Hello hello! It’s you again, as it is also me, and here we are! I’m embarking on an eight-hour road trip with my parents and children early this morning and the lead-up feels exactly the way you would think it would feel. Neat!
I hope your upcoming weekend is just dandy and that you get to eat the donuts you wanted to eat last weekend but couldn’t for some terrible reason!
Queer as in F*ck You
+ Rachel Maddow: The Rolling Stone Interview. Correct.
+ Roxane Gay Body Shamed by Podcast Host Who Revealed Her Team’s Private Accommodation Requests. Also: Mamamia’s Treatment of Roxane Gay Was Cruel, But Not Unusual.
+ Activists Say Capital Pride Overtaken By Corporations and Rich Gay Men. Also correct.
+ Undocumented and Transgender.
+ How This Fat Femme Yoga Instructor Is Reshaping the 3 Trillion Dollar Industry.
+ Virginia’s First Transgender Candidate Will Take On ‘Bathroom Bill’ Sponsor.
+ Faces of Healing: One Year After the Pulse Nightclub Massacre.
+ Trans Women DJ Jasmine Infiniti and London Jade Assaulted in Brooklyn.
+ The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning.
+ Web Series “The Feels” Portrays Bisexuality the Right Way.
+ Do you want to see the extended trailer for Life Is Strange 2? Yes you do.
+ Pulse Survivor Went From Being Declared Dead to Opening a Center for Black LGBTQ Youth
Welcome to the Hellmouth
+ Baseball and Gun Violence: Two of America’s National Pastimes Collide in Virginia.
Doll Parts
+ You’re Getting Hustled by Bustle and thennnnnn Part II: Wherein Bustle Tells Us to Take Our Post Down. See also: Underneath His Bustle: How Everyone’s Most Resented Feminist Website Actually Began, but wait there’s more! Bustle.com Conjures Every Terrible Feeling Women in Media Have About Women’s Media. Fun times!
+ Washington Post’s Millennial Women-Focused Spinoff The Lily Is Going the Distributed Route.
+ A Brief History of Steven Moffat Saying Why He Never Picked a Female Doctor Who.
+ Why Wonder Woman’s Second Weekend Sales Are So Extraordinary — And Important.
+ Deportation Panic Has Created a Town Full of Women Terrified to Go Outside.
Keep Up
+ Here’s the Real History Behind Arizona’s Confederate Monuments.
+ The Senate’s Secrecy Over Health Care Was Decades in the Making.
+ “I Have to Hold My Family Together”: The Hidden Cost of Prison Visits in New York.
Saw This, Thought of You
+ How to Hate Each Other Peacefully in a Democracy ??? Full disclosure I have not read this because I am on vacation.
+ Courtney Love Goes Full Lifetime in Mendez Brothers Movie.
