Links and a poem I’ve loved for the week: Another week, another article about an “unknown” woman writer: “She was the Walking Woman. That was it. She had walked off all sense of society-made values, and, knowing the best when the best came to her, was able to take it.”
🥹 Oh my gosh, I cannot tell you how flattered I am that you mentioned me in your post. It's been a privilege to find a soul as generous and gracious as you. 🤗 THANK YOU, FREYA!!! 🙏🏼
I love that Bailey wrote about Chavela. She is a huge figure in Mexico and a huge part of our lives. She was born in Costa Rica but she always said she was Mexican later in her life and we are ecstatic to claim her. One of her famous quotes: “¡Los mexicanos nacemos donde nos da la rechingada gana!”
(We Mexicans are born wherever we f*#@ing want to be born.) 😍❤️🔥💥
Well, there's always at least one in these, Freya, but you had me at less than a minute in with the Sámi. In Finland this summer, we saw a film about reindeer migration routes being disrupted by wind farm access roads. Just looked it up and learned "Norway court rules two windfarms harming Sami reindeer herders. More than 150 turbines may be torn down after licences to operate and build them are declared void." Not sure if it's the same site, but still, yay film. So many echoes of residential schools here in that article. Chills.
That Mary Austin story is such a direct parallel to Elinor Pruitt Stewart and Henry David Thoreau. She did so much more! In more interesting ways! And she wrote about it all in very popular "Letters from a Woman Homesteader" in The Atlantic, mostly forgotten now but fun to read.
Thank you for the Sámi essay. That sounds like a book I want to read. I'm always slightly irritated when reading Kristin Lavransdatter that Kristin's husband spends time with Sámi people while helping impose Christianity but it's only mentioned and I want to know so much more about that time and what happened.
Beautiful poem, I love those pictures of Frida, and yes, Medium Build! He is huge in Alaska now, and apparently the rest of the US as well! He came to Juneau and all the cool hipsters sold out the place.
I loved Rain's poem, too, when it arrived in my inbox! It has the perfect mix of lyric imagery and nods to culture.
🥹 Oh my gosh, I cannot tell you how flattered I am that you mentioned me in your post. It's been a privilege to find a soul as generous and gracious as you. 🤗 THANK YOU, FREYA!!! 🙏🏼
Thanks, I enjoyed the Linnea Axelsson piece and will be picking up her book.
As ever, such amazing recommendations. Freya.
Looking up Mary Austin immediately 💞
And love those joyous photos 😍
I love that Bailey wrote about Chavela. She is a huge figure in Mexico and a huge part of our lives. She was born in Costa Rica but she always said she was Mexican later in her life and we are ecstatic to claim her. One of her famous quotes: “¡Los mexicanos nacemos donde nos da la rechingada gana!”
(We Mexicans are born wherever we f*#@ing want to be born.) 😍❤️🔥💥
Beautiful shares! Our stories are "gills" to help us "float" - or they can be! Yes! ❤️
Well, there's always at least one in these, Freya, but you had me at less than a minute in with the Sámi. In Finland this summer, we saw a film about reindeer migration routes being disrupted by wind farm access roads. Just looked it up and learned "Norway court rules two windfarms harming Sami reindeer herders. More than 150 turbines may be torn down after licences to operate and build them are declared void." Not sure if it's the same site, but still, yay film. So many echoes of residential schools here in that article. Chills.
Also, lest we think we're better here now: https://www.hcn.org/issues/55-3/indigenous-affairs-green-colonialism-is-flooding-the-pacific-northwest/ about the pumped storage project on Yakama Nation land.
Reading on...
That Mary Austin story is such a direct parallel to Elinor Pruitt Stewart and Henry David Thoreau. She did so much more! In more interesting ways! And she wrote about it all in very popular "Letters from a Woman Homesteader" in The Atlantic, mostly forgotten now but fun to read.
Thank you for the Sámi essay. That sounds like a book I want to read. I'm always slightly irritated when reading Kristin Lavransdatter that Kristin's husband spends time with Sámi people while helping impose Christianity but it's only mentioned and I want to know so much more about that time and what happened.
Beautiful poem, I love those pictures of Frida, and yes, Medium Build! He is huge in Alaska now, and apparently the rest of the US as well! He came to Juneau and all the cool hipsters sold out the place.