Back in grades seven and eight, I was bullied in a pretty big way. Death threats (however rhetorical) were a more or less daily occurrence. Elbows in the hall happened regularly, and actual assaults on school property (inside the school itself, more than once) were, if not frequent, were not exactly rare.

And deciding which route to take home was ( Read more... )

The pocket is political

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Some thoughts on the importance of historical context


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Girls gone funny

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Five days in a row! Who'd-a thunk it?

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... a meme. That's right, a god damned meme.

If you have some interest in which women science fiction writers I've read, click the cut. If you're sensible, carry on to the next entry. (Filched from more than one of you.

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I hate it but I also (kinda/I think/maybe) love it. Writing to a deadline, that is. Anyway, this is the second week in a row I've found myself not only producing True North Perspective but also penning the Editor's NotesFinished the nearly 1,000 words around 11:55 and threw the switch (pulled off the password protection and queued the email ( Read more... )

A boy in The Women's Room

Living as we do mostly and more or less in the present, when female soldiers are coming home from Afghanistan in body bags, women are routinely running for public office and blasting off into space as astronauts, it is easy to lose sight of just how much and how quickly things have changed in North America over the past ( Read more... )

Back in the '70s, when I was 10 or 11 years old, my mother bought into the then-fashionable belief that television was "the plug-in drug", a Destructive Influence that threatened the moral fibre of children exposed to the sex and (especially, to my mother's mind) the violence on offer via the glass teat ( Read more... )

Don't worry, folks, I'm not about to test your patience with another 3,000 worder.

As a mildly ironic counterpoint to the unexpected phone-call from Laura on Wednesday, I had a date scheduled for Thursday. A lunch date, but still ( Read more... )