- This Twitter thread about the mistranslation of Rumi is required reading for today, especially in our age of the vapid/rapid meme-ification of sentiment and the toxic positivity of white wellness culture. Just because you add a quote to a Canva template with the intent to ‘spread joy’, you may also be extending the colonization and appropriation of marginalized cultures. (Thank you to @deray for retweeting this to his followers).
- This Bloomberg article, “The Work-From-Home Revolution Is Also a Trap for Women,” won’t leave my trending list, so I took a look and it’s as obvious as it seems. It’s not WFH that’s the problem – women have always worked from, and in the home. It’s Capitalism – upheld by Patriarchy, White Supremacy, and Sexism. It’s the reinforced idea as the woman as subservient and the man and domestically incompetent. WFH only sheds light on the predicament of women from a new angle, but the problems are not new. Also, ALSO…woman != mother.
- Another reason to not read Twitter while I have breakfast… E-U-G-E-N-I-C-S. You know, I’m happy to be a sensitivity reader specifically for this. Do you propose a technological process to selectively reproduce subjectively advantageous human traits that, coincidentally, align with your own biologic position and therefore reinforce your sense of genetic superiority in your philosophical book? Are you sure? Are you really, really, sure?
- On a lighter note, I still like to collect useful design tools, though I don’t work on web sites professionally anymore. I will be updating this one soon, but I want a blueprint first instead of just poking around. This TikTok from @jollyhonsonart has three really good resources (I’ll use Glyphy a lot, I think), but I really like Khroma and used their engine to pick out an array of combination based on my color preferences. Above is just a sample and while readability isn’t factored in, the color palettes are inspiration for me.
H.B. FLYTE 