Happy Sunday Funday! We’ve got a long, hard week ahead of us, so let’s take this moment to bask in the glow of some good gay news. Can you pass the banana nut muffins? Thanks, bae.
Sonia Sotomayor Just Officiated Her First Gay Wedding
LGBT activists Ingrid Duran and Catherine Pino of Washington, DC got married recently and invited a bunch of really important people to the big event. Among the most important was Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who officiated their nuptials — thus marking her first-ever gig at a gay wedding.
via Catherina Pino
Also, every woman to ever be a SCOTUS Justice in herstory has now officiated at least one same-sex wedding, because girls rule and boys drool.
It’s Official: All Girls Can Be Girl Guides
The Girl Guides of Canada have officially updated their guidelines to foster safe and fun spaces for cis and trans girls alike.
Meet Planned Parenthood’s Tiniest Defender
Staceyann Chin’s badass daughter Zuri stands with Planned Parenthood, and it’s really cute.
A Duck Walks Into a Bar…
Duck Wearing Bow-Tie Walks Into Pub, Drinks Pint, Fights Dog, Loses. Yep.
This Puerto Rican School is Relaxing Its Dress Code for LGBT Kids
Children enrolled in public schools across Puerto Rico can now opt to wear pants or skirts, regardless of their gender identity. At this moment I really wish I could find one of the many photographs of me enrolled in school in Puerto Rico wearing a plaid skirt and a collared shirt because I just think it’d be a really good visual for this story that would connect you to my past, but I can’t do that, so. Just trust: It was fabulous.
Barbie Wants You to Be Whatever You Wanna Be
Look, I know the word “Barbie” can evoke a wide range of responses from women, queer people, feminists, and really anything that’s live and able / willing to discuss gender politics. But growing up, my Barbie collection served as a solid reminder that I could do anything and become anyone I wanted: growing up to be elected president, kicking men out of the house and speeding away in a shiny new VW Beetle, and baring my sexy abs at the grocery store as I juggled my priorities as a doctor / teacher / lawyer included. (All of these dreams, obviously, have or will soon come true.)
What I’m trying to say is that that I really like this Barbie ad and I hope you will, too. Let’s watch it!
The White House Still Hates Anti-LGBT Therapy Because, Um, Duh
The White House is upping the ante in its fight to end anti-gay “conversion” therapy. The Substance Abuse and Mental Helath Services Administration has released a report backing up claims that the practice is dangerous and harmful. That means hard numbers! And data! And fancy words! And thus, an even more solid case to force everyone to perceive the practice as junk science and total garbage. Whee!
This is the Story of a Corgi and a Tiny Pumpkin
Eli chases around gourds like lil balls and then chews them up. Not so with this Corgi, who appears to have some of the most adorable trust issues in all the land.
I really wish I knew what was going through that Corgi pup’s mind.
WHAT IS IT?! WHY IS IT SO ORANGE?! WHY DOES IT TAUNT ME WITH ITS TINY INANIMATE ROUNDNESS?! IS IT GOING TO EXPLODE?! CAN I COMMUNICATE WITH IT?! HELLO, HELLO, MYSTERIOUS MOTIONLESS ENTITY!! DO YO WANT TO PLAY?! ARE YOU GOING TO BITE ME?! WHERE IS YOUR FACE?!
I’m glad the first comment I saw was about that Corgi and his pumpkin foe. So cute.
My pomeranian had a lot of questions about my neighbor’s ceramic dog statue that was in her front lawn. She’d keep me between her and it, kind of peeking around, then slowly start circling. Sometimes mad, sometimes trying to get it to play, and always puzzled. One time she accidentally knocked it over and FREAKED OUT and you could barely convince her to approach the lawn for a month.
Well I like the Barbie ad too
It makes me reconsider leaving academia. She made professoring look pretty rad.
You go, justice Sotomayor!
I definitely have a lot of positive feelings about Barbie and I love that ad.
I liked the ad! But it’s still sad Barbie is supposed to be a girls-only toy (and the ad makes that clear).
That Barbie ad made me cry! Damn it!
I have had a lot of body issues over the years, but I honestly don’t think any of them stemmed from my collection of secondhand Barbies. Just like my teddy bears were teddy-bear shaped, and did not correspond with the real shape of any real bear out there, my Barbies were Barbie shaped, and I never thought they were supposed to be representing actual flesh-and-blood women. I mean, she could turn all the way around at the waist! She was just a doll, like all my other dolls of all sizes and shapes.
Same. I have a long history of eating disorders, but they’re a result of other psychological disorders (anxiety, OCD), not barbie or the media. I’ve never really had strong feelings toward barbie one way or another. The commercial was cute though.
So I’m a lesbian because my Barbie dolls scissored each other? Awesome!!
That corgi’s happiness is contagious.