I know everything is in a state of chaotic flux with the government right now, transition being what it is, but removing the LGBT rights page from whitehouse.gov isn't a great start. I'm hoping it will come back in the coming weeks but if it doesn't ... sigh. More reason than ever to step up and protect my kid, my best friends, so many others ( Read more... )

So, I missed all of National Coming Out Day and almost all of Yom Kippur. To those of you for whom NCO day is important - I hope you had a positive coming-out experience, whenever you had it. For those of you who fasted today, I hope your fast was easy.

Our weekend was kind of nondescript, honestly. ( Color run volunteer )

Please tell me there's a meme going around, making good use of this picture from last night's debate? It's begging for a meme.

Although, speaking of memes, there were apparently some pretty funny ones based more on content than photos ( Read more... )

1) Ok, I know this is the height of idiocy, but ... I'm sad that Brad and Angelina are getting divorced. They just always seemed so cool, and I loved the composition of their family. I know Hollywood relationships are so fishbowl, a lot of people end up separating, but that doesn't make it less sad, especially since they'd survived a whole ten ( Read more... )

I'm not sure what else to say about Orlando that others on my flist haven't already said. I got online yesterday afternoon for the first time that day and was completely gobsmacked by the headlines. ( Ok, apparently I did have some thoughts about it )

Letter to the Editor re: Target boycott. (Yes, that's me.) I feel better now that I got to put in my own two cents, although I did borrow from the other article about companies that ALSO support trans employees/customers ( Read more... )

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FOOD QUESTION: I have a billion cherry tomatoes from our garden. What can I do with them? If they were regular tomatoes, I'd skin them, seed them, and make tomato sauce, but there's no way I'm doing that with a zillion tiny buggers. What else can I make ( Read more... )

We try so hard to encourage Two, to reassure him, to let him know how many people are on his side.

And then I read about a trans woman being given absolute hell at the airport. I don't want Two to ever have to face that. I don't want him to have to be that strong, over and over and over. I hate knowing that he will probably have to be ( Read more... )

Second day of school: ( Second verse, same as the first. Sort of )