R&R&R&R&R

so i'm in san francisco for the weekend, holed up at the inn on castro trying to decompress from the Damelo Todo shoot (finally living up to it's name) before i head to the wexner for 3 week of editing... have no thoughts in my brain at all, no needs, and not ready to do anything, so i thought i would just throw out whatever's been on my radar this week that didn't quite materialize cause i had to deprioritize everything to get through 17-hour shooting dayz... email inbox is about 10 times what it should be so i wil get to that too please thank you for your patience!

first of all

alexander mqueenish hips combined with the ultimate tranny-sucking spandex tights makes this the look of 2010 doncha think? (along with beyone's new cgi-enhanced dance moves in general) i would literally wear this look until it fell off my body

CALVES

what makes da calves work best is heels that match a skin tone of course

PRIVATIZATION OF PRISONS IN GENERAL

in his final annual address to the legislature last week schwarzenegger announced a plan to further cut public funding of prisons in favor of the private sector. he calls this "choosing universities over prisons" - yet another example of the slippery debate around california's insane incarceration crisis. according to the nytimes article, the CA system houses roughly 170,000 inmates in its 33 prisons and 12 community correctional facilities and has an annual budget of roughly $10.6 billion; the private prison industry is one of the few growth industries in CA's recession economy. checkout the statewide campaign called Californians United for a Responsible Budget (CURB) which is a broad based of over 40 orgs seeking to reduce prison spending by reducing the number of people in prison and number of prisons in the state...

BOUTIQUE PRISON BUSINESS CONTINUES TO FIND NEW MARKETS

Italy to open first prison for transgender inmates

perhaps the first of it's kind in the world... italy is riviving an almost empty prison - i guess we are supposed to be excited that they are making it a trans prison rather than CLOSING it. so here is yet another example of how twisted the issue of incarceration is for the trans movement. you would think this is a good thing, right? except that remember from earlier discussions about hate crimes laws, the ultimate goal is not define rights in terms of the lives that are locked away. like we don't necessarily want to fight to put MORE people in jail, and feed an industrial complex that discriminates like 6-10 times more against people of color, poor people, and trans folks... AH ANYWAYZ... back to braindead. starting tomorrow i will be a human being again.