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May. 6th, 2012 05:00 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* North Carolina's amendment 1, is not only going to ban Domestic Partnerships for everyone if it passes, but is expected to invalidate all restraining orders where the abuser has never been married to the survivor. After all, why would Republicans care if women have even less recourse against domestic violence? They are striking a symbolic blow in favour of more bigotry.
I would like to again thank William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP for fighting so hard against Amendment One. Let's hope it's defeated, because it will make things worse for a whole lot of people.
* I wrote the above before I saw this wonderful discussion of things like intersectionality and the ways this undermines the 14th amendment and endangers women and children regardless of colour or orientation. For the record? I am so with Melissa Harris-Perry on LGBTQ organizations needing to step up when the NAACP is marching for rights for POC. Just as the NC NAACP is stepping up to speak for it's LGBTQ members, the LGBTQ community needs to work to protect it's POC members. But you likely knew I'd say that if you know me at all.
Pt. 1 http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47305489
Pt. 2 http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47305696
* Anti-woman legislation by state: http://www.thisslutvotes.com/antiwomen_legislation.html
* House Republicans not only want to strip protections for some women out of the Domestic Violence Prevention act, but what to notify the abusers: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/04/478442/house-gop-would-let-domestic-abusers-know-their-victims-called-for-help/
* "Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School:" http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/05/02/nine-dangerous-things-you-were-taught-in-school/
* An alarming thing happening in the publishing industry: http://bjbaye.com/?p=82
* Lately, I wake up with the black cats all cuddled up together, which makes me all happy. Alas, the Butt thinks this means she will allow the liberties he takes with the white cats. Mache is emphatic that he does not get to groom her. That doesn't stop him trying, silly thing. She still the toughest most dominant cat by a mile. I still can't lure LM into my room at sleep time, but the feliway is clearly helping her social anxiety. I'm needing to work out a pattern that helps her without terrifying Hector.
* I've clearly mostly switched over to Summer food patterns. I started to switch midway through last month, so I had enough head's up to budget for it this time. It's still chilly here at night, us being so far North, but it's warm to hot in the afternoon. In a average year I switch round about June. This apartment is shockingly warm for somewhere with so little natural light. The living room gets the most light, but it's my dark little bedroom that's always hot. I think part of it is the insulating dirt by the outer wall, part is neighbor leakage, part things like the fish light, air filter, lights, and electronics. It's going to be a real problem next month when I have to choose between no sleeping for the heat or not sleeping because I can't breath or stop sneezing. Anyway, I stocked up on things like cold cereal. I admit, I also replenished my baking cupboard, as I hate being out of things in case I really want to bake something at night. I like having basic stuff stocked for cold snaps, like home made soup fixings.
* Every time there's another round of hanky code talk, I am soooo glad I am too young to ever have to cope with it. All that having to remember what goes where and competing code patterns. It just seems so easy to mess up and end up signalling the wrong thing or reading someone wrong. I get that it was about safety, about making it easier to spot dangerous outsiders as well as actually hooking up. I'm just terribly glad we've move past that.
* So I've finished the Wire entirely. My thoughts are hard to put into words. Artistically, I have very little in the way of quibbles. I love ambiguity and I love that everything wasn't magically okay at the end. Emotionally, I wasn't handling five well. Weirdly the tied up arc/montage stuff at the end solved that for me, despite how horrible some of those things were. It was weirdly satisfying in a totally non-Hollywood, this is how my brain works sort of way, that trying to put into words works about as well as trying to roll my eyes up to look at my brain does. I'm glad I was talked into watching long enough for it to catch for me.
I'm poking at extras tonight. I expect to start the next batch of Glee tonight or tomorrow.
I would like to again thank William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP for fighting so hard against Amendment One. Let's hope it's defeated, because it will make things worse for a whole lot of people.
* I wrote the above before I saw this wonderful discussion of things like intersectionality and the ways this undermines the 14th amendment and endangers women and children regardless of colour or orientation. For the record? I am so with Melissa Harris-Perry on LGBTQ organizations needing to step up when the NAACP is marching for rights for POC. Just as the NC NAACP is stepping up to speak for it's LGBTQ members, the LGBTQ community needs to work to protect it's POC members. But you likely knew I'd say that if you know me at all.
Pt. 1 http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47305489
Pt. 2 http://video.msnbc.msn.com/melissa-harris-perry/46419672#47305696
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* Anti-woman legislation by state: http://www.thisslutvotes.com/antiwomen_legislation.html
* House Republicans not only want to strip protections for some women out of the Domestic Violence Prevention act, but what to notify the abusers: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/05/04/478442/house-gop-would-let-domestic-abusers-know-their-victims-called-for-help/
* "Nine Dangerous Things You Were Taught In School:" http://www.forbes.com/sites/jessicahagy/2012/05/02/nine-dangerous-things-you-were-taught-in-school/
* An alarming thing happening in the publishing industry: http://bjbaye.com/?p=82
* Lately, I wake up with the black cats all cuddled up together, which makes me all happy. Alas, the Butt thinks this means she will allow the liberties he takes with the white cats. Mache is emphatic that he does not get to groom her. That doesn't stop him trying, silly thing. She still the toughest most dominant cat by a mile. I still can't lure LM into my room at sleep time, but the feliway is clearly helping her social anxiety. I'm needing to work out a pattern that helps her without terrifying Hector.
* I've clearly mostly switched over to Summer food patterns. I started to switch midway through last month, so I had enough head's up to budget for it this time. It's still chilly here at night, us being so far North, but it's warm to hot in the afternoon. In a average year I switch round about June. This apartment is shockingly warm for somewhere with so little natural light. The living room gets the most light, but it's my dark little bedroom that's always hot. I think part of it is the insulating dirt by the outer wall, part is neighbor leakage, part things like the fish light, air filter, lights, and electronics. It's going to be a real problem next month when I have to choose between no sleeping for the heat or not sleeping because I can't breath or stop sneezing. Anyway, I stocked up on things like cold cereal. I admit, I also replenished my baking cupboard, as I hate being out of things in case I really want to bake something at night. I like having basic stuff stocked for cold snaps, like home made soup fixings.
* Every time there's another round of hanky code talk, I am soooo glad I am too young to ever have to cope with it. All that having to remember what goes where and competing code patterns. It just seems so easy to mess up and end up signalling the wrong thing or reading someone wrong. I get that it was about safety, about making it easier to spot dangerous outsiders as well as actually hooking up. I'm just terribly glad we've move past that.
* So I've finished the Wire entirely. My thoughts are hard to put into words. Artistically, I have very little in the way of quibbles. I love ambiguity and I love that everything wasn't magically okay at the end. Emotionally, I wasn't handling five well. Weirdly the tied up arc/montage stuff at the end solved that for me, despite how horrible some of those things were. It was weirdly satisfying in a totally non-Hollywood, this is how my brain works sort of way, that trying to put into words works about as well as trying to roll my eyes up to look at my brain does. I'm glad I was talked into watching long enough for it to catch for me.
I'm poking at extras tonight. I expect to start the next batch of Glee tonight or tomorrow.