Sioux Rowan (she/her) 🏳️🌈
"since her fear did her no good, she ceased to be afraid" -Angela Carter
- I had a dream about Merlin last night. I'm certain it was partly from learning about the new manuscript that was discovered, and partly my anxiety brain acting up. Regardless, I've been thinking about it all day
- March Reads Butch Hijab Blues is amazing Flapper Queens is a bit of comic and women's history I didn't know enough about. Creation Lake... I'm still thinking about it, so I think I liked it The Villa had so much going for it, but it missed it's mark & the ending didn't land for me. #BookSky
- What I read in February #BookSky Some hits, some were ok... And yikes Son of Rosemary was bad.
- Just got lost in literary rabbit hole that won't end up in my class, did very little to help me prep the class (that starts in a week), but damn did it bring me joy.
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- The book, yes. But here's a look at the poem (plus some interesting play with it) anmly.org/ap26/m-l-mar...
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- There's this new translation of Wulf & Eadwacer, one of my favorite Anglo Saxon poems. It's like 5 seconds of the class... But I spent an hour reading new translations and research. www.m-l-martin.com/translator-s...
- Zora Neale Hurston, like Hopkins, became a forgotten writer until she was rediscovered. Plus she was an early anthropologist. #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth www.zoranealehurston.com
- While Pauline Hopkins is better known for her romances, her novel "Of One Blood" is a glorious early science fiction adventure novel, full of mesmerism and spiritualism (sciences of the times) #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackAuthors www.paulinehopkinssociety.org/biography/
- Continuing Black History month. The poet and activist Audre Lorde. When I first read her in college both her sexuality and politics were removed from her bio and her poems her currated to avoid both. It was only by reading her on my own that learned who she was youtu.be/-CPAlSVaiL8?...
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- Of course you are :) I try to teach her everywhere I can.
- Still doing Black History. Butler's work is having a mainstream moment now, but she was a major voice in SF long before. "All that you Change Changes you The only lasting truth is Change God is Change” — Octavia E. Butler #blackhistory www.octaviabutler.com
- My January Reading. (List in comments) #BooksofBlueSky #amreading
- 2/2 Nuclear War: A Scenario (LA festival of books) - also terrifying. Recollections of My Nonexistence One Perfect Couple An Assassin in Utopia A Light Most Hateful They Drown Our Daughters The Lost Story (book club)
- 1/2 The Last Tale of the Flower Bride (book club) The Nature of Disappearing Lies My Teacher Told Me (graphic novel) (bookclub) I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem (re-read) Baby X (book club) Clean by Alia Trabucco Zerán (gift) Ministry of Time (book club)
- Horrifying. The straight up bigotry and threat to trans and gender nonconforming kids (and let's be honest faculty and staff). Plus our continued failure as a nation to teach history or critical thinking. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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- My school has been shockingly supportive of our trans/LGBTQIA students. Every K-12 school here that's tried any of this stuff has been sued and lost. So far, there's been limited college/university challenges. Mostly bigoted faculty who refuse to use students' pronouns.
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- Exactly. I'm just waiting for them to get to the colleges. At least one university (not in my state) has a new policy forbidding pronouns and tribal affiliations in faculty and staff email signatures
- Queequag and Ishmael are my favorite ship in Moby Dick "Plus, with that mopey twink of his as a spousal hire, he’s kind of a two-fer"
- Spouse asked me if we needed a small espresso machine. I said no, but if you want it, get it. As I am now enjoying my decaf pistachio milk cappuccino, I'm not too proud to admit, I was 100% wrong. We do need an espresso machine so he can continue to make me delightful coffees.
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- Ours isn't that fancy, but it's truly worth it
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- My spouse is the one who loves the kitchen gadgets. I'm usually indifferent, but most of the time, he's right about them.
- Currently reading: "The Ministry of Time" by Kaliane Bradley 🎧 "After the Ball" by Leira Ah (poetry) "Of One Blood" Pauline Hopkins 📖
- Seeing @yourewrongabout.bsky.social with @ifihadwings.bsky.social
- The spouse is out and my cheap Shudder subscription ends soon, so I'm watching Les Chambres Rouges (red rooms). Any minute one of the cats will do something in the other room to make me jump 🤣
- Today I finished reading "An Assassin in Utopia" by Susan Wels. I can't help but think of my late friend Howard (who 1st told me about the Oneida Community). He'd have wanted more political history, while I wanted more Oneida in the book. But we'd still have talked about it for hours. I miss him.
- Director-writer David Lynch, who radicalized American film with with a dark, surrealistic artistic vision in films like “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive” and network television with “Twin Peaks,” has died. He was 78. bit.ly/40is3yQ
- I'm quitting my other social media. This is soon to be the only place to find me.
