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Books Read, 2017
Time for my annual struggle to remember how to post stuff with a future date. (ETA: Post it, then change the date. It says "postpone", but doesn't postpone it.)
Isaac Asimov. The Naked Sun.
William S. Burroughs. The Cat Inside.
Buchi Emecheta. The Joys of Motherhood.
Franz Kafka. The Castle.
Han Kang. The Vegetarian.
Frederik Pohl. Man PlusDaniel ( Read more... ) -
Draft Zero of "Drifting", 12300 words
To quote the Sheriff of Nottingham from "Robin of Sherwood", after he was stung by a billion bees and got into the sting-soothing bath: "Oh, the relief!!" -
Gender update
IIRC the Women's Legal Service Queensland learns today if its budget has been slashed, along with other community legal centres across the country. I'll ETA the news here when I find it.
The good news: North Carolina governor signs bill repealing and replacing transgender bathroom law amid criticism (WP, 30 March 2017). The bad news: the new law ( Read more... ) -
#End12, and general gendery links
Reproductive Freedom
I made it to the pro-choice rally yesterday, late as usual, but in time to join the march to Parliament House. (In fact, I'm briefly visible in the video from it here. :) The speakers really put into context for me the need for women, for any person with a uterus, to be able to control this most basic aspect of our lives: ( Read more... ) -
Go sign this, quick
Petition against the privatisation of 1800RESPECT, the national domestic violence / sexual assault hotline. They're meeting with the Minister tomorrow.
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zzz
The tranquillising effect of some of my antidepressants seems to be cumulative. Over the last couple of weeks I've been getting dopier and dopier, until today I've barely been functional. I'm going to have to wean myself off the Escitalopram, starting tomorrow. -
Drifting
Draft -1. SF short story. All the scenes are there, though there are bits of them that still need to be written out. It's about 11,400 words - looks like it'll end up at something over 12,000.
