And once again, i
meant to write loads of proper blog posts in the last week, but somehow didn't find the time and/or energy to actually do any of them (or a long list of other things i intended to do). This is the effect that winter has on me.
(I've also got a VERY busy couple of weeks ahead, in which i'm not sure if i'll have the chance to blog much, which is frustrating... tho not
too frustrating, because some of the reasons for the next couple of weeks being very busy are very exciting... but that will be revealed when i have more time to blog...)
So, for now, i'm just going to post some more links instead:
Andrea of
Andrea's Buzzing About has a great post on diagnosis and why it isn't something horrifying,
4 Stages You Don't Have To Go Through (in which she touches on similar themes to
my recent post on teleology).
This is another beautiful and powerful post from Amanda at
Ballastexistenz, about which i can't say much coherently in words, except that i find it both incredibly moving and all too familiar.
lilwatchergirl has posted a great post on
Impairment, Disability and why we still need the Social Model at
Through Myself and Back Again. Dammit, i
really want to be doing that course... ;)
There has been a lot of discussion in the queer blogosphere about the passing of California's Proposition 8, which effectively banned same-sex marriage, in the recent US election, and the blaming of African-Americans for it by white queer people which followed it. Two brilliant posts which express my views on the subject much better than i ever could are by Cedar at
Taking Up Too Much Space and Tobi at
No Designation:
Violence, Racism and Neo-Liberalism, or why I'm not upset over Prop 8If Not Marriage For All, How About Marriage For None?(I do intend to take on the subject of marriage myself at some point, using both these and other, fairly unrelated anti-marriage arguments. Probably fairly far down my list of posts to write at the moment, though...)
Cedar also recently asked the question
"What would an anti-oppressive world look like?", which has had surprisingly little response - if anyone reading this would like to contribute, i thinki the discussion could get highly interesting...
Staying on the subject of trans* politics, i was quite pleased to see probably the best discussion of trans* issues i have seen on a "mainstream" feminist blog
here at
Feministe. (I don't really have very much to add to it, except to second nearly all of the trans* posters there...)
(Then again, Feministe has always been one of the best of the "mainstream" feminist blogs when it comes to issues such as trans* stuff, disability, BDSM, sex work, etc. There's a reason that i link there and not to Feministing or Pandagon...)
Finally (for now),
Rad Geek had a great post on anti-psychiatry a couple of weeks ago:
On Sound and Fury. (And that's something else i need to write properly about, but, again, is probably pretty far down the list at the moment...)
Actual original writing may or may not be forthcoming...