Friday, November 18, 2011
Because Stormtroopers Are People Too
I also don't want to lose track of this awesome project. A brilliant photographer doing family style portraits of the Dark Side, one photo a day for every day of the year (click here to go to her flickr account and scroll through the others).
Breaking Open the Conversation
Still behind in pretty much everything (school, life, blogging) but sticking this here for a wider audience. I posted a link to this HuffPo article about the Kardashian debacle on my facebook page, and an old high school friend of mine commented, "Why rejoice in anyone's failed marriage?"
It was a fair question, and here is what I wrote in response (his name has been changed to protect the innocent):
John, I don't rejoice in anyone's failed marriage. I do lament what I see as a grave injustice, that someone who has such obvious disrespect for marriage is nevertheless legally allowed to keep making a mockery of marriage (and to make a crapload of money ON her mockery of it), while my LGBT brothers and sisters are (in most places) legally denied the ability to marry, and so must fight and scrape and go to great personal expense to pull together a very fragile system of support and protection and acknowledgment of their relationship. At its best this is still a fraction of the kind of support and protection and acknowledgment that Ms. Kardashian is granted by default. . .sacred relationship, support, protection, and acknowledgment which she has - twice now - casually thrown away.
I do not rejoice in the failure of her marriages. But I will rejoice if her continued mockery of marriage breaks open the conversation about what is just, and what respect for marriage truly looks like, and I will rejoice if breaking open that conversation ultimately helps secure justice, support, and protection for those who DO hold marriage sacred but are categorically denied participation in that gift.
Peace to you, brother. And thanks for pushing back with your question.
It was a fair question, and here is what I wrote in response (his name has been changed to protect the innocent):
John, I don't rejoice in anyone's failed marriage. I do lament what I see as a grave injustice, that someone who has such obvious disrespect for marriage is nevertheless legally allowed to keep making a mockery of marriage (and to make a crapload of money ON her mockery of it), while my LGBT brothers and sisters are (in most places) legally denied the ability to marry, and so must fight and scrape and go to great personal expense to pull together a very fragile system of support and protection and acknowledgment of their relationship. At its best this is still a fraction of the kind of support and protection and acknowledgment that Ms. Kardashian is granted by default. . .sacred relationship, support, protection, and acknowledgment which she has - twice now - casually thrown away.
I do not rejoice in the failure of her marriages. But I will rejoice if her continued mockery of marriage breaks open the conversation about what is just, and what respect for marriage truly looks like, and I will rejoice if breaking open that conversation ultimately helps secure justice, support, and protection for those who DO hold marriage sacred but are categorically denied participation in that gift.
Peace to you, brother. And thanks for pushing back with your question.
Monday, November 7, 2011
Subway Star Wars
I'm way behind here, I've got several posts I want to write, but this was too awesome, it had to be put up immediately.
Oh, how I love New York. And Improv troupes.
Oh, how I love New York. And Improv troupes.
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