at last I return

Well, I've spent the last few days camping with my sister (Erika), her huband(John), and her kids (Jake and Abbey). It was an alright trip, we went canoeing, go-carting, miniature golfing, all that junk. Best part had to be on Wednesday. This was the day of the True Colors tour, which included The Cliks, The Dresdon Dolls, Debbie Harry, Erasure, and Cyndi Lauper. It was an incredible concert, the music was awesome and so was the sense of a community. The majority of people there were queer and there were many straight supporters as well. It was nice to not feel out of place. The high point of the concert was no doubt at intermission. This is because I got to meet the Dresdon Dolls and they signed my true colors t-shirt. It was fantastic! All the musicians were unbelievable and I enjoyed every moment of it.

Well that's all for now, buh-bye

Stop Dr. Holsinger!

Well I don't know if y'all have heard but Bush has made his nomination for Surgeon General. His name is Dr. Holsinger and he has no right to be the nations top medical officer. This man has declared sexual orientation to be a life style choice and has said homosexuality can be cured, among other gems. He and his wife are the founders of Hope Springs Community Church, which apparently "cures" people of their homosexuality. Obviously Dr. Holsinger needs to be kept away from the position as surgeon general. You can go to http://www.hrcactioncenter.org/campaign/stop_holsinger to write to your Senators to tell them to vote no on Holsinger's nomination.

This is just sickening, it's just yet another example of how Bush nominates people who are either unqualified or who just help Bush's personal agenda. It's particularly disturbing when you consider the fact that this isn't just any ol' position, this is surgeon general. This person will be the top medical official in America, and we don't need some bigot letting his anti-gay ideology bleed into his work. Hopefully Holsinger wont get the position and someone deserving will get it. Well that's all, night y'all.

late night/early morning thoughts

So I've been up all night, my usual pattern during the summer, and I've spent the majority of my time reading and thinking about this and that. The book is Stonewall, which tells the story of six different people who were involved in the revolt at Stonewall. This revolt took place because at the time (1969) police would raid gay bars and arrest everyone inside; a rather unfair practice yes? When they did this at stonewall the people in the bar revolted and a riot broke out. I'm only half way through the book but I'm absolutely in love with it, I can't stop reading it. Along with Stonewall, I've also been reading a book on the feminist movement and The Politics of Women's' Bodies. All this put me in a very intellectual mood and so I sat musing over society. Feminism is an incredible thing to me, particularly in the way it challenges you to think about our society, the way it works, and why it is the way it is. It makes you realize that perhaps we really can change society at large, that the world will change for the better. It excites me to think that people can change the world, because I've always believed it is posible in principle but to read how it's been accomplished is really quite cool. It never really occurred to me that these civil rights movements truly did change society. Granted many things remain the same as they always have, but it shows there can be change. I think it'd be amazing to have a world in which no one cared what a person's race, gender, or sexual orientation was. I know this will probably never happen, and definitely not in my life time, but it's nice to dream.

Anywho, Me thinks I'm done babbling now so ta ta for now luvs. <3

a little bit about Ms. Motley

Hoorah, Hooray, I've started a Blog! I guess my first post should tell a bit about myself. I'm 15 and starting next school year will be a sophomore. I get good grades and actually enjoy school for the most part (as long as I find what I'm learning to be either of interest and/or use). I'm not the after school activity type but am in a few groups. I'm a member of the art club, since I love art and enjoy drawing. I'm also in the Gay-Straight Alliance, which is a group that is meant to provide a safe and supportive environment for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgendered (LGBT) youth and their straight allies. This leads me to my political beliefs. As you can tell from my being in the GSA, I fully support LGBT rights and would like to get involved in helping the cause. I myself don't choose to label my sexual orientation, but by classical definition I suppose I'm bisexual. I don't care for labels because I feel they come with to many expectations, but since I feel attraction to people of both genders I guess that makes me bisexual. At this point I am also very interested in feminism. I'm just starting to read about the feminist movement, and feminist viewpoints and I find it all very interesting. As you can probablly tell, my political beliefs are on the liberal/democrat side but I don't really consider myself a liberal or a demacrat, what party I want to belong to is still undecided. despite this I am totally rooting for the democrats in the 2008 presidential elections. I agree with the majority of democrat beliefs, and disagree with most republican ones. This makes sence when you consider that I'm a pro-LGBT rights, pro-choice, anti-war bisexual atheist (atheist isn't really the right word tho, seeing as I think their could be a higher being but subscribe to no particular religion, it just saves explanation time). Well that's enough about me for now. Ta ta kiddies.