. 1mo
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First recipe made from this book tonight. I just spontaneously decided to do it since I had everything and it was so simple.
It is so good!!!! *I used way less sugar: only 1/4 cup plus the 2tbls.

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The Woman in Me | Britney Spears
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I was never a fan of Brittany‘s music, and I wouldn‘t have read this book had a friend not literally put it in my hand. But now that I‘ve read it, I‘m glad that I did. I remember some of the events she mentions in this book, when they happened; I remember seeing the photos on magazines everywhere. She went through a lot. A family that abused and exploited her as a child, as an adolescent, and as an adult. This book reads like a child wrote it.⬇️

JenniferEgnor Brittany‘s inner child is still there, and she just wants to be loved. She wasn‘t allowed to be a child, she was just exploited. That continued on into her adolescence. And when she was an adult, her father treated her like property. Her own person was stolen from her again. There is no shortage of misogyny within these pages. This is her story of what she went through, and how she came out on the other side of it. 1mo
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My library check outs today.

CBee The Escape Artist was a powerful read. 1mo
JenniferEgnor @CBee I‘m looking forward to it. I‘ve heard about other books with stories very similar to this. 1mo
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The Violin Conspiracy | Brendan Slocumb
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Joseph Bologne, the 18th century Black classical musician and composer we weren‘t told about!

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The Violin Conspiracy | Brendan Slocumb
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I loved this book. A tale of one very gifted Black man, his relationship with his ancestors, and the gift they gave him: the Stradivarius violin. I loved how the author made the story so personal, reflecting on the real events in his own life, the daily struggles of being Black. I especially loved the backstory of the violin and would like to see a novel based on that. Shown: Black Violin is a duo of a Black take on classical music; I saw⬇️

JenniferEgnor them perform in Charleston in 2019. I love their music! Below: the movie featured on Hulu about Jospeh Bologne, sometimes called the ‘Black Mozart‘ (France, 1745-1799). Wonderful movie, I highly recommend it. How many of us ever knew his story? Black representation matters, Black history matters. More of this please, we demand it! We don‘t want a white washed history. 1mo
Deblovestoread My daughter introduced me to Black Violin and I love them but I did not know about Joseph Bologne. I‘m off to find out more and will watch the movie. Thanks for bringing this to our attention! 1mo
Suet624 I saw Black Violin around the same time you did. They were fabulous in person. 1mo
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I got to meet the author today and hear him speak alongside author Joseph McGill Jr. I was very fortunate to have their books signed for me afterwards.

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Link to the poetry of Henry Timrod here: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/845/845-h/845-h.htm

I‘ll be reading about this man and what he had to say in his poetry. I am sure there is something important to be found in it, regarding the painful and ugly stain of slavery in the South.

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Authors Joseph McGill Jr and Herb Frazier came to the historic Timrod Library today to talk about their book ‘Sleeping with the Ancestors: How I Followed the Footprints of Slavery‘. Herb is the author of several other books. Spending the night in the old slave dwellings is a powerful way to get in touch with the ancestors. Having deep and hard conversations about race and privilege around the campfire before going to sleep in the cabin, is a⬇️

JenniferEgnor necessary and good challenge. To be and live anti-racist is ongoing work that is never finished. The end vision and result is worth it, and we can all be part of that. We must. 1mo
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Whole wheat cheddar scallion rolls are fresh out of the oven. I planted the root ends of the onions outside to grow from scraps.

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Pretty (and cutely stamped) eggs gifted to us from a coworker friend who has chickens.

TheBookHippie Love 1mo
IuliaC So cute! 1mo
SamAnne LOL. I will need to start doing this with my flock‘s eggs! 1mo
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Democratic Primary 2024, SC: this song came on right after I voted. 🤣

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SamAnne I‘ve listened to that on repeat a few times….. 1mo
JenniferEgnor @SamAnne I remember when the 2020 election results were final and announced, this song and another one like it were playing all over the nation as we celebrated. 1mo
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The Book Woman's Daughter | Kim Michele Richardson
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This book continues the legacy of Bluet from book 1. This is a story about finding your place in the world, your joy—when everything is taken away from you, and pushing back. Some things in the story are real: the Pack Horse Librarians, and the blue skin folx. Blue skin can be caused by a number of things including genetics, inbreeding, and other medical conditions. TW/CW: misogyny, domestic violence

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The Book Woman's Daughter | Kim Michele Richardson
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Enjoy this AI image of Packhorse Librarians in 1930s Kentucky delivering books alongside Troublesome Creek.

*these AI creations are always off somehow and therefore funny.

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This book presents some ideas worth considering. Social media was created for connection but it has grown into something else and there is no stopping it. Algorithms are everywhere and not only decide things for you, but build different kinds of walls around you (disinformation, economic walls, loss of physical, emotional connection—to name a few). You have to decide for yourself what you want to do with it. It causes harm but there is also⬇️

JenniferEgnor good to be found in it. Can we outsmart the algorithm? Shown: I asked AI to create an image of a brain eating social media, and a social media happy meal. The first image I find very disturbing but accurate. The second one is honest as well because what‘s on the plate looks desirable…yet, we must pay careful attention to what we consume. There is truth to the saying ‘You are what you eat‘. 1mo
JenniferEgnor Watch this documentary on Netflix, the author is featured there. https://www.netflix.com/us/title/81254224?s=i&trkid=258593161&vlang=en&clip=8156... 1mo
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This book discusses the ship routes taken by the peoplx we call ‘Vikings‘ and also the long fascination we‘ve had with them. We know they were the first to discover America. The sagas aren‘t just stories, they contain actual history; some of the places mentioned are thought to be places in America, and Canada. What is it about these ancient peoplx that fascinates us so much? This book delves into that question, exploring the many things they⬇️

JenniferEgnor are found in today, including sports, movies, tv shows, comic books. It also talks about the darker side of this obsession. Think the American Nazi Party in the 1930s, fascism then and now, not just in America but other countries as well; the ‘QAnon Shaman‘ from January 6, 2021 at the Capitol is also mentioned. Very interesting historical read but the question remains: why the obsession? Shown: my husband in a rare snow in SC a few years back⬇️ 1mo
JenniferEgnor He has Scandinavian heritage, and you can see it when you look at him. He stands at 6‘4, has blue eyes, and when not dyed, dark blonde hair. Our last name, ‘Egnor‘, means ‘North of the Oak‘, referring to a meeting place of the tribes centuries ago. He‘s always been fascinated with this history and definitely has the looks to be in one of these shows! 1mo
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My husband and I love Impossible and Beyond plant ‘meats‘. The possibilities are endless! These books have many great cultural recipes in them. We‘ve already been ‘cooking outside the box‘ before I found these. I‘m excited to do more with these! I‘m not really into meat and can live without it. The way we get our food and eat it has got to change because this system isn‘t sustainable.

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My library check outs today.

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Who are my fellow bakers here? Comment below! I‘ve been using KA flours ever since I started cooking. Their products are high quality, their recipes wonderful. I‘m trying to do healthier baking and found this copy on eBay for very cheap; I didn‘t realize it was autographed! I have never taken a class and there is so much I don‘t know. I have always wanted to visit the KAF store in Vermont. I can‘t wait to make the hummus bread and cheddar⬇️

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I checked out this book not knowing what it was about, but loving the cover art that looks like ink blot and a pelvis. The first part really captured me, because I have the gift of psychometry too. The rest I felt was a bit long. I didn‘t expect the twist but I didn‘t like the ending. This book is a lot like M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Village. Cult mentality, deep isolation, Stockholm Syndrome. I‘d like to see this adaptated onto the screen.

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My finds at today‘s library book sale.