Thursday Links

Posted on | December 17, 2009 | No Comments

Section: Queer

BBC asks if homosexuality should be a capital crime. I don’t know BBC, what do you think? D: (Link via Snakey.)

Court tells a Christian registrar that she is not allowed to refuse to marry gay people on the basis of her religion. For some reason Christian Today fails to regard this in a positive light.

SparkInDarkness posts some statistics of death. (Link via Snakey.)

Ronald Gold thinks he has solved the “problem” of transgender people. Questioning Transphobia reports.

I’m not going to link to Fandom Wank, a chronicle of drama wars in fandom, but here’s a little background: A transgendered fan is a bit of a nut. There’s a page about him on Fandom Wank. In the name of comedy and mocking the dramatans some people thought it would be funny to disbelieve his gender. Here’s Das Dingsi on why it’s not.

Livejournal creates code to force users to disclose their gender as either male or female, but then quickly takes it back when there’s a negative reaction. Here’s Naamah-Darling on the whole thing, and here’s BranchandRoot on how they lied about it.

Section: Feminist, Geek

Just call me James – Yonmei talks about how it really is easier for women who write under male pseudonyms than for those who don’t, on the Feminist SF blog.

Today is the International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers. From Sex Worker Outreach Project’s website (linked to above):

Annie Sprinkle offers Ten Things You Can Do to Participate

Absolutely EVERYONE is invited to participate. Here’s how.

1. Organize (or attend) a memorial in your town. Simply choose a place and time to gather. Invite people to bring their stories, writings, thoughts, related news items, poems, lists of victims, performances, and memories. Take turns sharing.

2. Hold (or attend) a candlelight vigil in a public place.

3. Do something at home alone, which has personal meaning, such as a ritual memorial bath, or light a candle.

4. Call a friend and discuss the topic.

5. Send a donation to a group that helps sex workers stay safer. For example, some teach self-defense or host web sites that caution workers about bad Johns.

6. Go to the Sex Worker Outreach Project’s website, www.swop-usa.org, read it, and add something to the site. Do let others know about any planned Dec. 17 events by listing them on the SWOP web site.

7. Spread the word about the Day to End Violence Towards Sex Workers and the issues it raises; or blog, email, call, send a press release, or forward this text to others.

8. Hold a press conference in a meaningful place and invite press to learn about sex workers stories/rights/issues.

9. Organize a panel discussion about violence towards sex workers. Procure a community space and invite speakers like sex workers, police, and families of victims.

10. Create your own way to participate.

HavoctheCat asks fandom to talk about possible alternate versions of various characters. Fandom does. It’s made of awesome.

Traveller on how to write fanfiction on the Internet.

Section: Body Things

Health insurers are caught paying Facebook gamers virtual currency to oppose the US health reform bill. Link via Ruby Nye.

Forward/FWD talks about good depictions of disability.

Parents see red over Santa insult. From what I can see, ginger racism is not as funny as it sounds. It seems to be socially acceptable to make fun of, bully and mock gingers, and that sort of attitude is having an effect on how kids are treated in school. So no, this is not accidentally posted here and actually meant for the “lol whut” section.

Section: Lol Whut

Twilight review and New Moon review in lolcat. Both links via Sei-kun.

The museum where Jes Idres works suffers a brilliant prank.

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