“If the catacombs were good enough for the early Christians, then I can survive Obama’s America” An increasingly common narrative amongst the contemporary American evangelical movement is that of the persecuted Christians. Good men and women whose religious rights are increasingly trampled by a dominant secular, atheist, liberal majority who are trying to bend and …
Category Archive: Social Issues
Aug 01 2012
Being Welcome
My process of developing an understanding of privilege, power and the social dynamics that go along with them has been mostly guided by my lived experiences, and by conversation, marked largely by individual moments that led to individual insights, or shifts in perspective.
Jul 19 2012
Trigger Warning
A couple days ago I was mindlessly killing some time and unboredifying myself by clicking the random button at Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal. After awhile of this, a certain comic pulled up. The caption read “Who says money can’t buy happiness?” and, in the panel, an enthusiastic, smiling man was handing a syringe over to …
Jul 18 2012
The Exceptionalization Of CeCe McDonald
Until recently, my feelings about CeCe McDonald, the young trans woman of colour who was violently attacked in Minnesota by a group of men (at least one of whom was a neo-nazi) shouting racist and transphobic slurs, charged with murder for defending herself, and ultimately convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to 4 years in a …
Jul 02 2012
East Hastings: A Love Story
The first thing I’d notice, the first thing signaling arrival in the stretch of Hastings street between Abbott and Main that comprised the heart of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, was always the smell. It usually was a vague combination of industrial cleaning products, cheap native cigarettes, urine and stale, dirty clothing. Or maybe (aside from the …
Jun 26 2012
F–k Anti-Science
Last week was a really, really rough week. Worse than usual, even. Scary terrible things happening, and very suddenly and unexpectedly, as is usually the case with scary terrible things. Lots of complex and intense feelings I didn’t know how to handle. Lots of memories of really awful things that happened to me in the …
Jun 17 2012
Blogathon: 21st Hour
Damn. The birds outside are being total jerks right now. You have like no idea. I also think it’s important for you to know that my favourite Marvel characters are totally Dr. Strange, She-Hulk, Mystique, Magneto and Emma Frost, while my favourite DC characters are Barbara Gordon, Commissioner Gordon, Renee Montoya, The Doom Patrol, Wonder …
Jun 16 2012
Blogathon: Eighth Hour
Sorry. My “eight” key is broken. What’s particularly annoying about that is how many of my internet usernames involve the number “eighty-four” (my birth year). So I just got back from grabbing some lunch, and it is easily the most dismal, shitty, dreary day, like, EVER. Great googly moogly. Anyway… TRIGGER WARNING FOR AFTER THE …
Jun 16 2012
Blogathon: 6th Hour
I just got back from tracking down a pack of cigarettes, and I am totally, completely soaking wet. It is a very, very rainy day here in Vancouver. One thing I’ve been thinking about quite a bit lately is sex workers’ rights and sex worker feminism. Given how both trans women and sex workers are …
Jun 16 2012
Blogathon: 4th Hour
So… I kinda really, really, really dislike the writing of J. Michael Stracyznski. For those not familiar, he’s a TV show and comic book writer. For TV, he’s probably best known for his personal project Babylon 5, which broke TV tradition in being the first serial drama to have it’s total, complete story arc planned …
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