Where everyone is a little bit fucked up, but has a fucked up story to, uh, I don't know? To back it up? That's what the usamerican credo would dictate, no? It's all about winning, the winner, victory, right? Let's say everyone is a little messed up, and has a messed up story to top that. --- I was thinking of Stella. The name, not a person. And how, when I was thinking of pseudonyming some of my key research participants, I kind of identified it as a black name. Or rather, to be more specific, I thought of it as a name for a person. This person was black. Over time, obsessed as everything around me in this country is, I kind of thought of it as a black name. Which is why I shifted it to a person of, uh, I don't know, "not color"? But yes, [as I would say at a conference], people of Caucasian extraction could do with some 'blackening', 'coloring', so to speak. I think it would aid intercultural relations. Cos' we know already. We alre
So the Museum of Science and Industry, yes. Very nice, good exhibits, the Lego artist had an exhibition, very groovy. There's the stuff you would expect, maritime, land, air transportation exhibits (including an old electric Ford from the early 20th century. All very well. Until... https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/colleen-moores-fairy-castle/ What is a fairy castle doing here? Walked in, and there's all these fascinated , I mean totally rapt, women (2) and children (3, female from a cisgender phenotypical view; I did not speak with them, and even so, there would have been no way to ask, obviously. Not just because it is a random and invasive curiosity that I never had until I started writing these words here. Also, because this is the question—and the issue—of identification: I cannot ask, and no one else can, and no one else can tell, and neither will I). And there was a total antifeminist JOKE of a voiceover. I caught, "in the attic while she wait