For the past week or so I have been confronted with rather egregious race fail in fairly personal ways.  I'm getting kinda tired of it, to be honest and if it doesn't stop I think I'll be making with the stabbins'.  And no, I do NOT take it as a compliment if you try to separate me from those "other" Mexicans/Latinos/Hispanics.  It is simply out of ( Read more... )

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Can the military save lives? I guess by accident, anything can manage to pull off any feat. But I’d prefer that in the future we leave less to accidents and hope.Maybe a great way to create jobs would be the formation of a "Peace Time Crisis Team" whose only job would be to respond to disasters and natural catastrophes in a way that centered "how ( Read more... )

Someone asked me for this info yesterday...

WFP Mobilizes to Bring Food Relief After Devastating Quake in Haiti

They're working to provide food now and were already positioned in the Caribbean with stores of food so they are capable of acting quickly.

In case you've missed it...

‘Substantial’ casualties feared after Haiti quake
Magnitude-7 temblor near capital topples hospital, other buildings
And there is the risk of Tsunamis in the region.

Officials Hid Truth of Immigrant Deaths in Jail

By NINA BERNSTEIN
Published: January 9, 2010 Silence has long shrouded the men and women who die in the nation’s immigration jails. For years, they went uncounted and unnamed in the public record. Even in 2008, when The New York Times obtained and published a federal government ( Read more... )

A friend just found me trying to be logical, safe, and buttoned down. She shook me up a bit. She reminded me that what I want is not to be safe but to be fearless in my life, my love, my affections. It's a scary idea because it means I can and most likely will be hurt but if I don't? I might as well already be dead. To paraphrase her: If others ( Read more... )

Fetlife is having a "Sit on Kinky Santa's Lap" Contest. Enjoy!

I originally worried that Thanksgiving was going to be a lonely, maudlin affair for me this year since it's the first major holiday since the break up. Boy was I wrong.

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Today is the 11th annual Transgender Day of Remembrance. Never forget.