Will get back to questions soon, I promise, but:

WE PASSED IT

HOLY FUCK YES

YES

HISTORY YOU GUYS. HISTORY.

Also, you guys? I am expecting a gif party in the comments. No really.
adesso, katmaxwell, LOOKING AT YOU.

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warning: links and videos in this post might be triggering.

So between Amy Dickinson utterly failing to get why saying that a rape victim was the "victim of her own horrible judgment" is not only inappropriate but heinous and a thirteen-year-old girl committing suicide when the adults in her life subjected her to a campaign of shame because she ( Read more... )

Regarding recent events in California: I want to summon the energy to say something on this issue, to say anything, but what more can I say that hasn't already been said? The Supreme Court's ruling is, unfortunately, not an aberration; it is yet another example of the kind of bullshit I and every other queer-identified American have to go through ( Read more... )

Return from wedding (which was lovely; when I get my hands on pictures, I'll share a few, because damn I looked hot in that dress) and am launched straight into finals. Le sob.

Anyway -- this is something I wrote about half a month ago on the Hetalia anon meme, to answer the following question: what has feminism done for you? And/or how much ( Read more... )

By now, I think everyone's heard of Amazon's rather spectacular fail.

My initial anger has subsided somewhat. Somewhat. I am calm enough to actually make this post instead of sitting in front of my computer sputtering in outrage. Do I think there's a culture of homophobia at Amazon? Not necessarily. Dear Author offers a plausible hypothesis, as ( Read more... )

So it is not tomorrow, and there is not inauguration post.

Ehe. Sorry. Am still waiting for the pictures to be developed, but the main points:
a) It was cold.
b) It was awesomeAm moving back to apartment tomorrow. For a variety of reasons, I really don't feel ready for this semester at all -- the Financial Aid screwup last semester threw me off- ( Read more... )

So I am in my mother's journalist friend's apartment in Bethesda with a whole bunch of lovely Obamaladies, sleeping on his floor and stealing his wireless ( Read more... )

YES WE DID.I started jumping up and down and dancing when Stewart and Colbert called the race for him last night. (And then I called Mith and Mom and Dad, roughly in that order, for that is what I do.) My friends and I flipped to Fox News to watch the anchors' taut acknowledgments of Obama's victory. They were trying to ignore the news for a while ( Read more... )

Okay, so I will get back to people once Obama's speech is over, really, but this:

"While we may disagree on same-sex marriage, we can agree that our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters deserve to visit their loved ones in the hospital and live lives free of discrimination."

quote might not be exact, but....I believe in this man. I fucking ( Read more... )