Sunday Funday Is Beat For the Gods With Laverne Cox

Hello, sweet bales of orchard grass!

It’s been feeling like spring in New York lately with temps in the 50s and 60s (Fahrenheit), which is very odd because it’s February and we’re usually still under a foot of snow. I’m not complaining, though the growing fear of global warming eliminating our entire planet is occupying the back of my mind. LALALA ANYWAY, there’s sun! And I found a cute little ladybug in the house! And we opened the windows one day! And I haven’t had to wear a jacket! It’s not the worst!

How’s your weather? Either way, I hope you’re getting some fresh air from time-to-time! The Earth is dying, so you should get it while it’s good! Soak it all in!

Oscars So Queer & Trans

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Laverne Cox Fan Club & Appreciation Society

Time to call our annual meeting to order, fellow members of the Order of Laverne. Because our girl just dropped her first single and music video.

According to an interview with Out Magazine, Cox wrote the song for the ball community:

…it’s obviously a dance song. I just wanted it to be a cute song for the kids to vogue to. It really is an homage to that community, the kids who vogue, the kids who drag, the nightclub scene. Specifically the 90s — I’ve been calling it a 90s throw black bitch track. It’s really about queer club culture, drag culture, all the colloquialisms that are in it. All that lingo and language that I just love. It’s an homage to that.

Here, Queer & Trans, Etc.

Out LGBTQ Athletes Have Won Seven Medals At 2018 Olympics

Pulse Nightclub Survivors Joined Parkland Students in Gun Control Efforts

Fluide Makeup Was Created For People Of All Genders & It’s Shaking Up The Beauty World. Radical inclusiveness + makeup + donations to Sylvia Rivera Law Project and Callen Lorde? MY FACE IS READY.

Ready Your Heart

These Photos Of Black Kids Watching ‘Black Panther’ Highlight Why This Film Was Needed. Let these photos bring love back into your heart. I’m not crying. You’re crying.

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KaeLyn

KaeLyn is a 40-year-old hard femme bisexual dino mom. You can typically find her binge-watching TV, standing somewhere with a mic or a sign in her hand, over-caffeinating herself, or just generally doing too many things at once. She lives in Upstate NY with her spouse, a baby T. rex, a scaredy cat, an elderly betta fish, and two rascally rabbits. You can buy her debut book, Girls Resist! A Guide to Activism, Leadership, and Starting a Revolution if you want to, if you feel like it, if that's a thing that interests you or whatever.

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8 Comments

  1. “The Earth is dying, so you should get it while it’s good! Soak it all in!”
    Sad but true. Go on a safari, see the animals while they’re still there

  2. *waving rainbow flag*
    Team LGBTQ has won two golds (Eric Radford and Ireen Wüst); two silver (Wüst) and three bronze (Radford, Brittany Bowe and Adam Rippon).

  3. A lot of those pictures of the kids watching Black Panther were taken in my home theater here in Harlem; so joyous!!!! I’m kind of sad that I missed out on the energy of the opening night crowd.

  5. That music video is the queerest thing I’ve ever seen since yesterday, when I watched the Janelle Monae video. I love 2018.

  6. Gimme some global warming cause it’s -12 Celsius here and I’m freezing to my bones. I might soon become an ice sculpture perpetually dancing to ‘Make me feel’

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