"The segregation of public washrooms is one of the most basic ways that the male-female binary is upheld and reinforced. As such, washroom signs are very telling of the way societies construct gender. They identify the male as the universal and the female as the variation. They express expectations of gender performance. And they conflate gender with sex. I present here for your perusal, a typology and analysis of various washroom signs." She sure does!

I spent last weekend visiting friends in Marion, Massachusetts, a picturesque little town cut out of the mossy pine forests on the shores of Buzzards Bay, from which Cape Cod stretches out. It rained a lot, but Sunday evening was clear and breezy enough to blow the mosquitoes away, so we walked out to the water to watch the sun set. After a couple minutes of looking west, though, we turned our heads to the north and gasped and said "Whoa!" just like a certain resident of Yosemite, California I'm sure you're well familiar with by now. Because there was a rainbow in the sky. And [...]

Good news! The stolen Auschwitz sign has been recovered! "Police spokeswoman Katarzyna Padlo told The Associated Press that the sign was found in northern Poland. She said police also detained five men aged between 25 and 39 who are being transported to Krakow for questioning." It's a Christmas miracle!