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A big welcome to all of those visitors streaming in from the LJ feminist & misc. friend forums, and a big thanks to Ann for sending them my way… My hit count tripled yesterday. Great to have you here.

It should surprise no one that I come from a family of tall, strong, crazy, hysterical, intelligent, passionate, big-hipped women. Mostly, we’ve just been told we’re crazy and hysterical. The rest, we had to figure out on our own. I had a great-grandmother who was a smoking, drinking, philandering type who’d give money to bums

So, it bugged Amanda and Echidne, too, which I find quite funny, because when I hopped over to Kos’s place and read his justification for the lack of PC diversity among his guestbloggers, something in me went, “Huh?” too. Amanda explored the issue further, I think, in this post about the democratic party’s seeming reluctance

“I get incredibly close to my characters. When I’m in full-on writing mode it’s the first thing I think about when I wake up and the last thing I think about before falling asleep at night. Sometimes when I wake up in the night I wish someone at Microsoft would invent something that allows you

An interview with Catherynne M. Valente, author of The Labyrinth. Why should readers pick up your book as opposed to, say, just about anybody else’s book? Because my book is so much cheaper than LSD, and nearly twice as legal. You are required to brave up to 60% fewer dark alleys and abandoned factories to

The Guardian has some questions up that are often posed to non-white, non-Christian and/or non-straight interviewees: now it’s time to turn the tables – Do you think of yourself as white or American or both? Ummm… Does it worry you that you got your job just because of your race? Yes. Where are you from?

“Where one begins by burning books One will end up burning people.” –Heinrich Heine

Something to think about – A cool excerpt from the prize winning book Mutants: On Genetic Variety and the Human Body. I’m definately picking this one up: “… Each image of a beautiful face or perfectly turned limb is not really about the subject that it appears to be, but rather what it is not.

In the movie Master and Commander, one of the boys working on becoming an officer is told by Paul Bettany, ship’s doctor and amateur naturalist, that he has a knack for naturalism. And the kid says: “You don’t suppose I could be a sort of Fighting Naturalist, do you?” China Mieville is a sort of

So, I sat down and watched the summer special-effects movie, The Day After Tomorrow. What can I say, I have a thing for Jake Gyllenhaal of Donnie Darko fame. Being me, there’s a little part of my brain attuned to the gender dynamics of the movies I’m watching. I watch them for their own sake,