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"(not) like us / (not) a tiresome stranger"
My laptop died and it's very difficult to compose here on the tablet's screen so I'm probably going to be (more) scarce. I didn't manage to sign up for ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
everywoman but there isn't much if anything I could write, so that's fine. I was going to default on the robot flash, but I already have two(!) gifts there, so I don't feel right about that. Tiptapping for 300+ words ig.
Anyway, here are some recent reads that I can't stop thinking about:
everywoman but there isn't much if anything I could write, so that's fine. I was going to default on the robot flash, but I already have two(!) gifts there, so I don't feel right about that. Tiptapping for 300+ words ig.Anyway, here are some recent reads that I can't stop thinking about:
- Hello stranger. Written by one of my literary (and local) heroes, this piece has haunted me since I first read it. How do you keep going? How.
- An essential and timely guide to organizing against antisemitism: "A new book brings much-needed clarity to the debate on antisemitism, and how the fight against it is tied to our collective liberation."
- Acts of Language: "Amid the actual violence of Israel's assault on Gaza, why have so many writers treated pro-Palestine speech as a threat?" (archive link)
This focus on the speech used tο support Palestinian rights does more than obscure the context in which protesters are speaking; it also obscures the reality about which they speak. I believe in the power and importance of language. But what is happening is not primarily about language. Words are not weapons of mass destruction: when we encourage others to use language with care, we should be sure to do the same ourselves. Some metaphors are inappropriate in some contexts. The context here is a quantity of ammunition dropped on Gaza that is equivalent to more than three times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima. A high proportion of those bombs were US-made and supplied. Those bombs were not made of language, and they certainly were not metaphors.
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Love, spite, joy in the little things most people overlook, stubbornness that refuses to lie down and take it, humour and 'fuck you and the pony you rode in on.'
...it's more than okay if you'd prefer to ignore my response. Most people do.
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