“No powerful Black narrative should come at the expense of the violation of a woman’s body.” – Michael Arceneaux on why he won’t support Nate Parker’s Birth of a Nation.
Read an interview with Courtney Bryan, a classical music composer whose recent songs address Black Lives Matter.
Madison Young writes about how she became a feminist pornographer.
The Affrilachian Poets rejects Kentucky’s Governor’s Award in the Arts.
Breaking news: Olympic athletes get their periods.
WTF, Marina Abramović.
Ashaki M. Jackson rounds up five of her favorite chapbooks by women of color.
Hey writers—submit! Callisto: A Queer Fiction Journal is accepting submissions by LGBTQ writers.
And EAOGH is looking for work by trans women across genres for their next issue.
Novelist and Weird Sister illustrator Molly Prentiss is launching a progressive creative writing workshop in Brooklyn, and it sounds pretty amazing.
If you’re in NYC this weekend, check out Daughters of Mercury Rising: A Reading by Trans Women Poets.
This Tuesday, Weird Sister contributor Hossannah Asuncion launches Soft Opening, “an evening for ladyqueers, gender queers, and all who dance with them.”
Check out these just-released polaroids of Madonna on the brink of superstardom. Now imagine that the next photo of you is the last one before you sky-rocket to Madonna status.
Happy weekend! <3 <3
Thanks for sharing those photos of madonna! I’ve never seen them before.