RL Stevenson
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- Top Story - February 2024
Criticism of Blackness in Shakespeare's "Othello"
For centuries, William Shakespeare has been touted as one of the world’s most celebrated playwrights and poet laureates of the Elizabethan Jacobean Era. It was during the English Renaissance Movement that Europe would witness his theatrical interpretation of whiteness and the aggrandizement of the presumptive power of the white European cultural model.
By RL Stevenson3 months ago in Education
Thinking Out Loud
Reflection on Leslie Jamison’s Introduction: "The Best American Essays" “The essay is political—and politically useful, by which I mean humanizing and provocative—because of its commitment to nuance, its explorations of contingency, its spirit of unrest, its glee at overturned assumptions; because of the double helix of awe and distrust—faith and doubt—that structures its DNA.” Leslie Jamison, 2017
By RL Stevenson3 months ago in Writers
Wicked White
Mathias stood. Silently wallowing in despair. Fooling himself, he fed the last of the scavenged pieces of dry-rotted wood into the fat-bellied steel black stove. He laid his shotgun against the wall after an unsuccessful run in the storm for food. The man knew that was madness, but what was he to do? The last of their rations had been exhausted and they had no water. Mother only packed for church. Pickled eggs and a half loaf of bread; a special meal. With every passing hour, the white dust intensified and grew into impassable mounds. They were trapped. The squall had portended an imminent and cruel end, divining with the bitter elements, plotting with nature, offering no escape from the wicked Winter tempest.
By RL Stevenson4 months ago in Fiction
- Top Story - January 2024
To Be True of Voice
This year, on this platform, I want my impact to be whatever my Spirit leads me to speak to humanity, to be the type of change agent in a world where I am not afraid to be Vocal. I am my own Divine, the Oracle, the medium between my mind and my hand. I am the script keeper of the mystery school of the inner soul. I stand in proxy before the Higher Self, governing the passing of thought and the full expression of it. She knows my petitions because she plants them into the soil of my will.
By RL Stevenson4 months ago in Journal