Results for: dead to me
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More Than Words: Mansplaining
You don’t need me to tell you what this is.
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Ari Fitz Is Exploding “The Real World”: The Autostraddle Interview
“I represented my community and I think there are a lot of other people in the house that kind of did them and we just did us and I think that’s what makes the show a really good, almost – if I can say this – positive Real World. I think it’s awesome because we’re us and we lived and we cried and we fucked.”
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Top 10 Instances of Open and Unapologetic Celebrity Cultural Appropriation in 2013!
“Oh, wait, so you’re not dressing in a mass-produced stereotypical ‘Native’ costume, and instead were just dressing as one of the most racist caricatures depicting an Indigenous person in the history of American cinema?”
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15 Ladies Who Were Writing Sexy Lesbian Love Letters Before You Got Born
Before there was sexting, there was inserting obvious sexual metaphors into benign-looking letters and adding romantic overtones to keep it classy.
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You Need Help: Poking Holes In Your Body
So, I hear you’re looking into a body modification situation.
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Of A Swamp Witch And A Rural Queer
“It’s so easy to yearn and ache for people to fill the space surrounding you, but it’s so difficult to find those who can do so in a way that doesn’t immediately consume all your hard-won oxygen and freedom.”
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Lily’s College Lesbianage #15: Post Grad Limbo Is Where I Wanna Be
“It is still quite strange to not be in school anymore and I do have to keep reminding myself that it is OK to take some time off. That I do not have to start my “career” right this second. That as long as I am lucky enough to provide food, water, and shelter for myself, I will be ok.”
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How To Keep A Girl For Ten Years: Taking the Plunge into Pet Parenthood
The connection you develop with your pet will help define your sense of humanity better than most human relationships you have or ever will experience.
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I’m Going To Homeschool These Damn Babies
I finally feel safe enough to imagine the big queer family I never had. A home where gender is an option, not an obligation, where parents can apologize to each other as well as to their kids and where long, ongoing conversations about race, power and privilege exist.
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Lesbian Comedian Erin Foley: The Autostraddle Interview
Erin Foley’s shooting star of comic fame has been skyrocketing through the night air, perhaps you’ve noticed & laughed? We sit down with Erin on the Sweet Cruise to talk about her TV projects, new relationship, feeling like she’s in a good spot career-wise, Facebook, and her upcoming Lifetime Achievement Award.
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The Secret Dairy-Free Agenda: Subverting Lactose at the Thanksgiving Table
“So what are you going to eat?”
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Glee Episode 505 Recap: The End of Twerk Should Really Be The End Of Will Schuster’s Career
This week on Glee, enthusiastic children danced and sang and broke walls as William Schuster toed the blurred line between “the worst” and THE WORST.
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WaPo’s Racist Misogynist Columnist Richard Cohen Still Not Fired Despite Racism, Misogyny
This week, Cohen asserts “people with conventional views must repress a gag reflex when considering the mayor-elect of New York — a white man married to a black woman…” who “used to be a lesbian.” WOW!
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Holigays 2013 Gift Guide: 25 Sweaters With Cats On Them
This is a list of 25 sweaters with cats on them. Not to be confused with cats in sweaters.
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LGBTQ Publisher Window Media Closes: The Death of Print Makes Me Sad Every Day
I hear about the “death of print” all the time in journalism school, but the closing of Window Media hit a bit close to home. The Washington Blade’s staff, however, is determined to make it work and revive the publication with or without Window Media. Will gay media find a new business model before we lose our greatest resources?
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Things I Read That I Love #99: Ending Is Hard But It’s Easier Than Loving You
Topics include a “the girl in the closet” (a terrifying story of child abuse), stripping, the funeral business, 12 Years a Slave, sadness, sweatshops, bell hooks on “Lean In” and moar!
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A-Camp October 2013 Recamp #1: Let It Snow!
It’s our first behind-the-scenes A-Camp 4.0 Recamp in which we reminisce about the day before we met you and the day we met you and how everything started to snow!
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Once Upon A Time 305 Recap: The One With Two Moms
“But then Mulan came charging out of the closet, and one million homos stood up and said I KNEW IT, I FUCKING KNEW IT, MOTHERFUCKING HONOR TO US ALL.”
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Queered Science Interview: Dr. Donna Riley and Engineering Social Justice
“I came out in my academic writing explicitly in 2003 because I knew that situating myself relative to relations of power in engineering, in academia […] was essential to the project of introducing critical pedagogies in my engineering classes. “
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Listling Without Commentary: Notes Left In My Cabin’s Comments/Questions/Concerns Box
The Firestarters cabin trolled me and my co-counselor, Liz C. all camp. This is what happens when you show people you care.