January 2012
10 posts
December 2011
17 posts
Drawn OUT: Open Submissions for "DRAWN Out": the... →
drawnout:
It’s one of the scariest/happiest things a queer person can do: come out. Whether bad or good, funny or dramatic, it usually makes for an interesting story, and we want to hear those stories.
Drawn OUT is a comic book anthology of nonfictional coming out stories, and we are looking for…
One down, three to go: some thoughts and stuff on...
After a 12 hour sleepytime nap, I feel like I might actually be able to process things like “feelings” and “thoughts” without falling into a squishy little puddle of weeping and acrimony. Hey, look at me! Imma person!
So - done with the first semester at Duke. Work-wise, I feel like I’m in a really good place. I made three short video pieces that all seem like a good...
“People already immersed in the investigation’s details may find that this...”
– On the Trail of a Murderer Still Alarmingly at Large, NYT (via)
Unrelated: today I found myself mentally calculating my freelance rates in terms of sex work rates. E.g., an online story is about what a solo porn shoot once went for, and print is closer to an evening or overnight rate. My enablers...
“Barack Obama says that as the father of two daughters, he wants the government...”
– Katha Pollitt on the HHS overruling the FDA on Plan B access. (via jessicavalenti)
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“If you were given the power to unilaterally redesign the U.S. approach to...”
– It’s time to legalize prostitution - Sex Work - Salon.com
I understand that Ronald Weitzer is being strategic by pitting indoor and outdoor prostitution against each other, but NO. Indoor and outdoor sex work are certainly different and require different approaches, but outdoor sex work won’t be...
November 2011
21 posts
“Sixty-one percent of paid interns working at for-profit companies received a job...”
– That’s Jean Chatzky, writing in Newsweek, on why students shouldn’t take unpaid internships. (via newsweek)
For all my art pals, design pals, writing pals: DO WORK, GET PAID:
“There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes...”
– Former Poet Laureate Robert Hass at Occupy Cal - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/opinion/sunday/at-occupy-berkeley-beat-poets-has-new-meaning.html?_r=1&src=me&ref=general
Putting the "OWS is anti-Semitic" meme to rest
youngmanhattanite:
occupyjudaism:
“We’re not calling all the Occupy Wall Street protesters anti-Semitic, and we’re not calling the movement, as a whole, anti-Semitic.” —Noah Pollak, Executive Director of the Emergency Committee for Israel, which started all this with its advertisement calling on Democrats to condemn anti-Semitism at OWS [Source]
“There is no evidence that these anti-Semitic...
October 2011
7 posts
