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• helens78: random babble about being a super-introvert

  I think there is also a belief out there that introverts never want to be social, which isn't true, either. It's not that I never want to be social, it's that I want to be social on my own terms, in my own time, at the times and places of my own choosing, and I want to be able to stop and go home when I choose. I spend seven hours a week playing a video game with 24 other people while on a conference call with all 24 of them! I have hours and hours of conversation with people on the internet every week. This isn't "not being social", it's being social in a way that makes me feel happy and comfortable and free to be myself. And it's plenty!

• tim: How to change your gender marker on a US passport

  I hope this is useful to anyone thinking about getting their passport corrected under the new policy. It's a little disappointing that no one apparently bothered to tell the passport center clerks about the new policy (especially when it comes to reminding them not to ask irrelevant questions), but not surprising. On the whole, though, it seems like more or less anyone who has access to a sympathetic medical professional can get a correct passport now, and that's good news.

• Threadbared: Threadbared’s Haphazard List of Queer Fashion or Style Blogs, Finally Published Due to Peer Pressure & Imminent Departure
• cookability

  Cookability is a community for sharing recipes, tips and practical discussion geared toward aiding people with limited ability or limited energy to create satisfying, tasty dishes while preserving our "spoons."

• FWD/Forward: On Cure Evangelism

  Put simply, cure evangelism involves aggressively pushing a medical treatment or approach to a medical condition or disability on someone, without that person’s consent, interest, or desire. It takes a lot of different forms; the pregnant woman who is informed that she must have a natural birth and that if she thinks positive enough, it will happen; the cancer patient who is informed that ‘this great herbal supplement’ worked really well for the evangelist’s friend; the asthma patient controlling asthma with acupuncture who is constantly told to start using inhalers; the person with mental illness who is shamed for not taking medications.

fandom links

• zvi: Care and Feeding of Your Thing-a-thon

  'm not doing a "proper" panel write-up, but I did re-create my notes for the Care and Feeding of Your Thing-a-thon panel. If you have more questions that weren't answered there, or if the notes make you think about something, feel free to ask in comments.

• stultiloquentia: CON.TXT 2010: "Dealing with Privilege in Fannish Contexts" Panel Recap

  Out of the swarm of possibilities, the topics we landed on were preventative maintenance, signal boosting and the role of the beta reader. A key question got posed near the beginning: "People keep failing—writing thoughtless, appropriative stories, using offensive language or whatever, either because they're clueless newbies, sailing in from feral fandom, or they don't pay attention to meta, or (I suppose it's possible) they just don't give a fuck. How do we get information on how not to fail to the folks who need it, before they do something awful?"

• ktnb: Kink Meme List
• lightgetsin: Gauging interest...

  What: A disability thing-a-thon (fic, art, recs, etc.) Specifically, what I have in mind is a “this is not your ‘overcoming my tragical disability here’s my trauma and also puppies and healing sex’” sort of thing.

• asexual_fandom: Asexual Comment!fic/Kink Meme!
• muskratjamboree: Admin Post: Muskrat Jamboree 2011 - Save the Date!