Mid-Week Libation: We Are All Brothers and Sisters and Human Beings in the Human Race
Fran Lebowitz at The Met, a new R&R playlist, Pueblo bread, a reading list for Native American Heritage Month & celebrating Trans Awareness Week with wisdom from Samy Nour Younes & Marsha P. Johnson!
Mid-Week Libation is our weekly curated splash of inspiration and culture! Click above to listen to this weeks’ audio segment!
Fran Lebowitz Behind the Scenes at The Met: Pretend It’s a Museum
“Fran Lebowitz goes behind-the-scenes to The Met’s Paintings Conservation Lab to see Rembrandt’s Aristotle with a Bust of Homer (1653). Along the way, she tells her favorite story of visiting The Museum and contemplates the impossibility of choosing a favorite object in The Met’s collection.” [Source]
New R&R Playlist for Your Listening Pleasure: 6am
Baking Pueblo Bread Native Style in New Mexico
Watch America Outdoors with Baratunde Thurston on PBS.org and the PBS app!
Bonus! Click here for a recipe for delicious Native-American fry bread, from Navajo Chef, Freddie Bitsoie, as seen on PBS Food's Lidia Celebrates America.
A Reading List for Native American Heritage Month
“For Native American Heritage Month, observed annually during the month of November, we asked our members—independent presses, literary journals, and others—to share with us some of the books and magazines they recommend reading in celebration.” — CLMP: Community of Literary Magazines and Presses
A Reading List for Native American Heritage Month 2023 (via CLMP: Community of Literary Magazines and Presses)
[Special thanks to artist Chris Bravo for sharing this great link on Facebook!]
Celebrating Trans Awareness Week! (November 13 – November 19, 2023)
Beyond the Binary: The Long History of Trans (via The Nation)
How Historians are Documenting the Lives of Transgender People (via National Geographic)
These Black Transgender Activists are Fighting to ‘Simply Be’ (via National Geographic)
Artists Born Today: November 15th
Visual Artists:
Today is the birthday of John Banvard, Tina Blau, Yelena Polenova, Takuma Kajiwara, Georgia O'Keeffe, Bice Lazzari, Diego Giacometti, Cady Wells, Harrison Begay, Martin Nodell, Renato Barisani, Wayne Thiebaud, Robert C. Fritz, Lila Oliver Asher, Wojciech Fangor, Miriam Schapiro, Lola Fernández, Qaunaq Mikkigak, Joyce J. Scott, Jimmy Choo, Michael Kvium, Éric Joisel, Alicia Leal and Kim Prisu!
Writers, Philosophers & Scholars:
Today is the birthday of Madeleine de Scudéry, José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi, Rodolphe Desdunes, Cornelia Sorabji, Charlotte Mew, Anna de Noailles, William Hope Hodgson, René Guénon, Marianne Moore, Parker McKenzie, Sacheverell Sitwell, Tamiki Hara, Salvador Tió, John Whiting, Giorgio Manganelli, J. G. Ballard, Theodore Roszak, Ted Berrigan, Josaphat-Robert Large, Alamgir Hashmi, Elie Rajaonarison and Liane Moriarty!
Musicians & Composers:
Today is the birthday of Artie Matthews, Mantovani, Ivana Lang, Billo Frómeta, Jerome Richardson, Văn Cao, Seldon Powell, Petula Clark, Clyde McPhatter, Little Willie John, Daniel Barenboim, Joe Bataan, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, Alexander O'Neal, Tony Thompson, Michael Hampton, Celso Fonseca, Kevin Eubanks, Jennifer Charles and Susie Ibarra!
Film/TV/Stage:
Today is the birthday of Bill Melendez, Joseph Wapner, Francesco Rosi, Ed Asner, Whitman Mayo, John Kerr, Gloria Foster, Yaphet Kotto, Sam Waterston, Beverly D'Angelo, Ildikó Enyedi, Judy Gold, François Ozon, Asia Kate Dillon, Winston Duke and Shailene Woodley!
This Week’s Words of Wisdom: Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992)
