Comedy Crush: On the Mountain with Elicia Sanchez
Elicia Sanchez is a stand-up comedian living and joking in Seattle, though this week she has temporarily relocated to Angelus Oaks as part of the talent line-up for A-Camp. She’s been performing stand-up since 2010 and has taken part in the Bumbershoot, Bridgetown, and All Jane No Dick comedy festivals, among many others. She also co-hosts That’s Provocative, a podcast with Nick Sahoyah, and The…
Loving the Women Who Look Like Me: Queer Black Women in Love
When I first came out to myself two years ago, I didn’t know how to love the women who looked like me. I barely knew how to accept my same gender desires, but at least the TV shows, movies, and books that lauded ivory-skinned beauties with hair that grows and flows down taught me how to lust after white women. But, loving, lusting after, dating, fucking, playing with, and appreciating the women…
Brittani’s Video Party: Hannah Hart and Samira Wiley are Best Friends with a Cat
Party in your onesies with Hannah Hart, one of my favorite sketch videos of all time, a cat with places to go, and Samira Wiley.
Your Primer on TV Upfronts 2014: A Mixed Bag
A few years ago, I had no idea what upfronts were. Now the days when they’re released are amongst my favorite of the year.
Incarcerated Trans Teen Girl Is Still in Adult Prison Despite Being Charged With No Crimes
A 16 year-old transgender teenage girl has been locked up in an isolated mental health unit of the York Correctional Institution since April, despite not being charged with any crimes. She was recently moved to another buildingthat the Connecticut Department of Children and Families hopes will better suit her needs. However, advocates for the girl say that the new location isn’t any less isolated and still isn’t a suitable place for her. Additionally, the fact remains that Jane Doe, as she is known because she’s a minor, hasn’t been charged with any crimes, has mental health needs that aren’t being met and has been locked up in an adult prison since last month. Some documents suggest that DCF may even be misleading the press and the public as to their treatment of Doe, and wish to cover up the fact that they tried (and failed) to have Doe transferred to a men’s prison.
Check Out the First Three Issues of Ms. Marvel Right Now!
This week here at Drawn to Comics, we’re taking a look at the first three issues of Marvel Comic’s new title Ms. Marvel. This book follows the adventures of Kamala Kahn, a sixteen year old Pakistani-American Muslim girl as she navigates life as a teenager who recently gained superpowers that her friends and family don’t know about. It’s written by G. Willow Wilson, a Muslim woman herself, and illustrated by Adrian Alphonsa, and it sure is taking off with a bang.
Project ROSE is a program in the city of Phoenix, AZ that claims to help sex workers. In the name of rescuing them, police officers handcuff alleged sex workers and take them off the street and into a church to meet with prosecutors and Project ROSE representatives, who offer them “diversion programs.” Sex workers who aren’t interested in the diversion programs face jail time. These sex workers aren’t technically arrested, just made “contact” with; conveniently, if they’re not arrested, then they don’t need to be offered the chance to speak to a lawyer. In May of 2013, Monica Jones became one of the people arrested by Project ROSE; the charge was “manifesting prostitution” for accepting a ride home to her neighborhood from men who turned out to be undercover cops. This week, Jones was found guilty, and faces the possibility of serving time in a men’s prison as a trans woman.
So You Wanna Write the Divine: Black LGBTQ Artists Talk Spiritual Practices of Community Building
Playwright Shirlene Holmes calls theater “a place to do divine things.” In that same vein, Holmes, who has authored the work A Lady and A Woman, strongly believes in the theater’s capacity to produce social change. During Brown University’s “Black Lavender Experience,” a week long festival that began on April 7th and ended on April 12th, Black LGBTQ artists gathered to perform and discuss their work with students, residents, and festival participants in Providence, Rhode Island. Holmes and a number of queer Black playwrights and filmmakers took the time to sit down with students and talked about the divine nature of their writing for marginalized communities.
Five Things You Should Know About Women and the Minimum Wage Crisis
“Raising minimum wage is a women’s issue,” emphasized Liz Shuler during the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization’s (AFL-CIO) briefing on Working Women and the Minimum Wage on April 3rd. Shuler, AFL-CIO secretary-treasurer, and a number of AFL-CIO representatives gathered at AFL-CIO’s headquarters in Washington D.C. to discuss how raising the minimum wage improves the condition of women workers in the U.S., especially for those who are single-mothers and/or women of color. Here are five things you should know about women and the minimum wage crisis.
Hello, beautiful butterflies! Spring has sprung and it is a lovely sight indeed! Here’s what we missed while the flowers were blooming.
On Art and Identity+ Here are “10 Transgender Artists Who Are Changing The Landscape of Contemporary Art.” And Ivan Coyote is one of them! I have a lot of feelings about Ivan Coyote because they have produced some truly amazing art and poetry and scholarship.…
Laverne Cox to Receive GLAAD Stephen F. Kolzak Award, Ellen Page to Present It, Everyone to Swoon
Yup. You read that right. Beacon of magnificence Laverne Cox will be honored at the 25th Annual GLAAD Media Awards with the Stephen F. Kolzak Award, and beacon of magnificence Ellen Page will present it.
via GLAAD
GLAAD made the announcement this morning, noting that the Stephen F. Kolzak award
is presented to an openly lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender media professional who has made a…
Brittani’s Video Party: Emma Stone #Hashtags Haviland Stillwell’s “Royals” Parody
Haviland Stillwell released a video for her single “MKE Maximum Energy.” In the song, she insists you watch her move and this video gives you that opportunity so thank you to her. The single is now available on iTunes!
“Typecast” is a “Royals” parody song about Tess Paras, writer and star of the video, being…
Also.Also.Also: Uh Huh Her is Googling Stand Your Ground Laws and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Hello, kittens! I hope you have your mittens because it’s still snowing! When will it be spring time for real? Here’s the news we missed while I was knitting myself a scarf to keep warm.
It’s Still Dangerous to be Queer…+ A new documentary captures the challenges of homophobia, oppression and discrimination in Cameroon.
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Earlier this year, RAINN, the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network, set out a set of national recommendations to the White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault.
As someone who has worked at a campus resource for students affected by sexual and interpersonal violence for the entire time I’ve been an undergraduate, I was flabbergasted by the RAINN recommendations. The report…
Ending Violence Against Queer Black Women Is Everybody’s Responsibility
“We only want justice, but sometimes it is not always clear what justice is when you are black in this country,” admitted Amina Baraka, wife of the late-poet Amiri Baraka, after prosecutors indicted James Coleman for the murder of their daughter, Shani Baraka, and her partner Rayshon “Ray-Ray” Holmes. On August 12, 2003, Coleman — estranged husband of Shani’s sister, Wanda Pasha — shot and killed…
