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We buried Marvin yesterday. Bit of dark humor in the whole thing: one of the employees at the vet's is selling Girl Scout cookies, and the only box they had to give him back to us in was-- you guessed it. So I hear this from the vet assistants as they come up to the front room:

#1: "Hey, you made a sale!"
#2: *urgent whispering*
#1: "Ohhhhhh."

Anyway. Onward.

Today's entry inspired by this essay:

This Hurts Us All

Talking about the racism debates within sci-fi/fantasy circles, the derailment of same, etc. Even if you're not fully caught up on the entire thing (which I know for sure I'm not), it's a good read.

And what I'm going to do is start talking about this more. Sortof.

I can talk about feminism because I have a lifetime of experiences as a woman to draw on, and research/reading on top of that. Racism, though? White girl living in Whiteville, USA. Research/reading is all I have, and at this point in time I feel that me trying full-out essays would just be the equivalent of someone who's taken a high-school calculus class interrupting a Convention of Rocket Scientists and saying, "Hey! Listen to me because I know stuff, people!" Not cool. But staying utterly quiet on the subject doesn't feel right to me anymore, either.

So, obvious solution? Linkspams. ;-) Here's the first one:

Well, I say, maybe you shouldn't touch things before you learn about them or know how to treat them with respect.

On the differences between 'immigrant' and 'ex-pat'.

Aby's Bed of Terror graphic, which is one of my New Favorite Things Ever.

"And though scary is exciting/Nice is different than good"
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