Anna put up a post about emotional labor earlier today and reading it I had a response which was somewhat frustrated--on the one hand, the notion that emotional labor is real labor is SUPER OBVIOUS and the idea that it's distributed in gendered ways is also super obvious and a big problem. I want that labor to be acknowledged and reciprocated. ( Read more... )

Anna and I have been talking a bit about coming out as poly to our parents. It's not something that we've gone through much effort to hide--she's posted a lot of poly-related articles on facebook and a number of pictures of herself with her boyfriend. But it's still something that neither of us has talked to any of our family members about ( Read more... )