Motley Kamuka

  Amazing movie. It shows the greatness of the music and lyrics that it can be done on Broadway 1957, a movie in '61, and then a remake in 2021. I get the sense that some people might dislike an update, they think the old one is good enough, and it is amazing. I think we can do a remake of this movie every 50 years, let alone 60. Ariana DeBose  (shown above) got a SAG award. I didn't notice, but it was banned in f Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates because Anybodys being a transgender character, as played by non-binary actor iris menas. Wish I hadn't read about that, makes me despair for this world. I'm starting to think I'm in the worst timeline.  And then I read that Maria was played by a woman who only had a maternal grandmother who was hispanic (Columbian)... Anita (by the wonderful DeBose) had African-American and Italian heritage. I'm sorry but she killed it. No regrets on that casting. She's not even an actor, sh...

Jan-Margaret Fuller- Women in 19th Century Feb-Emerson-Nature & Self Reliance  March-Narrative of Sojourner Truth & the topic of Abolition April-Frederick Douglass-his 3 autobiographies May-Jones Very & the topics of Mental Illness and Disability June-Julia Ward Howe-The Hermaphrodite (and/or HBStowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and/or LMAlcott’s Long Fatal Love Chase) July-Thoreau-Walden Aug-Elizabeth Peabody-Record of a School (Bronson Alcott’s Temple School) Sept-Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins-Life among the Piutes (ed. by Mary Peabody Mann) Oct-Nathaniel Hawthorne-Mosses from an Old Manse Nov-Thomas Wentworth Higginson-Army Life in a Black Regiment Dec-Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson (as much as we can fit in!) I'm so psyched! By March I was having other ideas. Maybe we should have read Frederick Douglass in February and focused women into March, Women's history month. But then I realized there was more of an emphasis on women, because the list was created by a woman--and I g...