by Mia McKenzie
President Obama just “endorsed” gay marriage. And guess what? I barely give a damn.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s okay. It’s fine. There’s nothing inherently wrong with it. Saying that gay people who want to get married to each other should be able to do so is basically a…
784 James Baldwin (forever)
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Happy 75th Anniversary to Sister Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.
2 After my Whitney post, I got an email from someone who read it. She was in the middle of a debate about whether or not to it was too soon to discuss Whitney Houston’s sexuality, namely rumors regarding a relationship with her former assistant, Robyn Crawford. (Crawford’s response to Houston’s…
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Missing: ATHENA JOY CURRY (GA)
Athena was last seen on May 27, 2011 at 1485 Beecher Street in Southwest Atlanta. Her boyfriend and father of her son claims they got into a heated argument and she stormed out the house at 3am. She has not been seen or heard from since. Her family states under NO circumstance would she leave her 16 months-old son, King. If you have any information on her whereabouts, please contact the Atlanta Police Adult Missing Persons Squad at (404) 546-4235.
Read more about Athena’s story here.
Click through the picture for Athena’s missing person Facebook page.
[WARNING for talk of abuse in the “Read more about Athena’s story here” link above.]
please pass this around if you can. this is extremely important. she is still missing.
Missing Since: May 27, 2011 from Atlanta, Georgia Classification: Endangered MissingDate of Birth: November 2, 1990Age: 20 years oldHeight and Weight: 5’8, 150 poundsDistinguishing Characteristics: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Curry has the following tattoos: the words “King Kare” vertically on her left arm, a bow wrapped around her left upper arm, a rose and the name “Rocky” on the inside of her right wrist, a musical note on the left side of her neck and a tribal tattoo on the top of her left hand. Pictures of some of the tattoos are posted below this case summary. Curry’s nose and the right side of her lower lip are pierced. Her nickname is Nelz.
— from http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/curry_athena.html [WARNING for link: talk of abuse in the “Details of Disappearance” section.]
Athena Curry is STILL missing. And we need your help in getting the word out. Contact any one (or all) of the following Atlanta newspapers and ask them to do a story on Athena. We need to keep her face out there. Athena is out there somewhere; we just need to keep telling her story until someone comes forward. Thanks for all your help! Atlanta Daily World 3485 N. Desert Dr #2109 Atlanta , GA 30344 404-761-1114 - Telephone 404-761-1164 - Fax Atlanta Journal-Constitution 223 Perimeter Center Pkwy. Atlanta, GA 30346 404-526-5151 - Telephone 404-526-5746 - Fax Atlanta Unfiltered P.O. Box 730 Decatur, GA 30031 Creative Loafing Atlanta 384 Northyards Blvd Ste 600 Atlanta, GA 30313 404-688-5623 - Telephone 404-614-3599 - Fax Fulton County Daily Report 190 Pryor St SW Atlanta , GA 30303 404-521-1227 - Telephone 404-525-1738 - Fax LikeTheDew 250 10th Street #3417 Atlanta, GA 30309 404-892-1116 - Telephone
— from a post on the Facebook page (link).
text of flyer at link:
ATHENA JOY CURRYMissing: 5/27/11 from Atlanta, GAHeight: 5’8 Weight: 150 lbsIf you have any information, please contact the Atlanta Adult Missing Persons Squad at (404) 546-4235.www.blackandmissing.comwww.facebook.com/blackandmissing
Atlanta…..heads up
still missing.
oh and all this time, i’ve been forgetting to put the links to online free faxing places in this post! sorry. anyway here they are:
http://www.gotfreefax.com (up to 2 a day for free)
http://faxzero.com (allegedly up to 2 a day for free, but sometimes one of those causes an error)
http://www.myfax.com/free (up to 2 a day for free)
[text below reposted from before — tumblr won’t let me reblog myself].
ALSO: from the “Missing Athena Curry Come home baby” facebook page (link to post):
[….] Someone out there knows something. Please be brave enough and come forward with any information you have. Athena is a special young woman. For those of you that know her…. you know she lights up the room when she walks in. She is full of energy and she knows how to make you smile when you are feeling down. Just the sound of he…r voice can brighten your day. We also know Thena has her moods but we all do… and it never took much to bring that spark back. PLEASE if you have any information what so ever Please contact Detective Stribling @ 404-546-2511 or send him an anonymous email (make up one) his email address is: dstribling@atlantaga.gov . We need to bring Athena home, she is a mother, daughter, sister, niece, cousin and bestfriend to many of us. We love her and miss her more each day. You can inbox me directly as well @ jerilynnL77@gmail.com
new-ish video on youtube: “HELP US!! Athena Curry is still Missing. We need your help!” (link)](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltxpyoMBQH1r5whbeo1_250.jpg)
Missing: ATHENA JOY CURRY (GA)
Athena was last seen on May 27, 2011 at 1485 Beecher Street in Southwest Atlanta. Her boyfriend and father of her son claims they got into a heated argument and she stormed out the house at 3am. She has not been seen or heard from since. Her family states under NO circumstance would she leave her 16 months-old son, King.
If you have any information on her whereabouts, please contact the Atlanta Police Adult Missing Persons Squad at (404) 546-4235.Read more about Athena’s story here.
Click through the picture for Athena’s missing person Facebook page.
[WARNING for talk of abuse in the “Read more about Athena’s story here” link above.]
please pass this around if you can. this is extremely important. she is still missing.
Missing Since: May 27, 2011 from Atlanta, Georgia
Classification: Endangered Missing
Date of Birth: November 2, 1990
Age: 20 years old
Height and Weight: 5’8, 150 pounds
Distinguishing Characteristics: African-American female. Black hair, brown eyes. Curry has the following tattoos: the words “King Kare” vertically on her left arm, a bow wrapped around her left upper arm, a rose and the name “Rocky” on the inside of her right wrist, a musical note on the left side of her neck and a tribal tattoo on the top of her left hand. Pictures of some of the tattoos are posted below this case summary. Curry’s nose and the right side of her lower lip are pierced. Her nickname is Nelz.— from http://www.charleyproject.org/cases/c/curry_athena.html [WARNING for link: talk of abuse in the “Details of Disappearance” section.]
Athena Curry is STILL missing. And we need your help in getting the word out. Contact any one (or all) of the following Atlanta newspapers and ask them to do a story on Athena. We need to keep her face out there. Athena is out there somewhere; we just need to keep telling her story until someone comes forward. Thanks for all your help!
Atlanta Daily World
3485 N. Desert Dr #2109
Atlanta , GA 30344
404-761-1114 - Telephone
404-761-1164 - Fax
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
223 Perimeter Center Pkwy.
Atlanta, GA 30346
404-526-5151 - Telephone
404-526-5746 - Fax
Atlanta Unfiltered
P.O. Box 730
Decatur, GA 30031
Creative Loafing Atlanta
384 Northyards Blvd Ste 600
Atlanta, GA 30313
404-688-5623 - Telephone
404-614-3599 - Fax
Fulton County Daily Report
190 Pryor St SW
Atlanta , GA 30303
404-521-1227 - Telephone
404-525-1738 - Fax
LikeTheDew
250 10th Street #3417
Atlanta, GA 30309
404-892-1116 - Telephone— from a post on the Facebook page (link).
text of flyer at link:
ATHENA JOY CURRY
Missing: 5/27/11 from Atlanta, GA
Height: 5’8 Weight: 150 lbs
If you have any information, please contact the Atlanta Adult Missing Persons Squad at (404) 546-4235.
www.blackandmissing.com
www.facebook.com/blackandmissingAtlanta…..heads up
still missing.
oh and all this time, i’ve been forgetting to put the links to online free faxing places in this post! sorry. anyway here they are:
- http://www.gotfreefax.com (up to 2 a day for free)
- http://faxzero.com (allegedly up to 2 a day for free, but sometimes one of those causes an error)
- http://www.myfax.com/free (up to 2 a day for free)
[text below reposted from before — tumblr won’t let me reblog myself].
ALSO: from the “Missing Athena Curry Come home baby” facebook page (link to post):
[….] Someone out there knows something. Please be brave enough and come forward with any information you have. Athena is a special young woman. For those of you that know her…. you know she lights up the room when she walks in. She is full of energy and she knows how to make you smile when you are feeling down. Just the sound of he…r voice can brighten your day. We also know Thena has her moods but we all do… and it never took much to bring that spark back. PLEASE if you have any information what so ever Please contact Detective Stribling @ 404-546-2511 or send him an anonymous email (make up one) his email address is: dstribling@atlantaga.gov . We need to bring Athena home, she is a mother, daughter, sister, niece, cousin and bestfriend to many of us. We love her and miss her more each day. You can inbox me directly as well @ jerilynnL77@gmail.comnew-ish video on youtube: “HELP US!! Athena Curry is still Missing. We need your help!” (link)
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some scattered remarks, primarily from an email i sent to two friends today.
RIP Whitney Houstoni’m still in utter and complete shock regarding whitney houston. floored. very saddened. i left church this morning with some seething hope that i’d hear “it was an internet…
whitney houston, we speak your name.
6 “Minaj hurts my head. She perplexes me. I think of her as Trickster, two-faced in her betrayal of global black feminist possibility and powerful in her contradictory elucidation of black woman’s power within the realms of celebrity and hip hop. Reading her as Ellegua, that frightful guardian of the crossroads and the in-between and the everything-that-is-not-yet seems to fit an artist who switches alter egos as easily as she switches clothes. Conjuring the ritual and physicality of possession seems to fit a celebrity who changes clothes as she changes personality, putting on her and taking off her tropes as each personality comes down. The sometimes garish, sometimes delightful carnival of color, glitter and expression–even the repetitive dancehall/house music refrain–also fit a woman whose aesthetic choices continually find their footing in her Trinidadian roots.”
© kismetnunez 2012
11 *Recently, I took a week-long intensive course on improvisation and (bible)drama. Here is one of the reflections I shared with my fellow learners.*
“The actor is constantly physical. The actor is always in relation with others.”
–Jonathan Fox
In his chapter on spontaneity, from Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, and Tradition in the Nonscripted Theatre, Jonathan Fox explores the complexity of spontaneity and its impact on the lives of actors; for Fox, spontaneity is a kind of ecstasy that encapsulates thought, which, ostensibly, pushes the artist/actor into a space where she enters a medium-like state and offers herself to a part of herself that comes alive only when called upon/channeled.[1] It is this part of [Fox’s definition of] spontaneity that I find most interesting. Contained within the kind of spontaneity of which Fox speaks is the human being’s ability to access deeper parts of her own and other’s humanity; thus, this process of (intentional) spontaneity deepens our soul’s ability to contemplate questions of humaness, and this process can add great depth to our journeys as people who seek faith.
Question: What happens when we perceive ourselves as actors—not just actors in the space of the theatre, but actors within our daily life constructs?
[I think] our realms of influence (i.e., stage) not only become more expansive, but our awareness of our place(s) in the world and our shared space(s) and time(s) with others is heightened. Once we conceive of ourselves as actors among other actors, we can begin to consider the ways in which we are all connected, and we can begin to find ways to make (positive) use of our interdependence; after all, drama, in general, and improvisation specifically, provides an opportunity for an embodiment that pushes us past individual preoccupations and closer a connectedness that is necessary community building.
Although I remain uncertain about my contribution to religious discourse, I do know that my ability to embody the humanity of another—to push past the boundaries of my own experiences—is a necessary practice that ultimately cements my own humanity with that of other humans, and this, I believe, is the essence of (any kind of) ministry.
© E. Zora 2012
[1] Fox, Jonathan. Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment and Tradition, in the Nonscripted Theatre: 1994. P.81
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