Carolyn’s Team Pick: “I came out into a scene that really valourized masculinity and so I felt like in order to be recognized as a queer person I had to cut my hair short and dress in this particular way.”
Things we wrote and the best of what you clever dolphins said.
This week you’re helping out with a variety of mom-related issues, girlfriend feelings, touchy feely straight girls, coming out as trans* and a possible stone butch, among other things. Maybe our best FS Friday ever.
Alan Chambers, president of Exodus International and married to Leslie Chambers with two adopted children, now says his group will no longer operate around claims of being able to “cure” anyone.
This week’s topics include bipolar disorder, alcoholism, child abuse, immigration, poverty, deadly amusement park rides and working at the apple store!
Samira Ghorbani Danesh faces imprisonment and torture if German courts don’t reverse a recent decision.
“I’m not sorry we can now enter the military, and I’m not sorry that we can now marry. But frankly I come from a moment in time, and a radical vision in time, that never made marriage or the military my criteria of success.”
You know what’s better than a book on tape? A book in a song.
Did I make this mostly as an excuse to make a sideways Pride flag on my counter? (Spoiler alert: yes.)
“This is the kind of movie that needs to be made more often. It’s like Tangled on feminist steroids.”
The Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act and its mandate that Americans carry health insurance or else face a tax is constitutional.
“I think the one thing that really sticks with me from my childhood is that I felt very alone–I felt like no one else’s family was like mine, so I just sequestered that part of my life and didn’t talk about it with my friends or acquaintances.”
I believed deeply, at one point, that words could do a majority of the communicating I would need to do in my life. I was wrong.
Suspiciously enough, “record” is not on the list.
What happens if you’re gay married but don’t want to be anymore? It might be incredibly difficult.
Today the website broke, and we are sorry.
Remember that webseries Brittani created and Sarah Croce directed? It’s back. Words With Girls Episode 2 now available for your face with some surprise Hannah Hart action.
Brittani’s Team Pick: For those of you that haven’t had too many brushes with independent performance art, it usually makes you go WTF in a WTF way but sometimes it makes you go WTF in an awesome way.
“Sex with a woman for me has involved pressing mound of Venus against mound of Venus on each other’s leg.”
“Butches & Femmes paved the way for tons of fantastic lesbians, radical queers, revolutionary feminists, and really awful (and awesome) hairstyles that came after them.”