Hello! Well it’s a weird day full of conflicting yet coexisting realities and here we all are, again. Let’s get some links together!
Queer as in F*ck You
+ Without LGBTQ People, Modern Music Wouldn’t Exist.
+ Hardly Anyone Showed up to a Brain-Melting Anti-LGBT Conference in Texas.
+ Understanding the Causes of Stress on Health of Gay or Lesbian Adolescents.
+ LGBTQ Hate Crimes Double in Russia After Ban on ‘Gay Propaganda’.
+ Dying Trans: Preserving Identity in Death.
+ 25 Transgender People Have Been Murdered in 2017 and Many of Their Cases Are Unsolved.
Welcome to the Hellmouth
+ Trump Admin to End Provisional Residency Protection for 60,000 Haitians.
+ New Online Store Is One More Way For Trump To Profit From Presidency, Critics Say.
+ What Trump Really Told Kislyak After Comey Was Canned.
+ Roy Moore and the Confused Identity of Today’s “Evangelical” Voter.
+ Go Ahead, Talk Politics at Thanksgiving.
Doll Parts
+ The Big Picture: Black Women Activists and the FBI.
+ Remembering the Incredible Women of America’s Last Crusade.
+ Harvey Weinstein’s Secret Settlements.
+ Will Women Save America? A podcast from Crooked.
Keep Up
+ What the End of Net Neutrality Means for You !!! Neat!!!
+ Las Vegas Shooting Victims Sue Hotel, Concert Promoters.
Saw This, Thought of You
+ Whaaaaaa Extinct Steller’s Sea Cow Fossil Found in Commander Islands, Russia.
Wow that (rainbow) flag dance. “Love knows no wrong”, indeed.
The selective morality of these christians (sic) really, really bothers me. Cognitive dissonance much ? Is that what makes them so trigger-happy ?
Happy Thanksgiving to all USians Straddlers
This seems of potential interest to this audience: a woman who passed as a man to be an academic and the stories she collected about the Christmas wasp: http://greydogtales.com/blog/folklore-origins-christmas-wasp/
“Insect archeology for women”.
This is quite funny. I love how skewed it is, what a neat contortion of practically every fairy tale trope ever.
“The daughters spent most of their time pretending to be geese and making slippers out of the slower squirrels in the area”. Stupendous !