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	<description>Religion, SF, and Other Speculative Fictions.</description>
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		<title>Invitation to a Group Creativity Experiment.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/15/invitation-to-a-group-creativity-experiment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/15/invitation-to-a-group-creativity-experiment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:46:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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Past collaborative projects here at Mind on Fire have produced some fine creative work, like the results of the 18-hour comic day, and the virtual First of May Choir&#8211;you know, the JoCo song that goes, &#8220;First of May, First of May, Outdoor fucking starts today&#8221; (original call, final song). In the that same spirit of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ghosts of Myself.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/15/ghosts-of-myself/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/15/ghosts-of-myself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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Since I mentioned zombies and vampires which made xJane in turn think of ghosts, I thought I&#8217;d post this ghostly picture. Inspiration cycle! 
I&#8217;m kind of proud of this, less for the outcome and more for the fact that from first test shot to Photoshopping to uploading, it took me 57 minutes. You can view [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: Walking with a Ghost</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/15/music-monday-walking-with-a-ghost/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/15/music-monday-walking-with-a-ghost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:07:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Monday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, John&#8217;s request for favorite vampire/zombie movies and books reminded me of this—which is a song and about ghosts. So…yeah, I don&#8217;t know what the connection is. I love the simplicity and sweetness of this track and the awesome video made me love it even more.

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		<title>On uppity lesbians.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/12/on-uppity-lesbians/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/12/on-uppity-lesbians/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:54:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gay Rights and Queer Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For some reason, usually when I hear about homophobic bigots being homophobically bigoted, they&#8217;re doing it against gay men. I have my own theories about why lesbians fly under the radar (girl-on-girl appeals het men, the mere existence of lesbians doesn&#8217;t threaten men and who cares if it threatens women, &#038;c.), but no more. The [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rainbow Shelf in the New Yorker Online</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/11/rainbow-shelf-in-the-new-yorker-online/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/11/rainbow-shelf-in-the-new-yorker-online/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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Rainbow Shelf in the New Yorker Online, originally uploaded by mind on fire.


Just wanted to make sure that this official connection between our names and CatGirl&#8217;s image and the New Yorker was recorded for posterity. 
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>PWW</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/10/pww/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/03/10/pww/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:16:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have only recently discovered the concept of &#8220;privilege&#8221; and freely admit that I am a privileged white [heterosexual] woman. I&#8217;ve probably got a lot of other privilege, too. I grew up in the United States to parents who cared about my education—they even paid for my college education—and now I am in law school. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Spirituality for Skeptics.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/25/spirituality-for-skeptics/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/25/spirituality-for-skeptics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 19:49:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Atheism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Skeptic]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Spirituality]]></category>

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Hi. My name is John, and I&#8217;m a spiritual atheist.
Like &#8220;God,&#8221; the word &#8220;spirituality,&#8221; is a conveniently ambiguous term. That said, it&#8217;s not so vague as to be totally meaningless. I think it captures an area of concern better than any other term out there. I especially like Wikipedia&#8217;s definition:
Spirituality can refer to an ultimate [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>[TV/Movie] Awards and Gender</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/23/tvmovie-awards-and-gender/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/23/tvmovie-awards-and-gender/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Let us take as a given that most (all?) awards for excellence in the entertainment industry are irredeemably political. The issuance of awards as well as the events during which such awards are given and announced are deeply affected by how the public will react—often from the standpoint of how such awards will affect ratings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music Monday: Backstabber, by the Dresden Dolls.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/22/music-monday-backstabber-by-the-dresden-dolls/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/22/music-monday-backstabber-by-the-dresden-dolls/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Music Monday]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know that Amanda is often ampersanded with Neil Gaiman (and vise versa) these days, but I let myself take a little nostalgic trip back to the days when AFP and Brian Viglione worked a little magic together:

Many thanks to my friend Erika for turning me on to this delectable madness, which I somehow missed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Socio-economic Inequality between Men linked to Abuse of Women.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/22/socio-economic-inequality-between-men-linked-to-abuse-of-women/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/22/socio-economic-inequality-between-men-linked-to-abuse-of-women/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:33:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I cam across this illustration of how sexism and class differences are linked in the Wikipedia article on honor killing:
There is a strong positive correlation between violence against women, and women&#8217;s social power and equality; and a baseline of development, associated with access to basic resources, health care, and human capital, such as literacy &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Not a &#8220;girl&#8221;.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/19/not-a-girl/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/19/not-a-girl/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=2092</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In Germany, when a female turns 16, she ceases to be &#8220;Fräulein&#8221; (little woman) and becomes &#8220;Frau&#8221; (woman, or lady). I like this tradition and think that it speaks well of treating a child as a full member of the community, even before he or she actually becomes one. Similarly, the bar/bat mitzvah tradition recognizes [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Choice = Choice</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/04/choice-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/04/choice-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:14:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=2080</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ll be spending this Super Bowl with my sisters, who are members of Feminists for Life (&#8220;because women deserve better&#8221;), who are &#8220;pro-life&#8221;, and who think that birth control is immoral and abortion should be illegal (with strong punishments for the doctor who performs the abortion and practically no punishment for the woman who chose [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>This is My Story.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/03/this-is-my-story/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/03/this-is-my-story/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 14:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=2072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, the last star faded cooly into the dark universal night. It took hundreds of billions of years to die, but no one remained to count the eons. Eventually even the electrons died. 
This is not my story.
Once upon a time, a sentient race was born under a sky full of red [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Reconsidering a Focus on Feminist Advocacy.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/02/reconsidering-a-focus-on-feminist-advocacy/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/02/reconsidering-a-focus-on-feminist-advocacy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 03:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Feminism]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.mindonfire.com/?p=2069</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have a several areas of my life that I&#8217;m looking hard at and reexamining right now. If this blogging experiment proves helpful, maybe I&#8217;ll follow up with a couple more personal explorations. I know I&#8217;m going to feel a little exposed, but here goes:
During my last few years in Mormonism, I self-identified as a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Limitations of the First Amendment</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/02/limitations-of-the-first-amendment/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/02/02/limitations-of-the-first-amendment/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 22:39:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America reads (in pertinent part):
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
This has, historically, been interpreted to include other official acts by the government. Here, &#8220;Congress&#8221; is read (due to the context of the other Amendments, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>My Excommunication Posts are Up for a Niblet Award.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/29/my-excommunication-posts-are-up-for-a-niblet-award/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/29/my-excommunication-posts-are-up-for-a-niblet-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mormon]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past couple of years, I&#8217;ve gradually withdrawn from my engagement in the Mormon blogging world (affectionately referred to as the &#8216;Bloggernacle&#8217;), but I&#8217;m going to take one last little dive back into it.  Apparently my excommunication experience has been nominated in the write-in category for the Niblet awards, and it&#8217;s doing all [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>I Forgot This White Dude Was Racist</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/28/i-forgot-this-white-dude-was-a-racist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/28/i-forgot-this-white-dude-was-a-racist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:50:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Race]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No, wait, I didn&#8217;t.

Also? I didn&#8217;t forget that, because of his male privilege, he&#8217;s also probably sexist. Anyone who thinks we&#8217;re &#8220;post-racial&#8221; is (a) not living in the real world and (b) white.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Finding America a Wee Bit Too Liberal, Conservative Christians Push Their Hate in Uganda</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/28/h8ing-in-uganda/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/28/h8ing-in-uganda/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:54:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Activism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Apparently, denying Californians equal rights was insufficient for many conservative religious. Indeed, messing with politics in another state (much of the Prop H8 money came from out-of-state conservatives) left them wanting. And so conservative hatemongers have moved on to East Africa—to the country to Uganda—where it is currently a crime punishable by life in prison [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Music Monday: the Prayer of St. Francis</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/25/music-monday-the-prayer-of-st-francis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/25/music-monday-the-prayer-of-st-francis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>xJane</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the Prayer of St. Francis recently and thought I&#8217;d share the Sarah McLachlan version with you.
Play song from Lala.com*
We like this prayer here at MoF: John recommended it for a secular meditation and I as a secular prayer for strength.
At that last link, I removed what I saw as unnecessary religious [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>365 Self-Portrait Project, Reboot.</title>
		<link>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/23/365-self-portrait-project-reboot/</link>
		<comments>http://www.mindonfire.com/2010/01/23/365-self-portrait-project-reboot/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity.]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photos]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[flickr is a wellspring of photographic creativity. For one, I&#8217;m exposed to the works of thousands of pros and amateurs who take pictures of every conceivable subject. Then there are flickr groups and challenges, that encourage members to keep my perspective fresh and push me to explore my artistic and creative limits. 
There are a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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