Lady @Lady@cat.family

don’t just say “making reference to french philosophers” give me names!!

are we talking sartre or derrida?? maybe cixous?? is this radio man dropping tidbits about castration or decapitation on live air?? these are the details readers live for!!

sweetling

babe did you just tell me a phrase is untranslatable and then translate it

i could never have this level of calm patience with the ignorance of my readers

oh no she is translating for the reader now too

“hey you rube, when i say ‘hija’, that’s a term of fucking endearment okay?? it means ‘daughter’.”

what do you think the odds are that an american publisher would make me put that in

imagining texting a man like ‘hnnnngggg… thirsty… voy a beber… agua… (that means “i’m going to drink water” if you don’t speak spanish)’

hey OP you don’t actually have to translate for your terrible texting fling the man has Google he can figure it out

it’s like that moment when you read a sex scene and you realize with horror that the author is either a virgin or else is the recipient of a long history of disappointing sexual encounters

only instead of sex it’s flirting via DMs

actually getting lowkey upset at how bad this author is at writing flirting via DMs

i think i’m supposed to like this tool i think he might be the love interest

that’s… not a very good podcasting concept 🙃 and you didn’t exactly sell it well 🙃🙃

i can understand the protagonist being New To This and not having her feet under her yet but who is this basic ass tool fucking falling for it, i wonder

anyway this is a small criticism in the grand scheme of things but please do not start your book about podcasting by having your main character go “it’s time you asked yourself the REAL questions. who ARE you?? and what do YOU want??” and then having somebody reply like 🥺🥺😭 so true 😭🥺 i was just thinking about this myself 🥰🥲

writers love to be like “such and such made a brilliant speech” without knowing the first thing about what makes a brilliant speech and consequently showing their entire ass

look writers, my take is this :—

if you’re going to have your character be good at something with words—say, poetry, or public speaking, or telling folkloric stories—you’d better fucking learn how to be good at that thing yourself

« the encyclopedia lacks entries for fruit »

“The Nuttall Encyclopædia”

Editor: Rev. James Wood

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nuttall_Encyclopædia

@LovesTha @ljwrites well i think the media reads and speaks in the language it knows and of course it’s usually a white media and so its definition of political action and activity will be one which follows particular white norms. intentionally or not, i think a lot of the other stuff just doesn’t get seen.

but i think if you break out of that mould a little and listen to organizers or journalists or theorists who belong to and are writing from within these racialized communities, you do see that stuff get picked up on a lot more. and instead of talking about Organizations you might hear people talking about events maybe, or you’ll have individual ideas attributed to individual people in the community as much as you will a coherent Political Platform. or you might have a zine that one group puts out which is really influential! there are some very important zines that are just like, a group of friends meeting and chilling and figuring things out.

it's not impossible, or even hard, for the media to report on zines or events or community trends of thought. but it doesn't really have the vocabulary for it? there’s no way of mapping it onto the white political model which sees politics and personal life as these cleanly delineated categories, and expects the former to take the shape of like, an Organization with a Board or Leadership that issues PR statements or whatever. i think it just gets lost, or you wind up with some bad miscommunications because the media is trying to pin an organization or figurehead to something which is really much more natural and organic.

@ljwrites there’s a quote by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo, who is an anarchist designer out of Montréal, and he’s interviewing Sandy Kaltenborn who is another important activist designer out of berlin (link: ‹ https://www.lokidesign.net/en/texts/productive-misunderstandings-an-interview-with-sandy-kaltenborn ›), and he says :—

« That’s exactly it! Like there’s a big tension in many ways between the racialized immigrant communities that we’re working with and the white anarcho hardcore organizers, where it’s like, no… we want to actually live together. And through that living will be the engagement and the activism and the organizing and everything. We’re not just going to come to your six-hour meeting and agenda, we want to be able to eat, socialize, we want to be able to dance. It’s such a clear difference between the organizing I do with the more militant white activists versus the kind of community building initiatives we’re doing with racialized folks. I wish we could find ways to bridge them, but it’s so hard. »

i think religion falls right in there with the living and eating and socializing and part of the reason you never hear about it is because it’s those white anarcho organizers which always get all the name recognition. but i think there’s a lot of important work actually happening in the more subtle spaces, like, even just a handful of Muslim women together having a book club, there will be important work happening there and it will be personal and political and there will be religion and all of it. the same thing happens in music or with the arts, and the problem is that we (er, the media) don’t see those as activist spaces, we don’t look to the places where people are actually living, we only look to these kind of sterile white anarchist meetingrooms or organizations and label those as “political”.

@ljwrites not true in a lot of political rap music fwiw, or i would bet in a lot of locally‐oriented political scenes

i think the reason you don’t see it in the media is because non‐WASP religiosity is typically racialized (in the United States anyway) and racialized political movements are generally portrayed as niche to the mainstream