I’ve been feeling very down about (gestures) all this lately. Dr. Shaily Patel’s encouragement to dream and imagine better worlds is a powerful antidote. Thanks, Dr. Patel!
Planet Word Museum in Washington, DC
Hi there! I'm Kimberly Hirsh. My pronouns are she/ her/hers. I'm somebody's mom. I work as a school librarian. I have a PhD in information and library science. I love to read, play tabletop and video games, and make things. I used to perform in theater and improv comedy and I may one day again. I have been extremely online since 1993 and still enjoy tinkering on the web. I manage multiple chronic illnesses. I'm married to my kid's dad. We have a cat.
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Recent posts
Finished reading: The Shining by Stephen King 📚
🔖 Read Have We Turned Personality Into Diagnosis? (New York Times).
how much more do I need to parse effluvia of my own personhood?
Right?
Saw someone comment they’d heard Emily Wilson’s Odyssey translation is feminist and before they try it they’d like to start with a more faithful translation. I wonder how much readers understand about the creative choices translators have to make and challenges to being “faithful.” 📚
Finished reading: His Risk to Take by Tessa Bailey 📚
Finished reading: Firestarter by Stephen King 📚
I know a lot of Stephen King books are considered scary, but so many of them, including this one, make me sad. Compulsively readable as King always is.
📚🗯️ Just read Detective Comics #359, the debut of Batgirl aka Dr. Barbara Gordon. I love it and I love her.
Did a bit of back-to-school shopping on ThredUp. Back on my romantigoth bull.
🔖 Read Hope, Not Optimism by Cory Doctorow.
Hope is the necessary, but insufficient, precondition for survival.
This left me feeling the best about the possibilities for this world that I’ve felt in a long time.
I just finished Book 1 of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Iliad and she’s done incredible work. The language is so accessible. This is the most readable translation of classical literature that I’ve ever read. Highly recommend already. 📚