January 2012
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New Year's Eve enthusiasm & schmoop ;)
Right now, I’m dying my hair a mix of “Mystic Heather” & “New Rose,” doing dishes & laundry, and waiting for Angus to come over. Tonight, A. & I will dress up fancy, eat delicious food, hang out with my beloved brother Aidan, watch New Year’s Eve unfold in the Castro, and toast from the bottle of pink champagne I impulse-bought at Rainbow last night...
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December 2011
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“The difference is privileging in literature a hero as opposed to a heroine. The...”
– Reblogging Sarah’s notes here. So good:
Frances Farmer Is My Sister — All The Sad Young Pretty Girls
so I was reading this this morning because a friend had tweeted a line from this post that caught my eye, and I sent it to Melissa with the comments:
So we’ve had this conversation, but I...
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WatchTHIS IS WHAT THE INTERNET IS FOR.
(Voiced by my boyfriend, starring my cat.)
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Champagne Candy: christmas with family →
I <3 you, Sarah Jaffe.
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I skipped Christmas in the south last year, had Christmas Eve with friends and Christmas Day with my sister (and more friends) and I didn’t regret not going “home.”
People my age who still refer to going to our parents’ as “home”—serious question—when does where we make our lives feel like home?…
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Well, there goes my vacation... →
Every Golden Girls episode ever. YES!
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safe travels home and, finally, justice for those...
Today is International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. I am doing some crip community care/solidarity for a beloved friend today (please keep her in your thoughts as she recovers from an injury), so I will not be attending memorial events or vigils. But I am thinking of all those we have lost in community over the years. I am lighting candles, mourning, loving in my own quiet way at...
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steak. frites. TIME!!!
Officially ***DOOOOOOONNNNNNNNNNNE*** WITH THE SEMESTER! Now it is Chow time.
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SFPD Releases Video & Updated Sketch of Serial... →
This is all scary, but this is great info to have nonetheless (although, boo to putting “brutal” in quotes — c’mon, guys, really?). Otherwise, thank you MissionLocal for being informative & comprehensive!
Also, more info regarding these cases here at SFist (um, again, BOO on sfist for putting “violent” in quotes), and here at MissionMission.
As I said...
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Handbasket Productions Needs Yr Biznezz! →
Please consider throwing some love & money towards Handbasket Productions this year! They are by far my favorite smutty employer (I’m in both of their currently available DVDs, Doing It Ourselves and The Genderfellator!) & an excellent emporium of smart smut. Get yourself or a love a video or a zine. You won’t regret it, I promise. :)
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Bitch, please: Thin Privilege Checklist →
So, this is imperfect, and of course, if you are a thin person who is also contending with other kinds of oppression/discrimination, not all of these points will necessarily apply to you. (Which is, I think, the case with most ‘privilege checklists’ — a lot of people are privileged in some ways but oppressed in other ways, right?) But, still. I’m glad the...
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“make ecstatic sex a priority. (this deliberateness will make you more creative,...”
– some of these are obnoxious, but i like this one. :)
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Vajra is a harsh but fair critic...
Vajra (my cat) just puked on my desk while I was pretending to write. I like to think she was editorializing about my procrastination, because she has a tendency to Editorially Hork about people & situations (her previous owner also has stories about this). The best time was probably when she puked on my bed right before a date came over, and then said date proceeded to dump me in a...
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'Tis the Gig-Hunting Season!
Hello, lovely folks, ‘Tis gig-hunting season again, and I am putting myself out there for 2012 gigs. If you’re interested in bringing me to your community center or college campus for a performance or a workshop, please have a look at my Booking Page and get in touch. Teaching & performing are part of how I make my living as a working artist, and they also feed me in a multitude...
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a bell and a pomegranate: I think I managed to... →
Genius words from a Genius Lady. Read the whole thing. I’m blessed to call you a friend, Bella(nd). <3
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Blackamazon is too much: midwestmountainmama: Midwest Mountain Mama: An Open Response from…
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Midwest Mountain Mama: An Open Response from Tracy Oliver & Issa Rae
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Some of our viewers...
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Sex Workers' Writing Workshop TOMORROW (December...
Hey folks, Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop is happening tomorrow (Saturday, December 10th) at the Center for Sex & Culture. Come out! More info below. :) xxx, Gina —-
Sex Workers’ Writing Workshop
Saturday, December 10th (usually 2nd Saturday of Every Month), 2-4pm Center for Sex & Culture, 1349 Mission Street @ 10th Street, San Francisco (close to Civic Center BART & Van...
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I should start a vlog of myself doing Dramatic...
I have been known to do Dramatic Readings in Strong Bad Voice to cheer people up.
Drunken texts from unimpressive exes? Abusive emails from shitty landlords? They are so much less awful & so much more amusing in Strongbad Voice!
I just read Angus a quaintly batty passage from a website about spiritualism in Strongbad Voice, and we almost died from laughing so hard.
This could also be due to...
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Do you know anything about the Vulcan Lofts?
BAYERIA PEOPLES: Do you know anything about the Vulcan Lofts live/work artist community warehouse/loft/co-op/etc situation in East Oakland? A friend looked at a room there today and is considering moving in, but if there are any issues with the Vulcan Lofts, he’d of course love to know before he takes the leap. Got any help/inside info? Thanks!
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capital letters of SADNESS!
Marlene & Dorian just called me to offer me a FREE TICKET to see IGGY POP with them. TONIGHT.
And I had to say NO. Because LOTS OF HOMEWORK. Also because still slightly sickly.
This is the right & good & responsible decision, but DUDE. ADULTHOOD IS WEAKSAUCE SOMETIMES.
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A Message from Guillermo Gómez-Peña →
“Today, as I was packing for the next leg of my tour, I read in the SF Gate that Galeria de la Raza, the oldest Chicano organization in the country and an SF landmark as important as City Lights, is being critically targeted for having received “12 grants over 5 years.” I couldn’t believe my eyes. If you put together all those menial grants they don’t even amount to 1/5th of the yearly...
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What Is The Value of a Poz Dollar? - Cyd Nova →
Very, very happy to read this on World AIDS Day.
Keep fighting the good fight, Cyd.
