Baby, It’s Woke Outside
Tis the season for arguing mindlessly about consent on Facebook? Doesn’t have that typical Bing Crosby “White Christmas” ring to it, does it? But since the discussion of some radio stations refusing to play the holiday classic “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is the controversy du jour, I figured I’d open my big mouth about it too. While most of the discussions I’ve seen devolve pretty quickly into nothing useful at all (like most discussion on Facebook), I think that this does have the potential to...
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It’s the time of year for all of the obligatory “thankful and grateful” posts, and I am usually on board with this general airing of public positivity. So much of the internet and social media is saturated with negativity, so what could be better than people taking a moment to share things that make them happy and grateful and generally feeling the warm and the fuzzy?! Sure there are people who think that these posts can get a little braggy (and sometimes they do), and people who love to throw around words like...
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Today I was driving home from the Dakota Divas Halloween show feeling tired but satisfied; we had a solid show with some interesting and diverse performances by a total of 11 performers. One of the things I love about producing drag shows is the opportunity to work with local performers and build a show that is always unique and changing. It’s also very important to me that performers have a space where they feel respected and are able to develop and hone their craft. Occasionally I will give some direction in terms of themes or...
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Y’all, this website drama has been putting me through it! Without going into all kinds of boring details that no one cares about anyway, a couple of months ago my website went offline. There were some problems with the servers and in the time it took to resolve, all the databases that stored my content were lost. I’ve been able to track down some of the stuff that means the most to me, like many of my old blog articles, but a lot of content and photos were lost. This new site that you’re looking at is my World of...
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