Links: Being the Other

[sonia]

Why some people hate Jews and Asian-Americans by David Pescovitz.

According to Cuddy's op-ed in the the New York Times, "a widespread stereotype of Jewish people, like that of other socioeconomically successful minorities such as Asian-Americans, falls in the competent-but-cold quadrant."

This is why I bailed on "Spinning Silver." Not only was the author being meaner to the characters than I'm comfortable reading about right now, but the Jewish moneylender was directly characterized as being cold for being competent. It felt menacingly stereotyped, and then I saw this post that explained why. Perhaps Naomi Novik pulls it out later - I only got a third of the way through before I bailed.

Writing With and Through Pain by Sonya Huber.

It’s an odd thing to continue to show up at the page when the brain and the fingers you bring to the keyboard have changed. Before the daily pain and head-fog of rheumatoid disease, I could sit at my computer and dive headlong into text for hours.

From Sonya Huber's blog, Recommitting to Action, a list of activist sites that offer news and action steps.

Rise: From One Island to Another. Gorgeous video crying out to us to *see* the harm that is happening right now from climate change.

Watch this poetic expedition between two islanders, one from the Marshall Islands and one from Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), connecting their realities of melting glaciers and rising sea levels. Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner and Aka Niviâna use their poetry to showcase the linkages between their homelands in the face of climate change. Through this video we get a glimpse at how large, and yet so small and interdependent our world is.

via asakiyume who includes some great photos in her post.

Book Release Date for Turn This World Inside Out: The Emergence of Nurturance Culture. Nora Samaran has gathered her fabulous essays on Nurturance Culture and some other folks' work into a book, which will be released on June 18, 2019. Available for preorder! She suggests requesting it at one's local library as well (which I just did).
ETA: Library request was approved!

Comments

[notasupervillain]

Ah, the Hillary Clinton trap. The only way to succeed is being twice as good and never letting them see they got to you. And then when success is within your grasp, you're not authentic enough.

[sonia]

Re: cold & competent? Yep.

[asakiyume]

I'm so glad you liked "Rise." It's beautiful.

I've heard similar remarks about Spinning Silver from others. There's representing unpleasantness, and then there's duplicating trauma...

[sonia]

Yes, thanks so much for linking Rise. I had a tab open to the photo you posted of them hugging, and it was so nice to run across it periodically.

Ah, thanks for the comment on Spinning Silver, too. I had only seen a couple of positive reviews, so I was surprised that my take was so different.