sundries

- edits edits edits

- oh god, menstruation, ow ow fucking ow

- also, it makes me stupid; I spent four hours yesterday not understanding the statistical work that is the center of multiple projects and that I do all the time. I just couldn't understand it anymore. it was disturbing. today seems better.

- I had a dream featuring a celebrity last night. Amazingly, that NEVER happens. Ridiculously, it was essentially no more interesting than us falling asleep on a couch while watching a football game and then some fan girls hated me. My unconscious needs to step it up.

- Am going to be on another podcast next month. Woo.

- Pittsburgh stuff solved.

- Brought the laundry in.

- Look, some days it's the small victories.

Uganda

(here and not LfT, because I'm just ranty)

So you know what happens if we manage to stop the Ugandan LGBT death penalty law (which got tabled and then they extended the legislative session to deal with it again)? They get laws instead that only put LGBT people in prison for 7 years to life, and gay people there keep getting murdered in crimes the police will, at best, ignore.

I am, like many people in the US, so fucking engaged with the equal marriage rights things and the DADT thing and DoMA thing and I spend a lot of time thinking about how close we are, so goddamn close, closer than I ever thought we'd be (so close it means we're going to get there) to being treated like everyone else.

HOWEVER, our country may be large and full of worthy fights, but it's not even remotely the whole world. So are so much more irrelevant than we think. And for as many nations are ahead of us on LGBT rights, so so so so many are behind us. And in a world of airplanes and transnational companies, where we can go anywhere and do everything, it is really, really shit when we act like the rest of our people don't exist.

I don't have an answer. I don't know what we can do about Uganda other than sign petitions and urge our elected officials to speak out against the situation there. But people, do not kid yourselves that this is not about you, or that avoiding the death penalty is enough of a victory for anyone to be comfortable with.

LfT

http://lettersfromtitan.com/2011/05/12/glee-sex-gender-desire-and-what-was-that-about-a-sadie-hawkins-dance/

Also about a random website that annoyed me.