Hello and happy Monday to you and you and also YOU but especially, and I mean this, to your pets and/or children and/or hopes and dreams. There are only three short days of our fundraiser remaining and I hope you’ve enjoyed all the personal emails and the sundry perks available for your procurement!
And now! Onto the links!
Queer as in F*ck You
Not passing as either accepted gender, I was as visible as I could be—and there I was, buying lentils like anyone, stunned and ecstatic to be alive.
Our August Cover Star, Caster Semenya: The Athlete in the Fight of Her Life
Russian LGBT Activist Yelena Grigoryeva Is Found Dead; Friends Say She Was Threatened.
Dolly Parton Joins Brandi Carlile and the Highwomen at Newport Folk Fest! And then also please bear witness to this:
brb crying on the inside till the end of time. 😭✨ pic.twitter.com/1pP2BKAhLm
— MAREN MORRIS (@MarenMorris) July 28, 2019
Tinder’s New Personal Security Feature Can Protect LGBTQ+ Users in Hostile Nations
Conservative Polish Magazine Issues ‘LGBT-Free Zone’ Stickers
The Killing of Trans Women Is Inseparable from Black Lives Matter
A Writer’s Fixation on Sound: “The author R. O. Kwon reflects on the relationship of rhythm to writing and how she stopped obsessing over the first 20 pages of her new novel, The Incendiaries.”
How Getting Drawn Nude Helped Me Learn to Love My Body
Saw This, Thought of You
Beauty Is Designing Packaging for the Visually Impaired
Maybe It’s Lyme: “What happens when illness becomes an identity?”
Your Data Were ‘Anonymized’? These Scientists Can Still Identify You
How Anna Delvey, the SoHo Scammer, Duped ex-Vanity Fair Editor Rachel DeLoache Williams
Impossible Foods, Impossible Claims
Political Snacks
No Shower for 23 Days: U.S. Citizen Says Conditions Were So Bad That He Almost Self-Deported
The Next Recession Could Arrive Before the End of Trump’s Term, Says Elizabeth Warren
And Finally
Did you want to watch a Lizzo Tiny Desk Concert? Of course you did.
Thank you for wishing my wonderful dog a happy Monday
Let my profile picture be the reaction to the fact that the first time I see my country be ever mentioned on Autostraddle is because of “LGBT-Free Zone” stickers…
My wife just alerted me to the fact that Adrienne from Yoga with Adrienne is friends with Lizzo and, well, this is a friendship probably I didn’t expect but makes me feel positive for humanity.
Did anyone else spot F*UCKING LINDA PERRY on stage playing Nine to Five with Dolly Parton and the Collaboration? Or is it just me seeing lesbians again?
Jeez that Lyme Disease article is riddled with nauseating ableist bullshit! I have M.E. ( constantly misdiagnosed as Lyme disease, and vice versa, here in the UK anyway) and very possible caused by untreated Lyme in a high percentage of us. The ”author” seems to be ( purposely) misunderstanding that many of us ”perceive” that we’re told it’s all in our heads PRECISELY BECAUSE we’re told so, and that cuts across Lyme/M.E/ pretty much any auto immune illness. I’m not gonna speak for people with Lyme but there are a VERY small percentage of utter charlatans selling M.E ”cures” ( and again there’s crossover) but mostly there’s desperate people who really want to get ”better” and never will. Not sure how much sense this is making ( my very real physical symptoms are affecting me badly) but in short if you have an auto immune condition that article is likely to wind you the hell up.