Let’s Organize Our Homes Together, Yeah?
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Almost Famous: Tiny Tusks
Welcome to Almost Famous, a weekly segment where we ask up-and-coming queer musicians some…
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Sidenote- if you don’t eat it, devour it, lick it off your fingertips, then don’t even for a second make a comment on that shit. Maybe if you did then you’d have the right to say something. Maybe then you’d describe it as tasting like fresh cantaloupe or smelling like every good secret reason you’ve been late to class this week…
“Well I made most of them, and searched the internet for bargains, and that half-sweater there at the bottom, that belonged to my dead aunt. I found it in her attic.”
So explains Kurt Hummel, Glee’s fashion-forward star, on a recent episode of the show when finally confronted with just how he acquires all the high-fashion looks on a Lima, Ohio, high school budget. Of course, at the same time, die-hard fans were giggling because they knew that sweater couldn’t possibly be stashed in an attic; it was actually a men’s asymmetrical sweater from Acne made in 2011, a fact uncovered by Fashion of Glee, a Tumblr devoted to unearthing and cataloging the many outfits worn by the the cast of the hit Fox show.
Even though I now believe that bootstraps are about as real as Thumbelina, I still struggle to ask for help and accept help because it once implied weakness. How do I, as a progressive Southerner, even begin to deconstruct this myth while acknowledging that my own unhealthy work ethic is a product of that very same environment? After all, I learned about bootstraps before I learned about strap-ons. Much to my chagrin, my Southern upbringing impacted my politics before my queerness did.