Summer Update
I’ve been very busy this summer. Not only did I do the week-long class and test for the Microsoft DP-500, but I also did another class and test for the SAFe Agile Practitioner certification. I’m learning lots about Oracle reporting tools as well. Between that and Tears of the Kingdom, I haven’t had as much time for blogging. I plan to post more soon.
Watched some things of note:
Neptune Frost via Kanopy (watched twice, everyone in the family found it compelling enough to watch through). When I started watching the first time, I had just seen the trailer on Youtube, and knew nothing about it. A hypnotic immersion in poetic language and music with themes of ongoing colonialism, media, and gender.
Nimona on Netflix. We have an interest in animation, anime, etc. Nimona started as a webcomic, then was a graphic novel, and is now an animated movie exploring trans acceptance in society.
Mama Bears documentary on PBS Passport: Independent Lens. Women of faith looking out for their children.
No Straight Lines on PBS Passport: Independent Lens. Documentary on gay comic artists in the United States.
The queer S&M comic that inspired Mickey Mouse - YouTube. Yeah, the title on this one is clickbaity but Mattt does a great job in telling about George Herriman, creator of the Krazy Kat comic strip, who passed as white yet shared something of his secret identity in his art. Mattt is a new channel which consistently delivers great stories about the history of comics that generally have some profound emotional depth.
Karen, my wife, wrote an article for Outreach.Faith on Five things every Catholic parent should know if their child comes out.