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The world it doth slowly change
I have a friend who is a gerentologist – she studies public health of aging. She’s in her 60′s, children, grandchildren, established career. We’ve known each other for ages. She has over the years...
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My heart goes out…
The NYTimes published an article on GL couples in the military. Turns out lesbian couples are not welcome at workshops or retreats on how to cope with the reality of military life and re-integration...
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Casual Racism
Ta-Nehisi Coates has a brilliant op-ed in the NYTimes from last week about the “good racist people”. He talks about we (modern white America) perceive racism as something that is a characteristic of...
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Pediatricians support gay/lesbian marriage & adoption
Not just a statement to the press, but a published paper in their home journal: From the American Academy of Pediatrics: Policy Statement Promoting the Well-Being of Children Whose Parents Are Gay or...
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Deirdre McCluskey and Crossing, Steubenville and Landsberg
One of the best books I ever read was Deirdre McClusky’s Crossing. It is the story of her journey from Donald to Deirdre. It is heart wrenching and exhilarating and a thousand other trite words. If I...
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Mccluskey quote about identity and balance sheets and utilitarianism
Found it online! (a much longer quote here, its about half-way through) I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too....
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The Sadness of (some) Christian LGBTs
My father used to get a publication (in the days before the net) that was clearly from “the enemy” though he would never use that word. This was a political enemy (we haven’t gotten to the LGBT part of...
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Pink Fairy Armadillos
I may have to change my avatar. First of all, anything named fairy has got to be a LBGT ally. Second of all it has a butt plate, which it uses for digging. Third of all it is covered with silky hair,...
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Ways NOT to reform NIH
Yesterday there was a short (relatively) discussion on twitter about what would happen if NIH limited the number of applications researchers can submit. Sci Curious I wonder how it would work...
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Disability Etiquette
I have a peripheral connection to the world of Rehabilitation. I am a neuroscientist/physiologist type and much of my work can be and has been used to support rehab strategies for specific disorders or...
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Diversity in My Everyday Life
I am not a person of color. I am not a person with significant disabilities. I strive and work towards being an ally to all sorts of under-represented people. I’m not the one to judge if I am there...
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Societal Improvements
When people say that society (usually meaning first world) has not improved, I point to no smoking in planes and restaurants, brewed decaf coffee and comfortable shoes for women that look at least OK....
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Nero fiddled, someone rearranged the deck chairs and France (and the NYT)...
Big story on France (admittedly this is the NYTimes’ take on what is important in France) today is its truffles. As the world of French truffles falls into disarray, let’s hear it for the poor man’s...
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