Congrats to Mayumi and Elena! Mayumi is wearing an awesome combination of a Kipper Clothiers custom vest, pant, and shirt!
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I mean, she was bad news. But I was 18.
Reality Bites became the framework for my understanding of the world and my aspirations. This time I knew that Lelaina was the big sister I desperately needed, and I decided upon first viewing that her life was everything I wanted. I wanted cute dresses and potential I could squander, a super weird friend who slept around, at least one very affected and greasy boy person to makeout with, a short haircut, and the space in which to indulge in a complete and total emotional breakdown. I wanted to know the lyrics to old songs and sing them loudly in strange places, I wanted a boxy German car I could take for granted, I wanted a video camera. I memorized the lines like I’d be quizzed on them later. I braided my bangs down the front of my forehead and waited patiently to understand what the fuck everyone in this movie was so upset about.
Lelaina: I was really going to be somebody by the time I was 23.
Troy: Honey, all you have to be by the time you’re 23 is yourself.
Lelaina: I don’t know who that is anymore.
Troy: I do. And we all love her. I love her. She breaks my heart again and again, but I love her.
OH SORRY DID YOU NOT GET THE MEMO THAT IT’S OFFICIALLY A THING BECAUSE I WAS JUST UP ALL NIGHT WAITING FOR THIS TO HAPPEN SO THAT I COULD OFFICIALLY EMOTIONALLY EMBARK ON THE COMPLEX BUT REWARDING JOURNEY OF BEARING WITNESS TO A LEGITIMATE CAMPAIGN BY A WOMAN FOR THE MOST POWERFUL POSITION IN THE NATION AND MANY WAYS THE WORLD, AGAIN, DON’T MIND ME, I JUST EXPLODED
Charlotte wanted to have sex and I related to this a lot. She needed intimacy but she was terrified of it, and she was clumsy and weird. All of these things were my things, too, even though I didn’t know it then.
@buttonandbly and @autostraddle has teamed up! #autostraddle is now syndicating #buttonandblystravelshow on their site! Go check out the first look at season 3 episode 1 #losangeles today! www.autostraddle.com
I went to the desert and posted the photos on Autostraddle - check out my travel story here.
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So proud of Smith right now:
4. In front of the Smith College Library in a hurricane
34. The Catholic liturgy section (surprisingly unintentional) of Neilson Library at Smith College.
Check out this great new series from Autostradde, Queer Mama:
I know there are so many queers out there who’ve felt this external questioning, or an internal one, emotional or physical, about whether their queerness would prevent them from having children. Will I find a partner to start a family with? Will someone love me in my queer wholeness and brokenness? Do I/we have all the necessary ingredients to make a child? If not, how will we afford them? If not by procreation, will some authority let me take home a child? Will my partner and I be legally protected if we have a child together? Will our child be safe in the world, this child of queers?
I’m so fortunate that for me, the answers to those questions never led me to think a child couldn’t be part of my life story.
The much-needed ability to design solutions that center trans women, women of color, and women who took nontraditional paths into technology requires a major change in perspective. We currently seem to think of this issue in two types of changes: recruiting (the pipeline is so small and this is why we can’t hire women, so we must increase the size of the pipeline), or changing women’s behavior (Lean In). We can’t fix this problem unless we acknowledge the real and systemic discrimination that marginalized women face, even in the so-called meritocracy of the tech industry, and then fix those issues instead.
