autostraddle joining the #galpal movement
What do you want out of the whole of your life, when it comes down to it? What are your goals and dreams and hopes? (Write them down.) What do you want the biggest aspects of your life to look like? What do you want to work toward?
What do they want out of the whole of their life, when it comes down to it? What are their goals and dreams and hopes? What do they want the biggest aspects of their life to look like? What do they want to work toward?
Do these things align? Do you find it easy, or at least possible, to talk about the ways in which they align, and the ways in which they don’t? Do you want to talk about these things with this person, together? Do you want to listen to what they have to say?
What do you want out of the smallness of life, when it comes down to it? What do you want from your every day? What do you need in the morning, in the evening, in the quiet hours and in the loud ones, to feel happy or fulfilled or safe or at peace?
What do they want out of the smallness of life, when it comes down to it? What do they want from their every day? What do they need in the morning, in the evening, in the quiet hours and in the loud ones, to feel happy or fulfilled or safe or at peace?
Do these things align? Do you find it easy, or at least possible, to talk about the ways in which they align, and the ways in which they don’t? Do you want to talk about these things with this person, together? Do you want to listen to what they have to say?
Autostraddle killing it as per usual (via cream-and-stars)
like i’m not saying this is the best item of clothing i’ll ever own, but i’m not not saying that you know
Save the date!
Next brunch will be Sunday, September 13th, and we’ll be raising money for everyone’s favorite perennially underfunded source for girl-on-girl culture, Autostraddle!
Let’s help them pay their writers, editors, and other awesome staff people something close to what they deserve <3
Where: 2319 St. Alban’s St, Philadelphia PA, 19104
When: Sunday September 13, 1-4pm
Facebook event to come
And why is it that so few TWOC (aside from Laverne Cox and Janet Mock) get any kind of airtime when it doesn’t involve trauma? Why are cis folks only interested in seeing us hurt, traumatized and alone? Those select few trans women who do get the spotlight, not just when they are murdered, are the exception and often tokenized by the spaces that they are in. You only ever hear about TWOC after we have been murdered. And in many ways this film is no different. It relies on the difficulty of our lives, it’s fetishizes the way our existence is marked by this world in order to titillate, to entice. The exotic other enchanting the “normal” cis white audience. And they leave the theater thinking that they know something, that they are more familiar with the lives of trans women. But our lives are not like in the movies.
“Jo’s trans identity was just another integral part of her character, and it developed very naturally — she was a leader, she was VERY passionate about being a Lumberjane, she was also trans.”
Lumberjanes Issue #17 Continues Positive Representation as Jo Talks About Being Trans
Indiewire notes that three potential Oscar contenders — Grandma, Carol and Freeheld — all feature May/December lesbian relationships. (The same article also mis-genders Elle Fanning’s character in About Ray, etc.)
+ Carol (November 20th), directed by Todd Haynes — based on “The Price of Salt,” stars Cate Blanchett (age 46) as a divorcing socialite who gets involved with department store clerk played by Rooney Mara (age 30).
+ Grandma – Lily Tomlin (75) plays “an acerbic lesbian intellectual” who breaks up with a “worshipful woman” played by Judy Greer (40).
+ Freeheld – Julienne Moore (54) will play New Jersey police officer Laurel Hester and her domestic partner will be played by Ellen Page (28). Freeheld is based on a true story involving a couple with a 19-year age difference.
Pop Culture Fix: May-December Lesbian Couples Coming To A Theater Near You and Other Stories
+ Organ Trail is an homage to the original version of Oregon Trail, which was definitely the best part about fifth grade for me, but with zombies.
+ If you didn’t catch it when it first came out in 2011, find a few hours now to play through this detailed NES version of The Great Gatsby.
+ Pippin Barr recreated some of the key scenes from The Shining with an Atari look, and the result is a quick, fun little game.
+ How long could you last in a 70s horror flick? Now you can find out in full pixelated glory! Set in a classic cabin by a lake, surrounded by horror tropes, what can your little plaid-clad person get up to before being devoured by something?
brookeallen did this absolutely brilliant amazing beautiful drawing of me as a Lumberjane and I love it more than anything in the world.
Remember last week, when I was saying “yes” to everything? One of those things was a cardio trampoline class with my co-workers. That’s exactly what it sounds like — a cardio class held on trampolines. I’d vowed to challenge myself more, and trying this was the first step. Step-upville: population me. Going with a small crowd of co-workers made it less scary; if I made a fool of myself then I was almost certain they would as well.
When I tell people I’m asexual, mostly I just want them to understand? I feel like my aceness sort of explains a lot about me. When I tell someone I want them to be like “okay, yeah, that makes sense,” and be cool with it. And I like it when people ask me questions about it so they can understand better. I mean, I can get pretty anxious if I’m put on the spot or something but if people ask nicely or one-on-one I’m usually more than happy to help explain.
What I don’t really want is for them to say something like “oh you just haven’t met the right person,” or “have you tried it?” Like, some people seem to think those are innocuous things to say but really they kind of boil down to “I know you better than you know yourself, and you’re wrong about your own feelings and experiences.”
Queer representation is important, that’s why I highlight comics featuring queer women here in Drawn to Comics. By having queer representation in this all-ages anthology of stories specifically about heroes, editor Audrey Redpath hopes that she can help queer readers, whether they’re kids, adults or somewhere in between, a chance to see themselves represented in this genre that can really have a huge effect on the way they see themselves.