Link: Shweta on trying to assimilate

Prompted by a long, anti-Muslim and strongly pro-assimilation post by Elizabeth Moon, shweta_narayan wrote about the pressure to assimilate and how it has affected her.

This is hard stuff, but worth reading. It's not everyone's experience, but it's real, and difficult, and seldom seen by those of us who are, at least mostly, part of the dominant culture. Because one of the demands, often, is that people should pretend that assimilation was straightforward.

(I may post about what Moon said later, but Shweta's post is worth reading even if you've never heard of Elizabeth Moon.)

off center, I think this is biomechanical

For the last day or so, I've been feeling as though my walking and posture are slightly off, with weight more on one leg than the other, and stressing my right hip a little.

Thinking about it this evening, I tried shifting my pelvis slightly to the right. This helps, in the sense that it feels more comfortable. But (so far) I haven't got that working for walking, only sitting and standing, and I have to keep shifting back into position.

This will be the first thing on my agenda with Emilie on Thursday, even if it has resolved before then.

ETA I have spoken to Emilie briefly; she watched me walk and said something about my left gluteus maximus, and we'll work on it Thursday.