i am back. sorry for the three-week-long silence. work and school and work and travel and emerging from said work and school and travel, and then moving, have sucked up all my non-sleeping-time. but i'm sort of back now, at least enough to spend time writing here instead of unpacking boxes.
i hate unpacking, and besides, much has happened worth writing about in the category of "insane things intended to jerk us back into the 1950s".
i don't know about you, but 1955 wasn't a particularly friendly era for a lot of people in this country. like people of color. and poor people. and women. and gays.
people have been talking about the handmaid's tale, by margaret atwood. i'm not much into conspiracy theory, but the more i read the news (and not even the alternative press, which i prefer, but also corporate stuff like the washington post and cnn and the nytimes), the more i think the handmaid's tale metaphor rings true.
more on this in a sec. i just needed to post something to get my blogging self jump-started...
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