Hello bloggers,
I thought I’d reproduce for you here the note I sent out to my friends and family to mark International Women’s Day this year.
Things with me are alright. thanks to those of you who have emailed to day hello — it’s always good to hear from you.
Best,
TG
Dear friends and family,
today marks International Women’s Day! [...]
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I am a creature of habit. Every morning, I get up, go to the bathroom, brush my teeth, and then check my email. My morning email always includes my horoscope, because I love horoscopes. I don’t leave my house without checking my horoscope. Doesn’t mean I believe it, but it’s an entertaining little habit. Sometimes [...]
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I’ve been taking a course over the summer in gay and lesbian studies. I’ve recently submitted a couple of article review assignments. I thought since I’m not writing much else these days that I would share them with you here over the next couple days, and see what discussion might be generated. so without further [...]
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Posted in Feminism, Sexuality on July 7, 2007 | 37 Comments »
A comment from vimi, whoever the fuck he is, on this post.
vimi | IP: 71.120.52.199
You are not oppressed. You don’t know what oppression is. You think that some lone deviant raping a woman is oppression? You think that some sleazy guy staring at you is oppression? You think some magazine that portrays an image of women [...]
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Posted in Sexuality on June 5, 2007 | 4 Comments »
ah, shit. It was yesterday, and I missed it. Thanks to Ren for organizing.
So, sex ed. I certainly remember my very few classes devoted to this subject. My fourth-grade teacher was completely red-faced the whole time. Mortified, he appeared to us to be, which only made us embarrassed that we wanted to learn about sex [...]
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So, I watched both of these movies today, for the second time. I saw both in theatres when they first came out, but not again since. I was left with very different impressions the second time around.
Brokeback Mountain - so, check it out. What I think I missed about this movie before was the [...]
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Posted in Sexuality on February 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
so, around here, there’s been some pretty rampant homophobia happening. A couple weekends ago, Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac married his boyfriend, onstage at his ECMA performance (that’s East Coast Music Awards to you) here in Halifax. And the next day, one of the local newspapers, The Daily News, ran a story on the [...]
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Angel sent me a link to Alvaro Orozco’s website, where it states that he has been given a reprieve of two months to stay in Canada while his legal team mounts an appeal to the decision to deport him back to Nicaragua. It also includes this notice:
Despite the 2 month deferral, supporters should keep [...]
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Angel pointed me in the direction of this story, about a Nicaraguan refugee in Canada who is about to be deported back home because authorities don’t believe him when he says that he is gay.
Alvaro Orozco says his family beat him because he was gay. He says, “My father told me, ‘If one of my [...]
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