I was under the impression these things don't go bad

[sovay]

We fought the health insurance and we didn't lose! "We won this round!" spatch amended apotropaically, and then did a Dr. Claw impression. Have some links.

1. I would go see this Diwali installation if I were in the right country and, you know, it were safe to go outside: Chila Kumari Singh Burman, remembering a brave new world. "When I was growing up, we didn't have art on the walls but there would be these calendars with gods and gurus everywhere; I've made Tate Britain a bit like a contemporary temple, but not so much to do with anything religious. "

2. This pair of posts on queer history seemed to go together. Not unrelatedly, Francis Lee has once again been interviewed about Ammonite (2020) in a way that makes me desperately want the film to stream where I can see it.

3. Being a person who cares about Sholem Asch's God of Vengeance and Paula Vogel's Indecent, I am going to do my best to catch Alastair White and Clara Kanter's The Drowning Shore, premiering this week as part of Compass Presents' Oracles in Sepia. I imagine others on my friendlist may feel the same. "In Scots and Yiddish." That makes me hope A.C. Jacobs would have approved.

4. I have no experience of Harry Styles beyond his acting in Dunkirk (2017) and therefore no opinions about his music, but I feel strongly that "because I think it looks cool" is an aesthetic to be encouraged.

5. A nice reminder that respite does not equal complacency.

The Leonids are peaking tonight. I hope it will be clear enough to appreciate them.

Comments

[julian]

I *keep* tripping over the fact that this Ammonite is not an adaptation of Nicola Griffith's book.

But it does look pretty frickin' awesome.

(Yay Harry Styles. Or more accurately, yay more manifestations of gender.)

[selkie]

We have cloud cover, but I keep a whole iteration of the Leonids up in my head, suffused with that little bit of clementine oil that always gets under your fingernails when you peel one.

May you win and keep on winning!

[lauradi7dw]

Have you seen "Solomon and Gaenor" (1999)? It was supposedly the first Welsh and Yiddish (lots of English) movie. May still be the only.

[tree_and_leaf]

I suspect the fact that Harry Styles started out in a very manufactured boy band, and thus is not supposed to have a personality beyond picking one of cute/ cheeky/ sensible/ quiet/ charming, much less opinions on a topic which is unfortunately controversial in the transphobic sewer the UK is becoming, is contributing to the general conservative head-melting, but good on him.

[oracne]

Yay for insurance victory!!!

[davidgillon]

Yay for victory in the eternal battle against the forces of xevilx health insurance.

1. I would go see this Diwali installation if I were in the right country and, you know, it were safe to go outside: Chila Kumari Singh Burman, remembering a brave new world.

OMG, I love the way she's signed it with a rendition of the family ice-cream van!

[skygiants]

CONGRAGULATIONS ON YOUR HEALTH INSURANCE VICTORY!!!

(agh, I've been way behind on DW this week; I'm sorry I didn't see this post early enough to block out time during the workday for The Drowning Shore but I hope and trust there will be a later opportunity!)

[jesse_the_k]

The queer history links were very educational, thank you.

we have to be flexible–to be QUEER–with our genealogies because queer genealogy doesn’t WORK the same way genealogies do for other marginalized identities. most of us (not all of us!) don’t have queer parents who taught us how to be queer. we don’t have literal queer ancestors; and honestly even if we do, we might not recognize them on their own terms.

disabled people have a similar need to reach across, forward and back, since so few of us have a family identity.