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lunabee341. I have been extremely busy with grading and course creation which has curtailed my participation, but I didn't want to let the time period for End OTW Racism's protest action to end without making a public post about it. (To be clear, this particular protest action is ending today, not the movement to create a less racist environment for users of AO3 and volunteers at OTW.)
I believe strongly that harassment policies should be updated and clearly articulated and that if possible, tools in addition to muting and blocking should be made available. I believe strongly that the OTW should be more transparent to users and the public at large about its decision making, and I believe it should hire a Diversity Consultant.
chestnut_pod's Be More Democratic, Be More Autocratic, OTW is a fantastic post that offers many suggestions for ways the OTW might accomplish the goal of becoming less racist. In the comments to this post (and in other places like ![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
fail_fandomanon), what gradually emerges is a picture of an organization that is dysfunctional in many ways and at many levels and to a horrifying degree. I worry that some people might think the conversation in those places is straying from the very important topic of making the OTW less racist, but I don't think it is. I think that when an organization cannot uphold its duty of care to its volunteers at extremely basic levels that it certainly cannot uphold a duty of care to its users; when so much is broken within, of course, no steps have been take to repair what is broken without.
I hope that End OTW Racism will prove to be the reckoning that makes OTW/AO3 less racist and also improves working conditions for volunteers and all the other issues that have been coming to light as a result of this protest.
2. Y'all, this wavy hair is wild. I had noticed early in the spring that my hair seemed to be frizzier than ever, and when I mentioned it to my hairdresser, she was all, "Oh, yeah. Your hair is getting curly." And I was all, "WHAT?!" And she was all, "Any hormonal change can change the curliness or straightness or your hair, and menopause is changing yours." So naturally, I researched this, and she's right!
MIND BLOWN
I only wash my hair every three or four days (while bathing daily!), but when I do wash it, I blow dry it straight, and this was masking the waves. I just could not figure out why a blow dry only lasts me a single day now when it used to last me at least two, sometimes three. Now, I know!
My only problem is I have no fucking idea what to do with wavy hair. Last time I was at the hairdressers, it had not progressed to this degree of waviness. I am definitely getting tips when I go back next, but for now I've been reading online and trying to figure out stuff for myself. I can still just blow dry it straight for a day, and that's fine, but I'm trying to figure out how to lean into the waves. I'm pretty sure I've got 2A waves right now (except that counter to the description, I do have more curliness at the crown on the sides in the front rather than it all being flat at the crown). After doing some reading online, I think I put the air dry styler in when my hair was a bit too wet, so today I let it dry a bit more, then put it in and scrunched my hair until it was mostly dry and wow, that upped the waviness a lot, especially in the back (which didn't get wavy at all when I just put the stuff in my hair and let it dry without doing anything to it).
Now I'm contemplating whether I want to cut my hair to top-of-shoulder length to maximize waviness; it's several inches longer than that now and will be a bit longer at my next hair appointment the last week of July. My plan had been to just let it grow until it gets so long that it looks stupid, which is what I did last time, but now I'm rethinking. LOL Hmmmmmmm.
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They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full by Mark Bibbins
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is special to me because the oldest kiddo gave it to me for a gift and spent a lot of time thinking about what I'd like. Unfortunately, I bounced off most these poems pretty hard (they're largely what I call the nonsensical genre LOL).
View all my reviews
I did, however, enjoy these lines from "Look Who Came Dressed as the Sun" enough to genuinely LOL:
If you write "ironic detachment"
in your orange notebook again
I'm going to throw it into a fire
even if I have to make a fire.
I believe strongly that harassment policies should be updated and clearly articulated and that if possible, tools in addition to muting and blocking should be made available. I believe strongly that the OTW should be more transparent to users and the public at large about its decision making, and I believe it should hire a Diversity Consultant.
chestnut_pod's Be More Democratic, Be More Autocratic, OTW is a fantastic post that offers many suggestions for ways the OTW might accomplish the goal of becoming less racist. In the comments to this post (and in other places like fail_fandomanon), what gradually emerges is a picture of an organization that is dysfunctional in many ways and at many levels and to a horrifying degree. I worry that some people might think the conversation in those places is straying from the very important topic of making the OTW less racist, but I don't think it is. I think that when an organization cannot uphold its duty of care to its volunteers at extremely basic levels that it certainly cannot uphold a duty of care to its users; when so much is broken within, of course, no steps have been take to repair what is broken without.I hope that End OTW Racism will prove to be the reckoning that makes OTW/AO3 less racist and also improves working conditions for volunteers and all the other issues that have been coming to light as a result of this protest.
2. Y'all, this wavy hair is wild. I had noticed early in the spring that my hair seemed to be frizzier than ever, and when I mentioned it to my hairdresser, she was all, "Oh, yeah. Your hair is getting curly." And I was all, "WHAT?!" And she was all, "Any hormonal change can change the curliness or straightness or your hair, and menopause is changing yours." So naturally, I researched this, and she's right!
MIND BLOWN
I only wash my hair every three or four days (while bathing daily!), but when I do wash it, I blow dry it straight, and this was masking the waves. I just could not figure out why a blow dry only lasts me a single day now when it used to last me at least two, sometimes three. Now, I know!
My only problem is I have no fucking idea what to do with wavy hair. Last time I was at the hairdressers, it had not progressed to this degree of waviness. I am definitely getting tips when I go back next, but for now I've been reading online and trying to figure out stuff for myself. I can still just blow dry it straight for a day, and that's fine, but I'm trying to figure out how to lean into the waves. I'm pretty sure I've got 2A waves right now (except that counter to the description, I do have more curliness at the crown on the sides in the front rather than it all being flat at the crown). After doing some reading online, I think I put the air dry styler in when my hair was a bit too wet, so today I let it dry a bit more, then put it in and scrunched my hair until it was mostly dry and wow, that upped the waviness a lot, especially in the back (which didn't get wavy at all when I just put the stuff in my hair and let it dry without doing anything to it).
Now I'm contemplating whether I want to cut my hair to top-of-shoulder length to maximize waviness; it's several inches longer than that now and will be a bit longer at my next hair appointment the last week of July. My plan had been to just let it grow until it gets so long that it looks stupid, which is what I did last time, but now I'm rethinking. LOL Hmmmmmmm.
3.
They Don't Kill You Because They're Hungry, They Kill You Because They're Full by Mark BibbinsMy rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book is special to me because the oldest kiddo gave it to me for a gift and spent a lot of time thinking about what I'd like. Unfortunately, I bounced off most these poems pretty hard (they're largely what I call the nonsensical genre LOL).
View all my reviews
I did, however, enjoy these lines from "Look Who Came Dressed as the Sun" enough to genuinely LOL:
If you write "ironic detachment"
in your orange notebook again
I'm going to throw it into a fire
even if I have to make a fire.
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Date: 2023-06-01 11:24 am (UTC)I understand that feeling, and I share it.
I think it's also important to remember that many people are just quietly doing their thing and not being jerks to each other (FFA is loud but a minority of fandom) or they are working in their actual lives to combat racism. For example, I was largely offline for most of May, but when I constructed my class, I made certain voices of color that typically get excluded from courses on nature poetry are represented. Is that the same thing as working to address racism in the OTW? Of course, not, but it's what I can do at the moment.