Things I've had open in tags for way too long, but still can't seem to close, pt 1:

slodwick's re-post of this awesome thing.

wearemany's pete/patrick lesbian AU where they're both still boys.

so pete is in his fifth year of college -- he just finally realized that he had to be a gender studies major, had to, even if it meant he wasn't graduating yet. his ( Read more... )

For some reason I've been encountering a lot of really terrifying political articles in the past few days. I'm not surprised, none of this is in any way new or different; I've been involved in fairly radical political circles enough to hear some (most) of the arguments before, just. I'm so scared, I'm so pissed off, and I want to do something, ( Read more... )

For Biden:

I Get Knocked Down - Chumbawumba

"There is no such thing as a "free" market. During the good times the state is there to put a veneer of respectability on fraud and extortion. During the bad times it's the knife that cuts off a finger to save the hand, but it is always capitalism's co-conspirator."
(source: we are all socialists now at marx and coca colaBe forewarned -- the above ( Read more... )

American politics is amusing in a car crash way.

ETA: LOL typo.

Things I'm not particularly into right now: always-a-girl AUs (except for that awesome Bob Bryar one that's named after an ani song ( Read more... )

"I don't even think of you as black."

Oh? I don't even think of you as human. Wait, did I say that? So sorry, I meant FUCK YOU.

I'm not black, but it's an insert your oppressed social class here sort of situation - I don't think of you as gay-Mexican-disabled-female, etc.

In a conversation I had with my friend Andrea, on racism and the "colour- ( Read more... )

I have very strong opinions on a woman's (well, anyone's) right to bodily autonomy. I don't think I've shared them here before, and honestly, I don't really feel like doing it now. I am so burned out on arguing a topic that no one is ever going to agree on. Suffice to say that I am vehemently pro-choice. Which, really, I think is pretty easy to ( Read more... )

This was originally posted as a response to an entry in stele3's IJ about these three articles:

Artist calls Obama's daughters "nappy-headed hos."

Michelle Obama called Barack's "baby mama" by Fox "News."

Coincidentally, or not, Fox "News" also called that fist pound a "terrorist fist jab." (huh?)

This probably isn't what you want to hear, and I agree ( Read more... )

There are some things in this world that are horrible and upsetting and just... not good.

Hate groups have increased by 40% in this country in the last year.  Anti-GLBT violence is up 24% .  People are still being lynched, but that's not even news.   What is WRONG with us, world?  Why are we so hateful?