Boosted, now reposting. This is important. That f'ing #LINO has absolutely no intention of improvig life for the 'proles' (which is how he sees anyone outside the elite class). As soon as he's had his #autobiography written he'll be off like the rat he is. (soon to be published, 'My rise to the top of the greasy pole whilst coining it big style')
https://skwawkbox.org/2025/03/17/starmer-plans-to-deprive-1-million-kids-of-free-school-meals/

Thanks to the #MutualAid community on TikTok, my partner, our two cats, and I are able to leave the extended stay hotel we’ve been struggling to stay sheltered in, and now have an #RV to call home.
I’ve started a playlist with RV-based content as a positive turn-around to hopefully come back from this #depression and share our experiences:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP822Ht6b/

As a #disabled #queer #artist who makes #AltRock music, art, and does other projects to earn a living, I’d sincerely appreciate any support; especially through streaming my music, getting merch or custom art from me, and supporting ( @magicalgrrrl ) my partner’s music and merch.
I currently have a children’s #storybook that I wrote and illustrated, on hold for (self)publication. It is a family-friendly book about my experiences with #homelessness stemming from childhood #abuse from the perspective of a cat.
I’m also slowly but surely working on an #autobiography about my experiences being #ActuallyAutistic with #CPTSD in hopes of reaching other people with similar stories. #Trauma and #HealingTrauma is also the main point of my music.
If you decide to check out the music, get some art, or some merch, thank you!!
You can find it all here:

https://hyperfollow.com/LukeOrion

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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times by Howard Zinn, 2002

By any standards, Howard Zinn has led a remarkable life as teacher, writer, and social activist, a life in which those three categories are viewed not as compartmentalized tasks but as part of a unified identity.

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NENEH CHERRY’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY weaves a fascinating tapestry from her distinctive life: her joys (love, family, friends, art, nature) and her sorrows (losses, deep grief, addiction). Like a heart-to-heart with your coolest friend. B PLUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-threads-neneh-cherry/1144788315?ean=9781982161040

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I read Albert Facey’s autobiographical A Fortunate Life as a kid. I don’t remember much about it apart from a hard childhood in remote Western Australia and then enlisting for The Great War. I saw that the 1986 made for television mini-series is on Tubi at the moment, so I’m giving it a watch.

Margaret Atwood has written a memoir, which will be out on Nov. 4. Why? "My publishers made me do it," the Canadian novelist told @Vogue in a new interview about the book. "When they first proposed it, I said, ‘Oh, that would be so boring.’ I mean, I wrote a book, I wrote another book, I wrote another book…Who’s going to read that?” Here's more on "Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts," plus Atwood's thoughts on what makes a good biography, "The Handmaid's Tale" and its pertinence, and Trump's fixation with making Canada the 51st U.S. state. "I think it’s lovely that the United States has recognized its mistake and wishes to join Canada so they can have a king,” Atwood says, “but it wouldn’t be the 51st state. It would be 10 new states and two territories, which would mean that the Republicans would never get elected again. So he’s welcome to try.”

https://flip.it/hUgLDP

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THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BLACK ACTIVIST Russell “Maroon” Shoatz is an extraordinary look into the struggle for liberation as it played out on the streets, sometimes through violence, and for decades in prison cells. A tough and timely read. SOLID A

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/i-am-maroon-russell-shoatz/1144963434?ean=9781645030492

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NEW RELEASE! Geronimo’s Story of His Life by Geronimo

The Apache war chief Geronimo recounts the story of his life, offering a fascinating window into the lifestyle, beliefs, and motivations of one of the most recognizable figures in the history of the western U.S. #autobiography

Find a CC0 copy here: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/geronimo/geronimos-story-of-his-life

#TIL that Benjamin Franklin devised his own set of 13 virtues… AND a written habit tracker #spreadsheet to track his success and failures in living by them.

If you’ve read his #autobiography then this isn’t new. I’m reading it now over my first cup of #coffee in the mornings so I just learned about it.

Today in Labor History December 24, 1936: On Christmas Eve, drunk cops beat up 150 strikers on the Houston docks, sending 18 to the hospital. They were members of the Maritime Federation of the Gulf Coast. Gilbert Mers, who had dual membership in the Maritime Federation and the IWW, was their leader. Violence against dockers was rampant along the gulf coast in the 1930s. In July 1934, three black longshoremen were shot to death during a strike. In 1935, longshoremen struck along the entire gulf coast, with 14 more workers getting killed. From 1936 to 1938, 28 union members were killed and over 300 injured in strikes. Mers’ autobiography, “Working the Waterfront: The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman,” was published in 1988, ten years before his death, at age 90. As a young man, Mers worked the docks in Corpus Christi, but went on to become President of the Corpus Christi Central Labor Council and the President of the Maritime Federation of the Gulf Coast, while remaining a dedicated dual member of the IWW throughout his life. He was part of the effort to establish an industry-wide union along the Gulf Coast states. In his autobiography, he exposes the brutality and corruption of the Texas Rangers in the 1930s-‘40s, and their use as violent, strike-breaking bullies with badges.

#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #GilbertMers #waterfront #longshore #texas #rangers #union #strike #unionbusting #police #policebrutality #maritime #racism #books #writer #author #memoir #autobiography @bookstadon

I enjoyed MAKING IT SO, an autobiography by Patrick Stewart, an actor who I've enjoyed watching in all sorts of things: Star Trek TNG; I, CLAUDIUS; the early 2000s X-Men movies. While he's certainly best-known for TNG, his book doesn't focus on those years too much; the series occupies about 75 pages of this 445-page book.

Stewart grew up in Yorkshire, in a fairly poor family that had neither a refrigerator nor a toilet -- there was an icebox in the basement and a communal toilet for the entire block. His father Alf was a former infantryman: stern, reserved, and when he got drunk, violent; Patrick blames this for giving him emotional limitations that took a long time to overcome.

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Lisa Jackson and The National #Film Board - #NFB of #Canada have created a #documentary that redefines #Indigenous #knowledge and #teachings using the life and times of #Elder, #cosmology and #astronomy expert, Wilfred Buck.

“We are in the process of remaking an age-old song . . . signing, dreaming, praying, talking into existence once again the knowledge of our people,” said Wilfred Buck.

Moving between the earth and stars, past and present, this hybrid feature documentary follows the extraordinary life of Wilfred Buck, a charismatic and impertinent #Cree Elder who overcame a harrowing – yet all too familiar — history of displacement, racism and addiction by reclaiming ancestral star knowledge and ceremony.

Buck is humble, profound, funny, always real and a master #storyteller. Narration taken from his #autobiography, I Have Lived Four Lives, condenses the loss and desperate pain of his youth into powerful, Beat-like poetry.

https://rabble.ca/indigenous/wilfred-buck-and-the-revival-of-indigenous-knowledge/

A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety by Jimmy Carter, 2015

Jimmy Carter, thirty-ninth President, Nobel Peace Prize winner, international humanitarian, fisherman, reflects on his full and happy life with pride, humor, and a few second thoughts.

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"The last time I was on stage was at a National Theatre gala two or three years ago. Richard Griffiths had died and I played Hector in The History Boys. And I was so nervous. Helen Mirren was backstage and I told her how scared I was of the audience and she said, ‘Fuck ‘em’. I wished I’d been given that advice much earlier.”

Great interview with Alan Bennett at 90.

#AlanBennett #Theatre #Literature #Autobiography #Books

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/02/alan-bennett-at-90-what-will-people-think-i-dont-care-any-more

The Autobiography of Yukichi Fukuzawa, 20022

Yukichi Fukuzawa (1835-1901) was a leading figure in the cultural revolution that transformed Japan from an isolated feudal nation into a full-fledged player in the modern world. He translated a wide range of Western works and adapted them to Japanese needs, inventing a colorful prose style close to the vernacular.

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Tune in to the latest Plain Reading episode! This time we're talking to hiker, podcaster, and professor of philosophy and religious studies Zach Simpson about #autobiography, #detective fiction, and tons more.

https://plainreading.libsyn.com/autobiography-and-the-shape-of-the-self-zach-simpson

@PodcastsLive @podcasts #reading #books @bookstodon #literature #podcast

#AndrewGarfield #praises #DanielCraig’s ‘#beautiful’ #blowjob #scene in #Queer.

#LucaGuadagnino’s new #film is based on a #short #novel, a #semi-#autobiography, by #WilliamSBurroughs, written in 1952 but not published until 1985. The #JamesBond #star plays author #WilliamLee, an #outcast #addict trundling through life in the 40s.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Entertainment #Movies #Representation #Culture

https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/10/01/andrew-garfield-praises-daniel-craigs-beautiful-blowjob-scene-in-queer/

Book Review: Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/book-review-berserker-by-adrian-edmondson/

What is our life? Is it the days we live or the way others perceive us? The comedian Adrian Edmondson steps us through his life. But, as he points out, what we remember and what we're interested in isn't necessarily the most significant part of the subject's life.

In 2016 I adapted William Leith’s book Bits of Me Are Falling Apart into a one-man play. It took six weeks to do the adaptation, four weeks to rehearse it, and it played for a further four weeks at the Soho Theatre, a small London venue, to a total of around 2,500 people. It took up the same amount of my life as The Young Ones. I’m not expecting you to think it’s as noteworthy, but the Numskulls in my head have given it exactly the same amount of space.

Many years ago, I read Rik Mayall's "autobiography" - it was a hilarious and chaotic mess. This is a more subdued affair. No less funny, but a good deal more heartfelt. Amusingly, Rik is introduced almost immediately. He's just "Rik" as it's assumed everyone will know who he is. He actually enters the book exactly halfway though. Rik dominates the book and, when the end of their relationship comes, it is unbearably sad.

This is a book about madness, friendship, and the way our lives twist and turn around each other.

Fabulous.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/09/book-review-berserker-by-adrian-edmondson/

blog! “Book Review: Berserker! by Adrian Edmondson”
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What is our life? Is it the days we live or the way others perceive us? The comedian Adrian Edmondson steps us through his life. But, as he points out, what we remember and what we're interested in isn't necessarily the most significant part of the subject's life. In 2016 I adapted William Leith’s book […]

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