There are so many girls on the television this season! Autostraddle has your guide to the best new fall shows and where to find the queers.
What are you doing when you get to Vegas? If I see you, can I say hi? Or do you not want to be bothered? (YES AUTOSTRADDLE PEOPLE ARE MY CELEBRITIES OKAY).
yeah totally, say hi! there’s this shedonism event and alex/jess/sarah/sara are going to it and will be staying at that hotel and everything. i’m gonna be w/my gf staying with her friend but we will come to the events. also julie & brandy are in the poker tournament thing! so it should be a good time.
it seems like the trans* related articles on AS get way more comments than any others (except open threads). while many of the comments are affirming and friendly, the trans* posts do tend to generate controversy, and I’m curious if you have any idea why
i feel like if the internet had existed in the ‘70s, lesbians would be having that level of heated discourse about our own issues back then. i think that – and i could be wrong, and please do correct me if i sound ignorant – these issues existing in such an accessible public forum are all very new. consensus hasn’t been taken, popular opinion remains unclear. mainstream culture remains almost violently transphobic but for the first time in a really long time, trans stories are finally being told and also being discussed. there’s still a lot of shit to hash out. sometimes it gets heated, but i think that’s because of the passion and there’s a passion coming from a new generation (younger than me) of trans folks growing up in a world where they might actually see something like adam from degrassi on the television. and talk to each other on the internet!
so now these conversations are being had, and there’s a gravity there. and then, also, there’s all these trans folks there specifically to read annika/sebastian and all these glbqs there to read it because it’s on autostraddle, and they’re learning this stuff for the first time. i imagine it could feel like an issue of media representation within the trans community. maybe.
there’s just so much at stake, i think. there’s just a lot at stake right now.
i didn’t know the answer to this question when you asked it, i just started thinking and typing as i thought. i think if you pay attention and seek it out, there’s tons of amazing trans stories being told in their ways out there, often within the queer community too, but if you don’t there are probably people reading who wouldn’t have known anything about trans issues if not for them. if you surveyed all the citizens of the united states about five vital aspects of trans identities, most of the population would completely flunk, whereas i think only half the population would flunk the same thing about gay people right now. but 20 years ago, most of the population would’ve flunked our test, too.
that being said, i think it’s also totally possible that some people yell more on sebastian’s posts because he’s a man and so they think he can take it. wouldn’t that be funny if it were true? the gender binary. hahahahahaaha.
Riese, I feel like lately your formspring has turned into my diary. Is that super annoying for you?
i think you already know the answer to this
aww, do you have a kitten? what’s her name? how is she?
her name is momo which i named her b/c of dumplings but have since been informed that it also means ‘peach’ in japanese which seems appropriate. she is very small and likes to vamp for pictures and listen to politically charged weed rap with me.
What do you think about OkCupid?
It appears to be full of students and people working on their ‘art’ … at least in the nyc 27-35 demo. blah.
Laneia’s Team Pick: Your charitable donation for the week could be this Kickstarter campaign with at least three chances at a walk-on role and a queerlady director!
How early is too early (in a friendship) to get someone a birthday present if said person knows that you crush on them? Does said present then seem desperate/pandering?
you should get someone a birthday present preferably before their birthday, and give it to them on their birthday if possible. i do not believe that your feelings w/r/t leg-hugging this person need to be a major factor. don’t get them a sex toy or lock of your hair or homemade popsicle-stick picture frame for a photo of the two of you singing the indigo girls at summer camp. bam. you’re done.