Ryan P. Randall @foureyedsoul@scholar.social

Anyways, it's really good. I wish I hadn't kept putting this back on my to-read pile, but I'm glad I'm reading it under these conditions (folks to talk it over with, well-chosen extra readings for context, etc).

I'm still about 2/3rds of the way through this amazing book. Since I'm fortunate enough to be reading this for a seminar on intersectionality & I've got to write a "response" to it tonight, I'm taking a break to try and suss out why our prof's chosen for us to read this first, when other novels we'll read predate it by 75-100 years. Is it the span of history this story touches on? It is the breadth of perspectives?

Also, since this prof seems to mean the "talk w/ me if you need ADA accommodations" talk, I might finally finish the intake stuff I started with the disability services office… uh… two years ago, before things got out of hand.

Also-also, kudos to this school's disability site for actually having both "Service request for students" and "Service request for employees" links on their site. I'm used to seeing employees go through HR, which is… not a good approach.

Just spent almost two hours turning the readings & assignments for this class into tasks in OmniFocus. With due dates & everything.

Future me had better appreciate this.

Good piece by Gene Demby exploring some reasons journalists refrain from characterizing behavior / statements as "racist":
https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2019/01/16/685980809/why-journalists-are-debating-using-racist-to-describe-rep-steve-kings-quotes

_Racecraft : the soul of inequality in American life_ by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. Fields.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1041338271

looking at yr institutional webpage

making 😍 at the multiple past syllabi you have posted

wishing other instructors felt they could & would do the same

wondering how the institutional factors have changed since you began

"First two chapters of this book are awesome, then the rest collapses into negative hyperbole." — online reviewer

I mean, same here, if we're getting real honest.

In case you could make use of them, here are pared-down versions of the monthly text/markdown files I use to help organize & log the things I do:
https://github.com/ryan-p-randall/monthly-planning-files

I use twin versions of these, one for my work stuff & another for the rest of my life.

They'll probably work best in Atom with a few different packages:
- language-markdown
- markdown-folding
- toggle-markdown-task
- tomatimer
- wikilink

They're not sufficient—they don't have reminders—but they do help me! #ADHD #ADD

In the Southern Hemisphere the new Slack icon surely must be reversed?

I'm hoping I can make time to read Rana's _Two Faces of American Freedom_ after hearing that, but I'm trying to make sure not to burn out this semester with all my required reading & other commitments.

Podcast also made for a really intriguing combo with the week's seminar readings: Morrison's _Paradise_, Crenshaw's 1989 article "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex," & a couple recently published chapters on feminisms and intersectionalities.

Listened to such a good episode of the Dig today, with Aziz Rana describing a couple centuries of (im)migration, settler colonialism, suffrage, & various types of policing (including Jim Crow, both new & old) as "managing demographics."

I can't really do it justice; just consider it highly recommended: https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/40852241/rethinking-migration-with-aziz-rana/