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fullyabstract, 9 months ago to transgender

I was asked by my department head if I was interested in being the faculty representative at the big women in computing conference in Orlando. I replied that as a trans woman it's now “functionally illegal" for me to go to Florida. As in technically not illegal, but impossible to do so in a way that both complies with the law and is safe. Shocked that it's come to this. #Transgender #Florida

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to random

The Real Reason for Marriage Polarization (a response to Washington Post’s editorial)

"It is not irrational for women with socially liberal values to avoid dating people who think that they should be forced to carry an unwanted pregnancy to term, that they should forgo their career once a child is born, that women’s suffrage was a bad idea, or that they should not be allowed to get divorced if the relationship does not work out.”

#GiftLink

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/12/political-gender-divide-marriage/676906/?gift=XPfnPsIJYU4sjgFUASyQNSnpf_OPSyv0UvQRZfpt07U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to animals

Cedric found a box with just the right size!

#CatsOfMastodon

Large tabby cat in box he barely fits in, all contorted.
Large tabby cat in box he barely fits in, contorted, with head visible.
Large tabby cat in box he barely fits in, on back, grooming paw.

fullyabstract, 9 months ago to animals

Cedric is a handful, be we love him!

#CatsOfMastodon

Photo of tabby cat lounging on top of cabinet.

fullyabstract, 5 months ago to transgender

“The idea that in the 1970s a trans woman would be openly practicing as a psychiatrist is revolutionary by itself, when the profession was still struggling to depathologize homosexuality,” Dr. Gill-Peterson said by phone. “But knowing that your psychiatrist understood what it was like to be in your shoes was a tidal shift.”

#GiftLink #Transgender

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/18/us/jeanne-hoff-dead.html?mwgrp=c-dbar&unlocked_article_code=1.HE0.IF1j.-WganVP7M88t&hpgrp=ar-abar&smid=url-share

fullyabstract, 10 months ago to animals

Cedric lying on chair next to me at breakfast this morning - and reaching out an exploratory paw/claw. #CatsOfMastodon

Tabby lying on chair, having head scratched by human.

fullyabstract, 1 year ago to random

Are people in the #ComputerScience community thinking of organized responses to the anti-trans legislation in Florida, Texas and elsewhere in the US? There's the new "bathroom" law in Florida, which will force trans people to use the wrong (and unsafe) restrooms in government buildings, including state universities.

Perhaps @ACM, @ieee_bot and other professional societies should cease hosting conferences in states that have passed anti-trans legislation?

#CS #ACM #IEEE #TransgenderRights

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to random

Experienced totality on a snow covered hill in Northern Vermont. “Totally” awesome.

#Eclipse2024

fullyabstract, 4 months ago to boston

In the mood for an hour-long set of women's folk/rock? Tune in to WMBR tonight from 11pm-midnight for music by Tracy Chapman, Kathleen Edwards, Indigo Girls, K's Choice, Aimee Mann & Dar Williams. On WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org, playlist going up on https://www.track-blaster.com.

#Radio #Boston @wmbr

Cover of Kathleen Edwards’s album “Failer”, featuring a black and white photo of a woman leaning against the hood of a pickup truck with its hood up on a country road.
Cover of Aimee Mann’s album “Whatever”, featuring a photo of a woman (Mann?) dressed in black lying on her side with her boots at the bottom.
Cover of Indigo Girls’s album “Despite Our Differences”, featuring a bright orange cover with cut out letters for “Indigo Girls” upside down at the bottom, and Ray and Saliers’s faces visible through the cut outs.

fullyabstract, 20 days ago to random

“Shibboleth”, by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker

In the campus protests over the war in Gaza, language and rhetoric are—as they have always been when it comes to Israel and Palestine—weapons of mass destruction.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/essay/shibboleth-the-role-of-words-in-the-campus-protests

#ZadieSmith #Gaza #StudentSpring

(Gift links are, sadly, not supported.)

fullyabstract, 14 days ago to boston

Innovative chamber music by Rick Baitz, Joel Chadabe, Gabriel Dharmoo, Juan J.G. Escudero, Yi-Ting Lu & Scott Wollschleger on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/13/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ChamberMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Gabriel Dharmoo and Canada's National Arts Centre Orchestra’s Centrediscs album “Vestiges d'une fable”, featuring a frightening painting of fragments of faces all jumbled up.
Cover of Rick Baitz’s Neuma Records album “River of January”, featuring an abstract painting involving textured rectangles of different sizes.
Cover of Yi-Ting Lu’s New Focus Recordings album “An Unopened Seashell”, featuring a splash of bright colors on a white background.

fullyabstract, 7 days ago to boston

Orchestral music by George Enescu, Lukas Foss, Lawrence Mumford & Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - featuring Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra & Nikki Chooi, Orchestre National de France & Choeur de Radio France, & Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/20/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #OrchestralMusic #ModernClassical

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and conductor JoAnn Falletta’s Naxos American Classics album “Lukas Foss: Symphony No. 1”, featuring an abstract painting of Foss.
Cover of Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s BMOP/sound album “Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 5”, featuring an abstract colorful image of an orchestra being conducted.
Cover of Navona Records’s album “Symphonic Chronicles Vol III”, featuring a wintry scene of a lighthouse, seen through a porthole inside a wreath.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

I'm doing a special fill-in show of genre-defying rock/pop this evening at 8pm on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming on https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ArtRock

@wmbr

Cover of Elvis Costello and the Attractions’s album “Imperial Bedroom”, featuring Barney Bubbles’s pastiche of Pablo Picasso's “Three Musicians”.
Cover of Joni Mitchell’s album “Don Juan’s Reckless Daughter”, featuring a photomontage of three images of Mitchell, on in her Black persona.
Cover of John Cale and Lou Reed’s album “Songs for Drella”, featuring photos of Reed (left) and Cale (right) on a black background, on which a ghostly image of their subject Andy Warhol is visible.

fullyabstract, 16 hours ago to boston

Music by Erica Dicker / Eli Wallace / Deric Dickens, Orlando Jacinto García, Sarah Hennies, Mathew Rosenblum & Jason Treuting - featuring Sō Percussion / Beth Meyers / Grey Mcmurray / Angélica Negrón / Alex Sopp ..., Jamie Jordan / Talujon Percussion, ensemble 0, & Adrían Sandí - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/27/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ModernClassical #NewMusic

@contemporarymusic
@womencomposers
@NewFocusRecordings
@wmbr

Cover of Orlando Jacinto García’s New Focus Recordings album “la vida que vendrá”, featuring what looks like a photo of waves breaking on black rocks, on a black background.
Cover of Mathew Rosenblum’s Cantaloupe Music album “We Lived Happily During the War”, featuring a photo of shadows of three people against a concrete building.
Cover of Sarah Hennies’s New World Records album “Motor Tapes”, featuring a model of the brain with red blood vessals, sticking out of a transparent model of a face.

fullyabstract, 9 days ago to boston

Enjoyed the listening session this evening at the MIT Spatial Sound Lab: Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon”, in quadraphonic surround.

#Boston #Cambridge #MIT

fullyabstract, 17 days ago to boston

In a special fill-in show this (5/8/24) evening from 8-9pm, I'm revisiting some of the music of my youth, including songs from the first albums I purchased. Broadcasting on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM, streaming on https://wmbr.org, and available for 2 weeks in our archive.

#Boston #Radio @wmbr

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fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

Music for wind instruments by Ferdinando DeSena, Elizabeth Hoffman, Pascal Le Boeuf, Paolo Marchettini & Ellen Taaffe Zwilich - featuring Akropolis Reed Quintet / Le Boeuf / Christian Euman, Arcadian Winds, Glass Farm Ensemble, Sarah Brady / Boston Modern Orchestra Project, & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/15/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #Winds

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings @NeumaRecords

Cover of Akropolis Reed Quintet, Pascal Le Boeuf & Christian Euman’s Bright Shiny Things album “Are We Dreaming The Same Dream?”, featuring bunches of colorful yarn loosely braided together.
Cover of Glass Farm Ensemble’s Neuma Records album “Nieuw Amsterdam New York”, featuring a photo of the city’s buildings in silhouette, with a bluish tint.
Cover of Ellen Taaffe Zwilich’s and Boston Modern Orchestra Project’s BMOP/sound album “Ellen Taaffe Zwilich: Symphony No. 5”, featuring an abstract image suggesting a conductor conducting an orchestra.

fullyabstract, 21 days ago to boston

Choral music on environmental themes by Christopher Cerrone, Nicholas Cline & Jeffrey Derus - featuring The Crossing, Lorelei Ensemble / Matthew Levy & Choral Arts Initiative - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (5/6/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #ChoralMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic

Cover of The Crossing’s Navona Records album “Motion Studies”, featuring a graphic of a large spotlight shining a wide beam upward, with the album’s title in the beam
Cover of Jeffrey Derus’s Navona Records album “From Wilderness”, featuring a photo of a mountain lake at twilight with a tree covered ridge on the left bank, the smooth lake surface reflecting the purple sky.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

A beautiful spring afternoon walking toward Kenmore Square in Boston today.

#Boston #Spring

fullyabstract, 28 days ago to random

“But for Ms. Gendreau, 62, who was also a state senator representing northern New Hampshire, the mural had set off alarms. She was certain there were subversive messages in its imagery, planted there by the nonprofit group that had planned and paid for it.

The group was North Country Pride, founded four years ago to build more visible support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in the rural region.”

#GiftLink

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/us/littleton-new-hampshire-mural.html?unlocked_article_code=1.n00.8LKH.Z1-JIXMocWg3&smid=url-share

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

Music by Robert Carl, James Díaz, J.P.A. Falzone, Austin Oting Har & Wadada Leo Smith - featuring Arditti Quartet, Julia Jung Un Suh, Large Furniture, Laura Wachsmann, Ostrava New Orchestra, RedKoral Quartet & Robert Black - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/22/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Radio #Boston #ExperimentalMusic #ElectronicMusic

@wmbr
@contemporarymusic
@NewFocusRecordings
@NeumaRecords

Cover of J.P.A. Falzone’s New World Records album “A Curving Abacus”, featuring a graphic with unfolding planar graphs on a white background.
Cover of Austin Oting Har’s Neuma Records album “The World Between Worlds / Ataraxia”, featuring a graphic of what looks like abstract sand dunes.
Cover of Robert Carl’s Neuma Records album “Infinity Avenue”, featuring a graphic of a orangish textured, stretched surface with scattered gaps in it, showing black underneath.

fullyabstract, 28 days ago to boston

Music for voices by Clarice Assad, Lainie Fefferman, Reiko Füting & Alex Weiser - featuring Inna Faliks, Vocalconsort labia vocalia, Meaghan Burke, Martha Cluver, Caroline Shaw & TRANSIT New Music, Annie Rosen, & more - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/29/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #VocalMusic

@wmbr @contemporarymusic @womencomposers @NewFocusRecordings

Cover of Reiko Füting’s New Focus Recordings album “brokenSong”, featuring a photo of glass fronted skyscrapers.
Cover of pianist Inna Faliks’s Sono Luminus album “Manuscripts Don’t Burn”, featuring a headshot of performer, with part of the left side of her head and her left shoulder cut off.
Cover of Alex Weiser’s Cantaloupe Music album “in a dark blue night”, featuring a painting of Manhattan at night, with the skyscrapers looking a bit like lighted candles.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to boston

Innovative vocal music by Justine F. Chen, Kate Soper, Diego Tedesco, Jorge Diego Vázquez Salvagno & Ania Vu - featuring The Crossing, TAK Ensemble, Natalia Cappa, & Hirona Amamiya / Christiana Cole / Brett Umlauf - on Not Brahms and Liszt Monday (4/8/24) 4-5:30pm ET on WMBR Cambridge 88.1 FM streaming https://wmbr.org

#Boston #Radio #VocalMusic

@wmbr @NewFocusRecordings @contemporarymusic @womencomposers

Cover of Kate Soper’s New Focus Recordings album “The Hunt”, featuring the three soprano performers in costume on a black background, with inverted versions of perhaps themselves descending from above - and “The Hunt” in graphic letters on top.
Cover of The Crossing’s Navona Records album “Motion Studies”, featuring a graphic with a searchlight with a purple base streaming light upward - all on a textured turquoise background.
Cover of Society of Composers, Inc.’s Navona Records album “Transitions and Apotheosis”, featuring a colorful graphic of a vertical city in the clouds.

fullyabstract, 1 month ago to animals

Good morning, sunshine! #CatsOfMastodon