Jay Edidin
@edidin.bsky.social
writer, human rights policy cryptid, knitter, comics-industry semi-expat, parent to small human, pirate king of the moon. queer, trans, brain wired weird. kind to reptiles. he/they. https://linktr.ee/edidin
Parents of current or former toddlers: how did you get them to let you brush their teeth? We are struggling; largely because our one-year-old wants to do it themself.
cc: @teaberryblue.bsky.social
(further cementing my opinion that heists are generally the best stories)
Just got out of an amazing seminar on restorative justice storytelling; and now I'm thinking about heists as a format that can center restorative justice in the same ways that standard procedurals center carceral justice.
I wonder how much supportive housing we could build and sustain with the money that goes into military aid for Israel.
update: @teaberryblue.bsky.social has informed me that the sweater is in fact gendered, and its gender is "eyes."
the only truly ungendered toddler knitting pattern: www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...
Looking for sweater patterns for the toddler; and once again massively frustrated by the gendering of kids' clothes (and all clothes, but especially kids').
Looking for sweater patterns for the toddler; and once again massively frustrated by the gendering of kids' clothes (and all clothes, but especially kids').
As we move toward pride month, here's your regular reminder that mass incarceration is a queer issue, and opposing it is fundamental to achieving queer liberation in any real sense. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2021/03...
Visualizing the unequal treatment of LGBTQ people in the criminal justice system
LGBTQ people are overrepresented at every stage of our criminal justice system, from juvenile justice to parole.
www.prisonpolicy.orgLook, man, I'll send you a link to the pattern if you want to make yourself one!
In the case of 50 Shades of Grey, absolutely nothing happens for most of the movie, so they are clearly grasping at straws, looking frantically for something, *anything* to describe; and the result is amazing.
Imagine a scene where fuck-all happens and abruptly, out of nowhere, Adrienne Barbeau says, IN THE MOST DRAMATIC VOICE POSSIBLE, "She moves... the muffin."
While I am talking about Dakota Johnson's dubious professional choices, I will take this moment to heartily recommend watching 50 Shades of Grey *with descriptive audio*, which elevates it from a bad and baffling film to absolutely brilliant surrealist performance art.
publications, i will absolutely write about this for you if you want a feature with absolutely no target audience
. @oreganospice.bsky.social and I did this when it was still in theaters, and it remains one of the absolute tip-top cinematic experiences of my life.
While I am talking about Dakota Johnson's dubious professional choices, I will take this moment to heartily recommend watching 50 Shades of Grey *with descriptive audio*, which elevates it from a bad and baffling film to absolutely brilliant surrealist performance art.
Dakota Johnson's career choices are so amazingly, transcendently bad that they almost come full-circle to awesome.
tfw none of the options really sum it up
dakota johnson really needs to fire her agent or her judgment or something
So, @teaberryblue.bsky.social and I are watching Madame Web, for our sins.
(Next one’s gonna be the same pattern, but yellow and black, because Bee Child)
the toddler had almost grown into the largest of the ridiculous stack of sweaters I knitted before they were born, so here’s the first of a new batch (not yet blocked, this the slight wonkiness): #knitting
The toddler is putting their magnetic letters in my shirt pocket one by one, solemnly waving and saying “bye-bye” to each.
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