transgender trash from hell, eva dixon, mercury 13, japanese salted salmon, whose peace plan is it?
yesterday i was grateful for friends and dogs at the farmer's market...
today i am looking forward to working with my cemetery colleagues...
monday morning...
thanksgiving week...
reading transgender trash from hell... reading about how hard transgender people had it in the 90's... and still have it?... i think, what if i had it that hard when i began to come out?... but i didn't... i have a wonderful wife... good friends... a welcoming community... resources... i also came out at a time in life where little was at stake... i was and am retired for the most part... i do have a job... i wear masculine clothes and nail polish to the job... it works ok... oh yah, hair with purple highlights too... they don't ask questions... how could they... i am the boss...
i am subscribed to a feed out of denmark called feminine moments... i read about an art project about the mercury 13... 13 women trained in 1959-60 for the american space program... they met all the same qualifications of mental and physical toughness the men did, except, the one that matters... being men... they never were accepted into the program... one of them, wally funk, got to fly in 2021... 60 years later...
here is the feminine moments article on the mercury 13 art exhibit...
With the show Mercury 13, Eva Dixon evokes a fantastical narrative following the mission of the same name, where 13 women, after passing gruelling Astronaut training cloaked under a media blanket, were denied their chance at space flight after the programme was scrapped in 1962. Objects: woven fire hose, shiny industrial panels and a make-shift command module, built from reclaimed timber and stolen street signs, act as artefacts of Dixon’s alternate timeline, in which Wally Funk, an American aviation pioneer and member of the Mercury 13 in 1961, was the first American woman sent to space.
here is some of the wikipedia article about them...
The Mercury 13 were thirteen American women who in 1959–60 took part in a privately funded research program run by physician William Randolph Lovelace II, a private contractor to NASA, which aimed to test and screen the women for spaceflight. The first participant, pilot Geraldyn "Jerrie" Cobb helped Lovelace identify and recruit the others. The participants successfully underwent the same physiological screening tests as the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury. While Lovelace called the project Woman in Space Program,[1] the thirteen women later became known as the "Mercury 13" – a term coined in 1995 as a comparison to the Mercury Seven astronauts. The Mercury 13 were not allowed into the astronaut program, never trained as a group, and did not fly into space (with the 2021 exception of Wally Funk, more than 60 years later).
and there is a netflix documentary about them i want to watch...
Mercury 13 is a 2018 documentary film about the Mercury 13, thirteen American woman pilots who in 1960 took and passed the same tests given the previous year to the Mercury 7, the astronauts selected by NASA for Project Mercury.
i was briefly involved in a project to design the interiors of a space station module... i believed in going to space then... not so much anymore... i don't think humans belong in space... we may be able to create intelligences that do... but not humans...
i had a weird funny thing happen to me yesterday... i looked up one of the several recipes i have for japanese salted salmon... i want to make it with some frozen salmon... i wanted to know if i needed anything from the grocery store for it... when i looked at the ingredients i did a double take... sake?... what do you mean marinate it in sake... i looked at the other two recipes i have for it... they all said sake... i have never made it with sake... i have always done the brief marination in soy sauce... for some reason... i translated sake to soy sauce in my mind... i like doing it with soy sauce because it gives the salmon flesh a wonderful brown orange hue... yesterday i bought a bottle of sake... i want to see how it is different done the traditional way...
here is a recipe and instructions for shiozake (salted salmon)...
interesting developments in the shit show... there is a us, or is it russian, or is it us, or is it??... peace plan for the ukraine situation... i first heard about this middle of last week... since then it has turned into quite the picture of chaos in the administration...
“Do I understand correctly that there is now a dispute within the administration about whether this ‘peace plan’ was written by Russians or Americans?” foreign affairs journalist Anne Applebaum asked?"
lately i have been getting the feeling that we will manage to begin turning things around in midterms... if there are free and fair elections... i think that is a big if at the moment...
some photographs...
