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Montréal Massacre: 20 years later
It is strange to think that I was standing outside of the engineering building at Gonzaga 10 years ago, holding a candlelight vigil for the women killed in the Montréal Massacre ( Read more... ) -
Manageable
Okay, I just stopped watching almost all of my communities and cut about 100 people. It is, I swear to god, about time. When the idea of opening my LJ just makes me want to sigh and see if I have 3-4 hours, it's gotten too big.
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Defriending Amnesty
I'm not online as much as I used to be and, therefore, I just can't keep up with everything anymore. So. I went on a big defriending spree - friends, communities, and feeds - to clean things up. Mostly, it was either a "let's be real, we don't really interact" thing or an interests diverging thing ( Read more... ) -
Calling you to action. Please.
So, as many of you know, my good friend magnificentmndi's son has been undergoing treatment for Juvenile Myelomonocytic Leukemia (JMML). Everything in their world changed in February and it's about to change again. Gregory is undergoing a bone marrow transplant tomorrow morning, a procedure that could save his life ( Read more... ) -
The Thirthteenth Child
Sometimes, in conversations about race, I wonder what is going through people's HEADS. I mean, I'm white. I get assloads of white privilege every day and in every way. And I fuck up. TRUST me, I fuck up bad sometimes and I feel like an idiot and people call me on it and I apologize and I try to learn.
And then I see shit like Patricia Wrede's ( Read more... ) -
Dreamwidth and changing tides
As soon as I wrote, that I bet about half of your eyes glazed over.
But it's going to be short! I do have a DW account and I'm trying to think about how I might want to change my journaling experiences. So. A poll!
Poll DW -
Everyone ever: ATTENTION
Okay, so my girl wrote this book, right? And you should all order it, because it came out TODAY and she's amazing, so therefore, it will be amazing.
It is simple mathematics. Order Salt and Silver (or here, at AmazonAlso, since I'm already ordering THAT, I'm thinking ... why not order an LSAT prep book? Because, um. Maybe I'll take the LSATs this ( Read more... ) -
MOLPAD (UIF): Daphne Gottleib
I've read a lot of Daphne's stuff in the last few years, but this poem remains memorable to me. Maybe it's because I've never seen her live - but her voice makes this real, makes it matter more to me.
I wish I knew the title. I've looked a lot and cannot find it.
(Warnings for possible sexual assault triggers)
Daphne Gottlieb in Big Sur, ( Read more... )
