March 25, 2019
Gleanings
- ‘Well, Miriam, it’s a good thing we’re Mennonites. At least you won’t get shot.’ ”
- Dealing with criticism
- White privilege is thinking you’re an oppressed minority because you can’t wear a racist symbol without being called a racist.
- Canada Reads and the gender gap.
- Antiracism is a process. Decolonial love is a process. Our love is a process. I never want it to end.
- It’s about figuring out how to be open and capacious and to let everything in and see what happens.
- Liking Books is Not a Personality [ed: this is bad news]
- Grace comes in many forms.
- Jansson is always an astonishment.
- My objection to private education is simply put. It is not fair.*
- I don’t travel with my fountain pen because it’s magic and I’m terrified of losing it.
- There’s something new and insidious about confessional-commercialism, which preys particularly on young women through the language of solidarity.*
- …how a life unfolds from what a pencil projects.
- The women who get me and get my taste are the women I follow on Instagram.*
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*Credit for these items goes to Jessica Stanley, who publishes her own gleanings at Read.Look.Think.
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Thank YOU, Theresa.