FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: I Want To See The Pictures You Took This Week!
Let’s play show and tell.
Let’s play show and tell.
As a teenager, I reeled from the shift in the how society now viewed me: as a collection of body parts for anyone and everyone to comment on. Today, watching my teenage sister on social media gives me hope.
Berries, buffer zones and your relationship in a .gif
How to play with that kinky infinite-floaty space that seems boundless and fills our heads with the same thing as chocolate and wine.
Dattch is offering our readers the chance to win a pretty sweet setup for the most intense day of NYC Pride. They’re offering VIP tickets to one of the biggest Pride parties in the USA, plus a gorgeous hotel room to crash in afterwards.
Why queer characters and themes in YA hasn’t translated to mainstream fiction, literature as propaganda, the Beyoncé of poetry, a discussion of systems of oppression and more.
“i swear to god i thought hanna was about to come out in this episode” – Forever Intern Grace
My recipe today is for a balsamic strawberry, rhubarb, and chia pudding! It’s adapted from this recipe from The Year in Food and it literally tastes like summer. It also tastes like you are eating big spoonfuls of jam, so how can that be bad?
“This is a regulation that the New York State Department of Health has the power to change. It’s discriminatory and has direct consequences for our community members.”
“An entire year has passed since the shouts heard around the world reverberated throughout the Texas Capitol and forced the state legislature to come to a screeching halt. Rise Up/Levanta Texas formed in late June 2013 as a grassroots response to a growing awareness that our bodies, stories, and voices were being made invisible within the larger narrative surrounding reproductive rights and HB 2.”
By which I mean I am tapping this into an iPhone note on a bus jostling through the English countryside.
The Supreme Court has cast out a Massachusetts law that created a 35-foot protest-free zone around abortion clinics, citing freedom of speech rights for the protesters.
CLONE DANCE PARTY! CLONE DANCE PARTY! CLONE DANCE PARTY!
Women’s studies, as a whole, is a discipline grounded in words. These pieces are some of the words that ground the entire thing.
The Prodigal Daughter of White Trojan Horsery has returned to Litchfield, minus her bespectacled toxic popsicle and plus a newer harder attitude. What adventures await our little vanilla wafer? Time can only tell, inmating ritualists.
Where would you go on your queer pilgrimage?
“20. Learn to roll your own cigarettes. Then rip them up and pour bleach all over them. Smoking is bad for you.”
Who are the QPOC or POC artists that we bob and weave to on an everyday basis? In the spirit of our A-Camp QPOC group The Speakeasy, here is a Block Party playlist for everyone to enjoy.
This morning, a federal judge in Indiana determined that the state’s same-sex marriage ban is unconstitutional, and couples in the state have already begun marrying.
Exciting things are happening for LGBT people in the US, activists are critical of Pride, and there are tons of awesome events you should go to!