*spams* I'm apparently too tired to comment usefully on anything, so I'm just spamming your flists with excerpts. Whoops. Anyway, interesting retrospective review of Left Hand of Darkness.

The truth is self-evident: Ursula Le Guin's Left Hand of Darkness isn't about gender, by Josh Wimmer

The Left Hand of Darkness is about a lot of things. It ( Read more... )

I've seen some debate around the term 'ally', the argument being that it's built on someone else's oppression. How do you feel about calling others/yourself an ally? I've seen the alternate term 'solidarity' advanced ("I'm doing solidarity work" vs. "I'm an ally"). Does this solve the problem/ignore another one?

View poll: solidarity vs ally ( Read more... )

Today I want to talk about one of my pet peeves: equating anti-oppression efforts with political correctness ( Read more... )