links & less fever

[jinian]

Sickie girl is improving! Highest temperature measured today was 98.8 [edited for typo, oops], which I consider within my normal range. I am still exhausted by folding the laundry, but mental clarity is returning. Switched books to A Civil Campaign in case I would like the other one (Nowhere-land, A.W. Hill, just too baroque right now) with more brain than I currently have. I can recommend Brandon Sanderson for sickies. I did wish I'd been able to find that newest Sarah Dessen at the bookstore last time I was in; quarantine girl won't be able to buy it until she's too well to require it.

From fellow sickie marzipan_pig: http://thisisdiversity.com/articles/all/2835/an-intersex-perspective-on-caster-semenya/

From racebending: "See Baby Discriminate" in Newsweek -- sad but important stuff about how kids make their own categories based on appearance, and how to counteract them (i.e., saying "we are all equal" isn't enough)

Comments

[marzipan-pig.livejournal.com]

That Newsweek article was very interesting - in some weird way I think growing up in an (essentially) all-white environment with parents with really different-from-each-other programming about race HELPED me identify stuff more (though I don't feel I can say it made me any more or less racist).

I wonder what a study/article would look like that would support parents and children exploring issues of racism together?

[katybeth]

Thank you for both of these links.

[pameladean]

I'm glad you seem to be on the mend.

P.

[cheesepuppet.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the Newsweek link. It will change the way we talk about race to our kids.