I should be working (story of my life, ha) but I'm happy with how much I got done this morning so I'm going to take 10 minutes to write that post I've been meaning to write forever. First, some links! Wonderful!

- Black-Grrl Power: Willow Smith and Sesame Street: an article on black hair, started by the recent Sesame Street video featuring a black ( Read more... )

I took advantage of the fact that Allie was in Canmore with her parents for a few days to finish my second draft of my thesis, which was nearly 50 pages shorter! Success! Hopefully, anyway. Now I'm waiting for substantive comments.

Anyway, I mostly wanted to share an article, Policing Female Masculinity: Much Ado About Rachel Maddow’s Yearbook ( Read more... )

California Court says private school can expel lesbians. Apart from the obvious, two things really bother me about this ( Read more... )

Puppy cuteness from here to start:

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shiraz_wine directed me to a fascinating analysis of the Twilight crazy. I agree with a lot of the points that the poster makes and in particular, that it's important to remember that a text is polysemic and that different people are going to take different things from the same material. Thank fuck, it's entirely possible for a girl to read Twilight and not ( Read more... )

Linus is NOT WindowsSo very valid and interesting points made in that post (especially about user friendliness). Despite the slight video issue I'm still having and tiny things I haven't figured out yet, I am satisfied of my switch to Ubuntu. It's maybe a little more code-oriented than I'd like it to be, but that's mostly because I'm still ( Read more... )

I've talked at length about the same-sex marriage debate that's been going on in Massachusetts since the Supreme Court ruling in November 2003 that it was unconstitutional in the state of MA to deny same-sex couples the right to marry. Well, this is (hopefully) going to be the last post on the topic, at least as far as MA is concerned:
Today, MA ( Read more... )

We talk about tolerance and accepting differences when we go to see kids in schools. We talk about not having the right answer, about debating to try and get people thinking ( Read more... )

Just to depress y'all a little.

It just scares me how easily you could sing along to that song and look normal.

Whoever preaches hatred like that, towards anyone? I have no respect for you. You don't even deserve to have your opinions respected.

Seen first on fan_elune's LJ :

Julie Banderas VS Phelps matriarch

What sickens me most with people from the Phelps Church is that they will never lose. You can never achieve a perfect nation, so they will always have something to complain about. And since they will never actually rule (thank God), they will always be able to say we got it wrong and they ( Read more... )