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Beltane 2013 – union and loneliness
Beltane fell on a Wednesday this year. It’s my favorite holiday, but even though it is a holiday of union, this year it leaves me feeling rather lonely. On Sunday I’d intended to rise early and make the trip across the river … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, politics, race and class, religion and spirituality, writing
Tagged beltane, bisexuality, boston poetry, cambridge, cambridge ma, community, current events, glbt, human rights, loneliness, on being a queer poet, paganism, poetry, politics, queer, relationships, religion, society, union, unitarian universalism, workshops
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Facts about the Affordable Care Act (aka “Obamacare”)
The ACA (Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare) means the following: Insurance companies can no longer impose lifetime limits on the amount of care you receive. They can no longer discriminate against children with preexisting conditions. They can no longer drop … Continue reading
Rest in Peace Adrienne Rich: Fellow Poet, Feminist, Queer Woman, Trail-Blazer
Last week, I was about to board a plan to San Francisco when I saw Adrienne Rich’s obituary on the front page of the New York Times. It’s hard to describe Adrienne Rich’s impact on my life with grace and … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, poetry, politics, race and class
Tagged adrienne rich, awards, bisexuality, california, current events, entertainment, feminism, glbt rights, lesbians, literature, news, on being a bisexual woman, on being a female poet, on being a queer artist, on being a woman writer, poetry, poetry - other people's, politics, writing
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Open letter to Senator Scott Brown regarding SOPA
Dear Senator Brown: I’ve been watching your first term in office with interest. I’ve also been a web developer since the early days of the web. The entire course of my life has been affected by its tides. So I … Continue reading
Pepper spray, football, and other words that don’t mean what we think they mean
Last night, as Army Guy and I sat down for a late dinner at Galway House, tables filled with (mostly) large (mostly) men shouted at the plasma screens as men in tight pants ran around and jumped on each other*. … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, politics, strongly worded letters
Tagged army guy, boston, class, class warfare, culture, gender and sexuality, gentrification, history, lesbians, liberal politics, my glamorous life, nonviolent resistance, occupy boston, occupy wall street, OWS, politics, protesting, sports
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Open letter to my representative about the current budget debate in Congress
In case your attention has been elsewhere, there’s been some major drama on Capitol Hill about the Federal Budget. Worst case scenario is worse than the government shutdown of the 1990s. It would actually give the U.S. government the same … Continue reading
FRC: hateful, bigoted, fearmonger AND spam-house.
I joined the FRC mailing list about six years ago because I thought it might be a good idea to know what the other side was up to. You know: a little friendly political espionage. I forgot that hateful political … Continue reading
Sarah Palin and the Media Elite
Someone on my friends list posted a link to a Vanity Fair article that took a red pen to a transcript of Sarah Palin’s resignation speech. The speech itself — and the woman delivering it — is definitely not going … Continue reading
How “fetal rights” laws hurt mothers who want to give birth
Link to video Some very compelling arguments about how “fetal rights” laws have been used to hurt — and in some cases kill — both mothers and the babies they want to carry to term. Did you know that in … Continue reading
Posted in blogospheric, gender and sexuality, politics
Tagged civil rights, feminism, politics, reproductive rights, video, women's health
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Dan Savage can be the gay friend and I’ll be the sensitive poet
Dan Savage wants to be Sarah Palin’s gay friend: Via Feministing. Link to the video in case of embed fail: I have nothing else useful to say about the election, except maybe this: Neal Stephenson came to read from his … Continue reading
Posted in blogospheric, gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, politics
Tagged election 2008, glbt, glbt rights, poetry, politics, semantics, spiritual practice, the power of words
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