I'm skimming this paper,

and the Wikipedia article on Radical feminism,

as further thought after finishing That Guy in Our Women's Studies ClassI've written before how I was attracted to women's rights from a very young age, the first male student to join the ERA parade at my school in 3rd grade.  Such an exciting time, the Equal Rights Amendment ( Read more... )

My book won’t win a [Lambda Literary] prize because my friend Sandra Newman wrote a book. The premise of her book is “what if all the men disappeared.” When she announced the book on twitter, YA twitter saw it. This is the single most terrifying thing that can happen to a writer on twitter. YA twitter, presumably fans of young adult fiction, are ( Read more... )

Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour; and lives the more,
the more labour it sucks. The time during which the labourer works, is the time during which the
capitalist consumes the labour-power he has purchased.

If the labourer consumes her disposable time for herself, she robs the capitalist.--Karl Marx ( Read more... )

I was wondering yesterday whether the difference between men's and women's voices is genetically determined or socially determined -- whether growing up we adopt a voice pattern that is consistent with our gender because otherwise people make fun of us ( Read more... )

Falling asleep so early at the house, before 9pm, but that's when T falls asleep also.  Waking up before 4am is routine at the house for me, but T usually needs a couple hours more sleep than I do.  When I spend a night with K we stay up later, but I still wake a couple hours ahead of him.  I haven't had a solid week to myself in forever so I'm not ( Read more... )

There's a dialogue during the first chapter of Tell Me Why in which a resident of the siblings' childhood town doesn't recognize Tyler, the main character, and threatens to shoot Tyler for supposedly trespassing on the siblings' property.  Tyler's sister explains what's up to the local ... who scratches his head and remarks about how it is ( Read more... )

I have an awful lot of chest hair for a she.

The square root of 2 is a beautiful thing :-)

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Wikipedia's English main page leaks a small amount of news ("In the news"), but it's global and nonpartisan.  I'm thinking I don't need the Canadian:World Google News headlines for general updates if I've got Wikipedia's home page.

Somehow I failed to start my meditation timer this morning, I thought ( Read more... )