sonia | Links: intense edition

This should be divided into four or five posts, but I need to clear my tabs before I send my computer to have its battery replaced.

First, The Nap Ministry website by Tricia Hersey. Also

thenapministry. "We believe rest is a form of resistance and name sleep deprivation as a racial and social justice issue."

Let’s Talk About Protecting Our Families by Gabrielle Blair.

Man: Hey God, I just want you to know I am committed to protecting my family at all costs.

God: Gosh, that’s great to hear. One of the main things I need you to do to protect your family is laundry. Tons of laundry.

Wolf packs don’t actually have alpha males and alpha females, the idea is based on a misunderstanding by Elise Kjørstad. "Most wolf packs simply consist of two parents and their puppies. The group may also include one- to three-year-old offspring that have not yet headed out on their own."

The Nothing Place by Julian Washio-Collette. This is about being adopted, but applies fairly well to anyone with parents who weren't available for attachment.

To exist in The Nothing Place is to live with a sense that everything and everyone is at a distance from me, and my only hope of bridging that divide is to adapt. To exist in The Nothing Place is to live with the haunting sensation that no one truly sees me, that no one even knows where I am, that I am hopelessly adrift and alone, unreachable. To exist in The Nothing Place is to live with the terror that, if I cease to adapt to the world, if I let go of the ceaseless effort of trying to enter other people’s worlds, I would simply fall into chaos, with no one to catch me, no one to hold on to me.

Not Over It, Not Fixed, and Living a Life Worth Living by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

We had some really different understandings of trauma, healing, and survivorhood. [The therapist] really thought that childhood sexual abuse was something to manage, something you could get over and “move on” from, a cut that could be stitched up with butterfly bandages. Not: My abuse isn’t something to resolve, a number on a pain scale, a simple wound that can go away with Neosporin. My trauma is an opera, a gorgeous and tough dress made out of my best scars, a seed library, a Gutenberg Bible, a thunderstorm to climb and buck in a small plane, a mountain range, a supernova to map.

Delta Variant: Everything You Need to Know by Tomas Pueyo. This is the guy who posted great articles about Covid when we barely knew anything, and he's still at it. Worth reading. Sobering. Looks like we're not done yet with this pandemic, because we can't seem to take action *ahead* of the problem.

From the Frontier of F$cked by Elleanor Chin.

So here we are: we’ve handed the beautiful, brighteyed, energetic next generation a steaming, 115F shit sandwich. As a good GenXer, I will love you up as best I can, and if you want veggie cream cheese on an onion bagel, I will totally hook you up, but I will also howl my rage at my congressional delegation.

Pacific Northwest and Canada’s Crushing Heat Wave Cooks Millions of Sea Creatures by Shi En Kim. "The estimated death toll could be more than a billion."