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blogrolls or sharing?
Just the mere thought of trying to assemble a list of my recommended blogs gives me mild anxiety not worth the confronting. This is why—and I’ve mentioned this before, of course—my solution simply is to present you with an updating list of the actual blog posts by other people that I’ve actually read. This list appears at the bottom of my front page, above a separate list of places to find more blogs.
It was a really big effort to bring all my RSS subscriptions together into my blogroll, and now I’m reading this post and realizing that sharing posts I liked, with context, is more useful anyway… oops. Guess I’m doing both 🙂
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La masculinité de rattrapage
Hey, are the prescribed gender roles present in all too many of our “self-made men” a bad defense mechanism? That would be bad right?
En une phrase : La communauté transmasculine semble avoir régressé dans la conviction que pour devenir un homme, il faut devenir l’homme le plus masculin possible. Mes notes détaillées Les hommes trans ne sont pas des « self-made-men » : ils redécouvrent souvent ce qu’il reste des archétypes de la masculinité toxique, et les affichent en ligne…
Being broke, poor, or maybe just upper middle class in an upper class world
Drew Burnett Gregory (Autostraddle)I could respond to every sign of immense privilege with reasons why I still had less than the people around me. I mean, do wealthy people grow up hearing their parents worry about money? I thought, of course not. The real answer is, of course. Everyone worries about money! My parents would argue they had to take loans out to pay for my college and rich people can pay out of pocket. But the truth is there are just levels to being rich.
I really liked the way this post used personal experience and a couple of movies to remind us that there are different levels of rich and of privilege. I had the exact same struggles as the author when in business school: many of my peers were going to all the fancy open-champagne skiing events, while…
How to do a good bad job « trying » with your loved one’s transition
Trail off immediately [after using the right pronoun] if you can, to demonstrate that the effort has drained your slender resources. “The store…” What were you saying? Who can remember? Your voice has been stolen. This is so hard!!!
After the excellent Avoiding transition by family committee, here’s the other side of the coin: How to do a good bad job « trying » with your loved one’s transition. Hilarious, and horribly true, as usual.
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James (jamesg.blog)This is the tenth post in the Advent of Technical Writing series, wherein I will share something I have learned from my experience as a technical writer. My experience is primarily in software technical writing, but what you read may apply to different fields, too. View all posts in the series.
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This is something I never quite know how to approach at work. Thanks for writing it, James − it’s going to be shared with my colleagues!