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Harriet Showman

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Born

in Marion, SC, The United States

Website

http://invisible-i-am.com

Genre

Fiction, Young Adult

Member Since

March 2010

URL

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Harriet Showman lives in South Carolina, U.S., a culture hurt deep by the wounds of slavery and racism. Showman began her quest to understand the legacy bequeathed to her by slave-owning ancestors through her undergraduate and graduate study of colonial South Carolina history. It was then that the endemic poverty of her home state captured her attention. With a strong core of allies, she helped to establish a statewide Guardian ad Litem program to provide legal support for abused children; a Cities in Schools organization to serve underprivileged students; and a vehicle for the accumulation of monies to be distributed in grants through the Children’s Trust Fund. As a development officer for the state’s flagship university, Showman attracted Harriet Showman lives in South Carolina, U.S., a culture hurt deep by the wounds of slavery and racism. Showman began her quest to understand the legacy bequeathed to her by slave-owning ancestors through her undergraduate and graduate study of colonial South Carolina history. It was then that the endemic poverty of her home state captured her attention. With a strong core of allies, she helped to establish a statewide Guardian ad Litem program to provide legal support for abused children; a Cities in Schools organization to serve underprivileged students; and a vehicle for the accumulation of monies to be distributed in grants through the Children’s Trust Fund. As a development officer for the state’s flagship university, Showman attracted resources from major, national foundations to target South Carolina’s most urgent needs.

By creating the narrative of sixteen-year-old Gregg Davis, along with provocative artwork, Showman finds the courage to once again become an advocate for children who experience personal and societal bullying. Through invisible-i-am, she hopes to contribute to the conversation about tough stuff. She does not restrain Gregg: the girl says what she means and means what she says. Showman also expresses a victim’s rage by using vivid nail polish in drawings and enhancing photographs for maximum impact. The ultimate message is that when pain overwhelms us, we can transform ourselves and choose freedom over revenge. This is not easy work to undergo, but it addresses a vital issue for the 21st century.

Showman’s hope for the future is simple: that we all can learn to perceive and empathize with another’s struggle to be acknowledged as worthy of love. This survival-of-the-fittest world needs a responsible citizenship that comprehends the importance of altruism.

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Quotes by Harriet Showman (?)

“Whether you like it or not, I am.”
― Harriet Showman

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“We create our lives with words.”
― Harriet Showman, invisible-i-am by Gregg Davis

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“That nasty, blonde, skank Hayley looked pleased with herself. Draped all over my boyfriend in her oh-so-trite, size negative-two, designer clothes. Her attitude matched the price tags.”
― Harriet Showman, invisible-i-am by Gregg Davis

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Harriet’s Quotes

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
― Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

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“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”
― David Bowie

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“Survival isn't lying down and saying, oh, poor me. It's finding ways to live and keep your light shining in the midst of the darkest circumstances.”
― Danai Gurira

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“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
― Jerzy Kosinski

tags: art

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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses