so, i ordered Deathly Hallows via Amazon, for guaranteed release-date delivery, which i want to mean Right Now! but not yet. anywho, i'll be waiting in my salon with a view of the street and a newly-installed doorbell for it to get here. i leaped out of bed when my landlord came by to drop off said doorbell, but, false alarm ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday thete1!

( the spotlight is on you! )

I posted a comment on Pandagon for the Killing the Black Body edition of the Pandagon book club. Blog book clubs rock! Feminist blogs rock! eleven!
here's what i thought, and i encourage you to read why Amanda chose this book at this time, because in part, that's what i'm responding to.

( thoughts below )

i'm in ur skoolz, teachin ur kidz.

today i taught the first day of the Urban Studies class, which was fun, considering that i learned everything i know about urban studies 10 minutes agoon the train on the way to class since last semester ended. the kids are great, though, they sunk their teeth into Bloomberg's PlaNYC 2030 and i had to tell them ( Read more... )

there's apparently a story on YahooNews or something that says there's an HP spoiler out there.

now, i don't know if there's even a story about a spoiler, but as a precautionary measure, i'm not going to be reading my flist that hard for a few weeks.

not that i was, before.
i still check email, though, so Remember Us items of interest, comments ( Read more... )

So, i was going back through my LJ in order to find links appropriate to the People of Colour SF Carnival, a blog event whose time has come. and i decided, no, there's not much i can do to retrieve the past. So let me start with the future ( Read more... )

Just updated Remember Us (although the index page doesn't say it was today, and there are some kinks i still have to work out, will have them fixed tomorrow...)-- lots of new fic from some new fandoms, including Moby Dick and One Hundred Years of Solitude! and more Angel and a novel called The Persian Boy that i'm really stoked to read!

thanks to makesmewannadie ( Read more... )

via journeyintolight.

OMG, trans black wonder woman protege = love.


In my absence, comics fandom has gotten smarter and more critical.The comments to that post evidence such a high level of discourse, even if there's the errant "rly." especially on the "male character in a typically female space" issue. Yes, Virginia, you can have somewhat ( Read more... )

... and i don't mean Stephanie Brown ( Read more... )

well, you probably can't help just yet.

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