new logos are here! This is gonna look so tight on camp shirts & hoodies.
Thank you Vega!
From the autostraddle.com roundtable of Bruce Springsteen songs:
Carmen: I am both tired and bored with myself and have a strong desire to change my clothes, my hair, my face at all times. I consider this the queer human condition.
Carolyn: This is the best song for feeling lonely, or hopeful, or going out to sleep with someone for whom you have no and do not want any feelings, or for dancing around in your kitchen in a state of undress with or without company. It is a song for trying or a song for not trying any more, at least not this second. It is a song to make out to or to emphatically not make out to.
Stef: I just really like thinking about a young, bright-eyed Courtney Cox (looking very gay in her sleeveless white t-shirt) being pulled out of the audience to shuffle adorably along with Bruce. We have all been Courtney Cox in this moment, or yearned to be.
Queer witch ritual preparation.
Sauce: http://www.autostraddle.com/salem-episodes-11-and-12-recap-judge-jury-and-executioner-272693/
These are our favorite Bruce Springsteen songs and the stories of how and why we love them.
i’ve been reading autostraddle since the land before time (and recently became a co-producer of the new A+ podcast) so i am really excited, and simultaneously not at all surprised, that my first written contribution to the site is about why lesbians love bruce springsteen so much.
go read everyone’s cute feelings about the boss and listen to the playlist!
Spencer: Teammate, you are a homo! Get back on the field! Homo!
Rachel: Excuse me, sir, gay slurs are not welcome at this school! We spent three seasons eradicating that shit!
Spencer: I am kind of a — quote — “postmodern gay teen. You see, positive representations of gays in mass media has given me the confidence I need to be myself,” which is an ass.
Rachel: Wait, so you’re like Ryan Murphy’s self-referential mouthpiece commenting on the social impact of this show inside the show while explaining why he thinks minority-on-minority crime is a-okay and also hilarious.
Spencer: I should have known the Lesbian Blogger Community would react this way.
Glee 6.01 Recap Heather Hogan/Autostraddle (via klainedestinedji)
So, Glee, no, you don’t get any brownie points from me for introducing this trans storyline in your final season. You had one and you messed it up terribly. You had Unique, a black trans girl who also happened to be one of the best singers on the show, but you treated her like trash. She was constantly the butt of jokes and bullying. Every time she had a storyline of her own, it just reinforced the idea that the characters within the show, and the show itself, didn’t see her as a “real” woman. You treated trans women as a punchline, or as deceptive and predatory. And now she’s gone; you made her completely disappear. Disrespected, othered and treated like garbage when she was around, and then suddenly and unceremoniously erased from existence. If that isn’t the perfect microcosm for how society treats trans women of color, I don’t know what is.
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Everything I learned in those years confirmed what I was beginning to learn when I was six: that throughout history, there has been a constant struggle between the oppressed and their oppressors. With each struggle I learned about, I found myself consistently siding with the oppressed, and consistently respecting those who stepped up to defend them – regardless of nationality, regardless of religion. And I never threw my class notes away. As I stand here speaking, they are in a neat pile in my bedroom closet at home.
Tarek Mehanna’s Sentencing Statement, via this week’s TIRTIL
At Fitzgerald Bookstore & Candy Shoppe, Ezra is melting down about how his caterer doesn’t have the right kind of diamond powder to crust the fois gras in and did he say chablis or did he say merlot because he’s pretty sure he said merlot and none of these vendors will accept anything over a one million dollar bill and his life is so hard. My god, what would it be like to walk around the world in Ezra Fitzgerald’s shoes? How would that feel for even a single day? 99 problems and vintage wine is every single one.
Emily has an idea and it is that she will take over this catering situation and make enough money to buy a plane ticket to California, where she will snoggle her moogle with Paige McCoogle, who isn’t returning her calls and texts right now. You understand why Emily is upset by this, of course. For starters, Paige was like the only person whowas always pouring unfiltered love into Emily’s heart and also companionship things and sex things. And for seconders, the last time one of Emily’s girlfriends left town and stopped returning calls, Lyndon “Nate” James happened.
Pretty Little Liars Episode 515 Recap: Eat Around The Hair on Autostraddle