Seriously. The geeks of the interwebs were on point with the video content this week. Includes a feminist analysis of Adventure Time, Bill Nye explaining asteroid disasters and some rad footage of plants growing (which is, it should be noted, more exciting than it sounds).
Okay. A murderous, cyber-stalking, all-knowing bully I can grasp, but any teen girl talking to her dad like this? No way.
Topics include Shirley Jackson, paper dolls, disaster reporting in Haiti, HIV/AIDS, the Worst of White Folks, Rick James, exes on social media, working at a men’s magazine and more!
Welcome to the club, AB Chao! Your membership card is in the mail (with the toaster).
“Nothing like clean pores to motivate the capture and slaughter of a chicken.”
Weaponized vibrators, kick-ass asses and BRUNCH!
Or don’t. Armpits4August doesn’t mind whether you preen your pits or not, as long as you’re willing to talk about it and PCOS.
This week in lit links: book-inspired ice cream, why “women’s stories” aren’t the same as stories about women’s lives, writing gay YA in Russia and more.
Because it’s not just sex education. It’s life education.
It’s the most delicious time of year! You should join your local Straddlers for some 3D brunchy realness.
“I love Jewish gays.”
They’re experts in five Olympic events, and they’re about to beat each other up. But first they have some very nice things to say.
“A phrase that often arises in this movement is “ni de aqui, ni de alla,” (neither from here nor there), and it speaks to the ability we seek as queer immigrants to define home as we choose, whether in a geographic sense, within our communities, or a gendered sense, within our bodies.”
Six kickass women of color from three sci-fi TV shows you should know but maybe don’t.
“For trans* women who are locked up, getting access to medical care and safety from the guards and inmates is a serious problem. But the problem starts when they are put in prisons designed for men.”
Unfriendly English hotties, a Kotex diss track, a woman who knows how to handle a bear, and a short film capturing a year in the life of a queer Texan turned Californian party it up.
Episode 205 of Unicorn Plan-It wants to online date you.
Until complete marriage equality reigns, our feelings on tacky lingerie and weird patriarchal traditions are kind of a moot point so we’re allowed to be bitchy when we judge them, right? Mmmkay then.
Some may call this need for speed insanity, others call it energy. I’m not sure how I feel because…feelings? Who has time for feelings?
“I think Hot Cops from Arrested Development but all ladies but Lena ruins that vision.”