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Creative entrepreneur, artist, teacher. Lover of books, cats & wild places.
Indiana, blue dot in a red state
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Janet Chilton
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@JRChilton @[email protected] My younger sister didn’t even meet Black kids until middle school in the mid 60s. She remembers it being a very difficult, uncomfortable experience. Our parents decision to move us from an integrated school district to all-white district in 1959 definitely shaped both of our lives in ways that still resonate 60+ years later.
@[email protected] Jaden, I’m white and experienced de jure segregation in Indiana. I’ll be happy to share my experiences as a little going to an integrated school while living in a segregated neighborhood in downtown Indianapolis in the 50s. I had brown curly hair, brown eyes and got “good suntans” when I was little. I had black teachers and black friends until my parents did the white flight to the suburbs move. I remember being a very confused 8 year old because no one looked like me at my new school.
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Here’s a link to Octavia Butler’s short stories online: [edited for correct link]
https://booksvooks.com/bloodchild-and-other-stories-pdf-octavia-e-butler.html
I’ve just discovered Octavia Butler, actually from a Mastodon recommendation. Finished the 2 Parables, waiting in a library queue for Kindred. Butler is a mind blowing thinker, way ahead of her time. On par with Margaret Atwood with a Black feminist sensibility.
AfroFuturism + Sci Fi. Octavia E. Butler's Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents. I'm a little late to the party, but ... wow!
Finished the parables on Sunday, and today I started reading Make Shift, 12 SciFi stories written during the first year of the pandemic.
I understand where you are coming from, but there is also a middle ground.
I've had indoor/outdoor cats for decades and hope I never have to keep my cats indoors 100% of the time. Several years ago, I built a controlled outdoor environment that works in my suburban neighborhood.
We now have a multi levels catio, including a catwalk 8' in the air that leads into a lower garden with a climbing tree and safe perch for bird watching. It's a win-win.
@Ronico And here's MY Sirius Black but this guy goes by his full name because he's so danged serious all the time. That's him in my avatar, too.
I'm captivated by all these black cats. Everywhere, all at once. Here's mine.
