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Happy birthday EVE ESQUIRE!!!
I love you a lot. You are a true unique. So weird and funny and raw and wonderful. Always be you!! You make me beliEVE anything can happen!!!
Sadness
When faced with sadness or emotion, I’ve always retreated into myself. As the youngest of five, my role was quickly that of the entertainer. I was expected to be cute and snuggly and quiet until the adults wanted something from me. I don’t remember there being a lot of tears in my family. My dad never made it a secret that he didn’t care for emotion - we were fed and had a roof over our head and our parents were together and mostly functioning adults. Therefore we had no reason to cry and any sort of emotion was seen as being dramatic. My mother handled it more affectionately, but in the end it was the same idea. To not fret because everything always works out. I have a hard time expressing my vulnerability. To me, being vulnerable is to express a dissatisfaction with something, and that isn’t allowed. Somehow over the years I’ve developed the practice that dissatisfaction means you have to do something about it yourself. Therefore to publicly acknowledge sadness and disappointment is to take ownership of the problem and fix it. And sometimes that can be really exhausting and terrifying. I’m tired of wishing I was perfect. I’m tired of feeling like a failure for not doing everything in my power to give myself what I want. I don’t know how to face my sadness yet, but I’m learning. The first step has been to start reaching out to people when it’s so bad that I want to hurt myself. It’s been so scary. Reaching out for help has been scarier than even the feelings that are inside. I’m so afraid of being vulnerable and rejected. Of my friends or family feeling like I’m more of a burden than a blessing. Here’s what’s going on. In August 2011 I met Justin and we became inseparable. I had just endured my first year of living in Los Angeles, and Justin was a drink of water in the desert. But life’s a fucking bitch. And neither of us dealt with life very well. We both found new limits of ways we could self-harm. And at a certain point, I broke. I left at the end of May 2017. Up until recently, I was doing a good job of plugging the hole that was left inside me. I rode the thrill of freedom hard, but I put the filly away wet and now it’s all sick. Bedtime is hard. I am very lonely and I miss being tucked in. I miss my snuggly dog. The nights are somehow getting harder and harder. I’m not used to being alone, and now that the vacation period of freedom is over, I have to do the hard work of feeling ok with being alone. I have to get used to it. Because this is what I want right now. But in the meantime, I’m reaching out to friends when the waves get too high. Even the littlest bit of rope is enough to get me to safety. So I’m forcing myself to ask for the rope. I’m swimming hard to the rope. And I’m holding on tight to that rope and I’m not letting go. In the wise words of my dear friend Hans... baby steps...
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
Real into this song right here right now in the dead heavy heat of summer.
Whedonesque goes dark, Tig Notaro takes on Louis C.K., and the beloved Cinefamily is under fire. How fan culture feeds bad behavior — and has the power to starve it.
you antifa guys are actually more hateful and violent than any neo nazi group in the 21st century. its fucking disgusting and you should be branded as terrorists just as much as the KKK
We’d usually just block you, Anon, but we’re going to use your message as a reminder of where the violence is coming from in 2017. Off the top of our heads, here’s what the year has looked like so far:January 20, 2017: A right-wing extremist shoots a protestor at a Milo Yiannopoulos event at the University of Washington. January 29, 2017: Alexandre Bissonnette walks into a mosque in Canada during evening prayers and opens fire, shooting 17 people and killing six of them.
January 2017: Over 40 Jewish centers in the U.S. receive bomb threats. February 22, 2017: Adam Purinton tells two men from India to “get out of my country” then shoots both plus a bystander, killing one.February 28, 2017: a mosque in Toronto is set on fire by arsonists.March 12, 2017: a mosque in Ypsilanti, MI. is set on fire by arsonists.March 20, 2017: James Jackson arrives in Manhattan with a sword and stabs the first black man he sees to death. He later tells authorities he “intended to kill as many black men as he could.”March 24, 2017: Yelling “I hate Muslims!” a man in Minneapolis stabbed a Somali man in an attempt to kill him. March 26, 2017: A racist mob attacks a 15-year-old Polish boy in Gloucestershire and, when a local Asian shopkeeper tries to intervene, attack him as well with crowbars and baseball bats, then attempt to run him over with a car.March 31, 2017: A 17-year-old Iranian/Kurdish boy is nearly beaten to death by a mob of eight people in Croydon after he revealed to them that he was a refugee.April 6, 2017: A Charlotte store is set on fire by an arsonist who leaves a warning message for the shop owner that he “did not want any refugee business owners and that they would torture the owner if they did not leave and go back to where they came from,” according to police. It was signed “White America.”MAY 5TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:
April 30, 2017: A white man storms a pool party in San Diego and shoots four black women, two black men, and one Latino man while allowing white attendees to leave. One victim dies while the other six sustain critical injuries.
MAY 10TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:May 5, 2017: A man walking his dog on South Beach in Miami is confronted by two men who call him a “fucking faggot,” then attack him, beating him unconscious. At one point in the attack, one of the attackers shouts “all faggots need to die and we’re going to make sure they do!”MAY 18TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:May 14, 2017: Vandals spray-paint hate graffiti on the home of a black family in upstate New York before attempting to set the house on fire while the family slept. Although the family escaped unscathed, their garage burnt to the ground and their house suffered some damage.May 17, 2017: A homophobic mob break into the home of a gay couple and shoot and stab both men to death. MAY 23RD: EDITED TO INCLUDE:May 20, 2017: University of Maryland student and member of the “alt-Reich” facebook group Sean Urbanski walks up to 22-year-old Richard Collins III, who is black and who Urbanski does not know, and stabs him to death in an unprovoked attack. May 27th: EDITED TO INCLUDE:May 24, 2017: A barrage of doxxing, rape threats, and death threats received by trans comic book artist Sophie Labelle forces her to cancel an appearance and event at a Halifax book store, which also received bomb threats and threats of attacking the event. Labelle is forced into hiding.May 26, 2017: Three men intervene on a MAX train in Portland when they witness another man verbally abusing two Muslim women with an Islamophobic tirade. The Islamophobe responds by pulling out a knife and stabs the three interveners, killing two of them.
MAY 30th: EDITED TO INCLUDE:
May 27, 2017: A white man drives his pickup truck through a campsite, targeting the Native Americans camping there while yelling racial slurs at them. He intentionally drives over two Native American men, killing one and injuring the other.June 3rd: EDITED TO INCLUDE:
March 3, 2017: A Sikh man is shot and injured in front of his Seattle house by a white man waring a mask, who yells at him to “go back to your country!”May 27, 2017: A 34-year-old Anthony Hammond lets loose with a flurry of racial slurs directed at a black man in a parking lot, then pulls out a machete and stabs the man before barricading himself in his apartment for several hours, until finally surrendering to police.
JUNE 13th: EDITED TO INCLUDE:January 1, 2017: 19-year-old Nathan Richardson encounters 67-year-old jogger Wenqing Xu and beats him to death in an unprovoked, random attack. After committing the murder, Richardson texted his friends that he “fucked sum chink up. Bodied him. I think pure crime scene – his head’s gone,”JUNE 19TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:June 18, 2017: two men armed with baseball bats attack a group of Muslim teenagers, kidnapping a 17-year-old girl, who they beat to death, dumping her body in a pond.
June 1, 2017: A Princeton professor and racialized woman is forced to cancel a three-city lecture tour to promote her book about the Black Lives Matter movement after receiving over 50 death threats.June 19, 2017: Shouting “I’m going to kill all Muslims!” 47-year-old Darren Osborne drives a courier van through a crowd of Muslims leaving a Finsbury mosque, killing one person and injuring ten others.
JULY 4TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:January 28, 2017: a First Nations woman walking with her sister is struck by a trailer hitch hurled from a passing vehicle. After struggling in hospital for several months, she succumbs to her injuries. June 21, 2017: an Islamophobe approaches a Muslim man and woman sitting in a car stopped at a traffic light and knocks on the window. When the driver rolls down the window, the Islamophobe sprays the driver and passenger with acid, severely burning both. JULY 16TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:February 21, 2017: a 24-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Chicago, IL. February 26, 2017: a transgender woman is shot and killed in New Orleans, LA.March 1, 2017: a transgender woman is stabbed to death in New Orleans, LA. March 22, 2017: a 38-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Baltimore, MD.April 21, 2017: a 28-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Miami, FL. May 17, 2017: a 34-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Fresno, CA.July 2, 2017: a 28-year-old transgender woman is shot and killed in Lynchburg, VA. JULY 25TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:
June 3, 2017: 38-year-old white supremacist Phillip Wade racially abuses a 57-year-old black man on an Oakley, CA. bus, then pulls a knife and stabs the man to death while the man is walking away from the confrontation. The victim is the third racialized person Wade has stabbed in the past six years and the second person he’s murdered. July 16, 2017: A man attempts to pull the hijab off of a Muslim woman waiting for the tube in London, then hits her when she resists. He then pins her friend to the wall and spits in her face before leaving. July 16, 2017: Arsonists set a mosque in Manchester ablaze. July 18, 2017: A NASA researcher of South Asian descent has her car windshield shattered by a rock thrown through it by an assailant screaming “go back to your country!” She’s injured in the attack.AUGUST 2ND: EDITED TO INCLUDE:July 19, 2017: Two men exit a car and attack a racialized pedestrian with their fists and an iron bar. AUGUST 7TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:August 5, 2017: A mosque in Bloomington, Minnesota is firebombed, narrowly missing killing & injuring dozens of members there for morning prayers. AUGUST 10TH: EDITED TO INCLUDE:August 8, 2017: A well-known Chicago neo-nazi starts an altercation at a concert, then pulls out a smuggled knife and stabs a man and a woman at the show.AUGUST 12TH: EDITED TO INCLUDED:August 12, 2017: A white supremacist in Charlottesville, VA. drives his car at high speed directly into a crowd of anti-racist protestors, killing one woman and seriously injured 19 other people.
In case you have trouble counting, Anon, that’s three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve shootings, three four five six arsons, two three four seven eight nine ten eleven stabbings, two three four five mob beatings, over 40 41 bomb threats and an acid attack by bigots, Islamophobes, nazis and racists so far this year. Eight Nine Eleven Twelve Fourteen Fifteen Sixteen Seventeen Eighteen Nineteen Twenty twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-four twenty-five twenty-six Twenty-seven Twenty-Eight people are dead because of these bigoted attacks and fifteen twenty-one twenty-two twenty-three twenty-five thirty-five thirty-seven thirty-nine fifty-eight were severely injured. But it’s anti-fascists that people should be worried about, right?“you should be branded as terrorists just as much as the KKK“
Really, now? Anti-fascists are as much terrorists as the KKK, a terrorist organization which murdered over 3000 people in lynchings, arsons, bombings, etc. over its 150-year history, are we?
Maybe it’s time you learned about the logical fallacy of false equivalence, Anon!
Gentle reminder that Charlottesville is not a case of
“We told you they’d murder people and now they’ve finally murdered one”
but a case of
“We’ve been screaming at the top of our lungs that they have been and are murdering people on the daily.”
Baddiewinkle, A Vivacious 89 Year Old Woman With a Love For Bright Colors and Form Fitting Clothes
See Lana Del Rey and the Weeknd dance on “Hollywood” sign in the dreamy new video for “Lust for Life.”
Feeling this hard now
Dog-feelings.
Never has a comic so encapsulated my existence.
Please read the Digital Editorial Director of @teenvogue‘s response because it’s awesome.
Jumping in to add that in the last 2 years:
Elle has added Dr. Melissa Harris Perry to their staff, who in addition to be a full time academic in political science, policy analyst, and former MSNBC anchor, is probably the most well known black feminist public intellectual currently writing. Bar none.
Marie Claire added Janet Mock to theirs. A black trans feminist writer, activist, and journalist who is on the cutting edge of all the things we are talking about. Her memoir “Redefining Realness” was a NYTimes bestseller and she’s a well-respected leader in current trans activist and black feminist circles. She’s the real deal. On every level.
Even Cosmo- COSMO! of all places!- added Dr. Brittney Cooper to their staff last year. Dr. Cooper is a well respected black public intellectual, African American Studies professor and historian at Rutgers.
So yes, let’s celebrate Teen Vogue. But also, let’s talk about how femme and women’s media across the board have been encouraging their readers to be well informed, active citizens. That they are employing and supporting smart, diverse, women who are the best leaders in their fields. That they recognize that if it’s their choice or itnerest, a woman can have the hottest shoes of the season AND be prepared for the resistance. One doesn’t preclude the other.
I would add that, in many cases, women’s/femme’s magazines have been doing political work like this since their inception, particularly magazines that are for Black women.
Some of this is discussed in this article from December 2016, Of Course People Are Turning To Women’s Magazines For Quality Political Coverage:
…As many women writers – and especially women of color – quickly pointed out, the Teen Vogue piece shouldn’t surprise anyone. Neither should it be shocking that, in September, Cosmopolitan set the standard for Ivanka Trump interviews when reporter Prachi Gupta asked Ivanka, who ostensibly spearheaded Donald Trump’s child care proposal, substantive questions about that policy and in the process revealed its many weaknesses. The “real” media figures who were surprised by the Teen Vogue opinion piece also might not have known that President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama have given multiple exclusive interviews to Essence, Ebony, Latina, and Teen Vogue over the years.
What (mostly male) critics fail to recognize is that their reasons for dismissing women’s magazines actually form the foundation of those publications’ success. Magazines created by and for women audiences – not to mention exclusively online outlets like Broadly, Refinery 29, The Establishment, and Jezebel – inherently do things differently, and that’s their strength. They’re helmed by people who wouldn’t normally see their experiences depicted on the pages of papers of record. They’re also answering to an audience of women, especially young women and women of color, by finding ways to inject otherwise untold perspectives into the political discourse.
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This is the essential difference between women’s magazines and what are seen as more traditional outlets for political reporting: Women’s magazines are designed to speak – directly and above all – to women, particularly young women and women of color.
PIERS MORGAN DOESN’T REALIZE HE WROTE WHAT JK ROWLING RETWEETED ABOUT HERSELF, BYE.
JK is fucking brilliant.
‘It doesn’t take an intellectual to get that I am bisexual.’
”The woman’s got to show up, [like], “We all done, sweetie? Okay. Out you go, I gotta make a story out of this mess.”
#me @ quentin tarantino fans
Mad Max: Fury Road and practically every film JJ Abrams has ever made including The Force Awakens.
All Martin Scorsese films
I’m pretty sure every Woody Allen film (he honestly can’t direct his films are saved by the grace of his editors so add that to the pile of reasons to hate him)
Every good Star Wars films (the original trilogy and The Force Awakens)
Joss Whedon’s editor is Lisa Lassek
Dede Allen did Bonnie and Clyde, The Breakfast Club, Dog Day Afternoon, The Adams Family…
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Women rule post production
Which means we have final say on the movie
We’re the ones that control your emotions
Don’t forget it.