A little hub for for lilwatchergirl's stuff. Expect links, disability rights, music, sci-fi, rants about my PhD, sociology, feminism, and liberal-radical Christianity.
Or I might just stop at links.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight; somewhere in the sands of the desert.
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
W.B. Yeats
I don’t need to piss on every tree in my life, marking it with who I am… You won’t be able to talk about every part of yourself with everyone, and that’s OK too. Why waste the good stuff on anyone who will listen? Why not save the great parts of yourself for those who really matter in your life?
Chris Orapello
Lisy's Thoughts on Disability in Film & TV: The Curious Case of Dewey Riley's Limp
Scre4m came out last month and I went to see it on the day of release with the friend I’d seen a couple of the earlier films with, way back when.
In preparation for the 4th instalment I watched the first 3 films, one a day, 3 days in a row earlier that week. I noticed something I’d not really…
Fan fic monk…
I figured tumblr would appreciate this. I’ve had it on my computer for a while, so if anyone knows the source I’d like to know.
Edit - It’s Hark! A Vagrant. Good to know.
'The language of shirkers and scroungers?' Talking about illness, disability and coalition welfare reform - Disability & Society
Picture: protesters at today’s ‘Hardest Hit’ march, carrying a sign which is partly written in Braille. It reads “We’re being —— by the government.” Someone has written a translation of…
Random work-y thoughts
From CartoonChurch.com by Dave Walker. (I particularly love how the choir only has one tenor and two altos.)
I was remarkably productive this…
Bill on abstinence-focused sex education, for girls only, passes first reading in the Commons - The F Word
See Liberal Conspiracy for more on this.
I’m with these groups’ bloggers when they say that we have to unite to fight this. I think this means NOW. We cannot let a victim-blaming,…
Abstinence only sex-ed - for girls only - passes first reading - The F-Word
See Liberal Conspiracy for more on this.
I’m with these groups’ bloggers when they say that we have to unite to fight this. I think this means NOW. We cannot let a victim-blaming, misogynistic law affect the way young women are educated and socialised - especially in a society where the rape conviction rate remains horrifically low and one in four women experiences domestic violence.
Dorries’ use of the rhetoric of sexualisation of society is particularly insidious here. Many feminists, myself included, agree that this is a growing problem. What we don’t do is shift the responsibility for this onto women. Society always moves first to change women, rather than men - and when this is victim-blaming, it’s particularly worrying. Dorries is serving the patriarchy by drawing on feminist language and themes. It’s terrifying. Disabled people know how nasty Dorries’ attacks on specific social groups can be. She needs, quite frankly, to be stopped.
Feminist bloggers, are your groups thinking of doing something about this? I’m lacking a local group, but I do some work with UK Feminista. I’m hoping we’ll get to address this, and Dorries’ related anti-abortion campaign, at the Summer School. I need to get involved in a group, but it’s tricky when you’re not in either London or a large university. Hmm.
Thoughts, anyone?
(Daily Blogging Attempt Month, Day 4. Cross posted to ‘Through Myself and Back Again’.)
Happy Sound
My new baby hamster (Maisie, five weeks old) is mega-fast. She sounds like she’s about to take off in that wheel.
I am a big mess of pre-wedding-stress psoriasis (OUCH). Ten days and counting. Currently busy praying for no rain and buying thank-you presents and trying to remember to get hair dyed and having mood swings. Given that I only slept for four hours last night, I was appallingly productive this morning. Definitely manic. I’ve warned The Girl I might have a teeny touch of psychosis in time for the wedding. She seems to think no one will notice.
