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Autostraddle compiled a list of 215 great longreads written by women in 2015 - one of these essays is from The Rumpus!
Read “Out Of The Swollen Sea” by Tammy Delatorre, selected by Cheryl Strayed as the winner of the first annual Payton James Freeman Prize. And be sure to check out the rest of this list!
tfw all the babeliest queers are reading #JulietTakesABreath and you are basically dying of happiness every day.
#GabbyRivera #queerfamily #Autostraddle #mustread #booksofig #ASBookClub
The second most important thing you can do is believe survivors. So many people will shut their story down, or not understand. Please, please believe us. Even if we doubt ourselves, even if we cannot tell you the details and even if the story changes, please believe us. The worst thing you can do is contribute to our fear that we are not valid in our experience.
Kate, “You Are Not Alone: On Being A Queer Survivor” (via raisinmuffincaloriecount)
Ali tells Spencer she fell in love with [Elliot] because no one had ever looked at her and really seen the truth of her and still wanted her anyway.
RECORD SCRATCH.
Am I the only person who did not get hit in the head with hollow piece of metal with a square piece at the end during the time jump?! Did I imagine the previous seasons of this show?? Am I trapped in some kind of Study Aid fever dream!? Emily looked at Ali like she scattered the literal stars out into the universe for the singular purpose of delighting her!
Jokes about raping dykes — to straighten us out, to control our bodies, or just for sport — have been around for as long as straight cis men have been raping us. Our heternormative culture hypersexualizes queer and trans women and gender-nonconforming people while stripping us of sexual agency and denying the legitimacy of our sexuality. This makes sexual violence against us seem semantically impossible, even though it’s rampant.
Jokes about raping dykes — to straighten us out, to control our bodies, or just for sport — have been around for as long as straight cis men have been raping us. Our heternormative culture hypersexualizes queer and trans women and gender-nonconforming people while stripping us of sexual agency and denying the legitimacy of our sexuality. This makes sexual violence against us seem semantically impossible, even though it’s rampant. Emily Waters, the research and education coordinator at the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Projects, said there really aren’t numbers or resources that relate to sexual violence and harassment against queer and trans people, but anecdotally, we know it happens constantly.
This week we’re celebrating Friday with @dangerouslilly, @autostraddle, and more. Check it out.
Ali tells Spencer she fell in love with [Elliot] because no one had ever looked at her and really seen the truth of her and still wanted her anyway.
RECORD SCRATCH.
Am I the only person who did not get hit in the head with hollow piece of metal with a square piece at the end during the time jump?! Did I imagine the previous seasons of this show?? Am I trapped in some kind of Study Aid fever dream!? Emily looked at Ali like she scattered the literal stars out into the universe for the singular purpose of delighting her!
Spotted:
Gals being Pals,
in Gal Pal t-shirts,
courtesy of Autostraddle.
THESE GAL PALS ARE PERFECT
I need an autostraddle photoshoot of Jasika Nicole and Amandla Stenberg together.
YES
