July 2011
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A Wake Up Call! — Kushaba Moses Mworeko
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3 min read
Since last May when the Anti-Homosexuality Bill in Uganda seemed dead with the end of the 7th Parliament, Ugandan and international LGBT activists grassroots organizers and the media felt a relief from what had become a “talk of the town” issue. Speculations on the reintroduction of the bill were rumored when the key sponsor of the bill,…
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You’re Invited: Meet & Greets in DC on Aug 3 Filed By Gloria Brame, Ph.D. | July 31, 2011 11:30 AM http://www.bilerico.com/2011/07/youre_invited_meet_greets_in_dc_on_aug_3.php If I’ve seemed a little scarce around here lately, it’s because I am. My new book, , The Truth About Sex just came out. It’s my obsession! I have barely left the house in two years but I’m heading…
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español Depending on how you space it, VenusPlusX or Venus Plus X, it’s no accident that you may have stumbled over a novel by Theodore Sturgeon of the same name. Since first reading Venus Plus X in 1960, it has invoked a strong resonance with my own inner…
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…and The Model is Not the Action (Sex is not Gender)
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8 min read
For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… The field of General Semantics introduces patterns of thought required for success in computer programming and related subjects, and I’ve been struck by how much its basic ideas of cleaning up human thought by insisting on principles like “the map is not the territory” correspond to real life and all…
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The Name is not the Thing and…
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7 min read
For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… This is the story of the great change in the accepted understanding of human language that occurred in the last century and how it is forcing extensive public reevaluation of large bodies of “received wisdom.” In less than one century a logical/linguistic misconception has become a hallmark of ignorance and…
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Why sexual freedom is the bedrock of all freedoms
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2 min read
(También en Español) Our sexual pleasure response is completely individual. When we feel it, those precious moments, we experience unbridled exhilaration that is at the same time indescribable by mere words, even in great art or poetry. There is only one way to replicate this experience of unrestrained freedom and that is to recreate —…
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… The Newseum sits on Pennsylvania Ave. in the District of Columbia next door to the Canadian embassy about halfway from the White House to the Capitol. A magnificent architectural accomplishment in glass and some white metal (aluminum?), it contains a vast 7-story atrium. Everything that can be transparent is transparent.…
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… Religious myth has only degraded and inhibited human progress. Essentially all contemporary religions are myth based. Christianity fails the test of worth when it relies on Hebrew racial myth (the old testament) and Greek philosophical myth (the concept of the Christos and related ideas) as absolute truths. We know that…
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… On January 21, 2010, the 235-year lifetime of the first North American federal republic, which once called itself the United States of America, came to an abrupt end. On this date the Supreme Court of the nation issued an irrational and false ruling, in the so-called “Citizens United” case, born…
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… When I was growing up in Chattanooga in the 50s, I somehow acquired the belief that the United States of America was the best country in which to be born and live. I gave thanks to my god of the day I had been born an American, and wondered at…