Also.Also.Also: Megan Fox Knows She Helped You Come Out, Says You’re Welcome

Once again it is tacos for me tonight and I, for one, cannot wait.


Queer as in F*ck You

“I can’t tell you how many girls, from 30 down into their teens — or, f–k that, my age, too — come up to me and are like, ‘I realized I was gay because of you,’ or ‘I felt comfortable coming out because of you,’ because of Jennifer’s Body and the interviews I did about being bisexual before it was cool.”

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Political Snacks

Talking About Abortion With My Mom. “I’m the reason she’s against it, she says. She’s the reason why I don’t agree.”

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Carmen Phillips

Carmen is Autostraddle's Editor-in-Chief and a Black Puerto Rican femme/inist writer. She claims many past homes, but left the largest parts of her heart in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Buffalo, NY. There were several years in her early 20s when she earnestly slept with a copy of James Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time” under her pillow. You can find her on twitter, @carmencitaloves.

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