"A "Creator's block" sounds like something afflicting a divinity, but writer's block is my default setting. Its opposite is miraculous. The process of learning to write fiction, for me, was one of learning to almost continually be doing it *through* the block, in spite of the block, the block becoming the accustomed place from which to work. Our ( Read more... )

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I'm annoyed with Britishness, livejournal.

I'm quite happy to be British: indeed, I'm about as much an anglophile as someone born within a hundred miles of Big Ben can legitimately be. I do think if I'd grown up in England I'd have been significantly more of a Japanophile than I already am, but that's by-the-by.

What I am annoyed with about ( Read more... )

Wow, Laurie Penny's article on Bindel's Transphobia got over 300 MeFi comments! Lots of comments on the blog itself, too.

Also, Greer's Wikipedia article finally has mention of the way she treated Rachel Padman, together with some of the other trans "controversies".

The times they are a-changin', slowly.

So, livejournal!

I made a mix CD in response to shane_mayhem's holiday wish for instrumental/dreamy music, though someone else was very much on my mind when making it as well :) I'm really happy with it ( Read more... )

Linking to my friend Nine's Rumpus article on Belle De Jour, because it is awesome and she is awesome. That is all.

From my twitter, because it's important :)

Cillygrrl14 The creative-feminine, so hated and repressed, such a threat to the kyriarchy. Fuck 'em all, be open-hearted &sing:http://tinyurl.com/ckvm6q

http://blog.amandapalmer.net/post/182070703/secret-sunday-london-show-behind-the-film-scene

Amanda Palmer last minute Sunday show! Tickets limited... gogogogogogogo!