Ocean Dreamer

I used to be a regularly donating member of KUOW, our local NPR affiliate.  There are things I love about KUOW, especially its good, accurate information about current events.  But more than once they have made homophobic or transphobic comments – especially during the pledge drive.  They are having their spring pledge drive right now, and [...]

It has not been a good week.  I’ve kind of debated about writing on here about this, but in the end I decided to.  As a result of all the crap that’s happening at school, I’ve been dealing with a lot of internalized homophobia.  I suppose I dealt with it before I really came out [...]

I haven’t written on here much about my experiences at my grad school, mostly because they have been rather difficult and I haven’t wanted this blog to turn into a place for me to complain about things.  For much of the past quarter, however, I have experienced a lot of homophobia and ablism by many [...]

If you haven’t already done so, y’all should check out this spoof of the NY Times – dated July 4, 2009.  In this alternative future, the Iraq War has ended, Big Box stores are kicked out of low-income areas, and we have national health insurance.  As they explain on their website:
This special edition of The [...]

***UPDATE FOR SEATTLE***  The Seattle protest is at Volunteer Park, *not* the Seattle City Council Offices.  I have been told this directly by one of the organizers: there were originally two separate protests, but they have now merged into one.  More info here (including a link to their facebook group.)  You can also spread the [...]

I’ve been spending a lot of time over the past couple of days reading some of my favorite blogs.  I am so deeply disappointed over CA’s passage of prop 8 (and the bans in FL, AZ, and AR, though those were less shocking), so much so that I really couldn’t write anything on here about [...]

My spiritual path up until this point has involved a lot of exploration (including protestant christianity – which I was born into, Judaism, Buddhism – a little with my Buddhist ex, and various forms of Paganism and Wicca).  I spent several years practicing Judaism and loved so much about it and gained so much from [...]

So here’s an update on my adventures with biphobia on my lesbian moms listserve.  You can read about what happened here.  After my post on the listserve, I received many responses.  Some were from women who agreed with me (although one went back on her agreement under pressure from the group).  Most, however, were along [...]

I’m on several listserves for lesbian moms and women who are TTC.  One of them labeled themselves as being “just for lesbians.”  It was the first one I found and I joined it because I wanted the community, even though I was strongly opposed to the exclusionary policy.  Recently, the listowner received a request from [...]

The state of California has apparently decided that protecting its cropland from moths is apparently more important than the health of San Franciscans.  They sprayed before and people got sick, yet they are planning to do it again.  Anyone else wonder if Mega-Agrobusiness lobbyists are involved?  There was a great feature on NPR this morning [...]