If you, like me, plan to be watching a movie in a park tonight, don’t forget your bug spray and wine.
You Should Go or Do or Give
+ Excuse me. Pardon me. Buddysaurus needs your help. They just want to be real, useful things on your desk and in your life!
Queer as in F*ck You
+ Oh hey check this out Nicole Pasulka did a profile on Autostraddle and it’s pretty fucking cool and you should read it! Clicking the Bean: The History of the Internet’s Most Popular Lesbian Blog.
+ Eboné Bell, Founder of Lesbian Magazine Tagg, Talks Racism, Labels and Building From Scratch in an interview with Miriam Zoila Pérez.
+ Wanted: New home for African-American LGBT church in Harlem.
+ Straight Up Passing: The State of Queer Chefs in America.
+ Samantha Allen would like to talk to you about The Great Lesbian Sperm Crisis, ok?
+ The Next LGBT Battle: Sex Ed.
+ Fuck ‘Normal’, I’m Queer! by Lucy Watson.
+ Some asshole at Chesnee High School in North Carolina sent Briana Popour home for wearing a shirt that reads Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian because it was “distracting” and “offensive.”
Doll Parts
+ Are you listening to Brittani Nichols and Ariana Lenarsky‘s Brand New Podcast? You should be!
+ Y’ALL. I know you’ve seen this but I couldn’t sleep in the same bed with myself if I didn’t include it here today! Connie Britton‘s Hair Secret:
+ Why Powerful Women Love Google, And Why They Leave It by Patricia Sellers.
+ How Sex Workers’ Rights Made the Mainstream by Melissa Gira Grant.
+ 20 Women Who Shaped the History of Dance Music.
+ Laura Jane Grace Tells Bullied Teen to “Take No Shit.” by Rae Paoletta.
+ Activists Say Police Abuse of Transgender People Persists Despite Reforms.
+ Twelve year-old Lydia Sebastian is smarter than Eistein.
+ What Social Science Grants Say About Women in Science.
+ Listen to These Seven Black Female Driven Podcasts! Do it! Do it today! Thank you Jasmine Burnett!
+ Roxane Gay and Erica Jong Discuss Feminism and It Instantly Gets Awkward. It got so awkward that I almost couldn’t read this.
Saw This, Thought of You
+ Remember 9/11: The Things Left Behind.
+ The Root 100 is out!
+ Names Have Power: The United States of Indigenous Names.
+ The Daunting Task of Decarceration by Nancy A. Heitzeg.
+ OBSESSED with this. I Made a Linguistics Prof Listen to a Blink 182 Song and Analyze the Accent on Atlas Obscura (again) via a Longreads.
+ Hm, I’m not sure a thing has ever been so relevant to your interests? (Related!)
+ Seven Ideas for a Fun Date Night at Home. Wheee!
+ Confessions From a Florida Frat Bro. Lord.
+ Email Is For Lovers?! I mean, I’m just married to my favorite OkCupid date, sooooo…
+ CAT JENGA.
+ The Beetles That Work at Natural History Museums.
+ Would you like to know how to make hummus correctly? I bet you would!
“Hummus means chickpeas in Arabic, so while the black bean or cannellini “hummus” we’re eating might taste just fine, if there isn’t a chickpea in there, it really isn’t hummus.”
Yvonne and I were JUST saying this a couple of days ago! #hummustruthers
+ Why Does Getting Rid of Stuff Feel So Good?
And Finally
This Also Also Also was extra good, Laneia. I just wanted to tell you.
why thank you laura <3
Briana should make up a new t-shirt: Nobody Knows My Principal’s a Bigot
YES
Or more like: Now Everybody Knows
Y’ALL. Most excellent AAA!
be honest are you and connie britton in a secret club for best, shiniest hair though?
Of course animals dream. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen my dog chase bunnies in his sleep.
My dog was definitely dreaming way more than usual early this week after we got back from our camping trip…new places! Friends! Smells! Water!
Shonda Rhimes was voted #1 most influential by The Root, and not Barack Obama.
Reading between the lines, the African American community is pissed at Obama for not doing more for them. I love Shonda Rhimes and think she’s awesome, so not trying to put her down; she’s a powerhouse and a pioneer and I am glad to see her at the top of this list. Just would be cool to hear more about how The Root made the rankings.
None of the Obamas made the list, and neither did the Williams sisters (although LeBron James made the list so it does include athletes).
Dermestid beetles are the shit! I don’t process bones enough to use any method other than macerating, but it was really cool to see how museums process their specimens and maintain colonies. I kinda wish they didn’t just kill ’em after five years, though, that seems wasteful. Then again, how else are you supposed to protect the collection? :/
The frat boy confessions were heartbreaking and not at all what I was expecting. Fucking patriarchy, isolating and wounding even the epitome of its values.
Great AAA! Many feels, much info.
I JUST bought that “Nobody Knows I’m a Lesbian” shirt! How weird…
This hummus article is excellent.Now that I FINALLY know how to make it, I think my days of trolling the hummus aisle at Trader Joe’s for cute girls can come to an end.
A particularly great Also Also Also! Loved the Autostraddle profile article – fascinating reading
the Autostraddle profile article makes me love you more
Its a hard world out there! I admire how honest and vulnerable(?) Autostraddle are in interviews and such.
that blink 182 accent article is SO FASCINATING i can’t stop thinking about it