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Whatever Happened to "People"?
So, I have something like 5 drafts of different posts, but I'm being a huge perfectionist about them. Sometimes I go through phases where everything I try to blog about sounds "weird" to me. Maybe... Continue reading »
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Heart Yorslf?
A few reminders: 1. Isn't it fun to come across a vanity plate that reminds you of something you've been blogging about? [Image: Car license plate that reads "<3 YORSLF"] Happens all the time,... Continue reading »
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So, whatever happened with the Hobbit Acceptance Project?
The Hobbit Acceptance Project continues apace. I guess these sorts of things never truly end. Since the start of the project in June, I've only shaved my legs and armpits a couple of times. Mostly to... Continue reading »
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Coming out to those "situational friends"...or not.
You may have a few of them: Situational friends. People whom you primarily see within the context of one activity. I've had many of them from work, classes, groups, volunteer activities, and Occupy.... Continue reading »
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Occupy Isolation!
The Occupy movement gets addressed from a lot of angles, but the one most relevant to this blog is community-building. I sort of wanted to get involved with Occupy, but the groups in bigger nearby... Continue reading »
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Big Big Love
So it's Big Big Love time! The book is "a sex and relationships guide for people of size (and those who love them)"; Hanne Blank is the author. I really liked it, even though a lot of it didn't apply... Continue reading »
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Here to say I'm not here
I'm taking a brief holiday break, but I do have Big Big Love on hold for me at the library. I'd heard of the book before, but Mary convinced me to read it with her video of appreciation. I'd also... Continue reading »
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Understanding + Resistant Aesthetics
Here's an interesting essay: Dress to Kill, Fight to Win, by Dean Spade. Somehow he manages to tie together both fashion and trans surgery in a fairly short piece. It ends with a question: "Why would... Continue reading »
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Things Asexual Like: Tea
Silly post ahoy! So, is tea an asexual stereotype yet? Damn, I hope so. The more posts I do in this series, the more I see that the stuff we like is interrelated. Like, it just makes sense that an... Continue reading »
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Alone Together
"Oppression is depressing."--Miriam Greenspan A while back, I read the book A New Approach to Women and Therapy by Miriam Greenspan, who I think is pretty brilliant. It was published in 1983, so... Continue reading »
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Complete!
Yes! This sort of relates to my last post. It's not frequent, but I do experience aesthetic attraction. I can find people "sexy", although my definition of this might be different than that of other... Continue reading »
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Asexuals are awesome! *hides*
How many posts have I read from asexuals seeking advice? Probably not a million, but definitely more than a thousand. A lot of answers to these advice-seekers repeat themselves, understandably. The... Continue reading »
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Questions
I was thinking...maybe part of how we choose to identify has to do with which people are asking the questions that we most want the answers to. Continue reading »
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What I'm doing for AAW...
Today, I was feeling majorly depressed about the people who were injured by police at Occupy Oakland. Then, checking my Tumblr dashboard, I saw that there was a meme involving Jane Quan, the mayor of... Continue reading »
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And this relates to Spanx how?
An asexy friend clued me in to the fact that in her performance If You Will, Janeane Garofalo talks about being asexual. Of course, you know me, so I had to check it out (you can see it on DVD). And... Continue reading »
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Aging Androgynously
"When will my reflection show who I am inside?" --Mulan. Yeah. Recently, I was at a community meeting where I was one of very few people younger than my parents' age. An older man approached me and... Continue reading »
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Romantic Comedies = Sci Fi
"I regard romantic comedies as a subgenre of sci-fi, in which the world operates according to different rules than my regular human world. For me, there is no difference between Ripley from... Continue reading »
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Stormy Weather
In my last post, Jessica commented, "Acknowledging my needs/loves as real does not mean I can always fulfill them." So, this is the brainstorm I promised, which is targeted towards solutions for that... Continue reading »
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Looking for love in places.
It's hard for me to talk about love without talking about place. Even so, aside from my short obsession with Colorado as a 10-year-old, I never knew where I wanted to live "when I grew up". As a kid,... Continue reading »
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Dykes to Watch Out For
"...I've never intended my cartoons to be only for dykes. Yes, they're about dykes. So? Surely if I could sit through a Bruce Willis movie, Joe Blow could read a lesbian comic strip." --Alison... Continue reading »
