laughtercrystal

Words matter. Action matters more. Twitter: @laughtercrystal

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Fresh Off The Boat - “A League Of Her Own” - Nicole comes out to Honey in a lesbian bar

[jjbrozier]

Fucking mELISSA ETHERIDGE

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WHY AREN’T ALL COMING OUTS LIKE THIS?!?!?!?!

[ohdangitsang]

THIS WAS BEAUTIFUL

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I love this. I love how the Bartender is immediately ride or die for the baby gay, and how all the other lesbians in the bar are waiting on the edge of their seat to see if they get to be happy for the girl or if they have to comfort her. There is literally nothing wrong with this scene, and it makes me happy.

[thefingerfuckingfemalefury]

THIS IS WHOLESOME CONTENT <3

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Women’s March on Washington solidarity rally in Saskatoon, Canada. January 21st, 2017.

Not many photos on twitter of the Saskatoon Women’s March, but CBC did do a story on it:

Hundreds march in Saskatoon to support Women’s March on Washington

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#ThanksCanada

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#WomensMarch turnout in the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire. #PortsmouthNH #PortsmouthLOVE

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#StillWithHer

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“Women are being systematically mutilated for profit and convenience,” Robinson says. “When I talk about what women are enduring in the Congo, the immediate response is, ‘What can we do?’ but when I speak about what is going on right here in this country, the response is, ‘I know, it’s just terrible, isn’t it?’ Where is the outrage?”

https://medium.com/@laughtercrystal/maternal-mortality-and-access-to-evidence-based-care-f48f5692de0c#.6c211znsx

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h/t @daenerystargaryendaily

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The latest Tweets from Crystal Paradis (@CrystalParadis). Community Activist // Intersectional Feminist // Writer // Action-taker // TEDx organizer. Op-ed archive: https://t.co/iv2tTPiMZo. Portsmouth, NH

New twitter handle, now with 5000% more feminist / social justice / intersectional thought content: https://twitter.com/CrystalParadis

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no offense but why are men not self aware at all 

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Wow, such an honor to be featured on @AllAboveAll’s #ActsOfBoldness campaign alongside SO many heroes!

http://allaboveall.org/acts-of-boldness/

#EndHyde #StoptheSham #BeBoldEndHyde

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Ann + Hillz

via @aminatou 

https://twitter.com/aminatou/status/690622101196156928

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Likable

My affection for Hillary Clinton is hard to explain. It wins no fights and earns you no friends to admit it: Actual warmth, even protectiveness, toward this impossible, frustrating, contradictory, polarizing, disappointing woman. My finding Hillary intensely “likable” is weird, and I admit it. It doesn’t signify universal approval of her decisions. I can and do disagree with Hillary Clinton, regularly and strongly. But some part of me also hopes that Hillary Clinton is having a nice day. 

I’ve come to believe that, in some ways, saying nice things about Hillary Clinton is a subversive act. I spent much of this year working on a long project on how women are demonized in the media. Hillary Clinton was a fairly large part of that story – she had to be; if you want to talk “women that people hate,” she’s kind of unavoidable – and I spent a while sorting through Clintoniana, dating back to the early ‘90s, to find nasty things people had said about her, or common narratives about her personality. It wasn’t pretty – the worst stuff for Hillary was way worse than I’d expected, and there was way more of it than I expected to find – but it was also illuminating, in some key ways. I got a better sense of the pressures that she has to live with, and how they’ve informed her decisions.

I also realized that, unless you really take a look at those pressures, the narrative around Hillary Clinton’s “likability” is doomed to be inaccurate, in some way. She might even be very easy to dislike, if you weren’t looking at those narratives, or if you underestimated their severity. But, in my experience, trying to parse Hillary Clinton without also parsing Hillary-Hate is like trying to drink water without touching the glass. As long as you refuse to deal with the container, the actual substance tends to stay permanently out of reach. 

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When you see a dog a party. (by @booksofadam)

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Do you even podcast!? Local Man locally hosts local podcast with locals.

Peter Squires, local musician, writer, and chicken wing connoisseur has just launched his new interview podcast, The Family Room.

The purpose of the Family Room Podcast is to get to know interesting people through honest, non-promotional conversations. Peter says, “I invite people over to my house and ask them about their lives, what they’re into, and what they think about stuff like music, art, politics, food, and lots of other goofy and interesting things. No hype, self-promotion or status talk…just getting to know our friends and neighbors.”

The episodes will frequently focus on current events within the Seacoast but Squires assures that these topics will be relatable to listeners anywhere.

The first episode, released last Friday, featured Portsmouth champion, Crystal Paradis (of Vital Design, TEDxPiscataqua, and the must-read PortsmouthLOVELetter e-mail. You can hear them discuss coffee shops, local politics, American imperialism, unconventional religions, and lipstick (among other things).

Upcoming guests include the legendary Guy Capecelatro III (11/13) and Kittery’s own Lauren Audet (11/20).

Go subscribe to The Family Room podcast at iTunes Or Podomatic

Linky: http://thefamilyroompodcast.podomatic.com

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Very cool! That podcast I was on was featured on the Kitterific blog!

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https://twitter.com/itsmotherswork/status/279995781384134656