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Winnie and Nelson: Forever linked to freedom struggle
by Charlene Muhammad
(FinalCall.com) – As Black female leaders celebrate the life and legacy of South African leader Madiba Nelson Mandela, they say it is imperative to also lift up Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, his former wife who helped hold the anti-apartheid movement together during his unjust imprisonment for 27 years. They refuse to let mainstream media write Winnie Mandela out of history. When her husband's image and voice were banned, she represented him to the world – and she suffered for her bold action.
"A pivotal question people have to answer is would there have been this iconic Nelson Mandela without the resistance work of Winnie Mandela?" asked attorney Ezili Dantò of the Haitian Lawyers Leadership Network.
Winnie Mandela was arrested, tortured and imprisoned for daring to wage war for her people against the oppressive South African apartheid regime. She was arrested in 1969 under the Suppression of Terrorism Act, put in solitary confinement for 17 months and after that placed on house arrest.
"Everybody wants to be happy, but at the end of the day, what is the message that we're getting? Just like they reduced Martin Luther King to 'I Have a Dream,' they want to reduce [Nelson Mandela] to the moment he was released. So that glorifies them, because obviously they're human because they released him," Dantò told The Final Call.
But what about the massacres, trauma and the current situation of Africa, she continued, saying, "They will run over the dead bodies of all of the dead children at Soweto. I mean I haven't heard the word Soweto once during this stuff!" Attorney Dantò is referring to the Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976, a series of protests led by high school students in Soweto, where Blacks were confined near the major city of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Some 20,000 student demonstrators were protesting the White-minority regime's order that they learn Afrikaans, the language of their oppressors. Police opened fire on the students, killing more than 360 young people.
Attorney Ava Muhammad, national spokesperson for the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan and Nation of Islam student minister, met Winnie Mandela at the National House, the Minister's home, at an event sponsored by Nation of Islam First Lady Khadijah Farrakhan. Dr. Muhammad has always been impressed with not only Winnie Mandela's physical beauty but also her powerful spirit.
"It is difficult for me to believe that our brother Nelson Mandela would have been able to withstand the 27-plus years of incarceration had it not been for the loyalty and love of Winnie Mandela," she said.
Remember, Dr. Muhammad continued, he was only allowed a visitor for about 30 minutes, once every six months and they could only discuss personal matters when she visited. Talk of the anti-apartheid movement or the struggle was strictly forbidden. Had it not been for Winnie's efforts, Mr. Mandela could have slipped from the consciousness of the people rather than have his image grow stronger, she said. "I believe had there been no Winnie, there would have been no Nelson," Dr. Muhammad said.
Despite their divorce in 1996, which came under the weight and pressure of the South African government's very negative views of her, harsh criticism, media assaults and pressure, for a marriage to survive nearly three decades of incarceration, Winnie Mandela deserves a place in history, Dr. Muhammad said.
In 1990, Winnie Mandela walked hand in hand with her husband upon his release. In 1993, she became president of the African National Congress Women's League. In 1994 she was elected to Parliament, re-elected in 1999, and then resigned four years later because of a financial controversy. She denied any wrongdoing.
But Winnie Mandela was the target not only of the government but of politics and the press, speaking her mind and speaking strongly. Detractors and enemies tried to label her a firebrand and a political liability.
"She deserves her place in history and I believe she will have it with her name right alongside his," said Dr. Muhammad.
Winnie Mandela was the living face of the anti-apartheid movement while Nelson Mandela was incarcerated, said Dr. Julianne Malveaux, activist, economist and former president of Bennett College for Women. "By the living face, I mean the person who we went to. We had no access to Nelson Mandela to receive statements, to receive marching orders, to hear," she said.
Winnie Mandela has never been seen in her full humanity, so many are talking after the fact, Dr. Malveaux said. But the second wife of Nelson Mandela was separated from her husband for 27 years, and though a trained social worker, she became a leader of a movement. What can people really say about such a woman? Dr. Malveaux asked rhetorically.
"People give great props to widows. They deify widows and we've had our share of them here in the United States: Coretta King, Betty Shabazz, Jackie Kennedy. We basically lift these widows up; and in the case of Winnie Mandela, I'm not sure that she was ever fully lifted as we might have liked to see her lifted," Dr. Malveaux continued.
Dr. Malveaux participated in the Free South Africa Movement in 1984. She led an initiative in San Francisco to divest the city's pension fund from companies doing business with South Africa. There was a lot of contact with the African National Congress, and Winnie Mandela was always lifted up because she was the face, the voice of marching orders, Dr. Malveaux recalled.
"Certainly their lives have evolved since Nelson Mandela was released, since there have been a number of challenges. As he went on to marry Graça Machel and all of that, their lives have certainly diverged but it would be irresponsible, irresponsible to ignore the role that Winnie Mandela played in all of this," Dr. Malveaux told The Final Call. "She is and remains a heroine, that she held the banner up where her husband was unable to, and that any frailties that anyone would compute to her, no matter how challenging, have to also be looked at contextually."
"She is and remains a heroine, that she held the banner up where her husband was unable to, and that any frailties that anyone would compute to her, no matter how challenging, have to also be looked at contextually." – Dr. Julianne Malveaux
Rev. Marcia Dyson, founder and CEO of the Women's Global Initiative, a for-profit women's advocacy organization, agreed. Winnie Mandela endured things while her husband was imprisoned to allow the African National Congress to go forward, she said.
Rev. Dyson noted that Winnie Mandela was the first lady of her people before Nelson Mandela became president – but has never been awarded the leisure, the pleasure, the respect for her sacrifices and giving her life as a woman, mother and wife for the liberation of her people.
"She was a general. She was a warrior. She was a mother," said Rev. Dyson. It would be a travesty to undermine her importance even at the sunset of Nelson Mandela's death, she added.
Charlene Muhammad, national correspondent for The Final Call, where this story first appeared, can be reached via Twitter @sischarlene.
From 'Being a Black Woman in the World' by Winnie Madikezela Mandela, March 28, 2006: "Black women are discriminated by the white supremacy; they have to contend with male prejudice fed by patriarchal notions; they suffer abuse from white women who are also beneficiaries of white supremacy. At the same time, they are expected to form alliances with these women to defeat male privilege. They are expected to be in solidarity with their male folks to fight racial oppression. In this regard, they have little choice. They cannot sit on the sideline and watch the Black male being reduced to an endangered species. After all, these men are the fathers of their children, their lovers and their sons. In short, there is no other species that understands oppression as Black women do."
Madiba is dead: Condolences to heroic mother Winnie
by Ezili Dantò
Nelson Mandela is dead at 95 years old. The African National Congress liberation movement he led helped make white minority rule and apartheid in Africa a monstrous reality no decent human would wish to be associated with.
Since Mandela's death, the same international powers that keep the structural conditions alive for Black suffering worldwide are universally heralding the man and his great achievements. The same corporatocracy that helped keep South Africa and the global South in economic chains and political instability to increase their money-making profits are lining up to have their pictures taken at the funeral.
Nelson Mandela and the South African peoples' long struggle is reduced to a celebration of one man who spent 27 years in prison, yet doesn't hate his white oppressors or wish them the violent deaths, deprivations and grief they metered out to millions of South Africans.
In fact, African lands, control of resources and properties taken through genocide were kept by the white minority. The racist oppressors gave up fairly nothing, are today richer, without guilt and no longer international pariahs. Mandela supposedly forgave them for their global racist system!
The ever-present colonial message is that Mandela is honorable and great for this appeasement. But most other Blacks are corrupt, criminal, inferior, violent. His former wife, Winnie Mandela, is generally put in this category. This is basically the totality of the message being uplifted as the meaning of the Mandela legacy.
Over and over again the media tell us that if Mandela had not forgiven his jailers, South Africa would have fallen into upheaval and brutal war. What they mean is that the wealthy white pro-apartheid folks there would have been disturbed, for the Black majority were already at war.
Another missing part of the story is that apartheid, white minority rule and neocolonialism is a global system and did not end with the release of Nelson Mandela.
Hardly ever mentioned favorably is the role of the Black African and Cuban soldiers in defeating the minority government. Especially pivotal was the defeat of the South African apartheid army at the Battle of Cuito Cuanavale in Angola – a defeat in combat that Nelson Mandela himself said hastened the end of legal apartheid and his release from prison.
Also brushed aside is that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Nelson Mandela's wife, kept the South African Black liberation movement going during the 27 years her husband was in prison and after.
With her freedom-fighting husband locked up, heroic mother Winnie Mandela had to manage her own needs and the care of her children alone while being hounded by the apartheid police at every turn. Imposed griefs like this, as well as the millions massacred and removed under colonialism in Africa, are glossed over in the Western media's rush to reinforce the colonial narrative that Black leadership greatest lie only in the ability to take the system's punishment without anger and constantly express gratitude and awe for the few assimilated ones allowed to move into "white areas."
With her freedom-fighting husband locked up, heroic mother Winnie Mandela had to manage her own needs and the care of her children alone while being hounded by the apartheid police at every turn.
The pivotal question is, would there have been this iconic, revered Nelson Mandela without the resistance work of Winnie Mandela and others who defended their natural and inalienable human rights and had nothing to atone for, compared to the horrors suffered under direct white minority rule and apartheid?
Is putting a Black face in command of the same racist, profit-over-people economic system – as with President Barack Obama in the U.S. – a great change?
In an exclusive interview with CCTV, the former Mrs. Mandela explains how she took on the mantle of leadership after Nelson Mandela went to prison despite the worst of the apartheid regime.
This interview was filmed at the same house in Johannesburg where Winnie and Nelson Mandela lived upon his release from prison and where he wrote his biography, "Long Walk to Freedom."
This writing remembers Winnie Mandela and the South African women and men like Chris Hani who kept the liberation movement going, giving up their lives, freedom and personal happiness. This post honors the other Nelson Mandela – the warrior who took up arms to defend his people, not the 72-year-old gracious but accommodating man who walked out of Robben Island and promptly became the corporate figurehead for "good liberation" sold to a world in need of sanity.
Mandela liberated the oppressor.
But Janjak Desalin would ask: "What about Africa's children, their equitable share in wealth, health, security, wholeness, dignity – a decent standard of living? What about the oppressors atoning for the unspeakable atrocities Black South Africans endured?"
It's been duly noted that Mandela "agreed to a bad deal for the Blacks." Through Mandela, white capital was able to keep its vice grip on South Africa's economic power while the masses were given a beguiling opium in the form of Madiba magic.
Apartheid Did Not Die from John Pilger on Vimeo.
This post shares a few worthy links and excerpts of tributes to Mandela. It sends condolences to the still suffering peoples Mandela gave his life force and liberty to represent.
For Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, who should not have had to suffer more humiliation after the release of her husband from 27 years of wrongful imprisonment, and for all the women, men and children of all the Sowetos in South Africa who endured the white minority's brutality, face the continuing legacy of apartheid in South Africa, we Haitians who are battling Dominican Republic apartheid, loss of citizenship and a 10-year U.S.-Euro occupation behind U.N. guns and humanitarian imperialism in Ayiti, say, "You're not alone."
Nou la! Desalin's descendants are still here, not reconciling with injustice. Nou pap bay legen. The long walk to freedom continues.
Blatant South African apartheid may have become unacceptable worldwide. But its replacement, economic and civil apartheid, continues to be the norm.
Will the first in their "new world" Black republic, Ayiti, and the latest Black republic, South Africa, finish the long walk to Black independence? Help get rid of white minority rule – neocolonialism worldwide – and its profit-over-people system? Live with independence, transparent and participatory democracy without the global white minority's interference? Replace selections by the global white powers with one-person-one-vote elections?
The same white supremacist, profit-over-people system that pronounced Black Haiti not ready for independence in 1804, also, nearly 200 years later in 1994, opined that Black South Africans were not ready to rule themselves without the colonial white minority's economic, cultural and social controls and conditions.
The oppressors still point to Haiti and Zimbabwe as failed states for kicking them out. Still use all their Ndoki forces to angelize whites, demonize Blacks. The colonial narrative proclaims the colonists' benevolence, innocence and blamelessness while promoting Black guilt and responsibility for the poverty and instabilities in Haiti and Africa.
Will the corporatocracy ever give up its monopolies, its gated communities built on genocide and death of mostly non-whites and the poor worldwide? Atone for the crimes against humanity since their new world began? No.
White domination has no conscience. Haiti's current occupation by the U.S.-Euros behind U.N. guns and the white saviors' charitable industrial complex evidences the Western powers continuing 500-year-old international crimes.
Yes, Mandela's legacy says we should live free, take our freedom and expect to exercise our own perfect self-expression just as Janjak Desalin intended for all children who would slide down the Black woman's thighs.
Self-defense is a human right, even in a world lost within white domination and its seductive delusions.
Heroic mother Winnie Mandela, the Black South African leaders who stayed the course, the African majority, Haiti and the few of us in Haiti left still lifting up Desalin's ideals have a right to self-defense. Reconciling with injustice merely delays justice for centuries, if not millenniums more."
Ezili Dantò, award winning playwright, performance poet, dancer, actor and activist attorney born in Port au Prince, Haiti, founded and chairs the Haitian Leadership Network (HLLN), supporting and working cooperatively with Haitian freedom fighters and grassroots organizations promoting the civil, human and cultural rights of Haitians at home and abroad. Visit her at www.ezilidanto.com, where this story first appeared, and www.open.salon.com/blog/ezili_danto.
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It's time to talk door refinishing. A beautiful front door does so much for the curb appeal of your home whether you are looking to sell or have that look you can really be proud of. We want to share with you important details to expect in your door project.
The picture above shows you a door that was just refinished by another finisher on the left and one just finished by us on the right. Before we begin we want to make clear a couple of things. This is not intended to put down anyone else and we will not use any names. It is also not intended to say that the other door is the worst thing ever. If I had the before picture, you would see that the person that paid for this to be done has an improved look to their door. Our point is not that it was a rip off, it is that there is a better option in Final Finish and here is why.
As mentioned already, the controlled environment. Weather does not impact us in the shop like it may working onsite.
The door is easier to work on lying flat in our shop vs. standing vertical in place at home. This is better for stripping and finishing.
Our color is more consistent because we are applying the stain in the shop instead of out in the open where it may dry too fast on you and cause splotchy color.
With the door lying flat, our finish applications flow out more evenly, smoother, slicker, and almost no chance of runs as you can see in the picture on the left.
Timely completion of job. Weather will not stop us from moving your door project forward like it would onsite. We take your door down on Monday and almost without exception, it is hanging back up by Thursday or Friday. We are able to work on our pace and schedule rather than get pressed trying to make it out to the jobsite and possibly compromise on our many step process.
Durability. We have had a very good track record of longevity of our door finishes. A lot of that has to do with the product we use, but it also has to do with our controlled in shop application process.
Proper sanding grits used. We used 5 levels or different grits of sanding to go from a rough cut to strip the finish to a fine smooth feel with no visible sanding marks.
Price and time built in to job. We price our jobs fairly yet accordingly in a way that does not tempt us to cut corners in our process. Sanding in the shop allows us easier access to the door to spend the time obtaining this 1st class look.
Experience and eye for the detail. Final Finish has been at this for 27 years and knows exactly what to look for before proceeding to the next phase of finishing.
As previously mentioned, staining in shop without temperature or wind conditions playing as much of a factor in drying the stain too quickly causing it to dry in patches vs soaking in evenly and beautifully into the wood.
Application. Final Finish sprays on our finishes instead of brushing them on. A brushed finish will NEVER flow out as slick and pretty as spraying it on.
The last details that we would like to cover are the feel and durability of your door finish. Feel is as important as look in a finish to us and it should to you also. It is very satisfying at the completion of a project to rub your hand across it and get that slick and smooth feel vs a rougher grittier feel. And now maybe the most important as it impacts the bottom line of cost is durability. Our process and products have given us and our customers several examples going strong at 5 years or more. When you take that into consideration, our price for these projects turns out to be cheaper than the competition. We just spoke to a customer the other day that had doors that were finished approximately 1 year ago and they looked like they had never been refinished since they were new. In all conditions, we have had good success with longevity, but location in relation to the sun and how much porch cover you have will impact the length of time your finish lasts.
Thanks for taking the time to learn about door refinishing and our company's process. In a future blog we will discuss maintenance of your beautiful door to keep it that way for years to come.
Call us today for a free consultation of the beautification of your front door. Have a wonderful day!


Our client came to us with a photo of a beautiful mid-century sideboard designed by Erik Worts and produced by IKEA in Sweden in the 1960's. The dimensions of the piece didn't suit, and the sideboard was in an auction house in Sweden, so we were commissioned to make a custom reproduction of sorts adding our own design touches but keeping to the spirit of the original.
The leg frame of this piece is solid European oak, whilst the cabinet itself is constructed from custom veneered panels. The beautiful book matched oak veneers were hand picked and pressed onto solid lipped MDF. The doors and solid oak dovetailed drawer boxes run on hardwood glides.


Researchers now believe you can pick up signs of autism in a baby just under 4 months of age. Here are some signs that may indicate your baby should have a developmental evaluation, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
She doesn't follow moving objects with her eyes.
She doesn't pay attention to new faces.
She doesn't say single words.
She doesn't use gestures such as waving or shaking her head.
She doesn't point to objects or pictures.
She can't stand when supported.
She doesn't speak more than 15 words.
She doesn't use two-word sentences.
She doesn't seem to know the function of common household objects, such as a telephone, fork, and spoon.
She doesn't imitate your actions or words.
She can't push a wheeled toy.
She doesn't follow simple instructions.
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Director and producer Matthew Podolsky, co-founder of Wild Lens in Boise, ID, reached out and asked to interview me for his Long Trail series, which I happily accepted. Matthew host and produces the Eyes on Conservation podcast – a weekly interview series featuring top scientists, filmmakers and conservation issues from around the globe.
Cara Nelson, and her sister Amity Robichaud with their Grandmother Catherine Robbins Clifford during their 1997 Long Trail hike.
He's also a long distance hiker who has section hiked long stretches of the AT, and thru hiked the Long Trail with his mother in 2013. During his Long Trail hike he became fascinated with Vermont's trail, and decided to produce a month long podcast series about the trail. He tracked me down through my website were he discovered that my son Carl and I were on the Trail the same time as he and his Mom.
Listen as I share my grandmother's stories, talk about my 1997 Long Trail thru hike and tell about adventures my son and I had as we section hike north on the Long Trail.
Hand-colored photograph taken by Theron S. Dean of the Three Musketeers on the Long Trail in 1927. From left to right – Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth, and Kathleen Norris.
And here is a real treat and treasure as a very special BONUS episode of the podcast! Together with the Vermont Historical Society, I gave Matthew and Wild Lens, Inc. permission to air an archival interview with my grandmother Catherine Robbins Clifford sharing her 1927 Long Trail adventures and stories. The interview was recorded in 1987 for the Vermont Public Radio series "Green Mountain Chronicles", but only a few short clips from Catherine's interview were actually included in the 3-minute radio spot about the history of the Long Trail.
For the first time ever, Matthew released a beautiful much more complete version of this historic interview – a full 45 minutes of stories and conversation in the voice of one of the very first women to hike the Long Trail, my grandmother. Listen and see what it was like in 1927 to hike the Long Trail, and discover what has changed and or stayed the same.
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These Stunning Weather Photos Were Taken From an Airplane's Cockpit
By Josh Raab
Every passenger sitting in the window seat has a moment of awe, gazing out the window at the clouds and earth below. That experience is trumped only by the pilots who have front-row seats to the skies they navigate through, equipped with their own 270 degree views.
In recent years, some pilots have started investing in camera equipment to capture what they see from the cockpit, slowly redefining aerial photography. They make the best of the available downtime when their copilots take the controls.
Colossal cumulonimbus clouds over the Pacific Ocean south of Panama City at 37,000 feet.
Santiago Borja
Ecuadorian Pilot Santiago Borja usually uses the six hours of rest he gets on his 12-hour-long flights aboard a Boing 767 to photograph storms.
A storm developing over the Ecuadorean Amazonia.
Each of Borja's flights departs from Guayaquil, Ecuador, and often travel through New York and the Caribbean, zones of considerable weather activity. He is able to spot storms from a few hundred miles away. He then shoots them from a distance of about 80 miles, getting as close as possible to stay on course but remain out of danger. "When a storm is too close to our flight path, we usually deviate no less than 20 nautical miles around it to avoid passenger discomfort from the wind shifts," he tells TIME. Once the storm is behind the plane, large side facing windows allow Santiago to continue shooting it. WHAT?
A strong supercell is flashing near the coast of Panama City where both Pacific and Atlantic oceans meet and create the perfect scenario for storms.
Pilot Christiaan van Heijst takes a slightly different approach to photographing from the cockpit. He started 13 years ago just to show his parents what he was seeing. He then invested in better equipment to incorporate moonlight and the northern lights into his images. For the past six years, the dutch pilot has flown 747 planes for a cargo company, taking him on routes that planes full of passengers would never fly.
Northern Lights over Russia.
Christiaan van Heijst
In his photographs, Van Heijst tries to convey what it feels like piloting a plane, showing idle and often serene moments in the cockpit. He shoots longer time exposure images in which the lights from the controls illuminate the cockpit, while the Milky Way become visible in the distance. Of course, some moments have to go un-photographed. "Often I see beautiful things I am not able to capture because I am busy flying the airplane," he says. "It's sometimes quite frustrating"
A show of St Elmo's fire and static discharge over the cockpit windows. When flying through active storms, the airplane gets statically charged and the result is a spectacular but harmless purple glow and series of electrical discharges.
Not all clouds are created equal, says Van Heijst. "African clouds in summer make for much bigger clouds than [the ones] in Asia where they are farther from the equator," he tells TIME. "Singapore and Hong Kong have a lot of heated water, making for a higher potential for more clouds."
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So, it's like week 3 of the heatwave in the UK. Practically unheard of, right?! I thought I'd put a quick list together of all the things I love to do when we have this good weather!
1.) Eat buckets and buckets of ice cream.
Pretty standard I think. Although this year I've been super classy and have only eaten white chocolaye magnums - I think it's about time I get the obligatory 99 Flake!
2.) Have a BBQ. Omg.
Bring me allllll the burgers, and hotdogs, and prawns.
3.) Going for a drink at the pub.
Now I won't lie, this is something I like to do all year round. But it's so much better when the sun is shining and you can sit outside, right? So long as I have a rum and coke in hand and a good pal to chat to, I'm having a whale of a time.
4.) Going to the park at sunset.
I've always loved going to the park to sit on the swings for some 'me time'. Because there's just something so nice about just being in the presence of nature - just you and your surroundings. Cliche I know, but in summer time I love to stroll down to the park around 8pm when all the kids have gone home, so I can just sit in the park, sometimes with headphones in, sometimes not, just for 20 minutes of peace and quiet. It's indescribably refreshing.
5.) Go to the seaside.
I have yet to visit the seaside this summer - but I cannot WAIT until I do. I'll spend the afternoon by the sea, then have a little look round the arcades, then get fish and chips before heading home. Argh, a perfect day out, methinks.
What things do you guys love to do when the weather is this lovely? Let me know in the comments below!
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Fighters clash at Warpath MMA VI last Friday at Squiala First Nation Community Hall in Chilliwack.
ts fight night in the city. If the sight of battling bodies, bloody noses and sonorous crowds is something you'd rather avoid, then please read no further.
It was like the 8 Mile of Martial Arts. The pace was fast and frantic on Friday for Warpath MMA VI.
It could have been New York, or Chicago, or Philly, or some fight club in LA with pumped crowds, jawing contenders, pretty girls, laser lights and loud music.
But this colourful scene wasn't of some inner city stateside, and these guys aren't saying "I cudda been a somebody".
No, its fight night north of the 49th in Chilliwack, and the brawlers got to lose themselves in it at the Squiala First Nation Community Hall.
An expectant crowd filled the beautiful and spacious new venue for the Mixed Martial Arts event that was put together by local promoters Darwin and Francine Douglas from Revolution Martial Arts.
League ring staging and lights with the big fat sound was delivered by the Fraser Valley's best one-two punch guys in the music business, Calvin Rempel from Jambox, and Jeff Bonner from Tractorgrease studio respectively.
These fighters weren't going to miss their opportunity to blow. A well known trainer from California was ringside to check out the local talent on a card that featured nine fights, including one with the Douglas' young son Darwin "Blood Boy" Jr.
The fighters had panache. One green-haired scrapper rolled out of the corner dancing to Carly Rae Jepsen's Call Me Maybe blasting.
A couple of noses got bloodied, but no one was seriously hurt. These guys get up, dust themselves off and get back to training the next day.
There has been concern that mixed martial arts is a blood sport where people are badly hurt or killed, but safety stats indicate MMA is safer than boxing, because in boxing, the focus is on the head. MMA pugilists wrestle as well. Guys get hurt worse in tussles coming out of a Chilliwack bar at closing time — and that's without refs and doctors on hand.
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JOYY - YY Stock Forecast, Price & News
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JOYY has received a consensus rating of Hold. The company's average rating score is 2.33, and is based on 1 buy rating, 2 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.
According to analysts' consensus price target of $49.33, JOYY has a forecasted upside of 31.7% from its current price of $37.47.
JOYY has received no research coverage in the past 90 days.
5.04% of the float of JOYY has been sold short.
JOYY has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 4.
Short interest in JOYY has recently increased by 13.39%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly.
Dividend Leadership
JOYY is a leading dividend payer. It pays a dividend yield of 5.27%, putting its dividend yield in the top 25% of dividend-paying stocks.
JOYY does not have a long track record of dividend growth.
The dividend payout ratio of JOYY is 29.21%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.
Based on EPS estimates, JOYY will have a dividend payout ratio of 1,691.67% in the coming year. This indicates that JOYY may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
There is no current Upright™ data available for YY.
JOYY has a news sentiment score of 0.74. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a higher news sentiment than the 0.53 average news sentiment score of Computer and Technology companies.
MarketBeat has tracked 3 news articles for JOYY this week, compared to 3 articles on an average week.
Only 2 people have searched for YY on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -67% compared to the previous 30 days.
3 people have added JOYY to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 200% compared to the previous 30 days.
In the past three months, JOYY insiders have not sold or bought any company stock.
43.00% of the stock of JOYY is held by insiders. A high percentage of insider ownership can be a sign of company health.
42.31% of the stock of JOYY is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.
Earnings for JOYY are expected to decrease by -92.55% in the coming year, from $1.61 to $0.12 per share.
The P/E ratio of JOYY is 5.39, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 122.75.
The P/E ratio of JOYY is 5.39, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Computer and Technology sector average P/E ratio of about 304.90.
JOYY has a P/B Ratio of 0.53. P/B Ratios below 1 indicate that a company could be undervalued with respect to its assets and liabilities.
About JOYY (NASDAQ:YY) Stock
JOYY, Inc. engages in managing a communication social platform, which enables users to join real-time online group activities through voice, text, and video. Its services include music and entertainment, online games, online dating, live game broadcasting, online education, and advertising. It operates through following segments: Live Streaming, Online Games, Membership and Others. The Live Streaming segment engages in the sales of in-channel virtual items used on live streaming platforms, including YY Live platform and Huya platform. The Online Games segment engages in the sales of in-game virtual items used for games. The Membership segment engages in the collection of membership subscription fees. The Others segment engages in the online education platform and online advertising and promotion. The company was founded by Xueling Li and Jun Lei in April 2005 and is headquartered in Singapore.
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YY Stock - Frequently Asked Questions
Should I buy or sell JOYY stock right now?
3 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for JOYY in the last year. There are currently 2 hold ratings and 1 buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "hold" YY shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in YY, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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What is JOYY's stock price forecast for 2023?
3 equities research analysts have issued 12-month price targets for JOYY's shares. Their YY share price forecasts range from $40.00 to $62.00. On average, they anticipate the company's stock price to reach $49.33 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 31.7% from the stock's current price.
View analysts price targets for YY or view top-rated stocks among Wall Street analysts.
How have YY shares performed in 2023?
JOYY's stock was trading at $31.59 at the start of the year. Since then, YY stock has increased by 18.6% and is now trading at $37.47.
When is JOYY's next earnings date?
The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, March 21st 2023.
View our YY earnings forecast.
How were JOYY's earnings last quarter?
JOYY Inc. (NASDAQ:YY) issued its quarterly earnings data on Monday, November, 28th. The information services provider reported $0.87 EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $0.40 by $0.47. The information services provider earned $586.73 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $580.16 million. JOYY had a trailing twelve-month return on equity of 4.02% and a net margin of 23.37%.
How often does JOYY pay dividends? What is the dividend yield for JOYY?
JOYY declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, November 28th. Stockholders of record on Friday, December 23rd will be paid a dividend of $0.51 per share on Friday, January 13th. This represents a $2.04 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 5.44%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, December 22nd. This is an increase from the stock's previous quarterly dividend of $0.51.
Read our dividend analysis for YY.
Is JOYY a good dividend stock?
JOYY (NASDAQ:YY) pays an annual dividend of $2.03 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 5.42%. YY has a dividend yield higher than 75% of all dividend-paying stocks, making it a leading dividend payer. The dividend payout ratio is 29.21%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on EPS estimates, YY will have a dividend payout ratio of 1,691.67% in the coming year. This indicates that the company may not be able to sustain their current dividend.
What guidance has JOYY issued on next quarter's earnings?
JOYY issued an update on its fourth quarter 2022 earnings guidance on Thursday, December, 29th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of for the period. The company issued revenue guidance of $594.00 million-$619.00 million, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $628.40 million.
What other stocks do shareholders of JOYY own?
Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other JOYY investors own include CA (CA), BlackRock (BLK), Endologix (ELGX), Hawkins (HWKN), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Athabasca Oil (ATH), Aegean Marine Petroleum Network (ANW), Micron Technology (MU), Precision Drilling (PD) and NIC (EGOV).
What is JOYY's stock symbol?
JOYY trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "YY."
Who are JOYY's major shareholders?
JOYY's stock is owned by a variety of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include National Bank of Canada FI (0.21%), Deltec Asset Management LLC (0.03%), Migdal Insurance & Financial Holdings Ltd. (0.01%) and Counterpoint Mutual Funds LLC (0.01%).
How do I buy shares of JOYY?
Shares of YY stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
What is JOYY's stock price today?
One share of YY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $37.47.
How much money does JOYY make?
JOYY (NASDAQ:YY) has a market capitalization of $2.92 billion and generates $2.62 billion in revenue each year. The information services provider earns $-80,290,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $6.95 on an earnings per share basis.
How many employees does JOYY have?
How can I contact JOYY?
JOYY's mailing address is Building B-1 North Block of Wanda Plaza No. 79 Wanbo Er Road Nancun Town Panyu District, Guangzhou F4, 511442. The official website for the company is www.huanju.cn. The information services provider can be reached via phone at 65-6351-9330, via email at ir@yy.com, or via fax at 86-20-8212-0887.
This page (NASDAQ:YY) was last updated on 1/30/2023 by MarketBeat.com Staff


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When traditional healthcare fails, voice assistants could play doctor
Can a smart speaker really ease social isolation?
Meeri Kim
An increasing number of US households have welcomed digital voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant into their homes by way of smart speakers. Earlier this year, analytics company comScore reported that 20% of Wi-Fi-enabled households in the US now have a smart speaker, which translates to 18.7 million homes. This growth has been steady over the past year or so, driven by lower price points and a larger variety of devices.
This rising prevalence of home-based voice assistants has led some healthcare experts to wonder whether Alexa can go beyond just playing music and dimming the lights, to actually helping patients in need. Can we reduce feelings of social isolation in the elderly with a smart speaker app? What about automating speech and voice therapy for children?
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A recent hackathon at the University of Southern California explored the ways that developers could harness the power of voice to help people in need live healthier lives. The Voice Assistants for All Hackathon, a collaboration between the USC Center for Body Computing and the WITH Foundation, challenged teams to develop a digital health app that would help those underserved by the traditional US healthcare system. The 24-hour hackathon took place 12-13 July in Playa Vista, California, concluding with a pitch from each of the five finalists to a panel of expert judges.
Existing speech therapy is often very repetitive and boring
"The hackathon came about as part of USC's Center for Body Computing and the WITH Foundation's work to ensure that the future of digital health includes the perspective and experiences of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities," Ryan Easterly, executive director of the WITH Foundation, told The Ambient. "With much of our health being shaped at home, there is an opportunity to use a home-based voice-controlled intelligent personal assistant as a tool to help address healthcare needs."
The winning team created Amplify, a speech therapy program for children with cerebral palsy to use at home. Cerebral palsy refers to a group of neurological disorders that permanently affect body movement and muscle coordination. More than a third of individuals with cerebral palsy have speech and language disorders, such as difficulty forming words and speaking clearly.
"The reason why existing solutions for speech therapy and delivering it tend to fail have to do with things like financial disadvantage, having to actually travel some distance to a speech therapist, and of course, the therapy itself is often very repetitive and boring," said Chris Laine, Amplify team member and a Research Assistant Professor at USC's Division of Biokinesiology and Physical Therapy.
As a home-based option, Amplify is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure system for a patient to use at home with family. It employs a common speech therapy methodology for cerebral palsy called Lee-Silverman Voice Treatment folded into a magic-based fantasy game where the exercises move the story forward. For instance, Amplify's narrator will tell the child to repeat an important code word to become part of the team, or to hold a vowel sound to get through a particular maze. Team Amplify was awarded $10,000 for their win.
"I imagine [Amplify] as an adjunct to physician or clinician," said Juan Espinoza, a judge and pediatrician at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. "So you have your speech therapist who assigns you the specific story as homework before the next session, and this is really a way to enhance and fill in those gaps."
Taclking medication and social isolation
Another team presented Meddi, an intelligent personal companion based on the Alexa platform to remind and encourage patients at home to take their medication. Studies have shown that medication non-adherence costs in the U.S. add up to approximately $290 billion, or 13% of total healthcare spending. In addition, the problem remains a major source of morbidity for elderly patients.
The program tries to determine whether the person is lonely by asking them questions during the adventure
Once the program is personalised with an individual's medications, Meddi can remind them which medications they need to take at the right time of day. Patients can ask what the medications are for and what would happen if they didn't take them. The team also brainstormed different ways to motivate elderly patients to take their medications within Meddi, such as a customised Spotify playlist from a family member as a reward for checking in a certain number of times.
Team Eidla created a digital companion designed to combat social isolation in older adults. Through Alexa, it transports users to a different planet called Eidla that they can explore and where they can interact with aliens. The program tries to determine whether the person is lonely by asking them related questions during the adventure and will notify family members accordingly.
Overall, the judges were impressed with the hackathon results and, in particular, the ability of teams to address a healthcare need through the use of voice assistants. The efforts demonstrated that seniors and individuals with developmental disabilities could benefit from having a smart speaker at home if programs like the ones presented were further developed.
"As digital health continues to evolve and new models of healthcare delivery are developed, it is crucial that they meet the needs of adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities as well as seniors," said Easterly. "If digital health meets the needs of individuals with fewer resources… it results in better technology for all, and therefore better healthcare for all."
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There is much being said and written these days about the importance of bringing new people, especially young people, into our Hobby. There are many obvious reasons for this. As we all get older or get busy with other aspects of our lives, some will leave the hobby. Also, we have the use of many commercially valuable portions of the RF spectrum and there is always pressure to reallocate bands or segments of bands which are not fully utilized. In my mind, the most important reason to bring new HAMs into our hobby has to do with the energy and new ideas that these folks bring to Amateur Radio. Amateur Radio has always been a learning hobby and new folks help us to keep this important part of what makes our hobby so much fun vibrant.
Anita (AB1QB) and I try to put a lot of time and energy into getting folks started in Amateur Radio and helping them to build their skills and progress. Our Amateur Radio License Classes and the youth outreach work that we've been doing are two good examples of this. To make these efforts as successful as they can be, it's also very important to provide good opportunities for folks who are new to various aspects of Amateur Radio to learn and gain experience. This means becoming an "Elmer" or a HAM Radio mentor to people who are less experienced in some part of the hobby than you are.
Perhaps the most challenging part of Amateur Radio for many new HAMs is making the transition from getting their initial license or a license upgrade, to getting on the air with their new privileges. I think that this is equally true for newly licensed folks and for folks who have upgraded to a higher license class and are looking to get onto the HF bands. It's impossible to teach everything that one needs to get the most from their Amateur License in classes alone.
So what does effective Elmer'ing look like? I think that the answer is different for every HAM. For a new Tech, it may be as simple as helping the person to pick their first radio and antenna along with some help getting it programmed for the local repeaters. For a person upgrading their license to gain HF privileges, it is often about helping to get a first HF antenna up along with helping them to select equipment for and assemble a first HF station. All of these folks will also benefit from help getting on the air and learning to operate. Most of all, a great Elmer is someone who is willing to give their time to help a person who is new to an aspect of Amateur Radio learn and get started doing what they want to do.
I have personally found that being an Elmer to be one of the most rewarding and enjoyable aspects of Amateur Radio. Every time that I help someone get on the air for the first time or help someone to build their first HF antenna or station, I get the same enjoyment as when I did these things for the first time in my Amateur Radio experience.
Elmer'ing is also a great opportunity for the "Elmer" to learn new things. Newer or less experienced folks will have different things that they want to try or learn about than those things that we "Elmers" consider our "tried and true" Amateur Radio activities. A great Elmer will help the less experienced HAM take on these projects and learn along with them. This gives the less experienced person the confidence and support that they need to try more difficult projects with confidence. The learning experience associated with being an Elmer has often been the best part of the experience for me.
So how does one get started with Elmer'ing? You could open your station to newer HAMs and offer them a chance to get on the air and learn to operate. There is always someone looking to put up a new antenna or to repair an existing one. These are all great opportunities for Elmer'ing. Also, you could consider creating a presentation that you can deliver at your local radio club meetings as a way to share specialized knowledge or experience that you may have. If you are new licensed, perhaps you could help someone who is studying for their license exam with some of the areas that they are finding difficult. Also, new folks tend to have experience with computers and the Internet that many of the folks who have been in the hobby for a while can benefit from. This can be a 2-way Elmer'ing opportunity.
I hope that all of our readers will consider becoming an Elmer in some way. Your efforts to help someone new or less experienced can provide you with the satisfaction that you helped to make Amateur Radio a better hobby for everyone.
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A few years back, I read a book by Michael Lewis called "Moneyball." The story is about the Oakland Athletics Baseball team. In 2002, the team's general manager, a guy named Billy Beane, was faced with a huge challenge: field a competitive team using a little more than half of the average MLB team payroll. This disparity forced him to look at the "value" of a player differently.
The moral of the story is that by using specific statistical metrics instead of traditional baseball evaluation techniques, he was able to create a team that won 20 games in a row, went to the playoffs and in many ways revolutionized the game of baseball.
The idea of using non-traditional criteria to judge talent intrigued me. It seemed to me that the "old, tried-and-true" method of judging sales potential was "knowing" the customers, the products and the industry. It struck me that those attributes can be learned. What can't be learned is a high energy level, work ethic and competitiveness. Certainly, it would be ideal to have all of the above but we all know those candidates are few and far between. Maybe hiring on intangibles and then committing to a robust training protocol is a better recipe for long-term sales success? Of course, this would require a greater commitment to sales training than is traditional in our industry. However, if we could get the personality criteria and the training paradigm to align, we could realize a much greater ROI on our sales force investment.
Using specific analytical metrics is a relatively new concept in our flooring world. In the future, analytical data will be the foundation that all sales functions rest. High-performing sales teams are already to one degree or another making themselves more efficient because of the data they gather and use. Think of the efficiencies to be attained if we had empirical data that told our individual sales team members where and with what products they were most likely to have success. Just as valuable would be data on product categories by region or demographic. Aside from sales, think of the money saved in inventory efficiencies by the use of advanced analytics. The new generations that are just beginning to impact the compositions of our sales teams are going to force companies to use such techniques. Millennials, Gen-Xs and Gen-Yers grew up in a world where virtually anything you wanted to know was literally at their fingertips.
There is also an opportunity to leverage technology through things like e-commerce websites and logistics automation that would allow distributors to enhance the "customer buying experience" while still keeping costs in line. Our customers' expectations of how they purchase product in business is influenced by their customer experience when they buy online. Think of how much more inclined our customers would be to buy from distribution if we could give them an "Amazon-like" service model.
Like most things in life, sales and—to larger extent—running a company, has gotten simultaneously easier and more complicated. It's the companies that can hold true to their core values yet still leverage the power of innovative, non-traditional thinking and ideas that will win the day.
Dunn Rasbury is distributor director, NAFCD, and director of flooring for A&M Supply, Atlanta. He is also a strategic planner, product line developer and sales team builder.


M. Ryan Calo is a residential fellow at the Stanford Law School Center for Internet & Society. He frequently appears in radio, press, and online to discuss new technology.Everyone knows Ray Bradbury's book Fahrenheit 451. First published in 1953, Bradbury imagined a world in which government "firemen" could enter your home at any time and burn your books "for the good of humanity." This deeply dystopic vision has, thankfully, not come to pass. Nor could it. In the U.S., the First and Fourth Amendments project against unreasonable government intrusion, especially where it implicates ideas. The state will never be able to enter your house and burn your books, even in an age of terrorism. I really believe that.That's why I was so disturbed to learn that Amazon has managed to "burn" two other famous dystopias, these ones by George Orwell, without implicating the Constitution. According to reports, people who had purchased Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four and Animal Farm for the Kindle woke up to find that Amazon had erased the ebooks remotely.Jonathan Zittrain has warned about this phenomenon – which he calls "software as service" – wherein people no longer own what they buy. Digital products become evolving and hence unstable services that a company may alter or even destroy at whim. Like many things that happen first on the Internet, the death of ownership is also happening offline, as when car dealers leave GPS devices in vehicles so as to make it easier to repossess the vehicles later.Ebooks evoke dystopian novels in a second way. It is rapidly becoming impossible to peruse or buy a book without leaving a digital trail. Law enforcement has already reportedly asked Amazon to hand over customer purchase history; it is a matter of time before the government approaches Google Book Search. It is no accident that common to practically every dystopian novel is the abrogation of privacy. This is clearly true of Bradbury and Orwell. In Yevgeny Zamyatin's We, the buildings are all made of transparent glass. In Huxley's Brave New World, the biggest taboo is solitude. Bernard Marx tells us that an aversion to being alone is, of all state messages, repeated the most times during sleep conditioning.I don't mean to overstate. In many ways we live in a historic zenith of freedom. And Amazon zapping books for business reasons is a far cry from state sanctioned book burning. But we nevertheless must get a handle on the issues of ownership and privacy that ebooks raise, lest we wake up one day to find they have disappeared.


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PH vows to keep IMO 'White List' status
Manila, Philippines - The Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) and the Department of Transportation vowed to improve the current state of the maritime education and fully comply with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping (STCW) as it aim to maintain its 'White List' status in the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
"Our mariners invest blood, sweat and tears in their work, and the government should repay that by ensuring that we remain on the IMO white list. We need to protect the livelihood and welfare of our seafarers," said Department of Transportation Secretary Art Tugade.
Tugade has he has instructed Marina to ensure that the country's status in the specialized agency of the United Nations remains. This includes improving training, examination and assessment system in maritime schools.
Being included on the white list implies that the Philippines is compliant with the International Convention on Standards of Training, Certification and Watch keeping (STCW). Being on the list gives Filipino seafarers a huge advantage, as this reflects that they underwent strict training and education.
A panel of international maritime experts will conduct an independent evaluation in April as part of the Philippines's continuing compliance with the pertinent provisions of the STCW of 1978.
MARINA OIC Administrator Vice Admiral Narciso Vingson Jr. is confident that the evaluation of the country's STCW system will solidify the Philippines inclusion in the "White List" of the IMO.
"Our engagement with the professional services of independent evaluators shows our full efforts in maintaining our seafarer's reputation worldwide as a dependable maritime workforce. We will continue to comply with IMO standards for the benefit of our seafarers," Vice Admiral Vingson said.


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Beat Poet Elise Cowen's Time-Traveling Love Letters to Emily Dickinson
Katelin Kelly
The cult figure's poems reveal a queer kinship with the canonical poet
Elise Cowen. That's her name. Archives teach us the importance of naming, assigning an umbrella under which objects are saved and preserved. What you need to know about Elise Cowen is that she's not quite inside any umbrella. She's wet.
Born in 1933 in Washington Heights, New York, Cowen was briefly lovers with Allen Ginsberg, and her own poetry is often overshadowed by her associations with Ginsberg both sexually and creatively — she is most well known as the typist of his poem "Kaddish." Cowen's work is usually classified as cult rather than canonical, and her name is easily traceable through niche internet articles such as "The Best Female Poet You've Never Heard Of" or "The Lady is a Humble Thing" from Beatdom, a website "dedicated to the study of the Beat Generation."
Cowen's name is easily traceable through niche internet articles such as "The Best Female Poet You've Never Heard Of."
My journey with Cowen begins in an archive where she is misnamed from the very beginning. I began my hunt with Peter Orlovsky, Ginsberg's longtime partner and former roommate of Cowen. Searching Orlovsky's correspondences in the Harry Ransom Center's Ginsberg Collection, I misspelled Cowen's name in the search engine, which yielded a single result:
Screenshot from the Harry Ransom Center's Allen Ginsberg Collection.
What are the odds that there was also an Elsie Cowan corresponding with Peter Orlovsky? Orlovsky's life was interesting, but not interesting enough to have an Elsie Cowan and Elise Cowen within the same sphere.
I found the letter and saw that it was typed on Columbia University stationary, another clear indicator that yes, this is Elise. And her signature: a subtle dot in between the i and s, which in cursive could translate to "Elsie" to an archivist, particularly one who didn't even known Elise existed.
More tantalizing still was an article in the Ginsberg archive entitled "Elise Cowen: A Brief Memoir of the Fifties" written by Leo Skir in August 1967, five years after her death. Skir, at least, was saying her name and spelling it correctly. His writing, however, leaves much of Elise's life out of the picture. Instead, Skir focuses on the moment in which she entered and exited his life, rather than offering a full or complex portrait of hers.
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What I kept coming back to was Cowen's signature from the mislabeled letter; that E stands so prominent as to allow the rest of her name to collapse. It reminded me of a similar E from the Dickinson Radical Scatters archive — a collection that includes facsimiles, transcriptions, and full text of fragments from Dickinson's manuscripts.
I explored manuscript page A254/255, which in "reading view" looks like this:
Screenshot of Emily Dickinson's A 254 / 255 from the Radical Scatters online archive.
The text itself is haunting, in the way it invokes the writer's name on the page. Even stranger is the original facsimile. The "E E E E E E E E E" is not spread out evenly as the lineation suggests. Rather, the Es are scattered all over the page, like a child practicing writing her name. I wondered whether this was an original scrap of nothing, a poem that would've been discarded if not for the strange process of preserving Dickinson's work.
I wondered whether this was an original scrap of nothing, a poem that would've been discarded if not for the strange process of preserving Dickinson's work.
A similar process occurred with Elise Cowen's work, the name of her first collection saying it all: Elise Cowen: Poems & Fragments. This fragmented nature of posthumous work creates its own style over time, regardless of Dickinson's or Cowen's original intent to create this brand of aesthetic for their work. While these ethical questions abound, I prefer to view these fragments as watermarks of a writing process. What can we come to understand about Cowen's and Dickinson's practices through these ruins?
Our knowledge of Cowen's writing life is truncated by the destruction of much of her archive. Upon her death in 1962, her parents — upset by the homosexual and drug-related content of Cowen's work — had a neighbor burn her remaining notebooks and writing. The only surviving notebook consists of 91 poems and fragments, all of which are included in the 2014 collection edited by Tony Trigilio. What the collection lacks in length, it offers in riches of form, content, and play.
The few scholars that have worked on Cowen regard her as an Athena within a Beat Parthenon, Ginsberg at her side. This reading, while not wholly inaccurate, limits Cowen's work as it only alludes to her contemporary living influences. In Elise Cowen: Poems & Fragments Dickinson is very much present. The collections epigraph reads:
This quote comes from Cowen's remaining notebook, a passage from Dickinson's "Of Tribulation, these are They." Trigilio notes, "It is the only place in the notebook where [Cowen] quotes Dickinson."
Throughout the collection, Cowen summons Dickinson into her poems not once but twice. First in "[Emily]" and in a later poem "Emily White Witch of Amherst." Dickinson's name appears more than that of any other poet in this collection. Not only is she named, but she is the addressee of these two poems.
It isn't a stretch to imagine that Cowen was, in her mind, conversing with Dickinson. In her review of Elise Cowen: Poems & Fragments, scholar Becca Klaver connects Cowen and Dickinson as contemporaries, noting that Thomas H. Johnson's variorum edition of Dickinson premiered in 1955, making Dickinson, "not only [Cowen's] predecessor but also her peer." This "belated peer" status evolves into a queer kinship as Cowen writes to Dickinson.
The first poem "[Emily]" stands in conversation with the "E E E E E E E E E" fragment from A254/255. This fragment would have been available to Cowen in the 1955 edition of Dickinson. Here, Cowen embodies the simile "like a friend / when summer cleaves / away." In Dickinson's poem, the lineation suggest an elongated breath, one that emphasizes the last word in each line, reaching toward "friend" and "cleaves." There is a note of desire in this pacing, reflecting similar moments from other Dickinson poems such as "Going — To — Her!" In Cowen's response, she echoes this breath, addressing Dickinson by name:
This poem reaches to Dickinson both rhetorically and physically, "hand in hand." Cowen's language is saturated with sexual desire, beckoning "Emily, / come." Cowen alludes to Dickinson's bees as "jeweled," which is to say glistening. This gives credence to Cowen's careful reading of Dickinson's bees and flowers, which pollinate one another and in so doing work as metaphors for clitorises. In her chapter on Dickinson from Sister Arts: The Erotics of Lesbian Landscapes, Lisa L. Moore cites Paula Bennett's reading of Dickinson's "small, round, and frequently hard objects," such as bees, as clitoral images. Cowen writes "[Emily]" in 1959, years before scholars openly read Dickinson as queer. The bees in this poem sting Cowen, a sexualized but also suicidal act for the bee. At this point in the poem, the bees are off of "Emily," she herself is naked of the bees and her sexuality is free from the mask of innuendo.
The bees in this poem sting Cowen, a sexualized but also suicidal act for the bee.
Cowen then obliges in taking off her own "stinking jeans." She often characterizes herself as the girl in jeans throughout this collection. In a later poem, "[I took the skins of corpses]," these jeans are made of corpse skin, another type of communion with the dead and also providing reason for their stench. Upon taking off the "jeweled bees" and "stinking jeans," Cowen and "Emily" are now together and touch in an escape "outside" of the world. The poem already positions us in a state of imagined desire and fantasy. It continues in this trajectory obfuscating and destabilizing reality.
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The two women "look straight," a jab at heteronormativity. But this is not their first encounter with looking "straight / at the sun," as the next line notes, "a second time." This is a second awakening as they move to "get tan," a return to a natural union of the self and selves.
A queer kinship further emerges in "[Enough of this flabby cock]" with the lines "Enough of this flabby cock / in my head," a strange parallel to "I felt a funeral, in my Brain." The caesura created by Cowen's line break syncs perfectly with Dickinson's punctuation. Many of Cowen's poems welcome a type of death, be it transformative or spiritual. Her equating "a funeral" to a "flabby cock" heightens our understanding of Cowen's humor and distaste for a passive life of sexual complacency.
Her equating "a funeral" to a "flabby cock" heightens our understanding of Cowen's humor and distaste for a passive life of sexual complacency.
Cowen's play with the sexual, the experimental, and the canonical reflect an evolution of Dickinson's "Tell all the truth but tell it slant." In pursuing her own slanted truth, Cowen crafts a landscape of deep reality and deeper imagination. This presents another type of queering, different from sexual desire, one in which Cowen gives us all of her truth but from a slanted angle of the mind. Here "slant" operates as a guidepost through which to understand Dickinson's and Cowen's poetics as undeniably queer. Their work exists out of a necessary desire to be, especially if that means as queer female poets their work must create a new aesthetic, a new poetry altogether.
The quatrain structure of Dickinson's "I felt a Funeral, in my Brain" echoes in Cowen's poem "[Enough of this flabby cock]," but less so than her other works which borrow a meter directly from Dickinson. The line "a green automobile" from Cowen's "[I had a dream of mercy]" alludes to Ginsberg's own "The Green Automobile," but the foundation of the poem is its meter, a meter with direct lineage from Dickinson's ballads:
The sturdiness of the ballad meter wanes toward the end, circumventing the expectations of rhyme, but it echoes as watermarks often do, given that this poem's status as draft, fragment, or complete is unknown.
Conversely, "[I took the skins of corpses]" possesses strict quatrains and meter, which match Dickinson's ballads such as "My Life had stood — a Loaded Gun." These poems also pair in their proximity to danger. In Dickinson's version, this proximity is highlighted with an inability to act, "For I have but the power to kill, / Without — the power to die -." Whereas with Cowen, the poem dons corpses from the opening line until the final stanza in which the wearer of the dead, barters their own body, "I'll sell my deadly body." The use of "deadly" swings between being and being dangerous, having "the power to kill." Instead of her soul, Cowen sells her body to "the student doctor's knife," in essence, sterilizing the spiritual paradigm of good and evil through modern medicine. Cowen is selling "body" as object, body as its own corpse's skin is wearing another corpse's skin. The skin is recycled and worn then recycled back into a scientific medical system. In this exchange, death holds power, a power that contrasts sharply yet builds upon the same desire from Dickinson's "My Life has stood — a Loaded Gun."
This shared desire operates similarly to the shared E's of Emily and Elise; it is an act of reaching. Cowen reaches back through form, content, and calls Dickinson by name. Dickinson reaches forward, as all poets do, connecting with an unknown source, channeling her own name on the page before writing.
Cowen reaches back through form, content, and calls Dickinson by name. Dickinson reaches forward, as all poets do, connecting with an unknown source, channeling her own name on the page before writing.
In Cowen's collection, the poem "Emily White Witch of Amherst" comes right after "[Someone I could kiss]" as though one poem answers the question of another. In "Emily White Witch of Amherst," Cowen compares herself with Dickinson again. This time, "The shy white witch of Amherst / killed her teachers / with her love" while Cowen reflects "Rather mine entomb / my mind." With each the teachers are dead, either annihilated or existing only in the mind. In this broad stroke, Cowen summarizes the work of poetry: to move forward and away, forging and digging new ground. Her work surely moves across planes of thought, awareness, and existence. In this movement, it can become difficult to locate Cowen, her titles ranging from "Teacher — Your Body My Kabbalah" to "[I want a cunt of golden pleasure]." But this is how we find her, we dig.
For queer poets, scholars, and those of us who study them, this is as much our work as that of Cowen and Dickinson. The premiere of Elise Cowen: Poems & Fragments in 2014, positions Cowen as our queer peer. Her work as much as it reaches back, reaches forward to us. Understanding that time within poetry is a relative slant, Cowen offers us the poem "I Can't Remember":
In tracing the genealogical connection between Dickinson, Cowen, and the queer poetics of today, this final line rings. It is not within separate archival umbrellas that we commune. We breathe through the disappearance of these structures, through fragment or desire or slant. This is why we come to poetry, not for answers because as Cowen tells us, "I Can't Remember / The question." In killing her teachers, and naming her lovers, Cowen arrives at a point of departure and glides on with her imagined Emily, using poetry as a point of communion across time.
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