February 2012
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Homosexuality in Ancient China
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Guys, if I posted a picture for this entry I would totally have to make this blog NSFW, and you’ll kinda see why. Since it’s February, the month of loooove, we’re gonna talk about all kinds of love and relationships, including homosexual ones. (This is so I can introduce a god to you later.)
Homosexuality in China (Sharing the Peach and Cutting the Sleeve)
So we’re gonna...
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The super awesome Jaymee has interviewed me as part of her Steampunk POC series! In it I talk about being POC steampunk in Australia, Malaysia, and the possibilities for steampunk set in Australia. You can read the interview on Silver Goggles. Thanks to Jaymee for interviewing me!
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January 2012
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What A Piece of Work: Queer Verse →
An evening of contemporary Australian poets presenting new, recent and developing works.
Our poets include acclaimed and multi-published poet and author Peter Rose, also editor of Australian Book Review; Margaret Vandeleur, a master of the short piece, and author of the novel The Catch; the superb young poet Lia Incognita; the multi-award-winning Maria Zajkowski; queer crip activist and...
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BEING SOBER ON SURVIVAL/INVASION DAY IN AUSTRALIA
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siriuslydeep:
I don’t really drink alcohol. For heaps of reasons. But I definately won’t be drinking on Invasion/Survival Day this year. I guess I hope to be one less Anglo/white persyn putting money into/supporting this booze-fueled day of false nationalism. Getting drunk can make people less aware of their behaviour, and more prone to aggression and violence. Energetically...
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Indian couple have children taken away by... →
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jonathan-cunningham:
An Indian couple have had their children taken away by Norwegian social workers because they were feeding them with their hands and sleeping in the same bed as them.
Anurup and Sagarika Bhattacharya lost custody of their three-year-old son and one-year-old daughter eight months ago after authorities branded their behaviour inappropriate.
The drastic measure led...
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jiggit:
The reason I haven’t reblogged the Chinese Redbud Woman post is because the translation annoys me. The ‘紫荆’ in ‘紫荆侠’ is defined as ‘cercis’ in my go-to online dictionary, for which I will grant ‘Chinese redbud’, but the ‘侠’ in ‘紫荆侠’?
That doesn’t mean ‘woman’, that means ‘hero’.
More specifically, it is the same ‘侠’ as in wuxia. Whenever you see a person introduced as ‘[given...