If this Tweet isn’t “Mansplaining Gone Wild,” I don’t know what is. 
“The idea of having one love in your life was not an aspiration for us,”–Hal Sedgwick on “what it was like to be the primary love object of a queer theorist who wrote so prolifically about the complexities of desire and relationships.”
Ann Friedman makes a modest proposal to save America: “There are millions of straight, white Men in America, and many of them are armed and entitled. We can no longer sit idly by and wait for them to commit violence, either against women and children in their homes or against strangers in public. We can no longer merely attempt to avoid them when they get drunk. We can no longer argue with them about the veracity of Fox News reports or the statistical abnormality of false rape accusations. We must act.”
“You had me at indictment. You had me at abolition. You had me at forgiveness. You had me at amendment to an amendment. You had me at teach-in. You had me at intersectional. You had me at overthrow. You had me at boycott.” — Morgan Parker on love poems.
Republicans still haven’t given up on defunding Planned Parenthood.
“Forever 21 called a trans woman ‘disgusting‘ before firing her. A trans woman had to dress and act ‘like a man’ while working at Barnes and Noble. A trans woman was disallowed from using the bathroom and called ‘it’ by supervisors in the Army.”–Go here to read “11 East Ways Managers and Employers Can Foster Trans-Inclusive Work Environments”
Next year will bring us a new superhero in the form of “part cat, part bird, heavily muscled and wearing nothing but a pair of tight feathery pants” via Margaret Atwood’s three-part graphic novel.
This week, Anne Thériault brings us, “Being a Girl: A Brief Personal History of Violence.”
This week also brought us the 66th birthday of the one and only Eileen Myles, so perhaps it’s time you listen to this Book and Authors interview with her.
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