such_heights: a woman, sitting, holds a standing woman's hand (stock: make a stand [mignolagraphics])Amy ([personal profile] such_heights) wrote,
@ 2009-11-11 12:23 am UTC
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Entry tags:fandom, journalling: signal boost, meta: disability, meta: gender, meta: queer, meta: race, mood: fail!
+ Julie Bindel brings the transphobic fail once again. This link comes with a blood pressure warning, for it is full of offensive vitriol. Get off my team, Bindel, you make us look awful!

+ Via the New York Times, not all groups have felt the recession equally. It's US stats, but i suspect relevant across other countries too. In any case, illuminating and rather dismal.

+ Disability and Asexuality by [personal profile] kaz on FWD/Forward, a really great new-ish feminist disability blog. Highly recommended reading.

+ Also on FWD, [personal profile] avendya posts To Whom It May Concern.

+ [livejournal.com profile] ressie_noldo writes on the monstrous other; for the asian women blog carnival.

+ Lastly and unrelatedly, who_daily and torchwood_three are looking for new newsletter editors. I'm stepping down from my position as a back-up editor due to time constraints, but I do recommend it unreservedly to anyone who likes being part of the cogs and gears of fandom - things are quiet at the moment, too, so it's a good time to step in and get to grips with things.

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gorgeousnerd: Young Mary Winchester, with her head turned to the side and her blonde hair around her face. (Mary is young.)


[personal profile] gorgeousnerd
2009-11-11 02:08 am UTC (link)
Oh wow, the two FWD/Forward posts were amazing. I've only recently been coming to terms with the fact that I am disabled, but the Disability and Asexuality post in particular really hammered it home. I'm not asexual, but I have been thinking a lot about how the main support for a disabled person is a romantic partner, and how that would be difficult for me to find due to both my disability and my current living situation. So, yeah, that was a big kick in the pants.

In contrast, ugh ugh ugh in Julie Bindel's direction. I had to skim the last half of the post simply because I couldn't take it. At the same time, as horrible as it is, I feel that similar (although hopefully less strong) feelings are common in the gay and lesbian segments of the LGBT community, and I'm kind of glad someone's openly voicing them, if only so others who might have thought along the same lines can see plainly how offensive they are. That might be too much to hope for, though.

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such_heights: amy and rory looking at a pile of post (who: amy/rory [letter])


[personal profile] such_heights
2009-11-12 02:07 pm UTC (link)
I'm so glad they were useful for you! ♥

I would like to believe that's true, but I fear that people actually believe her shtick about being somehow oppressed/silenced/attacked by the sekrit trans cabal or whatever. *sigh*

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gorgeousnerd: Young Mary Winchester, with her head turned to the side and her blonde hair around her face. (Mary is young.)


[personal profile] gorgeousnerd
2009-11-13 02:34 am UTC (link)
There probably are...but I like to believe there are more people out there that see her hateful speech for what it is. Even if that's naive. *sigh*

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