Feature Photo of Lady Gaga, currently in talks to play Harley Quinn in Todd Phillips’ The Joker sequel, by Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
OK listen up! I bought entirely too many strawberries today and I haven’t started googling “strawberry recipes” but if you have any suggestions, please please let me know.
Queer as in F*ck You
“How do you stop transmission of a casually transmitted virus moving among despised populations… without creating stigma and harming public health?” Blaming Gay Men for Monkeypox Will Harm Everyone by Dr. Steven Thrasher for Scientific American
DeSantis Weighs Ordering Child Protective Services on Parents Who Take Kids to Drag Shows
And related!
We talked to @LilMissHotMess, a storyteller who serves on the board for Drag Queen Story Hour, about her book being targeted in an effort by anti-LGBTQ activists and politicians to ban LGBTQ-inclusive books. #BooksNotBanshttps://t.co/hCtBHrpEh6
— GLAAD (@glaad) June 9, 2022
Here’s the full video:
Sheila Lopez Becomes LGBTQ Advocate in Navajo Community (this hot tip comes to you from Heather’s grandma, who saw it in AARP magazine!)
“’That’s the briefing you would get in Afghanistan or Iraq,’ says Stanley, who served in Afghanistan in 2005. ‘I got it in Missouri.'” “Don’t Go Here. They’ll Kill You.” LGBTQ Troops and Families Face Mounting Discrimination With New Laws
As a Queer Teacher in America, Violence Feels Inescapable
Report Reveals Generational Shift and Sharp Rise in Transgender Young People in the U.S.
They Came Out Slugging: The History of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance
We have quite a few Brittney Griner updates:
- Brittney Griner’s Sister Shekera Says WNBA Star’s Detention Has Been ‘Gut-Wrenching’
- State Department Officials Meet With Phoenix Mercury About Brittney Griner’s Detention in Russia
- And finally this came down today, fuck this very much. Russian Court Extends Detention for Wnba Star Brittney Griner
Saw This, Thought of You
Lady Gaga in Early Talks to Join Joaquin Phoenix, Todd Phillips in Musical Sequel. All I asked for was that Harley get a girlfriend on the big screen, and this is how they repay me.
Obsessed with this news. Lena Horne Will Be The First Black Woman To Have A Broadway Theater Named In Her Honor
Google Misdirects One in 10 Searches for Abortion to ‘Pregnancy Crisis Centers.’ If you’re unaware of “pregnancy crisis centers” this might seem like a benign headline, but when I tell you that those crisis centers are actually often misnomers run by private orgs to encourage women in crisis to keep and deliver their pregnancies, it’s going to take on a whole new meaning, isn’t it?
Waking Up From the Nap Dress. “How the proudly personally privileged Nell Diamond convinced so many women to wear pajamas in public.”
The Potato Roll Empire Bankrolling a Christian Nationalist. Welcome to BBQ Season!!
Political Snacks
The Racist Roots of Ron DeSantis’ “Don’t Say Gay” Law
I don’t think there is anyone more evil and vile than Ron the Douche. Although we call him a slightly more x-rated name. He likes Hungarian autocracy. That entire party does. They all sit idly by while they go after marginalized groups thinking it’ll never to them. It will. One day it will. There is no shame. The hypocrisy knows no end. I’m not native to FL. My wife moved us here to be closer to her parents. I hate it. For 18 years I’ve hated living here. If this insanity doesn’t stop, we’re moving to a “hopefully” forever blue state. If that fails, I wfh for a company based in Canada. Why not. It’s so bleak here. I just want to work, live, love, have health care, binge TV, play video games, and give my fur babies the best life. Why is that something others hate? I’m just tired. So tired.
Strawberry rhubarb wontons.
P.S. If this is the quality of material that can be expected from Heather’s grandma, we might need a weekly link…
Here here! 👏🏼
Summer berry dessert recipe!
I’m very into this recipe for triple berry crumble
https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/triple-berry-kahlua-crisp-double-crumble/
Excellent round up, as always Carmen ❤️ Thank you for doing this every dang week.
Respectfully submitting Strawberry Cobbler Bars for your consideration:
https://www.howsweeteats.com/2018/07/strawberry-cobbler-bars/
Got to join the strawberry baking train :) I haven’t made it yet but I saw that Smitten Kitchen most recently posted https://smittenkitchen.com/2022/06/strawberry-brita-cake/ which looks great!!
Thanks for the great roundup, as always. :)
Freeze any leftover strawberries and use them as ice cubes in lemonade
CHANDRA 🤯🍓
The other day my nephew was watching one of the older Sesame Street episodes where Lena and Kermit are singing together and I freak out for no apparent reason like “Ahh it’s Lena Horne!” He turns and says who? I just gave him this look and was like “you have no culture.”
https://smittenkitchen.com/2017/05/the-red-and-black/
So many strawberry recommendations!! And I am grateful for each and every one of them!
Half Baked Harvest Strawberry Basil Margareta is my favorite summer drink. Recipe is on Half Baked Harvest Instagram and in her book Every Day
Can someone say what the bad hot dog bun brand is so we can all avoid? The article is paywalled :-(
Martin’s Potato Buns
And fun news from the Markup today about Facebook marketing tools being used to collect personal data on people who search for crisis pregnancy centers *upside-down smiley* https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2022/06/15/facebook-and-anti-abortion-clinics-are-collecting-highly-sensitive-info-on-would-be-patients
i get slightly bad vibes from that new york times article about trans youth. it feels concern trolling to me, amping up the fears that the youth now might just be mostly transtrenders, naively bamboozled by social contagion, but taken advantage of by medical systems that want them to transition.
it really focuses on geographic differences from average population in addition to age ones in ways that i think attempt to give false scientific legitimacy to the idea that a meaningful proportion of trans youth aren’t *really* trans
admittedly unflattering short pulls that particularly irked:
“But the numbers, which vary widely from state to state, also raise questions about the role of peer influence”
and also
“trans identification in recent years has become political dynamite, driven in part by the rise in minors seeking medical treatments”
which particularly irks because i think looking at recent history shows that people have been transphobic, tried to exert control over adults through bathroom bills, and have now tactically shifted by focusing their efforts on controlling children in classic moral panic fashion. political figures are making trans youths lives more dangerous and scary to drum up the culture war.
the author says many things that are also good and true, i just don’t necessarily get the sense those are the things they believe