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* The Zika News keeps getting worse. "Colombia: A nation in panic over Zika:" http://www.bbc.com/news/health-35552340
* "The Koch Brothers Are Now Funding The Bundy Land Seizure Agenda:" http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/11/3748602/koch-brothers-funding-bundy-agenda/
* Gilmore's dropped out. That leaves Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, Carson, and Bush on one side and Clinton and Sanders on the other. Democratic Nevada Caucuses and South Carolina Primaries are next. (SC: Reps Feb. 20th; Dems Feb. 27th. Nev: Dems. 20th, Reps Feb. 23rd).
* Scalia's finally kicked it. Ted Cruz is already wining that somehow the President should be prevented from picking a successor. No, Ted, that's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. My bet is there is already a pre-vetted list at the White House and they are making so many phone calls right now to set tings up to move fast once the announcement goes.
* "Texas lawmaker Jonathan Stickland’s web posts condone rape, seek weed ‘smoking buddy’:" http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/12/texas-lawmaker-jonathan-sticklands-web-posts-about-weed-smoking-da-green-surface.html/
* "The GOP’s nipple ban: The war on women gets personal - and even more hateful - in New Hampshire:" http://www.salon.com/2015/12/31/the_gops_nipple_ban_the_war_on_women_gets_personal_and_even_more_hateful_in_new_hampshire/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
* "Note To KY Bigots: Don't Yell The N-Word At A Black Judge:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/01/note-to-ky-bigots-dont-yell-n-word-at_6.html
* "Five Stupid Things About Islamophobia :"
* "Fed Up With Trans Latina Erasure:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/01/fed-up-with-trans-latina-erasure.html
* I do not understand why it is considered feminist in TERF circles to reduce women to baby incubators. That looks like the opposite of feminist to me. "Womanhood Does Not Equal To Childbirth Alone:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/01/womanhood-does-not-equal-to-childbirth.html
* "Transgender bathroom bill killed in Virginia House committee with bi-partisan support:" http://www.gayrva.com/news-views/transgender-bathroom-bill-killed-in-virginia-house-committee-with-bi-partisan-support/?utm_content=bufferb5ec7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
* Hector's not eating and all he wants is to be with his people. I haven't much hope at this point.
* Killer of Enemies, by Joseph Bruchac: I would like to thank whoever it was recommended this one. It was a fast and facinating read with a unique narrative voice. I loved that Lozen's voice was so clear and distinct in my head. I loved how strong the world building was and that this isn't a world I've seen before. I loved that the main cast were mostly people of colour and that it mattered. Chiracawa culture was important to the story and the Native American elements were all specific to various cultures. This book has a lot to say about our world which led to that one. I want there to be more of the series and I wish I could be reading the next one right now.
* I read the Dune books that I read when I had a serious concussion.... "Alia Atreides Never Had A Chance:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/alia-atreides-had-no-chance/
* I haven't had much to say about London Spy up until this point. It's not through lack of interest, but more a lack of anything much of general interest to say. The story has turned out to be very personal to me, which doesn't mean it hasn't things to say to the rest of the world, just that it surprised me in this way and I was not sure how to talk about it. Episode three was bordering on triggery for me, and knowing my friends, I am betting I'm not the only one. I just watched episode four and now I think I am ready to talk about it.
Knowing who was cast for it, I had faith it would be well acted. I had certain expectations going in: that it would be about spies, have queer content, and a possibly noirish investigation by the lover of the dead man. In short, I expected this to be so much more straight forward in what it is trying to achieve than it turned out to be. I was expecting it to be more a gay sort of LeCarre thing basically, instead of a rather grown up probing of multi-generational wounds within the gay male community. For a show that is so beautifully small scale, it is a very, very big story. I had expected it to focus on Danny and his relationship with Alec. I kept being surprised by the use of Scottie to put their tragedy into a context of generations of loss, cruelty, and discrimination. It's kind of genius, and it's a conversation that needs to be had, which has started to be had more openly in the last few years in a variety of places. It surprised me how willing they were to have it here in the context of this particular story.
Episode four had me glued to my screen. The passage with Danny and Scottie talking as they walked out in the country and the one following with Danny and Alec at the fire I backed up and watched three or four times because it was so important and powerful and eerily like things I have said and thought. I am not used to any part of me and my experience being represented in media, yet the thing about mourning that Scottie suggests is a thing I have done myself, was counseled to do by another gay man of my generation, have counseled others to do. That experience of being locked out of official mourning by the family is not exclusive to the queer experience, but it's indelibly impressed into queer culture stretching back centuries, made so much bigger and louder by the recent plague, when it wasn't just individual partners locked out, but a couple of generations going through it all at once over and over again in a relatively short period of time. That thing Alec says about soul mates I must have expressed hundreds of times over the course of my life too.
This show is breaking my heart. This show is a concentrated sort of powerful for something that is on the surface so quiet. This show tears at me in ways I can not explain really.
* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help
* Help the poisoned children of Flint Michigan. "Water Crisis:" https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx
* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan
* Want to help finance Hector's cat food and my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/592390.html. Please comment there using OpenID.
* "The Koch Brothers Are Now Funding The Bundy Land Seizure Agenda:" http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2016/02/11/3748602/koch-brothers-funding-bundy-agenda/
* Gilmore's dropped out. That leaves Trump, Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, Carson, and Bush on one side and Clinton and Sanders on the other. Democratic Nevada Caucuses and South Carolina Primaries are next. (SC: Reps Feb. 20th; Dems Feb. 27th. Nev: Dems. 20th, Reps Feb. 23rd).
* Scalia's finally kicked it. Ted Cruz is already wining that somehow the President should be prevented from picking a successor. No, Ted, that's not how it works. That's not how any of this works. My bet is there is already a pre-vetted list at the White House and they are making so many phone calls right now to set tings up to move fast once the announcement goes.
* "Texas lawmaker Jonathan Stickland’s web posts condone rape, seek weed ‘smoking buddy’:" http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2015/12/texas-lawmaker-jonathan-sticklands-web-posts-about-weed-smoking-da-green-surface.html/
* "The GOP’s nipple ban: The war on women gets personal - and even more hateful - in New Hampshire:" http://www.salon.com/2015/12/31/the_gops_nipple_ban_the_war_on_women_gets_personal_and_even_more_hateful_in_new_hampshire/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=socialflow
* "Note To KY Bigots: Don't Yell The N-Word At A Black Judge:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/01/note-to-ky-bigots-dont-yell-n-word-at_6.html
* "Five Stupid Things About Islamophobia :"
Click to view* "Fed Up With Trans Latina Erasure:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/01/fed-up-with-trans-latina-erasure.html
* I do not understand why it is considered feminist in TERF circles to reduce women to baby incubators. That looks like the opposite of feminist to me. "Womanhood Does Not Equal To Childbirth Alone:" http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2016/01/womanhood-does-not-equal-to-childbirth.html
* "Transgender bathroom bill killed in Virginia House committee with bi-partisan support:" http://www.gayrva.com/news-views/transgender-bathroom-bill-killed-in-virginia-house-committee-with-bi-partisan-support/?utm_content=bufferb5ec7&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer
* Hector's not eating and all he wants is to be with his people. I haven't much hope at this point.
* Killer of Enemies, by Joseph Bruchac: I would like to thank whoever it was recommended this one. It was a fast and facinating read with a unique narrative voice. I loved that Lozen's voice was so clear and distinct in my head. I loved how strong the world building was and that this isn't a world I've seen before. I loved that the main cast were mostly people of colour and that it mattered. Chiracawa culture was important to the story and the Native American elements were all specific to various cultures. This book has a lot to say about our world which led to that one. I want there to be more of the series and I wish I could be reading the next one right now.
* I read the Dune books that I read when I had a serious concussion.... "Alia Atreides Never Had A Chance:" http://www.fandomfollowing.com/alia-atreides-had-no-chance/
* I haven't had much to say about London Spy up until this point. It's not through lack of interest, but more a lack of anything much of general interest to say. The story has turned out to be very personal to me, which doesn't mean it hasn't things to say to the rest of the world, just that it surprised me in this way and I was not sure how to talk about it. Episode three was bordering on triggery for me, and knowing my friends, I am betting I'm not the only one. I just watched episode four and now I think I am ready to talk about it.
Knowing who was cast for it, I had faith it would be well acted. I had certain expectations going in: that it would be about spies, have queer content, and a possibly noirish investigation by the lover of the dead man. In short, I expected this to be so much more straight forward in what it is trying to achieve than it turned out to be. I was expecting it to be more a gay sort of LeCarre thing basically, instead of a rather grown up probing of multi-generational wounds within the gay male community. For a show that is so beautifully small scale, it is a very, very big story. I had expected it to focus on Danny and his relationship with Alec. I kept being surprised by the use of Scottie to put their tragedy into a context of generations of loss, cruelty, and discrimination. It's kind of genius, and it's a conversation that needs to be had, which has started to be had more openly in the last few years in a variety of places. It surprised me how willing they were to have it here in the context of this particular story.
Episode four had me glued to my screen. The passage with Danny and Scottie talking as they walked out in the country and the one following with Danny and Alec at the fire I backed up and watched three or four times because it was so important and powerful and eerily like things I have said and thought. I am not used to any part of me and my experience being represented in media, yet the thing about mourning that Scottie suggests is a thing I have done myself, was counseled to do by another gay man of my generation, have counseled others to do. That experience of being locked out of official mourning by the family is not exclusive to the queer experience, but it's indelibly impressed into queer culture stretching back centuries, made so much bigger and louder by the recent plague, when it wasn't just individual partners locked out, but a couple of generations going through it all at once over and over again in a relatively short period of time. That thing Alec says about soul mates I must have expressed hundreds of times over the course of my life too.
This show is breaking my heart. This show is a concentrated sort of powerful for something that is on the surface so quiet. This show tears at me in ways I can not explain really.
* Zimbabwe has joined Ethiopia in disaster level drought People and animals are dying. Want to help? https://www.wfp.org/help
* Help the poisoned children of Flint Michigan. "Water Crisis:" https://www.cfgf.org/cfgf/GoodWork/FlintArea/WaterCrisis/tabid/855/Default.aspx
* "How to help Flint, Michigan:" http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/how-help-flint-michigan
* Want to help finance Hector's cat food and my meds/medical co pays? Paypal Lethran@gmail.com
* Donate to help refugees "UN Refugee Agency:" http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general
* Organizations helping with the refugee crisis: http://captainofalltheships.tumblr.com/post/128790538169/an-updated-list-of-organizations-to-donate-to-help
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
This entry was originally posted at http://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/592390.html. Please comment there using OpenID.