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feme sole

/ˌfem ˈsōl/

noun

Historical; Law

noun: feme sole; plural noun: femes soles; noun: femme sole; plural noun: femmes soles

1. a woman without a husband, especially one who is divorced.

Origin

early 17th century: from Anglo-Norman French

As the historian Sara Cedar Miller has pointed out, the deed that cemented Ms. Gloucester’s control over the West 88th Street lot reflected a wariness of property laws that favored husbands. The deed specifically precluded the possibility of a claim by her husband — declaring that she held title “forever and free clear and discharged of and from the debts obligation and control of her said husband, the said James N. Gloucester, and in like manner and to all intents and purposes as if she were a feme sole_._”

In Anglo-American law, the term “feme sole” refers to a woman who is widowed, divorced, never married or no longer legally subordinate to a husband. Ms. Gloucester’s lawyer may have used the phrase as a reference to New York’s recently passed married women’s property act. But this assertion of independence would have had a personal meaning for his client.

| Brent Staples, The Lost Story of New York’s Most Powerful Black Woman

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^{Diva, by Jean-Jacques Beineix}

from Wikipedia:

Cinéma du look (French: sinema dy luk) was a French film movement of the 1980s and 1990s, analysed, for the first time, by French critic Raphaël Bassan in La Revue du Cinéma issue no. 449, May 1989, in which he classified Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Beineix and Leos Carax as directors of the “look”.

These directors were said to favor style over substance, spectacle over narrative. It referred to films that had a slick, gorgeous visual style and a focus on young, alienated characters who were said to represent the marginalized youth of François Mitterrand’s France. Themes that run through many of their films include doomed love affairs, young people more affiliated to peer groups than families, a cynical view of the police, and the use of scenes in the Paris Métro to symbolise an alternative, underground society. The mixture of ‘high’ culture, such as the opera music of Diva and Les Amants du Pont-Neuf, and pop culture, for example the references to Batman in Subway, was another key feature.

A parallel can be drawn between these French filmmakers' productions and New Hollywood films including most notably Francis Ford Coppola‘s One from the Heart (1981) and Rumble Fish (1983), Rainer Werner Fassbinder‘s Lola (1981), as well as television commercials, music videos and the series Miami Vice. The term was first defined by Raphael Bassan in La Revue De Cinema.

“Diva” was considered a high-water mark in the movement known as the cinéma du look, a high-sheen school of French film often centered on stylish, disaffected youth in the France of the 1980s and ’90s. A film with all the saturated color and gloss of a 1980s music video, it was an art-house hit that became a cult favorite for the initiated.

| Alex Williams, Wilhelmenia Wiggins Fernandez, the Diva of ‘Diva,’ Dies at 75

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boysober

noun

not talking to a boy, talking about boys, or dating a boy.^[This is from Urban Dictionary, but contradicts the quote, below.]

Ms. Woodard explained that she intended “boysober” as an all-encompassing term, one that meant abstaining from romantic relationships with people of any gender.

| Marisa Charpentier, ‘Boysober’ Is Celibacy With a Rebrand

cheffing

/ˈSHefiNG/

noun

The activity of working as a chef.

I came to cheffing fuelled by a passion for food

Then there is the issue of control — and the back-seat cheffing it perpetuates. Like the sort that Alex Jung tries their best to curb when their partner borrows their KitchenAid mixer or endeavors to riff on cake recipes in their Ridgewood, Queens, home. “I have this tendency to get high and mighty about baked goods,” Mr. Jung, 30, said. “I need to let go of the reins a bit.”

| Ella Quitner, I Love You, but I Hate Your Cooking

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en·nui

/änˈwē/

noun

a feeling of listlessness and dissatisfaction arising from a lack of occupation or excitement.

“he succumbed to ennui and despair”

Dating App Users Try Algorithm Hacks to Get More Matches (and Find Love?) | Callie Holterman

Khaled Alshawi, 32, has used Hinge and Grindr on and off for about five years. He remembers a time when he could reach out to as many people as he wanted per day, he said, but that number has been capped on both apps. He ended up buying subscriptions and then leaving the apps altogether and meeting a partner in real life. Several of his friends remain on free versions of the apps, he said, convinced that they will hit on some trick that will allow them to circumvent the paywall.

That may be because paywalls and algorithms are a more satisfying target for one’s ire than general romantic ennui, said Carolina Bandinelli, an associate professor of media and creative industries at the University of Warwick who has conducted ethnographic research on dating app users.

Dating apps suggest to users that they will be able to use algorithms to “reduce the mess of love,” Dr. Bandinelli said. When that inevitably doesn’t happen — love is messy by nature! — users can become angry and try to gain the upper hand.

“The ‘hacking’ is a way in which we engage with the algorithm — we try to reveal its secrets or take advantage,” she said.

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ˈstɔːɡiː 

noun

archaic

natural or instinctual affection, as of a parent for a child

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In C.S. Lewis’s The Four Loves, he talks through the four classical types of love: storge, philia, eros, and caritas, and storge was the one I’d never really seen discussed (let alone praised) before. You could translate it as fondness, and it’s easy for that to sound trivial or sentimental.

One way I think about storge if that it’s the kind of love you have for that one particular tree that sits three blocks from your house and marks the turn onto your street. It’s not that that tree is the tallest or most beautiful—it might not even be your favorite kind of tree in general—but it is your tree in a way no other tree is.

| Leah Libresco Sargeant, Festivals of Particularity

How much of your workday is taken up with tasks like the following: filling in a lengthy online form, which crashes just as the finish line draws near; spending hours trying to cancel an online subscription; coming face-to-face with the dreaded “Schrödinger’s account”: you try to sign into an it using your email address, only to be told there is no such account; you try to create a new account with the same email address, and you are told one already exists. | Jamie Bartlett, Techno-admin will ruin your life

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A destination “dupe” is when a traveler seeks a more budget-friendly option that still retains the general vibes of the more expensive option. | CheapAir.com

How to Save Money Traveling in 2024 | Elaine Glusac:

Travelers seeking to avoid over-touristed and pricey places have long sought less pressured and cheaper alternatives, a trend newly popularized on TikTok as “destination dupes.”

In that vein, rather than viewing the cherry blossoms of Kyoto, Japan, or Washington, D.C., consider Modesto, Calif., the gateway to farming country in the Central Valley, during almond blossom season. In February and March, the region’s 1.5 million acres of almond trees burst with pink and white flowers. Visitors can take an almond blossom drive with an audio guide ($14.99) and listen to a Spotify playlist devoted to spring from the Modesto Symphony Orchestra.

Jus Soli

noun.

jus so·​li -ˈsō-ˌlī, -lē

a rule of law that a child’s citizenship is determined by his or her place of birth.

Etymology. Latin, right of the soil.

Affrillachian

/ˌæf.rəˈlætʃ.ən/

adjective

relating to or characteristic of Black people, particularly artists and writers, living in the Appalachian Mountains region of eastern North America.

In Poet Crystal Wilkinson Explores Black Appalachia Cooking in Her New Book, Korsha Wilson writes,

“The dominant narrative is that there’s^[should be ‘there are’.] no Black people here,” said Frank X Walker, a playwright, professor at the University of Kentucky and co-founder of the Affrilachian Poets Society. Mr. Walker popularized the term Affrilachian to refer to people of African descent from the region, and to foster a community “to celebrate the fact that we’re here.”

It’s not a new topic for Ms. Wilkinson, who has explored Affrilachian life in poetry and fiction, including in her short story “Endangered Species: Case 47401,” which won the O. Henry Prize in 2021. In her work, food is part of the story, showing the breadth of Black Appalachian life and cooking as evidence of love and familial duty in simple, unflinching terms.