Friends of mine! Are you well? Are you thriving? Are you hanging on? Are you singing to your dogs and cats and hedgehogs? Are you writing down riddles to put in the windows for your neighbors? Are you talking out loud to the cardboard cutout of Sara Ramirez you brought to camp in 2018? No, me neither. I’m not doing any of those things either. Listen: we’re doing GREAT. And I love you!
This week, our pals in the Greasebats universe tried a digital hang-out.
Children’s author Jacqueline Wilson came out at age 74! Everyone is gay!
For this week’s Gey In Kikh, Ari made matzo for Passover.
Siobhan did a deep dive on the Public Universal Friend, my favorite 18th century non-binary Quaker!
The Queer IRL Gallery is back! Show us your faces and your spaces!
You Need Help had quite a week, with Malic weighing in on pandemic break-ups, and Drew tackling…pandemic-fueled reunions with your ex!
Riese wrote about the intricacies of keeping Autostraddle alive during a pandemic, and how you can help.
This is v. good and v. gay: 11 Poems to Read to Your Lesbian Lover in Isolation.
And then there were your comments!
On Jacqueline Wilson is Gay: Beloved Author and Former Children’s Laureate Comes Out at 74:
The Straights Could Never Award to snowvasphalt and Hester:
On “To L and Back” L Word Podcast Episode 402: Livin’ La Vida Loca with El Sanchez!!
The Miracle of Life Award to BettyOnIt:
On Gey In Kikh: Passover Matzo, the Bread of Affliction:
The Matzoh Kitty Award to Nora:
On 11 Poems to Read to Your Lesbian Lover in Isolation:
The Love Language Award to Wren:
The Hero We Deserve Award to Liz Jay:
On No Filter: Sarah Paulson and Holland Taylor Got a Dog, Everyone Gets a Dog, You Get a Dog!
The Whole Kit and Ka(p)oodle Award to Stef and msanon:
And on This Business of Art:
The Queerconomics Award to Caitlin:
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The Queerconomics Award lol
The pandemic! Has caused me to use! More exclamation points! In my writing!
I think it’s caused me to use less punctuation 🤔
Oh and than you for the award last week.
Really missing FOTs
hi lex! how are you doing? if this were a FOT i would ask you…hmm…what’s the oddest inanimate object you’ve ever spoken aloud to?
I have called for my remote control before…
like “ where did you go, remote? Come back to me!”
ooh good one
Doing ok, haven’t needed to take corticosteroids and been experimenting with grinding spices using a coffee grinder.
I struggle to think of inanimate object I haven’t spoken to…doorways and wall corners seem like normal ones.
Maybe a B-17? Or perhaps a tank. I did coo at a tank once. It was cute lil tank, a brave little toaster.
i regularly thank timers, like on the stove, microwave, etc… they often go off earlier than i am ready for, but thanking them feels better that getting irritated since i asked to be reminded in the first place.
still that dog, though. when i get bummed i am going to think about Winnie having a play date with Mo Moennig.
When I drop something and am in a bad mood I say “fine, stay there on the floor then” and refuse to pick it up as if it is a misbehaving toddler
seems kind of zen… like, ok, if the floor is your choice i will respect it.
Saaame
@msanon I suppose that’s one way to look at it. Thanking timers instead of getting irritated also seems very zen
@gunna-see-the-light Really, that’s funny, I truly thought it was just me lol
@chandra
Nope and sometimes when I’m in the baddest of moods I’ll shout stuff like, “Well fuck you too then you jerk!”
Those inanimate objects are so RUDE sometimes
Matzoh Kitty sounds like a great superhero name.
omg
The tone of the first paragraph is ALL of us right now. Nailed it!
haha THANK YOU KAYLA these are interesting! times!