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This is Your Friday Open Thread for June 19, 2020

Tell us how you are! Tell us what you’re up to! Tell us anything at all!

Vanessa —

Jun 19, 2020

hey did you see that comment friday

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The Comment Awards Are Celebrating Gay Wrath

“The entire concept of a warrior nun is queer – if there’s no rainbow content, I’m gonna fight someone.”

Darcy —

Jun 19, 2020

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Principles of Pride: The Riot Black and Indigenous Trans People Deserve

I want the world to no longer assume ownership of our bodies, but we cannot do that without land. Decolonizing the land itself is not only crucial but necessary for…

Alan Pelaez Lopez —

Jun 18, 2020

No Justice No Pride

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Principles of Pride: Sex Work Is Real Work, Sex Workers Are Fucking Revolutionary

A free world for sex workers would be a free world for people’s bodies, desires, and pleasures — that is to say, a world worth fighting for.

Kai Cheng —

Jun 16, 2020

Lists/Top 10s

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10 Ways You’ve Told Us You’re Celebrating Pride This Year

Between canceling corporate parades and parties because of coronavirus and showing up for Black Lives Matter marches, demonstrations, and direct actions, June feels a little different this year – in…

Vanessa —

Jun 16, 2020

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15,000 Stand Up For Black Trans Lives in Brooklyn, Show Us What Pride Month Should Always Look Like

Over 15,000 people turned up for the Brooklyn Liberation Action for Black Trans Lives this past weekend and these are the best photographs I have ever seen.

Riese —

Jun 15, 2020

Dispatches from the Country Culture War

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Juniper Moon Folk Arts: Crafters, Activists, and the Glories of Gas Station Food

During Pride month, rural queer owned Juniper Moon Folk Art is doing weekly giveaways to raise funds for black-led organizations and bail funds working in antiracism and prison abolition.

Lauren Parker —

Jun 14, 2020

friday open thread

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Friday Open Thread: What’s Motivating You and Getting You Through?

This is your Friday open thread for June 12!

Vanessa —

Jun 12, 2020