Hey #Nashville friends! The Mapping Trans Joy team will be in town soon! Come share a meal with us and let’s dream big about #joy, #art, and #community
A neighbor stopped me on my walk yesterday to say she bought one of my #zines from the local #bookstore and that she loves it.
Its called “If you do art today your house will be a mess (a love letter to my creative friends)”
It’s all about how it’s okay to let some things (like housework) slide to pursue other goals (like #art). She said she keeps it in her purse to help her remember to be #gentle with herself 🥰🥰💜💜
I'm teaching a new #class "Solidarity Memory Work"
We'll learn about #solidarity#movements in allied professions (academic history, journalism, etc.) then discuss (1) how to actively #document and #preserve current movements and organizations, and (2) activate that #records already in #collections to motivate and guide contemporary organizers
Just finished “Record of a Spaceborn Few,” by Becky Chambers
Set in the same universe as (and with some references to) her “The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet,” and “A Closed and Common Orbit,” this is a another lovely, humane look at community, belonging, history and intentionality.
Just finished Kim Ghattis’s “Black Wave: Saudi Arabia, Iran, and the Forty-Year Rivalry That Unraveled Culture, Religion, and Collective Memory in the Middle East”
Ghattis starts with the question, “what happened to us?” Countries once rich in culture and art — Iran, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Syria, Pakistan — are now smothered in religious conservatism. She traces how we all got to where we are, and what hope looks like now.
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Quote from the Joy Map
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“I began my transition during and really grew into who I was meant to be during this times. I took my first T shot on my 21st birthday, February 8th. Best day of my life.”
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Quote from the Joy Map:
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“My trans Joy moment has been knowing that so many of my colleagues accept me and want to be better humans for the young people in our care, and the greater world in gender <3”