Also.Also.Also: You’ll Think This Is an Exaggeration, But They Are Literally Banning the Pride Flag Now

Carmen Phillips
Oct 7, 2021
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brain broken, just links no words bye


Queer as in F*ck You

School Districts Have Begun Banning Pride Flags as Political Speech

Miss Piggy Opens Up About Why Her LGBTQ+ Fans Love Her So Much

The Book Club That Helped Spark the Gay-Rights Movement (also in today’s Lez.Liberty.Lit, but i want to make sure you don’t miss it!)

Trans Showrunner Says Goodbye to Netflix Over Dave Chappelle Special

Here’s Where to Stream Halsey’s Film If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power

Rachel Maddow Undergoes Surgery For Skin Cancer: ‘Going To Be Totally Fine’


Saw This, Thought of You

Americans Throw Away Too Many Clothes. Poorer Countries Are Left With the Waste.

How to Break a Phone Addiction

A New Book for the “Abolition Curious”


Political Snacks

What We Talk About When We Talk About Politics: A Case for a New Political Language

There’s an Epidemic of Missing Indigenous Women.

Alexandra Hunt Was a Stripper During College. Now She’s Running for Congress and Sharing Her Story.

PS: And you might have noticed, but we have a fundraiser right now and we need to raise funds to set our full-time editors up for success so we will no longer be understaffed and then my brain will be able to rest and write words again!

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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.

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