it's raining, it's pouring

and this seems to somehow affect my ability to livestream the president's counterterrorism speech. It had been wondered if he would address the hunger strikes (now in their 4th month) of prisoners at Guantanamo and/or the on-going human rights violation that *is* Guantanamo. I don't know if anyone truly expected he would close it (which, as I understand it, he has the power to do even without congressional approval).

I assume, from the lack of celebration on twitter and blogs, that he did not say anything of the sort.

While poking at my mouse to try to find out why the livestream has been freezing or Obama's mouth is moving but no words are coming out, I realized that I haven't posted any of my latest Girls of Color in Dystopia posts since the one about The Summer Prince. So here goes:

"What's Left of Me is a Dystopian Take on Nationalist Fervor": http://bitchmagazine.org/post/what-do...
(and please note that I only talk about the first portion of the book, not about the second 2/3. But it seems an appropriate read given the on-going existence of the prison at Guantanamo)

"Send in the Clones: Looking at Race, Gender and Cloning in The House of the Scorpion and The Lost Girl": http://bitchmagazine.org/post/Send-in...

and the latest, posted only a few minutes ago, is "Race and Body Issues in Nalo Hopkinson's The Chaos":
http://bitchmagazine.org/post/race-bo...