We’re off to the IFGE conference tomorrow, so we’ll see you when we get back. I’m hoping we’ll be able to check in while we’re in Philly, but conferences are funny things that way, and our laptop wi-fi just stopped working for no reason we can figure. If you’ll be at IFGE, there’s a gathering of mHB folks being planned on the boards.
Art Without Its Frame
What a remarkable story.
Launch Party Invite
In case you forget when or where, you can just check out the invite, instead.
DO #6?
Or maybe it’s #7 – I’ve lost track. But we are back from DO, just this second! It’ll take me a bit to catch up with email, and of course we leave again on Wednesday for IFGE… so some things I may not get to until we return from IFGE on the 15th, but still… we’re back. With cats. It’s fantastic.
‘One Man, One Woman’ States
South Carolina recently voted for a State Constititutional Amendment that bans same sex marriage. That’s 26 states I don’t feel welcome in.
Of the seven that had a similar Amendment on the ballot last November, only Arizona voted it down.
Lesbians on the Basketball Team
For those of you who are following the firing of Rene Portland, the homophobic former coach of Penn State, you might want to check out a book by Pat Griffin called Strong Women, Deep Closets: Lesbians and Homophobia in Sport.
Launch Party Re-Scheduled
Good news: the launch party for She’s Not the Man I Married has been re-scheduled.
Date: Thursday, April 26th
Time: 6 – 10 PM
Where: Marion’s Continental Lounge.
Do let me know if you intend to come by emailing me.
All Cat, All the Time
Fearsome Beastie, we call her. We’re at Dark Odyssey starting today, the hotel version of the event we were at when we met Miss Aurora. She wasn’t doing a whole lot of this that day, but a whole lot of other DO campers were doing something close; I’m sure some would envy the length of her tongue, no?
Just a Shy Young Woman
In an interesting review of the book College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now
She arrived (at the University of Wisconsin, 25 years ago) with a butch haircut, a suitcase full of punk clothes mail-ordered from New York, and a ‘tough-chick persona.’ I suspected that she was romanticizing her past, but then she shows us her freshman ID card, and she really was a fright.
Ugh.
But then in the next paragraph:
Underneath, though, she was as timid as any 18-year-old girl plucked from home and set down on the campus of a huge university. Too shy to raise her hand in class, or even to order a pizza over the telephone, she was so rattled by a boy who flirted with her on the first day of French II that she promptly dropped the class.
Which strikes me as about right. The review is overall good but it’s the quoted bits that Peril wrote about herself that have my interest piqued; it’s not often I read something about women in college with shaved heads and punk wardrobes that mirrors my own experience at all.
Next Time No Strings, Please
Another governor – this time Governor Strickland of Ohio – has given the Feds back the abstinence-only strings-attached sex education money.
That’s six states now, & the fifth (Wisconsin) only refused the impractical funding a few weeks ago.
So now there’s the other 44 to work on. Write your governor and tell him to return funding that denies a state the right to teach sex education in the way that we decide is most appropriate for our kids.