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[sofiaviolet]

Actual update soon, I hope.

holyschist: No, I do not want to be "one of the boys"

Look, my mom was one of the first female instructors of computer science at MIT. She's over 60. She learned to program on punchcards, and frankly has more computer geek cred than the vast majority of men in the computer field today. Despite being older and a ~gurl~ she is perfectly capable of using newfangled modern computers. In fact, through college she was my tech support. The only computer stuff she asks me for help with is Photoshop. I am good with computers because of my mom. I am surrounded by women who use their computers just fine without needing men to save them from excess toolbars and accidentally deleting their operating system, by women who program, by women who run Linux.* We are not mythical unicorns.

pinesandmaples: It's a big, wide world.

This is just a jumping off point, but if you'd like to expand your reading horizons and try some literature from the Caribbean about the Caribbean by authors of color, these are some names to start with. rooibos also volunteered to answer questions in the comments of this post if anyone has any. (Also, this list has 25 suggestions on it so it's possible to do the whole POC Reading Challenge with this list alone.)

melannen: (no subject)

Meanwhile, apropos of you-really-don't-want-to-know, here is a song I have written:

I Want A Necronomicon for Solstice
Sung to this tune

rydra_wong: A fortuitous discovery (because the raw dough is the best bit)

Of interest to persons who engage in sports-type pastimes and others who have perhaps been looking for a protein bar which does not taste like chemical crap:
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At this point, it will not taste exactly like raw chocolate chip cookie dough, but it's PRETTY FUCKING CLOSE.

niqaeli: heternormativity, the poison apple you never quite spit out

I never really thought my parents would reject me for being queer. But I doubted anyway because the pressure society places is so great, the town I grew up in so very rural Tennessee, that even a little pressure from your parents even be it unintentional, can be enough to turn your head. Because my parents never sat down and said: it's okay for *you* to be queer.

brownbetty: A taxonomy of assholes.

No, not that one. Rather I mean the character type, who shows up in many different canons. I think there are several subtypes (super-types?) and related, so I will try to specify. Obviously, 'asshole' is tremendously subjective, so we will be using the totally objective 'according to Betty' measure.

some_stars: Bad Advice for Heterosexuals

so we all know that Cosmo's sex tips are horrible, yes? well, I was flipping through an issue today while waiting at the pharmacy, and you guys. you GUYS. There was an article on sixty "hands-free" sex tips, and they started out vaguely sane and then I ended up laughing like a total loon right there in the magazines-and-stationery aisle, and I had to pay the five dollars to buy the damn thing so I could type these up for you. BECAUSE THEY ARE AMAZING.

Anna, who I've worked with for the past couple of years, has started blogging at The Pursuit of Harpyness.

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[turlough]

Completely unrelated to this post, a belated happy birthday! Here, have some virtual cake.

[sofiaviolet]

:D Thank you!