Sometimes, I really despair of some of my family ( Read more... )

Damn it, John C. Wright. Why'd you have to haul off and prove yourself a raving homophobic asshat? I enjoyed your Chronicles of Chaos books--I really did. I was happy to send money and other readers your way.

But damn. Then you go and show yourself as someone I really do not wish to associate with or support ( Read more... )

karnythia has made an impassioned post today that I wish to boost the signal for:

We Have Feelings Too or The Cost OF Being A POC in Race Discussions

Also, in general I want to point out that karnythia, sparkymonster, unusualmusic, rawles, and many, many other people have been engaging in important discussions about racism. Seriously, go check out ibarw and the link round-up posts. People are ( Read more... )

rm writes a brilliant essay on why, in fact, equality isn't actually a subject for debate.

I am livid with President Obama and the brief the Department of Justice filed today.

He pretty much just lost my vote.

Read about it at Americablog.I mean, it's one thing to feel that you have to defend current bad law, and it's another thing to invoke incest and child marriage to do it. Oh, and also, to do so in a way that makes a hypocrite of ( Read more... )

Interesting post by Deepa D. (of "I didn't dream of dragons" fame)... just beginning to sort out my thoughts on it, although I agreed with a lot of it right off the bat.

Also, want to point to Fen of Color United, FOC_U for short.

I am really looking forward to WisCon next week. It's my first convention, and I'll be seeing some of my VP friends, ( Read more... )

A friend and I were having a heated discussion about MammothFail the other day, and toward the end of it (where we stopped because the burgers needed to come off the grill and we had to get on with the business of dinner), she pulled out what might have been meant to be a trump card in the debate, or perhaps just an attempt to validate another ( Read more... )

So, part of the current race/culture/privilege controversy exploding all over the SF&F community online involves a very prominent and well-respected author in the field being a complete idiot about the existence of fans of color (apparently, we're newly-sprung from the head of Octavia Butler, all Minervas of Color). In response, a call was put ( Read more... )

I've not read Patricia C. Wrede's Thirteenth Child, and I don't think I will.

According to Jo Walton writing over at Tor, it's "Little House on the Prairie with mammoths and magic," apparently. Which sounds awesome, and something I'd love to read. Only, one of its basic premises posits an alternate America ("Columbia") that's empty, where the ( Read more... )

Okay, so as part of my daily tour of the web, I read a variety of blogs, including ones that are of queer-interest. One of these is Queerty, which annoys me more often than not.

Today I was tremendously annoyed by a piece entitled Are Bisexual Guys ... Real?

Seriously?

I mean, seriously?What. The. Fuck ( Read more... )