September 12th, 2008 maggie
I am writing a piece for the Society for the Preservation and Promotion of Sapphic Social Mores that’s full of one liners responding to the f-ed up things people say about femme id. We also want to include responses to the stuff people say about butch-femme relationships – things like “butch-femme is sexist/misogyist/anachronistic”.
How do you respond, especially when you really don’t want to “get into it” with someone? I think I natter on about personal choices and personal preferences.
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September 8th, 2008 Sassafras
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My partner had the misfortune of waking op on Monday morning to the mo
st unwelcome discovery that we have bedbugs (oh the joys of NYC being infested with them). Of course it was a holiday, and of course our management company is useless. After spending two days on the phone fighting with our management company, learning that our entire building is infested, that some of our neighbors REFUSE to allow it to be treated, and the treatment that the management provides is ineffective according to industry standards we resigned ourselves to paying large amounts of money out of pocket to take care of the situation with a private exterminator. Oh, this might be a good time to add that our apartment is meticulously clean hence a lot of our confusion as to how these little monsters got here in the first place. We have now learned that they are capable of getting into a space via electrical outlets!!!!!!!! Read the rest of this entry »
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