As my friends in the queer musicology seminar can attest, our professor M2 is famous for assigning ridiculously large amounts of reading to his students. Therefore, when i met with him on Tuesday to discuss my research, i was pleasantly surprised when he recommended that i read only one novel in preparation for our next meeting. That pleasant ( Read more... )

I GOT IT ( Read more... )

i have a new hero. her name is kelly ( Read more... )

apparently I'm a "great man." but otherwise, i think the results describe me pretty well.


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this sat night hardrockgrrl and i went to see "Love Hurts," an SM-themed Lesbian Cabaret. We very much enjoyed watching two thirty-something dykes (playing characters named "Mistress Crystalwind Moonfyre Child Vampira" and "Dogmeat Slut Butt Ass Slave") croon it out to Foreigner, Pat Benatar, and Barry Manilow ( Read more... )

so i'm hanging out in exciting lewisville, nc for the next several days. it's kinda odd to be back home* for the first time since december. this is also a totally random trip. in june my parents decided they missed me and offered to pay for a plane ticket if i would fly home sometime in july. i found a cheap ticket that didn't interfere with my ( Read more... )

hey ya'll,

I propose a Grand Celebration in honor of those who have recently survived (or are still surviving) birthdays, special fields exams and the dreaded Plague. What do ya'll think about happy hour on Thursday after the 4 pm Echo meeting? We could descend upon downtown Westwood or El Carmen for margarita decadence.

The Advocate is NEVER getting any $$$ from me, never ever again. It doesn't surprize me in the least that they would publish as appalling as this article, but it just confirms once and for all that affluent gays and lesbians can be privileged mutherf&*kers just as much as anyone else. DUH.

Here's a wonderful letter in response to said article, ( Read more... )

so it’s fun to listen to misogynist early nineties R&B whilst writing about lesbian separatists. oh mr. lover man, why don’t you use titles like these anymore ( Read more... )

WARNING: making music lists is dangerously addictive!


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