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New day! Blowing all the snot in the world out of my aching sinuses! Benadryl, vitamin D, claritin, cymbalta, and coffee, carry me into consciousness!
I feel very inspired this morning by zond7's long fascinating email about anarchist stuff and mutualism and leaderless organizations and people rumbling about all that in the underbelly of the grossly tainted by government shills activist conference he's at. I wave my non-flag in that direction and roar fiercely! & cherish my beautiful hackerspace and make little plans for it!
Somehow I will be so nice to my mom and figure out how she can help me in a way that makes her happy! She is so restless and wants to help! And looks so cute in my pajamas.
Wrapping my mind around the shape of this day. Dr. appt. with the really good doctor at 3pm. I want to write today -- to catch up. Maybe a bit about a WisCon panel.
I read "The Journey" by Anne Cameron this morning on a recommendation from either hazelbroom or ladyjax as we had long conversations about feminist bookstores and the heyday of things like endless books from naiad press. i used to sit in bookwoman in austin just furtively and desperately (apologetically) reading trashy lesbian novels I couldn't afford to buy. Hazelbroom said that Cameron is the best of the bunch and there is lots of ahistoricalness and some racism but very satisfying stories. It has the 80s multiculturalism feel of someone trying to incorporate history and represent that the dominant narrative is not correct; asserting the existence and the oppression of chinese railroad workers, native americans and their particularity in one location (in this case coastal northern california) and that there were black homesteaders but somehow getting race and intersectionality wrong and part of the central wrongness being how the two protagonists are so, so, so Nice White Lady about it. Everything is still somehow for their benefit or to make them heroes, which, okay, it's a story and they are the heroes. I loved the book anyway.
I feel very inspired this morning by zond7's long fascinating email about anarchist stuff and mutualism and leaderless organizations and people rumbling about all that in the underbelly of the grossly tainted by government shills activist conference he's at. I wave my non-flag in that direction and roar fiercely! & cherish my beautiful hackerspace and make little plans for it!
Somehow I will be so nice to my mom and figure out how she can help me in a way that makes her happy! She is so restless and wants to help! And looks so cute in my pajamas.
Wrapping my mind around the shape of this day. Dr. appt. with the really good doctor at 3pm. I want to write today -- to catch up. Maybe a bit about a WisCon panel.
I read "The Journey" by Anne Cameron this morning on a recommendation from either hazelbroom or ladyjax as we had long conversations about feminist bookstores and the heyday of things like endless books from naiad press. i used to sit in bookwoman in austin just furtively and desperately (apologetically) reading trashy lesbian novels I couldn't afford to buy. Hazelbroom said that Cameron is the best of the bunch and there is lots of ahistoricalness and some racism but very satisfying stories. It has the 80s multiculturalism feel of someone trying to incorporate history and represent that the dominant narrative is not correct; asserting the existence and the oppression of chinese railroad workers, native americans and their particularity in one location (in this case coastal northern california) and that there were black homesteaders but somehow getting race and intersectionality wrong and part of the central wrongness being how the two protagonists are so, so, so Nice White Lady about it. Everything is still somehow for their benefit or to make them heroes, which, okay, it's a story and they are the heroes. I loved the book anyway.
