"People often ask me why I take such risks and tell me it is a matter of time before I am bumped off. Of course I know that: it is inevitable. But if we do not speak out now, there will be no one left to speak for those who cannot, whether they be ethnic minorities, the disadvantaged or the persecuted."

Dear other members of the United Sexualities exec board ( Read more... )

that we are standing on the side of love.

i was really wanting some religion, so i was listening to sermon podcasts and occasionally pausing them to sing along to videos of hymns on youtube, and i got to this one and just started sobbing for some reason.

i don't even support governmentally sanctioned marriage.

Me: Something about race.
Prof: Uh, that's not relevant right now.
Me: Race is always relevant, especially when a movement calling itself radical is clearly for White, heterosexual, middle-class women.
[silence]
Prof: Anyways...

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dear inability to sleep ( Read more... )

I have one of my history electives (Women in European History) as a tutorial class, and I met today with the prof (who is also my advisor) to discuss the class.  The first words out of his mouth?  "Okay, so, I'm going to use this class to prepare you for grad school ( Read more... )

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So I basically just outed myself (note the difference between that and came out to) my mom as trans... I had forgotten that I was signed onto AIM on my dad's computer as well, and so she saw a bit of Screech's half of a conversation we were having about various things, including the fact that I'm starting to change my name with profs.  And so she ( Read more... )

I'm just finishing up the citations (damn you ASA) for a paper I'm writing about the relationship of anthropology and colonialism, and I thought that I'd post an excerpt from it to see if any of you all out there had thoughts on what I've written.  I think it's relatively clear even without the 750-1000 words that come before it, but if you want ( Read more... )