Seven Interest Meme
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eumeliaThe Seven Interest Meme, as chosen by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-syndicated.gif)
aesiron.
If you want to participate, just comment and I'll chose some for you as well.
Bitch
I'm big on reclaiming words. Words that are used to make women, femininity, the female body etc, to be a negative I try to recontextualise them into the positive. "Bitch" is one of these words. "Bitch" is most commonly used to describe women who are aggressive, or don't conform to certain qualities that are deemed more feminine. It's also used to denote a woman with few scruples, much like "Bastard" is used to describe the same kind of man.
A "Bastard" unlike a "Bitch" - is still a human being, a bitch is a dog.
To me a Bitch is a Babe In Total Control of Herself.
Fangrrl
Have you seen the way I write about my Fannish Obsessions!? The "Grrl" is to denote my total bad-assness, like the great artists in the Riot Grrl music movement.
Folk
As in the music, there's nothing like the gentle voices and softly strumming guitars to wash over me and cleanse my soul, including the different kind of folk - there's social justice folk - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchel, Pete Seager, et al. Depressive Folk - Leonard Cohen. Urban Folk - Tracy Chapman. Love Folk - Sarah McLachlan. Alternative Folk - Sinead O'Connor, Tori Amos. This is my own view of the genre.
Magical Realism
Magical Realism is one of favourite literary genre's. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Neil Gaiman, Meir Shalev and others write in that style of magic or fantasy that appear in "normal" life. I suppose it could be regarded as a sub-group of Fantasy. The reason I love this kind of literature is because I feel that the author view the world the same way I do, with various hidden layers which they attempt to extrapolate in their works.
Quirkyalone
When I first saw the word, I didn't understand what it meant. But reading about the concept of finding joy in being unattached romantically and but not despairing of people, such as Single-hood seems to imply, I decided that I was not Single, 'cause I'm not a pessimist, but see no reason in forcing myself into a relationship simply to avoid being Single. Also, one can be in a relationship and still be Quirkyalone, because it is the concept of being complete in being by myself.
Tikkun Olam
"Tikkun Olam" is Hebrew for Fixing or Repairing the World, though a more correct, so to speak, meaning would Perfecting the World. It's a concept in Judaism that calls for all people to take on the task of benefiting the world and not just ourselves. Basically, that in trying to repair or perfect ourselves we do the same for the world on every level.
It's one of the few things in Jewish Spirituality I try in incorporate into my life, since I feel it's more an ethical duty, rather than a religious one.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
I feel the concept of the "Divinity" of the people to be the core of democracy. As Churchill said: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.". It is a statement I whole heartedly agree with and within Democracy it is the voice of the people which has to be heard, it is the voice of the people who choose their leaders and it is the people who also decide when they want to replace those leaders. And the people are the known as The Man in the Street, the regular people, the people who just go on day by day. You and me, them and us.
Everybody.
Latin-English: "The Voice of the People is the Voice of God"
Latin-Hebrew: "קול המון כקול שדי"
In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.
וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.
aesiron.If you want to participate, just comment and I'll chose some for you as well.
Bitch
I'm big on reclaiming words. Words that are used to make women, femininity, the female body etc, to be a negative I try to recontextualise them into the positive. "Bitch" is one of these words. "Bitch" is most commonly used to describe women who are aggressive, or don't conform to certain qualities that are deemed more feminine. It's also used to denote a woman with few scruples, much like "Bastard" is used to describe the same kind of man.
A "Bastard" unlike a "Bitch" - is still a human being, a bitch is a dog.
To me a Bitch is a Babe In Total Control of Herself.
Fangrrl
Have you seen the way I write about my Fannish Obsessions!? The "Grrl" is to denote my total bad-assness, like the great artists in the Riot Grrl music movement.
Folk
As in the music, there's nothing like the gentle voices and softly strumming guitars to wash over me and cleanse my soul, including the different kind of folk - there's social justice folk - Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Joni Mitchel, Pete Seager, et al. Depressive Folk - Leonard Cohen. Urban Folk - Tracy Chapman. Love Folk - Sarah McLachlan. Alternative Folk - Sinead O'Connor, Tori Amos. This is my own view of the genre.
Magical Realism
Magical Realism is one of favourite literary genre's. Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Franz Kafka, Virginia Woolf, Neil Gaiman, Meir Shalev and others write in that style of magic or fantasy that appear in "normal" life. I suppose it could be regarded as a sub-group of Fantasy. The reason I love this kind of literature is because I feel that the author view the world the same way I do, with various hidden layers which they attempt to extrapolate in their works.
Quirkyalone
When I first saw the word, I didn't understand what it meant. But reading about the concept of finding joy in being unattached romantically and but not despairing of people, such as Single-hood seems to imply, I decided that I was not Single, 'cause I'm not a pessimist, but see no reason in forcing myself into a relationship simply to avoid being Single. Also, one can be in a relationship and still be Quirkyalone, because it is the concept of being complete in being by myself.
Tikkun Olam
"Tikkun Olam" is Hebrew for Fixing or Repairing the World, though a more correct, so to speak, meaning would Perfecting the World. It's a concept in Judaism that calls for all people to take on the task of benefiting the world and not just ourselves. Basically, that in trying to repair or perfect ourselves we do the same for the world on every level.
It's one of the few things in Jewish Spirituality I try in incorporate into my life, since I feel it's more an ethical duty, rather than a religious one.
Vox Populi Vox Dei
I feel the concept of the "Divinity" of the people to be the core of democracy. As Churchill said: "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.". It is a statement I whole heartedly agree with and within Democracy it is the voice of the people which has to be heard, it is the voice of the people who choose their leaders and it is the people who also decide when they want to replace those leaders. And the people are the known as The Man in the Street, the regular people, the people who just go on day by day. You and me, them and us.
Everybody.
Latin-English: "The Voice of the People is the Voice of God"
Latin-Hebrew: "קול המון כקול שדי"
In addition, the genocide in Darfur must be stopped.
וכמו כן, צריך לעצור את רצח העם בדרפור.
