Orange Is The New Black 207: Comic Sans
HI YES HELLO, you may notice that I am also not your usual OITNB recap enthusiast Kate Severance. Although I can see how somebody might get confused.
For reference, I am the goofier looking one about to cry into those tortilla chips.
Anyway, I cried about a hundred times watching seasons one and two of Orange is The New Black. Then I braved my feelings and even updated my Netflix Silverlight…
Black people have equality under the law but police are still shooting unarmed black men with alarming regularity.
News outlets still call black rioters animals when they revolt against the murder of a teen from their community. The kicker is that people believe that racism is over because legal equality has been achieved. People never argue that I’m not oppressed as a gay person: I factually don’t have full legal rights. People will argue with me until they’re blue in the face that I’m not oppressed as a black person, because we’re all equal in the eyes of the law. Except that unarmed white teens are not gunned down by police regularly and an officer who gunned down a white teen would never be sent home with paid leave.
Things I Read That I Love #140: A Girl In Black Eyeliner and High-Top Sneakers
HELLO and welcome to the 88th 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 Miranda Lambert! 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…
Barneys New York Pays $525,000 in an Attempt To Be Less Racist
Barneys New York has been fined $525,000 by New York State Attorney General’s office as a settlement in its racial profiling lawsuit. The suit was in response to several incidences in which brown and black customers of Barneys were pursued, cuffed and detained under grounds of suspicion of credit card fraud and/or shoplifting.
After a nine month investigation, the retailer was found guiltyof…
3 Tips from the Slapass Convent For Making Your Brunch Totally Decadent
Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited! BRUNCH.
BRUNCH BRUNCH BRUNCH,…
Oh Hey, Kissing Girls and Lesbian Drama On “Masters Of Sex”
You guys, I’m really sorry I haven’t talked about this yet but I really thought nobody else was watching Masters of Sex this season but me! A couple of weeks ago, Sarah Silverman tweeted about wanting someone to talk about it with and I felt that deeply because I thought I was all alone, but then this past week I realized that she’s actually a character on the show.
Watch Masters Of Sex tonight…
Queer Girl Brunch Guide: So Many Cities, So Many Brunches, So Little Time
Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited! BRUNCH.
Oh hey were you…
“It is a crystal clear, paint-by-the-numbers picture of chronic police hostility toward African-Americans. This is anti-blackness in America. Make no mistake.”
Brittani’s Video Party: Back for More
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You might believe how funny Cameron Esposito is but can you believe that she wore plaid, a tie, a vest, and a denim jacket at the same time and wasn’t immediately whisked away to Lesbian Heaven? Here’s a preview of what you can expect from her comedy album, Same Sex Symbol, that’s dropping on October 7th. You can pre-order it nowfor only $7 bucks. I mean it’s worth it just…
Calls for ICE to #FreeMarichuy After Failing to Respond to Report of Sexual Assault
Marichuy Leal Gaminogrew up undocumented in Phoenix, Arizona and dreams of attending cosmetology school. For over a year, she has been detained at the Eloy Detention Center, a men’s detention facility run by the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), in Eloy, Arizona. Gamino is transgender, and she has reported being raped by her cellmate. CCA and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have…
What we’re seeing in Ferguson is not just an isolated incident of mass police brutality. What we’re seeing now is people in a situation of dissent — people not only fighting for respect and dignity, but people fighting for their lives in the most literal sense of the word. The militarization of the police force in Ferguson is evidence that those who are authorized to use violence will take that to the highest level imaginable in order to suppress what they deem is a threat. Masses of oppressed people standing up, speaking out, expressing rage and sorrow and fear, people who are reacting to a very real threat of violence are met with violence. The rules of the game could change at any time… Right now across the country, LGBTQ people are winning marriage, we’re winning federal protections, but our survival is not ensured. What will happen to us when we fight for the lives of all queer people? What will happen to us if suddenly our struggle is viewed as a situation of dissent? These questions are not meant to derail from the tragedy that is happening in Ferguson, they are to remind us that when we see violence authorized and encouraged against oppressed people, we all are in danger.
The Facts on Ferguson: What’s Happened and How You Can Help
feature image credit Robert Cohen—St. Louis Post-Dispatch/AP
The collective QPOC Speakeasy has responded to the Mike Brown’s killing and the events in Ferguson here. Please read & share their powerful words!
What Happened Here?On Saturday afternoon, Mike Brown was murderedby a Ferguson police officer. He was unarmed. His death, just the latest in a dizzying list of black people killed by the police just in 2014, inspired national mourning and righteous anger.
The QPOC Speakeasy Speaking Out With Love To Mike Brown
Autostraddle’s QPOC Speakeasy was born at this year’s A-Camp in the interest of providing a safe, closed space for queer people of color. It quickly became clear that the group would continue to thrive offsite and online. We are the speakeasy. We are queer people of color. We are Autostraddle.
Early Tuesday morning, we began to discuss Mike Brown in the speakeasy. Sometimes in these moments the best way to be a community is to allow each other the space to say as many or as few words as possible. We asked specific questions about the death of Mike Brown, the legacy of violence against POC in the US, and how constant police brutality impacts us. We agreed that failing to acknowledge the murders of Mike Brown, Trayvon Martin, Renisha McBride, and Kandy Hall (to name a few, just a few of the very many) would be to fail ourselves.
Sober in the City: How to Brunch Like a Sober Boss
Hold onto your eggs, we’re getting ready for Autostraddle’s International Brunch Weekend 8/23-24! Find a brunch meetup in your city or create your own by heading over to our events page. You can also load up on all things brunch by watching this space. From playlists to recommendations to personal essays, we’re writing all about the brunch experience. Get excited! BRUNCH.
Ahhh, brunch you old…
