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TODAY IS FOR JANELLE MONAÉ ONLY.
Queer as in F*ck You
This Instagram Account Helped Two Lesbians Find Lost Love at Coachella 💗 💗 💗 🎡
Disney to Lose Special Tax Status in Florida Amid ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Clash
This Twitter thread is part thinkpiece/part research pile, and it has left us in the Autostraddle slack reconsidering what we thought we knew. I really recommend it:
when i began my research on louisa may alcott and little women i'd hedge a lot, like – the concept of transness hadn't been invented, the vocabulary didn't exist, who's to say – but standing on the other side of two years of archival research… lou alcott was trans. period.
— Peyton Thomas 🇺🇦 🏳️⚧️ (@peytonology) April 20, 2022
No Pay No Stay: How Unfair Wages Trap WNBA Players Abroad. “What Brittney Griner’s detainment reveals about who’s advocating for women in sports.”
NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. To literally of this:
- Florida Issues Texas-Like Guidance Seeking to Bar Transition Care for Minors
- Parents Challenge Alabama Law Banning Treatment of Trans Kids
- Michigan Lawmaker’s Forceful Speech Rebuts ‘Grooming’ Attack
Saw This, Thought of You
What Masks Off on Public Transit Means for the Pandemic
NeNe Leakes Sues Bravo for Alleged Racist Work Environment. This does not surprise me, not even a little bit.
Can Mariah Carey Teach Me How to Sing?
7 Black-Owned Cannabusinesses To Shop This 4/20 (Yes I know 4/20 was yesterday, but Supporting Black Business Is Every Day around here!!)
Political Snacks
How ‘Big Disinformation’ Can Overcome Its Skeptics. “Lies can threaten democracy. So can flawed efforts to combat them.”
And this definitely feels related, Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid. “It’s not just a phase.”
Google Peyton Thomas before you share anything he’s written lol
“Beachdeath” or “lalondes” are the terms you want to be searching
Twilight – 50 Shades of Grey situation.
Good for him.
Wow, thanks for the heads up. When I googled them I found multiple lengthly callouts of questionable behavior of theirs going back years, yikes.
*of him. Apologies, realized right after I hit submit that I used the wrong pronouns and can’t edit.
About the L. M. Alcott thing: maybe Alcott was trans. However, if a historian looked at the way I live my life/things I’ve said/how people talk about me recorded only in the detail available in the 1800s, there’s a decent chance they’d come to the conclusion that I am a trans man as well. I am, however, a lesbian (to be fair I consider myself genderqueer, but I feel like the lesbian angle is what would get lost here). So I’m always like…yes I want to support the acknowledgment of historical trans people. But sometimes it’s not a simple and/or, you know? I don’t know. Good for Alcott either way, an icon.
This “NOPE. NOPE. NOPE. To literally of this:: is missing a word.
And my comment is missing a quotation mark! LMAO