More stuff to read, yay!

Joy Oladokun - "Easy Company" (Official Music Video)

The Music Gods are feeding me this month! I've only listened to the new album a few times through, but so far really loving it. They're really trying new things this go around.

A lot of these are just going to be headlines and decks, tbh. If I wait until I have A LOT of thoughts, I'm going to end up with a hundred more, and have to delete half of them for being outdated.

Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Art:
CBC: Coast Salish weaver shares her connection to land, lineage and natural dyes.
Myrna Crossley says weaving is her refuge and connects her to ancestors, spiritual practice and living culture.

The Discourse: Snuneymuxw Elder C’tasi:a shares traditional plant knowledge in new book.
Plant Teachings from my Auntie by Snuneymuxw Elder C’tasi:a and ethnobotanist Nancy Turner delves into traditional plants and plant medicine.

The Tyee: An Indigenous Housing Solution from the Heart.
The Skeetchestn Indian Band turns timber on its territory into modular housing kits based on a traditional cultural design.

The Tyee: To Name a Mountain Is to Name Our Kin.
Tahoma is a Puyallup name meaning 'the mother of all waters.' Six First Nations in Washington state relate to the mountain as kin. But George Vancouver renamed the mountain, also known as Mount Rainier, after his friend.
[Always lovely pictures in the Tyee Weekender essays.]

CBC: Denmark passes compensation bill for thousands of Inuit in Greenland forced to get IUDs.
Inuit women in Canada hope the Danish bill will encourage Canada to follow suit.
[YES. Let us talk about the eugenics in Canada!]

MacLean's: A Judge Recognized Aboriginal Title on Private Property. Panic Ensued.
How the Cowichan court battle is putting the real meaning of reconciliation to the test.
[Headline and deck a little bit burying the lede of this excellent article: to wit, politicians leveraging misinformation and racism to scare people into compliance.]


Feminism, Feminist Causes, Being Tired of Shitty Men:
Minas Karamanis: The Loneliest Point: On designing (academic) institutions for imaginary people.

A tenure system that expects a scholar to move across the country, away from family, into a city they can't afford, to work for a salary below what their training would earn them in industry, and then to perform optimally for six years under conditions of maximum personal disruption, is not selecting for the best scholars. It is selecting for the people who can tolerate the cockpit. And when someone can't, or won't, or leaves, or never shows up, the system doesn't count them. It counts the people who are left and calls the result a meritocracy.

[I FEELING LIKE THIS ABOUT BEING AN UNDERGRAD! (Which, to be clear, I'm doing okay with, but I don't think this system is designed for anyone on the margins.) How do people survive in professional academia?]

Rebecca Solnit: Gloria Steinem Helped Transform the World for Everyone.
[Solnit continues on her, "please remember what it was like before second wave feminism!" line.]

The Hollywood Reporter: Criminal Showrunner Ed Brubaker, Amazon MGM Sued for Hostile Work Environment by Production Assistant.
Ijaaz Noohu accuses the comic book powerhouse of sexual and racial harassment and assault, among several other claims.
[Given how he writes women, unsurprising, I guess. (Yes, I am still mad about Sharon Carter). It did make what comics to donate next an easier choice.]


In Relation to GenAI, and other notes about life on Al Gore's Internet:
I'm mostly lying down and avoiding this topic, but here's a handful of pieces that caught my interest. Both gloss and erinptah regularly have better round ups. ( I guess I had THINGS TO SAY after all, so cutting this for length. )


Speaking of Harry Potter:
I've been thinking about this a lot, and I've decided that I'm going to post about Harry Potter as little as possible going forward, ideally not at all. With the TV show coming up, it's going to be in the headlines a lot again, and I think it's good that people keep linking that back to the objective harm Rowling is inflicting on the trans community. However, I just want it to be erased from popular culture and current discourse, and I'm hoping to contribute to that with my silence. However, I'd like these two pieces to be my "final" comment.

JessieGender1: Harry Potter Is Manufacturing Your Complicity (video: 18 minutes).
Warner Bros. is making Harry Potter feel unavoidable and turning our discomfort with complicity into another tool for keeping the franchise profitable.
[The Tim Hortons thing still annoys me deeply.]

Variety: Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of The Matrix and How Harry Potter Fans Are "Supporting Trans Genocide."
[This is a really good interview, which is not fair to stick in the Harry Potter section, but I really like how she speaks to it, so here it is.]

Accidentally dropped my boiled egg in my latte.

It's good to be on trend for once.