Kate to Autostraddle in June 2009: “"My ultimate dream would be to be Lily Tomlin or to be Tracy Ullman, you know, just a character woman. A character woman who does characters where characters are needed. "I would kill to be the first gay person on SNL or have a Tracy Ullman-type show. That would be my ultimate dream.”“
From what I can tell, coming out after being married to a man has the tendency to send almost everyone who knows you into screaming hysterics. People just can’t wrap their heads around how you could’ve lived one life and now want to live an altogether different one. At least, that’s how they see it – it’s actually still just you and your life. And unlike the typical coming out story, which can also result in confusion and hysterics, you get the added thrill of parading your personal journey through the court system!
it depends on the article. daily fixes that are in response to fairly straightforward news usually take a few hours, things that require more complex research/analysis or are like feature-length essays take anywhere from six hours to a few days.
the more I live the more I think
two people together is a miracle.
We [poets] may feel bitterly how little our poems can do in the face of seemingly out-of-control technological power and seemingly limitless corporate greed, yet it has always been true that poetry can break isolation, show us to ourselves when we are outlawed or made invisible, remind us of beauty where no beauty seems possible, remind us of kinship where all is represented as separation.
Men have been expected to tell the truth about facts, not about feelings. They have not been expected to talk about feelings at all.
Yet even about facts they have continually lied.
We assume that politicians are without honor. We read their statements trying to crack the code. The scandals of their politics: not that men in high places lie, only that they do so with such indifference, so endlessly, still expecting to be believed. We are accustomed to the contempt inherent in the political lie…
Lying is done with words, and also with silence.
[Responsibility to yourself] means resisting the forces in society which say that women should be nice, play safe, have low professional expectations, drown in love and forget about work, live through others, and stay in the places assigned to us. It means that we insist on a life of meaningful work, insist that work be as meaningful as love and friendship in our lives.
Billie Holiday, Feb 1947, by William Gottlieb
What was there outside of this place? I went through all the usual small-town teen angst stuff. One night when I was eleven or twelve, Eliza and I had stood on chairs in her roofspace, poked our heads out the skylight and stared down at the streets of Belfast. We talked about the mind-blowing possibility that there was someone out there for each of us, some soul to connect with, some kind of romantic love. We wondered at the size and scope of this world. Things seemed so big out there and we were just waiting for life to begin properly. I felt electric with anticipation. A few years later, spending my weekends waiting around amusement arcades for older boys to finish playing pool so they’d go and buy cider for me, I thought of this again. I was still waiting and sometimes I felt as if I could burst.
lol
+ watch a documentary
+ press flowers
+ make paper snowflakes
+ get a prison penpal
+ volunteer at a soup kitchen or animal shelter
+ call your grandma
+ draw a picture and mail it to a kid you used to babysit
+ design your halloween costume
+ buy a plain tshirt and decorate it
+ get a bedazzler
+ make yourself a taco box
possibly the cutest child i have EVER seen
RUEEEEEEEEEE
The HRC got its hands on NOM’s internal documents, and they’re actually more deplorable than we thought they’d be. You need to read this: REVEALED: NOM’s Deplorable, Racist Tactics For Beating Gay Marriage
