Greetings. Let's begin with the free electronic version of the update The End to Policing.
The College Board, administrators of the Advanced Placement curricula and tests that generally allow high school students to take coursework with the rigor of university courses in exchange for the possibility of having that coursework accepted for university credit, folded to the conservative demands that their African American Studies AP course stop talking about African American studies, with reading and concepts related to intersectionality and critical race theory struck from the revised curricula. If the AP course is supposed to have the rigor of a university course, it must include the key concepts and things the students will have to grapple with and understand.
A thread where the answer to the question "Why is something deeply screwed up in the United States where it seems fine elsewhere?" is "Racism." across several different deeply screwed up things of the U.S.
Viola Davis is the newest EGOT, having won an Emmy for How to Get Away With Murder, a Grammy for Finding Me, an Oscar for Fences, and two Tony Awards for King Hedley II and Fences. Congratulations! In addition to the EGOT completed at this year's Grammy Awards, Beyoncé took over the new record for Grammy wins with 32.
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Last out, Whether spiritually or mundanely, if there is something you want to do, start now. Which also points out that it takes time to get good at things, and therefore you have to be willing to do things poorly instead of waiting for perfectly, and that a lot of ideas people have about when something is working are based on impossible ideas of perfection. I do struggle with perfection, and with spending time being bad at something, because there's a lot of pressures, self-inflicted and otherwise, in my life that say I can't mess up, I can't be human, or it's catastrophes all the way down. It's not, it won't be, but part of the work is working through the fears and the issues that have a grounding in experience and finding the way to get them to believe it, rather than just saying it and saying that it's a logical conclusion. (Another part of it is being deliberate about time. VAST makes time not very concrete, so it's easy to want to do things that will take twenty-nine hours in the space of ten without really wanting to have to choose among them.)
That said, doing things badly and getting started on things and building momentum is not something that has to happen publicly, if you don't want it to happen publicly. Having a place and time to be private about something is a reasonable request. And we need to talk about failure, and admit that failure happens, and that we have failures, even with our successes. And that expanding out into new things means risking failure. Which happens. Although, at least in my chosen profession, there's risk-aversion to things that might fail because they might be seen as wasting money by an audience that's always going to be hostile. We could try some things, but that might mean failing.
And if what you are seeing is people with organization of their house that makes my eye twitch that I might get an earful for putting a thing out of place, I can see why someone might not want to start. (Also, the article takes a while to get to it, but I do appreciate that they talk about the gendered-ness of organization and cleaning.)
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The College Board, administrators of the Advanced Placement curricula and tests that generally allow high school students to take coursework with the rigor of university courses in exchange for the possibility of having that coursework accepted for university credit, folded to the conservative demands that their African American Studies AP course stop talking about African American studies, with reading and concepts related to intersectionality and critical race theory struck from the revised curricula. If the AP course is supposed to have the rigor of a university course, it must include the key concepts and things the students will have to grapple with and understand.
A thread where the answer to the question "Why is something deeply screwed up in the United States where it seems fine elsewhere?" is "Racism." across several different deeply screwed up things of the U.S.
Viola Davis is the newest EGOT, having won an Emmy for How to Get Away With Murder, a Grammy for Finding Me, an Oscar for Fences, and two Tony Awards for King Hedley II and Fences. Congratulations! In addition to the EGOT completed at this year's Grammy Awards, Beyoncé took over the new record for Grammy wins with 32.
( More inside )
Last out, Whether spiritually or mundanely, if there is something you want to do, start now. Which also points out that it takes time to get good at things, and therefore you have to be willing to do things poorly instead of waiting for perfectly, and that a lot of ideas people have about when something is working are based on impossible ideas of perfection. I do struggle with perfection, and with spending time being bad at something, because there's a lot of pressures, self-inflicted and otherwise, in my life that say I can't mess up, I can't be human, or it's catastrophes all the way down. It's not, it won't be, but part of the work is working through the fears and the issues that have a grounding in experience and finding the way to get them to believe it, rather than just saying it and saying that it's a logical conclusion. (Another part of it is being deliberate about time. VAST makes time not very concrete, so it's easy to want to do things that will take twenty-nine hours in the space of ten without really wanting to have to choose among them.)
That said, doing things badly and getting started on things and building momentum is not something that has to happen publicly, if you don't want it to happen publicly. Having a place and time to be private about something is a reasonable request. And we need to talk about failure, and admit that failure happens, and that we have failures, even with our successes. And that expanding out into new things means risking failure. Which happens. Although, at least in my chosen profession, there's risk-aversion to things that might fail because they might be seen as wasting money by an audience that's always going to be hostile. We could try some things, but that might mean failing.
And if what you are seeing is people with organization of their house that makes my eye twitch that I might get an earful for putting a thing out of place, I can see why someone might not want to start. (Also, the article takes a while to get to it, but I do appreciate that they talk about the gendered-ness of organization and cleaning.)
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adrian_turtle, azurelunatic, boxofdelights, cmcmck, conuly, cosmolinguist, elf, finch, firecat, jadelennox, jenett, jjhunter, kaberett, lilysea, oursin, rydra_wong, snowynight, sonia, the_future_modernes, thewayne, umadoshi, vass, the meta_warehouse community, and anyone else that's I've neglected to mention or who I suspect would rather not be on the list. If you want to know where I get the neat stuff, my reading list has most of it.)
