and i simply cannot bear resignation

reading golden age wonder woman which is, bluntly, virulently racist, both in hindsight and of the times. a lot of that is due to its nature as a US war-time comic book that directly asks the viewer to buy war bonds and such and is just riddled with some monstrous depictions of japanese people. but then i also started hitching on the persistent imagery of bondage and slavery that was in every issue and i couldn’t figure out why i was so frustrated until i realized that i had heard endless scholarship and analysis on how diana’s character has ties to kink and queerness and whatever and absolutely none about race. so i tried to look for commentary and scholarship and anything that talked about the obsession with chains, binding, submission and i found a thousand claims about how wonder woman is simply borrowing suffragette imagery and yet none of them followed up to mention that the suffragettes stole that imagery from abolitionists, that the white women of america were appropriating the horror of chattel slavery to make themselves seem more victimized, which wonder woman thoughtlessly reproduced while telling the reader that the [racial slurs] don’t deserve to be considered human

often you will see things online where you just have to be like "what a strange thing to say" or "i don't think that's true :)" to yourself and try to move on or you will lose your mind

in case folk outside the UK aren't abreast of our news, the British press just hounded a black academic to death

unfortunately i can never hate on a "power of friendship" narrative no matter how corny because the thing is it's literally real

i think deep reading also engenders a kind of ego death or forgetting of the self, however momentary. when you are really paying attention to a text, the boundary between you and it blurs. a lot of readers resist this surrender and don’t realise it’s a boundary they can negotiate

singular attention is so necessary for close/deep reading; a form of discipline and devotion, which can look like the same thing!

instead of fantasising about sex scenarios I fantasise about winning arguments with people who wronged me