I have been quietly following fandom's latest conversation about sexual assault. I'm pretty sure that The Open Source Women Back Each Other Up Project says pretty much everything I want to say. That and this post by seperis, this quote in particular:

You weren't, they weren't, we weren't hurt because of our skirt, the alley, our body language, alcohol, ( Read more... )

In the midst of recovering from Eye Doom '08, I've been following the conversations about misogyny on SPN. Can't say anything that hasn't already been said better, but I will say that it's never a waste of time to confront sexism, even if it's "just" in fandom. These things have a habit of carrying over into every aspect of your life, if I'm any ( Read more... )

As I attempt to write a paper about how every Antonio in Shakespeare = GAY Portia kicking ass in The Merchant of Venice, I must note that I have just finished Villette for 19th Century Women Writers. I then had to dig up Wuthering Heights to remind myself that not everything from the Victorian era sucks. Underneath all the melodrama, there's a ( Read more... )

RIP, Madeleine L'Engle. My signed copy of A Wrinkle in Time is one of the books I take with me wherever I go.

"What I think is that if we're still around after we die, it will be more like those moments when we let go, than the way we are most of the time. It'll be--it'll be the self beyond the self we know."
--Madeleine L'Engle, A Ring of Endless ( Read more... )

Hello, new friends from the Supernatural meme! I will introduce myself better when not in need of a nap ( Read more... )

As ibarw draws to a close, I still find myself lacking any particularly new or insightful commentary. (At least as of this moment.) Luckily, I have my education textbooks. One of them reprints a letter from a Native American mother to her son's teacher. I think it says it all.

Too many teachers, unfortunately, seem to see their role as rescuer. My ( Read more... )

"In vain I have struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE. Also, SIGH.

"I have never had any faith in humanity. But I will give us props on this: if we can evolve, invent and theorize our way into the technologically magical, culturally diverse and artistically magnificent race we are and still get people to buy the idiotic idea that half of us are inferior, we’re pretty amazing. Let our next sleight of hand be to ( Read more... )

Be not afeard, the isle is full of noises ( Read more... )

At work, doing Lear paper. Listening to The Beatles. Writing and music came together.

I. iv. 230: "Who is it that can tell me who I am?"

I look from the wings at the play you are staging
While my guitar gently weeps
As I'm sitting here doing nothing but aging
Still my guitar gently weeps

adore adore adore.