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gwydion* 38 people were slaughtered on a Beach in Tunisia.
* "The real story behind Greece's debt crisis:"
* We are officially normalizing diplomatic ties to Cuba.
* "'Stealthy' Giant Rhea Eludes Police In U.K.:" http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/25/417426469/stealthy-giant-rhea-eludes-police-in-u-k
* Monday Supreme Court Round up: The Supreme Court upheld Arizona's (and thus California's by extension) non-partisan anti-gerrymandering legislation. Hurray! The Supreme court blocked the Texas law intended to close nearly all the women's health clinics. Yay! They also blocked the EPA from limits on power plants. Boo! To my horror, they are allowing the states to continue using the drugs in three botched execution last year on the grounds that the death row inmates did not suggest an alternative, the fact that it is a slow "cruel and in human " way to kill people being immaterial.
* "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott picks homeschooler to chair State Board of Education:" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/texas-gov-greg-abbott-picks-homeschooler-to-chair-state-board-of-education/
* "Chris Christie political bridge burning haunts him for 2016:"
* Bernie Sanders had an 800 person capacity room booked for an event in Maine, but they got 3000 people RSVP'd so they had to move it to a hockey rink. He has a 9000 person event in Wisconsin coming up today, which is significantly larger than non-announcement rally events by all the other candidates so far. Go Bernie!
* President Obama just gave five million people in poverty a right to paid overtime.
* "Rare confrontation on lethal injection surprises at Supreme Court:"
* "Confederate flag fights still persist:"
* "Who is burning black churches?:"
* "Supervisor tried unsuccessfully to call off Detroit police chase that killed two kids:" http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2015/06/supervisor_tried_unsuccessfull.html
* "Why the Ugly Rhetoric Against Gay Marriage Is Familiar to this Historian of Miscegenation:" http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/4708
* "Turkish police clash with crowd at gay pride parade:" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-29/turkish-police-clash-with-crowd-at-gay-pride-parade/6580134
* "NZ told to fund more transgender operations:" http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/277405/nz-told-to-fund-more-transgender-operations
* "Marriage equality fight lingers in some states and counties:"
* So here is where I am on Marriage Equality:
Those of you who know me know I'm not the marrying kind. It's not a gender or an orientation thing. At some point in the mid-90's I figured out that while I can long term commit, I don't like being in a situation I can't leave easily, that I love longest he who holds me lightest. Knowing the door is open makes it easier for me to stay, and the second I feel trapped I start looking for an exit. Commitment isn't a cage for me, nor is sharing an apartment and a lease. It's a subtle thing, which is why it took so long to figure out. So it's never been personal for me; it's about something else entirely.
It's about being in the generation that grew up watching the excitement of the '70's liberation movement crash into the demographic wall of AIDS. It's about all the homophobic families turning up at the last minute to rob agency from the dying. They kicked long term partners out of hospital rooms depriving both lovers of basic comfort at the time it was most needed and made medical decisions that the dying person wouldn't have wanted because often they hadn't spoken to the sick person in a decade or more. Instead of someone who love and understood that person's wishes, it was hostile family robbing that last little bit of agency from an often undignified death. These families barred lover and all of the dead person's friends from the funeral. They would kick out the widower, who nursed the deceased in sickness and who was often dying himself out, possibly rendering him homeless at a time when he was mourning and if sick, desperately needed assets and stability. The endless cruelty of it has stuck with me. It still happens in the 21st century, same sex couples and couples with a trans person separated in hospitals whatever the reason, denied survivor benefits, children stolen by hostile grandparents.
Is there more to be done? Hell yes! We need GENDA, and Prison Reform, and hate crimes legislation, pay equality, the Right to use public restrooms, Housing protections, a proper safety net, and a million other things. There is so much work to do, but I do like the whole lets all piss on marriage equality on the assumption it's just a white upper middle class issue, because I remember when this was a literal life or death being rendered penniless and dying homeless without proper medical attention sort of issue, and know that sometimes it still is. The struggle surely continues. Trans women of colour in particular are getting attacked and killed at an alarming rate and get a vastly disproportionate share of all the discrimination and cruelty this society has to offer. We absolutely can not take our eyes off the prize, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate what victories we win in whatever arena, as long as after we get back to work fighting to make sure every one of us is equal and protected under the law instead of targeted by it.
* "Denver jail transgender policy a national model:" http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28395500/denver-jail-transgender-policy-national-model
* "Ice Age art: The female gaze :"
* "DEATH IS EVERYWHERE- The Secret Burials of London :"
* "Thorne Miniature Rooms:" http://archatlas.tumblr.com/post/113883715803
* "'Patience And Fortitude' And The Fight To Save NYC's Storied Public Library:" http://www.npr.org/2015/06/24/416780087/patience-and-fortitude-and-the-fight-to-save-nycs-storied-public-library
* Arrow: At some point I started thinking of Roy's costume as his "Red Robin Suit."
* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com
* "The real story behind Greece's debt crisis:"
* We are officially normalizing diplomatic ties to Cuba.
* "'Stealthy' Giant Rhea Eludes Police In U.K.:" http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/25/417426469/stealthy-giant-rhea-eludes-police-in-u-k
* Monday Supreme Court Round up: The Supreme Court upheld Arizona's (and thus California's by extension) non-partisan anti-gerrymandering legislation. Hurray! The Supreme court blocked the Texas law intended to close nearly all the women's health clinics. Yay! They also blocked the EPA from limits on power plants. Boo! To my horror, they are allowing the states to continue using the drugs in three botched execution last year on the grounds that the death row inmates did not suggest an alternative, the fact that it is a slow "cruel and in human " way to kill people being immaterial.
* "Texas Gov. Greg Abbott picks homeschooler to chair State Board of Education:" http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/texas-gov-greg-abbott-picks-homeschooler-to-chair-state-board-of-education/
* "Chris Christie political bridge burning haunts him for 2016:"
* Bernie Sanders had an 800 person capacity room booked for an event in Maine, but they got 3000 people RSVP'd so they had to move it to a hockey rink. He has a 9000 person event in Wisconsin coming up today, which is significantly larger than non-announcement rally events by all the other candidates so far. Go Bernie!
* President Obama just gave five million people in poverty a right to paid overtime.
* "Rare confrontation on lethal injection surprises at Supreme Court:"
* "Confederate flag fights still persist:"
* "Who is burning black churches?:"
* "Supervisor tried unsuccessfully to call off Detroit police chase that killed two kids:" http://www.mlive.com/news/detroit/index.ssf/2015/06/supervisor_tried_unsuccessfull.html
* "Why the Ugly Rhetoric Against Gay Marriage Is Familiar to this Historian of Miscegenation:" http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/4708
* "Turkish police clash with crowd at gay pride parade:" http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-29/turkish-police-clash-with-crowd-at-gay-pride-parade/6580134
* "NZ told to fund more transgender operations:" http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/political/277405/nz-told-to-fund-more-transgender-operations
* "Marriage equality fight lingers in some states and counties:"
* So here is where I am on Marriage Equality:
Those of you who know me know I'm not the marrying kind. It's not a gender or an orientation thing. At some point in the mid-90's I figured out that while I can long term commit, I don't like being in a situation I can't leave easily, that I love longest he who holds me lightest. Knowing the door is open makes it easier for me to stay, and the second I feel trapped I start looking for an exit. Commitment isn't a cage for me, nor is sharing an apartment and a lease. It's a subtle thing, which is why it took so long to figure out. So it's never been personal for me; it's about something else entirely.
It's about being in the generation that grew up watching the excitement of the '70's liberation movement crash into the demographic wall of AIDS. It's about all the homophobic families turning up at the last minute to rob agency from the dying. They kicked long term partners out of hospital rooms depriving both lovers of basic comfort at the time it was most needed and made medical decisions that the dying person wouldn't have wanted because often they hadn't spoken to the sick person in a decade or more. Instead of someone who love and understood that person's wishes, it was hostile family robbing that last little bit of agency from an often undignified death. These families barred lover and all of the dead person's friends from the funeral. They would kick out the widower, who nursed the deceased in sickness and who was often dying himself out, possibly rendering him homeless at a time when he was mourning and if sick, desperately needed assets and stability. The endless cruelty of it has stuck with me. It still happens in the 21st century, same sex couples and couples with a trans person separated in hospitals whatever the reason, denied survivor benefits, children stolen by hostile grandparents.
Is there more to be done? Hell yes! We need GENDA, and Prison Reform, and hate crimes legislation, pay equality, the Right to use public restrooms, Housing protections, a proper safety net, and a million other things. There is so much work to do, but I do like the whole lets all piss on marriage equality on the assumption it's just a white upper middle class issue, because I remember when this was a literal life or death being rendered penniless and dying homeless without proper medical attention sort of issue, and know that sometimes it still is. The struggle surely continues. Trans women of colour in particular are getting attacked and killed at an alarming rate and get a vastly disproportionate share of all the discrimination and cruelty this society has to offer. We absolutely can not take our eyes off the prize, but it doesn't mean we shouldn't celebrate what victories we win in whatever arena, as long as after we get back to work fighting to make sure every one of us is equal and protected under the law instead of targeted by it.
* "Denver jail transgender policy a national model:" http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_28395500/denver-jail-transgender-policy-national-model
* "Ice Age art: The female gaze :"
* "DEATH IS EVERYWHERE- The Secret Burials of London :"
* "Thorne Miniature Rooms:" http://archatlas.tumblr.com/post/113883715803
* "'Patience And Fortitude' And The Fight To Save NYC's Storied Public Library:" http://www.npr.org/2015/06/24/416780087/patience-and-fortitude-and-the-fight-to-save-nycs-storied-public-library
* Arrow: At some point I started thinking of Roy's costume as his "Red Robin Suit."
* Ebay Time:
AUTUMN FANCIES 2013 (LE, Halloweenies): (Company says: Dry grasses bathed in amber light, muted by gentle shadows.) Top of label.:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/301667294922?ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT
* Want Game of Thrones without the creepy? We desperately need new players. We are very inclusive. "Game of Bones MUSH:" gobmush.wikidot.com
* My RL oldest continuous friend is doing a fundraiser: http://www.gofundme.com/x9g7q2k
* Trying to stay afloat until August: http://www.gofundme.com/cuovws or Lethran@gmail.com