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Viral star Brendan Jordan comes out as a member of the trans community

The first time you saw Brendan Jordan, he struck poses and fierce dance moves on local TV. The video was viewed more than 4 million times. In an inspiring speech at the HRC Foundation’s Time to Thrive Conference Sunday, he came out as a member of the transgender community. Jordan was also there to introduce another big transgender role model.

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good job, baby. reppin bigender awareness and las vegas!!!

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You damn right

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you best believe

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This is the truest statement he’s ever made

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Glad we cleared that up :)

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absofuckinglutely

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You sure the fuck right about that shit

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when you rediscover music you used to listen to years ago and it’s still good.

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Me @Disney:

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Sometimes you fall off the wagon for months. Sometimes you tell yourself you’re gonna start fresh on Monday and by Wednesday you’ve already fallen back off. Sometimes you have to restart a 100 times and it’s frustrating. But it will be okay. You can do this. One day at a time

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Carrie Fisher

Okay, I feel a rant coming on.

There’s been a lot of talk about how Carrie Fisher “looked awful” and “didn’t age well.”

I thought she looked fine for a 59 year old. Maybe she hasn’t aged as well as some (Harrison Ford barely seems to have changed) but she hasn’t aged badly.

She’s just 59. Furthermore, the character she is playing is also supposed to be elderly, so makeup would not have been trying to make her look younger - which they often do with older actors. 52 year old Alex Kingston looked to be maybe thirty tops in the Doctor Who Christmas special. Makeup.

So, why does everyone think Carrie Fisher looks awful?

Because we don’t often see women of a certain age on the screen.

And when we do, they’re made up to look younger.

The only major role for an older woman I can think of recently was Dame Judi Dench’s M.

Female leads average, depending on who you ask, between 4 years and 8 years younger than male leads.

As male actors age, their partners often stay the same age. Most of Harrison Ford’s love interests have been at least 15 years younger than him. Guess who that includes? Yup. Ford is 15 years older than Fisher.

We simply don’t see older women on the screen. They disappear.

Earnings for women in Hollywood peak at 34 and decrease rapidly.

Earnings for men rise until 51 and then remain steady.

Because.

There aren’t roles for older women.

When Carrie Fisher steps onto the screen as a 59-year-old woman without makeup, without hair dye, but unashamedly a woman of a certain age, we’re not seeing something we usually see in a movie.

And some people are reacting to that by complaining that she doesn’t meet their expectations: The expectation that the primary role of a woman on the screen is to be attractive to men.

In other words, whether the people complaining know it or not they are being sexist and they are supporting the profound sexism in Hollywood.

But the makers of the movie have held a line. They’re saying General Leia Organa should not look like a young woman. General Leia Organa doesn’t need to be pretty. She doesn’t need, either, to be moping around regretting her “lost beauty”.

She needs to be kicking butt and sending out her pilots to blow up the First Order.

We need more older women on the screen, we need to let the ladies of the cinema grow old gracefully just as much as the men do. Only then will we stop valuing “actresses” by their boob size more than by their talent.

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I Wonder What My Untouched Soul Looks Like

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Star Wars is not here for your armor misconceptions. In a response that’s getting some digital ink, the official Star Wars page’s reply to a clueless comment on Phasma’s armor. Just say no to actually dangerous boob-plates!

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I love this.

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Star Wars: The Force Awakens Character Illustrations - Created by Paul Shipper

Prints will be available at New York Comic Con at the Hero Complex Gallery Booth #236. You can also follow Paul on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter.

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Chance the Rappers helps get sleeping bag coats to the homeless

The project, called Warmest Winter, comes from a recent partnership between the rapper and Detroit nonprofit the Empowerment Plan. The initiative aims to bring the coats to Chicago by asking donors to help support the manufacturing of the coats. Each coat costs $100 to “sponsor.” The incredible progress they’ve already made will warm your heart.

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This is awesome

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Today in history: December 21st, 2012

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The world ended 3 years ago on this date, December 21, 2012.

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I wanna know their names

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Their names are Carlos Polanco, Carl Snyder and Alex Hall and they defeated the Harvard debate team on the topic of access to education for undocumented children

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Reblogging again for the names

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#MasulinitySoFragile speaks the truth

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This map shows every state where women are more likely to live in poverty than men

Wait… hold up. Every state is colored in. That can’t be right… right?

Unfortunately, the map is accurate. And it’s especially problematic for millennial women, who are much more likely to have a bachelor’s degree or higher than millennial men, but who are consistently earning less living and living in poverty more.

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