Calling all critters! It’s time for us to rejoice and then rejoice some more over a big ol’ batch of queer cheer, because it’s Sunday Funday! Here’s this week’s best news all rolled up into one post, just for you. Because that’s love.
Pretty Much Everyone Wants a Supreme Court Decision on Gay Marriage
The New York Times Editorial Board urged the Supreme Court this week to finally take up…
‘To be anorexic or bulimic is to be a political prisoner,’ wrote Susie Orbach in the seminal work on eating disorders, Fat is a Feminist Issue, a prisoner of the white supremacist patriarchy, and its narrow prescriptions about proper womanhood. We cannot let heterosexist and racist ideals make us destroy ourselves from the inside out. At the height of my restricted eating practises, the Earth began and ended at the parametres of my body. I suspect that starving women in the West are praised by society for their achievements in reducing themselves, because in their dazed, exhausted state there is no threat to the existing order of things. A starving woman has no energy to raise her consciousness or raise hell at the sickness of the wider structural issues that have lulled her into the very stupor she finds herself in — and so the perpetual, vicious circle is left to fester.
Things have been quiet over here. Hopefully this helps explain why. A Words With Girls full length pilot is coming soon. I’ll be posting stills from the shoot here because everyone is cute and super talented. Stay tuned.
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I counted the days ’til I could go home to Florida or California or Virginia. I was working hard to make these other places my home and sometimes they were — I mean sometimes I did a really good job. This is where I say that now I know — that it’s taken me 26 years but now I know that actually I would go back. I’d go back for backyard vegetable gardens and tree showers and weeknight dinners at my sister’s and beans on porches and I’d go back even for my Mama. I’d go back for me.
Lesbian Badass Megan Smith Named Chief Technology Officer of This Here Country, Rejoice!
Megan Smith was already Vice President in charge of Google [x] and pioneer of their WomenTechmakers Program, former CEO of PlanetOut, Silicon Valley hard-hitter and married to Kara Swisher of Re/code (though one source says they have recently separated after 15 years). Now, as of September 4th, 2014, she’s also Chief Technology Officer for the Obama Administration. She’ll be taking on the role,…
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Tongue Depressor, Part II
Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, a segment where three artists take turns delighting you with their whimsy, facts and punchlines on Saturday mornings! Our three esteemed cartoon critters are Cameron Glavin, Anna Bongiovanni, and Megan Prazenica. Today’s cartoon is by Cameron!
What grew instead was my library of queer literature and collection of Virginia Woolf quotes.
The Comment Awards Are Fighting The Good Fight
Good day, queer cadets! Have you challenged the patriarchy today?
This week Carmen reviewed Roxane Gay’s Bad Feminist, Mey and Mari shared some thoughts about Transparent andRiese listed 10 reasons the movie adaptation of The Giver was awful.
Speaking of awful, Gabby took on liveblogging Lifetime’s unauthorized Saved By The Bell movie that we were all so excited (and so so scared) about. As…
Lesbian Obesity Study Misses the Point: We Don’t Care If We’re Fat
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Hey queer ladies — just like your nosey mother, the federal government wants to know what’s going on with your weight. So much so, in fact, that the National Institutes of Health have given researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital nearly $3 million over the last four yearsto figure out why lesbians are more often classified as obese than straight women. Their…
South Asian Queers Occupy Heteronormative Space at NYC India Day Parade
Last Sunday afternoon, a large part of Manhattan was people-logged — not by the usual flood of tourists but because the world’s largest democracy was celebrating its 67 years of independence. The India Day Parade organized by the Federation of Indian Associationsthat took over from the 38th Street and Madison Avenue was flanked by numerous floats representing India – from corporate interests and…
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Back to Cool
It’s Friday! Time to celebrate our successes, curse our enemies, and gather ‘round the virtual table with laughter, tears, and the beverage of your choice in the Friday Open Thread! Mine would be Del’s frozen lemonade because it is sweet and tangy and from Rhode Island – just like my girlfriend! Some of you may prefer something stronger, and to you, I say, go right ahead! It’s Open Thread…
The Kind of Sex We’re Talking About Today, Part Two: Toeing
Hello there doe-eyed friend, this post isn’t safe for work, unless you work from home at your dining room table listening to NPR and eating veggie quesadillas that you call Riese-adillas because they’re just the ones Riese made for you last summer, like some of us. Moving on, do you have sex? What kind of sex do you have? What kind of sex are you talking about today? Today we’re talking about…
Things I Read That I Love #143: What You Fight For, You Love.
HELLO and welcome to the 143rd installment of Things I Read That I Love, wherein I share with you some of the longer-form journalism/essays I’ve read recently so that you can read them too and we can all know more about Mary Beard! This “column” is less feminist/queer focused than the rest of the site because when something is feminist/queer focused, I put it on the rest of the site. Here is…
