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the only things i can ever be sure of are that my roman catholic upbringing has affected me in a bad way and also that no one will ever love me as much as the minions love each other these are just facts people
my blog in 2014: dorothy day
my blog in 2015: this is a cookie blog! week of metal
my blog in 2016: i am depressed and the cookies can not help me
my blog in 2017: i am still depressed and the cookies still can not help me
A great interview and wonderfully written piece on the biggest white savior culture vulture there is. Nicole Chung called it “the only thing you need to read about Dolezal ever again”. I wasn’t familiar with the work of Ijeoma Oluo but I have quickly become a superfan.
The dismissive and condescending attitude toward any black people who see blackness differently than she does is woven throughout her comments in our conversation. It is not just our pettiness, it is also our lack of education that is preventing us from getting on Dolezal’s level of racial understanding. She informs me multiple times that black people have rejected her because they simply haven’t learned yet that race is a social construct created by white supremacists, they simply don’t know any better and don’t want to: “I’ve done my research, I think a lot of people, though, haven’t probably read those books and maybe never will.”
I might quote this piece all night long. Please go read and then erase Rachel from your minds forever.
Can I just say everyone needs to actually click on this link and read this article? It’s the beast writing on this chick I’ve seen… ever. It also serves as a remedy for the actual pain we feel from her existence.
This journalism has made my day
^^^ yes this article is definitely worth the read. Kudos to Ijeoma Oluo
Many of the biggest literary successes in the past decade have involved elements of the fantastic, and we have seen these stories come to life on both the small and big screens: Harry Potter, True Blood, The Walking Dead, dare we mention Twilight? This is to say nothing of the various primetime TV shows that reimagine fairy tales, or the ghost story franchises from The Ring to Paranormal Activity. What draws us to these stories of the supernatural? How do they relate to our real lives while relying on the unbelievable? Acclaimed author of magical realism, Kelly Link, explores the pleasure of surprising readers when using traditional story tropes, and discusses the archetypes of the genre. In the second half of the episode, William McKelvy, associate professor of English at Washington University in St. Louis, explains the hallmarks and legacy of Gothic literature.
In addition to the interview, you can find a reading selection from the short story, “The Hortlak,” from Kelly’s collection, Magic for Beginners in a second podcast.
