Well hello you gorgeous creatures of light and darkness. I took a picture of myself and posted it on Instagram! I never do that! If I can do that, just imagine what YOU can do today. You could probably discover a new dinosaur or write that thank you card or do that thing at the coffee shop where you pay for the person’s order behind you. You could rule the world today! I’m so excited for you.
You Should Go or Do or Give
+ Support Girls Engineering Change!
+ Get LGBTQ Youth to the White House Tech Summit!
Queer as in F*ck You
+ The Joy of Gay Cooking: Of Cozy Lesbians, Colonialist Bros, and the Missing Gay Chefs.
+ Irish Lawmakers Approve Transgender Rights Bill.
+ Queer People of Tech: Chloe Stevens. Oh I’m sorry is that THE Chloe Stevens? The same Chloe Stevens who works here at Autostraddle dot com? Oh you’re damn right it is!
+ Meet Krashlyn, the fantasy romance that has soccer fans obsessed.
+ Love Is A Limited Resource: On Trauma and Queer Utopias by Clementine Morrigan.
+ Women Transform Into Drag Kings:
Doll Parts
+ This new First Time Podcast is a podcast ABOUT PERIODS. Just all about periods! Period sex, period hacks (???!), periods periods PERIODS. It’s by Dear Kates and Emma Willmann and I haven’t listened to it yet because Carmen just shared it with me and I came immediately to this space to share it with you! #bleedoneverything
+ Abortion Is A Necessary Social Good; Edited Videos and False Accusations Don’t Change That by Andrea Grimes.
+ Human Trafficking Will Become One of the Top Three Crimes Against Native Women.
+ Should Women Be Able To Treat Bladder Infections Themselves?
+ Kristin Russo interviews Sophia Wallace for her First Person series and it’s all about the importance of being cliterate! Uggggh I love Sophia Wallace so much.
+ The Women Who Rule Pluto. “The New Horizons team may include more women staffers than any other NASA project in history.”
+ A New Film Tells the Story of Women Who Were Imprisoned for Killing Their Abusers by Grace Manger.
+ Will ‘Free the Nipple’ Lead to Gender Equality? An Expert Weighs In.
+ Haley goes maternity clothes shopping! Raise your hand if you could watch videos of Haley and Simone all day. That’s what I thought.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DI_KVos9uOE
Saw This, Thought of You
+ A new Natasha Lyonne/Jamie Babbit situation: Addicted to Fresno
+ Instagram Has Banned “Curvy” As A Search Term what the hell.
+ Just Let’s Not Call These ‘Productivity Tips’ by your fave and mine, Beth Maiden.
+ Bill Clinton Admits He Made One Huge Mistake During His Presidency. Just one, though? I’M KIDDING WHATEVER.
+ Edibles: A Primer. Bless.
+ The Difference Between Routine and Ritual: How to Master the Balancing Act of Controlling Chaos and Finding Magic in the Mundane. What would your life be like without Brian Pickings? I don’t want to know.
+ No, I believe you are crying into the top of your pet’s head because your children are still away on their summer vacation and you haven’t seen them in six weeks. Ahem. Parental Closeness: Why I Always Hold Hands With My Children by Vikki Reich.
+ New Study Shows That Nearly 40% of African-American Children Live In Poverty.
+ Children’s TV — Left Behind. “A 1969 article in The Atlantic is a reminder of how Sesame Street started a revolution—and how it failed to change America’s educational status quo.”
+ This Doctor Has Mirror-Touch Synesthesia and I cannot even.
And Finally
happy world emoji day what if emoji were friends and food well then you'd never be lonely or hungry but unfortunately they are just pictures
— Denny's (@DennysDiner) July 17, 2015
