International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia.

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Today is the International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia, Biphobia.

Let’s fight these heinous movements who not only deny the humanity of those who challenge traditional gender roles and stereotypes, particularly LGBTI persons.

Apart from undermining equality, they also endanger democracies. Today, let us stand up for justice and protection for all.

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Nation’s largest publisher files lawsuit challenging Florida county’s book bans – UPI.com

Free-speech group PEN America and publisher Penguin Random House filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in federal court, challenging book bans in a Florida Panhandle county.

The lawsuit alleges that administrators and school board members in Florida’s Escambia County School District have violated the First and 14th amendments. The groups say the books that are being banned are “disproportionately books by non-white and/or LGBTQ+ authors.”

Source: Nation’s largest publisher files lawsuit challenging Florida county’s book bans – UPI.com

India’s ‘draconian’ IT laws draw ire from civil society – DW – 05/17/2023

Indian journalists and human rights activists have regularly voiced concern and protested against arbitrary arrests and cases filed against them, as well as the banning and removal of content that is critical of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government.

Source: India’s ‘draconian’ IT laws draw ire from civil society – DW – 05/17/2023

DeSantis War On Education

In Saner Thought

The mini dictator of Florida has been attacking education at every turn….and his newest attack goes a bit far….well most of the attacks go too far in my opinion….

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis continued his campaign on Monday against what he views as “woke” ideology in the education system. The governor and presumptive 2024 presidential candidate signed into law a measure that prohibits the state’s public colleges and universities from spending money on what are known as DEI initiatives, or diversity, equity, and inclusion, reports the Washington Post. “DEI is better viewed as standing for discrimination, exclusion, and indoctrination,” said DeSantis Monday at New College of Florida in Sarasota.

He also banned courses that, in the law’s language, “distort significant historical events,” teach “identity politics,” or are “based on theories that systemic racism, sexism, oppression, or privilege are inherent in the institutions of the United States and were created…

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Out of Nowhere

Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

A poem in Vietnamese by Phương Anh
Translator: Nguyễn Thị Phương Trâm

Out of Nowhere

Tự Dưng

Suddenly there, out of the sky fell

The tender woven verses through the alleyway

Her footsteps, approaching dewdrops

Poetry embracing a gorgeous far away moon…

Suddenly there, out of him fell the poem

Making her shy, the bashful word

Her footsteps, rising spirit

Fatefully whisked away by the sad verse…

Suddenly there, from its very origin

The pounding verse reverberating through the city

Her footsteps, across the sky resounding

Poetry set forth upon the four seasons…

Suddenly there, the frolicking verses

Through hair locks upon the flesh

Her footsteps proud, her head held high

Poetry’s humorous whisper in a dream…

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FEBRUARY 2022

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Tự dưng, thơ rớt từ trời

Rơi vòng quanh lối vạn lời thiết tha

Em đi, nhấp dáng sương sa

Thơ ôm vào mộng trăng…

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Writing Process Wednesdays, And More Novel Journal Results  

Context, Thought, and Learning: ShiraDest Offers Project Do Better

        I noticed that I felt rushed, back when I first began drafting this novel, partly because I’d been outlining and researching for months, and was getting tired of it, partly because people wanted to know why I’d not begun writing words after so long, and partly because it was November, and I wanted to join in again with NaNoWriMo.

   All three reasons were mistakes.

    So the lesson I have learned in looking back at this page of my Who By Fire novel journal is that cooperation is good, but cooperative writing of a novel, or even cooperative listening while writing one, is not so good, at least for me.

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    Also, sequencing and ‘causing’ out ideas, aka plotting (what happens in what order for what reasons…) before beginning to draft is crucial for me, and also, word counts for scenes are…

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Liberdade

Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

“Liberdade consiste em fazer o que não sequer. Se o homem faz o que quer, este é, certamente escravo de seus vícios. Agora, persistir no que é adverso, sem dúvida nenhuma, além de ser um ato de coragem, é também a maior prova de liberdade que muitos têm e não compreendem que, assim como os pássaros, vivem soltos. “

Marii Freire. Liberdade

https://Pensamentos.me/VEM comigo!

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Santarém, Pá 17 de maio de 2023

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