Hitching Post

The week of September 25th to October 2nd [2020]:

I posted out of order: The We See You White American Theater post about land acknowledgement [link] should’ve gone first, and then the Indigenous Action podcast episode with thoughts on land acknowledgement (and how only doing/focusing on that falls short) [link].

The AUREA Feedback Form will be open until October 10th.

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Comments:

Coy - How do you decide who to make friends with? I didn’t leave a comment, but I did reply. (I disagree with the basic premise that I can look at someone’s outfit and determine how much effort they put into it, but I also suspect this bumped up against personal baggage. As a fat person, I have to put what seems like ‘more’ effort into not looking like a ‘lazy slob’ to others, especially when you add in the unclean bit. Like, someone could see me walk out of a shower and put deodorant on, and they’ll still comment that “some people need to learn what a shower and deodorant are” because fat.)

Sennkestra - Commentary on the book Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski (comment 1, 2 - this brake metaphor sucks (although, I am being reminded that parking brakes are a thing), and 3 - stop with upholding normalcy).

Coy - Masks should be free. Nothing important in my comment, but thanks to this comment thread, I did find out that the US Postal Service proposed a plan to deliver 5 face masks to everyone in the country back in March/April.

Siggy - I left a non-productive, fluff comment, but after reading this post, I did find out that David Jay is not some random ace guy who sometimes gets name dropped (nor is he just that tri-parenting dude).

Coy - A quote from Braiding Sweetgrass that reminded me of some posts about ki / kin pronouns shared a few years ago [comment].

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Potentially of interest:

I’ve heard of six degrees of separation before, but I hadn’t heard of the Erdős number until recently.

Offsite [The Daily Moth] - ‘D.C. federal court orders White House to provide interpreters for Covid-19 briefings starting October 1’ [ASL video and English transcript at link].

Offsite [twitter] - TikTok users have been burning JKR’s new book [tweet].