April 2010
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Apr 27th
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“I got a call from my daughter that the whole family went out to dinner. While...”
– Crooks and Liars (via clingtomymouth) I hate people* sometimes.  Didn’t Stephen Hawking say today that aliens exist?  Maybe I’ll take my chances and see if I can hang with them for a while. *I don’t completely blame the 12 year-old who sent the text. Her parents, I’m sure, helped cultivate her...
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“Protest is only seen as fundamentally American when those who have long had the...”
– Ephphatha Poetry: “Imagine if the Tea Party Was Black” - Tim Wise (via notemily)
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48 Hour Book Challenge! →
Last year I did a little something called the 48 Hour Book Challenge, where I read 15 YA books in - yes! - 48 hours, and wrote brief reviews of them as I went, and collapsed into a wrecked pile of wreckage at the end. It was awesome. But the most awesome part was that, thanks to sponsors and donators, we raised over a thousand dollars for the Alannah and Madeline Foundation. The Alannah and...
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An Open Letter to Charles Tan →
I will not go into your critique of racefail because every point you have raised was raised by defensive white writers first, and explained and deconstructed by people with far more patience than I. I will, however, point out, what I find bizarre about your statement saying “The problem with RaceFail is that while yes, it does champion doing research and being careful when writing about...
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A Problem of Framing
dorianisms: thecurvature: meloukhia: You’ve likely heard about the case of Clay and Harold. I wrote about it yesterday, as did Tigtog at Hoyden About Town. Cara featured it today. Short version: Older gay couple is living in Sonoma County (just to the south of me, incidentally, geography nerds!). Partners realise that hospitalisations may be in their future, so they set up powers of...
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Apr 18th
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Someone called my little boy fag today →
ouyangdan: ekswitaj: dorianisms: lovelylittleradical: fuckyeahlgbt: gaythings: this will make you cry Read this.  *blub*
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On the Intelligence of Teens →
“I have to admit that I don’t really understand the final, fearful resistance to acknowledgement of teenage intelligence and curiosity. Why, for example, would a reviewer express discomfort that in Emily Lockhardt’s book about a sassy prep school girl’s machinations, the narrator mentions P. G. Wodehouse and Michel Foucault? Why should the inclusion of these names somehow seem...
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the return of creativity
I’m really fond of crafty and arty things at the moment. After a week off sick, my creative brain seems to be itching and stretching and tickling at the sides of my consciousness in a way that I haven’t felt for quite a few years. I just want to roll around in this feeling for a while, because I missed it. I’m not the most creative person; and I don’t think I ever will...
Apr 16th
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