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We’re here demanding intentional, meaningful investment in our community, and in our community efforts to end this motherf*cking epidemic. We are demanding funders and organizers, especially LGBT foundations and granters, to intentionally invest in the trans community… If you serve us, you need to include us.
QTPOC stormed the stage at Creating Change, and it was pretty badass.
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Every civil rights movement has depended on allies to move forward and while we wouldn’t ever focus on our entire conference on allies, having a straight, white, tech leader like Marc Benioff show up and support our conference is a big step forward.
Leanne Pittsford talked to Alley about why there’s a straight, white, cis dude speaking at this year’s Lesbians Who Tech Summit.
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Emily is behind the register, reading personal essays as they print out on the receipt machine, when this strawberry-haired girl with big ol’ lesbian glasses wanders up and asks to be pointed in the direction of Hanna Marin, because she is Mona’s childhood friend, Leslie, and Mrs. Vanderwaal said Hanna would probably be hanging out here or at down at the police precinct. Well, this is a suspicious surprise, and the Liars tell her so! In fact, they invite her to stand trial right in this shoppe, where they always hold court.
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lesbianregreat: “Angela Davis, Activist / Author / Educator “ Angela Davis is one of the most important people of all time. Starting with her work in the counterculture activist movement in the 1960s, with ties to the Communist and the Black Panther...
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Angela Davis, Activist / Author / Educator

Angela Davis is one of the most important people of all time. Starting with her work in the counterculture activist movement in the 1960s, with ties to the Communist and the Black Panther Party, Angela emerged as a leading feminist voice deeply passionate about abolishing the prison-industrial complex. She’s run for office, taught and spoken at Universities all over the country and is the author of numerous books including Women, Race & Class and If They Come In the Morning: Voices of Resistance. In 1997 she came out in Out magazine as a lesbian.

100+ LGBTQ Black Women You Should Know: The Epic Black History Month Megapost

So glad they included Davis, she tends to get overlooked when acknowledging other civil rights & second wave women’s liberation Black lesbian icons like Barbara Smith and Audre Lorde.

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Do you feel like we’re making progress with the representation of women of color on television?

I want it! I want the progress and I want to move in a forward direction! The optimist in me wants to be excited that we have Kerry Washington and now we’ve got Viola Davis, and we’ve got shows like Black-ish, and while Tracee Ellis Ross isn’t the lead, she’s co-starring as the lead. So I do get excited about that, wondering who’s going to come next. But then I remember when we had a lot of black television shows on, and we were like, “Yeah! This is it!” And then it sort of disappeared overnight.

And we’re just now slowly getting back to this position. So, I do feel excited but I also want to be realistic and acknowledge that not all trends stick around. I hope that it does! I hope that it continues to move forward! But television is a really scary world. You can never place your bets on anything. I think you can put so many people of color on TV shows, but until there are more people of color who are making those decisions to put those actors and actresses in those roles, we’re not quite at that point yet. We need more Shonda Rhimes in our lives.

– Jasika Nicole Will Teach You Embroidery and Social Justice: The Autostraddle Interview (Photos by Robin Roemer)

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I’m really fucking proud of Julia and I know there are a lot of people in this world who feel the same way. A lot of people who don’t even know her personally, they just know she has mad talent, they respect that, they feel the shit she’s saying, and they love her so much. It’s a love that I totally get, I think people feel that way about Everyone Is Gay, and like, we know y’all. It’s been five years of getting to know the people who support us in a very, very real way. We know what’s going on in your lives, we know when you’re heartbroken, we know when you’re succeeding, we know when Glee has pissed you off, we know when you re-watch one of our videos because you need a reminder. We pay attention, the same way you pay attention because this intense love that happens between people on the internet is such a strange and powerful thing. It’s almost like family.

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Hey everyone. I don’t use Tumblr to talk about my feelings terribly often, but I figured why the fuck not?!
And on top of the general sense of love and being inspired, there’s a sense of real obligation. In a fucking incredible way. Because we share this internet love, we feel obligated to create our best work. It’s more motivation than I have ever experienced in my life. Like being motivated to keep my grades up, or make a ton of money, or impress an important stranger, or stay fit, or whatever. No other motivation has felt like this… Maybe I don’t know how to explain it, but having people who love you because you are good at the thing you love to do. Fuck. It’s the greatest feeling in the world and that feeling creates this ridiculously strong bond.
This is the first time in my life I’ve dated someone who feels the exact feelings I’m talking about, and we have never said a word about it to one another. I just know it by the way she has been handling this kickstarter. You all have seen her being gracious and humbled and beside herself. She has been so overwhelmed with love and support, it’s amazing to watch. And what’s more, she’s genuinely trying to repay you. There’s this thing inside of Julia that won’t let her take that funding if she doesn’t work for it, and it has been so incredible to see. With each jump in funds, she adds more work for herself. Be it, mixing, design, shows, videos, another album, new songs. She’s working so hard. AND it’s not even like she’s doing it for herself. Is she proud of what she’s done? Totally. Does she want you to be proud of what she’s done? 1000x more than anything. She’s nose-to-grindstone with this shit and it’s because you told her she could do it. The fucking look on her face with someone comments that her new song is good… It’s. I don’t know. I can’t explain it. It’s so fucking inspiring. She inspires me.
And I guess this is a thank you? A selfish thank you. Thank you for inspiring her, but more than that, thank you to that inspiration for inspiring me. I take for granted how lucky I am. To have so many people give a shit about what I do, and support me, and help me to believe in myself, and to motivate me to be creative in a way that I need so badly. Thank you for being those people. Thank you for being those people for Julia. Thank you for everything.
seven hours to go [xxx]

One hour to go, I can not even. [xxx]

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"In general, as something becomes more visible, more people want to define what they see and they want to know exactly what you are. I think at some point it’s possible that the pressure to label myself for the internet will overpower my discomfort with having to do it, though. Does that make sense?"
- Julia Nunes, Perfect Interview via Autostraddle

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Check out this dope interview where Julia talks music biz, being labeled, and making instagram jokes with me (hey, this is dannielle, sup). 

And then back her kickstarter, as you only have HOURS to do so. All the cool kidz are doing it. (Me. I did. I am a cool kid) [xxx]