The best explanation.
Democrats are staging a sit in on the House floor and say they won't budge until there's a vote on gun reform. Among them, a true American hero, Congresswoman Duckworth. Give 'em hell, Tammy!
And don't we all want McCrory to shut the fuck up at this point?
I took a pic of this tweet and posted it on Facebook. That post currently has over 400 Likes and over 2000 Shares. I am stunned but glad so many agreed with it. So I thought I'd put it here too. Not for reblogs but for the truth of it.
Check out @owillis's Tweet:
Noir At The Bar Durham NC 6-16-16. It was hot. Like ceiling fan, Humphrey Bogart in Key Largo hot. But it didn't stop these authors from slinking into a bar in Durham to wow the crowd with assorted tales of noir.
We took it to the Governor’s mansion yesterday to let Pat McCrary know Triangle Families are Against HB2. #WeAreNotThis #TransgenderRights #ForwardTogether
Sean's story "Maya Angelou is Dead" is the lead story in the Spring 2016 edition of West Trade Review. Get your copy at http://www.westtradereview.com/. #amreading #amwriting #fiction #literarymagazine #WestTradeReview #writersofinstagram
Haw author Sean Jackson assists literacy efforts at N.C. author’s conference
LUMBERTON, N.C.—Joined by nearly 70 East Coast authors, Sean Jackson (Haw, Harvard Square Editions, June 2015) helped raise monies and awareness for illiteracy in North Carolina schools during the annual Book ‘Em writers conference at Robeson Community College on Feb. 27.
The event showcased a keynote address by North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson.
Jackson was also featured in a panel discussion, The Author’s Path to Publication, presented before a packed room during the daylong event.
Haw has been called a new star on the dystopian landscape.
“Dystopian fiction has been all the rage in YA circles in recent years, from The Hunger Games to Divergent. But Haw reminds us that the apocalypse isn’t just kid stuff. Its long literary tradition traces smoking wreckage from Brave New World to The Road, and it’s in this line that Haw falls.” – Brian Howe, IndyWeek
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The novel follows Lucas and Orel, father and son, as they try to survive in this hostile environment. Lucas is a water purification scientist fighting a losing battle, while Orel is a budding photojournalist who hopes to escape the South for the mythical haven of the North. We eventually learn that Orel is gay, which provides context for the bad public school experience that led to his homeschooling.
Lucas and Orel live in a mansion near Raleigh. It’s one of many abandoned by The Hidden, who live high in climate-controlled towers, safe from the pollution, deprivation and violence among the semi-mutants living below. Jackson calls the lower class citoyens, exploiting the term’s French Revolution-y whiff, and indeed, class warfare is in the air. “There are those who say the time is soon coming for the pendulum to swing back,” Jackson writes. The book captures this atmosphere of vertiginous anticipation—a massive social force paused at the top of its arc before violently slicing back the other way.