The Hathor Legacy

Links of Great Interest: Everybody wanna have a good time

Signal Boost: Stop the unemployment penalty for student loans! BEST post on parenting I’ve seen in a while You need a hottie to be president. The pictures behind Loving v. Virginia. Half of all abortions are unsafe I found this a deeply profound post on the politics of emotion Towards decolonization Some advice from Jim Butcher on writing Alternative families in SF/F Abortion doulas This 101 [...]

Dealing with bigots in your outer circle

A reader recently emailed me about a situation in hopes I would have advice. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a whole lot. Here’s what she was dealing with: Basically someone related to my boyfriend (a vegetarian) made a critical comment to me about Michelle Obama: “She’s fat and she eats pork chops.” And I was like, she’s fat?!? incredulously but didn’t pursue it, although if I’d had a [...]

A Thursday Interruption :EVERYDAY I’M SHUFFLING

First: EVERYDAY I’M SHUFFLING. THIS SONG IS HARDCORE :rocks out: The above may or may not be safe for work — there’s a… weirdly hot? oral sex scene with a plus-size woman in just a bra. Whhhhhhaaaaaaaat. Turn OFF your ringers!

Honouring Australian Women

Just a quick post: in light of Australia Day, I got to thinking about awesome Australian women. I’m interested in an exchange of names of awesome Australian women over the years. I’m history-oriented, so my immediate thoughts are towards those in the history books, but I’m interested in what everyone else thinks. Gabs Nancy Wake Caroline Chisolm Edith Cowan Fiona Stanley

Example of a rape without NPD?

A teen in Texas has admitted to authorities that he took part in the twenty-person gang rape of an eleven year old girl because of taunts that he was gay if he refused to participate. Many people are discussing whether this is a good enough excuse or whether his seven years’ probation is sufficient legal punishment. I actually want to discuss it on a slightly [...]

What I’m NOT Reading: The Guild of the Cowry Catchers

This is a new series where I go through my ebook slush pile, and pull out the exact sentence where I stopped caring about a particular novel. My goal with this series is two-fold: many of our readers (and myself included) are writers, and I found this a REALLY useful exercise in tightening up the intro to my short stories and poems. Plus, this is fun. [...]

Reaction: Fringe (4×09)

Fringe time! Well, a day late because I have been so out of sorts all week I completely forgot about it last night. :/ Then I figured I always post a day late, trala! ACK, ShapeshifterAlt!Broyles was gonna … did he manage to … but I like Lincoln, so he’d better not have eventually got there off screen or something. Of course, I realize I [...]

Links of Great Interest: Why am I listening to Justin Timberlake? Is it 2008 again?

Signal Boost: The ARKH project sounds amazing — it’s a video game prominently featuring women and POC as characters. Signal Boost: If any of you know any Lao American writers or artists, I’m putting together an anthology of Lao American Speculative Arts, with the majority of submissions required by January 31st. http://laowriters.blogspot.com/2012/01/call-for-submissions-lao-american.html has details. We’re looking for Lao American work with science fiction, fantasy, mythological, horror [...]