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I love it when Amazon decides that it's FINE to have a hundred thousand books titled "Alpha-Bitten" or "Omega's Pride" or "Dominated By The Bilionaire" and it's FINE.

But my book with ZERO SEXUAL CONTENT that has been on Amazon for YEARS is now being deemed "INAPPROPRIATE" because gasp QUEER.

A Lake of Feathers and Moonbeams is a COMFY and SWEET Fantasy Romance. But it's got a bi woman, a pan woman, and a non-binary ✨ experience ✨ and this is apparently TOO MUCH SEX???

"...we determined that your book contains sexually suggestive content.

To help ensure a good customer experience, we don't allow provocative content, such as: References or acronyms related to certain sexual practices (such as Alpha, BDSM, Dom, Sub or Multi-partner themes such as Harem, RH or MMF)..."

So now my book is relegated to the Amazon Dungeons, meaning I can't run …

In August 2020 Stevie Nicks was interviewed about the dangers of COVID - she was imploring fans to mask up to protect themselves - and her.

“It is a silent killer hiding in the shadows. It is stalking you. It doesn’t care who you are…It’s just looking for a victim.”

Yesterday she was spotted at a Taylor Swift concert wearing a respirator. I love to see high profile individuals leading by example. Not just telling people to mask - but actively DOING it 4 years later.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/stevie-nicks-coronavirus-102237737.html

Screenshot of a tweet from The Eras Tour that reads The Eras Tour @tswifterastour Follow STEVIE NICKS ATTENDS NIGHT 3 OF TAYLOR SWIFT'S 'THE ERAS TOUR' IN DUBLIN, IRELAND! #DublinTSTheEras Tour Has two photos of Stevie nicks in a black respirator.

THEIR EXPERIENCE OF REJECTION IS THE ARTWORK

For the last 4 years, the Tasmanian Museum of Old and New Art has been running an installation called The Ladies Lounge. Only people who identify as ladies are allowed to enter. In the lounge, they can sit in luxury and look at famous artworks by Picasso etc, which are not available elsewhere in the museum. They are served champagne and pampered by male butlers. It was meant as a comment on exclusionary men's clubs (which still exist in Australia and elsewhere).

Some dude got upset about it and sued the gallery for entry at the anti-discrimination tribunal. The artist, Kirsha Kaechele, said she was "absolutely delighted" that the exhibit had been taken to court. “The men are experiencing Ladies Lounge, their experience of rejection is the artwork,” she said.

She then turned the tribunal hearing into part of the …

The move comes as Japan faces increasing pressure to become more supportive of the country's LGBT community and address discrimination concerns, with the Asian country lagging behind other G7 members. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2023/05/13/national/social-issues/g7-communique-lgbtq-support/?utm_content=buffer629d1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn

Today in History April 27, 1882: Jessie Redmon Fauset was born. She was an African-American editor, poet, essayist, novelist, and educator. Her emphasis on portraying an accurate image of African-American life and history inspired literature of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. In her fiction, she created black characters who were working professionals. This was inconceivable to white Americans at the time. Her stories dealt with themes like racial discrimination, "passing", and feminism. From 1919 to 1926, she was literary editor of The Crisis, a NAACP magazine.

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Fauset, seated, wearing a dress and a pearl necklace, looking directly at the camera.