Results for: be the change
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Healthcare: The Autostraddle Roundtable
You’ve heard the propose policies, the pundits, the fear-mongers, the critics and the cynics — now hear the people. Autostraddle talks about the future of health care with true stories from the unemployed, laid off, employed, students, underemployed, stuffed dogs, government-aided, Canadian, Australian, British (a boy, even!) and Intern Daphne from Belgium, Offering the Greatest Healthcare in the World.
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“We All Have That One Girl We Notice, Right?” : Lesbian Sydney’s Sly Foxes and Snatches
“Upon hearing that I’m not a regular, she is quick to whip out some Sly lesbian folklore; her ex-girlfriend alleges she once saw Ruby Rose and Jess Veronica make out in the very spot that we were standing. Her ex was probs also at Woodstock.”
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Ex-Miss-Cali Gets In the Mix & Pink’s Been Out Since 2006
“We’re all too hung up on labels and linguistics — the way I see it is that Pink’s using her own words to refer to the same concept that the media is implicating when it employs the word “bisexual.” Here’s a source from 2006 –“
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Tuesday Televisionary: Obsessed With Hot Girls and Hot Messes
“Obsessed is a new show on A&E that documents people living with debilitating forms of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and follows them while they attempt to rid themselves of their obsessions and compulsions. This is obvs my new favorite show. Confession time: I have OCD. “
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Tuesday Televisionary: Snorting Pills and Flipping Tables or, Why I Love Summer TV!
“I don’t know if I properly stressed how awesome Nurse Jackie is when I wrote about the pilot last time, so let me clarify: THIS SHOW IS AWESOME. It’s amazing, seriously. The 2nd episode was even better than the first! Jackie is another example of a strong female role from a network who seems to specialize in strong female roles lately.”
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Tuesday Televisionary: A Very Busy TV Week with Drop Dead Diva, Intervention, Better off Ted, True Blood, Extra Hot Girls & More!
“Vampire sex on the bloody deathbed of a flapper wannabe who is still gushing from her neck?! This is why I watch this show, Allan! Thank you!” (and also: Nurse Jackie, Weeds, My Life on the D List, Intervention, Drop Dead Diva, 10 Things I Hate About You, Better off Ted, and TWO Hot Girls of the week)
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Yahoo! Finance Features Steele’s Anti-Gay Agenda as a Top Story — We Call WTF
Breaking News! Gay Marriage hurts small businesses — heaven forbid we demand health insurance or other crazy stuff like that.
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Webseries Anyone But Me, Episodes 1-6
We’ll be streaming new episodes of “Anyone But Me” as they air, but if you haven’t seen the first six, now’s your chance!
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Autostraddle Roundtable: I’d Rather Laugh With the Sinners than Cry With the Saints
“It took me a very long time to come to terms with what I felt for girls. Not because of my own religion, but because of the religion and judgment of others, and because growing up in such a small town greatly limits what you see as viable options for yourself.”
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Riese-on-Haviland Stillwell: Life is an Upright Cabaret
Haviland Stillwell, who you may know from the world-famous Haviland & Riese Vlogs, or perhaps from Broadway’s Les Miserables and/or Fiddler on the Roof, will be performing her one-woman spectacular of audio-visual singtastic delights, “West Coast Debutante” in Los Angeles at the Upright Cabaret on April 23rd. Because Haviland is both an international rising superstar and my BFF, I was able to sit down with her cyber-coastally and have a little AIM Chat about her big show, lauded on the website as: “a sassy night ranging from Kurt Weill to Madonna, from upbeat to out of control and beyond. Come see this versatile, charming and adorable “tight little ball of spunk, bad ass, and class.” Who doesn’t like tight little things? That’s right, we all love tight little things. Here goes!
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Riese-on-Susan Miller: “L Word” Writer Goes Cyber with “Anyone But Me”
Susan Miller is kind of awesome, and so is her new webseries Anyone But Me. Get the scoop with the Autostraddle interview.
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American Sapphic
Shane I mean Kate Moennig has a new show, Ellen and Portia are great, Lindsay and Sam are art, and some people in Minnesota and Tennessee are douchebags.
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Sunday Funday – The Morning After the Morning After The L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center’s Evening With Women
The Celesbians come out for An Evening with Women at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center
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Autostraddle Roundtable: Who’s REALLY So Hot Right Now?
“The very top of my Hot list would probably be this girl who works in my office building. I don’t know her name or who she is, but she’s hot and I wish I did. think Hilary Duff & Clea Duvall are hot … Every girl who has been an ADA on Law and Order is hot ..”
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Girl-in-Sydney, Australia: Crystal Does Lesbian Nightlife, Discovers They’ve Got Their Own “Chart”
Here, being able to hold a conversation while looking over your friends’ shoulders is a must-have skill. I point this out to a girl named Mel, who laughs and agrees, “We’ve been having a conversation for about ten minutes, but the whole time I’ve been looking over there.”
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Meet Natalie, Our Designated Driver for Social Justice! Also. Also! Answer Her Questions!
Meet Natalie! She’s here to write about social justice issues; specifically, about politics and LGBT rights and feminism and women’s rights and social justice and social norms and categories… things that irk her, things that excite her, things that make her go “what the what?!”, things that challenge her, make her uncomfortable in my own skin, things that are pleasurable and exciting. Get ready.
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Why Are Gay Ladies So Afraid of the Gynecologist?
“We saddle up, feet in stirrups, ready to go and … bam! suddenly all become heterosexual women with one interest: reproduction!”
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Daily Fix – Best. Earth Day. Ever.
Empire Pride makes fun of NOM, but with logic instead of jokes. Everyone loves Jennifer Beals. Can psychiatrists cure homosexuality? No, but that doesn’t mean they won’t try.
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Hey Hey What’dya Say
Sarah Haskins is funny, Obama is stuck, Kentucky is hateful, and Tyra is weird and also a robot.
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Beat on the Street: In Which Amanda Palmer Gets Dramatic, Stef Learns The Musical Saw
We’re totally fascinated with everything Amanda Palmer writes, sings, says, thinks or Twitters, so obvs we sent a spy to see her co-production “With The Needle That Sings In Her Heart” performed by the Lexington High School Drama Club.