This is a half-baked post---I just wanted to get back to writing a little something in the mornings before work. This is what's currently playing in the background of my life:
Mz has moved on from 1960s (Star Trek) to the 1970s, my high school years: Starsky and Hutch. She wears headphones, but I still register the cars and clothes and general feel, and it's once again funny to be aware that my past is history.
I spent most of the '70s being miserable, and looking back, it was kind of a miserable decade, in its own special way. Mz commented on how the show's grungy post-Watergate world view is so different from brightly Sixties Trek. Still, the seeds of a lot of social change were sprouting in the 70s--the women's movement especially, in my life.
The cultural artifact I would choose to represent that time for me is Marge Piercy's dystopia/utopia Woman on the Edge of Time.
I think this is the cover of the copy I owned.
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Mz has moved on from 1960s (Star Trek) to the 1970s, my high school years: Starsky and Hutch. She wears headphones, but I still register the cars and clothes and general feel, and it's once again funny to be aware that my past is history.
I spent most of the '70s being miserable, and looking back, it was kind of a miserable decade, in its own special way. Mz commented on how the show's grungy post-Watergate world view is so different from brightly Sixties Trek. Still, the seeds of a lot of social change were sprouting in the 70s--the women's movement especially, in my life.
The cultural artifact I would choose to represent that time for me is Marge Piercy's dystopia/utopia Woman on the Edge of Time.
I think this is the cover of the copy I owned.
