blog: Weeknotes for 2024W48

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+title: 2024W48
+date: 2024-11-26
+publishDate: 2024-12-01
+tags:
+  - Weeknotes
+  - Travel
+  - Arizona
+  - Friends
+  - Family
+  - Reading
+  - Transgender
+  - LGBTQIA+
+  - Cooking
+  - Thanksgiving
+  - Holidays
+---
+
+This week was Thanksgiving. This is a complicated holiday in the United States.
+We are taught a simple narrative in school about Pilgrims and American Indians
+sharing food together, but that's a vastly over-simplified narrative that papers
+over a long history of violence inflicted on Native tribes by the European
+settlers. This year I leared about the [Pequot War][pequot], during which many
+members of the Pequot tribe were killed or sold into slavery such that the trive
+was effectively eliminated.
+
+---
+
+I spent most of the week at home visiting family. I spent a lot of time
+visiting with family and friends, reading, and learning a [new method of solving
+a Rubik's Cube][cube].
+
+I made some [really tasty rolls][rolls] for Thanksgiving, among several other
+yummy things.
+
+My sister's boyfriend taught me how to play [snooker][snooker] one afternoon.
+I've long enjoyed billiard games, and snooker is pretty different from the 8 and
+9 ball games I usually play.
+
+---
+
+I finished "[I'm Starting to Worry About This Black Box of Doom][doom]", a book
+my sister and I were reading together. It got very absurd at the end, and has
+some good thoughts for all of us about how technology affects our intra- and
+inter-personal lives. I could hardly put it down the last half. 
+
+---
+
+I've been reading and listening to a lot of journalism about what's coming for
+trans people in the United States once Trump takes office.
+
+* Slate's Outward podcast episode that asks "[Now What Do We Do?][nowwhat]"
+* "[Not Everyone Can Leave][leave]" in the Texas Observer
+* SF Chronicle ran an opinion piece about some [suggestions][sfc] legal experts
+have for LGBTQ families.
+
+I've been really torn on the question of how best to move forward since the
+election. There's a lot to sift through, and risks to weigh. I'm thinking and
+reading a lot, talking with {{< tess >}} and with my family. I don't know yet.
+
+[pequot]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequot_War
+[cube]: https://www.speedcube.us/blogs/speedcubing-solutions/how-to-solve-the-3x3-last-layer-alternate-method-intermediate?shpxid=12516898-6e62-4655-b780-1f5397c1d24c
+[nowwhat]: https://slate.com/podcasts/outward/2024/11/journalist-mark-joseph-stern-joins-christina-cauterucci-to-assess-potential-rollbacks-on-equality-and-freedom-for-queer-americans
+[leave]: https://www.texasobserver.org/survival-advice-trans-teens-texas/
+[sfc]: https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/article/trump-lgbtq-legal-protections-19909773.php
+[doom]: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250285959/imstartingtoworryaboutthisblackboxofdoom/
+[snooker]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snooker
+[rolls]: {{< ref "blog/2024/milk-bread-rolls" >}}