And this feels like the most appropriate space ( Read more... )

So in the midst of the Wiscon/Frenkel thing, and all the great advice about not using judicial approaches to Con safety, but more health and well-being, and needing small teams that act quickly, and some great advice from Geek Feminism and The Ada Project, what I'm not seeing is anyone addressing the really tricky bit ( Read more... )

Mainly links for my benefit, in case I have to point other people to it.

The quote about patriarchy that is floating around Facebook etc unattributed is due to Chally Kacelnik, and she'd prefer to be acknowledged as the author.

There's an attributed version of the quote here.

The original post the quote comes from is here, at her Zero at the ( Read more... )

I'm following the creation of the Atheism+ movement (social justice, or at least no tolerance for misogyny etc, in your atheism) and a common objection to the term in comments is "but that's just Humanism!" Many people have tried to explain reasonably the many ways it's not true. Here's my snarky unreasonable explanation ( Read more... )

This is mostly a test post of a link that's causing trouble for me over at Hoyden about Townhttp://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/roller/jmcp/entry/marriage_equality_the_scurrilous_backlashRead more... )

That's not why I haven't been posting, but it seems apt enough ( Read more... )

So, these days, I post on DW and cross-post to LJ, with comments only at DW. This means I've mostly missed out on a lot of the increasing spam comment problems on LJ (not the least of which is that many people now don't get comment notifications, which to me destroys a particularly important part of the purpose of the LJ/DW style ( Read more... )

So, someone gave me Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones ("The multi-award winning international bestseller") at some point, and I picked it up and read it recently.

( I guess I should put the rest under cut in case anyone cares about spoilers )

So, I mentioned at the beginning of my critique of V as colonialism that I was sure PoC who've been subjected to colonialism could talk about it better than I could, and indeed, that's happened.

If you haven't, please read this excellent post by
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Yes, I know, Brisbane River flooding mud is the most interesting subject in the universe, but since I had already been writing about it and people have commented, I felt this update was in order ( Read more... )