Howdy ho, Ranger Joes! What a glorious Monday you’ve embarked upon! I had two mini carrot cake cupcakes for breakfast and I simply cannot recommend it enough. Two very enthusiastic thumbs up.
You Should Go or Do or Give
+ Support SNAPSHOT: Shine Louise Houston’s Next Feature Film! “The Feminist Porn Award Winning Director’s new erotic thriller stars Queer Women of Color.”
Queer as in F*ck You
+ Gabby Rivera talked with Buzzfeed and it’s so great! What the Hell do Butch and Femme Even Mean Anymore?
+ How LGBT Teachers Deal With Intolerance Across the Country.
+ The Pain and Empowerment of Choosing Your Own Gender: Alok Vaid-Menon
+ A national referral database has been launched for trans and queer communities.
+ Colleges Shell Out for LGBT Students Whose Families Cut Them Off.
+ Now you have another good reason to eat Chobani yogurt.
Doll Parts
+ Arielle Pardes asks, What Happens If You Get Your Period in Outer Space?
+ And while we’re at it, Bloody Hell: Menstruating While Religious by Beenish Ahmed.
+ Selma Director Ava DuVernay on Why She Wants to be Defined as a ‘Black Woman Filmmaker’.
+ Can Kshama Sawant Build an Actual Socialist City in America? by Sarah Jaffe.
+ This Woman Led the Latin Kings and Lived ‘Orange Is The New Black’.
+ 10 Women of Science We’d Love to See On the New $10 Bill
Saw This, Thought of You
+ Alicia Garza has We Were Never Meant to Survive: A Response to the Attack in Charleston.
+ Amy’s Kitchen is opening a drive-thru vegetarian restaurant so don’t ever say the universe didn’t gift you with something beautiful.
+ EARTH ENTERING NEW EXTINCTION PHASE!
+ But while we’re still alive, sleep well know that toddlers are super into restorative justice.
+ Headbanging is like a warm hug! That’s sweet.
+ What the fuck is going on here? Cara Giaimo explains This Mystery Photo Haunting Reddit Appears to be Image Recognition Gone Very Weird. Thanks, Cara!
+ Brew Tang Clan: Can Rap Music Really Brew Better Beer?
And Finally
How to Grow a Pollinator Garden! “All we are saying, is give bees a chance.”
Laughing inappropriately loudly at this line from the menstruating in space article:
“In Sally Ride’s biography, there’s another great scene of her discovering the string of 100 or so tampons that had been tied together, like a strip of sausages, so that they wouldn’t float away.”
Can you imagine some guy being employed to tie them all together??
Can you imagine some guy who must have been employed to tie them all together??
OH BUT ALOK~~~
omg ‘give bees a chance’
All we are saying
Is give bees a chance
Did need this. Did need Kshama Sawant today (and every day).
I want to be excited about Amy’s Kitchen, but I know we’ll never get one in my area. We don’t even have a Chipotle. :(
I know. Living on the east coast means I don’t see a lot popular restaurants and I am actually excited about this one.
I looove Amy’s Kitchen! Gotta figure out how to move to California…
You should…it’s quite lovely out here :) lol
I always wondered how menstruation worked in space!
Gaaaaaabbyyyyy, oh wow, this Buzzfeed roundtable is incredible!! So proud of you and all the other voices out there!
thanks, shug!
Gabby is the best forever.
Also bee puns. Bravo, Laneia, bravo.
give. bees. a chance.
i literally just snort-laughed. so thanks for that.
Those ANN images! This is your computer on acid. Platypus mountain? Pig-snail? My own daydreams seem so dull…
Gabby and the other folks involved-that article is so awesome!
Thank you for that one about LGBT teachers! I worry about that like every day :/