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white_hartIt appears to have been a month since I did one of these. Ooops.
How She-Ra, Steven Universe and the World of Animation Speak to My Genderfluidity - and more generally relatable as an account of those wonderful moments when you see yourself reflected back in a character in fiction, and suddenly figure out something about yourself that you hadn't known before.
How World War 2 almost destroyed British cheese.
ADHD Organization/Disorganization - I could relate to a lot of this; I come across as hyper-organised but that's basically down to having a really good memory and well-developed habits, putting things I need to remember where I will see them and outsourcing as much as as I possibly can to my Outlook calendar. (My staff are quite used to me ending a conversation where I've agreed to do something with "can you email that to me so I remember it when I get back to my desk?".)
On the same note, I've been finding Dani Donovan's ADHD cartoons extremely relatable, even though I don't think I have ADHD.
The Island - a newly-translated story by Tove Jansson.
The body as Rorschach: Trans Interventions and the Trouble with History - on queer readings of history as a way to open possibilities about the past, and why reading Dr James Barry as a lesbian and not a trans man closes them down instead.
I think I may have shared this before, but it's worth re-reading: Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong.
It can seem hard to find anything to laugh about in the shitshow that is British politics at the moment, but I've been enjoying @Garius's Brexit Tapes on Twitter and am really pleased that he's crowdfunding to publish them as a book.
At Sea - a lovely essay by Karen Lord on freedom and borders and being a citizen of a small island.
On the world being built around men and the dismissal of women's pain - a couple of weeks ago the Guardian published an article by Caroline Criado-Perez on her research into the ways the world is (still) designed by men, for men. I didn't link to that, as it was a bit TERFy, but I likedmiss_s_b's response to it.
The knitting community is reckoning with racism - a really good summary of the current debate about racism in knitting (which has mostly been conducted via Instagram stories, and hasn't been easy to follow). (This post is another thoughtful contribution to the debate.)
They do not speak for us - an open letter from Scottish feminists dissociating themselves from trans-exclusionary "feminism". (I was particularly delighted to see Emma Thompson among the signatories, having discovered that so many women I once admired espouse TERF views recently.)
I always enjoy Radio 4's Ramblings, but particularly liked this week's episode, featuring Emma Mitchell (whose book The Wild Remedy I read recenty) and talking about the mental health benefits of being in nature. This was a lovely thing to listen to yesterday morning when I was struggling to get out of bed.
Anja Kollmuss knitted herself a climate change sweater.
I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague - on sexism in academia.
How She-Ra, Steven Universe and the World of Animation Speak to My Genderfluidity - and more generally relatable as an account of those wonderful moments when you see yourself reflected back in a character in fiction, and suddenly figure out something about yourself that you hadn't known before.
How World War 2 almost destroyed British cheese.
ADHD Organization/Disorganization - I could relate to a lot of this; I come across as hyper-organised but that's basically down to having a really good memory and well-developed habits, putting things I need to remember where I will see them and outsourcing as much as as I possibly can to my Outlook calendar. (My staff are quite used to me ending a conversation where I've agreed to do something with "can you email that to me so I remember it when I get back to my desk?".)
On the same note, I've been finding Dani Donovan's ADHD cartoons extremely relatable, even though I don't think I have ADHD.
The Island - a newly-translated story by Tove Jansson.
The body as Rorschach: Trans Interventions and the Trouble with History - on queer readings of history as a way to open possibilities about the past, and why reading Dr James Barry as a lesbian and not a trans man closes them down instead.
I think I may have shared this before, but it's worth re-reading: Everything You Know About Obesity Is Wrong.
It can seem hard to find anything to laugh about in the shitshow that is British politics at the moment, but I've been enjoying @Garius's Brexit Tapes on Twitter and am really pleased that he's crowdfunding to publish them as a book.
At Sea - a lovely essay by Karen Lord on freedom and borders and being a citizen of a small island.
On the world being built around men and the dismissal of women's pain - a couple of weeks ago the Guardian published an article by Caroline Criado-Perez on her research into the ways the world is (still) designed by men, for men. I didn't link to that, as it was a bit TERFy, but I liked
miss_s_b's response to it.The knitting community is reckoning with racism - a really good summary of the current debate about racism in knitting (which has mostly been conducted via Instagram stories, and hasn't been easy to follow). (This post is another thoughtful contribution to the debate.)
They do not speak for us - an open letter from Scottish feminists dissociating themselves from trans-exclusionary "feminism". (I was particularly delighted to see Emma Thompson among the signatories, having discovered that so many women I once admired espouse TERF views recently.)
I always enjoy Radio 4's Ramblings, but particularly liked this week's episode, featuring Emma Mitchell (whose book The Wild Remedy I read recenty) and talking about the mental health benefits of being in nature. This was a lovely thing to listen to yesterday morning when I was struggling to get out of bed.
Anja Kollmuss knitted herself a climate change sweater.
I got told what to call this poem by my male colleague - on sexism in academia.
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Date: 2019-03-11 02:30 pm (UTC)