Welcome

This blog starts as an experiment on Diversity, Tolerance and the fostering of the Different.  While we can utilize our differences to constructive purposes, by following an opposite agenda of divisiveness or discrimination we are led to the destructive. Please do not come here to hate, denigrate, deny and derogate. It is clearly not the place for you if you hold such an intent. Otherwise, you voices are welcome.

Through examples from art, literature, music, history, philosophy, technology, socio-political and cultural life in the States and abroad, I will attempt to curate here a space for free-flowing ideas designed around pluralism, inclusiveness, multiculturalism, non-partisanism, non-religiousness. As much as the focus is on diversity, it is also on subversity.   The latter is not an official entry in the dictionary, yet as pun I use it to signify a subversive attempt to turn on its head that which we consider old and regressive - backwards social concepts and obsolete traditions, social misconceptions of the kind "must" and "don't", as well as the judgmental and prejudicial mode of thinking still exhibited in cultures across the world.

Finally, the name is to be understood quite literally  - I really tend to do lots of good thinking and productive writing while folding laundry - and quite metaphorically, in the sense that many stones will be turned and many  uncomfortable truths will be exposed, i.e.  airing some dirty laundry. Ironically, it is also a tongue- in- cheek joke for the feminist and proletariat in you : what worthwhile thoughts  or wisdom can a person doing laundry bestow upon the world, wink, wink?

Welcome.