wip

Whaddya think Michelle? Just for the record, the lighter color is a bright limey green and not gold as it appears here. I’m thinking about a nice knotted fringe when I’m done.

Also for the record, in blogular news, I am in the process of switching over to Wordpress. I’ve learned a lot doing this all by hand, but I think in the long run it’s smarter to archive automatically, use categories, have an RSS feed, and all the other goodies Wordpress offers that maybe I’ll eventually take advantage of. However, there’s lots of work to do dealing with all the posts that have been imported from the old blogspot site, and then moving over the posts that have been done manually here since February. It should keep me busy for a while.

As it happens, however, this comes at a good time, because I have to say I am getting pretty fed up with blogospheric drama. Many times during the past month or so I have thrown up my mental hands in disgust and despair over how much of our internet time we spend picking each other apart. And this goes for everyone–right-wingers, lefties, liberals, feminists of all stripes. I wish I could say that I was able to do my own thing and be immune to all that, but I guess I’m just not that strong. So transferring over everything to Wordpress might mean cataloguing my past work for posterity before moving on to nondigital activities. It seems some of us–myself included–tend to forget that there’s a whole world out there and lots and lots of little practical things we could do to help a woman who’s suffering, right now, today. The feelings of despair that sometimes paralyze me are, frankly, not real–they are a byproduct of the isolation, the need for perfection, and the belief in the possibility of total control that white capitalist patriarchy relies on to keep us all doubting ourselves and, therefore, doing nothing. If I learned anything at the recent white privilege conference, I learned about the power of being in one place with 1000 people who are all on the same side. Who aren’t interested in blaming each other, but who are interested in getting on with finding, making, insisting on justice. I am in no way suggesting that we should gloss over real differences where they exist, but at least in my own life I would like to see a lot less talk and a lot more action.

So for those of you not in the knitting know, “wip” refers to a “work in progress.” And I don’t mean just the scarf, people.

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