Some links, misc

[highlyeccentric]

Tonight, despite not having been very functional today, I diced up some wizened peaches and a going-mushy pear and caramelised them, and ate them with caramel ice cream. Good choices: made.

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Camilla Domonoske (NPR), When "Miss" meant so much more. June 1963, Mary Hamilton, a Black civil rights activist, refuses to answer a judge's questions until addressed as Miss Hamilton. She was a close friend of Sheila Michaels, an early adopter/agitator for "Ms".

Liam Mannix (SMH, July 2021), Worried about astrazeneca? Me too. The way we think about risk might be the problem.. Late enough that this is no longer a hot button issue, but with that past, I want to praise this article as a really sterling example of good scicomm.

Liz Brown (Slate), Hollywood has long abused conservatorships. I spent the past decade studying one of the darkest cases.. On Harrison Post, a wealthy gay man in 1930s Hollywood, placed under guardianship by his family.

Alex Tarney (SBS), I could breathe again: bisexual couple on finding acceptance in Australia. Nothing startling here, except that it's unusual to find articles on bi erasure / mental health (the bulk of the concern of this article) which deal with couples where *both* partners are bi. Let alone apparently-heterosexual couples. Let alone both immigrants. Etc.

Idil Gallip (Gal-Dem), Long before weighted blankets, there were Turkish yorgans.

Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley (Atlantic), Disinfected mail tells a story about past pandemics. In which we learn the Disinfected Mail Study Circle exists.

Ruth Graham (NYT), Among Mormon women: frank talk about sacred underclothes.

Yuri Veytskin et al (Soccer Politics Blog), The Soccer War: armed conflict between Honduras and San Salvador, 1969.

Virgina Berridge (History Workshop), History does have something to say. Berridge is an AIDs historian; at the time this came it I was seeing a lot of calls NOT to compare COVID to AIDs, for reasons sometimes valid (rarely an the basis of transmission vectors, the actual best reason to limit comparisons), sometimes bafflnig. I enjoyed this piece in counter to that.

Bodie A. Ashton (De Grutyer Conversations), Coming home and coming out: Germany, Euro2020, and the battle for queer rights. I would not normally have read this, but I am a big Bodie Ashton fan. It did not disappoint.

Tom Cox's Obit for Ralph, a very good cat.

Jarrett Walker (own blog), The dangers of elite projection. This is from a transit politics blog. Its ultimate argument is for more buses as the lowest-common-denominator most efficient public transport investment, but the whole concept of "elite projection" is worth your time. And mine, indeed.

Jarrett Walker (own blog), Streetcars: an inconvenient truth. Difficult for my tram-loving soul to face, but reasonably convincing.

Cee Frances (The Lifted Brow), On queer grieving: the community crisis of vicarious trauma. This is an exerpt from "Going Postal: Beyond Yes or No", a collection of essays about the Aus marriage survey. On account of just this vicarious trauma, I have no intention of purchasing or reading that collection. But this was a good essay.

John McWhorter (The Atlantic), How "White Fragility" talks down to Black People. I'd seen a lot of passing critiques of DiAngelo, and finally knuckled down to read a deeper one. [ED: Only after recieving comments have I remembered what was specific about this one: the author is something of a centrist. My thoughts are less i-cosign-all-this, more, if the book annoys a Black centrist, ie, conservative in terms of Black stances in the US, AND the many radical-leftists I usually get takes from... I can deprioritise it on my "ought to read" list.]

Hala Iqbal (Vox), How the CIA's fake Hepatitis B vaccine program in Pakistan helped fuel vaccine distrust.

This has been: some links, literally a year after I read them.