Once again it is tacos for me tonight and I, for one, cannot wait.
Queer as in F*ck You
“I can’t tell you how many girls, from 30 down into their teens — or, f–k that, my age, too — come up to me and are like, ‘I realized I was gay because of you,’ or ‘I felt comfortable coming out because of you,’ because of Jennifer’s Body and the interviews I did about being bisexual before it was cool.”
Megan Fox on ‘Dream Boy’ Machine Gun Kelly, and Helping Girls Come Out
Kelly Easter Is Suing the Government After a Federally Funded Foster Care Agency Rejected Her Because She Is a Lesbian.
11 Trans Comedians We Love Who Are Way Funnier Than Dave Chappelle
Saw This, Thought of You
The Hidden Costs of Living Alone
How to Improve Your Finances, No Matter How Messy They Are
Speaking of these things, today is Latina Equal Pay Day. Latinas Are Still the Lowest Paid Group in the U.S. Experts Have Tips for Combating the Inequity.
Substack Is Profiting off Anti-Mask and Anti-Vaccine Newsletters
In a New College Sports Landscape, Women Profiting From NIL Opportunities
Should You Mix and Match Your Booster Shot?
Political Snacks
Talking About Abortion With My Mom. “I’m the reason she’s against it, she says. She’s the reason why I don’t agree.”
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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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That finance article is definitely not aimed at people whose finances are “messy”, only those who are relatively well off 😅
The Megan Fox link isn’t working
Apologies EJ! It is now fixed!