No gay marriage ban in Arizona - the first ever on a ballot that didn't pass! It makes me feel like there must be some ok people out there. Still, I'm livid that Republicans hoped these ballot initiatives would increase conservative voter turnout. You don't use people's lives to get a vote. And it probably didn't even work this time. Not like 2004 ( Read more... )

Well thank god the queers won't ever even get the chance at civil unions one day. Let them live in sin without any protection - and those hetero women who won't get married don't deserve to be protected by domestic violence law anyway ( Read more... )

In the paper yesterday ( Read more... )

Home again. I never expected to be so glad to see the mall from an airplane window. This is where my life is right now and you won't hear any complaining from me. For at least a month. I'm ready to see my loved ones (that's YOU if you are wondering) and get back to school. I have a lot to say, so be prepared CCU. I guess that isn't news to anyone ( Read more... )

well, a massive ear infection has left me cramed in my apartment drugged up and dizzy for an entire week. what a way to spend my last week in nyc... i'm coming home a few days early since i can't hear or go anywhere. i'll be back in good ol' MB by 7:30 Wednesday night. i'm ready, even if i will miss the city. i've been lucky. what a great

doing research to see how gay marriage has been/will be used to mobilize the conservative base is beginning to make me crazy. i have felt so much anger today. the things i read are ridiculous - the writing is poor, the tone condescending, the research is shoddy, the logic completely flawed and yet, and YET, it works! how can people be so stupid? i ( Read more... )

Well, nonprofit goodness aside an unpaid internship is an unpaid internship ($10 a day pays for me to get to the office and eat a meal). All day every day is a long time even when you work at an organization that works for women's ... wait, what do we actually DO here? I'm tired of being slave labor now. It was fine, now it isn't, I'm ready to go ( Read more... )

I am growing weary of all the disappointment ( Read more... )

I now have a tattoo.

do you have that one person in your life who knows you - even if she doesn't vote, even if you sometimes become her token lesbian friend, even if your politics diverge at that certain point of left.... she *knows* you and you can say anything and it never changes. i think that might be some of the best love that i know.