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A little White Privilege Awareness 101.

In light of certain recent fannish kerfluffles, I went looking for this great post I read a few months ago, and of course I couldn't find it. Fortunately, someone on tumblr just linked to it: How to Be a Fan of Problematic Things.

Liking problematic things doesn’t make you an asshole. In fact, you can like really problematic things and still be ( Read more... )

Of the Occupy Wall Street protests that are taking place all over the country.

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Just in case someone zip-ties your hands by accident.

Keep safe.

By Jim Hines, who is awesome.

Privileged - Some people find this word so offensive that they’ll refuse to read any post or essay that uses it. This is a bad word. A naughty word. A word that likes to be tied up and spanked hard. Shun this word, or bring shame to your family! Remember, if “those people” would just work harder, they’d overcome all ( Read more... )