Metropolitan populations 2007.

For several years I have had an interest in the demography of metropolitan areas (as defined by the US Census Bureau). (The Foucaultian in me is a little sketched out by this bio-power-y fascination, but oh well.) I’m interested in knowing such things as the total population, racial make-up, income, poverty, and voting-patterns of metro [...]

My Coming Out Birthday!

Today, May 14, is my “coming out birthday.” It marks not the first time I ever identified as queer or gay to myself or to another person, but the first time I thus identified to another person with the intent of publicly continuing to do so. The past 9 years have been rambunctious, chaotic, delightful, [...]

NPR: Women Training for Construction Post-Katrina.

This program in Mississippi seems pretty cool. Unemployed women train through a free, 7-week state program to gain the skills for entering construction trades. What struck me most, listening to the story on ME after waking up, is that it not only empowers women economically, it contests gender-labor boundaries. The rather comprehensive program includes money [...]

Towards my coming out birthday.

… There is, though, one tradition that I am may have finally shed, and gladly! For 10 of the past 12 springs – and 7 of the past 8 – I have had the stupidity and immaturity to fall for yet another Unavailable Guy (UAG)….