Also.Also.Also: Even Lesbian Penguins Are Shacking Up, I Guess Everyone’s Ready For Hot Vax Summer

Carmen Phillips
May 18, 2021
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Consider this: Does it still count as Taco Tuesday if I’m having nachos?


Queer as in F*ck You

Police Banned from Participating in New York City Pride Events until 2025. Let’s Fucking Go!!

Branding ACT-UP, and to give you more context, here’s a note from the author Jo Livingstone: “I wrote about Sarah Schulman’s stonking new history ACT-UP, and the group’s aesthetic legacy in our own era of viral panic and co-opted imagery.” (Today’s must read!)

I love when our writers show up in places across the internet, like our very own Christina Tucker (of No Filter and So You Want To fame!) writing this sweet tribute to her desk — and grappling with imposter’s syndrome —in Catapult, Where Christina Tucker Writes

These Two Lesbian Penguin Couples Have Shacked up for Mating Season. There names are Marmalade and Chickpea! And they are the second lesbian couple at their aquarium!


Saw This, Thought of You

The Forgotten Women Reporters Who Changed the Face of Journalism

Definitely Rest in Power. Family And Friends Mourn Mistress Velvet, Activist And Dominatrix Who Made Clients Read Black Feminist Theory.

Here’s What Happened When I Told Congress The Black And Ugly Truth About Long COVID. “Educating the public on the importance of including Black people in research on long-haul COVID-19.”

Well, look at that! Your second Must Read of the day, you will not forget it: The Joy of Black Hair

Is Oral Sex More COVID-Safe Than Kissing? The Expert Guide to a Horny, Healthy Summer. Which reminds me:

https://twitter.com/carmencitaloves/status/1378485301816008704

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Political Snacks

This is NOT a false alarm — we are facing down the end of Roe v. Wade and the right to choice in this country by summer 2022. Just a year left. Get ready. Get focused. The Supreme Court’s Conservative Supermajority Is about to Show Us Its True Colors

From Radical Activist to Senate Obstructionist: The Metamorphosis of Kyrsten Sinema


And One Last Thing…

Congratulations Naomi Campbell 😭

https://twitter.com/NaomiCampbell/status/1394639041891495943

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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.

Carmen Phillips has written 716 articles for us.

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