On the Transgender Day of Remembrance, I often think of this speech/article, written by Michelle O at Deadletters.biz.

"To speak of mourning, to speak of the dead, is never simple, never straightforward, never easy. The dead are not symbols or themes for my lecture; they were each people; living, complex, real people...  the dead can rarely speak ( Read more... )

Okay. So I know I am 6 months late to the party, but last night I saw Dreamgirls, and can I drop my jaw and say "WOW" to Jennifer Hudson's performance. It blew me outta the water and made the movie, in my opinion. Every moment she was on screen was electric. I am so glad she won the Oscar!! Can you say va-va-voom movie star?


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The goods:

• Last day of work before the weekend - Beau and I are headed down to DC tomorrow to view some apartments and neighborhoods, celebrate Mama's day, and crunch ridiculous amounts of family and baby time into 48 hours.

The bads:

• Very loud garbage truck at 4 in the morning unloading bins at the post office across the street from our apartment. ( Read more... )

Hi People, especially all you spiritual types!

My aunt is in a small Internet feminist spiritual group in
which one person's community has been experiencing a
lot of homophobia. This person suggested to her minister that
the church sponsor a healing/reconciliation service
for the community - which I think is a really beautiful idea.

She asked her group ( Read more... )

Pentagon Challenged on Lynch and Tillman

By JOHN HOLUSHA
Published: April 24, 2007
Military and other administration officials created a heroic story about the death of Cpl. Pat Tillman to distract attention from setbacks in Iraq and the mistreatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the slain man’s younger brother, Kevin Tillman, said ( Read more... )

I'm really upset and disturbed by this unfolding story. I don't understand how 2 hours passed between the first shooting (with only 2 casualties) and the second shooting which killed more than 30. It is just horrifying. I hear what this journalist is saying, too, about how scripted tragedy has become for us as a society.

Deadly Rampage and No Loss ( Read more... )

ANNIE SPRINKLE and ELIZABETH STEPHENS
are coming to New York City
and YOU are invited to the East Coast premiere of
EXPOSED: EXPERIMENTS IN LOVE, SEX, DEATH & ART
 
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life has been really stressful lately, and i think its only going to continue in the next few months as the move to DC comes closer. thus, when i found time to finally cook dinner last night it was such a relief. i love food and i love to cook. i love being creative with flavors and textures and colors and nutrition, and it is so comforting to have ( Read more... )

I love this website and have been reading it for months. If you are at all interested in tough ladies hauling iron, check out Stumptuous!

Not to be missed are her weighlifting tutorials (esp. for women but valuable for all, in my opinion) and her persuasive writing on why free-weights and natural-lifting (ie, swinging hammers and carrying around ( Read more... )