Archive for March, 2009

So, apparently, people don’t think poetry is cool.

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Shout Out: Best African-American Essays 2009

For some reason, it’s hard for me to write about how much I enjoy the debut edition of Best African- American Essays without lamenting the cancellation of NPR’s News & Notes. Forgive me for the aside, but there is a connection here. News & Notes, hosted by Farai Chideya was more than a radio news [...]

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2009 Lambda Literary Award Nominees

BISEXUAL
Open, Jenny Block, Seal Press
Sexual Fluidity: Understanding Women’s Love & Desire,
Lisa M. Diamond, Harvard University Press
The Bishop’s Daughter, Honor Moore, W.W. Norton
Kinsey Zero Through Sixty: Bisexual Perspectives on Kinsey, Ron Jackson Suresha, Taylor & Francis Journals
Rimbaud, Edmund White, Atlas & Company

TRANSGENDER
10,000 Dresses, Marcus Ewert & Rex Ray, Seven Stories Press
Intersex (For Lack of a Better [...]

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Thank Goodness That’s Over…

I’ll be honest.   The above picture really has no relation to anything in this post. I saw it the other day and am still creeped out.  I don’t want to suffer alone. Look at it and join me in horror. On the bright side, any and all references to Dubya’s kisses are past tense.
Kudos to [...]

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