Transgender Day of Remembrance: Living with the threat
Even though it’s remembrance of all the deaths worldwide, most writings you’ll find about TDOR online will be from the US, where the day started. But it’s important to acknowledge the specifics of exactly who it is dying, rather than universalise the violence as affecting all trans men, women, genderqueers and other non-binaries equally.
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Otterday! And Open Thread.
Today’s otter comes to you via Doug Brown on flickr.
Please feel free to use this thread to natter about anything your heart desires.
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Friday Hoyden: Luna Lovegood
AKA The Harry Potter #7 review
Just a short one, and I’m aiming to be spoiler-aware here for those few who haven’t actually read the book of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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Femmostroppo Reader November 19, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you’ve been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
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Quicklink: Epilepsy’s Big, Fat Miracle
Fred Vogelstein, parent of a child with epilepsy that’s been unable to be effectively controlled pharmaceutically, describes his family’s positive experience with a ketogenic diet as a treatment regime: a diet that involves a whole lot of fat in a restricted calorie regime that requires measuring food in fractions of grams. The whole story behind this increasingly accepted but horrendously complicated to manage treatment is a fascinating read.
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Thursday Cheezburger: …zzzzzzz
Post your own favourite in-theme LOLcat here, and wait for admin image magic to make it appear.
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Gossip
Mateship is a bond so sacred we want it recognised in the Australian Constitution but female friendship is something nasty and undermining. Apparently this is because female friendships are distracted by competition for men.
Oh, this kind of shit doth weary me.
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Femmostroppo Reader November 17, 2010
Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed-reader. What did I miss? Please share what you've been reading (and writing!) in the comments.
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Gratuitous Tap Dance blogging
Gregory Hines with Brenda Bufalino and the American Tap Dance Orchestra, 1989. Hines basically does a drum solo using just his feet.
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