Archive for the ‘Social awareness’ Category

Mar
2010
05

Sappho Speaks: Liberals, Labeling and How Much We Lose

I know we were all taught as children not to call each other names and we know how much racism hurts us as a culture (or at least I hope those reading this blog do) but there as so many more ways we use labels in our lives that shut us off from groups, from information, and from individuals and if you are anything like me, it takes someone pointing it out every now and then for a real wake up call to happen in your life so change can begin to rebuild your way of interacting in the world.

Feb
2010
27

Sappho Speaks: What If the World Were Gayle and Oprah? Part Deux

What would happen to this world if the real power couple was Oprah and Gayle King, the editor-in-chief at O! magazine and her best friend. It has been speculated for years and the case is just not so, but let’s pretend and see how the world would change.

Feb
2010
09

Politics Is Gay.

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I swear recently, I’ve talked about politics more than anything else, at home at least. It’s probably because of the upcoming general election. Well, one of the hottest topics right now is Gay Rights. I was surprised to hear David Cameron saying how “We do need good sex and relationship education. That education should teach [...]

Feb
2010
03

Dyke in the Heart of Texas

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Some of you have asked if I currently have a life-partner. I do, I actually have a wife….we were married in Dana Point, California on October 3, 2008. We are two of the 18,000 queer people who are legally married in California, having married during a brief time of legality before the [...]

Nov
2009
04

Maine :(

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I was reading an article on the election in Maine today, and although it was a fairly positive article in regards to the “No on 1″ campaign, there were a couple sentences that when I read them… they stung. Like a slap in the face. Not gonna lie, I started crying. While the comment itself [...]

Aug
2009
19

Guest Post: Lipstick Lesbians Lament

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I have been living the life a young, metropolitan gay girl about town for the past four years, and I was recently approached by a high profile journalist writing a deeply ignorant article for a vile little paper called the Daily Mail on ‘Lipstick’ lesbians, under which Sapphic term I apparently qualify (why [...]

Apr
2009
24

Now Reading! Visible: A Femmethology

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Visible: A Femmethology, the only two-volume anthology devoted to femme identity, calls the LGBTQI community on its prejudices and celebrates the diversity of individual femmes. Award-winning authors, spoken-word artists, and new voices come together to challenge conventional ideas of how disability, class, nationality, race, aesthetics, sexual orientation, gender identity and body type intersect with each [...]

Mar
2009
29

Gender doesn’t mean a thing

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If I could live in an ideal world, there wouldn’t be a need to identify oneself with either gender (male or female). This is a topic that is oftentimes confusing to me. I am happy with my biological female anatomy for the most part. When I was little, I thought that I wanted to be [...]

Mar
2009
03

Stalled: A First-Hand Account of Gender Discrimination

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Is there a female is here?
I froze. I shouldn’t have answered. I should have ignored it. I should have ripped the guy a new one.
Hindsight is 20-20.
Last Friday, my best friend and I went shopping. We’ve sworn to return to out old gym-junkie habits, and seeing as how that means 5 days a week sweating [...]

Feb
2009
26

This I Believe

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On my way to work this morning, while pondering topics for my first TLL post, this radio essay came on. If you click the link, you have the option of either hearing it or reading it. (Yeah, I listen to NPR. The BBC, too. It’s a character flaw.)
This I Believe is a national media project [...]

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