this doesn't even make any SENSE:

From the Toledo Blade:
BALTIMORE - The memorial service Tuesday for five members of a Maryland family killed by a wrong-way truck in a Toledo highway accident included some uninvited guests ( Read more... )

1. why are these xtian right wing homophobes sooooooo incredibly focused on male homosexuals to the exclusion of all other queer identities? (except for maybe transsexuals, whom they continue to confuse with transgendered, intersexed, genderqueer, and transvestite individuals ( Read more... )

lynching and racism are not southern (american) in nature. there is a vested interest in people from other areas of the united states trying to project all the blame on the south and deny regional complicity in the institution of racism, especially jim crow laws and the violence carried out by a racist society. but this is problematic at best and ( Read more... )

i have to say that loretta ross is effing amazing. i went to hear her speak a couple years ago and i was seriously moved to tears by the things she said. very rarely do i get to see/hear/interact with women who understand and approach feminism from the context of the south and the issues that most affect the women living here. and from someone who ( Read more... )

although this happened awhile ago, i was reminded of it again today because of a post on queer_rage. a person raged that they loaned a book to a friend. the book in question was a book called best gay stories of 2005. the girl's mother found and shredded the book. literally. she ripped out the pages and fed them to a shredder ( Read more... )