Today I bought a Turkey, soooo… I guess that means the holidays are really happening, huh?
Queer as in F*ck You
Black & Pink, a queer and trans prison abolition advocacy group, is organizing a Holiday Card Campaign for our queer and trans family members who are on the inside this holiday season. I came across the campaign earlier today and when I got to this line in the accompanying “How To” Tool Kit, I completely bawled and lost it:
“Mail Call often happens in public spaces inside. When someone hears their name called by correctional staff during Mail Call, it is a reminder that people on the outside care about them. It also sends a clear message to correctional staff and other incarcerated people that this person has support on the outside and is not forgotten. This is a vital harm reduction strategy for our inside family, especially for our trans and queer siblings.”
So yeah, I will be contributing this year. I hope you do, too.
It’s #TransAwarenessWeek, and we have some excellent content coming up for you. Until then, I enjoyed this thoughtful reminder thread from Raquel Willis for Netflix’s The Most.
Speaking of which, The First Housing Complex Made For and By Trans People Just Opened in Queens. (We’ve covered GLITS before on the site, and I just love this organization so much!)
Saw This, Thought of You
I have discovered that you can make your own Daria-themed avatar!! It’s so silly and fun! (There’s a bit of Japanese to navigate, but it’s pretty intuitive. I don’t know any of the language and still was able to get around). I had a blast and I hope any other 90s kids/00s teens out there has a great time, too!
Author Kima Jones, the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts — the famed book publicity company focused on uplifting Black women, women of color, and QTPOC writers — has sold her memoir Butch — it’s scheduled to published in fall 2023, but I’m ready to pre-order my copy immediately!
AHHHH!!! I AM SO EXCITED FOR THIS NEWS!
https://twitter.com/c_yates/status/1328414388156436480
Carolyn Yates, Autostraddle’s curator of your weekly NSFW roundup, and literally one of the people who taught me how to have queer sex (and probably many of you, too!) — is opening up their talents and you don’t want to miss it.
The Marlins Have Named Kim Ng as Their New General Manager. She Becomes MLB’s First Female and First Asian American GM. I have no proof that Kim Ng is gay (because I honestly haven’t looked into it) — but whenever I’ve seen pictures of her this weekend as people celebrated the news, I found myself wondering… is this human gay?
Thanksgiving is gonna be dicey this year, here’s How To Spend Thanksgiving Alone & Love Every Minute. (Not to brag, but Autostraddle was on this particular beat way back in 2016, truly ahead of our time: How To Be Alone on Thanksgiving)
Political Snacks
How To Help Win the 2 Georgia Senate Runoff Elections. There’s 49 days left and you can make a difference from the same phone or computer you are reading this from, right now!
“It did not seem like they were being malicious. But then after the next, and next…then I really started to feel hurt, because I’m like this has been a national movement.” Congresswoman-Elect Cori Bush Shocked by Republicans Calling Her ‘Breonna’ Because of Her Breonna Taylor Mask.
