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Outspoken Gay Rights Advocate Chris Kluwe Released From Minnesota Vikings - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 07 May 13 - No Cached
  • Kluwe's release comes after the Baltimore Ravens released Brendon Ayanbadejo, another prominent gay-rights advocate. Both are part of the group Athlete Ally, which works to end homophobia in sports.
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Letters of Note: Dear 8 year-old Teresa - 1 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 27 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Lisa Stewart on 27 Mar 12
     
    fun website indexing many moving letters/correspondence
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Language Log » Univocal heteroglossia - 1 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • I don't think that the Greek rhetoricians had a word for the juxtaposition of disparate styles represented by passages like "not only are you violating the First Amendment, you also come across as a narcissistic fromunda stain".
  • Kluwe's status as an athlete provides the ethos, the high style carries the logos, and the trash-talking establishes the pathos.
  • Lisa Stewart on 13 Sep 12
     
    "For the past three years, Brendon Ayanbadejo, a backup linebacker and standout special-teams player for the [Baltimore] Ravens, has been advocating for same-sex marriage-writing about it, talking about it, appearing as one of the stars of a video campaign launched by backers of a measure to legalize it in Maryland. It's not his day job, but he's gotten enough attention for it that an anti-gay-marriage Maryland state legislator wrote to the owner of the Ravens and demanded that he shut Ayanbadejo up."
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Rookie » 2011 » November » 21 - 2 views

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  • Lisa Stewart on 21 Nov 11
     
    Online magazine for teen girls: founded and edited by girls. Takes submissions.
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YouTube - Joel Burns tells gay teens "it gets better" - 2 views

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  • Lisa Stewart on 18 Oct 10
     
    Please watch.
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North Korea's Digital Underground - Magazine - The Atlantic - 0 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 09 Mar 11 - No Cached
  • these new media organizations are helping to create something remarkable: a corps of North Korean citizen-journalists practicing real journalism inside the country.
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Adorable Prom Invitation Gets High Schooler Banned From Prom - TIME NewsFeed - 3 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 12 May 11 - No Cached
  • James Tate, a senior at Shelton High School in Connecticut, worked through the night posting 12-inch letters on his school building to grandly ask his friend to prom. She said yes. But his school said no, suspending him for bad behavior.
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YouTube - George Takei vs. Tennessee's "Don't Say Gay" Bill - 0 views

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  • Lisa Stewart on 20 May 11
     
    The original Mr. Sulu employs rhetoric to reduce to absurdity a bill introduced in Tennessee that would forbid public school teachers from discussing homosexuality in classrooms.
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3 more teens enter plea deal in bullying case - TODAY News - TODAY.com - 5 views

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shared by Lisa Stewart on 05 May 11 - No Cached
  • Lisa Stewart on 05 May 11
     
    Apologies and plea deals in Phoebe Prince case
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