signal-boosting

[starlady]

I am in DC without AC and am drinking cold water and reading the Internet in the (most likely vain) hope that my body temperature will equalize w/the outside or at least drop a bit so I can sleep. Con.TXT was awesome; so was Toy Story 3 (and in a way that suggests that at least some people at Pixar might be getting half of a clue about their studio's gender fail) more on that later, provided the heat doesn't kill my laptop. Oh, but now there are people playing guitar in the alley out back; I'm doomed.

On Friday morning I had a bizarre dream that I am not going to detail here because quite honestly I don't want to remember it which was directly inspired by copperbadge's post about female genital mutilation at Cornell University Medical School [warning: descriptions of misogyny, child sexual abuse, intersex-phobia and FGM at the link]. As oursin said, Alice Dreger and Ellen Feder have said it all: this is wrong, wrong, wrong, and should not happen, period.

Another thing that should not happen and is wrong is an 18-year old black man with Asperger's sitting on a bench outside a library reading a book being arrested and detained for 11 days without bail for no reason at all. Via were_duck, the_future_modernes has a post about "safety" and the consequences of its perceived lack for people of color.

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On a happier note, when "Tightrope" came on in the bar/dancefloor I was at last night people seemed to know it and like it. Janelle Monáe, people! If the ArchAndroid can't save us, it won't be her fault. 

Comments

[ariadnechan.livejournal.com]

Since i hear about that i'm deeply depress!
my elder 8 years old is asperger.
What can i do, don't let him go anywhere when he is older.
He study to live in society and understand our world, but i could say to him about our nt world not trying to understand something so trivial as a boy waiting to go to the library.
you don't even know how stessful is for them that the library not open in time. but he could overtake that and walk back to his school only to be hurt, off course he defend himself. i see my poor baby when i take him for his therapy and we takes the underground train, he is terrified of people, imagine you being terrified to people and some of them assault you with something to hurt and affect your capacity to see.
i believe you and no one understand the terror this poor boy felt
neither of us really grasp it.

i remember one other mother in the therapy told us about his son going in the bus by himself to school, but it didn't last, why?
because someone took his school card, and he didn't know what to do without it,
how he can get in the bus, if he hadn't his card. so he comeback to the school and sit there. If one cleaning lady don't recognize him and help him to get home in another bus. we don't know what could happens to him, he is only 16 years old. He is the top of his class, he is a really good kid. So you tell me what could happen to him, if some horrible person say he could take him to his house and do something to him.

We as mother are in always distress of how they are doing in the school, if they could be adapt themselves to our world.
but really the problem is not them is us!

[starlady38.livejournal.com]

but really the problem is not them is us!

Yes, exactly.