Please read Tara’s excellent post on the subject if you haven’t already. You may want to skip the utterly predictable comments.

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Littoral Mermaid posts a link to Why I Hate Fun, a blog whose every post is full of honest brilliance. I particularly liked How do class and race affect different women’s approaches to sex work?:

…these “sex worker activists” seem to feel that their struggle to be allowed to be sex workers because they should […]

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Sister blogger justicewalks wrote a post about being born into the ‘wrong’ body. Her description of her wish to be taller reminded me of an incredibly detailed fantasy I had as a pre-teen or young teenager. Often at night as I was waiting to fall asleep, I’d imagine that a fairy offered […]

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What seems to me a balanced post on the Obama speech, by marjorie here in Albuquerque. She mentions two things that stood out for me in skimming the first couple paragraphs of the speech: no mention of the genocide of native people by Europeans on this continent, and multiple descents into the kind […]

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Littoral Mermaid has a post up about the poster for the movie “Holly.” (Glad to see LM is blogging again, by the way!)
I noticed similar dynamics in the official summary of the antitrafficking film “Trade”:

Adriana is a 13-year-old girl from Mexico City whose kidnapping by sex traffickers sets in motion a desperate mission by […]

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I wanted to expand on a comment I left on this post (warning: explicit sexual/violent images) which refers to comments made in this thread. The bits from that latter-linked thread to which I’m responding, specifically:

“the prevalence of domestic violence in the LGBT community [is] NO DIFFERENT than that in the heterosexual community”
“domestic violence […]

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My Perspective, by justicewalks

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I’m not a Christian. I gave up celebrating Christmas for myself a number of years ago. However, I do have friends and family members who continue to celebrate Christmas. I’m also a war tax resister and around this time of year I start thinking about redistributing whatever’s left of my resisted tax […]

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Laura Gomez’s new book Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race. I was fortunate to hear her speak last night on “Manifest Destiny’s Legacy: Race in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century.” This was a really interesting talk which touched on the significance of legal cases like […]

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From Zuzu at Kindly Póg Mo Thóin, we have “Rejecting the frames”:

…why should healthy lifestyle be the ticket to being treated as a human being? I shouldn’t have to do a damn thing to claim my right to being treated equally other than exist. Who the fuck has the right to deny me that just […]

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