No Filter: Breaking News! Jen Richards Got Engaged! And It’s the Cutest Thing!

Hello my friends! This is No Filter, the column where I pull together all the hottest queer celebrity content from IG and make my lil jokes underneath them in the form of captions! Let’s roll!

Extremely Tracy Turnblad voice: I can hear the bells // My ears are ringing // I can hear the bells // The bridesmaids are singing…

Congrats to the happy couple! Happy news is such a gift right now!

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You don't know.

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I love the energy here, this is a mood.

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🍒💣🙃

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I find this inspirational, I cannot be alone here?

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Happy International Cat Day! 🐈 🐱

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Look, we love cats, it’s just a true thing!

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Sundaze in quarantine • Judah

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AND we love dogs because what do we have as a community? Range!

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The view today is really something.

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🍰🍰🍰

….excuse me??

Madam I would like a WORD!!!

SERIOUSLY???

Oh good, let me just check “Get my life” off of my to-do list.

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This is the moment when we all conspired and said, “Let’s do a cover try…just in case.” Some BTS ☕️: When we shot these images, there was zero talk of a cover. This was slated to be a fashion spread on FRINGE for the September issue — significant coverage but still not a cover. But deep within me, I knew, and so did the people rooting for me, that I *should* be on the cover. I knew I was worthy. So @lukegilford shot a few “cover tries” in case the editors changed their minds and wanted to make herstory. I’m so glad they did, as @museummammy writes in the profile: “The tides are turning for the better and also for the worse, and so it is no coincidence that now—years after her ‘coming-out story’ and her myriad accomplishments, and after the years it’s taken for the cries of Black Trans Lives Matter to have transformed into a righteous, empowering roar—Janet Mock finally gets the magazine cover story she deserves.” #girlslikeus

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Janet, listen here I do NOT have the time to do this with you today!

I said! I did not! Have! The! Time!

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This is a full circle moment for me. Nearly ten years after my “coming out story” was published — shifting the path of my life forever — I return to MARIE CLAIRE. This time, I am the cover star. I am grateful to @museummammy for writing this profile with such tenderness, clarity and ferocity (that final sentence gets me, chile). I feel seen and held: “By living her life in the spotlight with grace, Mock has used her platform to present and complicate often oversimplified narratives of what it means to be trans. At just 37, she’s inspired an entire generation of gender-expansive folks to dream more boldly about our personal and collective futures.” AUGUST 2020 issue — @marieclairemag’s first digital issue — is about inspiration and the women who embody it. #girlslikeus 📷 @lukegilford 🧥@yashuasimmons 💄 @miyakemakeup 💇🏽‍♀️ @kimblehaircare 💅🏽 @nailsbydiem

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….okay you are right, I do. I always do.

Whew, that was quite a ride huh? Until next time!

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11 Comments

    • So happy for Jen & her wife to be. I remember seeing her lex profile last year, so this is hope for many of us!

  2. Celebrating an engagement with a Hairspray lyric is such a big big mood, thank you, Christina

  3. I’ve been following Jen and her work since you all covered HerStory and I’m like UGLY happy for her!!!

  6. That’s so weird – I saw the images when I looked at this earlier today but now I just see the links

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