Snapshot of the week ending : 2009-07-06

The Olympics occurring in Vancouver next year have been on my mind a lot. Maybe because the frenetic pace of gearing up has been increasing at my work place.I link and link and link to stories.

Simultaneously, I see stories about movement forward in the sex-positive world. I link and link and link…

• BIG Surprise: ProvGov’t Refuses to Prohibit Olympic Evictions. http://bit.ly/pTgaA Register your rental housing http://bit.ly/EFnvk
• How is it that the US Department of Defense will be in my city for the Olympics? Nothing sporting about the military. http://bit.ly/Gjlax
• We think to ourselves: it can’t be that easy or it’s too hard.. Often it takes only courage and tenacity. Life ain’t no video game
• Diane Ragsdale’s awesome speech on at the Vancouver Arts Summit last Thursday: http://bit.ly/aB9z7 “Live blogging” at: http://bit.ly/g0CJd
• Vancouver is spending big $$ on public art for the Olympics and Paralympics. Exhibition of projects being delivered: http://bit.ly/9aH5L
• BC member of Parliment urges full coverage for sex reassignment surgery across Canada http://bit.ly/YmpTZ. your thoughts?
• Fetishization… Chinese Sex Exhibit in Toronto Displays Asian Sexual Culture http://bit.ly/fCByT. What other culture/s does this happen to?
• Lately I’ve been thinking re online: identity verification, reputation management and social capital. What’s the “tipping point”?
• OH CANADA! Aqua bus, Granville Island, the parade and next is the fireworks. How are you celebrating?
• Question … Why wear a fullback if its going to behave like a thong? There should be a law. Petition anyone?
• BC/Ottawa join forces to stop racism http://bit.ly/16ns87 and Vancouver Pride not eligible for federal funds http://bit.ly/3nZgU
• Gay sex decriminalized in India’s capital http://bit.ly/4cYvqp Day by day; step by step… what times we live in! So says my granny…
• Who are our common reference points? On community-building and the social bonding aspects of celebrity culture http://bit.ly/smWLw
• SHOUT! Priape Vancouver is now selling latex wear from Polymorphe! Holla! Not just for men either. They’ll order women’s in…
• Reading the 13-part bible-inspired series “Children of the Lion”. Now I want to read the bible again. Have you ever read it?
• Hmm Yet another msg re: structured relationships, families, communities, levels of protocol. Do you question? Do you have answers?

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