I just got home from the All Day Write-In Marathon. Next post will have a quite report. Anyway, links: How A Girl's Stark Words Got Lost In the Polanski Spectacle A 9-yr-old's letter about Sexist Swiffer Ads troubleinchina muses about umbrella terms . When Simply Stating Your Truth Isn't Good Enough : But what do you do when your truth, the truth that has made you whole and set...

Sidetrackedery , n.: the weird, interesting, and/or fun stuff I find via my ever-behindness in my LJ flist, from Twitter, emails, going back through friends' LJs, and elsewhere. --- :: This gem from metaquotes : Why am I watching I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant? Show: "She only gained ten pounds." Me: "Hey, I've gained ten pounds!" Show: "She still got her period like normal." Me: "OMG...

I'm posting this because this is about the intersection of disability and gender, and so might be of interest to community members: Here is An Open Letter To Feministing , pointing out the issues the community has with ableist language. There is a lovely linkspam roundup available at access_fandom on DreamWidth, featuring the frustrations of disabled people and their allies in trying to get Feministing...

When heading out Monday I nearly spilled into the street because of a crack in the sidewalk at an odd angle. I clutched the handlebars, straightened myself, braked, stopped in the hot sun for several minutes until the ground stopped shifting and my feet were actually where my eyes said they were. Then I let the iPod sing out Emmylou Harris and cheered up. You'd think by now I'd be used to this...

Hence passes my first week jobless. Racialicious: Oh, You Can't Speak to a Brother? : Dear MTA Employee, I am the woman who requested your help Wednesday morning at approximately 9:40am. I came to the station agent’s window and told you that I swiped my metro card and the display read “See Agent”. You told me to swipe it at the window. When I did, the display read “See Agent” once again. You looked...

Behind the cut are IBARW posts collected on Delicious in the last 24 hours ( more details ). we all want to explain ourselves | tumblelog :: There's no point to any of this. It's just a... a random lottery of meaningless tragedy and a series of near escapes. So I take pleasure in the details. [photo] (tags: ibarw ibarw4 by.multiracial.people by.poc ) Lair of the Dragon Lady...

So the cop called me and he said it was perfectly fine for me to have contacted my ex about my mail, especially since it was urgent. In fact, as far as he is concerned, this case is closed and he doesn't want, or need, to be involved... And my ex is just being childish by not dealing with me himself at this point. He also thinks it's quite childish that my ex couldn't be bothered to drop off my mail...

Ok, my prediction that I might get to a con report by Thursday? Way optimistic. But here goes. So. First I should mention I had the fabulous luck to spend Wiscon as roommates with sumanah and vogelein . Sumana was busy promoting and handing out copies of her new anthology Thoughtcrime Experiments , and getting to know other writers and editors. Jane was promoting her work, and doing...

The myth that "no one dies from US torture, so its not torture... http://jlassen.livejournal.com/699828.html It's not "just" about torture. It is about murder. How many were murdered by the Bush Regime, and its choice to use enhanced Interrogation/torture to illicit false confessions. Is Versed being used for torture? http://ideas.4brad.com/archives/000100.html There are drugs which erase...

I have so much to think about and to say that I don't even know where to begin! And so, the things that require less brain power on my part: I have been trying to convince an entire host of people to read Marjorie M. Liu and Joey Hill. Liu is the paranormal romance writers with wereleopards and weredolphins (but not together) and psychics and dragons and shapeshifters and Faerie and gargoyles...