February 2012
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WHEN we don’t get the results we want in our military endeavors, we don’t blame...
– The High Cost of Low Teacher Salaries (via lawsonry)
today my heart broke
cherry-maulface:andthedayturnedintonight:
my roller derby league, the wonderful central new york roller derby, has saved me in ways that no one will ever understand. they picked me up when i was down, literally and metaphorically, and this league has become my whole life. but today something awful happened, and we lost our practice space and everything in it in a fire.
we are a tough bunch...
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I work with young adults with special needs...
& today in crafts class we were working on fun little valentine’s day stuff. It was so much fun until people started bickering. Words like, “queer,” “he-she,” “shemale,” & “retard” were thrown around the room faster than I could respond. When I tried to explain how hurtful these words were, some especially hurtful to this population,...
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Feminist Science Fiction, Fantasy & Utopia →
crustyriotqueer:
Site sections are Bibliographies & Reviews, Research, Criticism, & Training, and The Feminist SF Community. Includes specific indexes for women of color, lesbian, non-English language, and non-US women writers! Fuck yeah!
'Miseducation': A Cowgirl Coming-Out Story For... →
“Reading a coming-out novel, for me, can feel like approaching a lit fuse. I know it’s going to explode, but I’m not sure when. Many of them follow a formula: character struggles with homosexual desire in a homophobic world; character falls in tormented, transformative love; character is unceremoniously outed. Boom. In the fallout, things usually get a lot worse before they get...
Prop. 8: Gay-marriage ban unconstitutional, court... →
“A federal appeals court Tuesday struck down California’s ban on same-sex marriage, clearing the way for the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on gay marriage as early as next year.”
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