Happy Thursday! I think I want to buy a black motorcycle-style jacket for this short work trip I’m going on next month. I can’t stop talking about it, and I’m pretty sure I’ve exhausted the patience of all the lovely people here on Autostraddle’s staff. Maybe you will indulge me! Would I look good in a Moto jacket? Y or N?
While you ponder that, here’s some (mostly) light reading for the end of your week.
Queer as in F*ck You
The New 2020 Emojis Are More Gender-Inclusive Than Ever PS: nearly every lesbian, bisexual, and queer person instantly dubbed this the fisting emoji… and we’re not wrong.
Who wants to tell them https://t.co/Ens5IeKaGq
— nicolette mason (@nicolettemason) January 29, 2020
Would you like an excerpt from the new Samantha Irby book? Thought you might.
Queer People Want Therapists to Call Them on Their Bullshit — Know what this reminds me of? What Queer and Trans Patients Wish Their Therapists Understood, published by your friendly neighbor Autostraddle earlier this month. Read both pieces and start your 2020 therapy off on clear horizons.
What an Advocate For LGBTQ Teens Wears To Work. Spoiler Alert: The answer is a suit and Doc Martens! An unexpected and charming fashion interview with The Trevor Project’s Alexis Chavez for The Cut.
Lesbian Beachside Wedding Alert!
TikTok Has Become the Soul of the LGBTQ Internet (Here’s more Autostraddle related content, we’re on a roll today: I’m Just Here To Hype Up The Tiny TikTok Lezzies by Shelli Nicole) (Also: TikTok Has Neglected Security and been known to censure videos of disabled and trans folks 😔)
Birmingham, Alabama Denies 1st LGBTQ Charter School Application while on the flip side, Major Bank to Pull Contributions for Florida School Vouchers Because of Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination
Folsom Street Events Names New Executive Director. A leatherwoman with a background in nonprofit management.
Trans Athlete Chris Mosier on Qualifying for the Olympic Trials
49ers’ Katie Sowers Calls Becoming First Woman to Coach at Super Bowl ‘Surreal’. The game is Sunday! SPORTS!
Saw This, Thought of You
This Is the Highest-Resolution Photo of the Sun Ever Taken
The Unexpected Life of a Millennial Nun
Meet the Latina Fighting Chicago’s Period Poverty
Dreaming About Death Isn’t Fun — But It’s Not Bad. VERY chill Thursday content.
Kali Fajardo-Anstine is the author of Sabrina & Corina, a book that it feels like everyone I know is reading this month. She wrote this piece, “On Roots and Research,” for Roxane Gay’s Medium Magazine:
“What are you?” is a question I’ve been asked by strangers since I was a child. As a little girl, I didn’t know how to answer this question with a simple one-word, one-identity response. And I still don’t. I knew then, just as I know now, that we were many things.
How to Delete What Facebook Knows About Your Life Outside of Facebook
Political Snacks
Re-upping this because it’s important, ICYMI: South Dakota’s HR 1057 Is a Dangerous Test Case for Blocking Trans Youth from Transition-Related Care
Inside the Messy, Awkward, Occasionally Successful Dating Scene on the Campaign Trail. So Heather Hogan made you this:
Last thing, 1 Simple Step Could Help Election Security. Why Aren’t Governments Doing It?
Thought to myself, oh neat I’ll start the morning by staring into the surface of the sun, was not expecting it to look like a vast plate of poutine
There goes my appetite for the rest of the morning :(
But what if it’s veggie gravy and vegan cheese
THANK YOU. It has been driving me crazy to for what I thought the close up sun looked like. People were like oh it’s forbidden caramel corn but that wasn’t it. That’s what it is. Forbidden poutine.
My first thought was Golden Crisp but the shapes weren’t quite right
It hadn’t oc-curd to you @chandra?
No, c’est fromage
so it’s not the moon that’s made of cheese, it’s the sun
Comment award
If you want a motorcycle-style jacket you should get it. Life is so hard and so short. Treat yourself
Thank you!! I think I will do it!
I think you’d look pretty hot in a motorcycle jacket, Dr. Phillips.
Do it! Get the jacket!
re upcoming emoji: theres also a magic wand, rope, and a hook, for all your sexy emoji needs. also additional genders of marriage people and a pothos!!
Fisting emoji. Uncovering the true meaning of emojis is a journey I’m absolutely here for.
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That article on therapists is timely for me
I’m sure whatever you wear, you will make it look good!
Everyone kept saying that emoji was the animated Italian emoji, but fisting makes way more sense. Plus, it’s way more fun!
Really didn’t expect to be reading a nun article because of Autostraddle but that was fascinating! I had three great aunts that were sisters and really liked reading about how much more progressive it can be now.
TWW!!!!!!!!!