Meet My New Friend!

[clovehitched]

Imagine my delight when I see this turn up in my inbox this Sunday lunchtime:



How truly nice it is to be wanted, but I have no idea why the sudden interest. The S'onewall awards are coming up soon and perhaps they've nominated her for one of their awards for services to canapés again. We don't actually know as they've decided not to publish the list of nominees this year, which was probably easier than going to all the trouble of adopting some sort of pesky anti-transphobia stance in public.

As for the 3 mutual friends, at least two of them are trans activists of my personal acquaintance, presumably keeping tabs on her or something - whatever, *clickety click*. There - ignored.

Originally posted at http://auntysarah.dreamwidth.org/211101.html - you can comment here or there.

Comments

[nodesignation.livejournal.com]

When I signed up for facebook recently, double clicked on an okay button. But it's so quick that it loaded up another question -- email everyone in your contacts list a friends request? -- and counted that as a confirmation on that as well.

So facebook sent out friends requests to every email address I had ever emailed. Including listserves, tech support, ex's I'm not on good terms with, alternate email addresses for myself, and old activist rivals I had had email exchanges with. I was kicking myself when someone I actually have not forgiven friended me back and proceeded to act like everything was a thing of the past.

Perhaps the same kind of thing happened to her.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Thing is, this is, I think, the third time she's done it. The first two were last year. This one kinda came out of the blue.

Also, there's no reason my email address would be on her contact list.

[paulathomas.livejournal.com]

Hmmm

When exactly were the previous two (email me if necessary)? It would be interesting to try to what her journalistic output was like in the time period immediately following these approaches.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

I don't have the exact dates, but it was when that huge-ass Facebook thing was happening, before we set up T-Can to get away from it, and just after she was making vague threats about libel lawyers.

[paulathomas.livejournal.com]

OK peeps it looks like we have to prepare for bile.

[auntysarah.livejournal.com]

Raise shields! Brace for impact!

[angharads-house.livejournal.com]

There are moments when stealth does seem to have been a remarkably good choice. That, and several thousand km of stand-off distance. ^_^

[nodesignation.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Very odd indeed.