my week in objects (mostly).
entering vacation mode.
1. these supplies.
{for on-the-go making.}
2. these socks.
{because the train is always too cold.}
3. these tiny plums.
{because summer snacks are the best snacks.}
4. this kid-made string bag.
{and the other three.}
5. this bag all packed up.
{and vacation for very nearly being here.}
other things:
trashing them is the entire point.
the most diabolically entertaining television ever created.
cruelty disguised as critique.
what’s best for us is often best for our kids.
Thank you for sharing the video on Fast Fashion. Since I read Naomi Klein's No Logo and became involved in the anti-sweatshop movement in college in the late 90s, early 00s, the issue of marketing, branding, and cheap consumerism has alarmed me. It's been horrifying, to say the least, to see that our burgeoning movement 20+ years ago failed. Mostly, what I loved about that video was the spotlight, albeit brief, on slave labor by Uyghurs and other Turkic-minorities. For years now, China has been committing genocide and crimes against humanity in East Turkistan (what China calls Xinjiang). East Turkistan, the Uyghur homeland, was colonized by China in the 1940s. While Uyghurs have long been persecuted, since 2016, the efforts have ramped up with millions of people sent to internment camps, prisons, and labor camps. Women have been raped and sterilized in these camps. Healthy people die after torture. Their children have been taken away and put into schools and orphanges -- literally millions of children. And when people are released from camp, they are either put in prison or, more often, released to work in the cotton fields or in factories throughout China. What has happened there is horrifying, and I wish people who seem to care so much about human rights would shine a brighter spotlight on what China is doing in East Turkistan. I wish college students would camp out on their quads in protest against the Chinese government. I wish there was an anti-Chinese BDS movement. It's hard to understand why that isn't happening, thought it may have something to do with the desire for cheap goods and, more likely, the fact that there aren't Jews in China. But that's a conversation for another day.
Loved the bad men article. "Trump and Elon Musk… challenge my spiritual clarity." What a line!