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Hamas reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly
March 22, 2012
“With thorough endnotes, a detailed Dramatis Personae, and an updated chapter to address the political situation since the book’s initial publication in Italian in 2009, Caridi’s English-language debut is timely and informative.”
Tags: hamas, paola caridi, publishers weekly, reviews
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The Unfinished Revolution reviewed in Publisher’s Weekly
March 22, 2012
“While sociologically and academically relevant, this is a cohesive and eminently readable document that is simultaneously an inspiration and a call-to-action.”
Tags: minky worden, publishers weekly, reviews, unfinished revolution
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Excerpt from The Unfinished Revolution on International Planned Parenthood Federation
March 22, 2012
“These very real experiences should make for excellent public policy: tackling the three issues of violence against women, access to contraception, and gender-based discrimination is what will make abortion less needed. The legalization of abortion will make the practice safe. Most of these facts are undisputed. The real question is why none are adequately addressed in Latin America today.”
Tags: excerpts, international planned parenthood federation, marianne mollmann, minky worden, unfinished revolution
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Excerpt from Rise of the Videogame Zinesters on Joystiq
March 22, 2012
“In videogames, the audience is there, live, with the actors — or as the actors — experiencing a single performance that is unique, despite the story having been performed and continuing to be performed many times.”
Tags: anna anthropy, excerpts, joystiq, rise of the videogame zinesters
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Voices of the Women’s Health Movement reviewed in the Library Journal
March 22, 2012
“A valuable work for anyone interested in the women’s health movement and an essential resource for all collections.”
Tags: barbara seamen, Laura Eldridge, library journal, reviews, voices of the women's health movement
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Barbara Seaman explains why health activism is central to women’s rights
March 22, 2012
I remember the voices: “Yes, I had an illegal abortion.” “Yes, I was raped.” “Yes, my neighbor (brother, father, uncle, priest, doctor, therapist, teacher) hassled me sexually.” “Yes, I faked orgasms.” “Yes, every birth control method I’ve ever used was a disaster.” “Yes, my gynecologist makes me feel uncomfortable, but I can’t admit it, he’s so esteemed. His pelvic exams are so rough it hurts.” “Yes, I took a drug that made me very sick, but my doctor told me to keep taking it.
Tags: barbara seam, editorials, Laura Eldridge, voices of the women's health movement, women's e news
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The Night Wanderers reviewed in PW
March 21, 2012
“Uganda has been ravaged by civil war, and Joseph Kony’s militant Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) continues to perpetrate one of the gravest humanitarian crises of our time—this is the context for this brave, devastating work of war reportage. The facts are chilling, and Jagielski handles them with integrity and a minimum of stylistic flourish, treating the subject with the dignity it deserves.”
Tags: night wanderers, pw, reviews, wojciech jagielski
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Anna Anthropy in The Huffington Post
March 20, 2012
“Video games used to be an outlet for the next-level artist (before they started selling more than movies, that is). Anthropy is calling for a return to the medium’s wacky heyday. Not content with letting video games fall by the wayside of artistic potential, Anthropy creates games that touch upon larger issues than just the destruction of some cliched alien race.”
Tags: anna anthropy, huffington post, reviews, rise of the videogame zinesters
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Anna Anthropy’s Dys4ia reviewed on Penny Arcade
March 20, 2012
“That’s why Dys4ia is such an interesting game; it deals with subject matter that most of us aren’t familiar with, and asks us to interact with it on a personal level. Do I know how going through the problems described in the game feels? Not in the slightest. I’m a straight, white, male. It’s hard for me to relate when I read books or articles about these issues, but there is something special that happens when the mechanics of games are used to get the point across. Suddenly things click into place, and it feels immediate. The struggles of the game’s protagonist became real.”
Tags: anna anthropy, dys4ia, rise of the videogame zinesters
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The Boston Globe on Raoul Peck’s recent visit to Emerson
March 20, 2012
Power and politics are always fodder for conversation in America, and that’s especially true in the current presidential election year. But Raoul Peck hopes his filmmaking can help inspire Americans to look beyond their own politics and cultivate a more global perspective.
Tags: emerson college, lumumba, raoul peck, stolen images
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Ina May Gaskin on Democracy Now! talks about midwives and the rising U.S. mortality rate
March 19, 2012
“As the controversy over women’s access to contraception continues, we look at women’s access to safe, affordable and comfortable birthing options.” — Democracy Now!
Tags: birth matters, democracy now, ina may gaskin, ina may's guide to childbirth, midwifery, safe motherhood quilt project, united states mortality
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PW interview with Anna Anthropy: “What Videogames Can Be”
March 16, 2012
“When people in the mainstream and the media talk about videogames, they talk about big publishers, big budgets, blockbuster successes. That’s not what videogames are—or, rather, it’s ONE of the things videogames are. But they’re also these small, interesting, personal experiences by hobbyist authors. People don’t talk about that aspect of games enough—Zinesters exists to be a kind of ambassador for that idea of what videogames can be.” — Anna Anthropy
Tags: anna anthropy, auntie pixelante, rise of the videogame zinesters
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Booklist calls The Graphic Canon, Volume 1 “a breathtaking glimpse of this young medium’s incredible future”
March 16, 2012
“Through the reprinted and newly-produced work of 59 (mainly American) adapters and 58 adapted titles, this is not only a survey of the world’s diverse artistic past, but also a breathtaking glimpse of this young medium’s incredible future.” — Jesse Karp, Booklist
Tags: booklist, russ kick, the graphic canon
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Anna Anthropy’s game Dys4ia speaks to “a desire for inclusion, and for games as a platform for self expression”
March 15, 2012
“Anthropy, an outspoken advocate for the . . . implicit message that anyone can, and should, make games, puts her money where her mouth is with Dys4ia, offering an example of how to use games as an articulation of personal experiences. In other words, Dys4ia is an expression, an attempt at communication, using the palette of the “game” as its medium.”
Tags: anna anthropy, dys4ia, medium difficulty, rise of the videogame zinesters
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Another great review of Anna Anthropy’s flash game Dys4ia
March 13, 2012
Dys4ia is an autobiographical flash game created by Anna Anthropy, a freelance scratchware game creator, based on her experiences with hormone replacement therapy and changing gender. The game riffs off 1980s 8-bit video games with little exercises, ranging from Pong to mazes… But it feels more like experiential art than playing a game. Anthropy uses the game to simulate some of the frustrations she experienced. She often makes the various exercises difficult, sometimes even apparently unsolvable.
Tags: anna anthropy, dys4ia, IndieGames, newgrounds, rise of the videogame zinesters, straight.com, TIGSource
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Anna Anthropy reviewed on Arcaica
March 13, 2012
“The central point of her speech is: everyone can make games. And it is actually everyone, not only the nerds in your building.”
Tags: anna anthropy, arcaica, blog reviews, rise of the videogame zinesters
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Review of Laurie Rubin concert at AT&T Theatre in Los Angeles
March 13, 2012
“A young mezzo-soprano whose voice is darkly complex and mysteriously soulful and who adds intense emphasis to every word of text sang six songs by the Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo on Thursday night at the AT&T Center Theatre. In one, a bee bites the lip of a sleeping shepherdess as if it were a rose, to the envy of a shy lover.”
Tags: at&t theatre, california, la, la times, laurie rubin, los angeles, singer, theatre
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Anna Anthropy’s new game Dys4ia receives rave reviews!
March 12, 2012
Anna Anthropy’s new game Dys4ia, inspired by her experiences on hormone replacement therapy, has already received 63,000 views after just three days on Newgrounds! Play the game HERE.
Following on the heels of her release party at Modern Times in San Francisco for her forthcoming book Rise of the Videogame Zinesters, and the popularity of Dys4ia, are home page features on both TIGSource and IndieGames.com.
Tags: anna anthropy, auntie pixelantie, dys4ia, newgrounds, rise of the videogame zinesters
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Subhankar Banerjee gives an editorial on Common Dreams
March 6, 2012
“Once upon a time vice–presidential hopeful Sarah Palin uttered the now (in)famous phrase “Drill, Baby, Drill.” Also, once upon a time presidential hopeful Barack Obama uttered the now (in)famous phrase “Yes We Can.” These two phrases got married along the way, and will now produce their baby “Kill, Baby, Kill.””
Tags: alaska, arctic voices, common dreams, editorials, oil drilling, subhankar banerjee
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Gabrielsson in Toronto Globe and Mail’s “New in Paperback”
March 6, 2012
“One of the most gripping back-stories of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, etc.) was the tale of the author’s 32-year relationship with architect and activist Eva Gabrielsson, and the fact that, because they were never officially married, she was cut out of any say in, or profit from, Larsson’s literary estate. Here she tells the story of that relationship, with many previously unseen pictures and including the letter Larsson left for her to be opened after his death.”
Tags: eva grabielsson, new in paperback, reviews, stieg larsson, there are things i want you to know about stieg larsson and me, toronto globe and mail
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Eva Gabrielsson on FogCityJournal.com
March 6, 2012
“[Gabrielsson] wants to determine which agents are used and approve how the works are used and any changes made in them. In her memoir published last year, There Are Things I Want You to Know About Stieg Larsson and Mechronicles their life together and puts Larsson’s often chaotic life into context.”
Tags: eva gabrielsson, fogcityjournal, the millennium trilogy, there are things i want you to know about stieg larsson and me
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Birth Matters reviewed on Birth Alchemy, Body
March 1, 2012
“Ina May Gaskin’s Birth Matters: A Midwife’s Manifesta is rally-cry to improve the abysmal maternal and neonatal mortality rates in the United States.”
Tags: birth alchemy body wisdom, birth matters, book reviews, ina may gaskin, literary mama
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Johan Harstad long-listed for the Best Translated Book Award
March 1, 2012
“Featuring authors from 14 countries writing in 12 languages, this year’s fiction longlist illustrates the prize’s dedication to literary diversity, ranging from works by established and classic authors, such as Moacyr Scliar’s Kafka’s Leopards and Imre Kertesz’s Fiasco, to works by emerging voices, like Johan Harstad’s Buzz Aldrin, What Happened to You in All the Confusion?, and Inka Parei’s The Shadow-Boxing Woman.”
Tags: best translated book awards, buzz aldrin, johan harstad, rocheter, three percent, what happened to you in all the confusion
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Our Bodies Ourselves supports Voices of the Women’s Health Movement
February 29, 2012
“Barbara’s prolific writings remain as testimonials to her indefatigable spirit and commitment to social justice. Her collaboration with Laura Eldridge to produce VOICES OF THE WOMEN’S HEALTH MOVEMENT gives us all the opportunity to ensure that the work of the Women’s Health Movement will be visible to a whole new generation.”
Tags: barbara seaman, Laura Eldridge, letters, our bodies ourselves, voices of the women's health movement
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National Women’s Health Network supports Voices of the Women’s Health Movement
February 29, 2012
“Voices of the Women’s Health Movement is another example of Barbara’s ability to see the connections.”
Tags: barbara seaman, cindy pearson, Laura Eldridge, letters, national women's health network, voices of the women's health movement
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