Miley is an imperfect celebrity advocate with a splotchy history of racism and cultural appropriation that she has never apologized for. However, this campaign, at least in its first hours, seems seriously groundbreaking in scope and wonderfully positive in its approach.
It’s strange that a trans woman who, so far, hasn’t done any work in the trans community has been crowned our queen. It’s strange that a trans woman who is famous, rich, white and conservative, four things that do not describe most trans women, is now the face most cis people think of when they hear the word “transgender.” It’s weird that people are saying that famous, rich, white, conservative and conventionally attractive trans woman is humanizing trans people to a whole new group of people. Why didn’t Janet Mock or Laverne Cox do that for them? Why didn’t CeCe McDonald? Why didn’t Islan Nettles?
I so genuinely don’t care what she’s doing I don’t even like her I mean whatever I have options but if the goddesses have forsaken me and by chance I see that she’s faved a tweet or liked a picture on Instagram, I’m gonna lose my shit.
Hello Autostraddle. This is Tinkerbell and I am seven years old. I am
also very famous and very skinny, but one of my eyeballs is bigger than
the other eyeball. I have three outfits, but I will soon have four
outfits because I am sitting shiva for Tinkerbell. Not me, the other
Tinkerbell. You have to wear black to sit shiva and two of my outfits
are pink and one is red. The red one says UH HUH HER on it and it was
signed by Leisha Hailey who wrote that I am a “hot dog.” But back to the
topic of this post which is that my heroine Tinkerbell is dead and I am
so sad, how do I go on.
#RIPTinkerbell, from our very own Tinkerbell.
I can only hope that somewhere out there, Kristen Stewart and Alicia Cargile are spending today in a very friendly way. I hope they are buying matching Best Friends necklaces at Claire’s and making friendship bracelets on Kristen’s couch. They may be all we have left.
On last night’s season three premiere of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer, Tina Fey, Patricia Arquette and Julia Louis-Dreyfus
teamed up to skewer ageism and sexism in Hollywood with a highly
entertaining sketch about JLD’s last fuckable day on the planet. There’s
a viking funeral involved, and some ice cream called Jen & Carrie’s
Vanilla of a Certain Age.
We should be thrilled to see them stepping up, because it means we get to ask for more from them. I hope, as they continue to solidify their success, we see more from them speaking out on LGBT issues less familiar to mainstream audiences than marriage. I hope we see them elevate other queer musicians and artists. I hope we, as fans, hold them accountable to using their platform that they’ve worked to build for the benefit of our communities. I hope we hear more incredible music to cry to. I hope we hear more incredible music to dance to.