A belated follow-up to the tale of my fight against ‘Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’ specifically, and John Boyne more generally in school:
They warned the teachers at my kid’s high school in advance that I am trouble.
Options to include:
I think you’re dumb
I think you’re irrelevant
Housewife with a dictionary
I just don’t like you
Who are you again? (This is the Tom Paulin option)
To celebrate my sixth year of failing at whatever this is, I am now going to be including a form rejection where people can just tick the reason they aren’t going to speak to me anymore.
I find any and all suggestion that restrictive, repressive policies are aimed at preserving ‘family.’
My family is made up of minorities, immigrants and queer people.
fuck off.
I know very little about my family (we‘re not the very literate sort and there aren’t any letters or many photos) but I happened upon a bit of information this summer…
And last night I saw my great, great grandfather’s tombstone, complete with Arbeiter Ring insignia.
Today I am thinking of Leivick’s like for (and use of) Dostoyevsky, despite his having a pretty good handle on what use Dostoyevsky would have had for him
I’ve had this particular JTA bulletin for a while — and posted it before — and have also previously read Leivick’s response to it.
But going through articles chronologically means I’m now reading what he said that (in part) provoked it…
Probably something I should have kept up my sleeve for some later date or more prestigious venue, but this week is something which is partly the result of my research this summer.
https://t.co/405am9N6LZ
Leivick turns to the sea in 1937, too, on the way to Argentina, when the then-President of PEN International asks him if Yiddish actually has a grammar.