So, Patricia Briggs, an author whose work I enjoy, wrote a statement on using Native American culture in her work. Now, while I agree that Mercy's brand of Native American supernatural needed to be fleshed out and explained, there is a reason why I am really not looking forward to reading that book. Not only because of the cover, which decided to ( Read more... )

I'm tired of hearing about Laura Logan's sexual assault. Not because I don't think it's highly important that we focus on such issues, or that I don't think sexual assault deserves coverage, but rather because it's clear that women's issues are not the focus of all this coverage. All the articles on it seem to be focusing on how evil the Middle ( Read more... )

Right, so. I am in Florida right now with my family, hijacking my mom's computer and writing in the safety of my room in the resort. We went through the horrible Car Ride From Hell to get here. It wouldn't actually be so horrible if my dad wasn't involved. He has this way of making absolutely everything miserable just by opening his mouth and ( Read more... )

I was going to my friend's apartment. She lives in a fairly upscale area, I should mention. Full of upwardly mobile business people. I went up to enter the number so I could get paged in, and there was this pizza man. (I feel like I should mention he was a POC, because I think race also played a part in this.) He was looking at a piece of paper ( Read more... )

I bought this riding skirt for myself to use as a steampunk-esque outfit, hopefully for Halloween. Though if I really like 'em, I might wear them elsewhere ( Read more... )

I've put off writing about this, but yes, I have heard about Polanski getting let off scot free. Yes, I'm mad as fuck about it. But more than angry, I just feel a sense of bitter resignation. Another rapist gets off scot free, this one gets to lead a happy life in another country, where he lives a multi-million dollar privileged lifestyle and ( Read more... )

All right. I was going to go to sleep, but I'll write this up real quick before I go ( Read more... )

Since I'm not in the fandom in question as well as being offline for a good deal of time, it took me a while to be alerted to the issue of the SPN-fic that spawned a new bout of racefail and meta. In short, someone wrote a story, during the earthquake in Haiti, about the two actors from Supernatural falling in love. While in Haiti. It showcased ( Read more... )

So, this week's fail involves the current winner of the Miss American pageant, Rima Fakih of Michigan. She's the first Muslim to be crowned as Miss USA, which...I'm not sure how much of a step forward I can see that as. I am personally against beauty pageants and everything they stand for, anyway, unless we get a Mr. America that objectifies male ( Read more... )

I'm sorry, any argument that involves: "If gay people don't like the laws in America, they should move to Canada," is IMMEDIATELY invalid. Call me an asshole all you want. You're still fucking wrong.