Feature image of Chase Strangio and Kimberly Drew via Instagram
Well friends, I had a beer with my lunch and I just ate two (2!!) cupcakes before I wrote this round up! I’m living wild and free! How about you?
Queer as in F*ck You
Well, this Personal News/Vapid Fluff content left the Autostraddle slack just overcome with squeeees and well wishes!
First on Twitter….
https://twitter.com/museummammy/status/1374401983017144326?s=21
https://twitter.com/museummammy/status/1374468855183994880
Then on Instagram…
https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxK5whpZiT/
LET’S GO TEAM LOVE!!! Congratulations to civil rights attorney, trans rights activist Chase Strangio and best-selling author, artist, curator Kimberly Drew!! Both queer icons-in-the-making, now in love! We are overcome with so much joy and happiness and rooting for y’all in every way!
I’m a Queer Lesbian. Here’s Why I Refuse to Be Called a ‘Wife.’
Black queer winemaker Alert! Did you hear me!?!? BLACK QUEER WINEMAKER!!!!! Ahhhhhhh! This Land Is My Land: Krista Scruggs Is One of America’s Most Intriguing Winemakers: “As one of just 1.3% of American farm owners who are Black, the ZAFA Wines owner aims to cast a counterspell against the curse of colonialism.”
And finally, from R.O. Kwon, on the last week’s Atlanta shooting:
“I will carry for a long time, for instance, the moment I first saw the Korean victims’ names written in Korean. In hangul, which I associate with joy, with homecoming. With deep, good safety. It is the language written on the books in my parents’ house, on the menus of restaurants I turn to when I really miss my mother’s food, in the birthday cards my parents send, retelling me the story of my birth in Seoul. This time, the hangul marked the passing of women shot for what they looked like, killed by a racist gunman and by this country’s white supremacy.”
A Letter to My Fellow Asian Women Whose Hearts Are Still Breaking (it’s your Must Read of the day)
Saw This, Thought of You
Next month will mark Selena’s 50th Birthday, and to honor her Texas Monthly has published an just an absolutely GORGEOUS special collection edited by Cat Cardenas, “Celebrating Selena”
- For Decades, Countless Young Latinas Like Me Have Regarded Selena as an Icon. Maybe It’s Time We Took Her off the Pedestal. by Cat Cardenas
- Selena Embraced Her Heritage and Championed Its Evolution in Style by Frida Garza
- Selena by the Numbers by Sierra Juarez
- A roundtable discussion with four Latina musicians: Why Selena Is Still the Queen of Tejano (and Punk Rock!) by Paula Mejía
- And most relevant to our interests and deep in our hearts … In Selena, Queer Tejanos See Themselves as Brilliantly Transfigured and Free to Love Grandly by Joe Galván
I feel like this has been the major story of March Madness so far? Even in “mainstream” sports coverage? And honestly, it feels like a relief to finally get some light shining into the shadows? How the NCAA Has Been Screwing Over Women’s Sports for Years
Her House: Queen Latifah Recreated the Rom-Com in Her Image
Black and Asian-American Feminist Solidarities: A Reading List. I loved this and learned so much.
As someone who’s number #1 fear is, “will I die alone?” (whoops sorry too deep for a link round up!) — I very much appreciated this straightforward and practical advice: How To Plan Your Future if You Don’t Plan on Having Kids
Political Snacks
One thing I hate about the spring is that… in the United States it’s often when mass shooting season hits full force? lol Why do we live in this hell? What We Know About the Boulder Supermarket Shooting
Speaking of which, Guns Are a Threat to the Body Politic. “America must regulate guns not only to protect life, but to protect its citizens’ equal freedoms to speak, assemble, worship, and vote without fear.”
