Quickies 07/31/2013
Dear U.S. Olympic Committee: do you really think this is going to cut it, regardless of what the IOC says? Because, uh…it seems unlikely that this asshole is going to quit. Speaking of Russia, this is...
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Quickies 08/14/2013
D’awww. Look how cute these guys are! And note that one of Revels’ shipmates took the picture. Do we have any French readers who can weigh in on whether this lawsuit is as spurious over there as it...
View ArticleQuickies 08/28/2013
Wal-Mart: marginally less evil since 2013. Vice has a pretty cool interview with this sweet kid from Russia. How fucking sad is it that his adorable babby-queer Twitter could land him in jail? American...
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Quickies 09/18/2013
I have no words. Seriously, I expect a hell of a lot better from one of the best art museums in the country. Black Girl Dangerous has a great interview with KOKUMO, a singer, filmmaker, and activist...
View ArticleQuickies: 10/16/2013
Popehat’s got a nice roundup about The Urban Scientist’s harassment by a Scientific American partner blog. Adrienne LaFrance has some handy scripts for what to do if you find yourself “stuck on an...
View ArticleQuickies: 10/23/2013
Eat your hearts out, Oklahoma-based assholes: gay marriage is allowed under tribal law and there’s nothing you can do about it. Unless, I guess, you’re part of the Arapaho or Cheyenne nations (and are...
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Sunday School: I Love Modesty Trolls
I admit it freely: the Modesty Police crack me the fuck up. If you’ve never seen the appeal, yourself, I certainly understand (although you’re wrong). Exhibit A: this lady. On second thought, don’t...
View ArticleQuickies: 11/27/2013
Popehat has some meanderings on multiculturalism, specifically with regard to certain organizations in the UK accommodating visiting academics’ request for sex segregation at speaking engagements....
View ArticleAI: (Kind of) New and (Hopefully) Improved!
Regular readers may have noticed a pretty marked drought hereabouts lately–nostra maxima culpa, and we’re working on shaking things up a little bit so we can get some new stuff in the pipeline. To that...
View ArticleAI: Oh no you didn’t
A couple of weeks ago, I was out for drinks with a couple of my (straight, cis dude) friends in Andersonville, which is Chicago’s lesbian hamlet. I hadn’t seen one of them in a while, so I was filling...
View ArticleAI: Thanks a lot, Woody Allen
It will surprise precisely no one that I caught an opening night show of Captain America 2: The Winter Solder (which I loved a whole hell of a lot), but one thing in particular has stuck with me these...
View ArticleI For One Welcome Our New Affirmative Consent Overlords
As you may have heard, last Sunday California enacted a new “Yes Means Yes” statute governing state university policy towards sexual assault. This law has been a while in coming, and the usual suspects...
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