“What students need isn’t a lecture on abstinence. They need a community that sees sex as about mutual pleasure and intimacy, not point scoring or getting something, and that doesn’t shame or problematize female sexuality. Heterosexual women need male partners who are respectful, generous in bed and emotionally competent, and who treat women like ( Read more... )

The best gifts are not things. More valuable than any item I could have received are that after weeks of -40 it is actually above 0F outside, and the head cold that's been plaguing me all week is gone. Also, Byron's present to me: two private lessons in blues dance for the pair of us. He got me dance for Christmas, you guys ( Read more... )

They're rather last minute, but hey, I have Yuletide recs, and before the reveal ( Read more... )

Yuletide is, as ever, amazing. :D This year I got three lovely gift fics:

First, two lovely fics based on Vienna Teng's songs that do an amazing job of evoking the sad and yet hopeful atmosphere that characterizes so many of her songs, with a cast of wonderful strong female characters.

In Unending Storms"Shine with all the untold / Hold the light ( Read more... )