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Me on Choice Feminism at Bristol 24/7
June 1, 2015 ~ Cheryl
I have a new feminism column up at Bristol 24/7. This one is a bit theoretical, but basically it is all about one of the was in which white media feminists try to police the behavior of other women. So it would be "Up Yours, New Statesman" again. You can find the column here. Do please at least click through. As far as I know, I'm the only trans person in the country who gets to write a regular column on feminism. That sort of thing needs to be encouraged.
Talking of ever trans person's least favorite newspaper, Amanda & Neil have an interesting blog post up about the process of editing their special edition. The whole thing appears to have been a little fraught, but at least they did print Roz's poem, and they let Roz perform it live at the Hackney Empire gig last Thursday. I suspect that one or two people chocked on their lobster & Bolly over that.
Trans Kids Wrap-Up
The media onslaught on the trans kids issue continued for a few days after my last post on the subject. I had intended to say more about it at the time, but other things got in the way. I'm coming back to it now because there are a couple of important points I wanted to make.
First up, when you are reading any of these "debate" articles in which a journalist presents what appears to be two sides of the argument, always look for who gets the last word, because that is almost certainly the side that the journalist wants you to think "won" the "debate". The article will probably be structured to lead you to that conclusion.
As an example, check out this piece from the Telegraph which purports to give advice to parents whose kids exhibit gender-variant behavior. The articles talks to Mermaids and a gender specialist, but gives a lot of space, and the last word, to one Linda Blair, a clinical psychologist, who encourages parents not to "overreact" — the journalist's word, not hers.
As I noted in my post on the Victoria Derbyshire program, around 75% of the kids who see doctors for gender variance issues do indeed "grow out of it". However, that leaves 25% who do not. Slowly but surely, the gender specialists are learning to tell who needs more help and who doesn't, but the kids' own testimony is found to be a strong indicator of behavior. The more insistent a child is that they are the "wrong" gender, the more likely they are to need to transition later in life.
The article states (without quote marks so I am assuming these are the words of the journalist, Radhika Sanghani):
However, the most important thing for parents to remember is that there are no real 'warning signs' their child will become transgender or transsexual.
This is flat out wrong.
Furthermore, consider this scenario: suppose your child exhibited possible signs of a dangerous disease. There's a 75% chance that it is a false alarm, but a 25% chance that there is something seriously wrong which, if it is not treated in time, could lead to death, and at best lifelong disfigurement. What would you think of someone who advised you not to overreact, and to wait and see if the child recovered on their own?
The other piece of coverage I wanted to point you at is an episode of BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour. It is probably gone from iPlayer by now, but there is a transcript available here.
Before reading that, however, you might want to check out this blog post by CN Lester which explains how the Woman's Hour staff tried to recruit CN to be the anti-trans person in a debate on the validity of treating trans kids. There's little doubt that Woman's Hour intended to run a "debate" show, and that they wanted the anti-trans side to win.
And if you need further evidence, go and read the transcript and pay close attention to the questions that Jenni Murray poses.
The eventual show had the anti side taken by Finn MacKay, who happens to have just written a book on radical feminism. Because there's nothing quite like arguing against someone's right to exist when you have a book to promote, right? Finn is a lecturer at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Doubtless our paths will cross at some point.
Actually, almost everything that Finn says on the program is stuff I agree with. Jenni Murray is much more obviously anti-trans. However, the program is presented in such a way as to suggest that parents who take their kids to a gender clinic are obsessed with a need for those kids to conform to the gender binary. Michelle Bridgman of Gendered Intelligence does her best to counter this idea, but she isn't allowed much space to explain.
The truth of the matter is that trans people have waged a long and exhausting campaign against the medical establishment to try to prevent them from forcing gender-normative behavior upon us. Being trans isn't about sexuality, and it isn't about gender performance either. If all someone wants to do is wear pretty dresses, that person will be happy to go through life as a cross-dresser. They don't need medical transition, and they should not be encouraged to seek it. Nor is someone who does transition medically required to be gender-stereotypical in their behavior afterwards. Presenting trans people as being obsessed with being gender conformant is just one of the lies that radical feminists tell about us.
As for kids, it can be hard to tell which way they will go, but gender specialists are getting better at recognizing who needs help. In the meantime treatment is carefully staged so as to give the kids every opportunity to back out. For those that don't, there is increasing clinical evidence that the use of hormone blockers provides significant benefits.
The medical evidence is very clear. And yet journalists persist in scare-mongering and arguing that trans people should be denied treatment. What's worse is that they do this for "entertainment".
And Now Radio 4 Does Trans Kids
Yesterday afternoon BBC Radio 4's PM program ran a short segment on trans kids. It is available on iPlayer, and the trans coverage is about 22 minutes in.
Once again the program seems fairly positive on the surface, but is let down by careless (or possibly deliberate) framing. Helen Belcher's son is utterly charming in his brief interview on life as the child of a trans parent, and the head teacher of the school interviewed is clearly trying hard to do the right thing. The young trans girl they are talking about appears to have had a positive experience of transitioning at school (at least thus far).
But look at this tweet from the journalist who did the interview.
https://twitter.com/Helena_J_Lee/status/585521908252278784
The key phrase there is "boy who wants to be a girl". As with Victoria Derbyshire's show, this is framing the narrative as someone who is "really" a boy and who is making some sort of lifestyle choice to live a fantasy.
Things go pear-shaped at the end of the segment as well when Helena Lee talks about government guidance. I guess she's probably just quoting the Department of Education, but if you use the term "sexuality" in the context of trans kids you are either pushing the idea that being trans is somehow a sexual preference (and therefore not an appropriate matter for pre-pubescent children to learn about), or you are saying that your LGBT policy is in fact an LGB policy and nothing will actually be done for trans people. In the case of the Department of Education it probably means both.
I know I'm harping on a lot about this, but it is really important. It is great that trans folk and their allies are getting to speak for themselves rather the being judged by experts, but if the presenters of this programs insist on always putting forward an anti-trans line, either for "balance" or "controversy" then most cis listeners will still come away thinking that the anti-trans line is correct.
And that whole thing about trans people being "really" their assigned-at-birth gender, and therefore people who are living a lie; we know what that leads to, don't we. It leads to murder.
Get Your Diversity Here
March 5, 2015 ~ Cheryl
One of the best online news sources around at the moment is the Media Diversified website (which tweets as @WritersOfColour). The great thing about it is that all of the articles are written by actual people of color, so when it is talking about PoC lives, PoC politics, and what is happening in countries inhabited largely by PoC it tends to be far better informed, and far more accurate, than the pontifications of the white chattering classes who infest British and American newspapers.
You would have thought that if newspapers editors wanted informed comment on something like the Ebola epidemic, or attitudes amongst Muslim girls in the UK, or the controversy over gang rapes in India, that they would go to someone who actually knew what they were talking about. But no, they almost always trot out some well known white columnist who is allowed to pontificate on the issue without any requirement to have knowledge of anything other than their own ill-formed opinion.
However, understanding their own culture, and things that go on in countries to which they have close ties, is not the only area where people of color can add knowledge. They may be doctors, or physicists, or linguists, or psychologists, or literary critics. Sadly the chances of their being called upon to provide expert commentary on such subjects is vanishingly small. The media almost always looks for a white man to be their chosen expert.
According to the latest Creative Skillset 2012 Employment Census, employment in the creative media industries grew by more than 4,000 between 2009 and 2012. However, during this same period the number of BAME people in the industry fell by 2,000.
Not to be deterred, the Media Diversified folks have set up a Directory of Experts where non-white people can register their skills and media organizations can look for a suitable expert. The Directory was officially launched today. I haven't been able to test it — I'm not eligible to be listed and I can't afford the fees to access it — but I understand that it has been getting tested by people from major news outlets, and there's a quote from someone from Sky News in the press release.
"News channels have become increasingly aware of the importance of hearing from a diverse range of contributors. There have been visible improvements in getting more women onto news programmes, but more work needs to be done to cover other types of diversity. Having a directory of experts is a valuable tool in alerting producers to a wider pool of contributors." — Tami Hoffman, Sky News, Interviews Editor
If any of you folks are in search of expert opinion, you can find out more here.
Now, when are we going to have a directory of expert trans people, eh?
Free Speech Becomes Newspeak
February 17, 2015 ~ Cheryl
Issues of freedom of speech are all the rage in traditional and social media these days. As this is a political question, there is invariably a lot of subtext surrounding what is actually said. People say loudly that they are in favour of "free speech", but what they mean by that can vary considerably, and it is wise to understand the issues before offering immediate support to such a call.
This particular post was prompted by a letter in The Observer on Saturday (it is dated Sunday, but it went online on Saturday morning) in which a posse of the great and good decried what they view as a creeping atmosphere of censorship in British universities. This in turn led to lots of people getting very angry on social media, and people getting very upset as a result.
Much of this involves the issue of "no-platforming", by which student unions say that certain people whom they view as purveyors of hate speech and other objectionable views are not allowed to speak on union premises. This sort of thing has been common in student unions for decades — certainly since I was at university, which is so long ago that we called the study of dinosaurs agricultural economics. I am pretty sure that some of the people who signed that letter will have happily marched around their campuses chanting "no platform for racists and fascists". The difference these days is that the people potentially being no-platformed are people with a track record of spreading hatred against trans people and sex workers.
It is worth noting that no-platforming is not censorship. It does not say that the people concerned have no right to their opinions, or to express those opinions, it simply says that they should not have the right to express those views on university premises. There are plenty of places where one can spread vile views about trans people and sex workers, the Guardian/Observer being one of them.
Also, of course, one's access to platforms increases dramatically if one is white, middle-class, cisgendered, Oxbridge educated and so on. If you want to see how British society effectively no-platforms people of color I recommend that you follow @WritersOfColour on Twitter. They publish some really good articles.
Let's now deal with the substance of the complaints. Sarah Brown has a comprehensive take-down of the various issues it raises here, but I'll go through them briefly here.
The comedian, Kate Smurthwhaite, was not no-platformed. Her gig was cancelled because only 8 tickets had been sold.
Germaine Greer was not no-platformed at Cambridge. There was discussion between the Cambridge Union (which is a debating society, not the Student's Union) and student feminists about whether she should be invited to speak. In the event she was. The students organized a rival event, which they have a perfect right to do. Greer used her platform to abuse trans people, which rather proves the point as to why the students didn't want her to be invited in the first place.
Then there is Rupert Read, the Green Party candidate for Cambridge. He hasn't been no-platformed either. What did happen is that a bunch of trans activists protested against his views, and some demanded that he be de-selected by the Greens. This happened because of views about trans people that he expressed publicly. I got told on Saturday night that these views were "not transphobic", and yet what Read was effectively doing was calling for the repeal of the Gender Recognition Act.
The key point about the GRA is that it gives (some) trans people the right to be legally recognized in our preferred gender. Read's position was that we should not have that right, and that "women" (a group he clearly felt not to include me) should have the right to exclude trans women from female-only spaces if they so wished, specifically bathrooms. How that can be construed as not transphobic is beyond me.
Support for trans people has long been a prominent feature of Green politics, and to see one of their candidates expressing firmly anti-trans views was very worrying. What happened with Read is that the leadership of the Greens took him aside and explained that what he was saying was against party policy. He has since apologized and retracted his remarks. If that is censorship, then so is all party politics. Suggesting, as the Observer letter does, that trans people should not be allowed to challenge political parties on their support for issues directly pertaining to us is very worrying and deeply undemocratic.
Of course there has long been a view amongst prominent left-wing activists that they have fulfilled their moral obligation to trans people by allowing us to dress as we please and have medical assistance to look the way we want. They will then insist that this doesn't mean that trans women are "really" women, or that trans men exist, and that holding such views does not make them in any way transphobic. My opinion of such sophistry is not printable. We have not forgotten that the one piece of UK legislation that makes discrimination against trans people legal was authored by the Labour Party.
The only actual case of no-platforming I know of involving the people mentioned by the letter is a single incident in which Julie Bindel was banned from speaking at Sheffield University. This is hardly a tidal wave of totalitarianism, deserving of a mass letter to the national media.
Of course the Sheffield students are perfectly within their rights to deny Bindel a platform if they wish. Student politics is not a dictatorship, and if the actual student body disagrees they can vote the current leadership out. Nor has Bindel been prevented from holding a meeting elsewhere in Sheffield, or writing about the situation in national newspapers, who seem only to keen to pay her for her opinions, no matter how vile they are.
I don't know why Sheffield decided to deny Bindel a platform, but I suspect that it is something to do with her support for "reparative therapy" for trans people — the sort of psychological bullying that caused Leelah Alcorn to take her own life. The letter, very disingenuously, says that none of the people no-platformed have ever advocated violence against trans people. The only one of those people that was actually no-platformed is someone who has indeed advocated grossly inhuman treatment of trans people. I understand that some of those mentioned advocate things that are deeply dangerous to sex workers as well.
To understand why the letter unleashed a Twitter storm you also have to understand the subtext that it contains, and why trans people will have seen it as saying much more than it actually did.
The point here is that trans activists are for the most part fed up of being asked to debate our right to exist, our right to be considered sane, our right not to be labelled "rapists" simply because we are trans women, and our right not to have to respond to accusations that we are can never be "real" women because our vaginas are too smelly (the Jeffreys position) or not smelly enough (the Greer position). Frankly we have better things to do with our lives.
Nevertheless, people do love a good bust-up. We don't throw people to the lions any more, but we do what are known as "ambush debates". What happens here is that you invite someone from a minority group along to talk about their experiences, and when they get there they discover that they will be expected to "debate" against someone who hates people like them, and that they will have to spend the entire "debate" responding to lies and insults from the professional hater.
Of course if you decline to be part of such a "debate" then the people organizing it will probably cancel, because they will be deprived of their entertainment. Trans people have discovered that if you use this tactic, and the event is indeed cancelled, then we will be accused of having "no-platformed" or "censored" the person lined up to insult us. This happened to Sarah Brown when she declined to be on a panel with Julie Bindel (something which turned into an appalling example of real world as well as online bullying of Sarah); and it happened to Paris Lees when she declined to be on a Newsnight "debate".
So when someone says that they are against "no-platforming", what trans people tend to hear is that they are in favor of having us put in metaphorical stocks while someone like Bindel or Greer throws insults at us. To the trans community, saying that you are against "no-platforming" comes across in the same way as saying that you are concerned about ethics in games journalism.
Next up there is the way that Twitter storms work. Soon after the whole thing blew up I was starting to hear stories that trans activists had unleashed a storm of hate messages against those who had signed the letter, and that this somehow proved what awful creatures trans people are.
It doesn't work like that.
Twitter is an ideal vehicle for spontaneous mass protest by people normally denied a voice. You don't have to organize a Twitter storm, and unless you have vastly more followers than any trans activist you probably can't. They happen quite naturally, because lots of people have access. I have no idea who was the first person to tweet about that letter, but it is entirely likely that it was just the first trans person to look at the Guardian website that day. I heard about it from some young trans people I follow. They are not particularly activists, but they do get angry. One of them, I know, has been thrown out of her family home by her parents because she is trans. People like that get angry easily.
Once a storm gets going, of course, everyone joins in. I'm sure that a few trans activists will have said some fairly vile things. But our cause will have been adopted by people with a grudge against some of the people who signed the letter, by people doing it "for the lols", and by sock-puppet accounts set up by the TERFS for the purpose of discrediting us. That's the way that Twitter works.
In addition, prominent trans activists will have been targeted with abusive tweets. That too is part of the way Twitter works. But apparently that doesn't matter, because it is only the feelings of white, middle-class media celebrities that are important.
The solution to all of this is not to blame the minority group that is seen to be sending abusive tweets, but to demand that Twitter become better at dealing with abuse. And in the meantime to use the "block" button.
Social media has made modern politics rather complicated to navigate. I can quite understand how some older people have difficulty with it. However, it is part of the way we live these days. If you want to carry on having a political voice, you have to understand it. And if you are going to sign up to a high profile statement that is deeply critical of a minority group, you have to understand what that statement is saying.
I don't expect that everyone who signed that letter in the Observer will be aware of this subtlety, and indeed there has been some suggestion that what they were asked to sign is very different from what finally appeared in the paper. So hopefully some of them will be thinking, not just about how they have been abused online, but how they have been used, and why.
Less of the Freak Show, Please
December 9, 2014 ~ Cheryl
It is fairly rare that I get absolutely furious with someone on Twitter, but if I do it is almost always with the LGBT History Month account (@LGBTHM). They have a poor track record of insensitive posts about trans people. Today's tweet was a classic:
Stunning Before And After Photos Depict The Journey Of Gender Confirmation Surgery
I don't know what that says to you, but to me it screams loud and clear, "FREAK SHOW! COME AND GAWP!!!"
There was a link in that tweet to an article in the Huffington Post. This one. It is the sort of coverage of trans issues that makes me want to beat my head on my desk until it bleeds.
Ostensibly, of course, it is all very sensitive. The article talks about "respect", "ambition" and "empowerment". Practically it is all about click bait, and the aforementioned freak show.
It is entirely plausible, of course, that the people in those photos are proud of what they have done and empowered by it. I know that other trans people are very comfortable with "before" photos being displayed (and see the footnote about genderfluid people). But I tend to view such material with some suspicion when it is framed using a narrative written by the person making the pictures rather than the trans people themselves.
For example, think back to My Transsexual Summer. Most people agree that the series did great things for the trans community. It was certainly far less exploitative than most television about trans people. But the series was by no means a bed of roses for the stars. Check out this interview with Fox, in which he explains some of the awful things that were done to him by the production crew.
The people photographed for that HuffPo article are all from Cuba, which is not the most affluent place in the world. My first question on seeing the article was to ask how many of them posed for those pictures willingly, and how many did it because they were being offered a lot of money to do so.
Even if some people are willing to pose for such photos, however, it doesn't mean that making them, and posting them in that way, is a sensible thing to do. The "before and after" photo is a staple of tabloid coverage of trans issues. They do that because of the freak show aspect of it, and also because it panders to transphobes by giving them an image of what the trans person "really" looks like. The "after" photo is seen, if not always presented, as a picture of a person in disguise.
Huffington Post knows this, and for all their weasel words about respect and empowerment, the headline makes it very clear that this is a freak show article.
Much of this comes back to issues I covered in the article I wrote for Holdfast recently. Cis people are fascinated by the transformation aspect of trans people. If they write about us, if they make films or photos of us, what they want to show is the change. That's not treating us as people, it is treating us as objects for their entertainment. There's far more to trans people than that, but who cares, right? The fact that we are ordinary people is not news, the fact that we can be presented as freaks is.
In any case, many trans people are deeply traumatised by images of themselves pre-transition. That's what Gender Dysphoria means: you are distressed by your body. I understand that some people might be proud of their transition, but those people need to be aware that by encouraging "before and after" photos they are putting pressure on everyone else to do the same thing. The very first things most journalists ask for when doing a trans article are your "real" name and a photo of what you "really" look like. Except of course they'll say your "former" name and a "before" photo, so it doesn't sound quite as exploitative.
Don't encourage them, please.
Even if all is well with that article, however, and all of the people pictured are delighted with what was done, nothing excuses the headline. "Stunning Before And After Photos"? That's pure, exploitative click bait. That much at least should be obvious to anyone.
On Twitter, of course, we are limited to 140 characters. There may be a link as part of that, but by no means everyone who reads your tweet will click through. On Twitter, therefore, we have to be very careful about repeating click bait headlines. If you are going to link to a problematic article, using that article's exceedingly problematic headline as your tweet is not wise.
Footnote: someone is going to read this as say that it is deeply offensive to genderfluid people. That's not the intention. If an important part of your identity is your ability to manifest more than one type of gendered appearance, by all means go for it. But that HuffPo article was very specifically about people who had undergone gender confirmation surgery. I did consider using "transsexual" in place of "trans" to make this clear, but it's not a very good word and I try to avoid it these days.
A Little Civil Rights Campaigning
November 13, 2014 ~ Cheryl
If you listened to last week's Women's Outlook show you will have heard from a very articulate young man called David McLeod. David is something of a legend in the Bristol Afro-Caribbean community, having successfully won a racial discrimination case against his then employers, a large local school. The short version is that David, having been doing a job very well for some time, was passed over for promotion in favor of a white person with fewer qualifications, for a job that was all about outreach to ethnic minority communities. The tribunal found evidence of other instances of racial discrimination at the school as well, and in the wake of this the head teacher, Gill Kelly, decided to look for alternative employment.
You will have heard me rant before about how anti-discrimination laws are often toothless. Sure David won his case, but it will be very difficult for him to get a new job. What HR department is going to recommend hiring someone who sued his former employer for discrimination? Ms. Kelly, on the other hand, was spared the indignity of being fired for the lapses that took place on her watch. And now we learn that she has been given a high profile consulting job by the City Council's education department. That, dear readers, is what privilege is all about.
We talked about this with David after the show last week and Paulette, being Paulette, was immediately organizing a protest and phoning all of her media contacts. I volunteered to contact my colleagues at Bristol 24/7. I wasn't sure what to expect as they are a relatively new outfit and I've not actually met any of them, but I was delighted to see them run a big story about David yesterday.
It gets better. The BBC picked up the story, even crediting us for breaking it. And today we ran a new article featuring legendary Bristol civil rights campaigner, Paul Stevenson.
I am very pleased. I don't know whether anything concrete will come of all this. Institutional racism is a very hard thing to break down. But at least the city's new media is taking a stand, and forcing some of the old media to take notice. The Post, of course, seems to have missed the story entirely.
I Talk Women in IT at Bristol 24/7
October 20, 2014 October 20, 2014 ~ Cheryl
In what I expect to be the first in a series of monthly columns on women's issues, I have done this year's Ada Lovelace Day post (slightly late), at Bristol 24/7, a brand new magazine dedicated to life in Bristol. You can read it here.
Eyeballs are, naturally, appreciated. It is a new magazine that needs to establish credibility in the eyes of advertisers. Also I'm sure that my editor will be keeping a keen eye on whose columns draw the most traffic. I want to be able to do well without resorting to writing click bait.
Today on Ujima – Space Pirates!
August 12, 2014 ~ Cheryl
Today I'm delighted to have Huw Powell (Gareth's younger brother) in the studio to talk about his book, Spacejackers. There will be thrills, adventure, piracy! As scurvy a bunch of knaves as ever set foot in a radio studio.
Also on the show I have a massage therapist. I could probably do with taking him to Worldcon with me, because you sure need a massage after one of those.
I'm not 100% sure what's on for the second hour. If we don't have anyone in the studio, we might just talk a little about media harassment and the spurious "balance" arguments used by the BBC and others to justify broadcasting hate speech.
On Depression and Suicide
The desperately sad news about Robin Williams today has resulted in a flood of comment on social media. Much of it, inevitably, is foul. Much more, however, is well intentioned but simplistic. Depression, like so many things in life, is complicated. Neat maxims that fit into 140 characters cannot and will not be suitable for all cases.
One thing I'd like to note is that sometimes talking isn't enough. Heck, I went through several days of being unable to talk. Drugs helped. It may well be that I would have got better without the drugs. I haven't done a control experiment to find out, and I have no intention of doing so. But I was very grateful for the drugs at the time, and I did get better.
The other important point is that people are not always just depressed. They may well be depressed for a reason. A September 2012 study found that 48% of British trans people had attempted suicide (sample size, 889). A similar study from January this year found that the number for the USA was 41% (sample size, 6,456). Those people were probably depressed (though maybe not clinically so), but that wasn't all that was wrong.
When trans people attempt suicide it is often because they are facing being homeless and unemployed. It may be because they have been disowned by their family and abandoned by their friends. It may be because they have been bullied and humiliated by social services staff when they asked for help. It may be because they are afraid to leave home because of the harassment they get from their neighbors. And, for example in the case of Lucy Meadows, it may be because of vile things that have been said about them in the national media.
This is why what the BBC is up to at the moment is utterly reprehensible. Last week on Woman's Hour they gave a lot of air time to a notorious "radical feminist". Sure they had a trans women on as well for "balance", but it is hard to get your point across when what your opponent says is full of lies and distortions; and doubly hard when what you say is constantly called into question by suggestions that you are dishonest, dangerously violent and mentally ill.
Last night Newsnight tried to pull a similar ambush. The trans people involved (including Paris Lees) declined to participate once they realized that they were being set up for the modern equivalent of bear baiting. This is now apparently being spun by media "feminists" as "intolerant", censorship and even "aggression" on behalf of Paris and her fellow intended victim.
So yeah, sometimes people do commit suicide because they are clinically depressed, and they can be helped by drugs and psychiatry. Sometimes, though, they commit suicide because their simple right to exist is constantly under question in the national media, which quickly leads to harassment in daily life. There is no point telling such people that they are wasting their lives, and that things will get better, unless you actually do something to ensure that their lives are likely to get better.
The good news is that things actually have got better. My life, since transition, has been far happier and more successful than I ever expected. Social change has been rapid. Change, however, inevitably brings backlash. If we don't want trans people to kill themselves, we need the media to stop using them as punch bags for entertainment.
Today on Ujima – Vicars, Media, Arms Trade & Mayfest
Very briefly as I'm on the road in Oxford and have a work conference to attend tomorrow.
First half hour: Caroline Symcox talking about God, being a trainee vicar, her book and being married to Paul Cornell.
Second half hour: The Bristol Cable on their plans for independent local media.
Listen to those here.
Third half hour: Students from UWE protesting against having arms fairs held on their campus.
Fourth half hour: Sarah Thorp from Room 212 talking about the Gloucester Road community's Mayfest celebrations, including Jack-in-the-Green and various other pagan survivals.
Remembering The Missing
April 4, 2014 ~ Cheryl ~ 3 Comments
One of the things I always make a point of emphasizing when I host a Trans Day of Remembrance ceremony is that while the statistics we have represent actual killings, we have no idea how many trans people take their own lives because they are unable to face the bullying and discrimination that is a daily part of their lives. In the UK, suicides are likely to outnumber murders. Last year we all heard of the case of Lucy Meadows. Today I received another tragic piece of news.
Jordan Howe was just 19 years old when she ended her life. She was from Northern Ireland, a huge Lady Gaga fan and a talented DJ. The picture above was drawn by her to try to express her feelings about being a trans girl, and is taken from this Tumblr memorial by one of her friends. The Lady Gaga fan community has also rallied round.
According to my source, an Irish activist, the local paper misgendered Jordan in reporting her death, and repeated some of the slurs flung at her by bullies.
And people wonder why trans folk are so angry all of the time…
Introducing The Bristol Cable
After the show yesterday I had a meeting with a couple of young lads from a very promising alternative media initiative. The Bristol Cable bills itself as a citizen media co-op. That is, it will be local news, by local people, for local people. That is as opposed to local-ish news largely content-farmed by a national organization that owns many "local" newspapers and is itself part-owned by the Daily Mail, which is what we (and many other British cities) currently have. Alon and Adam turned out to be very personable and full of big ideas. You'll get to hear more from them on April 23rd when I have them on the radio show, and there's an in-depth article about them today on journalism.co.uk, but I wanted to write about them now because they have a crowdfunding initiative going that had a deadline at the end of next week. The money is being used in part to fund a series of free workshops for local people that will help teach them journalism skills. It all sounds very promising.
One of the things I like about the Bristol Cable team is that they are not all white. Around 94% of UK journalists are white and, as Christina Zaba said on the radio show last week, the increasing cost of education is making that situation worse rather than better. Media Diversified, the organization behind the excellent Writers of Colour Twitter feed, is also running a crowdfunding campaign, in this case to help create a directory of minority ethnic experts who can be made available to the media. If you don't feel that supporting a Bristol initiative is appropriate for you, maybe that one will appeal.
Today on Ujima: Media Diversity & Airships
March 26, 2014 March 26, 2014 ~ Cheryl
I'm delighted to report that the Women's Outlook show has been back on air today. That was a great relief to all concerned.
Today's show was mainly about media diversity issues. That was specifically with respect to women, but we did also cover race issues and trans & intersex issues. A whole hour and a half was devoted to this, with a rotating list of guests in the studio:
Darryl Bullock, owner of The Spark
Christina Zaba from the National Union of Journalists
Mike Jempson from Mediawise
Tim Pemberton, Managing Editor of BBC Radio Bristol (who is black – yay Bristol!)
Paul Hassan, one of the Ujima Directors
Paulette hosted the first hour, and I did the final half hour of this bit. We covered a lot of different issues. Here are a few things worthy of note.
One of the best points made all show was when Christina noted that with access to education getting so much more expensive media diversity is likely to go down, not up.
I'm very pleased that Mediawise is producing a handbook on LGBTQI issues (I understand that Christine Burns is involved). Personally I'm prepared to allow journalists a fair amount of slack, and am happy to do education. (I have a lot of sympathy with this piece from today's HuffPo, though I am sure that Piers Morgan, and even more so Caleb Hannan, knew exactly what they were doing). Of course it is often the people who think they are progressive who have the most to learn. Anyone care to tell me what Darryl got wrong?
I'm also very keen to learn more about The Bristol Cable. Their workshops look great.
Tim was very impressive. He's very corporate, of course, but he knows the right things to say.
I got to mention things like the VIDA Count and the lack of SF&F by women in Waterstones.
For the final half hour I had Roz and Jo in the studio to talk about Airship Shape & Bristol Fashion. Fun was had.
Paulette's not as keen on music as me, especially as we had so many high profile guests to talk to, but we did manage to get some in. Here's the playlist.
Lady Gaga – Paparazzi
Michael Jackson – Leave Me Alone
Steely Dan – Barrytown
Don Henley – Dirty Laundry
Amanda Palmer – Leeds United (because I'm not allowed to play Map of Tasmania)
Led Zeppelin – Whole Lot of Love
You can listen to the show via our Listen Again feature. The first hour is here, and the second hour here.
Back On Air Monday @UjimaRadio
Ujima Radio chairman, Roger Griffith, has posted on Facebook that the station will be back on air on Monday (March 24th). Thanks are due to The Utilities Warehouse for being willing to work with us to get power restored as quickly as possible, to Mayor George Ferguson for his personal intervention in the case, and of course to all of you lot for asking George for help on our behalf. Well done, people!
Wednesday's show will be mainly a Women And The Media special. Paulette has arranged for a number of special guests including Christina Zaba, who looks very interesting. For the final half hour, from 13:30 to 14:00, we'll be joined by Jo Hall and Roz Clarke who will talk about Airship Shape and Bristol Fashion.
Secret Trans Cabal Denies Owning CNN
February 24, 2014 ~ Cheryl ~ 1 Comment
In a statement made from a hidden volcano base in the South Pacific, the Secret Trans Cabal has denied that it purchased a controlling share in CNN in order to have Piers Morgan's show on the TV channel axed.
At a press conference in New York the tearful Morgan (14) had alleged that wealthy trans activists, angry about his treatment of Janet Mock, had bought up shares in the media company and bullied the board of CNN into dropping his show with terrorist threats, including the possible use of girl cooties against male board members.
Morgan (who was born a boy and is rumored to have remained one) angrily denied suggestions that he did not have the balls to go up against the MSNBC show hosted by lesbian anchor, Rachel Maddow. "Whether or not I have undergone puberty has no bearing on my ability to do my job," said Morgan after several minutes sucking on a baby's dummy to compose himself. "My private life should be allowed to remain private. It's not fair that I should be treated in the same way that I treat my guests."
Morgan also denied that his show had been cancelled because CNN was embarrassed by revelations that he had once been the editor of British tabloid newspaper. "I'm not ashamed of my past," sobbed Morgan. "I did what I had to do because I needed the money. People have no idea how much lobster and bolly lunches cost these days. They should have more sympathy for oppressed minority groups such as me."
In a separate statement the Secret Trans Cabal also denied 17 counts of having Julie Bindel dis-invited from feminist conferences.
How To Interview A Trans Woman #GirlsLikeUs
Last week you may have seen quite a lot of angry tweetage about Piers Morgan's disrespectful ambushing of Janet Mock on his chat show. Morgan will doubtless claim that prurient sensationalism is the only way that trans issues can be covered in the media (because, ewwwwwww!, right?). Well he's wrong, and here to prove the point is Marc Lamont Hill doing a magnificent job of getting the best out of his guest and educating his audience.
Do watch it all the way through. There's a bit at the end that will cause Piers Morgan to blow his tiny little mind.
Oh, and to all those white trans activists in the States who are going after Janet and Laverne Cox, kindly STFU. Janet and Laverne are the best thing that has happened to trans advocacy in a long time. You'd think that we, of all people, could manage a little intersectionality, but there's always someone more interested in their own position than getting the job done.
Saint Panti
February 9, 2014 ~ Cheryl ~ 1 Comment
If you follow anyone living in Ireland on Twitter you may have seen the hashtag #TeamPanti and wondered what it was all about. Well, here comes the explanation, courtesy of the most fabulous Panti Bliss herself.
As Panti says right up front, the problems of a gay white man being oppressed by straight white people in a relatively prosperous Western country are fairly minor in comparison to many other things. Nevertheless I think she does a great job of explaining how corrosive to live in a country where "respectable" people are forever commenting on how you should live your life. That applies to many more situations than hers.
I note in passing that Ireland has the worst record in the EU when it comes to transgender rights, according to this Amnesty International report issued last week.
Piers Morgan's School For Gifted Pundits
February 6, 2014 February 6, 2014 ~ Cheryl
On the margins of society there exists a little-known group known as cisgender people. Despite making up a mere 99% of the population, these unfortunates are continually subject to insults, discrimination, and to violent bullying on social media sites such as Twitter. One brave man has had enough, and is determined to fight back.
Professor Piers Morgan, a mild-mannered expert in media studies, has founded a secret school where he can take in especially gifted young pundits and train them to defend their fellow cisgenders. His pupils have extraordinary powers. Some have vast wealth; others have the backing of multi-national media conglomerates, huge fan bases, even their own television shows. It is rumoured that some have the backing of governments.
Together, these brave Cis-Men, as they are known, seek to fight back against the appalling persecution that they and their kind face on a daily basis. Although they are forced to operate in secret — even wearing masks that make them seem caring and compassionate — you can follow the activities of the Cis-Men if you know where to look. Just open any national newspaper, any day. The chances are you will find these brave freedom fighters at work.
The Other Side of the Dr. V. Story
Trans journalist, Jane Fae has been busy following up on the story of Dr. V., the trans woman whose suicide was made the focal point of a purported expose of her life by Caleb Hannan in Grantland. I know I have ranted rather a lot about this before, but Jane has discovered some new information which appears to cast yet more doubt on the self-justifying "apology" produced by Grantland.
This information comes in an article by Megan Finnerty published on the Arizona Central website. Finnerty has been talking to Gerri Jordan, a long-time friend and ex-lover of Dr. V., and she has a very different take on the story. In particular Ms. Jordan says that while Dr. V., in common with many trans people, had suicidal tendencies, she is convinced that Hannan's investigations are what pushed her friend over the edge.
A key part of Bill Simmons' defense of his journalist is as follows:
There was no hounding. There was no badgering. It just didn't happen that way.
In contrast Finnerty's article has this:
By May, Vanderbilt and Jordan believed Hannan was going to publish a story exposing her unverifiable MIT, Stealth Bomber and Wharton School resume, as well as details about her transition.
In early June, Vanderbilt was so nervous about being outed that she called at least one close friend — McCord, the CBS announcer — so he wouldn't be surprised.
"I don't know how many other people she had that conversation with," Jordan said.
In that same month, Jordan said, Vanderbilt resigned as CEO of Yar Golf because of Hannan's inquiries.
"She believed the story would die if she was no longer involved with the company," Jordan said.
So, no hounding, eh, Mr. Simmons. Would that have been a lie?
Jane has much more detail, and is worth reading because she is magnificently angry about the whole thing.
Hannan is reportedly refusing to talk to journalists because he is busy working on a lengthy self-justification, for which he will doubtless be very well paid. I think we can guess what it will contain:
It will portray him as a hero for exposing a dangerous confidence trickster;
It will explain how Dr.V.'s suicide was a desperate attempt by a deranged lunatic to paint herself as a victim and get back at those seeking to expose her (except he'll misgender her throughout);
He will quote at length from people like J. Michael Bailey as support for his assertion that trans people are all mentally unstable and inveterate liars; and
He will go on and on and on about how terrible the whole thing has been for him, and how he will never recover from the awful things that Dr. V. has done to him.
It would be nice to think that Hannan and Simmons will get to spend a long time in prison to reflect upon what they have done, but their complicity in Dr. V.'s death is unprovable and in any case no jury would convict. Instead I expect them to sweep up a bunch of awards for what will be described as their brilliant, incisive and socially relevant journalism.


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Q: Queueing a function call request javascript I have a function like this
function queuingFunction(name){

        var deferred = $q.defer()

        $timeout(function(){
            console.log("my name is ",name);
            deferred.resolve(true);
        },3000)

        return deferred.promise;
    }

i am calling the function like this
communicatorBaseService.queuingFunction("Jack");
communicatorBaseService.queuingFunction("max");
communicatorBaseService.queuingFunction("Ray");
In the console all the 3 results are displayed after 3 second.
What i need is , at the 3rd second Jack shows in console, after again 3 seconds max is shown then again after 3 second Ray is shown.
If i call queuingFunction in between the execution it should get added to a execution queue.
What i was thinking to do was

*

*Receive the request to execute the function

*Add the params to a queue

*Call the queuingFunction with the queue

*Run the queuingFunction with the queue[0]

*On complete of queuingFunction delete the queue[0]

*Check if anything is left at position queue[0] re-run the function with the current queue.

Pretty sure this is not the best way, what can be a good way to do this. I am using Angular thus $q is there in code. I don't want to use jQuery.

A: It sounds from your comments like you want to be able to just make some function call and have it's operation automatically sequenced with the ones that came before.   If so, you will need some sort of queue object that can accumulate the operations underway and pending.
Promises already are a sort of queue, so if you can start with a promise and just add a new promise onto the end of the prior operation each time you make your function call, it can sequence them.  Here's one way to do that:
// initialize queue with a resolved promise
var queue = $q();

function queuingFunction(name){
    // chain this operation onto whatever operation was previously queued
    queue = queue.then(function() {
        var deferred = $q.defer()

        $timeout(function(){
            console.log("my name is ",name);
            deferred.resolve(true);
        },3000)

        return deferred.promise;
    });
}

Then, you can just call:
queuingFunction("Jack");
queuingFunction("max");
queuingFunction("Ray");

And, the three operations will be sequential.
Here's a working demo using ES6 standard promises: http://jsfiddle.net/jfriend00/adq3L6zt/

A: Using @jfriend00 approach I did the following using angular $q if anyone interested
var queue = $q(function(resolve,reject){resolve()});

        service.queuingFunction = function(name){
          // perform some asynchronous operation, resolve or reject the promise when appropriate.
          queue = queue.then(function() {
                var deferred = $q.defer()

                $timeout(function(){
                    console.log("my name is ",name);
                    deferred.resolve(true);
                },3000)

                return deferred.promise;
            });
        }

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Recent Tax Court Decision Provides Another Warning for Appraisers Performing Conservation Easement Appraisals
Gorra v. Commissioner, U.S. Tax Court, T.C. Memo 2013-254. On November 12, 2013, the U.S. Tax Court decided a petition challenging the IRS' disallowance of a tax deduction for a donated conservation/preservation easement. The donated easement was for the ostensible purpose of preserving a building façade and other historical characteristics of Read more…
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Navigators Sues More Appraisers to Deny Coverage under "Regulatory Claims" Exclusion
Updated on 11/22/13. On November 14 and 18, Navigators Insurance Company sued three more appraisers to enforce "regulatory claims" exclusions in the E&O policies they purchased. These appraisers are in California and Nevada. Like the appraiser sued by Navigators in Florida on November 6, the new appraisers are being sued by the Read more…
Navigators Insurance Company Sues Appraiser to Deny Coverage Under "Regulatory Claims"/FDIC Exclusion
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Prince Edward Island was a colony of 87 000 people when it joined Canada in 1873. The Island's economy depended on farming, timber and shipbuilding. There was a strong trading partnership with New England in the United States.
The first problem was a very old one and had to do with land. Landlords who lived in England owned most of the Island. This meant that settlers could not buy their own land and had to rent it at high cost. Canada agreed to help by buying the land from the landlords so that settlers could then buy and own their land.
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the dusk zone: My Favourite Things... Tag Time!
My Favourite Things... Tag Time!
Hope you are all well darlings.
Also hope you have a spare hour or day to read/view this post because it is heeeeeavyyy. But light. Long too. Like a wholemeal spelt baguette. Or a Kanjeevaram silk sari.
Warning. Brevity is not my forte.
I was tagged by a semi-recently discovered and already favourite blogger - Veshoevius from The Taxonomy of my Wardrobe.
...now I am very bad at these things, I don't always play, I don't know why, it's not like I don't like talking about myself (ha!)... just lazy I guess... but I got rather excited about this tag! Until I started doing it.
These questions, seemingly so innocent, so innocuous, so... insipid really... are the devils work!! They are hard to answer!! Well, for me anyway. I got excited because Veshoevius made it all look so easy. Her answers are so lovely , eloquent, evocative and so 'visual', her post is presented so beautifully that I got inspired and excited! Mind you I felt all that before I actually saw that I had been tagged!
A little bit about the blogger/tagger... a very intriguing woman... she is a Flamenco dancer as well (but far more advanced than I)... as you will see, her writing is very 'visual', very 'voluptuous', a multi-faceted personality, sensual, practical and she is an enigma. Not just because she doesn't show her face.
1. Why did you create the blog?
"My blog is the result of the way I dress, not the other way around. My family, friends and colleagues have always looked forward to seeing what I wear everyday and I always receive compliments from strangers. Particulary because of the all the colour I drench myself in.
I have had my dress sense and sensibility from childhood. Tavi schmavi. The child-as-fashion-genius phenomenon doesn't amaze me. I grew up in Madonna and Cyndi Lauper times.
People who work at opshops and vintage markets I haunt save 'special items' for me. Apparently I inspire women to "experiment". Still trying to figure out if that's a good thing... oh and... I've had women nudge each other or their partners, point and snigger at me.
A friend sent me a link to site called Style Diary and I thought that was a splendid idea and wonderful way for non-famous people to showcase their individual style!
I am over magazines and media telling me that celebrities are the last bastion of style. No they are not and I.don't.care. I don't follow celebrity style.
The idea of dressing like someone else repulses me anyway. I was once described as dressing like Carrie Bradshaw (plus being a journalist, comparison was inevitable) and woah no! I existed first and I was a sports journalist. So there.
I guess, like most bloggers,reading other blogs inspired me to jump on the blogwagon. Actually... every blogger I know says this, even the uber famous ones like Sea of Shoes' Jane and Style Bubble's Suzie.
...makes me wonder who was [pause for dramatic effect; cue sfx. electronic reverb] The First Style Blogger?
I did also notice the lack of women my age, which puzzled me. Now I know better. I think it's important that women my age and older showcase their fabulosity 'til it is truly seen as the norm.
What I do find hard is the chronic chronicling! I was never a diary/journal keeper. It's not my 'thing' to write down thoughts and musings. Get this.. I did try and keep a diary once but found myself writing for an audience! Ha!
That is actually the pressure that may make blogging a chore... having to write for an audience. I must confess, if I was to write for self, they'd be a hell of a lot of swearing going on!!
I believe style is a physical manifestation of our psyche. It is self expression and how we perceive ourselves and others and how we choose to present ourselves.
I may have created the blog to share my spirit but I think now it's mainly about photographic creativity."
"Hmmm... I follow many blogs and they're all different. I don't just follow style bloggers and style blogging isn't what makes me a fan of the blog. There are many popular style blogs that, well, bore me. And I don't neccessarily follow like-styled bloggers. Not everyone thinks like this though.
I read blogs and like the style of bloggers that (I know) faint at the sight of all my colour and layers! Australian bloggers in particular, seem to have a fear of colour! Not all and certainly not my favourite Australian bloggers!
I read somewhere that when we commend someone else on their taste we are actually congratulating them for being like us!!!! I don't like that. I don't like someone simply because they're like me. How boring. Where's the diversity?
I comment and follow and LIKE/LOVE many blogs/bloggers that have very different taste/style to mine.
I like uniqueness. Individuality. People who are not afraid to not fit in. And wit. And a knack for storytelling. and prose. and fluidity. elegance, sassiness, strength. Wit though, hooks me everytime. and certain women just rock a Goddess vibe you know?
I know what kind of blogs I don't follow!
Blogs like The Sartorialist and Jak & Jill bore me. Particularly when they photograph famous people hanging around fashion weeks wearing the equivalent of a third world country's budget. Yawn.
Although I do love the gorgeous stylings of Sea of Ghosts, Suzie Bubble and Gala Darling, etc... they don't thrill me as much as say, a 'normal' blogger does... someone like Vintage Vixen or Tanvii or Fourth Daughter....not world famous but gaining recognition for being fabulous individuals who don't depend on labels to validate their style."
"Don't have one. I really don't place much value in brand name of cosmetics. Having said that... in my twenties, I was in to my branded cosmetics - Sonia Rykiel, Elizabeth Arden, Chanel, Estee Lauder, Clarins, Lancome, Shu Uemura, also Revlon and Poppy King lipsticks (Australian brand, the best matte lipsticks ever).
Now... I don't really care what brand I wear, as long as I love the colour and the feel. But mostly the colour. And the price. I know. I'm such a cheapskate!! But... quality no longer comes at a price. I believe it never has, not cosmetically. Departments stores and cosmetic chainstores are treasure troves!
I don't wear foundation. When I remember (!) I use the most amazing powder product ever! I will do a seperate post on my skin stuff okay?
I am however, obsessed with mascara! L'Oreal, Maybelline and Bourjois have the best ones not because of the mascara but because of the variety of brushes they have! It's all in the brush and flick of the wrist.
...am also rather obsessed with eye make-up... have just bought this palette of rainbow deliciousness and I am itching to play!
Again... do not have one. Regular readers will note/know/have read that I very rarely (rarer than hens teeth) state the labels of the garment/s I wear. My attitude is 'I Maketh..'... as in the clothes don't make me... they way I wear them makes them..
I shop everywhere and wear everything. I relised long ago that I don't view fashion as an investment. Puhlease. What a myth.
Don't get me wrong... I do have many designer names in my wardrobe and I do love designers but... I don't salivate over things like Lanvin for H&M or wax lyrical about Rodarte.
A garment is too often mistaken for fashion. Fashion is too often confused with style. eg. wearing Wang leather shorts makes you fashionable and stylish. No. Just means you have money to burn. And a bum for a billboard. Not girth! Advertising. Where's the mystery? But dammit those shorts are gorgeous!!
For me clothing is not art. It is the application that is the art. Not what you wear. HOW you wear.
"Lip balm or lipstick. Any lipbalm and mainly Ulta 3 Green Magic... a pharmacy brand [AUD$3] green lipstick that turns pink on your lips! The higher your alkali levels the deeper pink it becomes! It is moisturising and creamy and it lasts forever!!
It was the lipstick type/brand I used when I was 13. And I'm still using it... how's that for staying power!!!
I also use M.A.C. lipsticks, 'Viva Glam' and 'Carnal'. Found the most perfect red in a cosmetic chainstore and it is now 'my' red."
Totally mood dependant. Last week it was wavering between pink and red. That's my masculine energy coming to the fore. When my oestrogen is asserting her kickass self, then it's blue, like this week... which I know sounds topsy-turvy considering people believe that blue is for boys and pink is for girls.
Pink was originally for boys...If you want to know why, ask me and I'll tell you in the comments section. Blue was considered the paler, daintier colour. The gender switch in the Western world, happened some time after WW2.
I am also personal shopper/stylist and I don't work using trends, I use moods and colours.
My hair used to be like this and then after this, it was teal and cobalt tipped. About 5-10 years ago. I want my hair teal again but alas... everyone's doing it.
"Vanilla Oil and Vanilla EDT by The Body Shop.
Cannot choose this. I have a huge collection of movies -English, Hindi, Chinese, Some French and Spanish- and I love them all!
Favourite genre would be sci-fi. No. Action. Female hero action. Thrillers. Horror. No not really. Not anymore. Definitely martial arts films and supernatural stuff and sci-fi fantasy and mystery and twists... The Dark Knight and LOTR and Indiana Jones and Bond and Lara Croft and Star Wars and The Usual Suspects and North by North West and Rear Window and Sholay and Karz and Khoon Bhari Maang and Matrix and Seven Samurai and Kill Bill and My Best Friend's Wedding and Austin Powers and Game of Death and Mortal Kombat and Charlies Angels and anything by Pedro Almodovar and Bend It Like Beckham and The Long Kiss Goodnight and Face/Off and Contact and Gattaca and Rocky and Die Hard and League of Their Own and cripes I'm tired now.
"Spain. Japan. 2 cultures I am fascinated with and by and I have never visited these countries. Oh I have visited Spain once when I was a child living in England but that doesn't count.
...I'd love to retell a story that a beautiful Flamenco dancer winked at me whilst performing and forever my heart belonged to Flamenco, etc, etc but alas... no. No wink. But something stayed. I have been fascinated by Flamenco my entire life.
Likewise Japanese culture and traditions. Taiko Drumming resonates deep within my soul. This is the only image I have of me in the Taiko dojo. That big drum is Odaiko. Respect.
...I need to revisit India... and revisit USA...and spend months driving/sailing around them... my husband and I intend to do this... we're boating people and it is our wish to one day, when the youngest has finished his schooling, to sail around the world.
10. To be chosen by the blogger.
Please! Take my finger instead!
Okayyyy, let's talk cars. What gets your motor running?
Oooh. That's more like it. I love cars and motorbikes! I love working on cars. Have rewired Jaguar engines... we love our Jags... and am very proficient at changing brake pads on Land Rovers and water pumps and filters and spark plugs, etc.
This is my dream car. Alas... it is only a dream. A prototype concept car. The Holden Efijy.
I used to ride this.
I now I want this.
Oh Dusk, I adore you. You write from the heart, there's no facade, no illusions and no pretence and you are absolutely captiviting, eloquent and beautiful.
My man always appears behind my shoulder when I'm reading your blog and now he knows you can tinker with an engine I think he's totally in lurve.
Ps Thanks for the mention!
I'll bite. Why was pink a boy's color? and it was great to learn a little more about you, and I definitely agree its hard to describe a style, pick a favorite book, song or movie.
When I do not know how to articulate I just use this phrase. I feel it sort of culminates everything.
I think I know you from my previous life!
The orange and blue.. gorgeous!
and pink was guy's color ?? i want to know..
hahaha I loved reading all your answers!!!
So you're a journalist? I should've guessed considering you write SO well!
Do you read a lot? What kind of books do you like?
And why was pink first for boys ;) someone had to ask!
thanks for your gorgeous comments. could you *be* any more sweeter?
you are gorgeous and I love all the colour you put into your outfits!
What fabulous answers and beautiful pictures! Love the rainbow eyeshadow pallete. Great to read more about you. I totally agree with you about older women needing to showcase their "fabulosity" (love that word). When I first started blogging it seemed that older (hah! OLDER sadly meaning over 30s) bloggers were very hard to find is a crying shame. Since then I have managed to find some cracking ones though but I still feel they are under represented and probably because they are frankly too busy juggling work, family and lives with responsibilities they didn't have in their teens and twenties.
Love this: "I am over magazines and media telling me that celebrities are the last bastion of style. No they are not and I.don't.care."
And so impressed you ride motorbikes - I'm just a fake biker chic who wears imitation gear churned out on the high street and rides pillion. You however ARE a real biker chic!
You get to shop clothes for other people - that must be fun!
Interesting you chose Spain and Japan - did you know that the biggest market for flamenco in the world is Japan? The Japanese are CRAZY for it!
Hola lovelies and...awww shucks, thank you! I am humbled and seriously amazed that you read through this absolutely jumble of transcribed thoughts!!!!
Okay, just quickly.... pink was originally for boys because pink is a variation of red... red... blood... blood when it sprays out of the body particularly in war, either through swordfighting or gunshot, it's a pink mist...but that's NOT the only reason why pink was traditionally for boys.
I will actually write my next post about this because I was wearing an outfit today [Tues 30/11] that perfectly depicts this!!! A Batman t-shirt with a hot pink logo, vintage hot pink pleated schoolgirl skirt and armour/artillery belt and studded booties... !!!!!
Forgot to write what the bikes are... the first bike is a Suzuki Across 250...loved this bike mainly because of its rear fuel tank and front helmet storage area! was a perfect bike wor women!
...I actually had 2 other bikes but they weren't mine, I just rode them.
The dream bike is a Kawasaki Ninja.
@ Prutha - you? a "dumbass"???? NEVER. and hardly. Colour is just my 'thing' hon. since childhood when I first started doing yoga and learning about the chakras and the colours associated with them... I am heading towards becoming a chromatherapist... I know that it is possible, indeed...fact, to change left/right brain patterns with colour.
...I dress my clients according the the colours they NEED rather than want.
Low brow, high brow, I don't discriminate.
@ Veshoevius - I didn't know that about the Japanese!
I was a biker chick, now I'm a hypocrite because I refuse to let my daughter ride. Not happy that my sons do but they've been riding since they were kids and when we were living in a 'safer', traffic wise, country. Daughter will go and do it anyway (she's a legal adult) but I refuse to teach her.
The comment you left on my Mint Condition post... that is EXACTLY what I meant to say!!! Forgot to say it because I went off on another tangent as per usual! That whole "should be grateful" thing.
i don't really fancy that shade of blue but it looks really good on you.
Nah, I don't think we congratulate others on their taste because it's similar to ours. I love coming to your blog because you dress totally different than I do - just take this blue blouse... It looks AMAZING on you, me, it would totally 'swallow up'. But that's what I love about blogs - What's the others person's world, taste, aesthetic... and words?!
Have you read Poppy King's book, by the way, seeing as you like her lipstick? I can't remember the name, something like Lessons of a Lipstick Queen, very interesting and inspirational read especially if you are thinking of setting up a small business.
Oh and I just remembered about your cleansing comment on my post from last week - I did a Blessed Herbs cleanse a few years ago during Japanese summer when it was too hot to be doing much else. Nine days of just organic broth, juice, water, and their herbal clay cleansing stuff, but I don't think it made any difference!!
You are one fascinating woman, Dusk! I loved reading this, and perusing your blog for your gorgeous sense of style. Will be back for more.
with every post I begin to put you on a higher pedestal. You are like a goddess to me, really!!!
So much to learn from you, the fearless energy and enthusiasm for life..
Please never never cut on the length of your enumeration..
I love to know every detail of your wondeful personality and life!!!!
Thankyou so much for sharing..
Wish I can be even a bit of this fantastic, magnetic person you are!!!
This is awesome. I particularly love the lip gloss bit. HA!


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Charlie Palmer brings dinner home (w/video)
If you run into Charlie Palmer at the Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg, chances are the tall, imposing chef will be buttoned up in a crisp chef's jacket or white Oxford dress shirt.
By Diane Peterson
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Palmer shoots at a pheasant with chef Dustin Valette, of Dry Creek Kitchen in Healdsburg. (photo by Chris Hardy)
But scratch the surface of this well-known hospitality entrepreneur — with 12 restaurants to his name and a growing collection of boutique hotels and wine shops across the nation — and you'll find a country boy at heart.
Whether fly-fishing on Colorado's Laramie River or stalking the scrappy pheasant in Sonoma with Dry Creek Kitchen executive chef Dustin Valette, Palmer likes to relax in the colorful costume of the avid outdoorsman: jeans, red cap and camouflage jacket.
Thanks to the locavore movement, people increasingly want to know how their food is grown and raised. More and more hunters are motivated by the promise of high-flavor meat than they are by the sport alone.
But not everyone knows the best way to cook partridge and rabbit, venison and elk. And from a chef's point of view, that's a problem.
Charlie's dog, Bob, returning a downed pheasant. (photo by Chris Hardy)
"You've got all these people who are into hunting and fishing, but they don't know what to do with the stuff they catch," Palmer said. "If you kill it, you eat it."
So when the gun-manufacturing company Remington Arms went looking for a chef to collaborate on a new cookbook, it didn't take long to flush Palmer out of his home in the forested hills above Healdsburg.
After all, the project spoke to Palmer's two greatest passions: the primal pleasure of eating in the outdoors, and the sourcing of the very best ingredients from around the world.
"Eating in nature, from nature, means eating mindfully within seasonal harvests, using simple dishes enhanced by vivid flavors," Palmer said.
This ain't your grandma's recipe box, and it's not your average celebrity chef cookbook, either.
Illustrated with rustic photographs and paintings from the archives and art collection at Remington Arms, "Remington Camp Cooking" by Charlie Palmer has the luxurious feel of a family keepsake, with a soft leather cover and flexible spine.
Yet it's rustic enough to throw in the back of a pickup truck with the guns and ammo.
Chef Charlie Palmer deglases his cooked pheasant at his house with Dustin Valette, chef at Dry Creek Kitchen. (photo by Chris Hardy)
"The more you get oil on it, the better the book is going to feel," Palmer said. "It's not aimed at our restaurant clientele, but at the outdoorsman."
With the help of Valette, also a lifelong outdoors enthusiast, Palmer developed a mouthwatering array of recipes to appeal to anyone who believes food tastes better when enjoyed in the great outdoors.
"There's not a lot out there about cooking in the outdoors … at least, not a lot that's usable," Palmer said. "Most of it is Uncle Joe's recipe, and you soak it in Coca-Cola."
From a Duck Meatball Banh Mi to Trout in Foil with Lemon-Sage Butter, the recipes marry the elegant with the accessible. They can be made by anyone with access to a grill, campfire or Dutch oven.
"The recipes could be done anywhere," Palmer said. "But the focus is how to be a more successful outdoor cook, whether you're cooking over a fire pit, grilling or tailgating."
Palmer, who grew up in upstate New York and trained at the Culinary Institute of America at Hyde Park, N.Y., has been hunting and fishing, cooking and camping, all his life. Most of the practical wisdom he imparts in the book has become second nature to him.
"I got my first shotgun when I was 12," he said. "My brother would take me trap and skeet shooting with clay pigeons."
While attending culinary school, he went pheasant hunting with one of his roommates from South Dakota.
"There's acres and acres of harvest corn just loaded with pheasant," he said. "It's a perfect habitat for them."
Charlie Palmer's pan roasted pheasant. (photo by Chris Hardy)
Before he was married, he also fell in love with deep-sea fishing, chasing the storied blue marlin from the Bahamas to the coast of Venezuela.
And years ago, before A&E's "Duck Dynasty" TV show was a glint in the eye of its creator, Palmer was invited to Louisiana's bayou to shoot a hunting show with Eli Haydel, a famous maker of duck calls.
"We took the ducks back and cooked them," Palmer said. "There was a guy named Big John who was drinking moonshine whiskey, and he had water moccasin scars all over his arm."
These days, Palmer likes to cook wild game on a fire pit he built outside his house. During the season, he enjoys morning pheasant and chukar (partridge) hunts at a local sport-hunting club in Sonoma County.
"It's like a preserve," Palmer said of the rustic club. "It's amazing that that piece of land is there still, and you can hunt with a dog."
Valette, who grew up in Geyserville, learned about hunting and fishing from his dad, Robert "Pops" Valette, an air tanker pilot for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
"We didn't have TV, so we were always doing something hands-on and outdoosy," Valette said. "I learned about guns on Ridge Ranch at the Geysers, which is owned by family friends."
Valette started out with a Red Ryder BB gun, then received an old shotgun from his grandfather. He started quail hunting at 6 and shot his first buck at Mount Lassen when he was 9.
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In the winter, Valette likes to go to the Baxter Ranch at Lake Sonoma to hunt wild boar, then grinds the meat into luscious sausage, following his father's recipe.
"It's more natural," Valette said of range-to-table cooking. "Because the animal is not in captivity, it has a more natural life."
This spring, Dry Creek Kitchen plans to launch a new 24-seat outdoor annex, the White Oak Grill, with a simple menu inspired by Valette's oak-wood grilling experience at Baxter Ranch.
"It will add another dimension to the restaurant, with a casual feel to it," Palmer explained. "We'll do a simple, grilled menu."
Like most outdoorsmen, both Valette and Palmer are passionate about taking care of the land, not only for themselves, but for future generations.
"Outdoorsmen, hunters, fishermen and campers — those are the people who are most concerned about the outdoors," Palmer said. "They understand they have to take care of it … or it won't be there."
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Discussion in 'NFL Football Forum' started by mosslost, Dec 14, 2018.
The Titans Super Bowl team perhaps?
The worst part about that is you'll get the people complaining about re-seeding the playoffs if the 5 seed gets popped by a 8/9 win AFC North winner.
The ESPN mediots will make it their cause celebre for the week and sanctimoniously proclaim how unfair the seeding is.
Looking at the current standings, it looks there could be several 9-7 or 8-8 teams playing this year. Even most of the crappy teams have got a handful of wins this year.
I don't care about this thread until I know what Jeeves thinks about this.
Pats were a 14-2 #2 seed in 2004 and would have been a 15-1 #2 seed even if they didn't blow that Miami game. Some years see strange things.
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In the late 90's/early 00's, Jeeves was the guy to run in order to find out what lady parts looked like.
Hopefully @mosslost has looked into this.
The 06 Saints got a bye after finishing 10-6 I believe.
Disgusted that the good name of Jeeves is being dragged through a mosslost post.
Most recent I found was the 2010 Bears.
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The Nintendo Switch continues to skyrocket to success around the world, but specifically in Japan Nintendo's hottest new system has now officially outsold the original PlayStation 4 and PS4 Slim. In it's 5 year lifetime (which is shocking enough already) the base and slim PS4 models have managed to ship 6,540,000 million units. In the 21 months the Switch has been out it has managed to ship 6,670,000 million units in Japan alone.
It's also important to remember that these numbers don't include the PS4 Pro, however if we look at the numbers based on the amount of time these systems have been released, it's easy to see that the Nintendo Switch is quickly outpacing the PlayStation 4. Looking at the total numbers worldwide, the PS4 in all of it's incarnations have sold roughly 88 million units over the course of a little over 4 years. The Switch has managed to sell 22 million in under 2 years. While the Switch still has a long way to go, it will be interesting to see in a couple years where the sales numbers are at.
What do you think? Do you think the Switch has a chance at beating the powerhouse this generation that is the PlayStation 4?
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Q: Do the sedutil-cli revert commands also reset the given SID? In sedutil-cli a
sedutil-cli --PSIDrevert <password> <device>

"Reset the device to it's factory defaults using the SID password. If the locking SP is active this command ERASES ALL DATA, requires the SID password"  By which I assume it returns all the SIDs to the MSID (manufacturer default, queryable from interface), and creates a new DEK if the locking system was in use.  That's the easy one.
My question is do the other revert commands return the given pasword to the MSID?  For example:
sedutil-cli --reverttper <password> <device>

Says it 'Reset(s) the device to it's factory defaults using the SID password. If the locking SP is active this command ERASES ALL DATA, requires the SID password'  Does this revert the LockingSP and AdminSP SIDs back to MSID as well, or do they keep their present values.  Similarly does:
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just deactivate the locking system (and cryptographically wipe any locked data), or does it wipe the SID/password for the locking SP as well?  These would make the jargon make more sense (reverting a system to it's starting state) but that doesn't make it true.  Being able to return to a wiped unlocked state with one or two steps given the password would greatly simplify re-provisioning.

A: By experimentation if I use an installer as a live system and run:
sedutil-cli --revertnoerase oldpassword /dev/sda
sedutil-cli --reverttper oldpassword /dev/sda

It puts the drive into a state where I can run
sedutil-cli --initialsetup newpassword /dev/sda

Since initialsetup wasn't given the old password, the only way this would work is if the SIDs had been reset to the MSID that it could pull from the interface.
However, when running:
sedutil-cli --revertnoerase newpassword /dev/sda
sedutil-cli --activateLockingSP oldpassword /dev/sda
sedutil-cli --activateLockingSP newpassword /dev/sda

Only the second activation works.  So --revertnoerase keeps the LockingSP SID and just deactivates it, only working if you know the existing password instead of setting a new one.
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Singer, Sam Smith admits it's 'a shame' no women have been nominated for the BRITs Best Artist Award
British singer, Sam Smith has slammed organizers of the BRITs Award because there are no women nominated in the category for Best Artist.
The Unholy hitmaker, 30, was one of the first musicians to call for the ceremony to be 'reflective' after the shortlist for this year's prestigious prize only featured male nominees.
Sam said there are a lot of female artists who should have made the shortlist, instead of just Harry Styles, Stormzy, George Ezra, Central Cee and Fred Again being left to contend for the prize.
Asked which women should have been shortlisted, they said: 'Cat Burns. Anne Marie. Florence Welch. There's so much incredible female talent in the UK — they should be on that list.'
They said: 'Things are moving forward, but it's obvious it's not there yet. From seeing that [best artist] list, there is still a long way to go'.
'It's incredibly frustrating. 'It feels like it should be easy to do'.
In 2021, the BRIT Awards announced it would be abolishing its male and female categories, in bid to celebrate artists 'solely for their music'.
They continued: '[The BRITs] just have to celebrate everyone because this is not just about artists getting awards'.
'Awards are for kids watching on TV, thinking, 'I can make music like this.' When I was young, if I'd seen more queer people at these awards it would have lit my heart. Awards are there to inspire.'
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Short track speed skater Kim Boutin, who captured bronze in the 500-metre event Tuesday at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, has received threatening messages on social media from angry supporters of a disqualified South Korean skater.
Short track speed skater Kim Boutin, who won bronze in the 500-metre final Tuesday at the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, has been subjected to threatening messages on social media from angry supporters of a South Korean skater.
They're furious with the Quebec athlete after Choi Min-jeong was disqualified from the race for interference after originally finishing second.
After the event, photos that Boutin published months ago received thousands of comments, many of them abusive.
Boutin's father, Pierre Boutin, told Radio-Canada that Speed Skating Canada had telephoned him to say the situation was being handled jointly by the RCMP, Canadian Olympic Committee and the sport federation.
"The health, safety and security of all our team members is our top priority and as such we are working closely with Speed Skating Canada, our security personnel and the RCMP," the COC said in a statement.
Made aware of the online incidents early Thursday, the International Olympic Committee a their daily news conference said "we would ask everyone to respect the athletes and their performances and to support the great work they've done and to support the Olympic spirit."
"I think from the IOC's point of view, you know, none of us — unfortunately or fortunately — can control social media and the public has the right to say things," said IOC spokesperson Mark Adams. "I haven't seen comments, but we occasionally unfortunately do have these issues, and it's something we don't approve of.
"Obviously also something unfortunately we can't control and wouldn't want to control."
Many Korean users condemned the negative comments. The majority of the comments written in Hangul, the Korean alphabet, instead blamed the referee, rather than Boutin, for the incident.
"Everybody, please, it's the referee who should be insulted. The athlete did nothing wrong," wrote one. "As a Korean, I am very sad that some people would have left these messages."
"They're very sensitive right now. Please, forget all of this and enjoy the rest of the Olympic Games. I am so sorry," wrote another.
"Aren't you ashamed to have cheated in the last Olympic Games?"
"You're not a real athlete!"
"You know what? You should be disqualified. Shame on you!"
"If I find you, you will die."
"Retire and I hope you have a hard life."
She competes again on Saturday in the 1,500. Three days later, she'll race in the 3,000 relay final and the qualification round of the 1,000.