signal-boosting
Jun. 20th, 2010 01:40![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starladyI am in DC without AC and am drinking cold water and reading the Internet in the (most likely vain) hope that my body temperature will equalize w/the outside or at least drop a bit so I can sleep. Con.TXT was awesome; so was Toy Story 3 (and in a way that suggests that at least some people at Pixar might be getting half of a clue about their studio's gender fail) more on that later, provided the heat doesn't kill my laptop. Oh, but now there are people playing guitar in the alley out back; I'm doomed.
On Friday morning I had a bizarre dream that I am not going to detail here because quite honestly I don't want to remember it which was directly inspired bycopperbadge's post about female genital mutilation at Cornell University Medical School [warning: descriptions of misogyny, child sexual abuse, intersex-phobia and FGM at the link]. As oursin said, Alice Dreger and Ellen Feder have said it all: this is wrong, wrong, wrong, and should not happen, period.
Another thing that should not happen and is wrong is an 18-year old black man with Asperger's sitting on a bench outside a library reading a book being arrested and detained for 11 days without bail for no reason at all. Viawere_duck, the_future_modernes has a post about "safety" and the consequences of its perceived lack for people of color.
On a happier note, when "Tightrope" came on in the bar/dancefloor I was at last night people seemed to know it and like it. Janelle Monáe, people! If the ArchAndroid can't save us, it won't be her fault.
On Friday morning I had a bizarre dream that I am not going to detail here because quite honestly I don't want to remember it which was directly inspired by
copperbadge's post about female genital mutilation at Cornell University Medical School [warning: descriptions of misogyny, child sexual abuse, intersex-phobia and FGM at the link]. As oursin said, Alice Dreger and Ellen Feder have said it all: this is wrong, wrong, wrong, and should not happen, period. Another thing that should not happen and is wrong is an 18-year old black man with Asperger's sitting on a bench outside a library reading a book being arrested and detained for 11 days without bail for no reason at all. Via
were_duck, the_future_modernes has a post about "safety" and the consequences of its perceived lack for people of color. On a happier note, when "Tightrope" came on in the bar/dancefloor I was at last night people seemed to know it and like it. Janelle Monáe, people! If the ArchAndroid can't save us, it won't be her fault.
