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Interview with Eva Russell
In this interview, Eva Russell talks about her life in Birmingham in the forties, fifties, and sixties, including her husband's job in the mines and the café she ran. Russell was married to a miner, and he was in a labor union. She recalls they were on strikes a lot by that time, so her husband usually had part time work, too. She says her husband was killed in a mining accident around the time their youngest children were entering college. Russell didn't work outside the home while her children were still being raised. In the late fifties, Russell began working in a restaurant that she eventually bought. She ran the Fraternal Café for years, and it was a popular place in her neighborhood. Russell also describes the music scene of her area, including many prominent musicians. Russell discusses being among the first black voters registered in the forties. She says they asked many questions about government. Her husband didn't have more than a fifth grade education, so he couldn't answer them, but she answered for him. She says she never had much problem registering. She also recalls paying a poll tax. Russell remembers the struggles of the civil rights movement. She couldn't march because she was operating her café, but she remembers seeing the marches and even dealing with water from the police hoses coming into her café. She says her contribution was feeding people who needed food. Russell also talks about Parker High School, as well as her impressions of G. A. Gaston and H. D. Coke. Russell concludes by reading two of her own poems. Note: The available transcript for this interview pertains to the first audio file. The second audio file largely consists of the interviewee, Eva Billingsley Russell, reading her poetry, which she says she would once day like to get published as a collection called Golden Threads. Four years after this 1984 interview, Russell's poetry was published as Golden Threads : a collection of poems about the Black family, Zoe Publications, 1988
Author Spotlight: Zoe Larghi Laureiro
Zoe Larghi Laureiro is currently at her 4th year of General Surgery Residency at Umberto I Hospital, La Sapienza
University of Rome. She will become a general surgeon following her graduation on December 2021. Her clinical and
research interests include hepato-pancreatic-biliary surgery
and liver transplantation
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
“When I’m driving as a man, nobody notices me, everyone goes Chink, but when I’m Zoe people are honking me, winking at me, tailing me and she’s like voom, speeding down the West Way.” What is it that makes Chinese men mostly invisible in the West? Why, by contrast, are Chinese women nearly always seen as desirable? Zoe has grappled with this question in her work as an actor on stage. As a Chinese man he often passes unnoticed, but as a Chinese woman, Zoe attracts attention and feels empowered. Deconstructing Zoe is a vivid and intimate portrait of a transgender actor. We trace the journey from boyhood in a small town in Malaysia to the West-end stage via the trans scene of London. The accompanying commentary describes the filmmaking process and discusses how Deconstructing Zoe, explores the intersection between gender, race and sexuality, in the postcolonial geographical spaces of her world stage. It questions how Zoe, by performing race, is able to create agency and become the author of her own identit
Deconstructing Zoe: Performing Race
“When I’m driving as a man, nobody notices me, everyone goes Chink, but when I’m Zoe people are honking me, winking at me, tailing me and she’s like voom, speeding down the West Way.” What is it that makes Chinese men mostly invisible in the West? Why, by contrast, are Chinese women nearly always seen as desirable? Zoe has grappled with this question in her work as an actor on stage. As a Chinese man he often passes unnoticed, but as a Chinese woman, Zoe attracts attention and feels empowered. Deconstructing Zoe is a vivid and intimate portrait of a transgender actor. We trace the journey from boyhood in a small town in Malaysia to the West-end stage via the trans scene of London. The accompanying commentary describes the filmmaking process and discusses how Deconstructing Zoe, explores the intersection between gender, race and sexuality, in the postcolonial geographical spaces of her world stage. It questions how Zoe, by performing race, is able to create agency and become the author of her own identit
The role of actor associations in understanding the implementation of lean thinking in healthcare
Purpose: The importance of networks in effecting the outcomes of change processes is well-established in the literature. Whilst extant literature focuses predominantly on the structural properties of networks, our purpose is to explore the dynamics of network emergence that give rise to the outcomes of process interventions. We show how Actor Network Theory (ANT) may be used as a lens for interrogating the way in which management interventions play out in the complex organisational setting of a UK National Health Service Trust, providing insights for management of process change initiatives. Design/methodology/approach: This is a rich qualitative study in the Pathology Unit of a UK National Health Service Trust, using ANT as the theoretical lens for tracking the emergence and transformation of networks of individuals over the course of a management intervention to promote “lean thinking” for performance improvements.Findings: ANT is useful for explicitly tracking how organisational players shift their positions and network allegiances over time, and identifying objects and actions that are effective in engaging individuals in networks enabling transition to a lean process. It is important to attend to the dynamics of the process of change and devise appropriate timely interventions enabling actors to shift their own positions towards a desired outcome.Research limitations/implications: We make the case for using of theoretical frameworks developed outside the operations management to develop insights for designing process interventions.Originality/value: By understanding the role of shifting networks managers can use timely interventions during the process implementation to facilitate the transition to lean processes: e.g. using demonstrable senior leadership commitment and visual communication.<br/
Being a Freshman, Being an Author: An Interview With Teen Author Zoe Trope
While most fourteen year old girls are hanging out at the mall spending their hard-earned allowance on new clothes and quarters for an all-day marathon of Dance Dance Revolution at the video arcade, Portland-based author Zoe Trope was muddling through her freshman year of high school and composing a diary, which would later be turned into a much praised work of young adult literature, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir. In the opening pages of
the book, Trope displays her rare and witty teenage insight into the world of librarianship, insisting of the school media specialist, “You’re the one got stuck working in a high school library. No one chooses that profession, I’m sure.
Being a Freshman, Being an Author: An Interview With Teen Author Zoe Trope
While most fourteen year old girls are hanging out at the mall spending their hard-earned allowance on new clothes and quarters for an all-day marathon of Dance Dance Revolution at the video arcade, Portland-based author Zoe Trope was muddling through her freshman year of high school and composing a diary, which would later be turned into a much praised work of young adult literature, Please Don’t Kill the Freshman: A Memoir. In the opening pages of
the book, Trope displays her rare and witty teenage insight into the world of librarianship, insisting of the school media specialist, “You’re the one got stuck working in a high school library. No one chooses that profession, I’m sure.
The Mosaic Panel of Constantine IX and Zoe in Saint Sophia
REB 36 1978 France p. 219-232
N. Oikonomides, The Mosaic Panel of Constantine IX and Zoe in Saint Sophia. — This wellknown mosaic panel of the South Gallery of Saint Sophia was first made in order to commemorate a generous donation to the Church by Romanos III Argyros (1028-1034) and his wife Zoe. When Constantine IX Monomachos (1042-1055), Zoe's third husband, made a new and more important donation to Saint Sophia, the patriarch Michael Keroularios had the heads of the imperial couple and of the central figure of Christ as well as the accompanying inscriptions changed, in order to commemorate the new donation. Certain discrepancies in the preserved mosaic lead the author to the hypothesis that the « new » heads of Zoe and of Christ come from an earlier mosaic of similar dimensions, made before 1028, at a time when Zoe was young.</jats:p
Panelist
Zoe Taylor joined Alexander Fury (Fashion Editor at The Independent), Gary Card (acclaimed fashion set designer and illustrator), Richard Kilroy (author of Menswear Fashion Illustration published by Thames and Hudson and creator of DECOY magazine) for a symposium about fashion illustration. This took place publicly at The Shop at Bluebird, Kings Road, London
NPD Forecast: Super ghoul NPD jobs
In this spooktacular episode of the NPD Forecast, Jenn and Jill unmask some super ghoul NPD jobs with special guests, Sheila St. Cyr, Lisa Purdy, and Zoe Youl.
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