Thursday Blogwhoring
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Damnit I missed Thursday again so you get it on Friday edition.
Some musing from Tigtog at Hoyden About Town on these “conscience clauses”:
What a grandiose sense of entitlement, to claim recompense for not doing what the nature of the job patently requires, and which nobody ever concealed about the nature of the job, either.
To all the people who think that the Whitewashing of The Last Airbender is no big deal, I kindly point you to the statements made by those behind the casting of this film, compliments of Aang Ain’t White:
“Dress in traditional cultural ethnic attire…If you’re Korean, wear a kimono. If you’re from Belgium, wear lederhosen… We’re trying to create these four different nations so we’re looking for different skin tones, and features, and bone structures…It doesn’t mean you’re at a disadvantage if you didn’t come in a big African thing. But guys, even if you came with a scarf today, put it over your head so you’ll look like a Ukrainian villager or whatever.”
- Casting director Deedee Ricketts advising prospective extras.
PS: Hey, Ricketts, those things that Koreans wear, not Kimono you moron, they are called Hanbok, and don’t even look the same.
”I think it’s one of those things where I pull my hair up, shave the sides, and I definitely need a tan. It’s one of those things where, hopefully, the audience will suspend disbelief a little bit.”
- Actor Jackson Rathbone (Sokka), on portraying his character
Previous posts on the clusterfucktastrophe that is the production of this movie, completely slaughtering a cartoon I love here.
I was born the way I am. Like many Natives who are of mixed background who strongly identify with being Native I stand strong! I was born with my heart and my spirit to shine through in these times and do the work in the world that I am called to do. I am who I am, just like you are who you are. I am a human and a spirit in a body at this time on Earth. I radiate the truth of my heart and spirit out into the world. I am authentic, real and Native. I am smiling.
I would love to do a project posting photos of women who identify as Native, to help debunk the myth of the stereotypical “Injun”. If you would like to send your pics to be posted, email them to me w/ “What a Native Looks Like” in the subject line to randombabble (at) mac (dot) com. If I get enough of them I will made a separate page devoted to it.
Another great guest post at Shakesville by Shaker J, on dealing w/ mental illness. I must caution about the comments. While a lot of well intentioned people offer “what worked for me” types of advice, I cringe when people say things like “exercise will help”, b/c sometimes mental illness and/or depression comes as part of a package deal w/ physical disability, making exercise difficult if possible at all. I would love to be able to run miles a day again, or swim thousands of meters, but I can’t. I also hate it when people dis on homeopathic and natural remedies. Yes, some are diluted (for your own safety), and no, they aren’t all false. Some of them actually work for some people. Herbal and homeopathic remedies are great alternatives to people tired of suffering the side effects of harsh drugs being thrown at them by know-it-all doctors.
I can’t find one excerpt to post here, so just go read it.
Hexpletive has a post about Aboriginal children being removed from their home b/c their foster carers home b/c of reports that she worked in a brothel. Please note, sex work is not illegal in Western Australia.
That’s the bit that enrages me as a sex worker. This notion that even when our work is decriminalised, even when it’s recognised that what we do is work, we’re still stigmatised and held as second class citizens to the point where we’re deemed inappropriate parents or carers because of our job.
Then there’s the bit that enrages me as an Indigenous Australian. Foster care policy in this country states that Indigenous foster children are placed with an Indigenous relative or, failing that, a non-relative member of the Indigenous community. That whole Stolen Generation thing? Yeah. We want to avoid anything that looks like that again. Of course, the point is now being made that this case somehow proves that that entire system should be dismantled, that Indigenous foster carers for Indigenous children is an inherently flawed concept.
Jessica Mae Stover is still working on her great project, Artemis Eternal, and is striving to make it 100% fully independent. I feel the need to post this video, and if you like what you see, please repost it and share it far and wide. I want to see projects like this succeed, and I want to see more women burst through the glass ceilings in the film industry.
More links can be found at The Jaded Hippy, Womanist-Musings, Ojibway Migisi Bineshii, and The William K. Wolfrum Chronicles.
Drop your own links. And have a great weekend! Happy Friday!
About homeopathic remedies, I recently stumbled upon a kind of doctor that I had never known about before called an osteopath. They seem to be about halfway between a regular MD and a homeopathic doctor; they apparently start their education on the same road an MD takes but then diverge from it into a more holistic medicine model. Mine gave me a choice between herbal supplements or pharmaceuticals that are both intended to do the same things. It was really nice having a choice on which ones I wanted to take rather than being treated like an idiot who can’t decide for herself what to put in her own body. I also have the distinct advantage that I already knew a little bit about some of the supplements he gave me and was really impressed that it was even an option. You might want to check them out for the next time someone tries to tell you that homeopathic remedies don’t work.