Today, we have links.
art link: Afrofuturist artists who are out of this world
I haven't had a look at this, just at the link graphic, but it looked pretty cool.
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history link: The Erasure At The Heart Of Empires
Representation is important. Fifty to one hundred years on, will Americans of Arabic descent be able to count people like themselves among the "glorious" fallen for their country? Captain Humayun Khan came to light during the election season of 2016, a battleground fought over his origin and his death as surely as the battleground he was fighting in, but would the dominant narrative have otherwise forgotten him amidst the other, whiter, more 'acceptable' heroes of a country that's panicking at 'people not like us' coming into positions of power?
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a tumblr story generator: plot, tropes, characters, AUs - pretty much any plot you can imagine or desire!
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I'll post up the recipe for the eggnog that I made on Sunday night. It's a boozy doozy, and may be very necessary for us all to get through the next 48 hours. Particularly those of us who have no vote but are stuck with the stakes anyway.
(Yes, Americans get to ignore who's voted into Australian government; we don't get the privilege of the same blissful ignorance. This is why the rest of the world - bar Russia - is so intent that you vote HRC in. Because if Trump does a shitfit that the NSW Govt moved to call him shit in a nylon stocking then, given his typical vengefulness in the past, Queenslanders will be warming their toes on the radioactive crater that used to be Sydney.)
So, Americans all, what are your plans for getting out to vote this Tuesday? (Or, in the case of at least one friend, what's your plan for getting out to volunteer at the polling places?)
art link: Afrofuturist artists who are out of this world
I haven't had a look at this, just at the link graphic, but it looked pretty cool.
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history link: The Erasure At The Heart Of Empires
Representation is important. Fifty to one hundred years on, will Americans of Arabic descent be able to count people like themselves among the "glorious" fallen for their country? Captain Humayun Khan came to light during the election season of 2016, a battleground fought over his origin and his death as surely as the battleground he was fighting in, but would the dominant narrative have otherwise forgotten him amidst the other, whiter, more 'acceptable' heroes of a country that's panicking at 'people not like us' coming into positions of power?
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a tumblr story generator: plot, tropes, characters, AUs - pretty much any plot you can imagine or desire!
--
I'll post up the recipe for the eggnog that I made on Sunday night. It's a boozy doozy, and may be very necessary for us all to get through the next 48 hours. Particularly those of us who have no vote but are stuck with the stakes anyway.
(Yes, Americans get to ignore who's voted into Australian government; we don't get the privilege of the same blissful ignorance. This is why the rest of the world - bar Russia - is so intent that you vote HRC in. Because if Trump does a shitfit that the NSW Govt moved to call him shit in a nylon stocking then, given his typical vengefulness in the past, Queenslanders will be warming their toes on the radioactive crater that used to be Sydney.)
So, Americans all, what are your plans for getting out to vote this Tuesday? (Or, in the case of at least one friend, what's your plan for getting out to volunteer at the polling places?)