It's being held Sunday at the Center on Halsted.

Ceremony: 5-7 pm
Night of Fallen Stars: 7-9

(The Night of Fallen Stars is a sliding scale event celebrating performances by trans people, centering trans woman of color youth, so come on out! I'll be performing, too!)

link

Be there.

So, what I remember from my classes is that you don't capitalize "muslim" because it's idolatry--you capitalize Islam because it's about God, but "muslim" is about people and therefore you don't capitalize it ( Read more... )

Listen to really emotive music, and read an emotive article on a topic that's really emotional (for you) for class, at the same time, when you really do have somewhat limited time ( Read more... )

I'd wanted to include an analysis of the emails I got afterwards, from NGLTF and dyke march and women's studies people. Nobody wanted to plan celebrations for electing a president who said, on record, multiple times, during an election campaign, that he supported trans inclusion in ENDA just protests about prop 8. NCTE was positive, at least--the ( Read more... )

So, I've been avoiding for ~a week, playing an internet computer game (The Far Wilds), and while it *is* fun, and I'm doing well (I'm in 4th place out of 150 in one league), it's...avoidance, addiction....for a couple days I've not had touch with reality for any longer than I had to or pressed myself to (this is part of why I'm so proud of myself ( Read more... )

Mania, n: the state of being unaccountable. (to oneself, one's body, others...)

discuss.

With decanting my tinctures. I did five containers today, but they were disproportionately small ones, though two were big ( Read more... )

Oh Chicago.

I have never voted for this many Republicans in my life.

I fucking swear.

EDIT::

Oh Chicago Corruption. How do I hate thee. All the corrupt-ass democrats won AND the constitutional convention was denied. At least the non-corrupt dems won, but...

Chicago, oh Chicago.

(one wonders if those vote totals are correct. Who knows? It's

My precinct official-ish person said that normally there are 180 voters in our precinct on election day.

Today there were 375--half an hour before close. Not counting early voting.

She said that she thought 80-90% of our precinct had voted.

damn. just, damn.

Well, last night I slept 11 hours when I'd not been planning to--which meant sleeping in till 4 pm...but, in the past two days, I've made pesto, decanted my anti-fungal oil, and made a lemon pickle, all of which I'd been failing at doing... I also went to Women & Children First and picked up my books, and got some clothes at Target ( Read more... )