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Call for anonymous posts

When I wrote The things we won’t blog, I had no idea I would get such a reaction: over 30 comments in 24 hours, talking about the things we don’t feel comfortable writing about on our own blogs, but nevertheless want to get out of us. Obviously, we have things to say that aren’t getting [...]

The things we won’t blog

Y’all know that I write about almost anything: my period, my sexuality, my genitals, my craziness, my racism and cissexism, my self-injury, even unwanted sensations with breastfeeding. I wrote about being bipolar, bisexual, and fat in my college application essays. (I won a scholarship in part because of an essay about my breasts.) I am [...]

I need to read to write: a good ol’ fashioned link post

After several months of completely ignoring its existence, I’m trying to clean up my Google Reader: trim it down, shift it over, and make it reflect the blogs that I actually want to read, but don’t catch in my Twitter stream due to missed timing (or the author — gasp! — not tweeting). I am [...]

Raising My Boychick is now on Facebook

In spite of some very good reasons to boycott Facebook, I have succumbed, and created a business page for Raising My Boychick, to which new posts are automatically added.

If you’re reading this on the blog, you probably don’t care; but! if you become a Fan (and yes, I cringed just typing that — I am [...]

Are you there, blog? It’s me, Arwyn

I think if I could focus on one thing for just an hour, I could do anything. The number of half-finished posts sitting in my queue is staggering. The number of further ideas I’ve had is uncountable (I lose count anyway, but then, if I could focus for an hour, I probably wouldn’t).

My mood has [...]

Censorship? No.

This is censorship, when the US government blocks websites relating to Cuba.

This is censorship, when the Chinese government blocks all kinds of websites.

This is censorship, when the Australian government bans a video game.

This? Me deleting a comment that defended bigotry? This not censorship. It’s adhering to the comment policy that was already laid out at [...]

Introducing: my kitty

(Or, an excuse for excessively adorable cat pictures.)

(You have a dirty mind.)

This is my kitty.

Mistress Catareina, the Feline Queen

Isn’t she pretty? *waits for ooos and ahhhs* But wait, where is she? Let’s see if we can zoom out a bit.

Wait, is that my face?

Is that… my face? A little more out…

No more words

It may not exactly be a bad thing, considering a few days ago they wouldn’t shut the bleep up, and I was composing more posts than I could keep up with, composing posts while going about my day, composing posts while trying to parent my child, composing posts in the middle of praying — begging [...]

I Blame The Mother

No, I haven’t flipped my lid — OK, maybe I have, because the last thing I needed was another online time-suck. But no, I haven’t stopped blaming the kyriarchy in favor of blaming myself (well, not much anyway, but today was a hard day — or rather, tonight was an unfuckingbelievably hard night — and [...]

Ignore the woman behind the curtain!

I really thought I would be able to get more content up before the site switch, but I’ve been so taken up by working on the new blog design that I haven’t had time to, y’know, blog.

So here’s how it’s going to happen: some time in the next couple days, I’m going to shut down [...]

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