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Today is National Coming-Out Day. I've never done a lot of Big, Formal coming out. Or risky coming-out. Only when I felt safe; only to people I trusted; only when it was convenient for me. This is not a particularly threatening space...but still. In honor of National Coming-Out Day, and in the spirit of this post here, I'd like to come out as:

• pansexual
• femme (Okay! I admit it! Happy now, asimaiyat ? :-D)
• non-monogamous
• kinky
• a bottom (mostly)
• a cissexual woman
• of Scotch-Irish descent
• Pagany (and a bit Christiany)
• Easily flustered
• a lit geek
• a twenty-something
• a reader of fanfic
• a mild Trekkie
• a Narnian
• an RPG-er

There's more, I'm sure. But that's what I've got now. Happy Coming-Out Day to all!

Also, f-list, what would you like to come out as? Tell me in the comments or on your journal.

Are any of you amazing people going to be at Dragon*Con? I have been talked into going this year, and as much as I know it's a sign of insanity to attempt to meet up with people at a con the size of a city, if you're going, I'd like to try to see you.

Ideas for relatively painless meetups:
Dance at the Emerald Rose concert.
Sing about what God Thinks at the Voltaire concert.
Hallow Sancta Sophia at the Cruxshadows concert.

Places we will not be meeting up:
In line for autographs. Because I'm not putting up with that shit.

I miss all you Middle TN folks so, so much!

( Long thoughts )

In other news, tomorrow afternoon is getting devoted to bead shopping and scavenging around Camelot Treasures, because everything they have is 30% off - Yay! Because they're going out of business. Boo.

So, this is going to be a mini-series of Joy's Musings on Feminism taken from my Theory Responses for my 3rd World Feminism class. I am recording here for posterity.

( Theory Response the First )

By the Bechdel Test.

( Pass or Fail? )

Oh gods. They did not. Roslin and Baltar. What sick, sick person would do that to Roslin??? Must watch BSG...must have tasty tasty S/F crack...after my papers are done, oh gods the papers....
And I think "overlooked" is, for the examples given, a wrong turn of phrase. "Decided against" might be better - I'm sure J.K. Rowling foresaw that people would want Harry and Hermione to get together - she chose not to take the story that way. And don't even tell me that Joss didn't know folks would slash Spike and Angel. Really.
Personally, I want to see Lucy and Caspian. Like, a lot.

So, I am slowly coming to the realization that even though I admit to being woefully ignorant (or, at least, undecided) as to where I stand on Economics and How The Government Should (or Not) Be Involved in them, that does not mean that I miss having political opinions entirely. I tend to consider the things that are harder for me to understand to be the only "valid" criteria - after all, I don't understand them/haven't fully explored them, so those *must* be the most crucial ones, right? 
A Libertarian-ish friend of mine once said, when we were talking about political matters, "What I value most is freedom. And so I don't want the government telling me what I have to do with my money or who gets my money." (This is a paraphrase. Mistakes are mine, not his.) I agree with that first statement. What I value most, politically, is freedom. But the most important freedoms, for me, are personal, not financial. I want to be free to believe what I want, practice religion as I choose, and maintain sovereignty over my body and what happens to it. I want to know that I am guarenteed the right to fuck whom I choose, how I choose, marry whom I choose, kiss whom I choose in the middle of Main St. without worrying about race, gender, class, or anything else. I want to read what I choose, watch what I choose, listen to what I choose without the government trying to restrict my choices. I want to know that when I get a job, it's on my merits, not the size of my breasts or the color of my skin.

So. In no particular order...
I care about GLBT issues, including the right to be joined, legally (I don't know how I feel about the government having a role in "marriage" at all), in a way exactly equal to the way hetero couples can be joined.
I care about ensuring that the poly triad doesn't lose their children because the neighbors object.
I care about making sure that the Muslim and the Hindu and the Druid are as safe as Christian fundamentalist and can practice their religions with equal protections.
I care about making contraception and all options available to women.
I care about comprehensive, age-appropriate sex education so that people can make informed choices. 
I care about the government staying out of what texts do and do not appear in libraries or on high school reading lists. Or, for that matter, on my bookshelf (or DVD collection, or music collection).
I care about fighting discrimination based on race, income, gender, sex, and sexual preferences.

So. Yes. Those are some things I care about. Those are the sort of things that constitute the core of the world I want to live in. So those are the things I will vote to protect.

Go here and tell me what you think.

In other news, my foot is especially angry with me today. I think there may be good drugs in my future.

He asked us to do this for Friday. So I did it right now.

( Foundational texts: The poetry re-mix )

And now, because I like the lists...
( Foundational texts: The prose remix )

http://kspark.kaist.ac.kr/Jesus/Ecce%20Homo.htm
Completely awesome. Not very worksafe. Nekkid Jesus = Love. Gabriel announcing the birth of Christ to an FF couple = Cake and Pie.

Gakked from popelizbet and ladykalana, using the Pope's version.

Go read yesterday's xkcd. Be sure to read the mouseover-text (and if you can't get it to work, right-click, go to properties, and you can read it there.). Then come back and SQUEEE! with me if you get it. (Because I don't want to ruin the surprise.)

In other news, I broke one of the nose pads off my glasses. I really really need new glasses. *sigh* Perhaps this year the parents will make me an eye appointment for Christmas/Bday.