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  • We are always the protagonists of our own stories. But just once I had hoped you would play the support in a chapter I had written, laughing and rejoicing in the triumph I overtook. It was a high, it was momentous, it was glory overwhelmed. And it also paled against anything you had to say. I’m sorry.…

  • Haikus to Freedom

    I was reading the Inquirer a week and a day ago, and I thought of airing some opinions on Philippine news. With some poetry. I. to think of the world quite odd: easy to clamor easy to forget The Philippines is perhaps one of the few “democratic” countries where a corrupt president –overthrown by a mass…

  • When Having Opinions Brings Rape Threats: A Captain America Story

    When Having Opinions Brings Rape Threats: A Captain America Story I’m just so angry right now. The article boils down to the headline: a woman criticizes the work of a white guy in the comic book industry (Rick Remender) for portraying the Falcon (inebriated, if not drunk) having sex with a 22-year-old woman (who was thought…

  • Why Must Dudes Ruin Perfectly Good Superheroine and Action Franchises with Their Requests for Diversity?

    Originally posted on Feminist Dragons: What is it with dudes and their never-ending cry of “Diversity! Diversity! Diversity!” ? Ugh, it doesn’t MATTER what the characters are like! Only the story matters! And we all know that those fanboys love to complain about how there’s no representation of LGBT (or are they calling it GLBT…

  • #TBT: USA!

    #TBT: USA!

    Someday I’ll go there again and watch a Broadway show.

  • Vlog Progress (again)

    It’s been a month since Singapore for UADC 2014, and I haven’t made any progress on part 2 of the video montage fun times. I’ve actually tried making it this week, but then I had so many clips (a ridiculous amount of them) that they might not even fit into a five-minute vid. Oh well. Here’s a…

  • Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced

  • The Perception of Sexism and Racism

    The whole point of this post —the problem of dealing with sexism, classism, racism and other oppressive behaviors— is captured in this quote from @chocopompcirc: Racism in this day and age is often subconscious and implicit; you may have to think critically about it, rather than just seeing a black body hanging from a tree…

  • Look Up – Spoken Word by Gary Turk

    My sister linked this video to me, and for a crystal clear moment I felt my life change.

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