Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance when we remember, mourn and honor our Siblings Who Were Killed due to anti-transgender hatred or violence. Gatherings are being held around the world throughout the day.

TDOR 2020 honors those who died between October 1, 2019 and September 30, 2020. For that period, 47 lives were taken in the United States ( Read more... )

I have mixed feelings about the U.S. election. While I’m glad that the candidates I voted for won, I’m disconsolate about the state of the country. When the final totals are in, (a projected) 82 million people will have voted for Biden/Harris - but 75 million people think that the president for the last four years was just fine. “Yeah! Let’s have ( Read more... )

Today is a palindrome date - a date that when written backwards is the same as forwards. Especially cool is that this works with MM/DD/YYYY (US) and DD/MM/YYYY (international) formats.

It’s also Groundhog Day (US) and Twintail Day (Japan).

It’s also Day 2 of Angel’s Month. Nothing specific is planned… but who knows how the day will go?

You're ( Read more... )

Early Thursday morning I had read about the Arson Attack on Kyoto Animation in Japan. And I thought about posting something that day but then reconsidered because this tragedy seemed like an odd thing to call out while my own country, the United States, is so messed up - and manufacturing horrific tragedies all the time. I’m living in a country ( Read more... )

I’ve always read a lot of news. And then for a while I didn’t. And then in the last year I’ve picked it back up. Not reading news (extensively) didn’t really hurt much from, say, 2012 to 2017 - because the news isn’t that great. Or maybe news isn’t what it used to be. It’s simultaneously too much volume and too little substance. Having a good ( Read more... )

I had (as always) some items on my tasklist for this evening… and I still might get to knock off one or two. But I confess that I got distracted - exceptionally distracted - in a pinball-like jaunt through the nearby blogosphere. I have a deep catalog of blogs, but I rarely indulge myself. And it took a revisit to only one or two blogs to set off a ( Read more... )

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance when we remember, mourn and honor our Siblings Who Were Killed due to anti-transgender hatred or violence. Gatherings are being held around the world throughout the day.

Related news in the US can be viewed at the Human Rights Campaign site. Also: The Transgender Day of Remembrance is Tomorrow. This is ( Read more... )

Today is the International Transgender Day of Visibility - a day to bring a positive light to being trans. As an article at The Guardian notes, this can be tricky…

The received wisdom is that if people can see trans people they will learn to tolerate us, then to accept us and then to embrace us. I’m not convinced this sort of trickle-down ( Read more... )

There is a certain kind of despair I feel when I’m on the internet, reading news and forums and posts like The Cult of Trump and America’s Increasingly Authoritarian Government. Our society is regressing - and besides class inequality, there seems to be a growing mass of not-very-smart people ( Read more... )

Today is the Transgender Day of Remembrance when we remember, mourn and honor our Siblings Who Were Killed due to anti-transgender hatred or violence. Gatherings are being held around the world throughout the day.

In Portland, the event is being observed with a panel tonight at 6:00 pm at PCC CascadeMore information and links are collected at the ( Read more... )