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Sometimes
The most painful part of being sick is remembering being well. From Jennifer Clare Burke’s A Life Less Convenient: Letters to My Ex: That was before my body fell apart, and then we did.
Monday feminism
I really enjoy gender performance and the butch/femme dynamic, but a lot of people see butch/femme as a reenactment of sexist heterosexual relationship roles. So I was excited to read Sublime Femme’s post The Feminist Fairytale about Butch/Femme. Of course, I wasn’t disappointed. It’s absolutely fantastic. I tried to excerpt it here, but ended up […]
A Life Less Convenient
I’ve struggled a lot with my migraines the past few months. I’ve been thinking a lot about how I have to change the pace of my life and my own expectations for myself. Several years ago, a wonderful friend of mine sent me a book written by a woman with lupus. I wasn’t about having […]
Weekly top 5
Lisa Germano – Slide Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism Bloc Party – Silent Alarm Frou Frou – Details Thievery Corporation – The Cosmic Game
What I’ve noticed
Math is beautiful. No, plants probably won’t save us from global warming. Diets don’t work, and people know it. Weight watchers and all you other diet companies, I hope something really really awful happens to you. You took advantage of hateful attitudes towards fat people and fanned the flames of self hatred for profit. My […]
Good thing I don’t have a kitty
I like to put my feet on my computer’s power adapter in the morning to keep them warm. As much as I like cats, I think getting one would involve a fight over my foot warmer every morning.
Veggies!
I saw this meme over at Seeds Aside and just couldn’t resist. Here are the complicated rules: bold what you’ve eaten and strike out what you would never eat. LIke Sciencewomen, I italicized it if it’s something I’ve cooked and/or grown. There are still so many things to try! Sadly, many of the things on […]