This shit is all linked, it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I have no words. Highway of Tears email deletion referred to RCMP by B.C. privacy watchdog Women, mainly Aboriginal, go missing, and government emails about it get not just deleted, but deliberately deleted from backups. Eight Quebec police officers suspended
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Dead Wild Roses: Calling in the asshole brigade
There seems to be considerable speculation why Stephen Harper would call on Toronto’s (is it still alleged?) crackhead ex-mayor Rob Ford and his bully brother Doug for support – particularly considering the Prime Minister’s stance on drugs. The answer, to me, is pretty simple. When you boil down Conservative ideology
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There seems to be considerable speculation why Stephen Harper would call on Toronto’s (is it still alleged?) crackhead ex-mayor Rob Ford and his bully brother Doug for support – particularly considering the Prime Minister’s stance on drugs. The answer, to me, is pretty simple. When you boil down Conservative ideology
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Friday Musical Interlude: Dramatic Soprano Style!
The singing year has started for me as well as the Arbourist. My teacher and I have set two goals for this year: That I will develop good practicing habits That I will finally let my big voice out at its full size In furtherance of these goals, she’s assigned
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Back in 2012, Arb and I got married, bought a house, and adopted a dog, all within the space of three months. When we took possession of the house, there really wasn’t time to paint. Which was a shame, because the previous owners had done the place in a very
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The Intransigent CPAP Evangelist
Do you snore? Get tested for sleep apnea. I (used to) snore. Loudly. One time, when I fell asleep before Arb, he took his phone and recorded me snoring, then played it back in my ear until it woke me up. It was ghastly. I also used to be incredibly
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Needless Suffering Even Before the Fall
So I was perusing a Christian’s blog, as I am sometimes wont to do, and she was discussing the Biblical creation story (version 2, which contradicts version 1 from a few verses earlier, but anyway…) In this creation account, Yahweh creates everything else, then places one man (Adam) in the Garden
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: We swim in patriarchal soup
Snapped at a red light on the way home last week This ad only makes sense in the presence of the following cultural subtext: Women’s anger is not valid in the same way that full adult humans’ (i.e. men’s) anger is valid. You don’t need to get to the root
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caturday: we forgot V’s birthday
It was July 7. He’s six now, which makes him a senior kitty according to the local Humane Society. Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday, Cute, grey kitty, V-kitten
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Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday, Cute, grey kitty, sunbeam, White Cat, Woogling
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: In Which Intransigentia tries playing Video Games
How I (mostly) feel about video games I grew up playing with Barbies and reading books, and didn’t really use a computer for anything other than basic word processing until around the turn of the century. On top of that, I have really bad hand-eye coordination, and not great depth
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Caturday: the heat wave has broken Fiona
No, I don’t know where her head is. Filed under: Cute Tagged: caturday, Fiona, White Cat
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Congratulations, neighbors!
A woman in a Ruth Bader-Ginsburg costume celebrates the announcement that SCOTUS ruled in favour of same-sex marriage. Filed under: Culture Tagged: SCOTUS SSM ruling
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The horror… the horror…
I’ll admit it up front, I tend to dress like an unfashionable frump of at least 20 years beyond my chronological age. But I actually really love clothes! Which is how I got hooked on Zulily. More pretty clothes to look at every day? Steeply discounted? Sign me right up!
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Musical Interlude: Iceland Edition
As you read this right now, our choir is on tour in Iceland. One of the songs we are singing is Heyr himna smiður, an Icelandic hymn, with the text of an 800-year-old poem, that was set to music in the 20th century. The harmonies are achingly, spine-tinglingly beautiful. This performance of Heyr himna
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Bullying and the enforcement of normal
Via Shakesville, I stumbled across this powerful and insightful article about bullying among school kids. As somebody who grew up bookish, queerish, funny-looking, and with poor mastery of social skills and “appropriate” gender performance, this totally resonated with me. The furthest I have come is to accept that I have both
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: At the intersection of capitalism and patriarchy
It appears TLC is quite aware on which side its toast is buttered. Look what they were airing a couple weeks before the Duggar scandal broke: Feminists beware: the new TLC special “Submissive Wives’ Guide To Marriage” is sure to stir a hot debate by showing marriages in which the
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Friday Romantic Interlude: Verdi’s Requiem
Speaking of music most likely to get you killed while driving… Here’s what I must never listen to in the car. Not while driving because it could get me killed, and not as a passenger because it could get me committed. I air-conduct. I air-bass-drum. And I sing along. The
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Gardening while female
The front flowerbed at Arb’s and my place is starting to take off – perennials that I’ve planted over the couple years we’ve owned the house, are established enough now, that they can dedicate some energy to blooming! Of course, weather that’s good for flowers is also good for weeds,
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: The DWR Sunday Disservice: Christian “Counselling” for victims of childhood sexual abuse
I am going to start this post with a big fat trigger warning: incest, sexual abuse of children, adults in positions of power revictimizing survivors of sexual abuse, victim-blaming, gaslighting. This is a post about some seriously sick and fucked up shit. The story about the oldest son in the
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