Just a little (link) love: Leap! edition
January 10, 2019
Not Mine to Mold: My children, nondisabled and disabled, are not mine to mold. I wouldn’t subject my bookish nondisabled son to unwanted daily sports training; nor should I force Edmund to stop repeatedly tapping his head for comfort. Accepting Edmund, and supporting him to be himself, means I stop acting so much like a coach, and more like his mom.
I strongly feel this about JB. I am responsible for molding zir into a compassionate and caring human, but not to make zir any kind of duplicate of me.
Everyone in the department knew that this doctor discriminated against women, are afraid to speak publicly for fear of retaliation, and yet they can’t find evidence supporting it. Hm.
I really like Carl’s Reverse Christmas.
Belatedly, Stacking Pennies had the baby early! And her one month update.
This was a lovely description of empathy around the holidays with a child. I keep trying this with JB but ze just gets worked up and angry instead as I describe zir feelings.
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, 77, Dies; Historian Recognized Black Suffragists
I wouldn’t believe him either. Unification Plan From China Finds Few Takers in Taiwan: On the one hand, Mr. Xi threatened military force if Taiwanese leaders grasped for independence. On the other hand, Mr. Xi said that if Taiwan were to agree to unification, its rights would be ensured by the “one country, two https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/02/world/asia/xhina-xi-jinping-taiwan.htmsystems” framework that Beijing used in Hong Kong after it returned from British colonial control in 1997.
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But neither the threat nor the promised reward seemed likely to sharply weaken Taiwanese opposition to China’s demands, said Jean-Pierre Cabestan, a professor of political science at the Hong Kong Baptist University who studies relations between China and Taiwan.
I haven’t been able to read the article, but hah, the pull quote and the “promise” of getting the same “protection” of the one country, two systems structure as Hong Kong is a particularly hollow one, as the people in Hong Kong who are at all independence-minded know very well. (There’s a documentary that was on Netflix called Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower about a young activist in Hong Kong, Joshua Wong.) Among other things, the “one country, two systems” promise is set to expire in 2047. I first went to Hong Kong in 2009, and it was a time when they had robust free speech and people weren’t really worried about PRC political control and their functional independence from China didn’t seem to be in doubt. Barely 5 years later, by 2014, things changed dramatically. (These days, university officials are even telling their students that it’s illegal to call for independence, which to someone used to First Amendment freedoms, feels like an almost unthinkable thing for an academic institution to do.)
That’s precisely what I was thinking! Don’t do it, y’all.
Another cute Roomba rider: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DtCGm-yArCk
Thanks for the links!!!
Hah that’s great.