From a straight female m/m author's bio in the back of the book I just finished:

[author name]'s husband is adorably confused by her love of reading and writing about man lurve, but he's always been a suportive sort. Just don't ask him to read it. Her two school-aged daughters think it's cool Mom's a writer, but aren't clear on why they can't tell ( Read more... )

I was reading something online that got me article-surfing (for me these days, social justice/privilege/queer/feminist/disability blogs are the new TV Tropes, especially when I'm sick and can't make myself pay attention to fiction - yes, I'm weird like that) and since I was a little bothered by the lack of good 101s on the subject of straight- ( Read more... )

This is a response to this post in the_slash_pile. I'm posting this to my journal, and not to the comm, because in the last few discussions I've seen on my flist, I'm getting the increasing feeling that this comm isn't always the right place for queer writers discussing queer writing issues and how queer people are represented and written in queer fiction - it's ( Read more... )

From The Nefarious History of Motherhood:

Men, you see, were hot and dry. When they started retaining water, it was a bad thing. Women, though, were wet and cold (Freud, anyone?). If women became TOO dry or hot, they turned into men. Thus, the Athenian angst over the Spartan’s tendency to allow their women to exercise with the men. TOO hot, too ( Read more... )

...then you should be required to undertake some form of cultural/social sensitivity training. Or something along those lines. Just so there's some awareness of the harm your unthinking words cause to people already struggling to find tolerance and acceptance ( Read more... )

Stargate: Universe, oh how I love thee. Yes, I don't think you're as good as SG-1 and Atlantis (better characters, more of a sense of humour, a shade less drama) but you have done something wonderful and awesome, and I am so grateful ( Read more... )

Yesterday (today for everyone not in this particular part of the world, a part of internet life I find repeatedly confusing) was/is the Transgender Day of Remembrance*shivers ( Read more... )