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the problem with polynormativity
Reblogged from Sex Geek: Polyamory is getting a lot of airtime in the media these days. It’s quite remarkable, really, and it represents a major shift over the last five to ten years. The problem—and...
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Grumpy depressing personal post
I am having a grumpy week. It started out with a long train ride home from Philly, where I had fun but realized that 12+ hours of train travel to spend less than 72 hours visiting friends is not a...
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Joe. My. God.: Armisted Maupin Settles Super Bowl Bet
“Famed gay novelist Amistead Maupin made a Super Bowl bet with fellow writer Laura Lippman in which the loser would pen an ode to the winner’s hometown. Here’s Maupin’s tribute to Baltimore. The...
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Twin Oaks in the news
One of the best articles I’ve seen about Twin Oaks recently. “It turns out that being busy means something different in a world where most of your work goes toward feeding, clothing, housing, and...
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Back on my meds, and feeling ok about it
Last October I decided to try going off my anti-depressants (Zoloft, to be specific). I’d been on meds for over 2 years at that point, and it felt like the right time to try the experiment. I’m glad...
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Creepy ways people find my blog
Today I was looking at the search engine terms that people used to find my blog, and apparently someone ended up here by searching “counseling techniques for controlling people”. That’s creepy as...
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I am uncomfortable writing about my mental illness, which is why I do it anyway
(This post isn’t a subtle cry for help or anything like that- I’m pretty good at obvious cries for help. This is a theory piece discussing why I write about my own struggles with mental illness even...
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Juxtapoz Magazine – Planting Peace paints rainbow house across from Westboro...
“The “Equality House” is the first step in a new campaign by the nonprofit, Planting Peace, which plans to wage a strong opposition against the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church. In a bold...
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Back on meds, day 8
I forgot how much the first two weeks on Zoloft sucks. Really, really sucks. While antidepressants take 4-6 weeks to impact mood, the side effects (for me) kick in almost immediately. Oddly, none of...
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Un-Memorizing the "Silence is Sexy" Date Script
Reblogged from Queer Guess Code: A woman once told me pointedly something that has stayed with me to this day. We were kissing. Lying on the cold wood floor, my hand traveled across her stomach and...
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Shit that is awesome: “The short instructional manifesto for relationship...
“Love is abundant, and every relationship is unique Relationship anarchy questions the idea that love is a limited resource that can only be real if restricted to a couple. You have capacity to love...
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I’m throwing a conference festival party thingy, with blues dancing
Well, me and a crew of friends who are amazing organizers. Come join us at Loud Love in central Virginia from May 31-June 2 for workshops, skill shares, and of course a big ol’ BLUES DANCE! Part...
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On Men Who Don’t Like Women in Makeup | xoJane
“Most of the time, when men say they prefer “natural beauty,” they don’t mean that they’re ready for us to start leaving the house the way we roll out of bed in the morning. They mean that they want us...
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Back on meds, day 20, and they are working
It’s been 3 weeks since I started back on Zoloft, and the initial side effects are definitely fading. I feel like drugs are starting kick in already, but that might just be because the moodiness that...
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Toasting bread is easier with a toaster
“Also, this is my least favorite argument against gun control. Guns don’t kill people; people kill people. Let’s replace “guns” and “kill” with other words and really expose how this argument falls...
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Five Attributes of Trans Allies
Reblogged from Matt Kailey: Last week in my Transgender Studies class, and also at a Diversity Day presentation that I made on the Auraria Campus, we talked about allies. In my opinion, allies are an...
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It’s nice when we have good firsts…
Today brings another first in American gay history: NBA player Jason Collins comes out and becomes America’s first openly gay and still-playing male major professional athlete. I’m not really a sports...
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Basketball’s Gay Paragon – NYTimes.com
Franki Bruni has a great piece in yesterday’s NYT, where he pre-emptively addresses his readers who “routinely tell me that they’d be less bothered by homosexuals if we’d just please shut up about it.”...
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Charles Ramsey is still a hero – Salon.com
“(T)he fact that a convicted abuser intervened to stop abuse is a good thing, not a scandal….To dismiss the character Ramsey showed in rescuing Berry isto suggest that nobody who’s ever done something...
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Thoughts on Mother’s Day
“I am the woman I grew to be partly in spite of my mother, and partly because of the extraordinary love of her best friends, and my own best friends’ mothers, and from surrogates, many of whom were...
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