Also.Also.Also: A Python Laid 7 Eggs, Despite Not Having a Male Partner in Years. Let’s Go Lesbians!

Hello! Good evening! I have been binge watching this tween musical comedy on Netflix called Julie and the Phantoms by the great Kenny Ortega of High School Musical fame (you think I’m kidding? but I am NOT kidding). And let me tell you something real quick.. it is honestly worth it?

Queer as in F*ck You

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Ok. So, right, I know basically nothing about sports. But this is now officially a Naomi Osaka Stan Account.

Naomi Osaka and her boyfriend, the rapper Cordae, celebrate her Tennis win at the US Open by posing together and acting silly for the camera.

Honestly? An icon.

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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.

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1 Comment

  1. Re: Julie and the Phantoms, my fiancé says Luke has “Billy Jo Armstrong vibes” and “big pansexual energy,” so maybe tune in if that’s intriguing?

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