no room at all for any other thought

(Taking a break from endless photo-uploading and sudden bouts of sleep-collapse to clear some tabs...)

Signal-boosting first! Via my tumbleroll, s.e. smith at FWD/Forward: Dear Imprudence: When to Out a Transgendered Dater? How About Never? There's really nothing I can add to what's said/linked there, except possibly a RAGE WARNING for the quoted letter/"advice" (printed in the New York Times, ugh >:|).

Not remotely comparable, via various people in my circle: Rhetorically Constructed, or: We All Write Like White Men. You know, while I may not have words for the larger issues, I can at least stand up in the face of the smaller ones. Yes, this is "just" an internet meme, but a whole lot of other chromatic/minority experiences seem to be "just" ours, too- voices, stories, histories unremembered and unacknowledged. Someday when I have enough stillness in me to say slightly-less-inadequate things, I will need to write... but until then, some more linkspam:

+ ephemere has some interesting thoughts on apologies vs. costs.

+ Via jhameia, Muslimah Media Watch has an open letter to Maureen Dowd.

+ Via littlebutfierce, Storytelling as a Radical Act.

+ Via zahrawithaz [here], Eccentric Yoruba posted gorgeous pictures of precolonial West African hairstyles!

+ Attention A:TLA fans: The amazing such_heights and eruthros have created white_lotus for all our fannish needs! Plus, inaugural post-series flash challenge OMG YAY. *\o/*

+ Also, yasaman has a linkspam of gorgeous A:TLA fanart, as does laceblade here (TOPH!!!!), and sqbr has a one-panel comic of Teo learning to fly over at the AO3 in response to one of my Festibility prompts, so. Go forth and ogle! :D