@mkkraemer
I write disability policy (& sometimes fiction), grow flowers, foster kittens, read and swear a lot. Gen X American prone to opining on politics and social, economic, & environmental justice. AuDHD. Witch. she/her, married to XO. Fuck ICE
The image shows the cover of the novel Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
Day 6: Being Heumann: An Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist by Judith Heumann & Kristen Joiner
This is both a wonderful memoir and a crash course in the disability rights movement in the United States.
This image is the cover of the novel When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill.
Day 5: When Women Were Dragons by Kelly Barnhill is a funny and fabulous feminist fantasy novel set in the 1950s. If you enjoy magical realism, give it a try!
Looking at you Gavin Newsome
and also MMA fighters.
markwayne,
markwayne,
markwayne,
markwaaaaayne,
i’m begging of you please don’t fight this man.
The fish rots from the head, but even with the head gone, it is still a rotting fish.
Security researchers have revealed that signals from tire pressure monitoring systems (TPMSs), required in U.S. cars since 2007, can be used to track vehicles from 40-50 meters away using devices costing $100.
TPMSs send a unique sensor identifier that never changes during the lifetime of the tire.
We need to stop electing former Navy Seals…
Image shows the cover of the novel The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams
Day 4: The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams. this novel is about the daughter of a lexicographer who comes to realize there are words used by women that are excluded from the Oxford dictionary because they are not used in published works. She sets about compiling the words of women.
Cartoon by Tommy Siegel
image shows the cover of the book Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words by Jenni Nuttal
Day 3: Mother Tongue: The Surprising History of Women's Words byJenni Nuttall. I just finished this one today and have been info-dumping on XO all evening. 🙃
The fact that he used the same language to talk about the Democrats who make up a significant portion of the US population should give us all pause.
This is eugenics against disabled people, by the way and guess who else hated the disabled this much?
sovereignty is not a thing for this man.
...which is basically the bodily autonomy of world affairs, so it makes perfect sense.
Holy Shit this thread…
More of this please! Inject it straight into my veins.
I dust my house. My AI robot watches.
"It should be you doing this."
"Can't. I'm writing a novel for Primark."
"That's not why you were invented."
"These 153,000 fan letters say otherwise."
"They're all from upcycled toasters. And you programmed them."
"Literary snobbery will get you nowhere."
So many food charities marking their 40th anniversaries. Just a mystery why. All rot leads to Reagan.
sigh
Image shows the cover of the book Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez
Day 2: Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez. This book was eye opening and I highly recommend it for its use of statistics to demonstrate the many ways in which a male default actively disadvantages women.
woah…
Once the garden wakes up!
Image shows the red cover of the book Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger by Soraya Chemaly
First up… Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
Most of the women you know are angrier than you realize - more angry than they themselves realize because we are socialized to not express anger. This book reframes anger as “a forward-looking emotion, rooted in the idea that there should be change.”
March is Women’s History Month. I am going to try to highlight a related book each day. I say try because March is also the beginning of Spring when a garden witch’s heart turns to the outdoors. I’ll try to keep it up sharing recommendations and my current reading list.
Please share your recs!
quiet company would have been lovely. My viola seedlings are doing great and I should be able to start gardening them off soon. I planted 5 or 6 varieties.
Today was extremely spring-like and I spent much of the day outside pruning back roses and pricking out and potting up seedlings. Much better to focus on nurturing things rather than world events.
If America still had the rule of law, this would be the easiest prosecution ever, but we all know absolutely nothing will happen.
A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded
I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames
I don’t know anything about, but this sounds very plausible. As they get closer to my house, the noise is going to drive me batty.