The World is Busted Link Round Up Edition

Ok, way too many busted things going on, so this is going to be mostly a links post: Elegy for Appalachia. 42 new mountaintop removal sites in Appalachia have been approved by the EPA. Basically (and there are way more details in the link), mountaintop removal is when the top 1,000 feet or so of [...]

Hate Crimes During PDX Pride

I’ve been a little slow on passing this along, as my life has been full of stressful and emotional trying drama of my own lately, but two crimes targeted at queers occurred at the Blow Pony party on Saturday June 13th during PDX Pride, and a trans woman was assaulted on public transit on Sunday [...]

11 Year Old Jaheem Herrera Dies From Anti-Gay Bullying

From the Advocate — click through for full article.: Family members of an 11-year-old boy who committed suicide in DeKalb County, Ga., on Thursday afternoon say that relentless bullying is to blame for their son’s death, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution . Jaheem Herrera, a fifth-grader at Dunaire Elementary School in the Atlanta area, hanged [...]

Carl Joseph Walker-Hoove Dies Because of Homophobic Bullying

Womanist Musings has an excellent post on this. This has really hit me hard, because he was so young, only 11, and I used to substitute teach in that school district (not in the charter school). And his mother did absolutely everything she could, and it looks like the administration not only did not do [...]