Let us begin with this realization - many of us are living in a world where moral injury is common, possibly even to he point where it is a daily occurrence, as more and more people find themselves in situations where they have to make decisions that clash with their personal (and sometimes institutional) ethical systems, or witness events where persons abuse people who are trying to behave in ethical ways.
Italy has started removing one the same-sex parent who did not give birth from the birth certificates of children, both in the future and retroactively, with a corresponding stripping of parental rights from the removed person.
Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, defends the ALA and the people who work in libraries as the kind of places that can make good trouble. Which is something she should do, absolutely, and I like her trust. But I'm not sure that I have the same confidence in the ALA as I do in the library workers, who often find themselves fighting their organizations in the service of doing better and making the good trouble. Not just against the politicians who want to ban book and accuse library workers of interest in having sex with children, but against the corporations that are creating monopoly conditions where they can then stop providing a useful service and extract data and other such things, secure in the knowledge that there's no real alternative for anyone to leave to. But, often times, it feels like the library world does something like make an app able to geolocate someone and provide electronic copies of books that have been banned in that location and then proclaim victory, that they have defeated the censorship, without thinking too hard about all the people who don't have devices they can control to put such an app on, who might not have Internet access but at school, and who otherwise only have the access of the physical books in the school library. There has to be more than just this, but so many of the options that are available for effective advocacy are things that public libraries either are forbidden from doing, believe they're forbidden from doing, or choose not to do because they believe in pretty maximalist interpretations of "intellectual freedom" that allow known bad actors to censor queer works and to advocate for the same and think that the appropriate response to this is simply to carry the opposite point of view, if they're allowed to do so.
A state-appointed superintendent with no local accountability has decided to fire all the library workers and media specialists in specific Houston ISD schools and convert their space into disciplinary areas. The books will remain, and students can use them, but it's a clear decision to try and make more explicit the school-to-prison pipeline and to remove the idea of literacy and enjoyment of materials as something that is necessary for student success. It's certainly one of the more creative ways to ban books in a school district, I have to say.
Tony Bennett has left his heart in San Francisco for the last time, at 96 years of age, and a career of very interesting things. And also, a life-long commitment to civil rights and anti-discrimination, having seen it up close and seen what it does to someone. Sinéad O’Connor has left the world at 56 years of age, who may be better known in casual circles for her ultimately correct accusations of misconduct in the Catholic Church (and other places) than for her music, outside of one cover of a Prince song.
Paul Reubens, most iconically known for the character Pee-wee Herman, died at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. Fuck cancer forever. And perhaps see if the Playhouse is any different now that you're older, wiser, and can probably spot more of the jokes.
( And then there is more stuff )
At the end, the cultural significance of the translator-notated Japanese in fan-translations of various properties, which is much less important now that official studios and releases have done professional translation work for a lot of things and anime and manga fandom as a whole has moved firmly out of the niche environment it was in during the heyday of fan-translations. There's a deeper dive to be done there, probably, especially in comparison to how the professionally-published material handles translator's notes, cultural jokes, and contexts intimately familiar to the source but not to the translated work, versus the expectation that the anime-interested audience of the time would do some cultural research of their own so they could understand what was going on with a more direct translation (or decision to leave "untranslated") instead of having the translator shift what was going on into a more understandable context for the target audience. ("Gal Game", for example, would probably be shunted into something more like "games with the half-naked women on the cover" that gets the point across without needing to explain the fact that H-games are much more culturally accepted (and made) in Japan than in the States.)
I put this next to A Mitfreude of Anime and Manga's Relationship With Anglophone Science Fiction (which, as it promises, is not an essay trying to convince someone to get into anime and manga) because of the way that it talks about needing to do a fair amount of reading in the media and become familiar with tropes and conventions before some of the deeper aspects or interesting parts of various works pop out. (It also does a good job of explaining why shonen is the most prominent genre available and why, when the chips are down, moe is where the money is.) It's a really good look at the origins of the media and many of its recurrent themes, how the animation age ghetto caused problems worldwide, and why what you can get in the U.S. seems to have a fairly small slice of what is actually published (as usual, because there isn't a demonstrated market for it, and U.S. audiences are still having trouble not conceiving of all comics as things for immature people.)
The conditions that lead to "spontaneous" sex still are often undertaken by women, including internal and external motivations to change themselves so as to modulate their availability, with the still-persistent idea that men are very easily able to have desire, or are constantly horny.
And backgrounds with rainbow themes that could be used as icons or as bases for icons, because profile pictures are still a thing, and some of us are on sites that let us switch between them with posts.
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Italy has started removing one the same-sex parent who did not give birth from the birth certificates of children, both in the future and retroactively, with a corresponding stripping of parental rights from the removed person.
Emily Drabinski, president of the American Library Association, defends the ALA and the people who work in libraries as the kind of places that can make good trouble. Which is something she should do, absolutely, and I like her trust. But I'm not sure that I have the same confidence in the ALA as I do in the library workers, who often find themselves fighting their organizations in the service of doing better and making the good trouble. Not just against the politicians who want to ban book and accuse library workers of interest in having sex with children, but against the corporations that are creating monopoly conditions where they can then stop providing a useful service and extract data and other such things, secure in the knowledge that there's no real alternative for anyone to leave to. But, often times, it feels like the library world does something like make an app able to geolocate someone and provide electronic copies of books that have been banned in that location and then proclaim victory, that they have defeated the censorship, without thinking too hard about all the people who don't have devices they can control to put such an app on, who might not have Internet access but at school, and who otherwise only have the access of the physical books in the school library. There has to be more than just this, but so many of the options that are available for effective advocacy are things that public libraries either are forbidden from doing, believe they're forbidden from doing, or choose not to do because they believe in pretty maximalist interpretations of "intellectual freedom" that allow known bad actors to censor queer works and to advocate for the same and think that the appropriate response to this is simply to carry the opposite point of view, if they're allowed to do so.
A state-appointed superintendent with no local accountability has decided to fire all the library workers and media specialists in specific Houston ISD schools and convert their space into disciplinary areas. The books will remain, and students can use them, but it's a clear decision to try and make more explicit the school-to-prison pipeline and to remove the idea of literacy and enjoyment of materials as something that is necessary for student success. It's certainly one of the more creative ways to ban books in a school district, I have to say.
Tony Bennett has left his heart in San Francisco for the last time, at 96 years of age, and a career of very interesting things. And also, a life-long commitment to civil rights and anti-discrimination, having seen it up close and seen what it does to someone. Sinéad O’Connor has left the world at 56 years of age, who may be better known in casual circles for her ultimately correct accusations of misconduct in the Catholic Church (and other places) than for her music, outside of one cover of a Prince song.
Paul Reubens, most iconically known for the character Pee-wee Herman, died at age 70 after a long battle with cancer. Fuck cancer forever. And perhaps see if the Playhouse is any different now that you're older, wiser, and can probably spot more of the jokes.
( And then there is more stuff )
At the end, the cultural significance of the translator-notated Japanese in fan-translations of various properties, which is much less important now that official studios and releases have done professional translation work for a lot of things and anime and manga fandom as a whole has moved firmly out of the niche environment it was in during the heyday of fan-translations. There's a deeper dive to be done there, probably, especially in comparison to how the professionally-published material handles translator's notes, cultural jokes, and contexts intimately familiar to the source but not to the translated work, versus the expectation that the anime-interested audience of the time would do some cultural research of their own so they could understand what was going on with a more direct translation (or decision to leave "untranslated") instead of having the translator shift what was going on into a more understandable context for the target audience. ("Gal Game", for example, would probably be shunted into something more like "games with the half-naked women on the cover" that gets the point across without needing to explain the fact that H-games are much more culturally accepted (and made) in Japan than in the States.)
I put this next to A Mitfreude of Anime and Manga's Relationship With Anglophone Science Fiction (which, as it promises, is not an essay trying to convince someone to get into anime and manga) because of the way that it talks about needing to do a fair amount of reading in the media and become familiar with tropes and conventions before some of the deeper aspects or interesting parts of various works pop out. (It also does a good job of explaining why shonen is the most prominent genre available and why, when the chips are down, moe is where the money is.) It's a really good look at the origins of the media and many of its recurrent themes, how the animation age ghetto caused problems worldwide, and why what you can get in the U.S. seems to have a fairly small slice of what is actually published (as usual, because there isn't a demonstrated market for it, and U.S. audiences are still having trouble not conceiving of all comics as things for immature people.)
The conditions that lead to "spontaneous" sex still are often undertaken by women, including internal and external motivations to change themselves so as to modulate their availability, with the still-persistent idea that men are very easily able to have desire, or are constantly horny.
And backgrounds with rainbow themes that could be used as icons or as bases for icons, because profile pictures are still a thing, and some of us are on sites that let us switch between them with posts.
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