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alexseanchai) wrote2015-04-25 12:26 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-04-25 12:26 pm
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24-Hour Readathon
08:00 – 10:30: Alex sleeps right through the starting bell
10:30 – 12:30: Alex does all the things ze meant to do before the starting bell, like eat, shower, faff about the Internet...
12:30 – 13:00: Alex, having been informed that zir dad would for unspecified reasons like them out of the house between 13:00 and 15:00, departs for liberry (and bookstore, let's not kid ourselves, we're going to the bookstore)
Notice that Alex is not getting a whole lot of reading done! Gah.
13:00: Not at the library I meant to be at! (And probably not going to the bookstore, unless that car crash aftermath clears up in the next couple hours.) But okay, whatever. Am at a library. Reading may now commence. Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer.
13:15: I know what "critical" means. I know what "futurity" means (now—if you too are confused, it's "the state of being in the future"). I do not know what the phrase "critical futurity" means, especially in context of queer studies.
13:20: Aha! She did define "futurity"! (Or she's paraphrasing another scholar's definition, anyway.) She just did so pages and pages after first confusing me with the term! Futurity is "an investment in and attention to the future or futures" and now "critical futurity" makes sense.
13:45:
Just reemphasizing the need to explicitly include disabled people—and multiple axes of disability: physically disabled and cognitively/developmentally disabled, mentally ill and neurodiverse; and people who are multiply marginalized and disability/ies aren't their only marginalizations—in our fiction!
14:10: The Ashley X treatment seriously disturbs me.
14:30: *faffs about Internet while trying not to think about Ashley X* I finished part two twenty minutes ago, part three is about something else entirely, and I don't want to read it because part two was so disturbing. I could read something else—my Kindle has many somethings else and I have a bag full of books on the table and an entire library in the next room—but. I'm going to go check traffic reports for the site of the accident that blocked up me getting to the bookstore and intended library, see if that's cleared up enough that I can get to the bookstore without going the long way around. Nope, no it has not, and apparently a couple traffic lights are out on that road too...I believe I shall go read a couple chapters of recently updated fanfic and then go home.
15:30: Home, having emptied the dishwasher and started laundry between arriving and reaching the computer. I believe I need food, and then a different reading material.
16:25: I want a nap. And to write. And also my stomach to settle from reading about the freaking Ashley X treatment. But mostly I want to figure out why I am having such trouble sitting down to read things even on a day set aside for the reading of things.
10:30 – 12:30: Alex does all the things ze meant to do before the starting bell, like eat, shower, faff about the Internet...
12:30 – 13:00: Alex, having been informed that zir dad would for unspecified reasons like them out of the house between 13:00 and 15:00, departs for liberry (and bookstore, let's not kid ourselves, we're going to the bookstore)
Notice that Alex is not getting a whole lot of reading done! Gah.
13:00: Not at the library I meant to be at! (And probably not going to the bookstore, unless that car crash aftermath clears up in the next couple hours.) But okay, whatever. Am at a library. Reading may now commence. Feminist, Queer, Crip by Alison Kafer.
13:15: I know what "critical" means. I know what "futurity" means (now—if you too are confused, it's "the state of being in the future"). I do not know what the phrase "critical futurity" means, especially in context of queer studies.
13:20: Aha! She did define "futurity"! (Or she's paraphrasing another scholar's definition, anyway.) She just did so pages and pages after first confusing me with the term! Futurity is "an investment in and attention to the future or futures" and now "critical futurity" makes sense.
13:45:
To put it bluntly, I, we, need to imagine crip futures because disabled people are continually being written out of the future, rendered as the sign of the future no one wants.(The trouble with Kindle editions is it's hard to tell how thick a book is! I'm still only seventeen percent in!)
Just reemphasizing the need to explicitly include disabled people—and multiple axes of disability: physically disabled and cognitively/developmentally disabled, mentally ill and neurodiverse; and people who are multiply marginalized and disability/ies aren't their only marginalizations—in our fiction!
14:10: The Ashley X treatment seriously disturbs me.
14:30: *faffs about Internet while trying not to think about Ashley X* I finished part two twenty minutes ago, part three is about something else entirely, and I don't want to read it because part two was so disturbing. I could read something else—my Kindle has many somethings else and I have a bag full of books on the table and an entire library in the next room—but. I'm going to go check traffic reports for the site of the accident that blocked up me getting to the bookstore and intended library, see if that's cleared up enough that I can get to the bookstore without going the long way around. Nope, no it has not, and apparently a couple traffic lights are out on that road too...I believe I shall go read a couple chapters of recently updated fanfic and then go home.
15:30: Home, having emptied the dishwasher and started laundry between arriving and reaching the computer. I believe I need food, and then a different reading material.
16:25: I want a nap. And to write. And also my stomach to settle from reading about the freaking Ashley X treatment. But mostly I want to figure out why I am having such trouble sitting down to read things even on a day set aside for the reading of things.
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Axes
I read your sentence and thought "axes"- hand tools for chopping wood-- instead of the plural of axis... STILL laughing.
You are seriously correct, and on the right track!
Re: Axes
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:-D
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And, like, one of the excuses the parents gave for why they had to do the thing was she's totally noncommunicative? They know her musical preferences. And when she's confused and when she's bored. That does not sound like "totally noncommunicative" to me. Sounds like "trying to communicate with her is an exercise in frustration on both sides", I grant you. But that is not the same thing.