cat valente stays winning
May. 16th, 2025 10:08 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
isunshowermost recent read is catherynne valente's the refrigerator monologues, which is, like... it's a short feminist take on superheroes and superhero girlfriends and, as the title suggests, fridged women. one of the characters is LITERALLY stuffed into a refrigerator when she dies. i adore the concept of this ragtag group of exes, not all of whom actually like each other, meeting up for coffee regularly and bitching about how they were doomed by the narrative. it's very self-aware, which i love, and funny, and i could sort of picture how this would be staged as a play, weirdly enough. the title is a deliberate callback to the vagina monologues, which i have not seen performed in any way shape or form, but like, i get the gist. i'm really curious about what would happen if somebody staged this one, you know?
i'm originally familiar with valente from her book space opera, which is a very silly book about alien eurovision. wow look at me with my segue - it's eurovision week! my faves have all qualified from their semifinals and the stage is not atrocious and even the automatic qualifiers this year are good. i'm excited to watch live on saturday; i didn't last year due to a combination of the... well, you know, the politics, and also i had to work. (The Politics, by which i mean the inclusion of israel despite their blatant use of it as a propaganda disseminator and their, you know, ongoing atrocities against the palestinians, are still Politicking this year -- but the overton window is definitely shifting. there have been a lot of protests and subsequent statements by the people who run the contest and i do think their days in the contest are limited.) but obviously you all know i've been perfectly comfortable (well, not exactly, it still does FEEL weird) engaging with the contest this year because i've been blogging about it. who do i think is going to win? no idea, but in my own personal opinion, the netherlands, lithuania, and austria are all very good.
btw i'm writing this on the work computer because Someone Who's Not Even My Boss double-booked himself and now i have to have a meeting during an employee social event and i'm bothered about it so i'm posting on company time, wifi, and resources <3
i'm originally familiar with valente from her book space opera, which is a very silly book about alien eurovision. wow look at me with my segue - it's eurovision week! my faves have all qualified from their semifinals and the stage is not atrocious and even the automatic qualifiers this year are good. i'm excited to watch live on saturday; i didn't last year due to a combination of the... well, you know, the politics, and also i had to work. (The Politics, by which i mean the inclusion of israel despite their blatant use of it as a propaganda disseminator and their, you know, ongoing atrocities against the palestinians, are still Politicking this year -- but the overton window is definitely shifting. there have been a lot of protests and subsequent statements by the people who run the contest and i do think their days in the contest are limited.) but obviously you all know i've been perfectly comfortable (well, not exactly, it still does FEEL weird) engaging with the contest this year because i've been blogging about it. who do i think is going to win? no idea, but in my own personal opinion, the netherlands, lithuania, and austria are all very good.
btw i'm writing this on the work computer because Someone Who's Not Even My Boss double-booked himself and now i have to have a meeting during an employee social event and i'm bothered about it so i'm posting on company time, wifi, and resources <3
