Thursday Links
Posted on | July 8, 2010 | No Comments
Section: Things That Make Us Happy
Depictions of Disability That Make Us Happy: How To Train Your Dragon on FWD/Forward. As if that movie wasn’t already insanely happifying.
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Section: Yet More Perspectives
The veto, or fear by any other name – Sex Geek on the prevalence of jealousy and its equivalence with a much less hallowed emotion, fear. Discusses monogamy and polyamory.
Feminist SF and George R.R. Martin have yet more to say on fanfic.
Juliet Jacques writes a series for the Guardian: A Transgender Journey.
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Section: Language
Why trans is funny but tranny is out, a Guardian article by Roz Kaveney.
Ableist word profile: special on FWD/Forward.
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Section: Action
Jade Lennox offers tips on how to fight ableism in a concrete way.
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Section: Films
Since The Last Airbender recently opened in the U.S., here’s a link to Racebending.com to remind you what’s been wrong with it from the start. Here’s also Glockgal on the path of the origin of fail. And it apparently sucks, too. 9% on Rotten Tomatoes. If that’s not enough, here‘s some links compiled by ReflectedEve.
On the other hand, I am SO looking forward to Despicable Me!
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Section: For Writers
Verb Noire is a new small press looking for stories focusing on heroes we don’t get to see often enough – people of colour or people who are LGBTQIA. Awesome.
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Section: One More Section
When is a woman “asking” to be raped? Not ever. Scottish awareness site – link via Curvature.
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