Just a reminder that I’ll be speaking at Columbia U. on Monday, October 9, 7:00pm – 8:30pm, in the Sulzberger Parlor Room, Barnard College. It’s open to the public.
Here are directions to Barnard’s campus (which is right across the street from Columbia):
http://www.barnard.edu/visitors/directions.html
Here is a map of campus that shows where the Sulzberger building is located:
http://www.barnard.edu/visitors/map2006.pdf
Click the 9th on QUAM’s October calendar for the full description.
Not Jon Benet
Last night on America’s Next Top Model, Tyra Banks did her usual suspenseful schpiel: “I have before me 12 young girls who have a chance at becoming America’s Next Top Model blah blah blah.” Except I’m not sure it was her usual schpiel, because “young girls” just rang out at me, and I’ve seen the show before and it never did on any other occasion. Does she always say that? I mean it’s one thing to not call them women – since half of them aren’t over the age of 18, I don’t think – but “young” girls, too? To me “young girls” means 8 or 9 year olds, not 17 or 18 year olds. Young women would be far more appropriate, no? I mean if they really need to use “girl” instead, then how about just “girls” – 12 hopeful girls, 12 beautiful girls, 12 painfully-overdramatic girls, even.
No Toothpaste, No Shoe-Wearing, No Kissing
It could be an Onion headline, but it’s not: an American Airlines flight attendant asked a gay couple to stop kissing on a recent Paris to New York flight.
Look, I’ve kissed my husband on plenty of flights and no one has ever asked us to stop kissing. We haven’t flown so much since Betty stopped passing much as a guy, but I now have another reason not to bother. (Flying, not kissing.)
Interview with Kate B. (Pt. 2)
The other half of my interview with Kate Bornstein is now up at beatrice.com. This one is more about writing (as opposed to the Five Questions With… half which I posted here, which is more about gender/trans stuff).
Shimkus the Pimpkus
Does anyone else remember this joke from the last time around?
Q: How does a Republican congressman mark the place he stopped reading in a book?
A: He bends over a page.
The Republican this time around is Mark Foley, and apparently Rep. Shimkus (R-IL) knew what was going on and encouraged Foley’s socializing with these young men.
The Sound of JFB
You can now hear Jennifer Finney Boylan’s Southern Comfort speech, (the text of which is here).
The 5th Annual Blogger BoobieThon
They’ve raised over $26,000 for Breast Cancer Awareness, so for this year’s Breast Cancer Month, I’m in!
My mother survived breast cancer, & I bet she can think of about a gazillion other ways she’d prefer to have me help raise money. I can hear her already, “You could have just walked or something.”
But no. I think using breasts to raise money for the health of breasts makes way too much sense – so go! Make a donation! Guess which ones are mine!!