Wherever you fall on the Curly Haired Goddess scale, this week’s This Shit Rules is all for you.
If this seems a little gay to you (how could it not?), check out the other 50 best photos of lesbian subtext in Sears Christmas Wish Book history.
Nothing says #HappyHoligays like a well-planned party! Indulge in all the holiday season has to offer with your fellow ‘straddlers by hosting a Holigay Party next month!
The first issue of this new ‘zine collaboration is about Coming Out To Yourself and it’s SO COOL and you WANT ONE. Or more than one.
Fool’s Journey: What Do Tarot Readers Do All Day? on Autostraddle!So now, after the wake up, jerk off, pee, tea, smoothie, shower, clothes, eyeliner morning routine, I sit and pray by my altar. I acknowledge the four directions plus the sacred black of the stars, the sacred brown of the ground and center. I pray for myself first, because as my friend and fellow Babe of Healing Justice, Marcelo Garza Montalvo, once said, “I have to pray for myself before I can pray for anyone else.” I hang out with my ancestors, think about them, stare into the images of the ones I have, and feed them- give them some whiskey, fresh water or flowers I picked from someone’s front yard.
Jury Duty For (Anti-Racist) Dummies on AutostraddleThis is not a manual on how to turn the system on its head. One is not always going to run into a situation where jury nullification is possible, necessary, or reasonable. Most importantly, we just want more people like us on juries: people who are skeptical of the efficacy of prisons and who see racism as a living, breathing problem.
As a Canadian, I’ve never seen American Thanksgiving before, but this year I will, and it will be at my girlfriend’s parents’ house in northern Arizona where they have woods and bears and guns and Republicans, which isn’t terrifying at all. We have to drive for what should be seven hours but will probably be eleven, and though we will probably be binge-listening to Serial, I hear it will eat exactly one mile of road trying to get out of Los Angeles at rush hour, and so music is so important.
MO Governor Jay Nixon Enacts Preemptive State of Emergency, Activates National GuardOn the ground, people are coming out in droves to peacefully protest what many see as the epitome of American infrastructural racism. On Sunday, protestors laid down inside chalk drawings outlining their bodies to recognize 100 days since the death of Michael Brown, with one protestor stating, “We just wanted them to know that it doesn’t matter if the weather is bad, good, ugly. We’ll be out here because this means that much to us.”
Considering all of the broken promises made during the initial response to the shooting, it’s no wonder protestors and residents alike might be panicked and afraid that their growing movement will be met with rubber bullets and tear gas if Darren Wilson is not indicted. This preemptive state of emergency not only highlights the distrust between the mostly-white leadership of Ferguson and the mostly-Black population, but serves to heighten the tension and potential for violence.
dELiA*s isn’t long for this world, so Riese unearthed one of their catalogs from the ‘90s, marked up my her friend like a regular old Regina George, to share with you.