I'll be at the Goodman by 11. Let me know if you want to get coffee or lunch or something.

Finally got the all-clear. Whew.

Unspecified problem with the building's water heater. No hot shower for me tomorrow morning. That, plus lack of sleep tonight, is going to make tomorrow unpleasant. Still, better than getting blown up, I suppose.

Yikes, I have cousins in Lafayette. But I'm not actually worried because.

The news I read was that the shooter was 58 years old. What, we're not confined to disaffected young men anymore?

This all sucks.

Still, better than getting blown up, I suppose.

Yes!

The news I read was that the shooter was 58 years old. What, we're not confined to disaffected young men anymore?

Yeah, I was surprised by that as well.

I had a dream that I watched my first episode of Game of Thrones, and five separate characters got killed off, in a variety of ridiculous ways.

I'm sticking with that instead of stressing about the bad things happening in the world.

In what-is-this-I-can't-even FB news of the day, a high school friend started a discussion about gender vs. racial self-identification and what's going on in the mind of someone like Rachel Dolezal. And another high school friend just commented:

It's how you're raised... People look at me and see valley girl- I am not comfortable around white culture- I was raised in a colored world, and that is where I am comfortable, the issues that confront the colored world are my issues- even if the colored ones do not accept me- that had been my experience. There are very few who are not transracial these days. Why don't we stop identifying as one or the other?? It seems to leave many of us out...

She is just one of the nicest people on the planet, a completely ingenuous free-range hippie chick who would totally be a devout freegan if she were still living in a big city with dumpsters instead of out in the middle of nowhere communing with the redwoods, but this post of hers is so blithely, fractally awful I can't even answer. I'm reduced to a Xanderesque, "How?!? What?!? How?!?"

eta: Not posting this to be mean -- I'm just gobsmacked, and not prepared to pick a fight with a deeply well-intentioned idiot of whom I have many fond and cherished memories, but I can't be alone in my gobsmackery. I need someone to bear this burden with me. Lucky all y'all.

Yes, I'm pretty gobsmacked too.

Next time you see her, pat her on the head for me.

JZ, is it possible she might be amenable to a gentle ""transracial' is a term used by people of color who were adopted by white families, because they have specific challenges and issues to deal with in life that are very different from the ones you have, let's find some other term for white people who identify with a diverse culture"? It doesn't solve all the problems in what she says but sometimes it is better to start small.

That's an excellent suggestion, WS. Thanks for finding a potential spot where she could look at one small piece of it from a different angle without feeling beleaguered or defensive.

Even though I can tell she's trying to use it differently, it might also be worth noting that her blithe use of "colored" will not fall easy on all ears.