I like to go shopping. I own multiple handbags. That does not make me girly ( Read more... )

[Trigger warning for the discussion of rape culture.]

So, this thing happened. tl;dr version: Newsweek is presenting a cover of a woman with a blindfold over her eyes, with the accompanying text, The Fantasy Life of Working Women: why surrender is a feminist dream. Their blurb for this cover article is, In an age where women are dominating - in ( Read more... )

Yo!

queer_fest is open for prompt claiming!

This is my favourite fest of the years, guys, so by all means, go over there and claim something. I'm definitely going to do at least one (oh! the choice) but the more, the merrier.

*pokes flist* Go on. You know you want to.

Fandom, you've been amazing this week. Stupid in places, too, but 99% amazing, and I love you. This just shows how wonderful you are. Alex O'Loughlin fans, if you haven't seen this yet, go take a look and add your voice. Seeing all of those wonderful, supportive messages in one place made me tear up ( Read more... )

queer_fest is gearing up for its 2012 round! This is happy making news! It means it's now open for prompt submissions! I try to play in this fest every year if I can, and so far there are no Hawaii Five-0 prompts submitted. This needs correcting, obviously, or I will having nothing to choose from. (Or, embarrassingly, will need to write a prompt I submitted ( Read more... )

eumelia has a very eloquent post up about how LGBT lives are not by default for the consumption of slash fans: What The Eff? No, Seriously, What?!In my opinion, this is a must read for all slash fans and especially slash writers, because I do see the sort of shit happening around fandom from time to time, too often, and this is a good reminder about the ( Read more... )

So, a while back, I promised y'all a thoughts post on the topic of gender in fanvids. And you know, I planned to do this sooner, but well... LJ, life, things intervened. This is that post ( Read more... )

For flisties who have no clue what this is about but want to be able to follow, quick summary at the end.

So, Florian Wild is straight, and Franziska Steinkamp is a girl. Just in case we forgot that. Well, okay then. Thank you for that notice. Let's unpack what's makes them so, shall we?

( meta under here )

[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... )

You do not warn for slashAll right? You don't do this. If you go around lobbing slash in with noncon, violence, and discrimination, I have news for you: you are being homophobic. You are actively contributing to Othering queer identities. This is not cool, and if you've ever done it, stop. Right now ( Read more... )