FeelingElephants

Here's the story behind my blog's title.

I use the power of the internet to take human trafficking offline for my day job, but what I say here is mine, all mine.

The militarization of Starfleet and the future of the United Nations

I just returned from the midnight showing of Into Darkness, the newest in the Star Trek reboot, so if you don’t want spoilers, don’t read on.

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The ridiculous way I swear when I’m really angry

This is the trouble with growing up polite. When I am angry, really angry, I swear like a child. A small, pigtailed, pink-dress-wearing child. Below is an actual example from last night when I accidentally put myself on the wrong side of the Potomac for my choir practice, and my friend who gives me a [...]

3 Things We Should Stop Being Ashamed Of: Bodies, Money, Sex.

I think there are things in the world for which people should be ashamed and shamed. I tweet about them nearly every day through the Polaris Project handle. I think people should be ashamed of hurting each other, should feel shame when they make someone else’s day harder.

But there are things I think we [...]

Inauguration 2013

One of my favorite things about Inauguration Day is the crowd. Ladies in ankle-length fur coats, hipsters in hip-huggers, gentlemen in ankle-length fur coats, kids in find-me-in-a-crowd-colored coats, couples, bottle-blond women, natural-haired women, men in fishing caps and men in campaign caps. It almost feels like an accurate demographic sampling of America.

Here’s the [...]

49 Minutes to Midnight–Who Will You Call?

Ok, thanks to Sinead Toolis I made 25 calls for Obama for America. It was a surprisingly painless experience, and I feel a lot better about the election now.

You’ve got an hour before 9pm on the West Coast, so if you have a few minutes, call NV voters. President Obama needs to catch [...]