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SF-adjacent: the inherent fuzziness of human enthusiasms
Camestros Felapton has been doing a fascinating series of posts reviewing sci-fi stories about dinosaurs... In one of those posts he reviews a story that isn’t technically a sf/f story, though it is about the making of a sf/f film and is written by Ray Bradbury. And there was a fascinating conversation that occurred in the comments about edge cases ( Read more... ) -
Weekend Update 7/13/2019: Powerful men sometimes face consequences, but what happened at New Republi
It's Saturday morning and time for a news update. Once again, there have been some news stories that broke after I composed this week's Friday Five upon which I don't want to wait until next Friday to comment. And one of them is a doozy! So, let's get to it! ...
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Friday Five (frauds and furor edition)
And now it's Friday. The second Friday in July ( Read more... ) -
Three cheers for the Red, White & Blue - or why I’m more patriotic than any MAGA-hat wearer you will
On the first day of July I took down the Pride flags that were mounted on the rail of our deck and put up my Independence Day banners...
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Strangely, bigots aren’t interested in protecting children from the actual predators…
Many years ago, Dan Savage started posted a weekly Youth Pastor Watch on the blog of the Seattle Alt-weekly newspaper, The Stranger. As he explained at the time, because religious bigots were arguing against gay rights and the legal recognition of civil unions (then later marriage equality) with wild claims about how children needed to be protected ( Read more... ) -
Weekend Update 7/6/2019: Miss Major, still leading the trans revolution
I had several news stories that either didn’t make the cut for this week’s Friday Five, or that I found after posting. And there was even a good strong theme emerging. And then I saw something that had totally slipped by me yesterday: Miss Major Griffin-Gracy Has Suffered a Stroke - The Stonewall veteran and lifelong transgender activist has been ( Read more... ) -
Pride Month May Be Over, but our pride and the battles it represents go on
Last weekend we watched part of the Parade before slipping into the Pride Festival...
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Friday Five (fifth of July edition)
It's the first Friday in July, the day after a big holiday here in the U.S. and I've been a slacker at blogging all week ( Read more... ) -
Friday Five (love is love edition)
It's the final Friday of Pride Month, and my husband and I are going on a small vacation ( Read more... ) -
When did you know you were queer, or more confessions of an ex-evangelical homo devil
So it started with a long-time fandom friend quote-tweeting a request for those of us who are queer to tell him what age we were when we realized we weren’t straight. The simple question kicked off thousands of likes and hundreds of replies. Skimming through the many stories people tell while answering the question is both interesting and ( Read more... )