Also.Also.Also: Let Your Bi Flag Fly, Colors Can’t Have Copyright

Carmen Phillips
Apr 30, 2020
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In case you were wondering: Yes, I already memorized the entire Savage Remix while working up MANY sweats pathetically twerking in the mirror. (Dancing is not my skillset, but for the Queen we try our best)

Bey Hive 🐝 we eating. So proud of Meg’s come up.

Here’s what else is happening in the world.


Queer as in F*ck You

Sorry, Straight People: Lockdown Culture is Just Lesbian Culture. Homemade hummus, DIY haircuts and constant yearning? We’ve been doing that for decades.

A leader of BiNet USA is threatening legal action & demanding payment for use of the bisexual pride flag.

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(PS: This probably goes without saying, but No, You Can’t Copyright the Bi Pride Flag)

What Will Pride Even Mean This Year?

Ooof. A Lesbian Couple Got Engaged Last Month. They Just Disappeared Without a Trace.


Saw This, Thought of You

“My Quarantine Cat Hates Me”

“Meaning-making is always dynamic and unstable. We can differentiate between a face mask as an item that is going to close you off from something, or bring some closure on the street, in a public space, or in the supermarket. And then we can talk about those cultural contexts where the mask is coded as an expression of civic duty.” Face Masks and Politics of Vulnerability

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Simone De Beauvoir’s ‘Too Intimate’ Novel to Be Published After 75 Years

This made Rachel “rly relieved to be single”: Petting the Cat Wrong and 16 Other Ways Our Partners Are Trying to Hurt Us

The 29 Best Red Lipsticks of All Time

Pandemic Advertising Got Weird FastPandemic Advertising Got Weird Fast

How Animal Crossing’s Singing Shih Tzu Took Over TikTok

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U.S. Women’s Volleyball League to Start in 2021

Lorraine Hansberry’s Radicalism. Wow, this goes so well with Natalie‘s “The Quiet Lesbian Biography of Lorraine Hansberry” from Autostraddle’s 2020 Black History Month celebration. The perfect pair.


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Carmen Phillips

Carmen Phillips is Autostraddle’s former editor in chief. She began at Autostraddle in 2017 as a freelance team writer and worked her way up through the company, eventually becoming the EIC from 2021-2024. A Black Puerto Rican feminist writer with a PhD in American Studies from New York University, Carmen specializes in writing about Blackness, race, queerness, politics, culture, and the many ways we find community and connection with each other.  During her time at Autostraddle, Carmen focused on pop culture, TV and film reviews, criticism, interviews, and news analysis. She claims many past homes, but left the largest parts of her heart in Detroit, Brooklyn, and Buffalo, NY. And there were several years in her early 20s when she earnestly slept with a copy of James Baldwin’s “Fire Next Time” under her pillow. To reach out, you can find Carmen on Twitter, Instagram, or her website.

Carmen Phillips has written 716 articles for us.

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