http://www.sortroom.net Filltering through the murky water to highlight what most people sent to page two. Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:34:29 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A certain popular road-warrior, Wes Streeting, on the way to being elected NUS National President. I wish I'd had a chance to meet him. Perhaps in the future. This speech doesn't seem as impressive as it was at the time. In the hall as he was speaking there was a ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2008/04/07/nus-conference-speeches/ I am a fourth year Politics student, and I've just returned from the NUS Annual Conference. I've been involved behind the scenes in LUU LGBT events since my first year, helping plan events and considering strategy. This past term I ran for election to the Union Exec because I want ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2008/04/06/nus-lgbt-conference-manifesto/ I think Margaret Cho's piece during her hosting of Outfest (a show) on Wisecrack (a standup comedy series) on LOGO (a tv network) was hilarious. She manages to describe and define the issues about which she's joking in a way that no other contemporary comedians around seem capable. The ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2008/01/16/margaret-cho-on-logo/ One of the things I notice working to find out the views of others, working to publicise their work, is that you end up hanging around a lot. This is even more prevalent when those I'm trying to interview are not quite keen on being the subject, on having a ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/15/getting-there-early-to-be-on-time-meeting-insurance/ Right now the United States has the highest teen pregnancy rate of any developed nation. Although this teen pregnancy rate has decreased dramatically since the 1970s, recent years have seen that rate become stagnant. Indeed, as of 2004, 13 states experienced either an increase in teen birth rates or stagnant teen ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/15/miss-teen-pregnancy-usa/ Of those surveyed, 67.7% agreed with the statement about the recent Employment Non-Discrimination Act: National gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender civil rights organizations should support this proposal because it helps gay, lesbian, and bisexual workers and is a step toward transgender employment rights. (as opposed to, for example, opposing it because it ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/14/hrc-poll-shows-gayslesbians-dont-think-lack-of-trans-protection-should-halt-enda-support/ Not only is this song killer, but the dancing is amazing. You can just make out the roots of Dee-Lite's classic ’Groove is in The Heart’ underneath the new melody they've got going on here. It's a perfect post-summer, winter warmer type of song that you need when you get ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2007/11/07/sesa-like-it-like-this-ft-sharon-phillips/ It's funny how you read, so often, about the gay culture of youth. We're, apparently, consumed with the concept of staying young forever with cremes and pills and gyms and every single type of tonic you could ever hope for. The image, I presume, comes from all those pumped up ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2007/10/18/youth-obsessed/ I've been reading quite a few pieces and obituaries about Anita Roddick, the maverick founder of retail chain The Body Shop. She died this week aged 64 of a brain haemorrhage. It seems to me that many people were surprised by her death. I've been struck by, and deeply moved ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2007/09/13/anita-roddick-passes-away/ I've been working for a great little Architecture firm in Birmingham called Turner Woolford Sharp Architects and have really enjoyed my time working for them. They're a relatively small practice but highly creative and the collective office temperament is one of teamwork and quality work. They specialize in restoration or ... http://www.sortroom.net/index.php/archives/2007/09/13/unexpected-acts-of-kindness/