June 2013
work overnight:
struggling to find pajama shirts that don’t say “abortion” or something-gay or have pictures of burning cop cars.
this should not be this big of a struggle.
so my partner is like
“babe, why don’t you go to the store and get a lighter so we can smoke?”
and i’m like yeah, sure, whatever.
and I go to the store and buy a bunch of veggies and a bunch of nuts & seeds & fruits.
and a beer.
and get home with no lighter.
screwed the slats into the ikea bed frame.
sick of falling through.
thanks for the other suggestions. this was the most reactionary and required the least planning. haha
“My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year’s Eve in San Francisco. Tupac happened to be in town, so he came to kick it with me. This was the early ’90s. And the boys were like, ‘Take your shirt off, Tupac!’ He wasn’t doing that. But we had a blast in there.”
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(via sad-queer)
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Pride can be the moment we all come together, leaving our petty squabbles and personal politics behind us for one brief moment. And we can do it together, because we have to if we want to move forward. From disability justice to racial justice, our Christopher Street won’t ever find the liberation we all still march for, until all of us do.
Our Liberation Day has got to be for all of us.
” —-Monika MHz, envisioning what pride could be and should be.
OK, Here’s the Deal … A vision of Pride - Proud Queer (PQ Monthly)
“When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?”
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Retta, on the roles she would be offered in Hollywood.
“Casting directors, who don’t necessarily know me — all they get are pictures. So they see your face, and they’re like, ‘Oh, we can place her in this or that.’ “
Check out NPR’s story on actors of color navigating stereotypes in Hollywood.
(via racebending)
