Mid-Week Libation: There is No Straight Road
Celebrating Pride Month with Nile Rodgers, Miss Coco Peru, Priyanka, Jamie Diaz, Radclyffe Hall and Federico García Lorca!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture! Happy Pride Month everyone!
In Honor of Pride Month: Nile Rodgers on the Story Behind ”I'm Coming Out”- the Iconic Pride Anthem He Composed for Diana Ross
Playlist of the Week: Nile Rodgers Pride Anthems
“Curated by Nile Rodgers, this list represents some of the biggest Pride Anthems from around the globe!” [Source]
Recipe of the Week: Drag Superstar Priyanka Cooks Chicken Curry with Mary Berg
Click here for the full recipe: Momyanka's Chicken Curry! (via The Good Stuff with Mary Berg)
A Beautiful, Must-See Short Documentary: Love, Jamie | Trans Artist Jamie Diaz Creates Art While Incarcerated (via PBS American Masters)
Click here to donate to the Jamie Diaz Solidarity Fund! (via GoFundMe)
Click here to purchase art prints for the Jamie Diaz Pride Month Print Fundraiser!
Trans Painter Jamie Diaz Is Free After Three Decades in a Men’s Prison (via Them)
Poem of the Week: “On the Hill-Side” by Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943)
On the Hill-Side by Radclyffe Hall A Memory You lay so still in the sunshine, So still in that hot sweet hour— That the timid things of the forest land Came close; a butterfly lit on your hand, Mistaking it for a flower. You scarcely breathed in your slumber, So dreamless it was, so deep— While the warm air stirred in my veins like wine, The air that had blown through a jasmine vine, But you slept—and I let you sleep.
Hilarious Video! Storytime with Miss Coco Peru - The Tiger Who Came to Tea by Judith Kerr
Interesting Artists Born Today: June 5th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of Peter Wtewael, Thomas Chippendale, Susan Stuart Frackelton, Charles March Gere, Antonín Procházka, William Roberts, Yen Shui-long, Lee Tze-fan, Conrad Marca-Relli, Sam Black, Vojin Bakić, Jean Follett, Gladys Maccabe, Richard Scarry, Blackbear Bosin, Jesús Rafael Soto, Tom Hodgson, Irwin Kremen, Wade Reynolds, Ralph Rumney, David Koloane, Penny Wolin, Jordu Schell, Gabriel Bá, Fábio Moon, Courtney Adams and Iris van Herpen!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Pu Songling, Elena Cornaro Piscopia, John Maynard Keynes, Ivy Compton-Burnett, Ruth Benedict, Noto Soeroto, Federico García Lorca, Mikayil Mushfig, Alfred Kazin, David Wagoner, Alifa Rifaat, Christy Brown, Hélène Cixous, Margaret Drabble, Orlando Patterson, Raoul Pantin, Ken Follett, John Yau, Abraham Sarmiento Jr., Geoff Dyer, Rick Riordan, Chuck Klosterman, Isabella Matambanadzo and Lauren Beukes!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Specs Powell, Daniel Pinkham, Martha Argerich, Erasmo Carlos, Charles Dodge, Michael Davis, Wanderléa, Laurie Anderson, Jerry González, Ronnie Dyson, Carole Fredericks, Richard Butler, Peter Erskine, Polo Montañez, Mindy Jostyn, Kenny G, Petit-Pays, Pete Wentz and Troye Sivan!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Robert Earl Sawyer, Tony Richardson, Jacques Demy, Bill Moyers, Spalding Gray, David Hare, Cathy Elliott, Lisa Cholodenko, Mel Giedroyc, Chad Allen, Ayodele Casel and Liza Weil!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Federico García Lorca (June 5, 1898 – August 19, 1936)
