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So...after six months of trying to get my two *other* Gmail addresses back after my HD and my cellphone died a few months after I enabled two-step authentication via phone on my gmail accounts, I think I might be giving up ( Read more... )

There is an awesome conversation about gender, identity, transitioning, schooling, and respect going on in the comments of this post re: BMC and trans issues. I still haven't heard back from the admissions office yet, but really am happy with how awesome and well-thought-out the comments are, and when I do hear back from admissions you all will be ( Read more... )

So, I just wrote the BMC admissions office asking for their policies on admitting transgender students, as I couldn't find them outlined anywhere on the admissions website, and have found some other info suggesting that the Transgender Task Force convened to make recommendations about this very issue a few years ago recommended the current possible ( Read more... )

A new bill recently introduced in the Maine Legislature would repeal the protections that transgender people have already had for five years under the Maine Human Rights Act. Maine Rep. Ken Fredette (R, Newport) says ( Read more... )

So, I normally like ThinkGeek's products (honestly, who can't like a company that sells things like lightsabers?) But I can't imagine what possessed them (or how legal it is) for them to sell live animals.

They say that these animals are a responsibly-bred offshoot of the Munchkin Cat, but the creation of the Munchkin Cat itself as a new breed has ( Read more... )

Books as Wine: The Mysterious Case of Nancy Drew & the Hardy Boys, Carole Kismaric & Marvin Heiferman

First impressions: I have not read the authors' other book, "Growing up with Dick and Jane." This is a coffee-table book which purported to discuss the politics of early childrens' publishing, as well as the historical conception of teen and pre- ( Read more... )

This is required reading for pretty much anyone who's having sex and/or voting in America.

I've been reading this piece about the Eddie Long scandal [summary: yet another anti-gay pastor accused of having gay sex with young adults in his pastoral care], and how the idea of the "prosperity gospel" of Long's church feeds into the scandal, over at Ta-Nehisi Coates' blog (the piece itself is written by Coates' friend Jelani Cobb though it's ( Read more... )

The Indianapolis Farmers' Market vendor "Just Cookies" just won't make cookies for gay IU students. Fun fact: the cookie order was eventually placed with the "Flying Cupcake" bakery on, get this, Massachusetts Ave.

I would have volunteered to make them cookies. In fact, here, here's two cookies. Pass them around, folks:


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