http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWvLST_Qojw
Mary Anne Mohanraj analyzes the use of saris on SA book covers.
Cook’s Source = Crook’s Source. They plagiarize like whoa.
HAHAHA the dynamics of speaking out about sexism online. It’s funny but not. Here’s a very awesome flowchart detailing the many types of female character. (Sarcasm FREE to the first clicker!)
Alice Walker wants you to dance.
Ricky Martin talks about coming out. I swear, he is cuter than the bee’s knees.
Go good moms and cute kids! Cop’s Wife talks about letting her five year old trick or treat as Daphne.
GO COLORADO. CO voters held the line and rejected anti-abortion legislation.
Twilight and grammar: A HILARIOUS Critique
WTF, Angelina? Seriously? A love story between a Serbian rapist and a Muslim survivor? WTF. Honestly, if you’re looking for a great book on the Balkans check out S.: A Novel about the Balkans, which grapples with these complicated issues WITHOUT a stupid love story.
Melissa Harris-Perry breaks down the racial dynamics in Virginia Thomas’ attention-mongering demand for an apology.
Bush says the worst moment of his presidency involves Kanye West.
“99 problems but a cape ain’t one” focuses on the conservative backlash to Muslim superheroes.
How do you write characters of color?
“Defend Atlanta’s Children” — Remembering a moment that went from being a black, local issue to being an Everyone, American issue.
Apex Magazine is featuring SF/F with Muslim/Arab characters in a special issue!
LESBIAN STEAMPUNK! Support your young, radical writers, people. 
SEE ALSO: The Habitation of the Blessed.
EchooBazaar: how I love you. It’s a free twitter game that I’m not sure why you’re not already playing.
FFA FAIL. Seriously, you need a grant to get your shit together to support your love of FANFICTION?
Watch out, white conservatives. You might win some…
But seriously, though, Rabbi Lerner’s got some advice for progressives bummed about US politics now, mainly that it’s okay if it looks impossible. Fortune favors the brave!
From Morag: An LGBT kiss-in in Spain!
RAFFLE RAFFLE RAFFLE!
The Carl Brandon Society is offering a raffle for an eBook reader!!!!
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Gifted programs do crop up in lower income schools, but they aren’t as common, and they’re more likely to be underfunded, like everything else. You’re really lucky.
In the American South, gifted programs were also a way to separate out white students from black students post integration. Which, incidentally has (mostly) stopped, and left a legacy of very high quality gifted programs.
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which is how most grant searching goes.
And as I said, the education component was most likely a cynical ploy (I can’t read anyone’s minds), but it was a much older cynical ploy they used to affiliate with WB.
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“Even as she tried to be tolerant and helpful, she utterly discounted the idea that there might be disabled and sick kids among her students, and I felt so awkward and alone trying to point it out to her.”
With you there on the “joys” of non-evident disability.
While I overall dislike fanfiction, I think using it to get students in to writing is a fantastic idea. My own childhood writings were fanfiction, and those lead to trying to pursue writing as a career.
(No, no one will ever see my epic Final Fantasy fanfiction from when I was twelve. EVER.)
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In the American South, gifted programs were also a way to separate out white students from black students post integration. Which, incidentally has (mostly) stopped, and left a legacy of very high quality gifted programs.
That’s good to hear. I was in a gifted program in WV, in an extremely low income school, and I think you’re right that I was very lucky. The program only selected two kids from my elementary school, and we were both from humble backgrounds – there was even backlash because the kids whose parents were VIPs in our small town had not gotten into the program. It was as truly merit based as anything I’ve ever experienced, and that’s how these things should be.
I wasn’t allowed to test for a similar program in TN when we moved there. Some bull about having missed a cutoff date, but hard to help noticing: ALL the kids in the program had VIP parents. Plenty of not-so-bright kids were in, and plenty of very bright (but not so connected) ones got left out. And some transplants with more influential parents somehow managed to get in after I was turned away. So there was discrimination that went beyond race. I hope they’ve addressed all the reasons gifted kids were getting left out.
(Then again, it wasn’t a great gifted program, so we didn’t push as hard as we might have for my chance to test. More of a bootcamp for SATs than a search for each kid’s individual strengths.)
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Thanks for posting about the Carl Brandon drawing
We appreciate every signal boost. Today is the last day and we’re hoping to see one last surge!
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I’m somewhat afraid that when I do finish my screenplay about a group of female high school graduates working together to survive a disaster/monster), I’ll get a positive response saying “We love it, just make the heroes guys and it’s sold” when that would change the entire story irreparably.
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