“Jack and Diane” trailer
when will tegan and sara songs stop making me think of all my exes?
probs when their new album comes out and you have new songs to listen to that weren’t around when you were dating your exes. /never
Is hard femme a thing? Can someone write a thing about it, or give some fashion advice to a wannabee hard femme?
it’s totally a thing. i like to think it’s a thing i do. maybe, just maybe, i can write something about it.
As a follow-up to the Spanish question… Any recommendations for podcasts?
i like “notes in spanish.” it’s got the most boring name ever but is really good if you’re looking for practice. remember those listening exercises you had to do in high school spanish? it’s kind of like that if those were actually about things you cared about. a bilingual couple (the guy’s from the uk, the chick’s from spain) does it, so you get perspectives from a native spanish speaker and someone who’s still learning.
post about the femme conference in august! i need autostraddle to help me make friends to go with…
kristen just did! wasn’t it a marvelous article?
what if through some horrible cosmic event, we miss our email about the pen pals. Must we live with the fact that we fail as a human being, or do we get another chance at life
first of all you have no failed as a a human being. you read autostraddle which automatically means you win at life. first you should search your inbox far and wide for an email from laura at autostraddle dot com and if you can’t find it, just send me a email telling me about how sad you are. i love making girls smile.
Why hasn’t my penpal written me yet? I’m dyinggggg
a) i totally missed your name on the list
b) you didn’t give me your entire address and i had to give them your email because 293 riverside ct. isn’t really enough to get a letter to you
c) your pen pal is stuck in a natural disaster
d) the postal service lost your letter
you can always email me if it’s been too long!
Hi Laura, so I got the email about my penpal the other day (THANKYOUTHANYOUOMG!) but I just wasn’t sure from the email whether I was supposed to write first or them? Thanks!
just send a letter! you guys’ll figure out some kind of letter writing rhythm in a month or so =)
when should i panic about not yet receiving a pen pal email?
now! i just finished sending out all the notifications, so if for some horrible reason you didn’t hear from me, send me an email at laura at autostraddle.
(but please please please please don’t send me an email asking if you can join now if you didn’t submit your info initially because everyone has already been matched up and there will be another chance in the future)
i am not able to log into facebook until i apologize for doing valid feminist work in the nation’s capital.
in the past few days, presumably, a woman named “kim” (i will not reveal her last name or her email address) reported some of the slutwalk content on my own profile (i am unsure which content, because i have not logged back in) as “offensive” or “harassment.” although she is referring to this past week’s 2012 slutwalk, i was only present in 2011, where i spoke and was therefore photographed.
her message to me, along with her contact information, was included in a facebook “checkpoint” which stops me from accessing my account until i accept that my involvement with last year’s DC slutwalk breeches the facebook community standards and guidelines. (as a point of clarification, valid reasons to be successfully blocked from your profile on facebook include nudity, stealing intellectual property, and inciting or threatening to commit acts of violence. i did none of the listed behaviors within the community standards document on facebook’s website.)
i refuse to click “continue” and re-enter my facebook because i should never have been interrupted. by clicking “continue,” i am apologizing for something i refuse to apologize for, and i am also allowing what occurred to occur again.
considering facebook tolerates racism, rape jokes, and other offensive material in the name of “free speech,” it is weird to be banned from my own account merely for doing social justice work. but it is at least good to know that i was correct to assume that the only speech freely allowed on facebook is white, cisgender, straight, male speech by individuals attempting to oppress everyone else.
for now you can reach me on twitter or even send me a message here on tumblr. i also have a google plus.
peace out, zuckerfuck.