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Oh hey, it's that time of the year again

I'll get some links together, but obviously just celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day in word doesn't do anything for indigenous people.

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xp_darcy

I had to read some of his letters to Isabella in college (American English), and.. I didn't know you could get a headache from eye rolling, but it happened.

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xp_loa

I'm.... honestly mostly I'm wondering how it falls into American English???? But you can 100% get a headache from eye rolling, and I imagine the writings of Christopher Columbus would incapacitate me for the rest of the week. 😩

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xp_darcy

Because cHrIsToPhEr CoLuMbUs DiScOvErEd AmErIcA or something. Basically sorry, we're going to skip over all the cool fables and writings that the our indigenous people had and give you This Shit Instead.

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xp_loa

Ohhh yeah, I forgot he did that. 🤔 Fucking wild. Not to dunk on your uni, but ick. So sorry you had to suffer through that. I know I have copies of Alfonso Ortiz & Richard Erdoes collab books if you ever wanna read ethically sourced anthropology. Or just anything from my bookshelf to erase THAT

Edited Date: 2021-10-12 01:24 am (UTC)

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xp_darcy

Think it was just that teacher, because we didn't read a lot of early women writers either. The Norton Anthology is admittedly not comprehensive with early American writings that aren't by Europeans, but there were mm.. from what I remember, at least origin and trickster fables and some of the poetry that's survived the years.

And yes, happy to read better sources. :D

Edited Date: 2021-10-12 01:35 am (UTC)

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xp_loa

OASERTYUJKL;' -- FUCKING NORTON, OH MY GOD, OF COURSE, I should have known!! Norton Anthology's bitch ass, which said "no I will not include the culturally relative images paired with the poem's in N. Scott Momaday's The Way to Rainy Mountain that are in my pages but I WILL include this picture of a football field from this white writer's high school"

ANYWAY, drop by anytime, I have so many books. I should not help at the library I am a menace.

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xp_darcy

Oh no, helping at a library would be terrible for my "Want to Read" list, which is already absurdly long.

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xp_topaz

Do I need to call you two on your tabs?

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xp_loa

Topaz, no, not in front of everyone. I thought being a librarian meant I get to game the system without shame. And I'm totally not gonna run and check in that book I've had past for almost two weeks. ✨💖

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xp_darcy

Look at least I limit myself to 5 books out.

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xp_loa

It's so bad! I have books, I'm reading books, but, still, sometimes when I'm shelving I wonder what the books are about and I need to know.

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xp_darcy

Goodreads has a barcode scanner. And that's when my want to read list went from "long" to "YOU FOOL"

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xp_loa

Damn, that is dangerous information...

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xp_darcy

the trick is getting them from "want to read" to "finished"

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xp_loa

To be fair I'm really bad and read 3-5 books simultaneously. 😬 If I'm lucky I do the smart thing and switch which one I'm reading after completing the chapter.