Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Fat Patients, Fat Patience #FatAcceptance
- Untitled May 17, 2024Thinking of that time that Degas painted the actress Ellen Andree sitting and looking pensive in a cafe, and Monet saw Degas' painting and decided to find the same actress and get her to pose in the same cafe so he could do his own version.
- Untitled May 17, 2024Copyright claims often go too far, crushing free speech and not allowing for the way artists are influenced by, repurpose, and even coincidentally echo, other art. Not this time, though! Jeff Dieschburg is a straight-up tracer who adds NOTHING original when he paints his copies of photos. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 17, 2024#PoliCartoon: Defending Free Speech
- Untitled May 17, 2024My niece dyed her hair pink but there are bees here and now they follow her around because they think she's a big flower.
- Untitled May 16, 2024The Existence of Trains Debate #PoliCartoon #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming
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Put Some Nonfiction In That Fiction ASAP!
Nnedi Okorafor has a new book out — Who Fears Death — which Karnithia will tell you is amazing. I may force her to post more about it later. But first I wanted to point to the most recent entry on Nnedi’s blog where she talks about her first book signing and the reactions she […]
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Fragments from Evolving Manhood: A Full-Throated Protest Against Existence and the World
I have written before about the book of personal essays dealing with manhood, masculinity and male sexuality that I tried, unsuccessfully (even with the help of an agent) to get published in the 1980s. Evolving Manhood was the working title, … Continue reading
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A New Covenant
Because we have discussed male infant circumcision on this blog before, a poem in progress: They say it’s a shame we didn’t do it when we should have, that probably you’ll need it later in life, when it’s more complicated, … Continue reading
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What We Talk About (And Don’t Talk About) When We Talk About (And Don’t Talk About) antisemitism and Israel – 3
Incident #1 It’s 1993. I am walking out of the mailroom in the building where I work and one of my non-Jewish colleagues–someone I am not close to but with whom I have pleasant enough exchanges when we happen to … Continue reading
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Everything Was Going Great, 'til Jesus Made Me Fumble
I’ve always disliked the athletes who wear their religion on their sleeves. Don’t get me wrong — they have every right to be religious, and every right to speak out about their religion. But I’ve always thought it trivialized the … Continue reading
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Resistance To Female Genital Cutting On The Rise In Egypt
There’s a good article in the NY Times on the growing and vibrant anti-Female Genital Cutting1 movement in Egypt in the Times. (Curtsy: Feministe and Sly Civilian). Previous “Alas” posts on FGC: 1 2 3 and 4. From the Times … Continue reading
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Link Farm & Open Thread #50
Please feel free to use the comments for any purpose, including posting links to your own stuff or others’ stuff. Carnivals Abyss2hope presents Carnival Against Sexual Violence 26 This series — run solely by Marcella — is one of the … Continue reading
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UPDATE to post on Egyptian Ban of Female Genital Surgeries: Ban Intended to Salve Westerners, Not to Prevent FGS
I wanted to include this information in yesterday’s post on Female Genital Surgeries, but my googling failed to provide the source. Enormous thanks to Ampersand for turning it up, based on my vague description. * Recently, I wrote about the … Continue reading
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