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I didn’t use to think I was pretty; or, In defense of the selfie
If you spend any time on the internet you know that the word selfie often takes on connotations that are disparaging. Only self-centred hipsters do that, people might say, or Selfies are for women/girls who are attention-whores. (And yes, women are always “attention-whores”; they are never simply self-centred. Hooray sexist gendered language!) And perhaps the…
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And then we hung up so he could sleep and I could find a remedy for toothache that didn’t involve whiskey, because ow, my liver
Conversation with Ogre via Skype following the make-up session after our fight, during which he said he’d feel bad about going to bed while I was still upset, so he was determined to Skype with me until I felt better, and then he asked me if I was going to blog about our fight and…
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[quote of the day] September 5th, 2013
If you gave a good goddamn about the health of fat people, you’d shut up about our fatness. You are destroying our mental health — and that can kill a person just as surely as anything else. —Marianne Kirby, “This Fat News Anchor is Mad — And Not Going to Take Being Bullied Anymore”, xojane
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Dear Translink: You suck. Sincerely, all the non-rich Vancouverites.
Welcome to Vancouver, the most expensive city in North America. Now more expensive!
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Amoeba Cat and the Ogre go on a road trip (and see some kittens; also — Reading Rainbow)
[content warning: mention of disordered eating and fatphobia] This past weekend was the BC Day long weekend (I believe the first Monday in August is the long weekend across Canada, with Province-specific holidays; I know it was Alberta Heritage Day as well as BC Day, f’ex), so I got to spend four days at the…
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Living in the shadow of fear
[Content warning: suicide, domestic violence, self-harm, disordered eating, abuse] On Sunday night it took me a while to doze off. There’s construction going on nearby for the new Skytrain, and they’re doing it all night. I have to sleep with my window open when it’s so hot, so at night my bedroom is full of…
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Independence! …from harassment. Hopefully. Someday.
(x-posted here.) If you’re involved in the SF-o-sphere you may have seen the internet go boom in the past week. Elise Matthesen was sexually harassed while she was at WisCon, and formally reported it. This is actually news, because reporting is so rare – mainly because society in general makes it incredibly difficult for people to report this sort of…
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Texas GOP, STAHP. You are not Time Lords. You don’t even have ONE heart.
That joke may be lost on you if you don’t follow Doctor Who, or what happened in Texas on Tuesday the 25th (yesterday/today). I can help you with the second bit! What follows is my Storify compilation of tweets (some by me; most by others) telling the story of Wendy Davis’ heroism and her 13+…
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Aristeia: Tree of Liberty, by Wayne Basta
Y’all remember I talked about Aristeia: A Little Rebellion when I was halfway through with it, right? I finished it back in April (and I will be reviewing it, eventually). The third book is coming out in just a few days, and Wayne is holding a giveaway at his blog. Because I enjoyed books 1…