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Cathrynne M. Valente is going to be releasing chapters of Circumnavigating Fairyland every Monday. Yum.

Kate Bornstein is all IMAGINE OTHERWISE, positing Wall-E as a butch/femme (b)romance.

Voz-Latina calls out cis women for not paying attention to trans issues.

This article on heterosexual privilege might be a good resource to those of you interested in being a good ally.

Zvi calls out fandom for its unimaginative descriptors of Uhura. You should also … READ MORE

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A couple of cable channels have been running The Golden Girls lately, and after Bea Arthur’s passing, I decided to watch some episodes. I watched the show now and then years ago and found the writing inconsistent – sometimes they recycled plots from other sitcoms, and other times they came up with something pretty original and funny. At the very least, they portrayed four women who were well over thirty as vivacious, active, interesting human beings – one of those … READ MORE

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Lace Makers focuses on the trials and tribulations of Kate, a fashion designer, who’s fled to Ireland to escape the memories of a doomed relationship, her mother’s death from cancer, and the debacle of her most recent fashion show. She bounces around the country, finally finding herself in Glenmara. By chance, she befriends the ladies of the lace-making society — a set of married middle-aged women who get together once a week to make lace to sell at different local … READ MORE

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_Ocelott_ has a delicious rant up about “strong female characters.” Like her style? Check out LKH_Lashouts, which is filled with some hilarious lampooning of everyone’s favorite vampire hunter, Anita Blake.

YAY! There’s another doctor coming to take Dr. Tiller’s place! Also in news of the resistance, Yelosan’s got a faboo post on men and sexual assault, and what it means to be part of a rape culture, which is in … READ MORE

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Queen of Angels is about lonliness, murder, and the kind of mental trickeries you need to survive. It’s also about a world where therapy has become mandatory. The untherapied live in the shade of the combs, outside the luxurious world of the privileged and the mentally fit. However, murder has struck inside the combs. Emmanuel Goldsmith, the acclaimed poet, has killed several of his protegees, and has now disappeared.

This is not a whodunit. Mary Choy, the principal investigator of this … READ MORE

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