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I need to see a news reader with a headscarf in my lifetime ( Read more... )

[Trigger warning for discussion of suicide ( Read more... )

A global financial crisis, followed by mass unemployment. Politicians start blaming particular groups in the population, saying that maybe we should not be inhabiting the same spaces, going so far as to suggest that some groups should maybe move to separate places, you know, like "camps" in which they can all live together and won't give us any ( Read more... )

[Trigger warning for discussions of sexual offences, racism, and homophobia of the worst kind, also in the links.]

Ah, BBC News... Woke up to Newswatch, which failed by not really addressing the Elton John/David Furnish adoption story problem with anything other than reporting it and mentioning that the BBC stood by its coverage, which they ( Read more... )

So I'm totally not in SPN/J2 fandom and I don't plan to be, but a word of advice to all white people on my flist.

When you get called a racist, in comments or in response to a fic or post or whatever, put up and shut up. Listen. Learn. Educate yourself. Then, and only then, come back and reply to the kind person who took the time to point this ( Read more... )

So, I may be in the Merlin fandom, but that doesn't mean I'm in love with the show. In Torchwood, I was; I loved it, I believed in it, I breathed it and thought the planet was better for it existing. Merlin, not so much.

( wherein I rant about sexism )

Oh, JB, noMore on that in a minute. Because, in the mean time, I woke up yesterday to a government proposal to amend the Constitution. What, pray tell, is so dire that we need to change it again? We want to add Dutch as the national language. Now, my education may be a bit more America-oriented than that of my fellow countrypeople, but not so much ( Read more... )