Name: Roberta Gavou
Age: 35
Date of Death: November 24th 2008
Location of Death: Rome (Italy), in the street
Cause of Death: Stabbed to death
Source: www.sylviarivera.org

Name: N.N.
Age: 50
Date of Death: December 25th 2008
Location of Death: Rosate (MI), (Italy), in the street
Cause of Death: Beaten to death
Source: www.gaynews.it

Name: Aline da Silva Ribeira
Age: 24
Date of Death: January 16th 2009
Location of Death: Naples (Italy), in the street
Cause of Death: Strangled
Sources: www.sylviarivera.org & corrierealpi.gelocal.it

Name: Puttalakshmi’s (Hijra)
Age: 30
Date of Death: (shortly before) February 19th 2009
Location of Death: Bangalore (India)
Cause of Death: Thrown out of a moving vehicle
Source: Bangalore News, 19.02.2009

Name: Smail L.
Age: 36
Date of Death: March 24th 2009
Location of Death: Valencia (Spain)
Cause of Death: Beaten to death
Sources: ABC.es 25.03.2009 & Las Provincias 26.03.2009

Name: Image Devereux
Age: 34
Date of Death: April 14th 2009
Location of Death: Fayetteville (USA), in the street
Cause of Death: Not reported
Source: www.transgenderdor.org

Name: Ketlin
Age: 19
Date of Death: May 2009
Location of Death: Uruaçu (Brazil)
Cause of Death: Dismembered and beaten to death
Source: LGBTT-Blogspot, 03.07.2009

Name: Camilla
Age: 30
Date of Death: Before June 22nd 2009
Location of Death: Volgograd (Russia)
Cause of Death: Shot
Source: Spiegel Online 23.06.2009

Name: “Cesar” Torres
Age: 39
Date of Death: July 8th 2009
Location of Death: El Paso (USA), own apartment
Cause of Death: Beatings and severe injuries
Sources: El Paso Times, 11.07.2009, KDBC 4 News, Portugal.Gay 13.07.09

Name: Paulina Ibarra
Age: 24
Date of Death: August 28th 2009
Location of Death: Hollywood (USA), own apartment
Cause of Death: Stabbed to death
Source: ABC 7, 07.09.2009

Name: "Rusbel Antonio" Torres Jesús
Age: 30
Date of Death: September 21th 2009
Location of Death: Chimbote (Peru), in own liquor shop
Cause of death: Shot
Source: El Comercio 22.09.2009

Name: Monserrat (”Elder Noe”) Maradiaga
Age: Not reported
Date of Death: October 10th 2009
Location of Death: San Pedro Sula (Honduras)
Cause of Death: Run over by a car
Source: ElsentidoG.com 24.10.2009

Names taken from the international list of 169 transpersons reported as murdered in the last 12 months. The actual number is likely to be much, much higher.

November 20th is the International Transgender Day of Remembrance.

May the angels lead them into Paradise, may the holy martyrs receive them as they arrive and take them into the Holy City.

Oh, neat.

"We have concluded that we are unable to approve your [life insurance] application for coverage. Our decision is based on your weight."

They didn't even bother to pull my medical records to see that I have insanely good health, they saw a ticky box and stamped it 'denied'.

This puts crimps in my house-purchase plans, since I have to seriously consider that if something does happen to me, my parents will be stuck with a fuckload of debt.

Anyone on my flist who says a man who pled guilty to raping a 13 year old girl and then fled justice to live in a series of mansions in Europe should be let free might find themselves suddenly not on my flist.

Comments disabled because there is no discussing this. I do not tolerate promotion of rape culture in my sphere of influence.

Why would it take up to 10 days for my online form requesting that Avenue clothing stores stop emailing me twice a day with advertisements to take effect?

That's bullshit. If I get more than one in the next week, they're being blocked.

Mary Sue's 30th Birthday - PDX Celebration
Saturday, September 12, 2009

2pm - Movie TBA*, probably Lloyd Center

5pm - Vino Vixens (2929 SE Powell Blvd # 2, across from HUB, next to Acme Donuts) for vino and nibbles. 21+. Bring cashy monies for booze. They do have beer, so don't wimp out just 'cause it's a wine bar.

Later? Who knows!


The only gift I want is your presence, but if you just got to show your love through a gift, please consider donating money or time to the Oregon Food Bank -- http://www.oregonfoodbank.org



(PHX and DFW celebrations still in the planning stages.)

*It'll either be the animated post-apocalyptic film Nine or the gratuitously violent film Gamer. Too bad Zombieland doesn't come out until October. :(

This article reminds me again that The Gift of Fear is a book that every single person should read. The article says it this way:

The most disturbing lesson of The Gift of Fear is that women are constantly receiving cultural messages that not only threaten their autonomy, but actually put them in physical danger. Our culture, our families, and the general soup of social influences that enforce our gender norms teach us to be polite and solicitous even we don't want to talk to someone — in so doing, we may unwittingly welcome our rapists. de Becker offers several antidotes to this socially-constructed politeness — he teaches not only firm refusal, but also a series of techniques for improving our intuitive sense of danger. He makes a persuasive case that everyone has such an intuitive sense, and that learning to listen to it rather than to our social conditioning may save our lives.

Go to the library. Or to Powell's. Read it.

The person in question decided to send me a tl;dr with the first line about how that person'd been offline for a few days and how it was unfair of me to play the victim card, because said person is a victim *TOO* omg, bla, bla, bla, I quit reading.

I shot back, "For someone who's been offline, you've sure been in chat a lot*. Good luck finding a place for Con."


*No, seriously, said person replied to something I said in chat the day after I sent the "I don't feel safe, GTFO of my room" email. I have chat logs and I'm not afraid to use them.

You know why this fucking pisses me off? Because I didn't play the goddamn victim card. I asked for reassurances of my safety from a person who will have keys to the room I am sleeping in**. If that's unreasonable, then I'm unreasonable. If that makes me paranoid, then I'm paranoid. If that makes me a bitch, then I'm a bitch.

And if you don't fucking get why a woman traveling alone in this society would want reassurances of safety from a complete stranger who wishes to room with said woman, then you don't fucking get keys to the room I sleep in.

**Because while I am kind of certain that I could escape almost anyone in a fight when I'm awake, I sure as shit don't think I can go from zero to Xena if I'm attacked in my sleep.

And yes, I'm posting this as a very rare public, everyone can read it post. Because I am not a victim, and I want the world to know I will do everything in my measly, meagre power to keep from becoming a victim.

When your job involves facilitating the transfer of shiny gold rocks for goods and services, end of fiscal on June 30th sucks.

But geez, I feel like an old fangirl, these new kids don't know anything about how to properly follow the wank schedule. It's almost July! We should be past warnings and into necrophilia by now!

*shakes cane, demands kids get off her lawn*

Oh, and consider this your general defriending amnesty. Because I barely pay attention to who's my friend or not, anyway. If you can't handle the snark, the cranky, or the general license to call you on bullshit, get out of the pool.

Now, if this is how Twilight had gone, I would have been ALL OVER IT.



karynthia made me do it.

If you liked Jaqueline Carey's Kusheline trilogy, you'll like Green by Jay Lake.

It may be a viral ad for a reality TV show, but it's still awesome.

WHY DID NO ONE TELL ME THAT BAYOU IS OUT IN COMIC STORES NOW?!?!

If you don't know what I'm talking about, educate yourselves.

And if you DID know this was coming out, YOU ARE SO FREAKIN' FIRED IT'S NOT FUNNY.

were when I was watching this video. I'm posting it all over because I WANT YOU TO WATCH IT.

ETA: They keep taking them down, I will keep reposting!

I am a TIRED pumpkin.

I've decided this week is pretty much a wash, and I'm not worrying over it any more.

Also:

Dear Warren Ellis and Paul Duffield:

WANT CHIKKINZ!

Love,
Mary Sue

Monday Morning Boom, live at my blog. Also available for LJ feed at eatdrinkmarysue.

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Every so often I stop and am terrified by the fact that there are over 100,000 items in our warehouse that have been deemed essential for patient care, and I'm in charge of making sure each one is here and available.


Then I remember I'm Mary Sue.

If you're new, the background is that Amazon is marking books with *any* GLBTQ content as 'adult' and stripping them of their sales ranking, effectively making them unsearchable. Amazon's PR has sent out a press release stating it's a glitch! A homophobic glitch!

I'm running into people who are believing the PR rep and shouting me down when I point out a PR rep's job is to make the company look good, not tell the truth.

The shouters are all white, hetero males. It's kind of adorable, and yet sad.

Dreamt last night I was getting married.

I'm a little sick of nightmares, yo.

Migrane yesterday after work.

Which means I did not get to squee here about my newest favoritest show.

Kings. NBC. Sunday nights.

Reason to watch it if you're not a hobbyist Hebrew Scripture scholar: Cross between the best parts of West Wing and Brothers and Sisters.

Reason to watch it if you're not a hobbyist Hebrew Scripture scholar and you are into that kind of thing:
Pretty boys in uniforms!

Reason to watch it if you are a hobbyist Hebrew Scripture scholar:
Retelling of the King Saul and David story!

Reason to watch it if you are a hobbyist Hebrew Scripture aware of modern readings of the story of David and Jonathan:
Jake Benjamin is GAY!

Watch the first episode here, for free!!!!!