June 2011
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Where Did All This F*cking Evil Sh%t Come From?
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5 min read
For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español It is undeniable that there is often a lot of pain and suffering in a human lifetime. While individual experiences vary widely, over the course of a lifetime most people will experience instances when they are confronted with the reality of an apparently genuine evil. And this…
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#NNLGBT Photos & Videos
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Tomorrow we are turning our Netroots Nation LGBT caucus (#NNLGBT) into another strategy session that will build on our work yesterday, Wednesday’s LGBT pre-convention. But tonight (it’s late but still Thursday here in the Twin Cities), a special shout-out and gratitude to Carlos in DC for these great photos and videos from Wednesday. Enjoy. http://carlosqc.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/the-2011-netroots-nation-lgbt-netroots-connect-pre-conference-videos-photos/ So tired…
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Reporting Live from Netroots Nation 2011
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Dan and I are lucky to be attending Netroots Nation 2011 (#NN11) this week, especially the LGBT pre-convention all day today, organized by the illustrious Mike Rogers. NN11 is the in its sixth year and has grown geometrically to the several thousand bloggers and citizen journalists converging on the Minneapolis Convention Center right now. The LGBT…
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A DC Pride Photo
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Soaking in DC Pride, my thoughts drift in several directions. The first is topical, these pictures were snapped on P Street, just hours before the Parade kicked off, at the chain store, Lululemon Athletica. When asked, the store clerk said that this was just something they cooked up, not a…
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… Last week a truly amazing story of academic support for persecution of LGBT youth by “professional mental health researchers” came to light through the diligent work of Jim Burroway of Box Turtle Bulletin and Anderson Cooper of CNN. Briefly, both deal with investigations into the academic and professional life of George…
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Can I Transition to be a Transhuman?
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… También en español Of course you can. On a normal world, with decent human lifetimes, it would happen naturally as your personality developed; however, the social structures of present-day human society are intentionally organized and maintained to inhibit such personal growth, assuring a docile attitude to the social bullies who…
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We are our pride – Kushaba Moses Mworeko
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It was June 5, 1981, when the first cases of HIV were reported (CDC.gov). Yes, in the USA, this was referred to as a gay disease and to some people it still is. But to a person like me who comes from a place where the disease was and is heavily among heterosexuals, I have to…
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Transhumans Have Pastfathers
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… Human language attempts to encapsulate how and what we think about a subject and assign a word symbol to that specific encapsulation. Often, however, the more or less random choice of an exact word symbol, either in naming or translation, will change the implicit attitude of the reader to the…
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Can Atheism be True, Good, Beautiful, and Loving?
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… Of course it can. But first you have to sort out all the funny things about atheism. For example, there are as many varieties of self-proclaimed “atheism” and/or “agnosticism” as there are varieties of any other dogmatic religion. Certainly atheism deserves to be considered and recognized as a religion in…
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What Kind of Trans Are You?
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For more on Transhuman Erotic Freedom… There is a tremendous eruption of discussion, categorization, and disagreement going on now in the Trans community. Two excellent articles were published by Jillian Weiss and Mercedes Allen on Bilerico and have garnered an astounding number of comments. This is, of course, usually the case when anyone says anything about…