I now have two threads up at help_haiti:

A hand-decorated collage cover Moleskine notebook, starting at $12.

Fic of at least 1500 words, starting at $5.

Bid if you're interested, and check out some of the stuff other people are offering, too. (It's pretty cool stuff.)

I know you've all heard about the earthquake in Haiti, and I know the links I'm about to post have been circulating widely through fandom and this probably isn't the first time you've seen them, but this is something that really does bear repeating.


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warning: links and videos in this post might be triggering.

So between Amy Dickinson utterly failing to get why saying that a rape victim was the "victim of her own horrible judgment" is not only inappropriate but heinous and a thirteen-year-old girl committing suicide when the adults in her life subjected her to a campaign of shame because she ( Read more... )

Boy, '09 sure seems like the year of PrivilegeFail in fandom, doesn't it? This time, however, there's fail coming in from both sides there are arguments put forth by both camps that I'm uncomfortable with.

Brief background: The Lambda Literary Foundation revises/clarifies/what-have-you their mission statement, which results in a revision of the ( Read more... )

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Regarding recent events in California: I want to summon the energy to say something on this issue, to say anything, but what more can I say that hasn't already been said? The Supreme Court's ruling is, unfortunately, not an aberration; it is yet another example of the kind of bullshit I and every other queer-identified American have to go through ( Read more... )

Return from wedding (which was lovely; when I get my hands on pictures, I'll share a few, because damn I looked hot in that dress) and am launched straight into finals. Le sob.

Anyway -- this is something I wrote about half a month ago on the Hetalia anon meme, to answer the following question: what has feminism done for you? And/or how much ( Read more... )

By now, I think everyone's heard of Amazon's rather spectacular fail.

My initial anger has subsided somewhat. Somewhat. I am calm enough to actually make this post instead of sitting in front of my computer sputtering in outrage. Do I think there's a culture of homophobia at Amazon? Not necessarily. Dear Author offers a plausible hypothesis, as ( Read more... )

I've done my best to avoid the whole RaceFail debacle so far for a number of reasons, chief among them that while I can point and laugh at wank with the best of them, what I read of RaceFail gave me hives. I had, and have, a lot of respect and admiration for some of the authors featured most prominently in the fracas -- at the very least, I think ( Read more... )

So it is not tomorrow, and there is not inauguration post.

Ehe. Sorry. Am still waiting for the pictures to be developed, but the main points:
a) It was cold.
b) It was awesomeAm moving back to apartment tomorrow. For a variety of reasons, I really don't feel ready for this semester at all -- the Financial Aid screwup last semester threw me off- ( Read more... )