an upcoming book chat, pumpkin bread, and nursery things

a compilation of what's floating around in my head right now

Aug 15, 2023

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some notable (and less notable) things

Journalist and author Kylie Cheung’s book Survivor Injustice: State-Sanctioned Abuse, Domestic Violence, and the Fight for Bodily Autonomy is out today! Please join us for an IG live conversation about reproductive justice, abolition, survivorship, and Kylie's new book, this Friday at 2:00pmEST/1:00pmCST over @ thesweetfeminist. If you have any specific questions for Kylie, feel free to drop them in the comments. I’ll also save a recording for y’all to watch later if you can’t join us live. About the book:
With an abolitionist lens, journalist and Jezebel staff writer Kylie Cheung shows how domestic abuse and state violence are systemic and interconnected. She shatters the harmful and convenient narrative that abuse is a "private matter" perpetrated by individual bad actors--and situates popular understandings of domestic abuse in an indictment of the racism, misogyny, and carcerality baked into U.S. culture and politics. Cheung plainly names all that goes unsaid when we, as a culture, talk about abuse: How state and society criminalize women, girls, and gender-oppressed people of color. That what happens behind closed doors affects whose voices we hear at the ballot box. What it means when we put predators--from every party--up for vote. That sex workers are more likely to be victimized by law enforcement than "saved" by them. That this is all by design. And that ultimately--with organizing, abolition, and beyond-the-ballot action--we can change it all for good.
This hypocritical garbage that abortion provider Dupont Clinic is dealing with in California (which is supposedly a safe state for people who need abortions):

I’m working on the baby’s room and am having a great time:
picture this but on the ceiling - I’m going for a cotton candy sky look!
building a wisteria vine
the tiny robe omg
This visceral feeling:
can i pay someone for the emotional equivalent of this?
Even though it’s probably still hot where you are, I recommend whipping up the pumpkin bread recipe in Baking by Feel this week (it’s worth turning on the oven for!):