Thanksgiving is a wonderful time for food, family, gratitude, and going on a timely and urgent rant at the dinner table. It’s a tried and true queer tradition, is it not? And if you have some anxiety about an incoming family gathering, allow me to lighten the mood with this silly little quiz predicting exactly what YOU will get all fired up about.
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Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya is the managing editor of Autostraddle and a lesbian writer of essays, fiction, and pop culture criticism living in Orlando. She is the former managing editor of TriQuarterly, and her short stories appear in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern, Joyland, Catapult, The Offing, The Rumpus, Cake Zine, and more. Some of her pop culture writing can be found at The AV Club, Vulture, The Cut, and others. When she is not writing, editing, or reading, she is probably playing tennis. You can follow her on Twitter or Instagram and learn more about her work on her website.
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and yeah I would do that. (rant about capitalism) also feeling incredibly called out by the lesbian hobbies. did you read my group chat
I actually am too food motivated / conflict avoidant to actually go on rant at Thanksgiving. But I got history and colonization.
“Look, if we’re going to celebrate a “holiday” that both downplays and glorifies violence again Indigenous people, we might as well TALK ABOUT WHAT REALLY HAPPENED.”
I got cats eat birds, and I’m not a cat person, so that seems weird but correct
Love this but I’m an anti-Zionist in a family of zionists and trump fans, I already know how I’m crashing out this holiday (although there’s a non zero chance abt me also crashing out re:the big one) (why limit myself)
Nvm my grandpa stole the show by kicking the bucket and the family crash outs all had to do with cleaning his apartment