Kidist thinks the NY Public Library should give her money

[super skeptic]

Kidist thinks that the NY Library rejected her grant application because "insufficient ethnic, feminist, Third World, etc. identification, and my book's aim to introduce (or re-introduce) Western beauty in this world of non-Western multiculturalism."

I can't stop laughing.

She says she is going to inflate her Ethiopian background a bit to gain more favor, and I can't wait to see her pseudo-intellectual blabber rejected again.

They rejected you because you are not a qualified applicant, Kidist. For frack's sake.

[Lisa]

She's also Canadian. Also - at least to my untrained eye - not a very good artist.

Kidist haaaaaates other artists, especially if they have the temerity to have skin darker than, say, a chai latte.

http://reclaimbeauty.blogspot.ca/2014/0 ... sited.html :evil-eye:

[acheronbeach]

Oh FFS. I've met Hazel McCallion several times. That portrait IS her. She's a tough, calculating, wrinkled ex-hockey player.

Kidist thinks art has to be pretty to be good. And that is one huge reason her art sucks. It's - at best - Hallmark card art.

[Lisa]

Oh FFS. I've met Hazel McCallion several times. That portrait IS her. She's a tough, calculating, wrinkled ex-hockey player.

Kidist thinks art has to be pretty to be good. And that is one huge reason her art sucks. It's - at best - Hallmark card art.

Don't you find it interesting that if Kidist doesn't like someone, she immediately insults their looks? No feminist, no rival in art, no liberal is ever pretty in her eyes. I truly think that Kidist extends her beauty = goodness to human beings.

[artdecades]

I really really really want to read that grant application.

she seemed to post last years, but not this one

reclaimbeauty.blogspot.ca/2014/07/new-york-public-library-grant.html

[Marian the Librarian]

Librarians who have worked with the public for any length of time have highly-developed radar for The Crazy. If the folks at NYPL who make these grant decisions perform due diligence and read Kidist's blog, they'll know exactly what they're dealing with. :cray-cray:

Snowball's chance in hell, says I.

[Lisa]

Librarians who have worked with the public for any length of time have highly-developed radar for The Crazy. If the folks at NYPL who make these grant decisions perform due diligence and read Kidist's blog, they'll know exactly what they're dealing with. :cray-cray:

Snowball's chance in hell, says I.

Kidist's putting her plan to scam them on the internet can only help. :shifty:

[LucySnowe]

I applying for a grant to the New York Public Library, again! [...] After all, this is a year's salary while living in the expensive New York City that I'm competing for!

...um, really? As far as I can tell, none of their grants are for a year. There are nine-month fellowships at the Center for Scholars and Writers, and all of those go to people with serious chops. All the rest are short-term and/or in highly specialist areas.

http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fel ... institutes

Applications like hers are the ones that grant application sifters LOVE, because they get tossed out immediately.

[ladyamylynn]

...um, really? As far as I can tell, none of their grants are for a year. There are nine-month fellowships at the Center for Scholars and Writers, and all of those go to people with serious chops. All the rest are short-term and/or in highly specialist areas.

http://www.nypl.org/help/about-nypl/fel ... institutes

Applications like hers are the ones that grant application sifters LOVE, because they get tossed out immediately.

Oh, her grant is for a highly specialized area, the study of Why Asians Suck Western Beauty.

[2xx1xy1JD]

Don't you find it interesting that if Kidist doesn't like someone, she immediately insults their looks? No feminist, no rival in art, no liberal is ever pretty in her eyes. I truly think that Kidist extends her beauty = goodness to human beings.

Hazel McCallion is 93 years old. She's entitled to every gray hair and wrinkle. Despite her age, she's still mayor of a large city, tough as nails, powerful and popular. The portrait is pretty good.

[Lisa]

When I read Kidist's review of the painting, I immediately looked up Mayor McCallion to see if the painting is really such a travesty. Nope:

[Phoebe]

When I read Kidist's review of the painting, I immediately looked up Mayor McCallion to see if the painting is really such a travesty. Nope:

That is the portrait of a woman who takes exactly zero shit from people.

I think I like her.

[feministxtian]

maybe if she got the grant she could afford a good psychotherapist.....

[lilith]

Oh, her grant is for a highly specialized area, the study of Why Asians Suck Western Beauty.

A years salary for Kidist is exactly $0.00, so it's not a big ask.

[cindyluvs24]

One glance at her blog would knock her out of the running for anything.

[ILikePie]

That's right, claim you're different from all the other non-whites because you've let go of Ethiopia entirely in favor of Canada...until you need money to fund your "research" (i.e. stalking random passerby, spouting your hateful opinions at strangers).

Then it's okay to play up the fact that you're Ethiopian. :doh: Did she ever stop to consider that maybe she was rejected for some other reason BESIDES her not being feminist, liberal, etc.? May I suggest that the people looking at her application actually read her blog?

[acheronbeach]

Hazel McCallion is 93 years old. She's entitled to every gray hair and wrinkle. Despite her age, she's still mayor of a large city, tough as nails, powerful and popular. The portrait is pretty good.

OT, but "Hurricane Hazel" is awesome. She's been mayor since before the city existed. She's still held in reverence for the way she organized the city during the rail disaster in the 70's. In person, she's blunt and expects people to get shit done.