About a silent publishing industry and silenced voices. And now I'm terrified people are going to bombard me with five hundred publishers with blogs who addressed this controversy.

I did it! I did it!

Okay, now to go work on things that actually help other people, like Bitsy's website and Taylor's grad. school writing sample.

Also, why do I keep coming to this coffee shop if it plays such terrible music?

I could finish writing this FtCM piece (I started writing it because all the content for the articles I'm actually getting paid to write were stuck on gmail while it was down) on how critical expectations, the fine line between performer and performance, how sensitive people get about their kinks (I don't mean that in a dismissive way. It's a fact ( Read more... )

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Ego +20

I guess this means I should stop fretting and write something.

I finally got up the courage to ask for rec. letters for PSU's publishing program. I'm going to talk myself out of my anxiety if it kills me. Baby steps FTW.

Wish me luck, guys!

I'm prepping some posts for Feministe so I can get as much done and polished up next week as I can. (My mom and Marla's mom are visiting me this weekend; I'm so excited!) I'm still super-nervous, but I've come up with some good ideas. I think I want to keep my art/media focus, as much as I think that my "walking down the street" thing would be ( Read more... )

A short, not particularly informative FtCM post about two often-overlooked women with pianos and why they rock.

I just got an email from Feministe inviting me (and others) to be one of their summer guest bloggers! I had no idea I was even on their radar... or anyone's radar for that matter ( Read more... )

Thanks to Robin's post on Saira's facebook wall, I found a really awful magazine/blog article (or whatever you call a blog for a women's magazine article) that instructed women on how to flirt as if they were more well-read than they actually were. It also informed me that if I wanted to attract men with the books I read in coffee shops, I should ( Read more... )

I've been in a terrible mood all day, and really need to get some dinner in me before I pass out, but I wrote a new post on FtCM. Some day I'll understand why I'm always less sure and more afraid of backlash when I post Judaism-related posts. Maybe it's because too often on this wasteland we call the internet, all discussions of Judaism inevitably ( Read more... )