February 1st is Hourly Comic Day. Lots of people are going to draw a comic for every hour they are awake, and that includes me.
I’ll have to sleep in to make things easier.
Or maybe its easier if I wake up early and then I can document my housemates all being weirdos in the morning. I love you kids.
Lately I’ve been trying to rely less on mainstream media (although I do still peruse Google News many times a day) and some of the more mainstream feminist blogs (although I still mostly keep up with Feministing). Instead I’ve got a bunch of blogs that I keep in my news reader in a folder called “Daily”. I tread that folder like a newspaper…. I scan the articles regularly and dig in to what seems interesting.
Here are some of my favorite blogs that I have in there:
Womanist Musings
News I don’t see elsewhere, lots of women-centered stuff and race analysis.Racialicious
Lots of excellent articles from many contributors mostly on issues surrounding race. It’s very well curated.flip flopping joy
News and analysis on a range of issues, struggles. Very sharp, personal, political, uncompromising.kameelah writes
Less news and more personal stuff, but still very political. Poetry, ideas, analysis.Ta-Nehisi Coates
Frequently updated, a mix of mainstream liberal news and quite a bit else. A recent commenter sums up: “This is a weird-ass blog – old-school black shit, nerdy video games, generic lib politics, hip-hop, cranky generational issues, Reinhold-fucking-Niebhur, football, weekly poetry.”Lawrence Lessig
On copryright and corruption, I really enjoy the style of persuasive presentation, and the way Lessig thinks about certain structural social problems.What About Our Daughters
An excellent source of women-centered news.The Curvature
Another excellent news source, also with some great editorial pieces, like this series on Yoko Ono.Amit Gupta
I worked for a company Amit founded, although we only interacted briefly. Amit writes about random tech stuff, likes community and healthy living situations and whatnot.
The list of blogs that I’m engaged with is always changing, so I’ll try to post again in some months and see what changes.
Kynthia and I were talking about chicken wings and meat eating on chat today, and she remembered a conversation from before veganism was even a glint in my eye:
Kynthia: yeah. we were at yogi’s and you asked me about why i would be a vegetarian. and i asked you why you wouldn’t. and you shrugged and said it just didn’t seem like something that you really thought it was worth thinking about too much.
me: funny how times change
Kynthia: yep
It made me think: when exactly did I start getting into veganism? Or feminism for that matter? Or any kind of politics? Who was I back then?
I went back through the archives of this blog, and discovered that I referenced feminism here for the first time on Friday, April 2nd, 2004 in a post about Love With A Proper Stranger.
It was a pretty simple comment… that it seemed pretty progressive to me for a woman to have a child out of wedlock while keeping her career in 1963. But these are pretty mainstream feminism concerns, and if anything I regarded them more as a historical curiosity than something to celebrate.
Over the last three and a half years, I’ve learned a lot through the cycle of educating myself, and subsequently being able to connect to people who know more than I do, learning from them, learning how better to educate myself, and so-on. I’ve learned a lot about justice, gender, race, ecology, and politics. All of those words mean drastically different things to me than they did in 2004.
Funny how times change.
“For the sake of my health and good cheer, I am no longer accepting sourdough emails due to regrettable abuses of my preferred open-inbox policy. The good news is that the article and FAQ already include everything I’ve learned, so you should have plenty to begin with. Best of luck with it, and most of all remember to have fun, never mind getting messy, and enjoy sharing the results with those you love.” – S John Ross
I just read this, about the inauguration. I think it was good for me to hear.
I like the last full stanza. It makes me think: what more can we do than work and dream? And why do we think there’s something else we should be doing?
There are two posts over at flip flopping joy that really resonated strongly with me:
Yesterday, (Re)Thinking Walking: An Introduction in Response by Jess
And today, (re)thinking walking: a little theorizing by bfp
I’ve been thinking a lot about politics and about change. The more I think about it, the more I think that Love, and particularly Self-Love, is the lever around which change pivots.
Definitely spending so much time with Lauren has been a part of that. These same ideas are coming from everyone though, really. There are so many ideas to synthesize though, and I’m not quite up for it.
Since my thoughts are too muddled to really write up coherently, I’ll leave you with those links, which are much more clear.
Here’s a one-line bash script that you can use as a wifi meter if you want to walk around with your laptop and find the best signal strength. CTRL+C to stop:
until []; do clear;cat /proc/net/wireless; done
keywords: wireless, divining rod, stick, wi-fi
Monday is Martin Luther King Day, which means now is a good time to check your local media outlets for information on MLK Weekend festivities! The bulk of events aren’t always on Monday. In San Diego there’s a parade on Saturday and a whole festival with performances and food and all kinds of good stuff.
Warning: this post deals references a recent sexual assault case.
Many of us have been watching the news for updates on the police investigation of the rape of a queer woman in San Francisco this past December. WOC PhD reports that “Two adult males and two minors were arrested” in connection with the crime and that police are “confident they have the right people in custody.”
I’m glad to see the police taking the case seriously.
Hi readers. Ben helpfully notified me the other day that my RSS feed was broken, and I realized all my permalinks were kind of screwed. But it should be fixed now. Let me know if anything seems screwy.
