I would really like comments with suggestions of light, frivolous things I can write about for the next week or two!
I wanted to get back to doing what I set up this blog to do, all those many (4, count 'em!) years ago, which was to write about my personal brand of feminism, feminism-allyhood, and politics in general (with some emphasis on sex and gender).
I just don't find it in me to do so, though. The past year and a half of British politics have really knocked the stuffing out of me in many ways, and even things that are likely to impact on me directly I don't feel like I want to write about or activist about the way I usually would be up in arms to do. I just want to crawl into my shell and hide until the nastiness stops.
Of course, that's not a highly effective strategy, but the trouble with "I get knocked down, but I get up again", is that then they knock you down again, and harder, and they keep doing that until you stay down, not from choice or submission but just because your body won't function well enough to make standing an option - the pain takes over, the instinct takes over, curl up, protect as best you can the vital organs, and wait until the violence stops.
I had been hoping that some of the Labour Party conference this year would revive a bit of vitality, but it hasn't yet, and even if it did, there's still over three years before the next election is due, and that's a huge amount of time in which damage can be done.
So, yeah - I think I'm experiencing a form of activist burn-out at the moment and retreating from those struggle-y type posts (as may be gathered from looking at recent posting history). I still want to get away from the dating theme, there's been far too much of that recently, and also I think I need to get away from the self-pitying "I feel lonely" stuff that I noted a couple of posts ago.
So, as I said at the top of this post: I'm looking for people to ask me questions or make suggestions of nice, easy, relaxing, light-hearted topics for me to blog about and give my opinion on.
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