Tonight at Fred Meyer (2/9/13 ( Read more... )

Being a reader for the Fat Studies Journal--I wouldn't have had the opportunity if I didn't know this particular issue's editor *intimately*, but damn if I don't feel super smart when I use my critical thinking skills, knowledge of US culture, and academic training to identify a brilliant turn of phrase, find a hole in an argument, or call out a ( Read more... )

And I am currently in love with and plan to incorporate what I read and learn from each of these into future teaching and workshop development and organizing:

Recipes For The People, a totally fabulous food justice, people of color centered blog on food, social justice, and queerness/disability/race/class/antikyriarchy awesomesauce
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Review of my etsy shop here.

My shop here!

In the midst of a job that involves researching & compiling lists of sustainability & environmentalism blogs, I stumbled on the WACKY blog of a US Congressman, Representative Nunes, representative for the San Joaquin Valley in California. It's...just...CRAZY. I know he's in a position to do harm but I'm so astonished by the absurdity that I find ( Read more... )

Oregon Action is hosting a candidate forum for the Multnomah County Commissioner seat in District 2 ( Read more... )

While collectively procrastinating from our work, my squishy and I were just discussing Yevgeney Plushenko's hair. I said that it looked like Russian '80s metal. And Dorothy Hamill. She said that it looks very funny and floaty in the still photos from the New York Times live blog, genderiffically both girly and manly. I noted that it is actually ( Read more... )

Hello, world!
I would like everyone to know that I am a big fat stompin' dyke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy National Coming Out Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah, my mom died today.

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