June 2011
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This is my life now, again.
No idea why a bunch of new people started following this account in the past few hours, but welcome y’all - I enjoy writing, reading and taking an educated guess on why adult sexuality has to be so damn weird all the time.
In the meantime, some reading material for today:
Laura Goode, No, There Are No Vampires in My YA Novel
Gender Across Borders, Slutwalk in Mexico City: “Tool for...
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This is my life now.
In the last couple hours alone I pledged to put out a short story titled “Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam, Bam, You’re Pregnant” as soon as I can, I entered “hardcore actress deemed too old for barely legal” into Google and I started writing a nonfiction piece on the emotional tangle resulting from a close friend hitting you up for porn recommendations, Amazon style.
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“I had panic attacks; we all did. My fellow writers would fall asleep, and then...”
– Oliver Martin, “AOL Hell: An AOL Content Slave Speaks Out”
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant →
“My first challenge was the language. Though I learned English in the Philippines, I wanted to lose my accent. During high school, I spent hours at a time watching television (especially “Frasier,” “Home Improvement” and reruns of “The Golden Girls”) and movies (from “Goodfellas” to “Anne of Green Gables”), pausing the VHS to try to copy how various characters enunciated their words. At the...
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“After the original cast of “Saved By The Bell” departed, Diamond...”
– more from here.
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“[…] Bronson Pinchot referenced an infamous Rolling Stone interview he did...”
– N. Rabin, here.
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Chris Stedman: Do Atheists Belong in the... →
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“come sto? sgomento. lo saresti anche tu se scoprissi quanti al giorno...”
– e-mail ricevuta nel mese di giugno dell’anno 2011
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“In the guise of “Paula Brooks”, Bill Graber corresponded online with...”
– “Paula Brooks”, editor of “Lez Get Real”, also a man.
It’s a day-long WTF around here.
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“It is not charming to hear someone who has emotionally manipulated any number of...”
– Amy Davidson, “The Road to the Gay Girl in Damascus”
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"I am a racist and a bigot from Alabama but I...
Some things being written here + there about - uh - us ? , because I’m quite far from EuroPride today, and, yes, this is the best I can whip up from a distance.
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‘X-Men: First Class,’ Gay Rights, and the Intelligence Community - Alyssa Rosenberg, ThinkProgress
Some Concerns About X-Men: First Class (focusing on race and women) - Susana Polo, The Mary Sue
X-Men:...
Comics Illustrator Raises Money For Texas... →
Sometimes the institutions that are supposed to hold us up and teach us how to live our lives as decent human beings just fail us completely, doing something so revolting it challenges your very faith in humanity. Such is the case with the administrators at Texas’ Silsbee High School, who decided to throw one of their cheerleaders off the team when she refused to cheer directly for the boy...
lakebrandt: 9 Things You May Not Know About the... →
year36:
It’s Gay Pride month! That hallowed time of year when we don glittery speedos and ride floats in front of the sweaty, cheering masses. But why is it that we strip down and party it up every June? What is it that makes pride so important? And why the hell does everybody keep looking…
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