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Remember: the First Pride was a Riot Against Police Brutality
#BlackLivesMatter #PrideMonth #TransLivesMatter I know this is something I’ve written about before on this blog, but as we approach what would have been the weekend of the Pride Parade here in Seattle...
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The law is often a tool of oppression, or, more lessons from 50 years of Pride
Protesting police harassment and brutality have been at the core of the LGBTQ rights movement for at least 60 years. Laws have frequently been used to target minorities and marginalized people who are...
View ArticleThat monument doesn’t belong here
This isn’t what I thought I’d be writing about today, but here we are! I missed this piece of local news over the weekend: Confederate memorial toppled at Seattle’s Lake View Cemetery in Capitol Hill....
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Speech without consequences isn’t free…
“Speech without consequence is’t free, it’s privilege…” © Tauriq Moosa (Click to embiggen)A few years ago a lot of people were sharing a link to a video along with shocked comments. The video was a...
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Do not get lost in a sea of despair — why this white homo mourns John Lewis
Full quote: “Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be...
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Received wisdom is the mind-killer, or, is it time to end the Retro Hugos?
False dichotomies…The Hugo Awards (though at the time they were called the Science Fiction Achievement Awards) were first awarded at the 1953 WorldCon (PhilCon II, which was the 11th World Science...
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Recognizing Who Should Have Been Seen All Along, or, Why the Retro Hugos Are...
Cover for the May 1934 issue of Weird Tales. Cover story: “Queen of the Black Coast” by Robert E. Howard. Cover art by Margaret Brundage. The male character is Conan the Barbarian. Brundage was the...
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Dinosaur Bellows to Stave Off the Future, or, that’s not how you should run a...
It’s a mixed metaphor, I know… I linked previously to Cora Buhlert’s excellent account from the viewpoint of a finalist nervously waiting to find out if they had to give an acceptance speech while...
View ArticleWe have the ticket, now get out and vote!
Before I talk about anything, please watch this video — Flashback to when Kamala Harris ordered same-sex marriage licenses to be issued after Prop 8 was overturned: (If embedding doesn’t work, click...
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Confessions of a Rambler, or, my blogging style is verbose, okay?
Since the rich are the top of the food chain, bio magnification means that they accumulate maximum toxins in their bodies. It is not safe to eat the rich. Better to compost them.Some years ago a friend...
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Celebrate Indigenous Peoples Day
Indigenous Peoples Day “Today we celebrate the people who first called this land home. We remember the struggles and tragedies they endured. We honor their place in and contributions to the shared...
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Cumulative realities, or the night before the world changes…
Marsha P. Johnson. When people asked what the middle initial stood for, she always said, “Pay it no mind.” “History isn’t something you look back at and say it was inevitable, it happens because people...
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How do you measure four years of lies?
Randy Rainbow sends the Traitor-in-Chief off with a special ceremony – SEASONS OF TRUMP – A Randy Rainbow Song Parody: (If embedding doesn’t work, click here.) Normally whenever the musical Rent is...
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America, America, let’s give our best…
Congratulations Mr President and Madame Vice President!
View ArticleAsk the Next Question, or how SF/F has always been confronting social issues
I need to get my other hosting issues sorted out and get a couple of my other sites back up on the web. But a conversation elseweb made me dig out this essay I wrote and first published 22 years ago...
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In which I pedantically remind you that today is NOT President’s Day…
“When a person did his best, do not scold him for his failure” —George Washington Originally published February 15, 2016: I know I start to sound like Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang Theory when I say...
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Statistics are seldom simple — or, a queer survivor unpacks survival,...
America’s self-identification as LGBTQ+ by genereation. Source: Gallup 2020. (click to embiggen) Last week I posted this story in the Friday Five: 5.6% of American adults say they are LGBTQ. Over half...
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The State of the State of the Union Address
“When Joe Biden gives his first address to Congress, it will be the first time in US history that both seats directly behind the president will be filled by women.”So apparently one of the straws that...
View ArticleAdventures in Memories of the Poorly Educated
While discussing with my husband the middle bit of my review of episode four of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier I was reminded of this truly bizarre argument I was involved in during college. The...
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Sam and Bucky Face the “Truth”
Episode five of The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was very enjoyable. The storyline made some progress on a portion of the plot that has been muddled in previous episode. They also finally made a few...
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