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FYI, I'm horribly behind on reading/replying in LJ, will hopefully catch up soon.

Ohio Pushes For Personhood Amendment

After Irene: A small-town Adirondack library needs your help

Signal Boost

Congressman Heckled Over Planned Parenthood Defunding

Help support The Ohio Prevention First Act

Search engines that aren't Google

I was recently treated to another round of “disabled people need to just ask for accommodations, then they’d be given them,” with the usual accompaniments of “you shouldn’t be so angry” and “you should be nicer."
So I figured, okay. I know this is bullshit from a lifetime of experience, but let’s gather some data.

OH. THAT'S what Google+ is up to.

Urban Outfitters is in ur artist studio stealin ur designz

Honestly, I was worried that distributing this film would ruin my professional career and hurt my credibility. I see now how sex-negative and transphobic that belief was! I’ve actually gotten a lot of positive feedback and encouragement so far. -- Can't actually see the links from work, but it sounds like something I'd like to check out.

Mark Gatiss has posted the lyrics to the creepy doll song from Night Terrors. (last night's Doctor Who episode)
A clarification about timeline in last night's ep (Spoilers!)

How to Make a Schadenfreude Pie

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Susan Foreman

A Companion To The Doctor’s Companions: Donna Noble (spoilers for Season 4)

Stormtroopers Sunday

Data grows a beard, meets his grandpa, gets possessed by his grandpa, that grandpa gives his own eulogy and beats people up. Plus: the one and only appearance of Dr. Selar! The TNG Rewatch reaches "The Schizoid Man."

Story Portals is a new web site featuring nifty new shared-world fantasy stories by a variety of awesome authors.

Racial Profiling First Hand: Flying While Black & Reading Antique Aviation Books
More: Followup post

On sex in video games

Grab-bags of books for sale!!!

'Dark Crystal' RPG

Unsung Heroes: Empress Theodora

On the prevalence of US tropes in storytelling

Gryfino Forest

Brooklyn Art Library
Archiving thousands of artists' sketchbooks from across the globe

FEMA Looks to Waffle House for Data

Fan Service: On Losing Patience for Women Kissing

If Doctor Who Was Cast Entirely by the Muppets

I do not think people realize just how inane, smug, and ridiculous their “You could just” chirpy advice sounds to people who are poor (whether or not they are working), juggling the issues we all deal with (child care, medical care of lack thereof, housing), and trying to eat well. (on trying to survive on food stamps)

Marriage According To The Bible (chart)

Fun discussion in Bart's journal about various items women have used for masturbation

Argentina's big step towards true sexual equality
Proposals to allow trans people to change their names and gender on legal documents could be another landmark measure

Patricia A. Turner points out that the most problematic aspect of The Help is that its suggestion “that bad people were racist implies that good people were not.”

Tired of Hateful Jokes? Here Are Five Comedians of Color to Watch

Gluten-Free Girl speaks out about online harassment: “I’m sorry that your life is so small and sad, but I’m not going to stop saying my story.”

The very words “family planning” light up the limbic centers of American politics. From a distance, it seems like a culture war showdown. Close up, in places such as Bweremana, family planning is undeniably pro-life. When births are spaced more than 24 months apart, both mothers and children are dramatically more likely to survive. Family planning results not only in fewer births, but in fewer at-risk births, including those early and late in a woman’s fertility. When contraceptive prevalence is low, about 70 percent of all births involve serious risk. When prevalence is high, the figure is 35 percent. (a pro-life argument for supporting family planning)

Lizz Winstead, among other things, is a tireless and passionate advocate for women’s reproductive health. If you don’t recognize her name by now, you most certainly recognize her work. She co-created The Daily Show (where she also served as head writer) and Air America (home to Rachel Maddow!) and has been doing stand-up comedy for years. In a time like now where it seems like comedy is barely starting to let women into its ranks, Winstead is an inspiration to all women looking to get into similar work.

Review of Brown Boi Project’s new health guide: Freeing Ourselves

Embodiment: A Portrait of Queer Life In America is a collection of 18 short films and 80 photographic portraits that represent and archive the varied lives of Queer America today. Photographs and videos will be released episodically online, accompanied by personal statements, throughout the next year.

Racist, anti-choice propaganda coming to a hair salon near you

K-Y Intense to launch commercial with lesbian couple

We all know the benefits of birth control pills: they’re safe, effective, regulate your period (hello, cramps and flow!), help fight acne, and when taken properly, prevent pregnancy. Your hormones are under control, the sun is shining and birds are chirping your favorite song.
But what happens when you go OFF hormonal birth control pills (BCPs)? This is something rarely discussed – or at least, discussed much less than what to expect when you go ON BCPs. So, let me share my story with you. (a lot of good discussion and other people's experiences in the comment section, too)

American Apparel expands collection, runs contest for plus sized models -- Does NOT ignore their many flaws as a company.

I’m really quite troubled by the centring of romantic/sexual relationships at the expense of all other ways of organising lives. Right now, I’m going to explore this in terms of single women being seen as deficient.

UK abortion law may change to require “independent” counseling for patients (posted about this previously, but this article has some updated info and links)

Dealbreaker: He's Anti-Abortion Rights -- Oh, so totally, totally true for me.

Culinary school grads claim they were ripped off

A Jordanian man was charged on Sunday with killing his 24-year-old widowed daughter in hospital after she gave birth to twins, a judicial official said.

M27: Not a Comet