What a fucking week, friends! Please know that Darling Cat Butterbutt is now letting me pet her dumb fluffy head while she’s eating inside the house (before it was only while she was outside and I had to stick my arm out the door while I hid behind it). She’s practically in love with me.
Queer as in F*ck You
+ 100 Women 100 Stories: Mey Rude. Oh yeah we’re talking about that Mey Rude, our Mey Rude.
+ Angela Peoples, co-director of LGBTQ equality org GetEqual and the woman in the viral photo from the Women’s March has an important message for white female allies: Listen to black women.
+ The Most Important Speech from the Women’s March came from a black femme breast cancer survivor, Erika Hart.
https://youtu.be/1BiNz3Aez60
+ 100 Intriguing LGBTQ People to Look Out for in 2017.
+ Texas Supreme Court Agrees to Consider Rolling Back Same-Sex Marriage Rights. Everything’s fine.
+ Doctors Say Repealing the Affordable Care Act Would Devastate the Trans Community.
+ Be Steadwell’s Thoughts on the March on Washington.
+ ABC to Interrupt LGBT Miniseries When We Rise to Accommodate Trump Speech. ?
+ Canadian Unions Applaud Step Forward for Trans Rights.
+ Vogue Model Hanne Gaby Odiele Reveals She is Intersex.
+ Trans Men in Georgia Win Right to Change Their Names.
Welcome to the Hellmouth
+ Greenpeace’s RESIST Banner was a beautiful sight and also it was hung with the help of black queer feminist activist, Pearl Robinson!
#resistOften pic.twitter.com/8vGv2epw5w
— Pearl Robinson (@PearlRanFast) January 25, 2017
The wind is throwing me around , but it’s so worth it! #ResistOften
— Pearl Robinson (@PearlRanFast) January 25, 2017
+ Trump Has Lots of Options for Inflicting ‘Consequences’ on the Press.
+ Everything You Wanted to Know About That Emoluments Lawsuit.
+ Trump Assembles a Shadow Cabinet. Ok.
+ A Lie By Any Other Name, re: Trump being a pathological liar.
+ Trump’s ‘Voter Fraud’ Investigation Targets States That Opposed Him.
+ 100+ AAPI Groups Vow to Resist Trump Administration.
+ A Radical Expansion of Sanctuary: Steps in Defiance of Trump’s Executive Order.
+ Here’s All the Land and Water Trump’s Dumb Fucking Wall Would Have to Cover.
+ Here are the 17 Agencies and Programs Trump Wants to Kill, and What They Cost.
+ Have you signed up for these helpful action-based newsletters that Rachel told you about?
Doll Parts
+ Black Women Die From Cervical Cancer at Twice the Rate of White Women.
+ The Road Women Marched On This Weekend Was Paved By Black Resistance.
+ When You Brag That the Women’s Marches Were Nonviolent.
+ The Future of the Left is Female.
+ Feminist Organizing After the March: Lessons From the Second Wave.
+ The Women’s March Succeeded Because It Spoke to Women’s Outrage.
+ Rebecca Solnit: How to Find Hope in a New Era of Darkness.
+ The Dutch Plan to Create an International Abortion Fund.
+ 10 Things Women Lose if the ACA is Repealed.
+ For Female Journalists, Mary Tyler Moore Showed Us the Life We Wanted.
Keep Up
+ How to Contact the 17 Banks Funding the Dakota Access Pipeline.
+ Felony Charges for Journalists Arrested at Inauguration Protests Raise Fears for Press Freedom.
+ Aetna Lied to the Public About Quitting the Affordable Care Act.
+ What Standing Rock Meant for Those Who Took Part, and What Comes Next.
+ Grand Plans vs Reality: White House Veterans Recall Their First 100 Days.
Saw This, Thought of You
+ If You See Something, Save Something: Six Ways to Save Pages in the Wayback Machine.
+ Didn’t even know there was a Doomsday Clock, but now it’s 30 seconds closer to midnight (???) so tuck that in your hat.
+ There’s a 1.8-Mile Fissure in the Arizona Desert. Don’t worry I will not fall into it.
+ The Internet Sets Writers Free to Get New Audiences and Also to Dive Into a Giant Flaming Garbage Pile. Pass the potatoes.
