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My interests include science-fiction, feminism, anti-racism, anti-heterosexism, anti-classism, anti-ablism, anti-oppression work of all kinds. He considers himself a post-structuralist and tries to balance his voracious reading between Sci-Fi and Books about Identity politics. He believes all writing to be a political act that includes decisions on who to feature in your work and who to ignore and how to portray those you decide to feature.
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Na'amen Tilahun
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Words From The Center, Words From The Edge

English - Writing, Media Criticism, Fantasy/Sciencefiction
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Words From The Center, Words From · 9M ago

Oh Conan Yes!: Defending the new movie

Went and saw the new Conan movie last night and it was amazing! Okay so number one a lot of people have been calling the Schwarzenegger movie a classic and “How could they redo it?” and on and on and on. So let me just say I own the first movie on DVD along with [...]
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Words From The Center, Words From · 9M ago

World Science Fiction (Renovation) – Here I Come!

So I will be attending my first ever World Science Fiction Convention this year! 2011′s con is Renovation in Reno, NV. I’ve always wanted to attend a World SF Con and with it being so close geographically this year and a couple of other things that came together it looks like I’m gonna make it! [...
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Words From The Center, Words From · 10M ago

Rest In Peace: Amy Winehouse

Amy Winehouse (9/14/1983 – 7/23/2011) Wow, there are so many things I want to say about Winehouse’s death. The way I feel the media, society and yes even her fans were complicit in her destruction. I want to pull clips of her when she first broke in the U.S. and was more coherent and open [...]
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Words From The Center, Words From · 10M ago

Music You Should Listen To: CockNBullKid

So there have been plenty of amazing British imports when it comes to music. Just recently you have Adele, Duffy, Amy Winehouse and more. Reaching farther back The Sex Pistols, The Beatles, X-ray Spex, Dusty Springfield and more. Currently everywhere I look singer Jessie J is being touted as the Nex
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Words From The Center, Words From · 10M ago

Marriage As Inequality – Link with Commentary

Most people know I have very mixed feelings on marriage in general (Not The Marrying Kind) and the push for marriage equality in particular (Marriage Equality: Yay for California but My Overall Reaction to Marriage is *shrug*). I am far from the only person to critique marriage as an institution or
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Words From The Center, Words From · 11M ago

Why I Hate Brokeback Mountain…

So this is a post that’s been sitting in the back of my mind for a long time (years and years) and since I’m making the attempt to get back into blogging regularly I figured I’d pull it out of the back of my mind and shove it onto the blog. I hate Brokeback Mountain. [...]
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Words From The Center, Words From · 1Y ago

Glee, Why You So White?

So Gwyneth Paltrow singing Cee-Lo Green. For all the reasons this hurts and why it should not be even in the most hellish of nightmare worlds, go here: A Few Things About Gwyneth Paltrow’s ‘F*ck You’ As Performed on Glee for an excellent, intelligent and hilarious take on why it is so not okay. I’ve
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Words From The Center, Words From · 1Y ago

Is He or Isn’t He? Take 5,890,763,111 – The Zachary Quinto Edition

Politically I’m quite a bit to the left (quelle suprise, I know) so it’s fairly often that more mainstream media pisses me off. Mainstream GLBT media especially which tends to be very white, male and “normative”, ignoring a lot of other parts of the queer community and thus pissing me off. So I tend
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Words From The Center, Words From · 1Y ago

For Colored Girls…But Not Really

Now I’ll fully admit that I have watched some Tyler Perry movies in the past and even enjoyed one or two. There’s a lot to discuss about Perry most especially the way women tend to be portrayed in his work. Strong but unable to be so if they continue to be single. It’s like the [...]
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Words From The Center, Words From · 1Y ago

Fringe – Female Characters and Children

So I know I said I would watch Buffy and start blogging it but I got distracted by Fringe. Now I never watched much of the show when it first premiered but in the last week I’ve torn through the whole first season and the first few episodes of the second and it’s an interesting [...]
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