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Pandemic days 79, 80
Jun. 2nd, 2020 08:10 pmDone Yesterday:
* A moderate amount of work in the morning: finished selective re-read of the RdR.
* Made Jack M's banana ketchup, for application to egg and avocado burritos
* In the afternoon met Mathematician S and ambled through the Rose Gardens. Part was full of (white) families picnicking; part turned out to be hosting the Black Lives Matter rally for Bern. Once again I really wish I ... knew how to tap into the news streams for these things in Switzerland? I knew about the Sydney and Melbourne equivalents! If you google BLM Switzerland you get a railway, if you google Black Lives Matter Switzerland you get news articles after the fact and US news. There doesn't seem to be a clear hashtag, or... anything. Or if there is, it's counter-intuitive to me because of language barriers.
* Some shopping in the station, because I messed up my grocery schedules.
Done Today:
* Finished reading Melissa Mohr's "Holy Sh*t". She places way too much faith in Norbert Elias re premodern anything, and her treatment of the contemporary linguistic phenomenon where racial epithets have become swears in the sense of "shocking to use" but less so in the sense of "use for emphasis or playfulness" is... not great.
* Spoke with MF briefly; we have teaching for next academic year now, in specific areas where I have CV gaps (not least of which is 'teaching in a time of pandemic').
* Sent some more emails re the seminar day I'm organising, and one re union activity (? unclear if actually union. Thing that fills the gap of a union, at least).
* Read another article from MF's collection of key resources
* Went for a run
* Ordered some more books. I may need to institute a book buying ban, but then, maybe my renewed powers of concentration will save me.
* Didn't do any sewing, so I can't tick off achieving my List for the day, but... not to bad, all things considered.
I will say here, as I have said everywhere, in one form or another: Black (and Blak) Lives Matter. I am not the anti-racist ally I would like to be, and for various reasons (including the above-mentioned expat disconnect problem, but also some Brain Stuff) I judge that the best thing I can do *this week* is say little and pay up. I did some digging last week and decided on sending the bulk of my AUD Discourse Money to the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT, because they seem to do both the nitty gritty ground work (criminal, tenancy and family law representation) and advocacy projects like the Bugmy Evidence Library, which provides defence lawyers with tender-able evidence that can be used to demonstrate in court that community disadvantage is a factor to be taken into account in sentencing and bail hearings. I've sent smaller donations elsewhere in Aus and the US. If you need US donation links, google, there's many. The best Australian list I've seen so far is this one by kirapuru.
* A moderate amount of work in the morning: finished selective re-read of the RdR.
* Made Jack M's banana ketchup, for application to egg and avocado burritos
* In the afternoon met Mathematician S and ambled through the Rose Gardens. Part was full of (white) families picnicking; part turned out to be hosting the Black Lives Matter rally for Bern. Once again I really wish I ... knew how to tap into the news streams for these things in Switzerland? I knew about the Sydney and Melbourne equivalents! If you google BLM Switzerland you get a railway, if you google Black Lives Matter Switzerland you get news articles after the fact and US news. There doesn't seem to be a clear hashtag, or... anything. Or if there is, it's counter-intuitive to me because of language barriers.
* Some shopping in the station, because I messed up my grocery schedules.
Done Today:
* Finished reading Melissa Mohr's "Holy Sh*t". She places way too much faith in Norbert Elias re premodern anything, and her treatment of the contemporary linguistic phenomenon where racial epithets have become swears in the sense of "shocking to use" but less so in the sense of "use for emphasis or playfulness" is... not great.
* Spoke with MF briefly; we have teaching for next academic year now, in specific areas where I have CV gaps (not least of which is 'teaching in a time of pandemic').
* Sent some more emails re the seminar day I'm organising, and one re union activity (? unclear if actually union. Thing that fills the gap of a union, at least).
* Read another article from MF's collection of key resources
* Went for a run
* Ordered some more books. I may need to institute a book buying ban, but then, maybe my renewed powers of concentration will save me.
* Didn't do any sewing, so I can't tick off achieving my List for the day, but... not to bad, all things considered.
I will say here, as I have said everywhere, in one form or another: Black (and Blak) Lives Matter. I am not the anti-racist ally I would like to be, and for various reasons (including the above-mentioned expat disconnect problem, but also some Brain Stuff) I judge that the best thing I can do *this week* is say little and pay up. I did some digging last week and decided on sending the bulk of my AUD Discourse Money to the Aboriginal Legal Service NSW/ACT, because they seem to do both the nitty gritty ground work (criminal, tenancy and family law representation) and advocacy projects like the Bugmy Evidence Library, which provides defence lawyers with tender-able evidence that can be used to demonstrate in court that community disadvantage is a factor to be taken into account in sentencing and bail hearings. I've sent smaller donations elsewhere in Aus and the US. If you need US donation links, google, there's many. The best Australian list I've seen so far is this one by kirapuru.