Tonya Markham spent much of her childhood never knowing that God had eternal love for her all along. The victim of early abuse and the product of a military family, Tonya got used to moving from place to place and never really feeling at home. Through her tumultuous childhood and adolescence her quest to find herself was marred by confusion and disappointment. Burned twice in love and struggling to provide for herself and her children, adult Tonya thought she had hit rock bottom. But through small steps of faith and the true grit of a new believer, she was able to overcome adversity and learn to live a fulfilling life in Christ. Now readers can experience the same healing through Tonya's story, and learn to live a life on sturdy ground. I know God puts people into our lives for specific reasons. For me, Tonya is proof of that. She has been a saving grace to me. With her encouragement, support, and strong foundation in faith, has helped with the growth of my own relationship in Christ. She is truly a blessing from God. The impact on Tonya from her experiences in life shows how we learn to trust God's path for us. Her life is inspiring to me and I know it will be inspiring to others who read this book. —Roxanne Crockett
Tonya Markham spent much of her childhood never knowing that God had eternal love for her all along. The victim of early abuse and the product of a military family, Tonya got used to moving from place to place and never really feeling at home. Through her tumultuous childhood and adolescence her quest to find herself was marred by confusion and disappointment. Burned twice in love and struggling to provide for herself and her children, adult Tonya thought she had hit rock bottom. But through small steps of faith and the true grit of a new believer, she was able to overcome adversity and learn to live a fulfilling life in Christ. Now readers can experience the same healing through Tonya's story, and learn to live a life on sturdy ground. I know God puts people into our lives for specific reasons. For me, Tonya is proof of that. She has been a saving grace to me. With her encouragement, support, and strong foundation in faith, has helped with the growth of my own relationship in Christ. She is truly a blessing from God. The impact on Tonya from her experiences in life shows how we learn to trust God's path for us. Her life is inspiring to me and I know it will be inspiring to others who read this book. —Roxanne Crockett
The toppling of monuments globally in the last few years has highlighted the potency of monuments as dynamic and affectively loaded participants in society. In the context of Ottawa, Canada’s capital city, monuments inspire colonial and imperial nostalgia, compelling visitors to consistently re-imagine Canada as a white, Anglophone nation, built through the labour of white men: politicians, soldiers, and businessmen. At the same time, Ottawa monuments allow for dominant affective relationships to the nation to be challenged, demonstrated through subtle and explicit forms of defacement and other interactions that compel us to remember colonial violence, pacifism, violence against women, racisms. Organized as a series of walking tours throughout Ottawa, the chapters in Tours Inside the Snow Globe demonstrate the affective capacities of monuments and highlight how these monuments have ongoing relationships with their sites, the city, other monuments, and local, deliberate, national, and casual communities of users. The tours focus on the lives of a monument to an unnamed Indigenous scout, the National War Memorial, Enclave: the Women’s Monument, and the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights. Two of the tours offer analyses of the ambivalent representations of women and Indigeneity in Ottawa’s statue landscape.
Samantha Collins is a young homicide detective in South Carolina; she relocated from New Jersey after spending a weekend there during college. Missing her younger sister Vanessa; she persuades her to relocate from New Jersey to attend graduate school. Almost immediately after Vanessa moves in with her, their life seems to be a roller coaster ride after Vanessa meets a young man name Bryan. Bryan, who is white, an aspiring medical student and star quarterback comes from a wealthy family and is smitten by Vanessas beauty the moment he stares into her eyes. Samantha who is blindsided by her partners addiction to alcohol is disappointed shes unable to spend as much time with Vanessa after being assigned one of Tims (her partners) unsolved case. This unsolved murder mystery leads her on the path to dangerous territory. Because of this, Vanessa who falls for Bryan also begins to spend more time with him and ignores controlling warning signs. As time passes on Samantha is unnerved the homicide shes investigating is more intertwined in her sisters life than she could ever imagine
A stunning and comprehensive look at the indelible contribution of Black designers, models, scene-makers, and stylists to fashion, from “the bible of fashion”—WWD. Black in Fashion is a celebration of Black voices in fashion as captured by Women’s Wear Daily contributors and photographers since the publication’s inception in 1910. WWD is showcased here with more than 375 black-and-white and color photographs, illustrations, and articles from its massive archive. The book, written by Tonya Blazio-Licorish and Tara Donaldson, explores the contributions of trailblazing designers like Stephen Burrows and Virgil Abloh, whose philosophy inspired a new generation to interact with fashion differently; pioneering models like Naomi Sims, who in 1969 at age twenty-one launched Naomi Inc., a cosmetics company catering to Black women; and celebrities and multi-hyphenates like Josephine Baker, whose approach to fashion in the 1920s single-handedly changed and challenged the influence of Black culture on a global scale. In-depth profiles on Black creatives throughout the fashion world—and on key topics such as the Black is Beautiful movement—punctuate the lavish pages as well, in addition to original interviews with notables and a foreword from acclaimed American designer Tracy Reese. Black in Fashion is an incomparable celebration of Black fashion from the ultimate voice of authority.
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