Slashdot reviews China Mountain Zhang

May 12, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via Tom Becker ] Slashdot reviews one of my favorite novels of the 1990’s, the Tiptree Award winning China Mountain Zhang. It’s the story of a young Chinese-American man trying to accept and understand his gayness, and work his way through a system which seems stacked against his becoming an engineer. I first read [...]

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Deirdre McCloskey’s Diary

December 3, 1999 – 12:00 am

[ via Luke McGuff ] I mentioned Deirdre McCloskey previously, the M to F transexual economist. She’s writing the diary in Slate for this week, and talking about moving from Iowa to Chicago.

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McCloskey’s Transformation

November 21, 1999 – 12:00 am

Donald McCloskey did for economics what Steven Jay Gould did for evolutionary biology: they both understood that their peculiar avenues of study are about narratives. I keep a copy of McCloskey’s The Writing of Economics at my desk. Two years ago, I was in Madison before WisCon, the annual SF convention. There was a reception [...]

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MSRRT Newsletter: Library Alternatives

January 12, 1999 – 12:00 am

This resource is a find!
“Now in its 11th year, MSRRT Newsletter is a source of reviews, commentary, and networking info for library workers. Issued in print under the auspices of the Minnesota Library Association, the newsletter’s scope
includes zines and periodicals covering such topics as economic justice, ethnic concerns, queer culture,
feminism, sexuality and body image, environmentalism, [...]

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A Hard Week in Bay Area History

November 23, 1998 – 12:00 am

A rough week in Bay Area history twenty years ago. First, the followers of Jim Jones’ Peoples’ Temple movement (founded in Oakland) kill US Representative Ron Dellums and commit mass suicide. A few days later, former San Francisco Supervisor bursts into the office of Mayor George Moscone killing him and Supervisor Harvey Milk.
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Tony Kushner’s Editorial on the Murder of Matthew Shepard

November 9, 1998 – 12:00 am

Powerful Stuff.
A lot of people worry these days about the death of civil discourse, and would say that I ought not call the Pope a homicidal liar, nor (to be ecumenical about it) the orthodox rabbinate homicidal liars, nor Trent Lott a disgusting opportunistic hatemonger. But I worry a lot less about the death of [...]

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Log Cabin Republicans Post Mortem on the Election

November 4, 1998 – 12:00 am

The fight for the soul of the GOP is on.

The 1998 elections were a dramatic illustration of two Republican parties — a failing Congressional party and its allies tied irrevocably to the religious right and losing ground year after year, and a thriving Governors’ party, where inclusion, problem-solving and compassion are winning by huge margins [...]

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First Openly Gay Woman to Win Congressional Seat

November 3, 1998 – 12:00 am

It’s not quite official, but Tammy Baldwin, with the backing of Labor and two of Wisconsin’s major newspapers appears to have won the House seat vacated by ex-newscaster Scott Klug.
This expatriate Wisconsinite says “YAY TAMMY!”
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