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American Women Athletes Four: The Disability Post

We’ll start off with a general overview of the current situation of women athletes who are disabled.
Gender Equality in Athletics and Sports:Disabled Women in Sports
Getting interested and involved in sports is difficult for women and girls with disabilities because of the limited exposure they get to sports, especially when they are young. Those who become […]

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National Parks: America’s Best Idea.

Sorry guys. I accidentally deleted the disabled women athletes’ post twice tonight and I am so frustrated and angry at myself right now that its probably best for me to step away from the computer, before I lose my temper and throw the contraption outside.
So while I’m recovering my equilibrium, PBS has got a series […]

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National Parks: America’s Best Idea.

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Alternative Housing: Otherwise known as “I want an Earthship!”

So I have the headache from hell, and I wasn’t able to finish the disabled women athletes post. I’ll try to get it up on Monday. In the meantime, environmentally friendly housing has been on my mind. These links are from two old posts I did last year:
Cob Houses
Pic from:Welsh Youth Forum on Sustainable […]

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American Women Athletes Part Three: Trans women edition

First thing we need to do is define the word Transgender
Transgriot as usual leads offTransgender Athletes Get Into The Game
So as a transgender sports fan I was pleased to hear about the International Olympic Committee’s decision to allow transgender athletes to participate in the Olympics starting with the 2004 Athens Games. Under the Stockholm Consensus, […]

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Caster Semenya: Part 2b of the Women Athletes series

Before we head on the the subject of Trans women athletes, lets go back for an update on Caster Semanya.
At the beginning of this controversy, Tami asked the question What do women look like?
You magazine answered Dressed Up. Madeup. Heels. Wearing stereotypically feminine clothes. Softened. Muscles carefully hidden under stereotypically feminine clothes. And […]

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In the same vein as Alaya’s Supernatural takedown, Gay Prof dissects “Burn Notice”

Hathor’s Legacy links Gay Prof’s
Burning and Itching
For those who have higher standards than I do, let me give you Burn Notice’s basic premise. Michael Westen, the lead character played by the hunky Jeffrey Donovan (Remember: “b”), once worked as a spy until he was “burned” (essentially framed for a variety of crimes he did not […]

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American Women Athletes Part Two: How intersex athletes are punished by the gender testing system

The first thing that we are going to need to know, is, what exactly is Intersexuality?
Then we are ready for the history behind sex testing. Transgriot starts off with Gender Drama at the 1936 Olympics
Robert Ritchie, John Reynard and Tom Lewis continue with Intersex and the Olympic Games
In the following 30 years, the sporting media […]

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In which school has begun, and your linkmistress managed to lose her links.

So on Monday and Tuesday and Wednesday I found a bounty of links and added them to my blog in a private post. Except that the computer doesn’t like me, and when I looked them up tonight, said links were nowhere to be found. Which means that Part two of my series on women […]

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In which school has begun, and your linkmistress managed to lose her links.

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American Women Athletes Part One: In which women athletes need to be sexy and heterosexual (preferably with child/ren and husband/boyfriend)

I have been watching the World track and Field Championships recently. Specifically the Jamaican team. Usain Bolt has been breaking world records left and right, and is thus getting the lion’s share of press. But the women’s side of the ledger has been way more consistent than the men’s, having racked up three gold medals, […]

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On Health Care

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For most of my adult life, I’ve had to live without health insurance. Because I was a freelancer for many years, or because I did not have a fixed residence for a while, or because my skills and career interests often meant that the best jobs available to me were with small companies or non-profit […]

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On Health Care

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