Nov
11
We often take our liberties for granted, especially those of us who live where tolerance is common and sensitivity is expected.
But there is a time to reflect on the price that people have paid in places where differences are justification for oppression, or in times that were not so enlightened as these.
Exhibit #1 Memorializing 2011
Memorializing 2011 lists trans people murdered around the world.
I am struck by the fact that these people died simply for doing what I do any time I feel like it with nary a second thought.
Not unnoticed, at least by me, is the marked preference among assailants for the intimate personal touch of killing imparted by the use of a knife rather than a gun.
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Jan
14
I am flattered, and moved by my recent receipt of this award from a cherished friend and blogger, whose witty and well-written words can be found at http://voyagesenrose.blogspot.com/ .
“I… I don’t know who to thank… there are so many people… well, I’d certainly like to thank the Academy, and everyone who voted for me… and my parents for having me… and, oh my dear, yes! there’s Al Gore, for inventing the internet, and Schoolhouse Rock for all those conjunctions and other words I use…”
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