In case anyone here is following it, I've moved my trans-focused wordpress blog to my own domain, and finally made a new post. You can now find it at:

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Will Wright is speaking in NYC on Feb 17th

Why Games are (Good) for Learning
Join visionary game designer Will Wright, whose creations include SimCity, The Sims, Spore, and many others, for a discussion on digital games and how they support and encourage learning. RSVP for tickets at: tickets@g4li.org. Two tickets per person limit. Deadline 11: ( Read more... )

1. Comment to this entry saying 'ICONS!'
2. I will pick 6 of your icons.
3. Make an entry in your own journal and talk about the icons I chose.

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View poll: Random Dialectical QuestionIn other news, I tried playing a Vampire LARP tonight. I don't know if I'm just not cut out for LARPing or if it was just a bad headspace, but I couldn't get into it and left early; according to the group gabbing about it outside my apartment, it was AWESOME. It ended with most of the characters getting stabbed ( Read more... )

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Further thoughts on that submission post for Gender Outlaw: The Next Generation at my Eloquent Protest blog:

There's this comment thread that really makes me want to get non-North-American trans voices into this anthology...

...from what I thought three months ago I'd be doing right about now ( Read more... )

So, I have this habit of putting on subtitles or closed-captioning whenever I'm watching TV or movies by myself. I will squash this desire if I'm watching with lots of other people, because I know it's annoying for some (and I usually get gently teased about it), but some friends of mine have been forced to suffer through this habit if I feel that ( Read more... )

Slapping, punching, stabbing, slashing, kicking, dropping, and all of those in reverse, at the Winter Wonderland [stage fighting] Workshop. Quotes of the weekend ( Read more... )

One of my post-Christmas presents from the mum was a recreation of The Royal Game of Ur, one of the oldest board games we have tangible evidence for. A board something like 4600 years old was uncovered in the '20s and the rules, while not exactly clear, have been reconstructed from references. It's kind of a predecessor to backgammon, and it's a ( Read more... )