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News - broadcast, print, internet, magazine articles How Horseback Riding Helped Barbara Stanwyck Rise Above Hollywood Misogyny Literary Hub 2023 Care Experienced Actor Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990) starred in Westerns from the 1940s, doing many of her own stunts. In this article for Literary Hub, Catherine Russell argues that it was through doing this stunt work—during which she was frequently injured—that Stanwyck was able to challenge some of the “entrenched misogyny of the industry”. Stanwyck apparently insisted on doing her own stunts because she thought it “contributed to the consistency of characterization” although there were times when doubles were used too. Russell concludes with this observation: “If women riding bicycles in Victorian times were considered transgressive, women straddling horses in mid-20th century America were likewise titillating. To Stanwyck’s credit, she consistently rose above such gender nonsense with her posture and her strong characters. An exceptionally weak character, such as Cora in Trooper Hook, never rides horses but sticks to carriages." External Website

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Biography of Care Experienced People Women of Power: The Life and Times of Catherine de' Medici Mark Strage 1976 Catherine de' Medici was Queen of France from 1547 to 1559 by marriage to King Henry II and the mother of French Kings Francis II, Charles IX and Henry III. She was born 13th April, 1519 in Florence, Republic of Florence, the only child of Lorenzo de' Medici, Duke of Urbino, and his wife, Madeleine de la Tour d'Auvergne, the countess of Boulogne. Both parents died within the first month of her life. At first Catherine was looked after by her paternal grandmother, Alfonsina Orsini for a year but then she died too. Catherine was then raised by her aunt, Clarice de' Medici. The death of Pope Leo in 1521 briefly interrupted Medici power until Cardinal Giulio de' Medici was elected Pope Clement VII in 1523. Clement housed Catherine in the Palazzo Medici Riccardi in Florence, where she lived in state. The Florentine people called her duchessina ("the little duchess"), in deference to her unrecognised claim to the Duchy of Urbino. In 1527, the Medici were overthrown in Florence by a faction opposed to the regime of Clement's representative, Cardinal Silvio Passerini, and Catherine was taken hostage and placed in a series of convents. The final one, the Santissima Annuziata delle Murate was her home for three years. Mark Strage in Women of Power: The Life and Times of Catherine de’ Medici (1976), described these years as "the happiest of her entire life". In October 1529, Charles V's troops laid siege to Florence. As the siege dragged on, voices called for Catherine to be killed and exposed naked and chained to the city walls. Some even suggested that she be handed over to the troops to be used for their sexual gratification. The city finally surrendered on 12 August 1530. Clement summoned Catherine from her beloved convent to join him in Rome where he greeted her with open arms and tears in his eyes. Then he set about the business of finding her a husband. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Ghost River Tony Birch 2015 Archie Kemp knows trouble when he sees it, and he sees it when 13-year-old Sonny Brewer moves in next door. At the beginning of the story Sonny is living with his alcoholic father. By the end of the story, Sonny is in kinship care with his uncle. External Website

Autobiography/Memoir At a cost Roy McFadyen 2005 As a child, Roy McFadyen was placed in Melbourne orphanages by his parents and at 15, in the middle of the Great Depression, had to learn to support himself. Swept up by WWII into aircraft maintenance he went on to own a highly respected aircraft maintenance company. External Website

Authors B Kathy Burke ➝ Ingrid Bergman ➝ Freddie Bartholomew ➝ Stanley J Browne ➝ Adam Beach ➝ Paul Barber ➝ Pierce Brosnan (actor) ➝ Sarah Bernhardt ➝ Carol Burnett ➝ Richard Burton ➝ Back to Top

Sport Rubin Carter Rubin Carter African American professional boxer and activist, Rubin “Hurricane” Carter (1937-2014), was in a boys' home as a child. Rubin Carter was born in Clifton, New Jersey to Lloyd and Bertha Carter, 1 of 7 children. Lloyd Carter worked 2 jobs to support his family, was a deacon in his local Baptist church, and a hard task master. He sent Rubin to work at the age of 8 cutting and delivering ice. When he was 11, Rubin stabbed a man and was sent to the Jamesburg State Home for Boys. After 6 years at Jamesburg, the now 17-year-old escaped and went to an aunt’s home in Philadelphia. There he enlisted in the Army and thrived; he became a paratrooper, began boxing, overcame a stutter via speech therapy and became interested in Islam (but never converted). Carter was honourably discharged from the Army in 1956, but shortly after was arrested and sent to the Annandale Reformatory to serve 10 months for having escaped from Jamesburg. He also served 4 years in Trenton State Prison for having snatched a woman’s purse and assaulted a man back in Paterson. In 1961, on his release from prison, Carter began his professional boxing career, “winning 13 of his first 21 fights by knockouts.” In 1967 Rubin Carter and an acquaintance, John Artis, were convicted of the murders of a white woman and 2 white men. The convictions were overturned in 1985 and formally dismissed in 1988. Rubin Carter moved to Canada on his release from prison and became a Canadian citizen. He was an executive director for the Association in Defense of Wrongly Convicted (AIDWYC) and in 2004 he founded Innocence International with John Artis to campaign against wrongful convictions. Carter published his autobiography in 2011. Bob Dylan in 1985 recorded a song—The Hurricane—about Carter’s wrongful conviction, and the story was also told in a 1999 film of the same name starring Denzel Washington. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Sixkill Robert B Parker 2012 A bad-boy movie star named Jumbo pushes the limits of his reputation when he's accused of rape and murder. When the Boston PD calls on Spencer, he meets Jumbo's young bodyguard, Zebulon Sixkill, and the two form an unlikely alliance. It's a high profile case for Spenser, but the Hollywood secrets he uncovers are sordidly unsavory- and not just those of the accused... Zebulon Sixkill was in kinship care as a child, living with his grandfather after his father disappeared and his mother died when Z was 10. External Website

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Authors H As a former foster kid, I'm giving Tracy Beaker a second chance ➝ What "The Mandalorian" Teaches Us About Foster Care ➝ A perspective from the periphery: Re-imagining regional North Queensland women's stories using historical fiction ➝ Back to Top

Authors R Mostly Mary ➝ When Marnie was There ➝ The Star Outside My Window (8-11 years) ➝ Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone ➝ The Boy Who Built a Wall Around Himself (4-9 years) ➝ Back to Top

Television Shows Mystery Road: Origin 2022 Mystery Road: Origin is the 3rd series in the popular Australian crime series. Series 3 is directed by Dylan River and is a prequel to first 2 Mystery Road series with Mark Coles Smith playing a young version of Jay Swan (played by Care Experienced actor Aaron Pederson in the 1st 2 series). It's not clear, but it seems that the 16-year-old boy whose Jack, was orphaned at the age of 12. He then ran away from the mission where he'd been living and was independent from then on. At the end of the series, a little girl is in the kinship care of her aunt because her parents have been imprisoned. It's not clear, but it seems that the 16 year old boy who was murdered 8 years previously may also have been in foster or kinship care. External Website

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Radio & Podcast Inside A Mountain PodBean Development Walking real & imaginary landscape with artist & writer Charlie Lee-Potter In this episode, Charlie talks with Sally Bayley about her first book, Girl with Dove. External Website

Fiction featuring Care Experience Macbeth Jo Nesbo 2018 Shakespeare’s dark and tragic play retold and set in the 1970s. Jo Nesbo has imagined Macbeth has spending his childhood in an orphanage where he was sexually abused. The character of Duff (originally Macduff) has also been reiminaged by Nesbo as living in an orphanage where he is Macbeth's best friend. External Website

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Blogs/Web Pages/Articles The Best Movies About Orphans Anon 2021 Some of the sweetest and most inspirational movies of all time are those that feature the life of a child who has been abandoned by his or her parents, whether through a death or a circumstance such as war. External Website

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