Category: writing
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Considering Cultural Heritage: Takachiho, Miyazaki, Japan, Shinto, and the Ritual Yokagura (夜神楽)
There’s a town of 11,000 people in the mountains of southern Japan where, every winter, farmers become gods. Between November and February, across roughly twenty villages in the Takachiho district of Miyazaki Prefecture, communities perform yokagura — all-night Shinto ritual dances that cycle through 33 episodes from Japan’s foundational mythology. From dusk to dawn, ordinary…
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Digital Asset Style Guide — Survival Takes a Wild Imagination Andrews McMeel Universal — Digital Asset Documentation Survival Takes a Wild Imagination — Poems Survival Takesa Wild Imagination Fariha Róisín Digital Asset Style Guide · Reimagined Cover ISBN-13 978-1-5248-7822-1 Publication October 17, 2023 Format Trade Paperback, 120 pp. List Price $16.99 U.S. Prepared by Nicholas…
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Confession: On Scattered Altars and the Art of Finishing Things and New Poetry
I wrote “Invocation: Muse Yourself” in the middle of an impossible week — deadlines stacked like unswept leaves, my brain a tidepool of good intentions and half-finished outlines. Somewhere between the fifteenth open tab and my third cold cup of coffee, I realized the poem wasn’t about calling upon the Muse. It was about bargaining…
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Protected: Introducing “Lu and Monie Glow Up” – Writing a New Animated Series About Found Families, Neurodivergence, and Living Artfully
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Reclaiming the Frame: Female-Led Comics and the Rise of Heroine-Centered Narratives
In the vibrant and evolving world of comics, the resolutely necessary emergence and increasing prominence of female-led and female identifying leads as engineers of stories represent a powerful shift in both cultural narrative and representational equity. For decades, comics served as a playground for hypermasculine ideals and objectified femininity, offering little room for female agency…