Summer Hare

See also the previous posts:
• Welcoming the Summer Solstice
• Hare in Summer Field (2016)
• Summer Hare (2015)
• The Summer Hare (2014)
• Summer Boy

Image: Photographer unknown.

Colin

Related Off-site Links and Updates:
Colin Kaepernick Is a Real American – Tim Keown (The Undefeated, 2017).
ESPN The Magazine's Body Issue Shows Jocks in the Buff – Jim Buzinski (OutSports, July 9, 2013).
Colin Kaepernick: I Won't Stand "to Show Pride In a Flag for a Country That Oppresses Black People" – Charles Curtis (USA Today, August 27, 2016).
Colin Kaepernick Finds His Voice – Michael Powell (The New York Times, September 13, 2016).
Kneeling Kaepernick Becomes National Symbol – Matt Barrows (The Sacramento Bee, September 22, 2016).
Something to Think About – The Wild Reed (September 23, 2016).
Shaun King on Colin Kaepernick: He Is Enormously Courageous and Has Sparked a Movement Among Athletes – Democracy Now!, October 21, 2016).
Colin Kaepernick Has Not Stopped Fighting Injustice Just Because He’s Stopped Kneeling – David Zirin (The Nation, March 6, 2017).
Colin Kaepernick Is Being Blackballed by Billionaire NFL Owners. Here’s Why – Colin Jenkins (TruthDig, June 14, 2017).
Kaepernick Compares Modern Cops to Runaway Slave Patrol After Castile Verdict – John Breech (CBSSports.com, June 18, 2017).
The NFL Can’t Handle the Political Radicalism of Colin Kaepernick – Eric Draitser (Mint Press, June 23, 2017).
The NFL’s Race Problem Is Deeper Than Colin Kaepernick – W.B. Whitted (The Root, June 26, 2017).
How Much Do Black Folks Owe Colin Kaepernick? – Stephen A. Crockett Jr. (The Root, July 5, 2017).
Cleveland Browns Players, Kneeling In Prayer, Stage NFL's Largest Anthem Protest to Date – Tom Withers (National Post, August 21, 2017).
First White NFL Player Kneels During National Anthem: "I Want to Do My Part" – Brian Flood (The San Francisco Chronicle, August 22, 2017).
In New York City, More than a Thousand People Rally to Support Colin Kaepernick – Democracy Now!, August 24, 2017).
Kaepernick, Activism and Politics. The NFL Doesn't Know How to Stop This Row – Les Carpenter (The Guardian, August 23, 2017).
Progressive Perspectives on Colin Kaepernick and the "Take A Knee" Movement – The Wild Reed) September 27, 2017).
Colin Kaepernick Is Named Citizen of the Year by GQ Magazine – Chuck Schilken (Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2017).
Colin Kaepernick is Recipient of 2017 Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award – Michael Rosenberg (Sports Illustrated, November 30, 2017).

See also the previous posts: Luis | Nyle | Philip | Charlie | Sukdeep | Rafael | Mon Bel Ami

Mostly Solitary

Hares are mostly solitary. They don't have a permanent home but move about the countryside, sleeping where they can find camouflage.

– Zoe Greaves
Excerpted from Hare
Old Barn Books (2015)

See also the previous posts:
Nesting | Life Above Ground | Unhoused | Camouflage and Speed

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Bel Homme

Image: Nathaniel.

A Powerful Hero

Throughout Algonquin culture the hare appears as a powerful hero. The first creator, the maker of the sun, moon and earth is called Michabo or The Great White Hare. Michalo has many talents – he is the ruler of the winds, mists, thunder and lightening, chief of all the animals, the guardian of the people, in inventor of picture writing and a shapeshifter.

– Zoe Greaves
Excerpted from Hare
Old Barn Books (2015)

Image: Amanda Clark

Morning Light

Image: Subject and photographer unknown.

Design Hare

Image: Sarah White.

In American Gods, An Otherworldly Depiction of Queer Attraction and Connection

Calling it pornographic is belittling and making it smaller that what is it. It's not about "Wow, I'm just watching two men fuck." It's "Wow, these are two compassionate people, clearly in love with one another." Just seeing two Middle Eastern men represented in that way, with humor and love and joy, it's taken me eleven years to get to that. I want to see more of that.

– Mousa Kraish
Quoted in Taylor Henderson's article "The Gay Sex Scene
in American Gods Isn't Pornographic, It's Art
Pride
May 12, 2017

Above: Omid Abtahi (left) as Salim and
Mousa Kraish as The Jinn in American Gods.

In the third episode of season one of the popular Staz TV series American Gods, Omid Abtahi and Mousa Kraish play two Middle Eastern immigrants who meet in a cab. Kraish's character is actually an Ifrit, one of the most powerful and dangerous Jinns in Islamic mythology.

Writes Taylor Henderson: "When Salim touches The Jinn's shoulder in conversation, the magnitude of their connection rushes over you like a sandstorm."

Henderson also shares the show's executive producer Michael Green's thoughts on the subsequent scene set in a hotel room: "I saw it as a story of a god giving a man permission to be himself, to enjoy sex, and to be made love to," Green said.

Of this scene, one that's being described as "groundbreaking," Henderson writes: "The electricity and tenderness . . . is otherworldly to watch, and the transcendent imagery evoked makes the men's passion ethereal and fiery."

Related Off-site Links:
American Gods Arouses Audiences with Intense Love Scene – Gayety (May 16, 2017).
The Secrets of America Gods' Big Gay Sex Scene Revealed – Abraham Riesman (Vulture, May 14, 2017).
How American Gods Pulled Off That Explicit Gay Sex Scene – Susan Cheng (BuzzFeed, May 11, 2017).
Why Starz Was the Perfect Home for American Gods’ Groundbreaking Gay Sex Scene – Marissa Martinelli (Slate, May 16, 2017).
The Refreshing Queer Sensibility of American Gods – Manuel Betancourt (The Atlantic via SBS, June 13, 2017).

Hare Décor

Image: The Leveret.

Spring Bouquet

See also the previous posts:
• "Hail to the Seasonal Prince"
• Beltane
• "I Have Become Your Brother . . . One of Your Kin"
• Spring Blossoming

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Among Spring Blooms

Image: Photographer unknown.

See also the previous posts:
• "I Have Become Your Brother . . . One of Your Kin"
• Eostre – Goddess of New Life Beginnings
• The Easter Hare
• Spring Blossoming

A Beltane Blessing

– Source

See also the previous posts:
• Beltane
• Magical Creatures
• I Call to Cernunnos
• In the Image of the Horned God

Related Off-site Links:
Beltane and the Reclaiming of Spirit – The Wild Reed (May 2, 2016).
Integrating Cernunnos, "Archetype of Sensuality and the Instinctual World" – The Wild Reed (January 26, 2016).