A link and a few unrelated thoughts.

[rhivolution]

In follow up to last week's post on Juneteenth and Helen Keller Blogswarm Day, amadi provides some rather enlightening context.

I still hold that I am concerned, but that concern has shifted a few ways, to be honest.

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In other news, I have done very little 'productive' work today. I did watch some soccerfootball, watch an ep of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency,* write a couple amusing RP tags, follow my fascinating LJ analytics, and rediscover a short fic I wrote over a year ago that someone had linked on Delicious. (I therefore reposted it on AO3, because it is cute and funny.)

Also, maybe it's because I haven't actually sat and watched her eps yet, but I am so fucking sick of hearing about River Song; this is possibly because I got tired of Alex Kingston about ten years ago when she was still whinging her way through marriage and Cook County Hospital, on ER. Of course, my feelings are subject to change.

I did finish The Child Garden, and have not been quite the same since. In fact, between that and other things, I am so low on spoons/energy/anything today, friends. I really am not sure why it is, but still. Possibly because my meds have made me shaky...don't know.


* Problematic in certain ways, but pleasing in others.

Comments

[futuransky]

Thanks for linking to that post and discussion. I almost replied to yours to say something about the relative obscurity of Juneteenth outside perhaps even specific parts of the US (having spent a fair time with Black American writing, I only found out about it because I found myself on a bus in Oakland during it in 2002), but didn't because I thought I was probably speaking too much from privilege. There's another set of questions there about the role of American discourse in discussions of oppression, too, about which my opinions are Profoundly Complicated. :)

(but FYI, I have a friend who teaches the history of the Civil Rights movement to her Scottish high school class, who did a good deal of American history when we were at university together in Scotland, but who has never lived in the US, and this week I taught her what Juneteenth is. I thought to ask because of this discussion! She's going to incorporate it into her classes so now a few more Scottish teenagers will know about it every year...)