Jealousy

• But there’s another hue with a secret, sensual history longing for embrace: green.
• In these times of conflict, 2024 is the year we should remember what connects rather than divides us, and embrace green as the colour of love.

Green is at the heart

In the ancient Indian chakra tradition, green is the colour of the heart. The heart organ has long been associated with love. A chakra, conceptualised as a wheel of whirling energy, balances particular emotions and the health of the body. The heart chakra at the centre of the chest represents loving-kindness, compassion and care.

• Green has a range of cross-cultural meanings to do with balance, peace and hope.
• It is important in the Catholic faith for hope and life, as in Judaism, where it means renewal.
• It symbolised a young woman’s sexuality, and being “greensick” was a term for a youth in unrequited love.

During the Renaissance, pastoral and woodland settings symbolised nature, pleasure, freedom and lack of convention, as Arden does in Shakespeare’s As You Like It and the forest in A Midsummer Night’s Dream: an alternative Green World, an erotic Eden. Bawdy Renaissance madrigals such as Now is the Month of Maying included references to a “barley break” (a roll in the hay) and lads and lasses making merry upon the “greeny grass”.

Hidden greens

• Old songs give us some clues to the secret, erotic symbolism of the colour green and its fateful relationship to women’s sexuality.
• The Tudor version of Greensleeves contains suggestive lyrics regarding crimson stockings with gold above the knee and pumps as white as milk, and a grassy-green gown.

• Green in mediaeval times was also a sign of female promiscuity rather than free love.
• Wearing green reputedly signalled a woman’s willingness to make love, since it denoted fertility and the loss of virginity.

In the Middle Ages, healers and wise-women who held vital medicinal plant and herb use, as well as some who may have practised folk magic for alluring charms and love potions, were persecuted for their knowledge as witches. The female witch is so associated with green that in The Wizard of Oz she was given green skin.

A contradictory colour

Green carries negative connotations such as poison, jealousy and envy: the green-eyed monster. Greenwashing or green-sheening are terms for the promotion of dubious environmental products. In Green Sense a treatise that explores botanical aesthetics, cultural studies academic John Ryan argues the contradiction of green comes from it being the shade of growth and decomposition: both birth and death.

• Part noun, part adjective, part adverb and part verb, we see green, and we can also shop, build, vote and think green.
• We can feel green: during the Renaissance, he writes, being possessed by the passions was likened to wearing green spectacles.
• Smith also contends that we can hear colours: to hear green would be to listen longingly, as we do to love songs.

• Across the globe, there are calls for the growth of love.
• ': how crime books embraced lurid green

Elizabeth Reid Boyd does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.

• Also on both days, on the 2nd floor Gallery, we invite families to experience hands-on Korean tteok (rice cake) making with Jennifer Ban of Rice Blossoms.
• "As we joyfully celebrate Seollal, the Korean Cultural Center New York is thrilled to mark this auspicious occasion with our inaugural family event.
• This celebration not only embraces the rich traditions of the Korean Lunar New Year, but also signifies the beginning of a new chapter for our Center in our new building.
• Woori Show is a 501c3 non-profit organization centered around community building, AAPI cultural preservation, and children's education.

• It turns out that hating happy people may be a reflection of cynicism and even dishonesty.
• Has not had a raise in over five years (36% of Retaliators, 41% of Begrudgers, and 17% of Joy Sharers agreed with this statement).
• PSYCHTESTS' STUDY ALSO INDICATED THAT THE RETALIATORS WERE NOT ONLY MORE CYNICAL THAN THE BEGRUDGERS AND JOY SHARERS; THEY WERE ALSO LESS HONEST AND ALTRUISTIC.
• 35% enjoy it when bad things happen to the people they hate, compared to 33% of Begrudgers and 13% of Joy Sharers.

• Nonetheless, the show consistently rewards both sets of viewers by brilliantly blurring the line between reality and alternate history.
• It tells a compelling story wherein the Soviet Union beat the US to land on the Moon and, consequently, the space race never ended.
• For All Mankind begins in an Apollo era transformed by the inclusion of women, characters of colour and LGBTQ+ protagonists.

Astronaut fiction

• For All Mankind mines a rich vein of astronaut screen fiction, starting with the now-forgotten black-and-white TV show Men Into Space (1959).
• Science and fiction blurred in countless pulp tales, B-movies, magazine features, novels and comics.
• David Bowie sang about a “space oddity” in 1969 (later covered by astronaut Chris Hadfield, who filmed the first music video in space), while in 1977, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols was tasked by Nasa with recruiting a more diverse field of astronaut candidates.

Nixon’s women

• The stereotypical all-American hero, the show says, is likely prone to anger-management issues, substance abuse and infidelity.
• In their place, the series uses an alternate history to reconstruct a better, more inclusive and even more diverse vision of Nasa.
• In the third episode of season one, set in the 1970s, Nasa seeks to counter Russia’s landing of a woman on the moon by recruiting women pilots of its own.
• It encapsulates what makes For All Mankind potentially the greatest show on television right now: meaningful human tales told against an interplanetary backdrop.

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Val Nolan does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organisation that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.