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John Grogan (British politician)
Title: John Grogan (British politician)
Subject: Labour Party (UK) parliamentary candidates, People from Wolverhampton, Labour Party (UK) MPs, List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 1997, List of MPs elected in the United Kingdom general election, 2005
John Grogan
for Selby
2 May 1997 – 12 April 2010
Michael Alison
Constituency abolished
(1961-02-24) 24 February 1961
Halifax, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
John Timothy Grogan (born 24 February 1961) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Selby between 1997 and 2010.
Grogan is currently chair of the Mongolian–British Chamber of Commerce (MBCC).[1]
Early life 1
Parliamentary career 2
Personal life 3
News items 5.1
Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, Grogan was educated at St Michael's RC College, a Jesuit school in Leeds and St John's College, Oxford. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Modern History and Economics in 1982, and also served as the President of the Oxford University Student Union.
He worked as a communications coordinator with the Leeds City Council from 1987 to 1994 before setting up his own conference business from 1996–7. He worked for the Labour Party in various capacities in both Leeds and Wolverhampton. He also acted as the Labour Party press officer in the European Parliament at Brussels in 1995.
Parliamentary career
Grogan unsuccessfully contested the North Yorkshire seat of Selby at the 1987 general election against the Conservative MP Michael Alison, losing by 13,779 votes. He again contested the seat for the second time at the 1992 General Election but was again defeated by Alison by 9,508 votes.
Between the 1987 and 1992 elections, he also stood unsuccessfully to become a Member of the European Parliament for York in 1989.
Grogan was then elected to the House of Commons at the 1997 general election for Selby. As the incumbent Alison had retired at the election, Grogan defeated the former Conservative MP for West Lancashire, Kenneth Hind, who had lost his seat in 1992, with a majority of 3,836. He made his maiden speech on 7 July 1997.[2]
He led the campaign to save the Selby Coalfield in 2002.[3] In 1999, he called for a memorial to the heroism of women during World War II to be remembered on the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square, with the campaign gaining the backing of the then Speaker of the House of Commons, Betty Boothroyd, and the Princess Royal.[4] Although the campaign was unsuccessful a monument has since been erected in Whitehall.
In the 2005 general election, he retained his seat with a reduced majority of 467 votes, making the seat the 15th most marginal Labour-held seat in the UK.
During his time as in parliament, Grogan served as a member of the Northern Ireland Select Committee from 1997 until 2001, and then again from 2005 until 2010.
In 2009 John Grogan gained national coverage for his campaign against the proposed options for the privatisation of Royal Mail.[5] detention of suspects for 42 days,[6] gambling deregulation,[7] He has also campaigned against the proposed expansion of Heathrow Airport,[8] the top-up tuition fee reforms in 2004[9] and voted against the UK's involvement in the Iraq War in 2003.[10] While serving as an MP, he also campaigned for reform of the licensing laws,[11] the smoking ban,[12] bus regulation[13] and public service broadcasting.[14] Grogan also campaigned for the protection of the rights of agency workers,[15] the regulation of lobbyists[16] and access for all to sporting listed events on free-to-air TV.[17] He was also the chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on the BBC, Beer and Mongolia.
While serving as the MP for Selby, Grogan also supported the building of a new by-pass for Selby,[18] as well as a new hospital[19] and the expansion of its flood defences.[20]
In 2006, Grogan confirmed he would not contest the next general election after boundary changes were made to his Selby Constituency.[21]
During and after the 2009 expenses scandal, Grogan was criticised by The Daily Telegraph for claiming £150.00 on parliamentary expenses for English language tuition for a Malaysian intern. It was reported by the newspaper to have been in order for the intern to be able to "understand his [Mr Grogan's] constituents' Yorkshire accents".[22]
In 2013, Grogan was selected as the Labour candidate for Keighley for the 2015 general election.[23] He lost to the Conservative candidate Kris Hopkins by a margin of 3,053 votes.[24]
Grogan lives in Burley in Wharfedale, West Yorkshire. He is a supporter of Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Bradford City A.F.C..
He is the honorary president of the University of York Labour Club. He is a member of the Fabian Society and the Institute for Public Policy Research.
^ http://www.mongolialondonbusinessforum.co.uk/mongolian-british-chamber-of-commerce
^ http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm199798/cmhansrd/vo970707/debtext/70707-28.htm#70707-28_spnew0
^ "'"Coalfield closure 'will cost £420m. BBC News. 20 June 2002.
^ "MP campaigns for war women's memorial". BBC News. 28 October 1999.
^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/debate/columnists/john-grogan-if-labour-can-t-save-the-royal-mail-it-s-lost-a-little-of-its-soul-1-2331535
^ "Labour MP on 42 day rebellion". BBC News. 2 June 2008.
^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/main-topics/local-stories/gambling-bill-criticised-by-labour-mp-1-2550571
^ http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2009/jan/28/labour-survives-heathrow-expansion-vote
^ http://www.nouse.co.uk/2004/02/16/selbys-unlikely-rebel/
^ http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/latest-news/top-stories/the-independent-1-2082797
^ "Ministers set to call time on licensing laws". BBC News. 14 December 1998.
^ http://ash.org.uk/files/documents/ASH_141.pdf
^ http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/1072964.transport_proposals_heralded_by_mp/
^ http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2007/jan/08/comment.media
^ http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/1600235.number_of_migrant_workers_soar_in_three_years/
^ http://www.prweek.com/uk/news/666262/Inquiry-lobbying-industry/?DCMP=ILC-SEARCH
^ http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/debate/columnists/john-grogan-let-us-all-share-in-the-celebrations-by-keeping-the-ashes-free-to-watch-1-5910128
^ http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/archive/1998/07/31/7968301.Green_light_for_Selby_bypass/?ref=arc
^ http://www.selbytimes.co.uk/news/local-news/new-selby-hospital-plan-joy-1-576955
^ http://www.selbytimes.co.uk/news/local-news/flood-defence-scheme-finished-1-571900
^ "MP to quit new-look constituency". BBC News. 11 October 2006.
^ Perry, Keith (29 October 2014). "MPs forced out over expenses will stand in 2015". The Daily Telegraph (London).
^ https://twitter.com/jon_trickett/status/404312365522755584
^ "Late election result sees Kris Hopkins retain Keighley seat in Parliament for Conservatives". Ilkley Gazette. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 14 May 2015.
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I've been to Sauraha on three occasions: 1997, 1998 and 2003. It's that nice of a place. It's tranquil, scenically awesome, and there's real wild animals about: tigers, rhinos, along with an elephant breading center. I'd even managed to forge some close friendships with local Nepalis there during my first visit in 1997.
Here's what UNESCO has to say about Chitwan:
At the foot of the Himalayas, Chitwan is one of the few remaining undisturbed vestiges of the 'Terai' region, which formerly extended over the foothills of India and Nepal. It has a particularly rich flora and fauna. One of the last populations of single-horned Asiatic rhinoceros lives in the park, which is also one of the last refuges of the Bengal tiger. Entry into Chitwan is usually made through the village of Sauraha, home of Nepal's elephant breading center and sanctuary.
More on Chitwan National Park please.
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Drove back to Red Deer from Lethbridge for the weekend last night and went out west this morning. Seen a good sized deer on a pipeline at 300 yards but only antlered was open in that zone. Got closer to see if I could make out antlers but it ran off when I got to 200 yards. Went over to a zone open for both antlered and antler less and seen a small 3X3 headed down a quad trail. I jumped rock to rock over a stream and managed to keep my feet dry (pretty epic stalk) but it was also an epic fail. After that I was in some diamond willows and some deer got spooked off a near by gravel road and ran into this open pasture. It was a doe and 2 yearlings, one of the yearlings was a fork horn. I picked out the female yearling and shot her with the .270 Win. at 100 yards offhand. No reaction she just ran off like nothing was wrong. She headed straight to a clump of willows and stopped. I knew I had to of hit her cause theres no reason for a deer to stop after getting shot at if it was missed. Due to that conclusion I figured I must of wounded it and decided to back out. I couldn't shoot a second time cause the willows she was in were way to thick. I turned around, walked back to where I shot from, drank a gatorade and 30 minutes later I went back for it. No blood trail, but ended up finding it behind the willows she stopped in. Ended up making it around 100 yards and the shot was better then I thought. A little far back but still got lungs. Bullet exited just in front of the hips in the paunch so I had to clean it out in a river.
Save a tree, kill a beaver.
Awesome. Congrats! Some great eating there.
Hey, Congratulations, and thanks for posting the pics. Nice looking doe.
Word of advice..........smile and look happy...lol..
Good stuff moosehunter enjoy the eats.


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Written by Tom Godfrey @thoronsport
Yesterday England international and Chelsea legend, Frank Lampard announced his retirement from football. Sports Gazette profiles his prestigious career and contemplates a potential future in coaching.
"He will go right to the very top". These are the words of then West Ham manager Harry Redknapp in 1997 while speaking at a public fan forum.
Redknapp has since become synonymous with hyperbole, but in this instance, his words were eerily accurate.
Lampard followed in his father's footsteps by enrolling in the West Ham academy and eventually broke into the first team in 1996. His father, Frank Lampard senior, played an enormous role in his development as an inspiration and disciplinarian.
Lampard senior played over 600 times for West Ham between the 1960's and 80's. Former Hammer Tony Cottee had the unique distinction of playing in the West Ham first team with both father and son and said:
"There's no doubt that his work ethic came from his dad, the old man put the time in with him, passed on his knowledge, showed him how to make the most of himself. That's where it came from."
On the eve of his son's 100th cap, the notoriously private man opened up about his role in his son's footballing career, saying:
"I would take him to practice at a nearby park and would work, work and work again at his game. There were times when I drove him to tears, but he responded. He always wanted to improve, (to) get better."
This unstoppable drive and hunger to improve is ultimately what has propelled Lampard's career and kept him at the zenith of the game for so many years.
In a recent interview with Jamie Carragher for the Daily Mail, Lampard spoke about his need to outwork others, saying:
"I was never that quick as a kid, so I had to get quicker. I trained hard. I was never that player who could roll out and relax, like Michael Owen or Steven Gerrard, who were natural.
"I knew if I dropped a level, if I got sloppy in training, I would fall behind."
In 2001, West Ham's acrimonious sacking of Redknapp lead to Lampard trading his east end roots for a new life in Chelsea's west end.
His new manager at Chelsea, Claudio Ranieri, saw him as an excellent prospect, but he surely had no idea just how prolific his career would be.
Lampard arrived at a Chelsea side that was aspirational, with owner Ken Bates transforming the club and attracting such names as Marcel Desailly, Emmanuel Petit and Gianfranco Zola. However, the club was unable to compete financially with the league's heavy hitters.
When new owner Roman Abramovich purchased the club in 2004. Lampard faced his toughest test to date with more competition for a place in the Chelsea midfield.
During the 2003-04 season, bolstered by Russian billions, Chelsea acquired seven new midfielders. These new acquisitions included such elite names as Claude Makélélé, Juan Sebastien Veron, Scott Parker, Damien Duff, Geremi and fellow West Ham academy graduate, Joe Cole.
Facing stiff competition, a then 25-year-old Frank Lampard called upon his focus and work ethic to form an integral part of the Chelsea spine that dominated England and eventually Europe.
Lampard's rise to prominence culminated in 2005 when his performances earned him the following accolades: Football Writers' Association Footballer of the Year, PFA Fans' Player of the Year, England and Chelsea's player of the year and runner-up in the Ballon d'Or behind Ronaldinho.
Lampard's final challenge at Chelsea was undoubtedly his hardest when he suffered the tragic loss of his mother in 2007.
Still shy of 30, he showed incredible mental fortitude and courage to play in a Champion's League Semi-Final against Liverpool just one week later, netting a decisive 98th-minute penalty.
In his time at Chelsea, Lampard became one of the game's most decorated players. He retires as the Premier League's fourth highest scorer amassing a staggering 177 goals from a midfield position.
Many players are lauded for their quantity of goals, but Lampard can also be praised for the fashion in which he scored. He holds the record for the most Premier League goals from outside the box (41), all of which are worthy of any highlight reel.
Towards the end of his time in England, Lampard's body finally showed signs of breaking down with consistent thigh and calf injuries. Never one to be stopped, Lampard set himself one final challenge – to leave his mark in Major League Soccer.
While brief, his time in New York again showcased the midfielder's class and mental resilience. Initially he was derided as 'the worst signing in MLS history', due to a poor start as he struggled for consistent fitness.
Lampard once more set about making a mockery of his critics, finishing his career in style with a goal ratio of one in every two games and notching New York City's first-ever MLS hat trick in the process.
Now that his time as a player is over, it is intriguing to consider what is next for the last of England's 'Golden Generation'.
Recent years have seen the retirement of fellow England teammates David Beckham, Steven Gerrard, and Paul Scholes. While Gerrard has recently taken up a coaching role at Liverpool, Beckham and Scholes are pursuing business and media roles.
It is to the national side's detriment that neither of these world-class players has progressed into a coaching capacity to work alongside current England manager, Gareth Southgate.
Lampard, like Beckham, made up for his lack of pace and trickery by mastering the fundamentals of the game and ensuring his body was always in optimum condition. These foundation skills are the basis on which great footballers are built and there is a need for them to be ingrained in England's next generation.
While Beckham has shown little interest in management, Lampard is already undertaking his coaching qualifications, with the Football Association ready to offer him a pathway into management.
Lampard's unique blend of physical and cerebral qualities makes him the most likely to succeed in management amongst his 'Golden' peers.
The Chelsea legend need not look any further for encouragement than his former teammate and friend, Jody Morris. Morris, who played alongside Lampard in the Chelsea midfield, is currently overseeing the Blues Academy that has featured in seven of the last ten youth FA Cup finals.
Upon Lampard's recent retirement, his former captain John Terry spoke about his friend's future, saying:
"For him to be example to look up to for our youngsters, someone who has been in their position.. and gone on to achieve what he's achieved, it is going to be great for our kids at the academy".
"He'll be a real success."
Ex Player
hammerdale22 5th February 2017
Bit Of Both – We give him a time as a Kid
(Spell Check) We gave Young Frank a Hard time, because of his Dad
B 5th February 2017
The abuse that Lampard got from West Ham fans over the years was disgusting, the club sacked his Dad and his Uncle so did we really expect him to stay? He also used to take the abuse as a motivational tool and play brilliantly against us. I never could understand why he got so much stick. He's had a remarkable career shame it wasn't in claret and blue.


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Dillon, Colorado Population and Demographics
Evan Comen, Samuel Stebbins
Population, Race and Ethnicity
Dillon is a town in Summit County, Colorado, with a population of 1,169. According to the most recent estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, 52.20% of residents identify as white, 0.00% as Black or African American, 0.30% as American Indian or Alaska Native, 1.90% as Asian, 9.20% as Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 32.40% as Hispanic or Latino, and 3.90% as some other race or combination of races.
Nationally, some 61.1% of Americans identify as white, 12.3% as Black or African American, 0.7% as American Indian or Alaska Native, 5.4% as Asian, 0.2% as Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, 17.8% as Hispanic or Latino, and 2.6% as some other race or combination of races.
Census respondents are also asked to report ancestry. Some of the most commonly reported ancestries in Dillon include English, German, Irish, Norwegian, and Scottish. Measured by location quotient — comparing the town share to the national share — some of the most highly concentrated ancestries in town are Norwegian, Austrian, and Scottish.
Native and foreign-born population
An estimated 81.80% of Dillon residents are native-born, meaning they were born in the United States, Puerto Rico, a U.S. Island Area, or abroad to a U.S. citizen. Of the 18.20% of the population that is foreign-born, 15.00% have become naturalized U.S. citizens. Nationwide, 86.5% of Americans are native-born. And of the 13.5% of Americans who are foreign-born, 48.5% have become naturalized U.S. citizens.
The population of Dillon is about as old as the United States as a whole. The median age is 37.9 years, equivalent to the national median age of 37.9 years. An estimated 15.70% of the population is 65 years and over, compared to 15.2% of the U.S. population.
Family and household composition
Family and household composition also varies heavily across the United States. In Dillon, 46.30% of households are occupied by married-couple families, compared to the 48.3% national figure. Some 1.20% of households are occupied by single male householders, 9.50% by single female householders, and 43.00% by non-family occupants. Nationwide, 4.9% of households are occupied by single male householders, 12.6% by single female householders, and 34.3% by non-family occupants. An estimated 58.60% of heads of household own their homes, compared to the national homeownership rate of 63.8%.
English is by far the most commonly spoken language in Colorado and across the U.S. as a whole. Similarly, in Dillon, 85.2% of local residents aged 5 and up speak English exclusively, or, if they are multilingual, speak English very well. For context, 94.1% of the 5 and older population across Colorado only speaks English, or speak it very well, and 91.5% of the same age group nationwide do.
Residents of Dillon are slightly less likely than the typical American to be married. Of all local residents aged 15 and older, 47.2% are currently married, compared to 48.1% of Americans nationwide in the same age group. Across Colorado as a whole, 50.4% of residents 15 and older are married.
Divorce is far more common in Dillon than it is across the U.S. as a whole. According to Census estimates, 17.8% of residents 15 and older are divorced — compared to 10.8% of the U.S. population in the same age group. In Colorado, 11.9% of the 15 and older population is divorced.
An estimated 29.1% of Dillon residents 15 and older have never married, compared to one-third of all Americans in the same age group.
In Dillon, 7.9% of the 18 and older civilian population are veterans — compared to 7.5% of adult civilians nationwide and 8.9% of the civilian population in all of Colorado.
In Dillon, adults are more likely to have a high school education than the typical American adult, and are also more likely to have a four-year college education. Among Dillon residents 25 and older, 98.60% have a high school diploma or equivalent, and 46.80% have a bachelor's degree or higher, compared to 87.7% and 31.5% of adults nationwide, respectively. Across Colorado, 91.4% of adults have graduated high school, and 40.1 have a bachelor's degree.
The typical household in Dillon earns $67,946 a year, about $7,700 more than the national median of $60,293 and $900 less than the median household income across the state of $68,811.
Serious financial hardship is less common in Dillon than it is nationwide. The local poverty rate stands at 12.90%, while the national poverty rate is 14.1%. Across the state as a whole, 10.9% of the population lives below the poverty line.
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As they do each year, the British community in Spain marked "Remembrancetide" in many ways, often with a Church Service on or near to Remembrance Sunday. This year, Remembrance Sunday fell on Sunday 11th November 2018, exactly 100 years after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking the end of World War One.
The period of Remembrance within District North Spain began with a Poppy Appeal Launch to be held in Benidorm on Friday, 19th October, details of which can be found at this link.
If you want to read more about the history behind some of the more familiar and poignant symbols used in Remembrance, you can do so here.
Photographs of some of those Acts of Remembrance are posted below...
Hondón Valley Branch
The Hondón Valley Branch Remembrance Service took place in the Catholic Church in the village of Hondón de los Frailes last Saturday. The beautiful Church was full – with standing room only. Father Don Witts officiated and welcomed Elizabeth Bell MBE, Vice Consul from the British Consulate in Alicante and the congregation to this special service of Remembrance and Commemoration of 100 years since the end of the Great War. Victor Ramirez Segura, the local European Councillor, read the Lesson in Spanish. Also taking part was the Spanish choir – Corro-Parroquial Inglesia San-Pedro Apostol de La Romana. They had written a hymn especially for the Branch – We will Remember Them- and performed it during the Service.
To commemorate the centenary, Branch members read extracts from "Forgotten Voices of the Great War" covering each of the four years until the time the Armistice was announced. These were very emotional and often harrowing accounts of life in the trenches at that time. (These readings will be displayed on the Branch website)
At the end of the Service, Father Witts blessed the Branch Standard – recognising the new Ypres Scroll following attendance at the Great Pilgrimage 90 in Belgium in August this year. Hondón Valley Branch was one of only two Branches from the whole of Spain who attended this event and Branch members are very proud that their Standard was one of over one thousand Standards from all over the world.
The Branch Standard and National Flags, together with Piper, Tony Dolphin then led the parade from the Church to the Ayuntamiento garden where wreaths and Memorial crosses were laid.
Javea Branch
A moving Act of Remembrance was held in the Fishermen's Church in Javea Port on Sunday 11th November. The church was full to capacity as Father Marcus Ronchetti led the congregation in remembering those who gave their lives in the First World War and since. Members of The Royal British Legion, The Royal Naval Association, the Royal Air Force association and the Aircrew Association and members of the public all took part. As part of the ceremony, Standards were paraded into the church, the Act of Remembrance was marked by the sounding of the Last Post, a silence and Reveille before wreaths were laid in honour of those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
Val d'Albaida Branch
The Remembrance Service in Albaida, led by the Branch Chaplain, was attended by 57 Branch Members and was followed by a lunch.


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There isn't much that gets us more excited than walking into a new restaurant, looking up and noticing a tin ceiling. Much to our surprise, that is exactly what happened yesterday. We are in New York City visiting Izzy during her foray interning for Michael Kors and helping Matt's mom as she recovers from knee replacement surgery. Andy met us in the city on his way from DC to New Hampshire and requested deli. Generally we are Carnegie Deli devotees but decided to branch out and try 2nd Ave Deli on 33rd Street which gets a #1 rating on Yelp and is located much closer to where we are staying.
The food was good but this restaurant ceiling was great! Check out the decorative ceiling tiles – not only are the ceilings tin, they have used one of my favorite designs, 1204 Tin Ceiling Tile – Classic Queen Victoria. Looking to spend a bit less, 148 Faux Tin Ceiling Tile is the exact same pattern and is available in both gold and brass. The copper version is stunning but also the most expensive.
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We will discuss the current Tokyo property market and price fluctuation in the morning. In the afternoon and evening we will discuss how to buy property in Japan as well as sharing information about the new BnB regulations and details on obtaining the Investor Business Manager Visa in Japan.
Developers and Agents will present exclusive properties to Hong Kong investors, including detailed information and data on the properties being offered. You can find properties suitable for personal use, as well as investment depending on your property criteria.
Presentations in Cantonese each day introducing "How to buy Japanese Property, Facts about the BnB Operation, and Japan Investor Visa" following the presentation there will be an introduction of the attending companies and their properties.
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A Comparative Study of the Effects of Gender on Travel Writing in Pierre Loti's Madame Chrysanthème and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's Turkish Embassy Letters
Comparative Literature (Bi-College)
Zackey, Meredith
Advisor: Allen, Elizabeth; Roberts, Deborah H.
Department: Bi-College (Haverford and Bryn Mawr Colleges). Comparative Literature Program
Subject: Loti, Pierre, 1850-1923. Madame Chrysanthéme
Montagu, Mary Wortley, Lady, 1689-1762. Turkish embassy letters
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My thesis is a comparison of two texts: Madame Chrysanthème, by Pierre Loti, and Turkish Embassy Letters, by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. Loti was a French author and sailor writing in the late 19th century and Montagu was an English noblewoman writing in the early 18th century. In my thesis, I argue that Montagu, as the first female travel writer, must undergo several transitions; these transitions are from passive observed to active participant, from occupying a role in society which limits her to fixed interactions with a select group of people to occupying a role in society which allows her to engage with various groups, and from proper, formal actions to adventurous and informal actions. By undergoing these transitions, Montagu is able to embrace her role as female travel writer and define this role for women to follow. Montagu must undergo changes to her social role and her gender role in order to embrace this role, however. A female travel writer must be an active participant, capable of accessing society at various levels and not afraid to be adventurous and informal, and Montagu's confining English social and gender role do not allow for these qualities. Loti's role as an established male travel writer, on the other hand, precludes changes to his social or gender role. Loti exists in a strong tradition of male travel writers, and it is because he is so rooted in this imperialist tradition of dominance over the Other that he cannot undergo changes to his social or gender role.
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Aleksandr Glukhov, a 21-year-old Russian conscript, has asked for asylum in the Republic of Georgia to escape the "unbearable conditions" in the Russian army. One of Glukhov's media appearances took place as he was dining at a McDonald's restaurant in Tbilisi. Russian officials claim that Glukhov was captured by Georgian armed forces in South Ossetia, where he was performing his compulsory military service, and taken to the Georgian capital. Quite a few people in Russia seem to consider Glukhov "a traitor." Below are some of the reactions from the Russophone blogosphere.
[...] The defense ministry is currently [trying to figure out how all this could have happened]. To begin with, it turns out that this soldier is a conscript. How he got to South Ossetia, despite the order to staff military units with contract soldiers - no one can answer this question coherently.
"And, finally, metropolitan Kirill becomes the finalist of the "choose the patriarch" game," - the radio was saying something like this, only in a more formal style. [...] The bus filled with happy noise - women and men started a joyful discussion about how they worried, how they hoped, how they prayed. They are happy that the Church will now turn to the right path, etc.
[...] He's not a traitor, of course. Just a fool, immature, a boy. He doesn't belong in the army, he should be making sand pies in a sandbox still.
When it turns out that a soldier has defected to the enemy because his unit didn't have a bath and the commander was cursing when orders weren't carried out... No one believes this. They are looking for politics, suspect pressure from the Georgian side. What pressure? Wake up: it's the same people who interpret a request to take out the garbage as an attempt on their human dignity. This is a free generation, [...], and they sure know about honor and dignity a lot more than we do.
[...] And one woman there says: Yes, the conditions are bad. They live in tents, heated by stoves.
McDonald's has launched a creative [...] advertisement: a Russian soldier, unable to bear the hardships of service in South Ossetia, where they didn't feed him properly, deserts to the Georgian side and finds happiness there [...].
Tell me, is an out-of-the-way McDonald's with peeling walls a new symbol of the "famed Georgian hospitality" and the "famous Georgian cuisine?"


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Citation read on the occasion of the granting of the degree of Honorary Doctor of Laws to Michael Collard Williams by the Senate of the University of Victoria November 24, 1990.
I have the honour to present Michael Collard Williams, an outstanding Victorian businessman and heritage developer.
Michael Collard Williams is a man of many talents. He is at once a businessman, a developer and a heritage conservationist. He is both a publican and a public man; a visionary and a Victorian. Although Mr. Williams was born in the County of Shropshire, England, his roots are deep in our city, in our province and in our country. He immigrated first to the sheep ranches of the Okanagan in 1950 and then to Victoria eight years later, at which time his concern for animals and for animal welfare lead him to establish boarding kennels in Langford and Central Saanich.
Since 1977 a striking redirection of career has involved him in the preservation and the improvement of Victoria's downtown business and residential environment. Maynard Court in the 700 block of Johnson Street was Mr. Williams' first initiative in urban renewal. In that instance, and in subsequent instances he has set out not only to preserve and to protect significant historical structures but also to enhance them with taste, to imbue them with colour, and above all to revitalize them.
After that early success, Michael Williams has focused his attention on old town Victoria, lower Johnson Street and the Victoria Box and Paper Building and the surrounds. Through a combination of creative financing, negotiated cooperation from all levels of government and sensitive public and private input, Mr. Williams' fondest visions were realized. This once dilapidated and ravaged old town locate is now again alive with flowers and people and colour. From a practical viewpoint, too, it is a business success. The upscale 1890's Grant Central Hotel and Victoria Box and Paper Complex in 1988 earned Mr. Williams a prestigious award from the New York-based downtown Research and Development Center in a North American competition.
Of late, Michael Williams can be seen in the guise of the Publican and owner of Swan's Hotel at Pandora and Store Streets in Victoria. But the comfort of the popular and tasteful interior surroundings are a far cry from the dust of grain storage, the odour of fertilizer and the rumble of box cars that existed there only a short while ago. The new Buckerfield Building is a classic monument to the consummate creativity and entrepreneurial skills of Mr. Williams and, as with all of his projects, will afford Victorians, British Columbians and Canadians a tangible legacy for the future, built on the solid foundation of the past.
Mr. Chancellor, I now ask, on behalf of the Senate of the University that you confer upon Michael Collard Williams, the Title and Degree of Honorary Doctor of Laws.
Dr. Michael Williams died on November 9, 2000, and in his will left his downtown property holdings, house and art collections to the University of Victoria.


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Bang & Olufsen is wading back into the behind-the-neck-earbud market this fall, too. Not content to release a pair of connected 360-degree home speakers and call it good, the luxury audio company is launching the Beoplay E6 (along with the rest of its fall/winter collection next month). Rather than a rigid neckband, the E6s are tethered via a soft cable. B&O promises five hours of use per charge, and that you can charge the earbuds while using them.
More than that, they're apparently splash- and dust-resistant, so they should handle pretty much anything that happens during a particularly intense workout. They'll also be available in a new dark-plum hue for this season, which B&O says was inspired by "the fruits of the souk, ancient ceramic pots and Moroccan carpets," among other Moroccan influences. Sure. If you'd rather something that blends into your wardrobe a little better, the E6 is also available in black and tan.
It isn't the first time the audiophile-friendly company has tried wireless headphones. It has also dabbled in truly wireless headphones before too a la Bragi, with the E8 this time last year. In 2016, it released the H5 Bluetooth earbuds. In the last two years, though, the price to play has gone up a bit. At $299, the E6 commands a $50 premium over their H5 predecessor; the E6 headphones are currently available online and at select retailers (in black and tan) and starting September 13th (in the plum hue).
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1nternal is a virus coder from Brisbane, Australia. He is best known as the creator of the first MS Office virus (one that can infect more than one type of Office file) Triplicate as well as one that can infect Office files, HTML and VBS files, Cross.
1nternal spent a great deal of his life in Brisbane Australia. He studied engineering and IT at a university there.
1nternal takes his name from a 2880 internal modem he was using during an IRC session. He decided to stick with the name, but changed the "I" into the number 1 so it would not clash with others also using that name. This would later cause problems because some internet services would not accept a name beginning with a number.


This is a non-surgical procedure performed on an outpatient basis that does not require convalescence. Wrinkles are removed using Botox, a medicinal product that is applied into muscles at very low doses using a thin needle. The mechanism of action is based on the temporary blockage of the neuromuscular transmission of impulses, which results in muscular relaxation. As a result, the skin will become smooth and the wrinkles will disappear. Botox-based treatment does not produce any scars. The effect of Botox is visible in 2-3 days after application and usually lasts for 3-6 months. Repeated applications will prolong the effect. Botox is as effective in women as in men.
It is a very effective, non-invasive procedure.
The smoothing of wrinkles and sagging skin does not require the use of heterogenous substances.
Restylane® will reshape the contours with the help of a substance that is the body's natural component – it is a stabilized hyaluronic acid. This substance is present in all living organisms and its major function is to transfer and bind water. Its presence in the skin ensures skin volume so the skin looks healthy and fresh. This is natural regeneration of beauty.
The application of Restylane has a long-lasting effect which is not permanent. The duration of the treatment's effect is very individual. It depends on many factors such as age, skin type, lifestyle, and muscle activity and injection technique.
Gel particles absorb slowly so you will have plenty of time for maintenance treatments. Most patients will select a maintenance therapy six to twelve months after an initial wrinkle-smoothing treatment or facelift.
During the procedure, the clear gel is injected into the skin in small volumes using a very thin needle. The gel will then enhance the natural volume and will smooth out the wrinkles. The procedure is performed on an outpatient basis, without long convalescence. No preliminary testing is necessary and the procedure takes less than 30 minutes. Depending on the desired result, the initial treatment is usually followed by some maintenance procedures. Wrinkle-smoothing treatment does not usually require the use of an anaesthetic, although an anaesthetic can easily be provided on the patient's request.
The intervention may result in some procedure-related reactions such as oedema, reddening, pain, itching, alteration in colour and sensation in the implant site. However, such effects usually disappear spontaneously within one or two days after injection.
With increasing age and the loss of skin elasticity, the eyelid skin starts to sag and folds of skin and "puffy eyes" develop, which alters the person's facial appearance and may ultimately reduce the visual field. Eyelid surgery (i.e. blepharoplasty) is a possible solution of these problems. It is performed either on the upper or lower eyelid, or on both eyelids at the same time. The procedure is performed under local anaesthesia, or in combination with a general sedative agent (Diazepam), i.e. analgosedation. The procedure takes ca. 30 - 60 minutes, depending on the extent of the surgery. The patient is in the lying position and his/her face is covered with a sterile drape. The excessive skin is removed as necessary and the wound is sutured. An elastic bandage is applied on the operating field immediately after the surgery, and the patient can then go home. Oedema and bruising are present on the eyelids during the first days after the surgery, and will gradually recede. Patients should observe a resting regimen, and reduce physical exertion and sports activities. The application of cold compresses is recommended. Female patients should not use eye make-up for a period of 2 weeks. Stitches are removed on Day 7 after the surgery.


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The Heretic Issue
Princess Nokia lounges with her badass friends, plays with tamagotchis and butterflies in new music video "Nokia".
It's LOL-core season – Kids' toys for accessories, cartoons on everything, faux fur, and lots of color.
Jackie Wang
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When taking the stage at the Poetry Project reading on October 24, Jackie Wang is wearing a neon leotard. She reads a series of poems that bring to mind dark and chilling imaginary dreamscapes, perhaps of Jackie's childhood dreams. But in her presentation she carries the room like she's the audience's fairy godmother, her soothing voice reminding us we're safe with her.
In her writing as in her speech, Jackie Wang is like an old, wise grandmother but with the demeanor and liveliness of a young woman. She dresses in bracelets and accessories that I can only assume are relics or gifts from friends and lovers, and she seems plagued with worries. Yet she easily laughs off any offense, and always has loads of thoughtful advice in store.
Jackie Wang is a writer, poet, musician, and academic whose writing has been published by Lies Journal, Semiotext(e), HTML Giant, BOMBlog, along with numerous zines, such as those by the Moonroot collective. Her essay "Against Innocence" provides insightful analysis on penal and race theory. Her blog, Ballerinas Dance with Machine Guns, reads like a journal that explores writing as process, the personal as political. She's currently writing a book for Semiotext(e).
Originally from New Port Richey, Florida – "people call it New Port Nowhere" – Jackie moved to Cambridge, MA this fall to start a PhD program in African and African-American Studies and History at Harvard University. I met up with Jackie to talk about how she became a writer, how feminism and radical politics has fueled her, her brother's incarceration, writer's block, and how she ended up at Harvard.
When did you decide you wanted to be a writer?
In middle school, I decided that I wanted to be a music journalist. I taught myself HTML so I could make band fan sites, and my dad would take me to shows. In high school I was the editor for the entertainment section of my school newspaper. I would get free concert tickets, free CDs, and I would interview bands and write music reviews.
I wrote to the music editor of weekly newspaper in Tampa, Florida. I remember writing him, saying, "I want to be a music journalist when I grow up! What do I have to do?" I don't even know how I figured out the logistics of it. I would contact the bands' PR agencies, send them clippings, and would tell them the circulation of the publications I was writing for. I would write for local magazines and online music magazines too.
Did you get money for it at the time?
Probably not? I did make money doing a few freelance gigs for a local magazine but it was mostly the drive. It's confounding to me now – what the hell was I doing? I remember watching Almost Famous with my dad and him saying, "Oh that's you!" Cause I was chilling with all these bands.
It seems here's a period between 13 and 19 when certain people are incredibly prolific for their age, and sometimes their careers take off and they become somebody like Tavi Gevinson. I feel like many of us struggle to maintain that level of productivity in our twenties.
Yes, I was way more prolific as a teen than I am now. Something happens once you start writing for a defined audience or when you're closer to spheres of legitimacy – you psyche yourself out and internalize expectations. When you're young it's very playful, and it's enough to just be curious and motivated.
Were you close with your peers in Florida?
I was kind of on my own tip. I remember wearing Chuck Taylors in middle school when no one else had those shoes. People would call me a satan worshipper, but I was like, "I'm emo! I'm not a satan worshipper." I was also vegan.
When I went to high school, all of the older indie kids would ask me, "Where are you from? Who are you? How do you have such good taste in music?" Because I had all these band patches on my backpack. They thought I was a freak from another planet.
And then I became friends with people who were mostly older than me. My circle of friends primarily consisted of people outside of my school. I befriended a lot of local bands. The guy I dated in high school was the singer of a experimental grindcore band called Shed for You.
When did you start becoming more interested in literature?
My interest in literature developed alongside my interest in politics. I read a lot of zines, some of which were very literary. The bands that I liked were also literary. So I guess that sparked my interest in literature.
I got really into bands like Milemarker. One of the singers of Milemarker, Al Burian, made a zine called Burn Collector. It's a classic zine that started in the mid-90s.
Al Burian's Burn Collector was the fucking shit. His zines were collected into books and I read them over and over and over again. It started to frame the way I thought about the world. I would sometimes think to myself, "What would Al think about this situation?" He had a very funny way of perceiving people and events. Little things were very profound for him, and funny, and tragic. I liked conjuring him when I was moving around in the world.
Burn Collector opened up the world of zines for me and then the world of zines opened up the world of politics. So then I got into feminism and anarchism.
Do you remember any books that were especially significant at that time?
In terms of feminism, bell hooks' Feminism is for Everybody was one of the first feminist texts that I read, and it was really formative for me. And then I got really into Samuel Beckett, the playwright and novelist. In high school I worked at this grocery store Kash & Karry, and I would recite lines from Waiting for Godot to myself.
How did you get into radical politics, beyond private reading?
A lot of the friends I have now I met through the anarchist LiveJournal community. When I was 14–15 years old I became internet friends with Moxie Marlinspike. He would mail me zines, and his CD A Hitchhikers Guide to the United States, which consists of audio interviews with people he met while hitchhiking. I loved that shit. I loved reading his sailing stories, and his hitchhiking stories, and his writings about post-scarcity anarchism.
Through the LiveJournal community I found out about things that were going on in the area. I got involved with the St. Petersburg Food Not Bombs. This is the standard trajectory, right? You get interested in CrimethInc., and then you find the local Food Not Bombs, or you start a Food Not Bombs. When I was 18, I started the Sarasota Food Not Bombs, in Sarasota, Florida. And I would organize protests, but I would always have to goad my friends into going to them. At 16, I tried to start a feminist group at my school, but it was basically my friends humoring me. I would print out articles for us to discuss, screen films, and so on.
So your role within your group of friends was to take these influences from elsewhere, things you read on the internet or by people in other cities, and bring them home.
I guess so. I was importing ideas, culture, political models, and veganism into my suburban friend group. I radicalized some of my friends and some of them became vegetarians and vegans.
When I was 16, I went on a road trip with one of my friends who's a little bit older – she had a car, and I had gumption. I told her "Let's go stay with these anarchists!" We'd just show up, we didn't plan anything. At this time, that was the culture; you'd just find the infoshop or the local Food Not Bombs, you'd ask around and find a place to stay. It was very porous and open. I don't know if it works like that anymore, maybe the internet has changed the way people find each other.
We'd drive to Asheville, NC, and meet anarchists there. One time when we were there, I remember reading this zine, Hot Lead is Medicine. Did you ever read it? Oh my gosh. It's just a perzine, but my memory of it is still very vivid. In it the author "Texas" uses his personal experiences with addiction to analyze the violence of capitalism. The zine advocates revolutionary violence, discusses beating up cops – it was super extreme. I remember wanting to write the author and argue with him about the politics he was promoting in this zine. He was very heroin chic and cool and all violence and sex appeal or whatever, while I was nerdy and cerebral. It represented this big world of anarchy that I wanted to be a part of.
The world of anarchy that zine represented was very seductive. I always resisted the cool kid-brand of anarchism, particularly its aesthetics. I feel like the aesthetic that certain graphic-designer anarchists popularized is kind of cold, a little bit American Apparel. It has this very commercial, inhuman feel to it. And I was really into the sloppy cut-and-paste, like, a warm, fuzzy aesthetic. The pre-graphic design anarchist punk aesthetic.
It's interesting that Rookie, Tumblr culture, teenage girl producers tend to be much more in line with the punk cut-and-paste aesthetic than former punks who could now be described as insurrectionary anarchists. Who they speak to is more of a suburban nobody.
Subjects without attributes. I was always the opposite in that I've always been invested in the personal voice, speaking from a place, or imbuing my writing with emotional qualities, cultivating a sense of intimacy, rather than distancing or being cool or coy. My sensibility was always pretty different. But I'm open to everything.
Did you go to college?
Surprisingly, yes. When I was in high school I kind of stopped caring about school, even though I did alright. Like, I was always in advanced classes. But I would skip class a lot. I always went to public school so I didn't have a spectacular education or anything like that.
Well, a lot of shit – family stuff – happened when I was in high school.
My brother went to prison when I was 16 – he was 17 when he got arrested. My brother was allegedly selling marijuana when a group of white kids attacked him. These guys were known to jump people. They would call and act like they wanted to buy some weed and then they would rob drug dealers. Whatever happened that day, my brother got jumped by these kids and shit went crazy; he ended up being charged with shooting and killing one of the guys.
The juvenile sentencing laws in Florida are extremely harsh. He got life without parole when he was 17, which is fucking outrageous. In most countries in Europe, the maximum sentence you can get as a juvenile is eight years, and the cut-off age for being a juvenile is 21 or 23. The sentencing laws in the United States are really whack in general, but especially in Florida.
I often say graduating from high school is my greatest accomplishment. Because of how totally chaotic that period of my life was.
My dad was also laid off from his job soon after this happened so everything was unstable and precarious at the time. I missed a lot of school around that time. The kids who jumped my brother were threatening my family. They broke one of our windows and came through the door with a gun and threatened my dad, so my parents said it was not safe for me to go to school or to be at home. I had to stay at friends' houses for a while. It was a very difficult time.
My brother's case became a local spectacle, because it's rare that something like this happens in New Port Richey, Florida. There were all these sensational stories about it in the newspapers. Kids from the high school also came to the trial.
This must have had a huge impact on you, experiencing the corrupt legal system from the inside at such an early age.
Not only did I learn how racist the criminal justice system is, but also how theatrical and performative it is – it's just a charade. I guess they call it Cowboy Justice. The prosecutor had all these antics; he was known for being corrupt. At many of his trials he gets jailhouse snitches to testify, which is something sleazy prosecutors do. He does this performance during the trial where he brings out the jailhouse snitches and, after they give their testimony, he says, "Ladies and gentlemen, there's an honest man in the house of thieves! Why would this man lie?" The prosecutorial antics were unbelievable. He used all this racialized terminology to refer to my brother. Repeatedly, he would call my brother a gangster, a thug, and he would reference rap culture.
All of this relates to the politics of innocence, which I wrote about in my essay Against Innocence. The way that the white kids were portrayed in the media was so different than how my brother was portrayed. The media emphasized that they like baseball and video games, and generally humanized the white kids, even though they were known in the area for jumping people. One of the kids who jumped my brother killed multiple people and eventually killed himself. One of them is missing. In some ways, I'm like, well, if my brother did get out, it's possible that they would've tried to kill him because they did kill people.
It definitely shaped my thinking. I mean, I just have such a visceral reaction to prisons and courts and the criminal justice system in general. The ways that these systems operate is so unsettling. You feel totally powerless when you're ensnared. Once you're caught in the bureaucracy it's really difficult to disentangle yourself from it. The appeals process is totally maddening as well. My brother had an appeal in February – an appeal that had been in the works for nine years. It basically took nine years for him to even get a hearing after the incident happened.
Not surprisingly, the appeal for a retrial was denied. The evidentiary hearing was pretty bleak because the judge worked with the man who prosecuted my brother. Everyone in these local courts have all worked with each other or are in cahoots with each other, so it's basically impossible to get an unbiased hearing or trial. Even if you do, the courts in these smaller counties in Florida are pretty conservative and pretty harsh when it comes to punishing people and putting people away.
But you still managed to go to college?
Senior year I decided that I did want to go to college. I wasn't doing very well in high school so I had to turn everything around very quickly. I decided I wanted to go to New College of Florida, which is this small, liberal arts school in Sarasota. That was my fantasy.
I went to New College, which was a great place for me. I was very happy there, actually. It's very small, 750–800 students, so you know everyone there. It's basically a giant family. People are pretty radical. I felt like I belonged somewhere for the first time. I mean, I had friends in high school, but I had a lot more intellectual and political stimulation in college.
I had a girlfriend that I lived with from freshman year of college to senior year of college. That was my social world, being holed-up with my girlfriend Persephone and my other lesbian friends. I lived in this house with Persephone and my best friends, Cindy and Jaclyn, who were also dating each other. We had this little lesbian enclave near the bay. We even had chickens. It was probably the most domestic my life has ever been, which it's funny because people are usually the opposite; when they're in college they're unmoored and free, but I was tied-down and holed-up.
I had a really great undergraduate mentor. This old woman, Chris Hassold, who was a strict art historian and psychoanalytic feminist. She had no children, no husband or family or anything. Her students were like her children. She was hard to please, so you kind of had to prove yourself to her before she would give you her attention. I had to go through the process of proving myself to her, and then she loved me and took me on as a student. She kind of turned against me at one point when I outgrew her analysis. Her knowledge of feminism stops in the 80s, and I got more interested in race and post-colonial theory, that was pretty outside of her field of knowledge. I wanted to do a more experimental thesis project. She didn't know if I could pull it off and threatened to fail me, but ultimately she said it was the best thesis she'd ever sponsored.
What was the thesis on?
It was on race, gender, and the practice of writing. I was reading theory as literature – lyrical and poetic theory – and talking about feminist and anti-racist discourses that resist a phallocentric, masculine discourse. I was really interested in the work of Trinh T. Minh-ha, who's a Vietnamese, post-colonial feminist theorist, and also Audre Lorde, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigiray, bell hooks. I was interested in writing that theorized from the personal.
Lies Journal published your essay Against Innocence, which later got picked up by Semiotext(e) as part of their Whitney Biennial pamphlet series. What was the process by which you ended up writing it?
I wrote Against Innocence while living in Baltimore, where I moved after I finished my undergrad. I was part of a really nurturing and stimulating feminist and anti-racist political community that I found through the Baltimore feminist reading group. I became friends with a lot of super bad-ass feminist intellectuals there.
The feminist reading group became my best friends. Some of the people in the group had gone to the feminist summer camp that happened a few years prior, where a lot of the feminists involved with Lies Journal and the New York feminist reading group all met each other. The feminist summer camp seems to have generated a lot of the feminist projects that were happening at the time. I knew some of the people who were involved with Lies Journal, and they asked me to write an essay.
Initially, I wrote a spatial feminist critique of the books Rape New York and The Femicide Machine. The editors of Lies liked the book reviews but asked me to write an essay instead.
I had been thinking about a lot of the things that I wrote about in the Against Innocence essay. At this point, they were just nebulous ideas that were floating around in my head. Occupy was popping off at the time, Troy Davis had just been executed, there was a lot of energy but it was also a very depressing, politically bleak time. 2012. It was simultaneously the most hopeful and the most bleak of times.
I wrote the essay from a guerrilla office in the John's Hopkins library. Someone who had two offices gave me a key to one of their offices. I had no personal space in the punk house that I was living in, so I would do my work in this office that didn't even belong to me. Multiple people gave me feedback on it, there were several drafts. A lot of the ideas were developed in conversation with other people. The Baltimore Feminist Reading Group members, and my friend Lawrence Grandpre, with whom I would discuss afro-pessimist theory. My conversations with him helped me clarify my thinking about race, incarceration, and the politics of innocence, particularly anti-black racism in the United States. I'd thought about prisons for a while because of my brother.
What about afro-pessimism interests you?
My thinking on afro-pessimism and social death has changed a bit over the last couple years. At the time, I was really interested in the work of Frank Wilderson. I've basically read everything he's written – both his academic and autobiographical work. He uses film to analyze racial structures and anti-blackness, not just in the United States but globally. He advances a critique of civil society and a theorization of the psycho-sexual dynamics of anti-black racism; it starts from the conviction that slavery was an event that has implications for and continues to live in our present moment, because slavery, ontologically, has restructured the world. He argues that there is a global anti-blackness that produces blackness as social death. And he understands slavery not as a historical event but as an ontological event, a rupture. So when he talks about anti-blackness it's not just an economic critique, but it's an ontological critique, it's a psychological critique, it's about how anti-blackness structures white subjectivity, and how whiteness and civil society relies on the disposal of black bodies to constitute itself.
He's very pessimistic and bleak in his understanding of politics. To him, all politics proper reinscribe this structure that he's critiquing. In most of his essays and books he makes the same analytical gesture: he'll point to some someone's effort at critiquing racism or anti-blackness, and then demonstrate how it fails, because everything anyone does on the terrain of civil society just buttresses it and thereby reinforces anti-blackness.
As I was becoming more and more invested in these afro-pessimist critiques I became very depressed, because it is somewhat nihilistic. I mean, what's so powerful about the afro-pessimist critique is that it totally changes the way you look at the world; it deconstructs how you understand everything and you do feel like your world is unraveling in some ways – you have to reorient yourself and rethink categories. It can lead to this overly-deterministic way of seeing the world which can be very depressing if you are invested in activism or any form of politics.
The afro-pessimists, especially Jared Sexton, have been engaged with people like Fred Moten in debates about afro-pessimism versus black optimism. Fred Moten takes a black optimist stance that emphasizes the improvisatory socialities created in black music and poetry; I've since become obsessed with Fred Moten's work. I don't see them as diametrically opposed or mutually exclusive, I still find value in both perspectives, so I wouldn't say I've switched sides or anything. They're operating on different registers and have different affective dispositions.
When I wrote Against Innocence, I was deeply engaged with the work of Frank Wilderson and Saidiya Hartman. Occupy was popping off. Trayvon Martin, Troy Davis, Oscar Grant, also the London Riots. My housemates and I followed the London Riots closely. We'd read articles and argue about them. We were constantly having these debates about politics, critiquing insurrectionist thought, and we kept up with the news religiously. And, like I said, I was having all sorts of other conversations with people in Baltimore as well.
Do you have any mentors?
I feel like I actually can't have a mentor because I would probably "cathect" onto my mentor and it would be too psychologically consuming. Although I've always fantasized of having a mentor. However, I do have a lot of people I would call 'fairy godmothers' – they're not really people who mentor me per se, and they're not even people who are motherly, but they are people who come through in times of need, which is the role fairy godmothers play for what I call the Lost Girl. Chris Kraus is one of these people for me. Bhanu Kapil is another. She's a writer who teaches at Naropa. And then I have some older lesbians who sometimes take care of me. There's this couple in Glasgow, Scotland – Nosh and Cloudberry – who took care of me when I lived in Scotland for a few months. And my friend Beth Williams in New Mexico.
I've always wanted a mentor though, someone who cares about me enough to invest a lot of time and energy into me, sees my potential, and wants to enable me to flourish or turn me into an intellectual baller.
Maybe you need to find a partner who's a few years older.
I definitely have the fantasy of being in a power couple, or being psychically fused with someone who'd want to work through ideas and scheme. That's the goal, eventually. Not to be in a power couple per se, because I'm critical of the couple form, but to be in an environment where I'm around a lot of motivated, really extreme people who want to take it to the next level.
I've become accustomed to sharing my life with other people, whether it's through collective living situations or long-term relationships. That's how I operate – I feel like I need a high level of intimacy and exchange to feel charged and motivated so it's kind of weird to now have this monadic (but also nomadic) lifestyle.
I miss having a crew to roll with and feeling embedded in some group or social formation.
Does that exist in the poetry world at all?
There is a community feel in the poetry world but there's not an emphasis on sharing your life with others, like in the anarchist scene.
You started a PhD program in African and African-American Studies and History at Harvard this fall. How have these first few months been?
I still have moments when I pause and think about where I am and how I got here; being at Harvard is hard to get used to because it's in contradiction with my internal sense of self. It's a paradox. I could never have imagined that I would end up at Harvard. When I started getting depressed over the last couple of years, it was always hard for me to conceptualize one day into the future, let alone think of my life having any kind of trajectory whatsoever.
I've actually liked it more than I anticipated I would. It's been a while since I've been really busy and intellectually stimulated and I kind of need that to exist. I need to have intense conversations with people about what I'm reading, to be thinking with people; it's also nice having a fixed schedule. It's so different than the structureless lifestyle I've had for the last four years. I like it, and I'm surprised that I like it. I like my classes, I like my professors, I like sitting in the library reading books. I know I'm kind of a freak in the Harvard context, but it's whatever. laughs.
You've previously talked about being plagued by writer's block. How it gives you anxiety, and induces a sense of failure. It's fairly typical for writers to go through periods when writing becomes really painful, or impossible. It's horrible to be in incapacitated in that way. At the same time, many of the writers I admire have politicized their writers block, repurposed it as something connected to their other struggles.
Writers feel illegitimate claiming the identity "writer" when they're not producing work. They might feel, "I'm not even a real writer, I'm not writing right now! I can't write."
Writing has become very fraught for me in the last couple of years. Anxiety-inducing, perhaps even the source of my depression. I'm not really sure exactly what precipitated it, although I have some theories. I think being uprooted and removed from my social circle, lack of political meaning in my life since moving to New Mexico, and being removed from the things that were sustaining me in Baltimore. I also got out of a three-year relationship that was physically and emotionally abusive and totally destroyed my self-esteem. And at the same time I was trying to grapple with the end of that relationship and moving across the country, I was also trying to work on this Semiotext(e) book.
I received a lot of recognition in my early twenties – I've been approached by four different publishers about publishing a book with them. I'm constantly receiving solicitations, invitations to do talks, and it has totally fucked with my head. Not in the sense that I've developed this big ego or anything, but thinking about the audience and their expectations has been anxiety-inducing.
The more I come into contact with these spheres of legitimacy or respectability, the more I feel a disjunction between how I identify and the contexts that I exist in.
I don't know how to reconcile other people's expectations with how I perceive myself. I feel afraid of disappointing people, I feel like they're gonna find out that I'm not the real deal. There are all of these neurotic, negative thought patterns that emerge when I try to write or think about writing. So I've become pathologically avoidant of writing. It's pretty wild how inactive I've become since I've become really depressed.
The way I thought and lived a few years ago has basically become unintelligible to me. A few years ago writing and creating things was default – I was constantly producing. After I finished my undergrad, I wrote a draft of a novel, two poetry manuscripts, and would write an essay a day about books, current events, films, whatever. And now I feel like I can't even look at my emails. Hopefully it's just a phase.
I never used to be afraid of failure, it was just part of doing your own thing, outside an institutional context, without any expectation of recognition. But the stakes were lower then, things were more playful. I was free to experiment because I was toiling in the shadows, there are no stakes when you're not trying to be someone great or do something profound or amazing. You're just doing your thing because you enjoy it.
And it's not like my work has been systematically rejected by the literary world or the radical world. I pretty consistently receive positive feedback from people, and they tell me my work inspires them and has a positive influence in their lives. So that's good, that's why I like writing and sharing.
Do you feel that poetry comes to you more easily?
I've always been pretty lyrical in my thinking and approach to my work. I'm kind of intense and I value emotionality in writing. And I like trying to find the register that feels natural or comfortable for me. I tweet my dreams on Twitter. I'm always kind of half-conscious when I'm tweeting my dreams but I value that headspace and feel like I can access something different when I'm writing in that register. In that sense, you could say it comes naturally.
I guess I do have a confidence or a level of trust in myself and in my writing that enables me to write in a way that sounds self-assured even when I feel like I'm overwhelmed by self-doubt. I don't acknowledge the validity of anything I do and constantly cut myself down and beat myself up and feel unfree. I should be freer. I think that I have an unconscious willfulness.
Self-doubt is usually the point of departure for a lot of my work. I always have to write through that doubt. Sometimes I sit down with an idea for an essay, and I'm so paralyzed by self-doubt and that I have to incorporate the doubt into whatever I'm working on in some way, or else I can't move beyond it. I resent that I have to do this, but I also question the motivations for bracketing that experience because the excision of self-doubt is political (in that it's gendered and racialized). And a lot of women are plagued by self-doubt and specifically anxiety around writing or asserting any kind of authority in their writing. Owning that doubt can be a political gesture.
In Against Innocence you write about white space or colonized space as a place where certain stories just don't matter or aren't interesting. It seems this fraught relationship you have to yourself and to producing your views of the world are so intimately connected to that. That is the experience.
I guess it can be generative in some ways. I've always been suspicious of writers that feel comfortable in language, which is why I've been drawn to Samuel Beckett, Hélène Cixous, Clarice Lispector. All these authors have a fraught relationship to language. Kafka as well.
Really hating the writing and still having to do it.
Right. There's this Samuel Beckett quote, "The writer is like a fetus trying to do gymnastics." Writing is the impossible yet necessary task. In some ways maybe this friction is the lifeblood of my writing, this struggle to utter anything. Maybe I resent people who don't have self-doubt because they seem like they can get to a place that I can't because I have to wade through the quagmire of self-hatred before I can even begin to start doing the thinking and the work that I want to do.
Since moving to New York, I've become more aware of how many freelance writers in this city rely on various cocktails of stimulants and benzos for work. I mean, the same was true in college, but after growing up in Finland where pharmaceuticals are less common I'm still surprised by the extent to which people do drugs on a daily basis. What's your relationship to drugs and work?
I actually think prescription stimulants are bad for creative writing, although it can be good for philosophy. I remember reading an exchange between Simone de Beauvoir and Sartre about Sartre's writer's block. De Beauvoir tells Sartre, "You used stimulants for decades to write your philosophy books," and he's like, "Yeah but I can't write novels on them."
There's also an interesting interview with Susan Sontag that was published in High Times where she talks about drugs and writing. She was also on stimulants but tried to regulate her reliance on them, because she's skeptical of the quality of writing that she produced on them. Derrida also relied on stimulants.
I've known a lot of people who are Adderall addicts and I find them annoying when they're on it. Not that they aren't wonderful people, but it's hard to have a conversation with someone who's all hyped up. I tend to feel anxious on anything that's an upper – coffee, stimulants... Maybe if I weren't so anxious it would be more appealing to me.
Benzos – I try to stay away from those as well because I know people who've had serious issues trying to quit benzos, though I understand the appeal. Sometimes I'm like, fuck, I wish I had Xanax right now so I could just shut off this thought loop.
I do think people should talk about drugs more. Drugs are ancient – they're a fundamental part of the human experience. I don't know why there's a gag order on talking about drugs. Everyone's on pharmaceuticals, and recreational drug use is so common. I mean, I understand why people hide their drug use. But it seems that in the past people have written and talked about drug use and altered states of consciousness more. We're all becoming biomedical monsters – it's a mark of our time. I've relied on Ambien to sleep since my early twenties because I've been insomniac since I was twelve. And I've taken antidepressants in the past but I'm trying to survive without antidepressants, so I'm exercising and taking Omega-3 supplements. laughs.
There was a lot of internet drama around the alt lit scene last month, when people spoke out about being raped and sexually abused by these alt lit figures, Stephen Tully Dierks and Tao Lin. Were you following this?
I mostly get the digest from writer friends. I've never really been in the loop with the alt lit writing scene.
You've mentioned that some of your intimate relationships that were simultaneously creative/work relationships were similarly exploitative or abusive. How do you navigate your various identities as a poet and writer in these literature worlds that so often are dominated by misogynists?
Oh my gosh. It's totally crazy-making, the world, the writing world, especially as a woman. I feel like the only way to not let it corrode you psychically is to not be embattled with these patriarchs and gatekeepers, to not seek recognition from the white male literary establishment. That's a lot easier said than done. There's an erotic dimension to this power dynamic, and the women who are embattled with these patriarchs sometimes have intimate relationships with the men who are in positions of power. The closer you get to that power, the easier it is to be taken advantage of. Proximity can destroy you. It's easier for me to maintain distance because I'm not very interested in men romantically.
I don't really put my hopes in the literary world. I'm never surprised when it comes out that there's all this sexism in it. I have one foot in the literary world and one foot in another world, the political world maybe. I've never really felt that the forms of life that I am looking for or that I'm trying to create will emerge out of the literary world. Oftentimes I feel like it's full of people who only care about social capital. There's nastiness in any world or subculture but I never really felt that the people in the literary world are my people even though I probably spend more time in a literary context than anywhere else. Maybe my disidentification with the literary establishment enables me to maintain healthy distance.
What has enabled me to maintain my sanity over the years is being part of a strong feminist friend group, especially since living in Baltimore. I really don't know where I would be without that grounding in my life. If it weren't for my feminist crew there would be no way for me to confirm that what I think and experience is valid or real. It must be really hard for people who don't have that because the psychic isolation can drive you insane, make you feel that you don't exist and that none of your problems are real.
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Hanna Hurr is a co-founding editor of Mask Magazine.
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