Amber Heard / I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath.

 

Amber Heard arrives at the premiere of "Aquaman" on Dec. 12 in Los Angeles. (Jordan Strauss/Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)

Opinion 

 Amber Heard: 

I spoke up against sexual 

violence — and faced 

our culture’s wrath. 

That has to change.

By Amber Heard

December 18, 2018 at 5:58 p.m. ESTEditor’s note, June 2, 2022: In 2019, Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for defamation arising out of this 2018 op-ed. On June 1, 2022, following a trial in Fairfax County, Va. Circuit Court, a jury found Heard liable on three counts for the following statements, which Depp claimed were false and defamatory: (1) “I spoke up against sexual violence — and faced our culture’s wrath. That has to change.” (2) “Then two years ago, I became a public figure representing domestic abuse, and I felt the full force of our culture’s wrath for women who speak out.” (3) “I had the rare vantage point of seeing, in real time, how institutions protect men accused of abuse.” The jury separately found that Depp, through his lawyer Adam Waldman, defamed Heard in one of three counts in her countersuit.

 

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Martin Scorsese Remembers Goodfellas Star Ray Liotta After His Death: 'He Absolutely Amazed Me'

The legendary director worked with the late actor on the 1990 classic gangster film

By Nigel Smith, Olivia Jakiel and Kara Warner
May 26, 2022 08:21 PM

Martin Scorsese is paying tribute to his Goodfellas star Ray Liotta.

The Emmy Award-winning actor died in his sleep in the Dominican Republic, PEOPLE confirmed Thursday. He was engaged to fiancée Jacy Nittolo, and he was dad to daughter Karsen, 23, with ex-wife Michelle Grace.

 

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Ray Liotta Says He's Nothing Like His Tough-Guy Roles: 'I Have Never Been in a Fight'

The actor now stars in the third season of Amazon Prime Video's action-thriller series Hanna

By Julie JordanNovember 24, 2021 10:00 AM

Ray Liotta has made a name for himself playing intense characters over the years.

Though beloved for his role in the 1990 mafia classic Goodfellas, Liotta, 66, is a far cry from his assumed tough-guy demeanor. "I have never been in a fight at all, except for during sports, and that's just pushing and goofy kid stuff," he tells PEOPLE in this week's issue. Now he's starring in the HBO prequel film to The Sopranos, The Many Saints of Newark, and has joined the cast of the third season of Amazon Prime Video's action-thriller series Hanna as new villain Gordon Evans.

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf / A review

 

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Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

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Annabel

May 20, 2022

I've never read a whole book by Virginia Woolf before. I've read a fair few excerpts from a number of her books, in a variety of contexts (she seems to be a popular choice for 'unseen extract' questions in literature exams...), to the extent that I feel actually quite familiar with her tone and style of writing, but this is the first time I've sat down and read one of her novels in its entirety from cover to cover. I can't honestly say that I loved it, but I did find it interesting. And on this blog, I try to value books that interested me just as much as books that I really enjoyed. So here are my thoughts.

'Mrs Dalloway' is set in London in the early 20th Century, and is centred around the titular character Clarissa Dalloway, a society hostess preparing for a house party. As well as following Clarissa, we see another narrative running parallel - that of Septimus Smith, a war veteran who is still haunted by his experiences (today we understand that he is suffering from PTSD; it's clear from the way he's treated that people in his era had no idea). 

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Retracing Du Bois’ missteps

Radcliffe fellow probes ‘tragedy’ of pioneering African-American scholar’s failed book on WWI

Radcliffe fellow Chad Williams is working on a book about what he considers one of W.E.B. Du Bois’ greatest missteps: “The Black Man and the Wounded World,” an unfinished history of the African-American experience during World War I.

By any measure, W.E.B. Du Bois was an intellectual giant. A historian, writer, editor, teacher, sociologist, and civil rights activist, he was also the first African-American to receive a Harvard Ph.D., co-founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and author of several groundbreaking books, including “Black Reconstruction in America” (1935).

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