L’art de perdre
L’Algérie dont est originaire sa famille n’a longtemps été pour Naïma qu’une toile de fond sans grand intérêt. Pourtant, dans une société française traversée par les questions identitaires, tout semble vouloir la renvoyer à ses origines. Mais quel lien pourrait-elle avoir avec une histoire familiale qui jamais ne lui a été racontée? Son grand-père Ali, un montagnard kabyle, est mort avant qu’elle ait pu lui demander pourquoi l’Histoire avait fait de lui un «harki». Yema, sa grand-mère, pourrait peut-être répondre mais pas dans une langue que Naïma comprenne. Quant à Hamid, son père, arrivé en France à l’été 1962 dans les camps de transit hâtivement mis en place, il ne parle plus de l’Algérie de son enfance. Comment faire ressurgir un pays du silence?
Alice Zeniter devient rapidement une de mes autrices préférées, après la lecture de Je suis une fille sans histoire, son essai d’histoire féministe. Cette fois, j’ai lu le roman qui m’a fait découvrir Zeniter : L’Art de perdre, qui lui avait valu un triple épisode dans le podcast Bookmakers d’Arte. La série m’avait fasciné, et…
Mother Ocean Father Nation
Jaipal feels like the unnoticed, unremarkable sibling, always left to fend for himself. He is stuck working in the family store, avoiding their father’s wrath, with nothing but his hidden desires to distract him. Desperate for money and connection, he seizes a sudden opportunity to take his life into his own hands for the first time. But his decision leaves him at the mercy of an increasingly volatile country. On a small Pacific island, a brother and sister tune in to a breaking news radio bulletin. It is 1985, and an Indian grocer has just been attacked by nativists aligned with the recent military coup. Now, fear and shock are rippling through the island’s deeply-rooted Indian community as racial tensions rise to the brink. Spanning from the lush terrain of the South Pacific to the golden hills of San Francisco, Mother Ocean Father Nation is an entrancing debut about how one family, at the mercy of a nation broken by legacies of power and oppression, forges a path to find a home once again. Bhumi hears this news from her locked-down dorm room in the capital city. She is the ambitious, intellectual standout of the family—the one destined for success. But when her friendship with the daughter of a prominent government official becomes a liability, she must flee her unstable home for California. A riveting, tender debut novel, following a brother and sister whose paths diverge—one forced to leave, one left behind—in the wake of a nationalist coup in the South Pacific
Jaipal and Bhumi are estranged siblings. The first is a young gay man working as a bartender, the second a brilliant biology student, both of them living on a small West Pacific island. When the dictator starts discriminating against « Indians » more and more, they’re worried – when discrimination turns into plain government harassment,…
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CAPTCHA doesn’t work and is not accessible
Over 13 years ago I first addressed my dislike of the CAPTCHA. Back then I said that I disliked CAPTCHA to combat spam because spam isn’t the users problem. They’re not getting a bunch of your form submissions sent to them. They don’t care about your problem. The bad part of CAPTCHA is that it […]
in which curtis and i have a shared pet peeve.
en finir avec la dysphorie de genre
Il faut en finir avec la dysphorie de genre. C’est juste un fait, purement technique. Sans ça l’oppresseur est légitimé dans sa violence. […] Je trouve qu’on gagnerait vraiment à axer le fait d’être trans sur la joie que l’on a à pouvoir nous affirmer plutôt que sur une souffrance indissociable de nos vécus.
Tracy Durnell (tracydurnell.com)Over the years, I’ve seen lots of blog posts discussing what people could blog about (anything!), exploring philosophies of blogging, and explaining how to set up a blog on a variety of content management systems. I don’t think I’ve seen someone walk through their process for writing a blog po…
tracy puts so much more effort than me in writing her blog posts 🙂 one thing that we have in common is the writing organization: start with a structure, fill it with bullet points (and move them around if you feel like a new structure is more appropriate now that you have all your info),…
Some answers on ActivityPub for WordPress.com
Definitely liking how ActivityPub works with my two blogs. However, there are a few limitations.
I’ve been using activitypub for wordpress for several months now, before it was officially supported by wordpress.org and then wordpress.com. Otherwise I don’t have any good knowledge of the plugin, so this is just « random user knowledge », not expert or even power user answers. But replying to two of the flaws you highlight…
From Here
In her coming-of-age memoir, refugee advocate Luma Mufleh writes of her tumultuous journey to reconcile her identity as a gay Muslim woman and a proud Arab-turned-American refugee.
This memoir started out as a read for my « Around the world in 195 countries » challenge and ended up with me sobbing (yes, again – what can I say, October was a mental health struggle). It was an excellent read.