index, 11 July - 17 July

Posted:

Somehow. Lupin/Snape, Luna/Neville; PG; 750 words; for arionrhod.

Beta'd:

busaikko's The universe is a procession. Snape/Lupin; NC-17; for arionrhod. See also magnetic_pole's splendid remix.

Planned:
( revised (i.e., realistic) ETAS )

sermon prep: five excerpts from the stack...

Jawole Willa Jo Zollar, in Queens: Portraits of Black Women and Their Fabulous Hair (which I'd happened upon at my library's New Book Shelf):

In doing these dance pieces, I've learned that every man, woman, and child has a hair story regardless of race. Hair is a big part of how we define ourselves and other people make assumptions about us based on our hair.

At our "Hair Parties," an outgrowth of the research process for "Hair Stories," I talked to men and women, but mostly women, about their hair issues. And what I learned was that when we brought people together to talk about hair, we always ended up talking about issues of race, class, and gender. But if I had brought a group of people together and said we're going to talk about race, class, and gender we would get, "Oh, God! Not that again." No one would want to come. But doing it within the framework of hair, it leads to identity.

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Three excerpts from the 25-page report by a UUA Special Review Commission (March 2006) about problematic incidents at General Assembly 2005:

( What we have learned... )

Elizabeth Bear:

...of course I'm not colorblind. I can't pretend to be. I don't wish to be. What I wish is that we could find a way to be equal, to share out cultural heritages while still encompassing them. Which is why I get tangled in the whole cultural appropriation issue; because there's so much richness out there, and I don't think it's wrong for me to want to touch and understand the culture of Ethiopia or Hawaii any more than it is to want to touch that of Ukraine. There is a difference between a melting pot (that old, suspect image) and a chorus.