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| I'm really bad at remembering acronyms and stuff, so this is mostly for my own reference. May be updated as I come across things. ( bandom terminology ) | |
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| Dear Yuletide Writer, I said I'd upload some resources for you. Here they are: - an ebook, more or less- violin musicThanks again! ♥ I hope you're having fun, wherever you are in the writing process (I'm currently at the daydreaming/procrastinating stage.) | |
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| Oh Jesus, where does the time go? I meant to post about Transgender Day of Rememberance and about the murder of Jorge Steven Lopez Mercado (he was decapitated, dismembered and burned.) I also wanted to pass this on: Sylvia Rivera Law Project opposes the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act
The recent expansion of the federal hates crimes legislation has received extensive praise and celebration by mainstream lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender organizations because it purports to "protect" LGBT people from attacks on the basis of their expressed and/or perceived identities for the first time ever on a federal level. The Sylvia Rivera Law Project does not see this as a victory. As an organization that centers racial and economic justice in our work and that understands mass imprisonment as a primary vector of violence in the lives of our constituents, we believe that hate crimes legislation is a counterproductive response to the violence faced by LGBT people.I don't support hate crimes legislation, not the way it will be implemented in our current legal system. We need justice. We need to not keep quiet. There are forces and people trying to keep us invisible and keep our deaths invisible - that is one thing that the language of "hate crimes" has helped with; it has put the emphasis on the motivation of the person who committed violence, instead of on the identity or actions of the victim. But it also hides certain things. Lopez Mercado's alleged murderer claims that he acted out of the trauma he endured in prison, which may be another version of the twinkie defense, but it is indicative of the intersectionality of racism, classism, homophobia, transphobia, nationality, etc. There's a Facebook group calling for the murder to be classified as a hate crime, which would ensure that the defendant is jailed for a longer period of time. We need to stop acting like prisons are the answer. They will not make us safe. | |
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| the boy: *unzips his jeans* kaizoku: *looks up* the boy: Attracted by the sound of a zipper unzipping, [kaizoku] looks away from his computer. kaizoku: *laughs and covers his face in embarrassment* the boy: You are sooo sketchy, I don't even know, dude! *zips back up after tucking in his shirt* kaizoku: *looks slightly disappointed* I haven't been updating much because of I've been trying to go to bed early so as to avoid contracting the PLAGUE from the boy. So far, it seems to be working. In other real life news, YAY MY MUFFLER'S NOT CRACKED! I still has car. :-) Off to go see the place where I'll be pet-sitting for the next couple works. I hope it has internet. *crosses fingers* P.S. I tried to tell my co-workers about True Porn Clerk Stories (because it is so outrageously awesome) but I think they thought I was sketchy. /o\ I'M SO NOT SKETCHY! I'M REALLY LIKE THE LEAST SKETCHY PERSON OUT THERE. Damnit, that doesn't sound very convincing, does it? ETA: Preposition fail now corrected. ETA2: IT HAS INTERNETS. | |
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| "People say that things about Joss Whedon, that he's racist, that he's not really feminist, and that doesn't change my esteem for him. But then I hear that he's going to direct an episode of Glee... And he plummets." Says himself, aka ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) manach. I then ask him, will you watch the episode? "I'll watch the episode, certainly." SEE, I'LL WIN HIM OVER YET. | |
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| Oh God, I just heard about this. This is why police officers shouldn't be in schools and especially shouldn't be in schools with FIREARMS. The NAACP has a good statement. | |
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| Here's my nominations for Yuletide though I may change my mind before Tuesday. Ginn Hale - Wicked Gentlemen
Colson Whitehead - The Intuitionist
Geraldine Brooks - People of the Book
C.R.A.Z.Y. (2005)
Roger Norman - Albion's DreamMy really brief and hurried descriptions that do not do justice to their subjects: Wicked Gentlemen is M/M fantasy that kinda reminds me of the Bartimaeus Trilogy, in that it's a gothic fantasy-London setting with magic and demons. Otherwise, it's completely different! The Intuitionist is a really awesome novel about a black female elevator inspector who gets entangled in a war between two schools of elevator inspectors (Intuitionists and Empiricists) and the search for the elevator "black box"; takes place in a city that is implicitly New York. (See wikipedia for more details.) People of the Book is based on a true story about an illustrated haggadah and the hands, lands, and centuries through which it has passed. I didn't like the main character storyline but the historical characters were fascinating. C.R.A.Z.Y. is a French-Canadian film about a boy growing up in a large, crazy family in the 1980s, trying to figure out his sexuality. Subverts expectations by focusing on his relationship with his dad, instead of romantic aspects. Albion's Dream is a REALLY REALLY obscure YA novel in two boys "play an ancient, handmade game called Albion's Dream without realizing, at first, that events they set in motion on the board are also transpiring, in parallel, in real life" (Kirkus Reviews.) Kind of like Jumanji but darker and more British. I read it when I was in grade school and finally bought it used last year because I wanted to read it again so much. My first nomination was actually going to be Naomi Wallace - One Flea Spare (a play) but it was already on the list of fandoms nominated for 2009! Though obviously, I'll need to check and make sure it's still there before nominations close. | |
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| Just came across this blog Media dis&dat - "a database of news and information about people with disabilities and disability issues." Lots of good articles, some hopeful, some depressing. This one is fucking scary. ( Cutting to save the flist but I really hope some of you read it )Why should *any* child be given a police citation for swearing or sitting down? It's particularly absurd in cases where the kid has a developmental disorder though. The prospect of a child with autism being treated like he is resisting arrest IN SCHOOL is incredibly scary... the combined force of the criminalization of mental disorders and police in schools (aka funneling youth into prison.) | |
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| Radical Queer Vandalism of HRC Headquarters on October 11 Communique from the Forgotton:
Human Rights Campaign HQ Glamdalized By Queers Against Assimilation
HRC headquarters was rocked by an act of glamdalism last night by a crew of radical queer and allied folks armed with pink and black paint and glitter grenades. Beside the front entrance and the inscribed mission statement now reads a tag, "Quit leaving queers behind."
The HRC is not a democratic or inclusive institution, especially for the people who they claim to represent. Just like society today, the HRC is run by a few wealthy elites who are in bed with corporate sponsors who proliferate militarism, heteronormativity, and capitalist exploitation. The sweatshops (Nike), war crimes (Lockheed Martin), assaults on working class people (Bank of America, Deloitte, Chase Bank, Citi Group, Wachovia Bank) and patriarchy (American Apparel) caused by their sponsors is a hypocrisy for an organization with "human rights" in their name.
The queer liberation movement has been misrepresented and co-opted by the HRC. The HRC marginalizes us into a limited struggle for aspiring homosexual elites to regain the privilege that they've lost and climb the social ladder towards becoming bourgeoisie.
Last night, Obama spoke at the HRC fundraising gala and currently the HRC website declares, "President Obama underlines his unwavering support for LGBT Americans." The vast amount of organizing resources the HRC wastes on their false alliance with the Democratic party leaves radical queers on the margins to fend for themselves. Our struggle has always had to resist the repression of conservative tendencies in government and society to gain liberation in our lives.
The gourmet affair was sponsored by 48 corporations including giants Lockheed Martin, Microsoft, and Wachovia Bank. At $250 dollars a plate the HRC served our movement a rich, white, heternormative atmosphere that purposefully excludes working class queer folks.
REMEMBER THE STONEWALL RIOTS! On the 40th anniversary of Stonewall, pigs raided a queer bar in Texas, arrested and beat our friends, and we looked towards politicians and lawyers to protect us. This mentality is what keeps the money flowing to the HRC and their pet Democrats, and keeps our fists in our pockets.
Most of all we disagree that collective liberation will be granted by the state or its institutions like prisons, marriage, and the military. We need to escalate our struggle, or it will collapse.
~~Love and Solidarity~~ | |
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| Is anyone doing a link round-up of Coming Out Day posts? If so, please tell me where. I would do it but I'm totally swamped. (I checked http://linkspam.dreamwidth.org/ but it's on hiatus after Lambda.) I have AWESOME AWESOME news but I'm gonna wait til the morning when I'm not exhausted to post about it. :D | |
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| London trans activists call for boycott of sham demo on October 17th We are a group of trans activists who wish to make known our concerns about a demo, claiming to support the depathologisation of trans people, in London on 17th of October. The facebook group for the demo can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=147494409183The description of the event reads: "Being transgendered is not a mental illness. We are simply part of the diversity of humanity. Gender Identity Disorder is therefore not a valid diagnosis. Homosexuality we removed as a mental health diagnosis diagnosis in 1987. For us to achieve true liberation and recognition we need to throw off this unjust stigma. We are not ill, just different" A large number of people were invited by the demo organiser, a non-trans man by the name of Dennis Hambridge, and some of us were initially concerned by the rationale for the demo. In particular, we were worried that campaigning for the removal of Gender Identity Disorder as a medical diagnosis without proposing an alternative mechanism by which transsexual people would be able to access medical transition resources was premature and dangerous, especially in a climate where NHS primary care trusts need only a minimal excuse to deny funding for our hormonal and surgical procedures. We do not support the labelling of our gender identities as disordered, and realise that our relationship with the medical community is far from ideal, but do not wish to support a movement which may give the impression that we seek complete divorce from the medical community. These concerns were put to the Facebook group by a number of trans activists. Rather than address them, Mr Hambridge entrenched his position, making claims that gender dysphoria was an artefact of society and the medical community, and that removal of any form of classification of gender dysphoria by the WHO was "non-negotiable". In moves more reminiscent of the actions of transphobic radical feminists than supposed allies of trans people, Mr Hambridge started deleting some of the comments from those trans people who were concerned about our future access to hormones and surgery. Subsequently he banned a number of those trans people from the group, silencing them in that space. To reiterate - Mr Hambridge, who is organising a demo which is allegedly supporting the rights of transsexual people is using his position as a group organiser to silence and shut out the voices of the very people he claims to support. In light of Mr Hambridge's intransigence and refusal to listen to the voices of actual transsexual people, we are calling on all activists who support the concept of transsexual people having a say in our own medical care to boycott this demo. We further call on Mr Hambridge, who is not trans himself, to stop claiming to speak on our behalf when he is ignoring our protestations and silencing our voices, and to call off his demo. Please spread this open letter widely. Also, rozk has more details on dealings with Mr Hambridge in her LJ. | |
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| When I was a kid, books about people with disabilities seemed to end one of two ways. Either the pure, good, tragic cripple died, or the pure, good, tragic cripple was cured. Okay, there were also villains whose disabilities were a symbolic sign of their inner corruption, but I’m not even going to touch that one. Such endings are incredibly disheartening for me, growing up, because I didn’t want to die, and I was never going to be miraculously cured. I had to carve out a happy ending of my own that included my disability. For those of you who keep saying you want Snape’s leg repaired at the end, you are tapping into that same disenfranchising cultural narrative. Stop it. Stop it now. Don’t make me get out my squirt bottle of wrathful smiting. Whatever ending I write (and I will spoil this, if nothing else) Snape and his disability will be around at the end, along with their happy ending. Quote by attackfish in this post: I Hate "Teachable Moments": Disability and Fanfiction, or How Not to Fail at Disability in Comments. Nice short essay, I highly recommend it. I recently read a Glee fanfic with Artie (the sarcastic, geeky kid) that followed this pattern: Artie gets surgery and eventually is able to walk. But at the end, you find out that it was just a dream. That actually made the fic slightly less upsetting to me; I can deal with magically disappearing disability as a fantasy (of the character.) And yet, it was obvious that it was supposed to get the readers' hopes up and then make them sad at the end when it's wasn't true. And that is problematic. attackfish also brings up de-sexualization of people with disabilities. I feel like Artie is getting some play (in fandom! not yet on the show) but unfortunately, I have to wonder if that's only because the actor isn't in a wheelchair (and was in a boy band.) I've heard a lot of people saying how it's too bad that Kevin McHale "doesn't get to dance" (SORRY, NOT ACTUALLY TRUE.) But can I just point out how AWESOME it is that Artie is in most of the numbers? The Glee kids standing up to the choreographer in 1x03 was pretty trite, but it's true - they're going to win because they're different. And because they WORK IT. ( WHO SAYS ARTIE CAN'T DANCE? [youtube spam] ) | |
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| A writing meme! Reply with a character or pairing I'm *familiar* with and I'll write a few sentences of fic.And if I'm not familiar with it, I'll make up something ridiculous! P.S. I really hope ALL OF YOU will do that music meme. I want an "LJ Friends" playlist! | |
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| I've discovered some great music from people on my flist, and I'd love to both share some of mine and discover more. Upload (to anywhere - there are lots of places to use for this, like e.g. SendSpace) a song you love, particularly if it's something you've discovered recently, and link to it from a post in your own journal. If you want to, explain why you chose what you did. Then save all the songs posted on your f-list and make yourself an LJ Friends playlist/CD/whatever.
Go go go!Single Ladies by Beyonce - Okay, I know y'all already heard this a billion times but I'm addicted to it at the moment. (Yes, I do dance to it. No, not the dance. I'm not that talented.) Smells Like Queer Spirit by Pansy Division - I've been into Pansy Division for a long time but somehow I didn't have this song until recently. It's a little dated but really, how can you not love a song that goes, "Here we are now, so fellate us!" In the same vein... There's a Porn Star Shining Down On Me by Jinx Titanic - GAY GOSPEL. SORT OF. Imagine if Lyle Lovett wrote a song about buttsex, okay? This song cheers me up like nothing else. WARNING: RAMPANT BLASPHEMY. Blonde on Blonde by Nada Surf. I first heard this in the movie Sommersturm (which ALSDKFJKLJ I FREAKING LOVE. Especially b/c I watched it the same week I read Easy There by syllic.) It's a lovely song and also pleases me b/c it's the only Bob Dylan album I have (philistine, I know.) And speaking of Dylan... Changing of the Guards by Patti Smith - I was obsessed with this song ALL SUMMER. I like it much better than the original. Smith's version gives me chills and makes me want to write Watchmen fic based on it. And I would kill for a good cover of Jokerman.Mecanica Celestes by Alma Rosa - A long time ago, I was given a mixtape with this song on it and I absolutely loved it. It's EPICALLY FUN. I finally got around to buying it from Itunes and the whole CD is great. Okay, one more: Joy Comes Back by Rani Arbo & the Daisy Mayhem - I saw these guys in town last June and they were really sweet and fun. Sort of folky, sort of gospel. I recommend them if you like Girlyman. | |
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| Ever felt like watching Firefly with German dubbing? WELL, YOU CAN. Firefly Season 1 Episode 6 "Mrs.Reynolds" Part 1/5It's actually pretty good dubbing (at least as far as I can tell.) And they kept the Chinese! I found this gem while searching for the Wedding Dance music - I don't think it's on the soundtrack (correct me if I'm wrong!) There is a version by Bedlam Bards but it's different. Grr argh. HELLO AND WELCOME, NEW GLEE FRIENDS! Yup, I'm in Glee fandom now -- if only for the Kurt/Puck Sue/Emma SLASHY SLASH SLASH. These may be relevant to your interests: Glee friending meme, Glee kink meme, and a Glee prompt meme (just in case you haven't seen them yet.) :D In other news, I have a SHINY NEW BEING HUMAN HEADER by allyndra! Actually, she made me two to choose from. Thank you, bb! In my hypothetical future where I can have more animals, should I get: (a) Flesh eating beetles (which I have no earthly use for, unless I start collecting roadkill.) (b) Red worms (very useful for composting!) (c) A Pot-bellied pig (As a pet, though if I ever homestead, I would probably raise pigs for meat.) (d) Turtles (ACTUALLY THAT'S A DEFINITE YES. My boyfriend loves turtles. I think it's because he secretly is one. No, he doesn't like pizza.) | |
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| Totally random question: Who still uses one of the old Livejournal site schemes? I still use XColibur. How many years has it been since they changed it? I will probably never change.
Not-so-random question: People who write (fanfic), how do you write? Do you just get the urge and DO IT? Or do you schedule yourself writing time? Or do you sometimes just start writing and not stop except to eat, sleep and piss? Or do you get all excited about writing and then procrastinate and feed the internet instead?
Subject line refers to girl!cat. She is adorable and currently curled up in my lap. PREVENTING ME FROM TYPING FIC. But that is okay. | |
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| If I was a vengeance demon, this is where I would hang out: ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) iwish | |
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| Hey look, straight cis m/m authors showing their asses! Because my life totally needed more rage in it. My favorite thing to come out of this so far is the discussion between kynn and elfwreck here. Kynn is just so damn incisive, it is awesome to behold. Anyway, I know whose books I won't be buying! ETA: More linkage here (and part 1 which links to early discussion.) Also specifies some authors and reviewers, which may be useful for DNW lists. | |
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| Polybigbang is still looking for mixers/artists for two stories - one is Bleach and the other is Torchwood. The claiming post is here on DW and here on LJ. | |
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