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if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!today is international stand up to bullying day.  students and lots of other people all across canada and the world wear pink to mark the day.

last year, two students in nova scotia (canada’s east coast) donned and distributed […]

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valentine’s day tomorrow. let’s talk about love.
but what kind of love?
we’re all familiar with eros – the heady, emotional high of romance, sexual love and infatuation. it makes the world go round; or, more specifically, it twirls the world in a spin.
agape (pron. ah-gah-pay) is another type of love people often talk about. […]

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i just spent a little time reading through joyce trebilcot’s dyke ideas, a “passionate and insightful contribution to lesbian philosophy.”
seeing that a little while ago we had an interesting discussion on guilt here on this blog, her thoughts on “identity guilt” and “official guilt” were particularly interesting.
what i here call identity guilt is implied by […]

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today you can find me over at GNIF brain blogger. october 10 was world mental health day. it focused on cultural aspects of mental health. you’ll find tidbits about the mental health among the black and latino GLBT community; mental health in india, including an interesting link to the diary of a mother […]

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“may i ask what age group you fall into? ok, thanks. do you work for a marketing company? no? good. and your household income? thank you. last question, what postal code do you live in? oh, V5W? i’m sorry, we already have the quota for people with […]

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today is national day against homophobia.
homophobia is about us over here versus them over there. look, these other people! they do X and say Y, and we don’t do and say that, so they’re outside of the fence and we’re inside.
only there is no them. there is only we. and the […]

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“if teachers are going to use the film an inconvenient truth in the classroom, they should also have access to another documentary which challenges the academy-award winning movie’s premise, says a local school trustee.”
this, my friends, we can find under the heading “school trustee demands ‘balance’ over gore movie use”.
right.
let me get this off my […]

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kai wright at temenos writes:
our culture depicts people whose discomfort with gender norms goes beyond being tomboys or feminine men as mere curiosity items for trash TV (”your woman is really a man!” episodes of jerry springer). this collective ignorance leaves transgendered people without much guidance. many go through puberty and into adulthood without meeting […]

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a few weeks ago, thanks indirectly to scott, with whom we’ve had this interesting theological conversation in the last entry, i came across – stumbled upon – stumbleupon, a great social bookmarking site. i have found a plethora of truly interesting sites through it, and thought that from time to time i’d like to […]

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this is another post by alex green, my lovely young assistant. it’s great to work with people whose minds are fresh and agile! here, alex picks up the thread from the post on international women’s day, where the term “male-esque” made an appearance.
what does “male-esque” mean?
to define male-esque is going against

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hello, i’m isabella’s personal assistant. i’m an eighteen-year-old who has very strong views on the treatment and consideration of people in general. when isabella asked me to write something about international women’s day i was very intrigued and excited to be featured.
cat’s lab tells us that
celebrated on 8 march, international women’s day (IWD) is […]

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love in a dark time is an extraordinarily well written collection of essays by irish (and gay) writer colm toibin. it chronicles the romantic and artistic struggles of gay artists, from genius writer/playwright/poet oscar wilde to spanish filmmaker pedro almodovar.
on valentine’s day, i want to remember that we need to break out of the […]

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a few days ago, we talked here about the rejection of jay’s six-word story because it was supposedly not g-rated. jay’s and jennifer’s comments on it were so thought-provoking that i decided to post my replies to them here.
this is not just about one incidence. it’s about how to best deal with the […]

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a few days ago, i posted about the six word story contest at middlezonemusings. the only stipulation was that the submissions were to be g-rated. i thought it was a great meme/game and tagged a few blogger friends, among others jay sennett. jay, a transgendered person, crafted this insightful phrase:
no breasts. complete hysterectomy. […]

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how do you heal the emotional aftermath of cancer treatment? how do we deal with the ups and downs of our personal journeys? what does external clutter tell us about the chaos in our minds?
these are just a few of the questions posed in this week’s edition of the carnival of healing, a […]

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