Saturday Morning Cartoons: Swipe Right
Welcome to Saturday Morning Cartoons, a segment where four artists take turns delighting you with their whimsy, facts and punchlines on Saturday mornings! Our four esteemed cartoon critters are Cameron Glavin, Anna Bongiovanni, Megan Prazenica and Sarah Rosenblatt. Today’s cartoon is by Anna!
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The Comment Awards Are Dressed To The Nines
Hello Earth campers! Your outfit looks great today.
This week Carmen and the team talked travel rituals, Hansen got down with dark chocolate recipes and Grace made the perfect playlist for Walking to Target Like A Mother-Effing Champ. Speaking of Grace, Lumberjanes #4 is out and full of yetis and friendship high-fives.
Elicia talked about getting rid of shorts shame and our brilliant Mey…
This is a story about the family that I lost and found and almost found at various The Cheesecake Factory restaurants across America.
Rhymes With Witches: Broadway Badass Elaine Stritch
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On Thursday July, 17, Elaine Stritchpassed away at her home in Birmingham, Michigan. There have been some amazing and wildly talented women that have lit up the stages of Broadway but none were brassier or sassier than Elaine Stritch. I always thought of theater as one of the most magical experiences anyone can experience and Elaine Stritch was one of…
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Girl, What’s Yo Sign?
Hey there, hi there, ho there queermos! Welcome to this week’s Friday Open Thread, in which we discuss contemporary art and its masters. JK! It’s our weekly space for dog photos, first-date jitters, coming out stories, and more. In fact, we have a Friday Open Thread every week just because we love you and wanna know your life. Also because I love dog photos. Here’s my dog on a blanket at the…
Bonnaroo 2014: A Photo Diary From The Guts of a Real Person
“I don’t believe in any of it
but I believe in all of it.”
— Jack WhiteThere are probably at least a million places in Tennessee where you can go to be you. If you walk down the hill to the pond in my backyard, for example, you can be you right then and there with the frogs and the cattails. You can drive down Darbytown Road to McCord Hollow and find Cane Creek and Slippery Rock and be the…
Things I Read That I Love #136: I Fell So Hard for Tomato Juice One Summer
HELLO and welcome to the 136th 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 Justin Bieber! 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…
“Science” Magazine Runs Transmisogynistic Cover, Editor Tweets ‘Deception’ Tropes When Challenged
One of the best known and most respected publications in science and technology chose to run a sexualized, transmisogynistic photo for its cover this week, and when the editor was challenged on twitter for pandering to the male gaze, he responded that he thought it would be interesting what would happen when those males “find out.”
While the focus of Sciencemagazine’s July 11 issue on combating…
10 Hilarious And Historical Sex Scenes From Lesbian Pulp Fiction
Lesbian pulp novels were around in the 1950s and ’60s and were notorious for featuring suggestive covers, tragedy and tons of smut. Sold in train stations, drugstores and newsstands or mailed out like magazines and named for the low quality of the paper they were printed on, these novels depicted the possibility of queer relationships, but also suggested that if anyone pursued such a relationship…
Ginger Ale, Outlets, and Crying: Our Travel Rituals in Roundtable Form
Inspired by Danielle LaPorte and Carmen’s incessant need to write herself down in order to learn who she is. These are our travel rituals.
Carmen, Feminism Editor
Since my girlfriend Geneva lives on the other side of the continent and I’m constantly dreaming of California (and A-Camp), I’ve had my fair share of experience on airplanes. (I’m a United MileagePlus enthusiast, because I’m thrifty…
Playlist: Walking To Target Like A Mother-Effing Champ
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At least once a week for the last four years or so, I’ve thrown on my backpack and hiked a mile and a half to Target, a distance where asking a friend for a ride seems like a waste and a bus is more trouble than it’s worth. It’s not a bad walk, to be honest, especially since at this point, I know exactly what kind of music to listen to: You have to…
We Won A Thing: Florida Judge Overturns Same-Sex Marriage Ban, Only Applies to Monroe County
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A Florida judge overturned the state’s 2008 ban on same-sex marriage on Thursday, allowing same sex couples to marry starting on Tuesday.
Monroe County Circuit Judge Luis Garcia‘s decision only applies to Monroe County, which covers the Florida Keys, because “it it was filed in front of a state judge who has jurisdiction only in the county where he sits.” The…
How Many People Are Queer? Probably More Than Two Percent
In a federal report released on Tuesday, the 2013 National Health Interview Survey found that just 2% of Americans over the age of 18 identify as gay or lesbian — or at least, that’s the factoid making splashy headlines.In fact, gathering accurate statistics on the overall number of LGBT people is a longstanding issue, and a follow up report by the same agency reveals that their 2% estimate on…
Stop paying superficial lip service to intersectionality, white feminists. It is insulting and strips the power from one of the most important concepts in the politics of gender liberation. If you can’t take a stand against racism you have no business calling yourself intersectional for feminist brownie points. I can’t listen to a white feminist who coos about her love of bell hooks but dismisses the words of a woman of colour she knows on the subject of race.
When will white feminists take collective responsibility for educating themselves? When will they understand the power at play that sings in their skins? We don’t exist in a vacuum and women of colour don’t exist to hold their hands and explain in painful detail why their behaviour continues to hurt us. Intersectional feminist politics are not for white women to co-opt as their own. It is explicitly a theory that was formed from the mind of a Black woman, Kimberlé Crenshaw, to explain Black women’s situations, as they were ignored by the white-centric feminist movement and simultaneously by the male-centric civil rights movement. I cannot speak for every Black woman, and I would never profess to. We are not a monolith. But I think we ought to stand wary of a white woman who calls herself intersectional. You won’t listen to us and you will exclude us from your movement but you will take the ideas you like?
Laverne Cox on Her Emmy Nomination, Music Video and Fighting for TWOC: The Autostraddle Interview
Talking to Laverne Coxis pretty much the best. It’s just that simple. Not only is she incredibly funny, kind and charming, but she also always has incredibly important things to say. She’s been working hard in the public spotlight for over five years, and now she’s seeing the fruits of that labor. For this interview, I was able to find out about what it’s like to be nominated for an Emmy, what…
