Crucible [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: July 26th, 2020

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  • A combo of: You want your kid to have a unique name because it felt weird and alienating as a kid to be one of the six Jessicas or ten Kyles in the same classroom. They also need to have a name that has meaning to you, because they are an extension of your existence. You don’t know many other names, and you don’t want to give them one that sounds old like Mildred, or ones that are easily mocked in the ways you remember from childhood. Finally, your partner hates every name idea you come up with so you mash your favourite with their favourite and end up with a kid named ‘Fayelynn’ which sounds like ‘Failing’ because you liked the name Faye but they liked the name Lynn.




  • Dorothy Thompson’s defense of Grynszpan feels extremely apt:

    I am speaking of this boy. Soon he will go on trial. The news is that on top of all this terror, this horror, one more must pay. They say he will go to the guillotine, without a trial by jury, with the rights that any common murderer has… Who is on trial in this case? I say we are all on trial. I say the men of Munich are on trial, who signed a pact without one word of protection for helpless minorities. Whether Herschel Grynszpan lives or not won’t matter much to Herschel. He was prepared to die when he fired those shots. His young life was already ruined. Since then, his heart has been broken into bits by the results of his deed. They say a man is entitled to a trial by a jury of his peers, and a man’s kinsmen rally around him, when he is in trouble. But no kinsman of Herschel’s can defend him. The Nazi government has announced that if any Jews, anywhere in the world, protest at anything that is happening, further oppressive measures will be taken. They are holding every Jew in Germany as a hostage. Therefore, we who are not Jews must speak, speak our sorrow and indignation and disgust in so many voices that they will be heard. This boy has become a symbol, and the responsibility for his deed must be shared by those who caused it