There was a discussion earlier tonight on a friend's journal during which I called someone out on ableist language and asked them not to use a particular term. The called-out person apologized and said they'd keep it in mind. My friend expressed agreement but asked that I consider my tone - the whole honey vs vinegar thing ( Read more... )

I left my apartment and stepped outside and it was cold, but the more important thing was that there was this beeping, coming from who knows where but it seemed like the sky. And I stared up at the apartment buildings around me and suddenly everything shifted and there was this awareness that the man walking his pug across the street didn't know me ( Read more... )

I've never read any of Chuck P's stuff, and yet somewhere along the line I'd picked up kind of a bad opinion of him. Perhaps it was coming across too many reviews from people who said his writing wanders and the storylines usually degenerate in the latter part of his books. Whatever it was, I had a fuzzily unpleasant opinion of him that's kept me ( Read more... )

First, let me say that I'm 5'7" and 112 lbs. I fit the North American cultural standard of beauty - I am thin and tall. I know what I'm talking about when I discuss skinny women getting harassed for being skinny, because I've BTDT and am still there. Now let me get onto the rest of the post ( Read more... )

For Christmas, by my other-mother friend C. It is a diary-sized sketchbook with, as proclaimed by the sticker on the plastic wrap in which it is encased, "150 BLANK PAGES!I like it. It is an unassuming sketchbook with plain black covers. It makes me look at it and see possibility. I wonder what to put in it, as I don't sketch. My doodles are ( Read more... )

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From Intruder in the Dust by William Faulkner, written in 1948 (do I need to post a disclaimer that this uses the n-word repeatedly ( Read more... )

By the time I got out of bed this morning I'd already forgotten most of the dream I'd been having. I am usually quite good at remembering my dreams and often can remember most of a dream narrative in chronological order, but being abruptly awakened tends to chase them away ( Read more... )