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Summer Olympics: Who can run the fastest? :) Who can swim the fastest? :) Who can do the best somersault? :) 

Winter Olympics: WHO CAN MAKE IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS ICE SLIDE OF DEATH AND SURVIVE?? WHO CAN GET AROUND THE RINK WITHOUT GETTING THEIR HANDS SLICED OFF BY EVERYONE ELSE’S FEET BLADES?? CAN THIS GUY DO A 1080 DEGREE FLIP WITHOUT DYING?? 

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Something amazing is happening

Nafessa Williams (who plays the first black lesbian superhero in a CW show called Black Lightning) went to Clexacon 2018 and was all but ignored. People on Twitter started talking about her empty line and poorly attended panel that same day. They were sad and embarrassed. As the news spread throughout Twitter and to Tumblr what started out as sadness turned into outrage. It was as if all the frustration the black wlw community felt about the cold shoulder the show had been receiving from the white wlw community came out, all at once, in a torrent of hurt outrage.

That was Saturday and Sunday. What I’ve noticed throughout all of this is the solidarity being shown by the allies and progressive in the white wlw community. They are ones who talked about the cold shoulder at the con first. They are the ones asking themselves and their community why a show which gives us everything we’ve asked for is being ignored.

What I’ve also noticed is increasing rage and hostility from the people who don’t like the mirror that’s being held up to our community right now. Those voices are loud, proud and bold AF. They are happily posting about fandom drama and being guilted into watching things in the tags.

The thing is though, I think they are looking around and worrying that they are going to end up in the minority. The women of color in the WLW community are speaking freely and openly about our feelings of marginalization and the true allies are not just listening but they are speaking up with us.

It’s a beautiful thing.

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I’m not ace myself, so I’m coming at the whole acephobia thing from an outsider’s perspective, and as such, it’s not my place to speak to the experience of those on the receiving end of it.

However, as a bisexual dude, I can observe that many of the arguments that are employed to establish that ace folks have no place in the queer community are strikingly similar - indeed, at times practically word-for-word identical - to the arguments that were for many years (and in some circles still are) employed to establish that bisexual folks have no place in the queer community.

It’s enough to make a guy suspicious on general principle, you know?

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Lucy Liu photographed by Peter Lindbergh

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You

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You are you and that’s enough :))

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john mulaney talking about how much he loves his wife and roasting other male comedians that just talk shit on their wives is why The Gays like him so much because he’s what Straight Culture should be

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