Apparently there have been several terrible fires along the lines of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, only in Pakistan and Bangladesh.  In factories making clothing for sale in the US.

Read more here.

Or just hop straight to her petition that the US apply US wage and safety standards to their factories outside the US: wh.gov/IIJ5

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Originally posted by darkspirited1 at SIGNAL BOOST: SAY YES TO GAY YA
This comes from an article by rachelmanija entitled Say Yes to Gay YA
Our novel Stranger has five viewpoint characters; one, Yuki Nakamura, is gay and has a boyfriend. Yuki's romance, like the heterosexual ones in the novel, involves nothing more explicit than kissing.

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As the offspring of a community college teacher, now community college administrator, I had to signal boost this.  (Okay, common decency would be enough, but knowing from personal experience just how little community college teachers get paid when they get paid made it all the more necessary.)

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