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Reminder that Canada is fucking evil

Also, separately, I have to include this quote that is not in the Guardian article. It was an in an article from The Times where Emily Wilson was interviewed, but it's behind a paywall so I'm putting a screenshot/alt text instead of just the link. Emily Wilson is such an icon for saying this.

"[Emily Wilson] does, however have views on the women of The Odyssey. 'By Nolan standards this was great for women characters. By Homer standards it was a bit disappointing.'"

And I hope that you know that Lady Hestia would beat you up for saying something like that. I cannot imagine looking at Hestia, the Goddess of the Home. HOME! THE PLACE WHERE WOMEN WERE CONFINED TO FOR CENTURIES! And think, of yeah, let's be misogynistic. Sure.

Worship Lady Hestia because she has been the Patron of women for centuries; she makes the Home a safe refuge. Don't worship her if you think that the home and kitchen are the woman's place. Don't use her name in your sick fantasy of keeping women pure and docile.

"What is the biggest impediment to your writing life?"

"Capitalism, which continues to devour the living world that we need as our home and to consume the hours of everyone's lives for the profit of the very few, setting people against each other for the mere preservation of life and pressurizing gendered and racialized forms of oppression. There's no writing without time, without air to breathe and potable water, without a body and earth that supports life, without each other."

— "POV: You’re lost in an ethereal fairytale."