* Evil Slutopia dreams of Joe Biden:

I had a Joe Biden dream the other night. I was at some event where he was speaking, and I snuck backstage so I could talk to him. (Apparently there are no Secret Service agents in dreams, which made it really easy.) I told him all about the Joe Biden Feminism Watch, and he laughed and was all “no, really?”, and I was all “yes, really!”, and he thought it was awesome and gave me a hug. I also gave him an ESC business card, and then had to explain what our name means and that we weren’t posting about his feminist achievements in between porn and/or erotica posts. (Not that there would be anything wrong with that, but it would have required a longer explanation probably.) So he took the card and he was happy and thought it was all cool, and then he went off to give his speech and I woke up with a massive hangover.

* The New Gay is looking for submissions and editors.

* Reproductive Health Reality Check writes on how euthanasia registers as a reproductive rights victory.

* Dr. Shirin Ebadi, an Iranian activist and Nobel Laureate, faces increased threats to her person and home. Most recently, an angry mob “chanting death threats”:

Ebadi told the Campaing for Equality that “there are a lot of writers on this street, but I am the only writer who is also a traitor! I called the police immediately after the mob arrived. Two police officers arrived on the scene. They stood and watched, as those chanting slogans spray painted my home and attacked the building. They stood and watched, until it was over. The mob left and then the police also left.” [via Feminist Majority Foundation].

* Via Feministing: Now, get rehabilitation for your Internet addiction—they’re doing it for kids in China! Actually, don’t, because your Internet addiction may very well be the only thing keeping my newspaper afloat.

Photo via trialsanderrors.

The GLLU, MPD’s Gay and Lesbian Liason Unit, serves the District’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender communities. Last week in police activity related to the GLBT community—including a New Years hate crime and a knife-wielding ex-lover—below.

* New Years (conflict) resolution. Thu., Jan. 1, at 12:30 a.m. Police responded to a home at 13th St. & Iowa Ave. NW after the report of an assault. There, they found two males, both “suffering from minor injuries and heavily intoxicated.” The story: When the men stepped outside for a New Years smoke, “three black females” approached and subjected the men to “homophobic taunts.” A “verbal exchange ensued.” The three women called for back-up: “two black males.” The men were assaulted. Police have no suspects, but are encouraging “community members to avoid confronting others on homophobic language, especially when alcohol is present.”

Read More “The Week in GLBT Police Activity: New Years Edition” »

Rejoice, Mark Foley’s fabled AIM contact list of nubile young pages! As City Paper’s very own Loose Lips gloriously aggregated this morning, D.C. Councilperson Mary Cheh is standing up for a main target of sex harassment in D.C. workplaces: Interns. Currently, this hot, unpaid segment of D.C.’s interns are fresh out of luck if their employers get fresh—they can’t sue for “harassment or discrimination,” the Examiner reports, because they’re not paid employees. Cheh hopes to change that by introducing legislation today that would  allow interns to sue. In a news release, Cheh called D.C.  “the best internship city in the country,â€� a title marred only by its glaring lack of “basic legal protections.â€�

23/6 has compiled a list comparing Barack Obama’s inauguration to the 25th annual Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend festivities, which will occur the same week. Spoiler alert: Riffing on “balls” ahead!

Photo via the Centaur Motorcycle Club.

Do you like luxury?

* This 22-year-old Midwestern woman [posting has been flagged for removal] enjoys the finer things in life—do you have them? “I’m a very outgoing intelligent, educated, attractive women who would enjoy a fun historic moment with someone,” she writes. “I would like to go to places where that are high end and classy (different than what I’m used to) so someone who is well of financially would be appropriate.” Those who can offer her a refined inaugural experience won’t be disappointed. “I’m not trying to brag but I’m sure you’ll find me very appealing,” she writes. But this Midwesterner isn’t looking for just any well-off, high-end, classy guy. “Note that it is extremely important that I’m attracted to you; otherwise there is not point,” she writes.

Read More “Inauguration Date Round-Up: Flagged For Removal Edition” »

* Reproductive Health Reality Check details the Democratic response to Bush’s “conscience rule” for medical providers. Party leaders have said they want to reverse it. What they haven’t said is how.

* Wonkette discovers the FOX News Twitter feed hacked by a hillllaaaarious 12-year-old. The tweet? “Breaking: Bill O Riley is gay”

* Gender Goggles collects blogs from male feminist allies.

* According to W, life as aGossip Girl extra is . . . vaguely depressing:

I was inspecting the buffet options when I noticed someone wave at me. I quickly realized the guy summoning me was sitting next to none other than Nate and Chuck! Immediately all the blood in my body rushed to my face and my hands started trembling uncontrollably. The man introduced himself and said they had just been discussing how “rad” my headphones were. To be honest, Nate and Chuck didn’t seem particularly impressed, not even making eye contact with me. Nonetheless, it took me an hour to recover from just standing that close to them.

* This Sunday, BeBar will host an 18-and-over benefit for gay marriage in D.C.

Photo via trialsanderrors

1. Robo Dino Sex: A “Best of Craigslist” Interlude proves that my readers are classy

2. Bitter Pill: How the District’s Pharmacies Hurt Women calls out the guys in the white coats

3. A Very Androgynous Christmas details one more holiday on the road to middlesex

4. Abstinence is Out: What Little Girls Should Pledge Instead encourages betting against grade-school virginity

5. Don’t Fucking Tell Me to Smile, Baby explains why I wont turn that frown upside down

6. Star in the Sarah Palin Adult Film just won’t die

7. The Morning After: A $300,000 Tripp Edition tells you how to identify a “slut”

8. Diesel Sells Jeans Through Ridiculous Porn Satire Featuring No Jeans explains self

9. Tom Petty: Heartbreaker asks, Tom Petty: misogynist, genius, or both?

10. Blind Item: San Francisco Journo Seeks Inauguration Date is “engrossing,” “poignant,” “refined”

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Via Feministing: The Younger Women’s Task Force is organizing a get-together to mark the launch of Stand Up for D.C. Women!, a “project that aims to raise awareness about injustices in the treatment of sexual assault victims by law enforcement and health care institutions in D.C.” While that’s not the most feel-good party theme in the world, the beers at CommonWealth might help to lighten the mood. Here’s the info:

Monday, Jan. 5, 2009 (that’s today), 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
The CommonWealth Pub, 1400 Irving Street NW, Washington, D.C.

YWTF says that the Stand Up project aims to encourage victims of sexual assault to report the crimes, and to encourage D.C. organizations to make that process as easy as possible. Cheers to that!

Former City Paper staffer Angela Valdez was on NPR’s Tell Me More today to talk about an obit she wrote for the latest issue of The Washington Post Magazine. Valdez profiled Iris Bouchard, a Puerto Rican immigrant who carved out a niche with the Washington elite through the service entrance—with a self-started business that placed maids and butlers in the homes of D.C.’s finest. Bouchard’s own family didn’t realize the extent of her influence until her death last April. “They would sometimes sort of think that their mom was exaggerating a little bit” when she dropped names, Valdez told NPR. But when rifling through Buchard’s belongings last spring, her children found “receipts from the Kennedy’s and some of the biggest names in D.C.” Bouchard’s name will never rank among them, but she still “sounded like a sort of fabulous woman,” says Valdez. “She had been a hat model, but he had this very successful business that she built on her own without very much support from her husband.”

The nation’s liberal elite won’t be the only group celebrating in Washington on inauguration week. Mid-January, the District will also play host to the Mid-Atlantic Leather Weekend’s 25th anniversary bash, Page One Q reports. The weekend, organized by the Centaur Motorcycle Club, an organization that claims an “enthusiastic interest in motorcycles, leather, and other men,” will take place from Friday, Jan. 16 to Sunday, Jan. 18, just two days prior to Barack Obama’s swearing in. Despite the proximity of the two events, an Obama spokesperson says that the president-elect won’t be spending his last weekend as a civilian in patent leather bondage gear, dancing the night away at Apex after the conclusion of the the Mr. MAL pageant. Via Page One Q:

Obama will probably not be able to attend any of the Leather Weekend festivities. “Let’s just say it’s likely the president-elect will be occupied with many other activities,” spokeswoman Linda Douglass told ABC News.

Image via the Centaur Motorcycle Club.