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Some days and some clients just make you feel like a piece of shit.
Once when I was in undergrad, someone described something as “problematic” in class and our professor was like, “That’s cool, but ‘problematic’ doesn’t really mean anything. It means that the thing you’re describing has a problem, and in and of itself that’s not bad. Art, especially, should always have problems, or else it’s not interesting and not art, either. It sounds like you’re trying to say that this is bad, but you don’t want to say ‘bad.’ Is that right?”
So from then on whenever one of us called something problematic, he would make us talk it out until we could name the “bad” thing we were hinting at. In this particular class, 7/10 it was some type of oppression, and the remainder was like, “I’m uncomfortable because this is very new/confusing/pushing boundaries that made me feel safe.”
Once we stopped calling things “problematic” and stopping at that, class got way more interesting and... we all had to say, like, “that’s racist” or “that’s misogynistic” or “ew capitalism gross” out loud, which a lot of us had never done in a classroom before. Or we had to be like, “Uhhh... I’m not sure what’s so bad?” and confront our own beliefs and that was maybe even more useful.
Anyway. Whenever I see the word problematic, I can’t help but think of this professor being like, “Good starting point, now let’s get specific.” I think when we have to commit to saying “that’s ___” it requires a lot more careful thought about the truth and impact and complexities of whatever we’re claiming. Sometimes there really is some bullshit afoot, and also sometimes it’s art, and it should be full of problems, because that’s what art is.
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I like to believe that all the dragons in the world were magically cursed and turned into cats. But cats have never forgotten where they come from, hence the attitude.
I nearly didn’t reblog this but the above comment makes more sense than anything I’ve ever heard.
…that’s…that’s actually a story my mom used to tell me when I was little? That a dragon showed up at someone’s cottage so they gave it milk. And the dragon enjoyed the milk, so it kept coming back and got smaller and softer and purry-er until eventually it wasn’t a dragon anymore, it was a cat, and that’s where cats came from and why we keep giving them milk.
She might have gotten the story from Ursula K. Le Guin, or I have confused it with a different dragon story.
That’s also why cats tend to hoard their toys behind the couch!
Actually the story is even older. Written by a woman named Edith Nesbit, first published in 1899, it is called “The Dragon Tamers”. It predates Leguin and other fantasy biggies like Lewis and Tolkien.
Nesbit actually can be credited with being one of the first authors that began to shift myths and legends to more fantasy-like stories (fantasy as a genre how we know it, wasn’t around then because it was just part of literature, especially British literature). In fact, many scholars who study fantasy literature and children’s literature believe that, since her children’s stories were so popular with children in England, the stories and their content prompted Tolkien (the first to coin fantasy as its own genre in his essay “On Fairy Stories”) to take up the stories of dragons and elves and fairies as they’d have been children when she was writing.
Tolkien was born in 1892. He would have been 7 when “The Dragon Tamers” was first published. Edith Nesbit did a LOT for modernizing myths, legends, and lore as a children’s author, maybe more than we will ever know.
http://www.online-literature.com/edith-nesbit/book-of-dragons/6/
Let’s hear it for Edith Nesbit.
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I. As a responsibility of library service, books and other library materials selected should be chosen for values of interest; information and enlightenment of all the people of the community. In no case should library materials be excluded because of the race or nationality or the social, political, or religious views of the authors.
II. Libraries should provide books and other materials presenting all points of view concerning the problems and issues of our times; no library materials should be proscribed or removed from libraries because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
III. Censorship should be challenged by libraries in the maintenance of their responsibility to provide public information and enlightenment.
IV. Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas.
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VI. As an institution of education for democratic living, the library should welcome the use of its meeting rooms for socially useful and cultural activities and discussion of current public questions. Such meeting places should be available on equal terms to all groups in the community regardless of the beliefs and affiliations of their members, provided that the meetings be open to the public.
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A Toronto Public Library pilot project aims to help people ward off the winter blues while they read. “Two light therapy lamps are available on a first-come-first-served basis at the Brentwood and the Malvern branch alongside information pamphlets that walk people through how to use them safely.”
Far from becoming irrelevant in the digital age, libraries in New York City and around the nation are thriving: adding weekend and evening hours; hiring more librarians and staff; and expanding their catalog of classes and services to include things like job counseling, coding classes and knitting groups. No longer just repositories for books, public libraries have reinvented themselves as one-stop community centers that aim to offer something for everyone. In so doing, they are reaffirming their role as an essential part of civic life in America by making themselves indispensable to new generations of patrons.
http://nytimes.com/2016/07/05/nyregion/resurgent-new-york-city-libraries.html (via freakinglovelibraries)
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Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah is my alma mater. Recently, they held a rape awareness conference on campus in which the Title IX officer said that any rapes or sexual assaults reported to the Title IX office would also be referred to the Honor Code office, and that “we do not apologize for that.” BYU has a very strict Honor Code that prohibits students from drinking, being out past midnight, being in the bedroom of a member of the opposite sex, and any sexual contact beyond kissing. If the Honor Code office finds out that a student participated in any of these activities, they can be expelled. Almost half the students at BYU work on campus, so being expelled can also mean losing your job. And since students are required to live in housing that abides by the same Honor Code standards, it can also mean losing your home.
I had a roommate at BYU who was sexually assaulted by her boyfriend. When she told our ecclesiastical leader about it, he told her that she shouldn’t have gone that far with her boyfriend in the first place and placed her on ecclesiastical probation. He also told her that if she reported the assault, she would probably be expelled.
Recently, the Salt Lake Tribune ran a story about other women who have been punished by the Honor Code office for reporting a rape or sexual assault. Some of them were breaking the rules when it happened; others were referred to the Honor Code office simply for being sexually assaulted.
Victims of sexual assault at BYU are being asked to prove their purity in order to report a crime. If women feel pressured, because of fear of recrimination, to not report sexual assaults, then BYU has a moral as well as a legal problem.
Please contact BYU’s Title IX officer to express your disgust with the policy of Title IX reports being referred to the Honor Code office and demand that the policy be changed immediately:
Sarah Westerberg - Associate Dean of Students, Title IX Compliance
801-422-2130
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I think talking to BYU about this is pointless. I think this is CLEARLY and TOTALLY a violation of Title IX and I think people should be talking to the United States Attorney. This is a civil rights issue. BYU should lose any or all Federal funding.
This is fucking bullshit. This is like saying it's the victim's fault for being raped.
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