ib art [mine]

After Babel

Having learnt how to scan to a certain size, I'm annoyed that I didn't go back and do it properly; the slight pixellation from the image compression is bothering me (couldn't be fucked doing it after having cleaned the specks off the existing too-big scan with a trackpad, go figure). Ho hum, will know for next time.


OH MY FUCKING GOD IT IS FUCKING FREEZING HERE
[/then go put the heating on, fool]

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"A recent anthology on postmodern sexualities, entitled (probably inevitably) Pomosexuals(Queen & Schimel 1997), begins with a remark on language. The editors recall that at the 1996 Lambda Literary Awards ceremony, a lesbian comic suggested that a new term was needed to replace the "lengthy and cumbersome yet politically correct tag currently used by and for our community: 'Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgendered, and Friends' ". The word the comic offered was "Sodomites." Why not? the editors wonder: "[i]t's certainly more succinct, and is actually less glib than it seems upon first reflection, for that is what most people assume LGBT&F actually means, anyway""