Dear Queer Diary: Picture This
My stuffed rabbit has no fingers, which makes it nearly impossible for her to keep a conventional journal. However, on certain occasions in both her young life and mine, she has had great success with photo diaries, asking her human friends to snap photos of her as she engages in exciting activities such as eating carrots and taking a hop around the neighborhood.
Although no photos from the…
"Feminine people are supposed to be so small that they disappear. That they maybe make themselves disappear in that quest for lightness, for smallness, for compactness. Like flowers being pressed until they’re flat. Not all feminine people do it, but I think most of them feel the pressure."
- Ali (Autostraddle)
White Gay Man Publishes Epically Stupid Response To “Stop Stealing Black Female Culture”
In a TIME article published last week, University of Mississippi student Sierra Mannie clearly articulates why it is wrong for white gay men to appropriate black female culture and why they are not allowed to “claim blackness or womanhood.”
“At the end of the day, if you are a white male, gay or not, you retain so much privilege… The difference is that the black women with whom you think you…
You Need Help: She Is Going Down For 15+ Minutes
Welcome to You Need Help! Where you’ve got a problem and yo, we solve it. Or we at least try.
Q:I’ve been with girlfriend for over 4 years now and i care about her A LOT and we are pretty normal lesbians i guess. When we do the dirty, it always takes me at least 15 minutes to climax with oral and I always end up saying sorry because it takes so long. Hers is very fast and I feel like crap for…
Yesterday I went on a date with my fiancée. We were getting her engagement ring resized (too big the first time around) and there’s a French place just across the street from the jeweler. They serve, hands down, the best crêpes I’ve had since I lived in Paris. So yesterday for lunch I had: one La Fin du Monde beer (made in Quebec, my favorite beer right now); one buckwheat crêpe with scrambled…
Science Will Not Save Us: Medicine, Research Ethics, and My Transgender Body
Earlier this year, Dr. Keith Ablow — a member of Fox News’ “Medical A-Team,” whatever that is — argued that, in his estimation, there is no scientific evidence supporting the existence of gender dysphoria. “I don’t believe,” he wrote, “we have definitive data… that any male or female soul has ever in the history of the world been born into the wrong anatomic gender.” Days later, writer and…
Also.Also.Also: Menstrual Art, Burning Books, and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Hello, mythical warriors! This week I’m taking a course on classical studies, libraries, and information literacy and it is pretty much the coolest thing ever. Here’s the news we missed while I was researching ancient stuff.
Frustration and Discrimination+ Singapore’s National Library Board has been ordered to remove from shelves & destroy three children’s books that depict LGBTQ families, one…
Fool’s Journey: Moving Beyond a Difficult Coming Out Experience
This month, a reader asks the tarot how to move forwards from a devastating coming out experience.
The dilemma:It’s about my family. It’s not about ‘when will they, won’t they?’ It’s about when will I. I came out as trans quite a while ago, and it blew up in my face, so that I went back in the closet for awhile until I just couldn’t anymore. I came back out, and lurked around with that giant ‘T’…
I know we’ve slacked on the You Need Helps and now it’s been months since we got new questions and probably you’ve already solved your old problems but if you have new problems there’s a link in the tumblr sidebar now to ask us advice questions and if we know the answer, we’ll answer it or find someone on the team who can answer it on autostraddle.com!
Racist ideas about immigrant groups have always been harnessed to justify exclusionary immigration policy and the construction of physical borders. While we can trace this all the way back to the Chinese Exclusion Act and the invention of the passport in the 19th century, we can see it just as vividly in the fact that kids and families risking their lives to cross the U.S./Mexico border by the thousands have been characterized as invaders. Instead of meeting these kids and families with empathy and outrage over the fact that they need to leave their homes (which also has to do with U.S. policy, incidentally), they are met with rage and incarceration.
Protests in Murrieta and Oracle Point to the Racism of US Immigration Policies
If you’ve been paying attention to the continued unfolding of the crisis facing immigrant childrenentering the U.S., it’s likely you’ve heard that a bus of detained immigrants being transported by U.S. Border Patrol was stopped by a group of protesters outside of Murrieta, California. The protesters yelled chants at the bus, including, “Go Back Home,” and “U-S-A,” and they held extremely racist…
Anonymous asked:
hello dearest anonymous! i feel like the situation you’re in is perhaps the most common situation of all time. HERE’S SOME PROOF:
If I had to write a Literary Analysis 101 paper on [Once Upon a Time], I’d go crazy with all the queer theory I could infer from this tangled mess of a show. But the thing is that you and I both know that my gay feminist reading is not at all the intention of its creators and that what’s actually happening on the screen is a lot less friendly to an LGBTQ audience.
The thing is, representation matters, and one of the worst things that this kind of narrative does is that it expects an LGBTQ audience to be satisfied with the bare minimum. When this bare minimum is not met with automatic praise and thanks, the audience is punished in any number of ways, from a producer’s social media snarkery to claims by the mainstream media that the darned homosexuals just aren’t grateful enough. Even the smallest amount of negative reaction is cited as reason enough to not bother with such a storyline in the future.
Hey nerds! A bunch of you were asking about the obscured parts of this month’s Lumberjanes playlist, so here it is! You can see a full track list at the bottom of this Autostraddle review!
