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this morning when I was heading out, I thought the day's biggest questions would be like, the case briefs I hadn't finished, and whether or not I would make it to the cafe for birds milk cake. not this.

also, if you'd told me in 2012 that mittens romney would cross lines, I wouldn't've believed a word of it. Christine Pelosi gave a great speech though, and was passing around sheets of paper with '45' on them to tear up. And we closed by singing we shall overcome, which is always a good one.

I want to put my memories down and document this better, but I think that'll be the job of my voice notes. and the news; it's still more than slightly wild to make the news. I can grasp the smell of sage and the bells that scooter-ers rang for us, but I'm far too wrung out to really process most of it. I'm entirely glad to have gone, of course, but I hate that we have to show up like this.

one of the first speakers at the last protest began his speech with "we have got to stop meeting like this" and I think that's how I feel.

at least I did finish my briefs and got kompot, earlier.

Current Mood: drained

Paper for seminar in AI is in!!! 2.2kish words on the way that siri / cortana / alexa are artificial programs being sold as gendered labor, including but not limited to citations on:

Chalmers, David. (2018). The Virtual and the Real. Disputatio. 9. Pp.309-352. 10.1515/disp-2017-0009.
Criado Perez, Caroline. Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. New York:
Abrams Press, 2019.
Hooks, Bell. Feminist theory: from margin to center. New York London: Routledge, 2015.
Manne, Kate. Down Girl: The Logic of Misogyny. Oxford UP, 2018.
Wodehouse, P. G. The world of Jeeves. New York: Perennial Library, 1988.

Yeah, I've been using Invisible Women and Down Girl a lot this semester, but listen, they're a really good combo. Manne's breakdown of misogynistic processes lays a fantastic foundation for further analyses, and even when Criado Perez is being gender essentialist and frankly transphobic as hell, her research on sex discrimination is a great tool. TBH Invisible Women just isn't a philosophical text; it's really not presenting compelling arguments. But it does provide productive evidence for the basic existence of misogynistic discrepancies. It's best when aimed at a recalcitrant person who keeps trying to ignore evidence, but not really adept at furthering particularly involved discussions on its own. It's baby food feminism. But it's very good at what it does. It all goes in the toolkit, right?

ALSO
HOWSABOUT THOSE HEADLINES WHEN I GOT BACK FROM THE OFFICE

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come on

Current Music: SIN SHAKE SIN - STEP DOWN

it's about FUCKING time

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let's get this ball rolling

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literally heard the news in the middle of my criminal law lecture

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not to be political but

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