In what is an appropriate follow-up to watching the Top Gear Alabama/redneck episode recently, glitterandlube just posted this bit of reporting. Quite rightly she titles it

FECK YOU ALABAMAThis, people, is what's wrong with a) institutionalised homophobia and b) America ( Read more... )

An interesting article on the relationship between slash rfanfiction, performance theory, copyright law and the deconstruction of socially gendered identities by groups existing outside the dominent cultural paradigm (e.g. women and LGTB groups). Well worth a quick scan.