epic win

I am eagerly anticipating the fic that will result from bandombigbang!

for my parents, who are into Cobra Starship:
music video for The City Is At War
music video for Guilty Pleasure
Sass Attack

bandcon! bandcon! bandcon!

I don't have anything coherent to say about the Really Really Ridiculously Good-Looking Weekend. In essence, Cobras \o/ (is there a fangs up emoticon?) and I found three new bands to listen to. Traveling with friends is fun, but I should probably plan certain practical things better.


The only fail here is that I've actually been working on this post since Wednesday.

Blogging for choice, possible “career move,” my favoritest class

It’s Blog For Choice day. It sneaks up on me every year; I don’t know about it until someone else on my friendslist posts about it. I would love to have something intelligent to say, but I feel like I have nothing new to add.

I will, however, link you to jezrana’s post. Her experience is very different from mine (my Catholic school was firmly in the “Jesus loves you, let’s watch some animated Bible stories” camp, and I transferred for seventh grade anyway), but I agree with her that in an ideal world, abortion would be (mostly, at least) unnecessary - birth control would be fully accessible and everyone would understand it, and rape wouldn’t exist.But we don’t live in the best of all possible worlds, not by a long shot. So.

And looneyluna says: “Reproductive rights are about you.”

This whole post is great, but my favorite part is number 9. I haven’t debated abortion since the issue of penalties for women who have abortions came to my attention, but I’m just waiting for the chance. (Although, seriously, I try to stay out of shit like that. I get angry enough that I start to black out; if I ever get past that - well, I’ve never thrown a punch in my life, but no time like the present…)

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I’m considering getting involved with the Papercut Zine Library, seeing as they’re looking for volunteers.

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I love my Language and Gender class, I really do. I am probably one of the people with the best background in the gender issues we’re discussing this week (establishing some sort of common knowledge about that stuff before we actually delve into linguistics); all of the readings were nothing new to me.

Also, I got full marks on a paper by referencing: certain of my internet friends, gender-neutral pronouns, riot grrl, bandom, the recent debate about the term “female space,” Coffeetablegate, and the surrounding discussion of our tendency to forgive our boys for a heck of a lot that we would hold anyone else accountable for. In more or less that order.

In short, I am ridiculous.

Originally published at The Love Letter Sessions. You can comment here or there.