November 2008

Top 5 George Harrison Songs

by Cara November 29, 2008

Seven years ago today, George Harrison died. Do you remember where you were when you found out? Just about everyone remembers where they were when they heard that John Lennon was dead; I wasn’t yet born. But I do remember where I was hearing about George. I swear that it had been just a few [...]

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Let It Be

by Cara November 26, 2008

One of my best friends died last night. I don’t know what to say or how long I’ll be gone. I’ve had a post scheduled to go up on Saturday for a while now. But other than that . . . I don’t have anything to write, and don’t know when I will. She was [...]

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Helping Abuse Victims Where They’re Most Comfortable

by Cara November 25, 2008

The NY Times has a really interesting article about innovative anti-domestic violence programs that meet women abuse victims where they are: The privileged, often therapeutic relationship between hairdressers and clients has long been the subject of magazine articles and movies. A growing movement in New York and across the nation tries to harness that bond [...]

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SD Anti-Choicers are Sad that Women Still Have Rights

by Cara November 24, 2008

*Sniffles* I was at Planned Parenthood seven different times. I also was at the Campaign for Healthy Families’ place three times, where a young lady from Black Sheep Coffee shop brought me a cup of its great coffee on a cool day. She was a real sweetheart. But all our efforts failed. The good people [...]

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John Lennon in the News

by Cara November 23, 2008

Newsflash: The Vatican has pardoned John Lennon for saying that the Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Yeah, apparently they were still upset about that. I bet that wherever John is, he’s very pleased. After all, he was very sorry about his comments. Just look at how sorry he was: He apparently also said later: [...]

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Radio Host Endorses Reasons for Murder of Transgender Woman

by Cara November 22, 2008

Right-wing Minneapolis radio host Chris Baker decided to tie together a story about Thomas Beatie — “the pregnant man” — and another transgender person, Lateisha Green (or Teish Cannon; I’ve also seen her name spelled “Latiesha”) who was murdered in a hate crime just a few days ago. I came across this story on Wednesday [...]

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Nixzmary Brown’s Mother Sentenced to Longer Term than Girl’s Actual Killer

by Cara November 21, 2008

I have previously written about the horrific crime that was Nixzmary Brown’s murder.  Her killer and stepfather Cesar Rodriguez got the maximum sentence of 26 1/3 to 29 years in prison for the crime of which he was accused, manslaughter of the seven-year-old girl. Now Nixzmary’s mother Nixzaliz Santiago has also been sentenced in the [...]

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Transgender Day of Remembrance 2008

by Cara November 20, 2008

According to stats cited by HRC (who are otherwise being disrespectful assholes at the moment), transgender people have a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered in their lifetimes.  Even those who dispute the number seem to want to place it at 10 times the murder rate of every one else.  Whichever number is correct, [...]

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Target Women: Cars

by Cara November 19, 2008

This one cracked me up even more than usual.

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November 20: 10th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance

by Cara November 18, 2008

The 10th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance is this Thursday November 20. Events will be held all over the world to commemorate the lives of those transgender individuals who have been murdered as a result of transphobic hatred.  People like Duanna Johnson, Sanesha Stewart, Angie Zapata and many, many others.  Far too many others. Look [...]

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