Helen Boyd Kramer's journal on gender and stuff
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.
The Deputy Assistant Secretary for HHS’ Office of Population Affairs, Eric Keroack, has resigned. & There was much rejoicing because he was not just anti-choice, but anti-contraception.
This Bush government is really just insane. Honestly: putting someone who is against even contraception in charge of the Office of Population Affairs is like putting a wife-beater in charge of the Office of Domestic Violence.
But, that’s one nightmare over.
Tonight is the Partners’ Drop-In Group at the LGBT Center. 7:30 – 9PM. The theme this month is sexuality. Details here.
The interview I did just last night on KDVS with DJ Cariad is already online. The listing is DJ Cariad – The Fringe (128kbps).m3u
The interview begins at 4:40, & goes for about an hour.
If you’re coming here as a result of that interview, welcome!
I love when the weather people tell me the pollen count is high, as if that’s news. Anyone who is allergic can tell you your nose stops working long before they get around to telling you about it. & I think the pollen count should be measured by somebody’s Uncle Albert’s congestion that day: Uncle Albert is experiencing 45% congestion in his left nostril, 95% in his right.
I just happened to catch that beautiful scene in The Fisher King where love turns Grand Central into a waltzing ballroom. How fantastic a scene that is, probably one of my all-time favorites in movies. But then, it’s one of my favorite movies, too.
I’m pleased to announce that I will be speaking at the Penn State Dickinson School of Law on Friday, April 20th, about our experience being a legally married couple who happen to look like a queer couple. On hand will be Professor Bob Rains who will answer the more technical legal questions surrounding marriage licenses and identity documents.
All are welcome, so if you’re in that neck of the woods, feel free to come. I’ll be speaking at 11:30 AM, but I don’t have the name of the exact hall yet; check the calendar for more information as the date approaches.
The American Family Association is running an online poll about “corporations promoting homosexuality,” & since you don’t need to be a member, we have a great opportunity to screw up their numbers.
Do go take the poll now.
Tonight I’m being interviewed for a radio show called The Fringe for KDVS out of Davis, California. It’s a show for queers and feminists and the gender variant. If you’re in that neck of the woods, I should be on near the show’s beginning, which is at 8PM.
Eventually the interview should be archived on the show’s website, and it should be listed as something like ‘DJ Cariad – The Fringe (Mon, Apr 02).’ I don’t know how soon the archived show goes up, but last week’s show is up already, which means – no more than six days.
Republican State Senator Dan Patrick has suggested paying pregnant women $500 so they don’t abort unwanted babies.
Sure. That’ll cover – a box of diapers and some pre-natal vitamins, maybe a vaccination or two if she goes to a sliding scale clinic.
And what’s your plan after that, Senator Patrick?
He is my April Fool this year.