feature image via Lena Waithe on Instagram
Hello hi! If you caught Keala Settle’s performance of “This Is Me” at the Oscars last night, then you also locked in on the queer drummer with the asymmetrical haircut and a tear in her eye, and maybe you even said “GAY!” out loud right there on the spot. Everyone, meet Eva Friedman, the people’s queer drummer.
Yup, that was me pic.twitter.com/1BX4Yp5bmm
— Eva Friedman (@Eva_Friedman) March 5, 2018
She seems like a very chill, very relatable person — someone who wants a breakfast sandwich and to watch season 2 of Take My Wife. Thank you, Eva Friedman, for pinging a million queer radars last night. You did a great job and truly brought us all together.
Read Heather’s rundown for even more queer moments from the Oscars and just do the backstroke in all that gayness. You deserve it.
Queer as in F*ck You
Cuban, Bisexual and Young: Emma González Brings All of Her Identities to the Gunfight. I’m sorry that’s one hell of a headline.
Lena Waithe Urges Her LGBT Peers To “Come Out” And “Stop Hiding” in an Unforgettable Speech. Amazing.
7 Trailblazing Queer Women You Didn’t Learn About In History Class.
Calls For Urgent Review Of LGBT Asylum Protections After Shocking Lapses Exposed.
Am I Gay or Straight? Maybe This Fun Quiz Will Tell Me.
Making Stone Butch Blues Into a Movie Is an Insult to Leslie Feinberg’s Legacy.
Dating a Trans Person Saved My Partner’s Life.
Meet 10 Black Transgender Figures from History Who Are Models for Resilience.
Welcome to the Hellmouth
Christopher Steele, the Man Behind the Trump Dossier.
Trump Says Maybe U.S. Will Have a President for Life Someday.
Georgia Punishes Delta Airlines for Revoking NRA Discounts.
The Trump Administration Tries to Stop Undocumented Teens from Getting Abortions.
These Trans Women Are Fighting for Insurance Coverage as Trump Unravels Their Right to Care.
Oil Was Central in Decision to Shrink Bears Ears Monument, Emails Show.
Doll Parts
10 Years Ago, the Internet Gave Us “Mansplain.” Let Me, a Woman, Explain Why It Still Matters.
These 9 Latinx Women are Taking Over Pop.
The Otherworldly Concept Albums of Janelle Monáe
Keep Up
Secret NYPD Files: Officers Can Lie And Brutally Beat People — And Still Keep Their Jobs.
Inventors Of Killing Machines Like The AK-47 Often Regret Their Creations.
How to Buy a Gun in 15 Countries.
Saw This, Thought of You
Billy Graham’s Legacy Is Conflating White Christianity And Patriotism.
This was a good time: Common Calls Out Trump’s ‘Hate’ and the NRA in Oscars Performance. Also includes a list of the activists standing on stage during the performance.
The Seductive Confinement of a Weighted Blanket in an Anxious Time.
incredible
Re : These Trans Women Are Fighting for Insurance Coverage as Trump Unravels Their Right to Care
I got this link to a JAMA Surgery article in my email this morning :
Temporal Trends in Gender-Affirming Surgery Among Transgender Patients in the United States
“Conclusions and Relevance
Most transgender patients in this national sample undergoing inpatient gender-affirming surgery were classified as self-pay; however, an increasing number of transgender patients are being covered by private insurance, Medicare, or Medicaid. As coverage for these procedures increases, likely so will demand for qualified surgeons to perform them.”
This is from JAMA Surgery, and it looks like their take on it is “Yay, more work for surgeons!” I guess that’s ok…
Mind you, the sharp contrast between the article in Re.Wire and this JAMA Surgery article is really jarring. It’s like they’re not talking about the same thing.
holy heck! My mom is a Modern Quilt Guild resistance quilter! She just did a piece about the border wall that’s touring right now. Worlds colliding, mind exploding, etc.
ISA this is so cool
That quilt is gorgeous. Congrats to your mom on touring with her art!!
this is amazing!
Wow, that’s gorgeous. I’m learning to quilt and want to be like your mom when I grow up.
That is very cool & very beautiful quilt.
Is it just me or does Eva Friedman totally look like the long-lost, queerest sestra from Orphan Black???
She looks like the long lost Lauren Morelli sestra
Lena’s speech brought tears to my eyes. So moving!
Lena, holy shit.
Wow wow wow I was not prepared for Lena’s speech, I started crying at my desk, goddammit
Lenaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
(usually I just upvote other thanks but that’s not enough!)
That quilting link was awesome! I just started quilting, and um, thanks for the inspo!
it kicked me off bc I ran out of free articles but I’m unreasonably annoyed by the # of neurotypicals who think weighted blankets are a new thing / backed that kickstarter instead of just buying one from any of the gazillion online outlets that already sell them, just marketed specifically towards ASD and ADHD and SPD ppl
like it’s right up there w how we all started calling stimmy things “fidget toys” & suddenly it’s socially acceptable
LENA WAITHE. I have watched that speech four times now. Every time was worth it.
Also, you could have just posted that feature image and it would have been enough to keep us going through the week.
Butb I’m glad you didn’t.
Speaking of Lena she was on this weeks episode of Queery with Cameron Esposito and it was a insightful & wonderful listen.
That Lena Waithe speech is EVERYTHING. It spoke to the depths of my soul.
Oh man, I relate to the one on taking a quiz to figure out if you’re gay so much. The difference for me is that I didn’t start questioning my sexuality until /after/ I had a crush on a girl in my high school class, which I quickly went into denial about but kinda subconsciously knew it wasn’t straight. So for me, the question wasn’t just, “Am I gay, straight, bi or ace?” It was also, “Can I get through my 478527 layers of denial that I like girls?” (The answers were “bi” and “yes, eventually”.)
I remember one quiz I took that asked, “What part of a woman’s body do you find most attractive?” And I was able to give a serious answer to that: *fantasizes about Billie Piper, my celebrity crush at the time* “The stomach. She has really nice abs.” That really should have given me a huge clue but apparently Younger Me COULD NOT TAKE A HINT.