Ok some things hang around far too long. They're not only wearing out their welcome, but they're lurching around, rotting, smelling like an extra on The Walking Dead ( Read more... )

There is an ongoing trope of GBLTQ people as servants, adjutants and otherwise assistants in the life of straight people. I say trope because we see this a lot on TV and in books, but really trope is inaccurate because this is one of those that has bled out a lot into real life as well - and it's deeply problematic ( Read more... )

So students at MIT have created a computer game called a Closed World which is basically a GBLTQ themed game whereupon you play a character who has to run around fighting the daemons of prejudice ( Read more... )

As you know, I do my Bad News Lists. And one compelling quesiton I even ask myself is “why ( Read more... )

I've been thinking about “flaunting” again - as in “do you have to flaunt your sexuality?” and how we should be all closeted to protect ever-so-delicate Hetlandia from our presence. And it irritates me in so many ways - and one of those ways is the cost of it ( Read more... )

So today I had a fun time arguing with someone - yes a straight someone - whether “Batty Boy” is a slur and whether it's ok to call me that ( Read more... )

There are innumerable ways I while away the few... well, minutes that aren't already claimed in my extra hectic circle. And one among my guilty pleasures is the computer game, the Sims 3. Especially when I'm reading a book for Fangs for the Fantasy that is so ultra painful that I have to do something else at the same time to distract me ( Read more... )

Tropes. Those lovely repeated little clichés we see in books, television and media in general over and over again. I won't say all tropes are bad - but when it comes to marginalised people, tropes have a specially unpleasant taste ( Read more... )

I read this article about how grossly unrepresentative the judiciary is and I'm having a think ( Read more... )

I know some people don't like it because it's a lie. It often doesn't get better. I sigh, again, because I think of young Sparky and what I would say to him ( Read more... )