Good Things Friday (217) and Link Love
April 21, 2023
1. I boiled half a dozen eggs on Saturday, my bones and muscles felt an empathetic affinity to the eggs, and hoped for the best. It didn’t happen, I didn’t feel better on Sunday but I found a way to make deviled eggs anyway. Treat!
2. We managed haircuts for BOTH kids this weekend!
Authors are signing this letter to Scholastic: A Letter to Scholastic’s Education Solutions Division
Update: the blowback was big enough that Scholastic is walking back their policy that supposedly was never the policy at all. A likely story. 😒
Sickening hatred. I don’t know what else we need to do to derail this: Leaked Emails Reveal Just How Powerful the Anti-Trans Movement Has Become
In the US, we are at stages seven and eight of genocide and it’s terrifying that we’re here and people don’t seem to know or care enough to fight back: THE TEN STAGES OF GENOCIDE
This is several years old but still rings true: EDITORIAL: What I Said When My White Friend Asked for My Black Opinion on White Privilege
Also several years old but still very true. I’m sick of Asians using anti-Blackness to pull themselves up: We Need to Talk About Eddie Huang’s Misogyny. “Asian American men can reclaim and rewrite masculinity without putting down women—particularly black women who, as McKenzie tweeted, already “fight every day to be seen even as human beings.”….
I stand by what I said when I first saw myself in Fresh Off The Boat, and I don’t want to stop seeing myself on screen. But I do want to see better, less misogynistic, and more honest and dignified portrayals too. That’s a minority worth modeling ourselves after.”
About time! Burning Hate from Molly Conger: “Five and a half years later, the word “Charlottesville” has become synonymous with those two fused images – Fields’ mangled Challenger and an iconic photo of the crowd, torches in hand, the Rotunda at their backs.”
This is cool: A rare wolverine sighting was captured on video in Oregon
Meet the Group Fighting Abortion Misinformation, One Reddit Post at a Time
After a full day browsing & exploring around Msinga Hill, it’s hometime for the dependent Voi orphans. 26 elephants rushing back all once would be a little much for the Keepers, so they wait in groups until their names are called (yes really), before heading to their stockades. pic.twitter.com/IKJSTGLIKS
— Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (@SheldrickTrust) April 17, 2023
Huh, I hadn’t heard about that problem with Scholastic and Love in the Library, but I did happen to read it just this week at Powell’s. Her note at the back of the book was very simply written and excellent. I’m glad they were shamed out of editing her words.
I went to an elephant refuge in northern Kenya! They make custom (enormous) bottles for each elephant and therefore teach them their names so the elephant comes to the right caretaker & bottle when they are called. It was so so so cute.
Me too – I honestly didn’t expect a result so soon. I expected that a lot of angry parents would need to go yell at them too and I was preparing to do that.
That sounds AMAZING!! *melted*
Lots of sympathy to your bones. Love deviled eggs- I should make some too, what a good idea!
Thank you!
Yay deviled eggs! Treats for all.