Archive for the 'sex, gender, sexuality' Category

I’m in Love with Keith Olbermann

Thursday, May 21st, 2009

I am in love with Keith Olbermann. Between the above and the rant I posted earlier in which he berated anti-gay marriage activists for being bigots, I just want to give him a big hug.
YouTube will probably pull the clip, so watch it while you can.

Songs I Am Currently Enjoying Exhibit H: “My Whole Family Thinks I’m Gay,” by Bo Burnham

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

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So, the sound quality isn’t so great, but the premise is provacative, but handled well — he avoids suggesting that being gay is bad, just that sticks to griping about how frustrating to have his family make assumptions about his sexuality while lampooning stereotypes of gay […]

We still have 22 cents to go

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

The working girls of 1980s 9 to 5. [source]
Today is Equal Pay Day. A day to pause, reflect, and get your hackles up about the fact that women still only make 78 cents on the male dollar. As if that weren’t infuriating enough, that’s just the average — African-American women earn just 69 cents on […]

Amazon’s big glitch

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

RN Lee’s Amazon Fail logo from Cheryl’s Musings. [source]
For those of you haven’t heard yet: Amazon stripped a bunch of books dealing with sexuality of their sales rankings, a manuever that disproportionately affected books addressing issues of interest to the glbtq community and/or involving glbtq characters. People on

SXSW: Playing at ScreenBurn

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009

Entrance to the ScreenBurn Arcade at SXSW 2009.
SXSWi is officially wrapping up today. At the convention center, it was obvious that the hordes were descending for music as the percentage of asymmetrical haircuts rose sharply. I’ll be helping out at the Austinist day show tomorrow, and I’ll definitely pop by the convention center for the […]