A hate crime has killed dozens of Muslims in New Zealand. My kiwi friends are all upset about this, and so are a lot of other folks. So here are some practical things you can do ...

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Everyone's all in a lather about the mess in Charlottesville.  I generally prefer to sidle around the attack and then counterattack directly at the opponent's fundamental goals. In this case, they want to promote racism and violence. So I can undermine their efforts by promoting:

Conversational Skills
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Definition of a feminist: a woman who won't shut up when she's told to.

Note that the letter from Coretta Scott King has received far more attention after the censorship than it would have if simply entered into the record as intended. Furthermore, at least four male senators quoted from that letter too. The people with penises were not censored.

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For those of you seeking an action plan to deal with President Grab'em by the Pussy, I present #grabhimbythemidterm. 

This poem came out of the October 2014 Creative Jam. It was inspired by a prompt from 
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There has been a shooting at a Sikh temple, likely a hate crime.  This closely follows the Batman shooting in Colorado.  We live in a society that condones a lot of violent ideas.  There are thriller movies and militaristic toys and tough-talking politicians.  It should not be surprising that people surrounded by violent ideas come to think of ( Read more... )

Romance Writers Association has officially come out as homophobic and discriminatory, banning same-sex romances from their contest. Okay, anyone who makes a contest can make up the rules for it. But it's more than a little counterproductive for a genre based organization to cut out part of its own content, just because it makes some people " ( Read more... )

I want to talk about an activism technique that I call "Poke a Bigot in the Eye."  Recently there has been a flurry of obnoxious, failtastic incidents including:
* "straightening" gay characters in young adult fiction
* sexism in comic books
* homophobia in Orson Scott Card's rewrite of Hamlet
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It's time to play Poke a Bigot in the Eye again, in which we take someone's stupid idea and stab it with pencils and beat it with merry bundles of cash, and conversely make more of what someone is trying to quash.

First, check out this dissection of the homophobic aspects in Orson Scott Card's rewrite of Hamlet.  It's a pretty ugly example of gay- ( Read more... )