CBrachyrhynchos @cbrachyrhynchos@lgbt.io

I think my next experimental project is going to involve non-alcoholic mixed drinks.

(Can't do alcohol, alas.)

I still feel ridiculously emotional over the fact that they actually included real-life bears, Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, and Dykes on Bikes, and not just people with the usual Hollywood casting look.

Probably not going to binge this season.

The writing feels a lot tighter. And it's nice that Kala has something other than a love triangle.

Gillian deserves credit for selling the most over-the-top evil villain monologue with conviction and sincerity. It rivals Rickman's "I'll cut your heart out with a spoon!"

Bonus scene: even the Watchers are tired of Stan Lee cameos.

It's Groot's, Rocket's, and Yondu's show. The rest are just filler.

(cont) Sissy Goodwin and the men who protested for him by wearing tutus and petticoats can do it because they're "cowboys." American culture tolerates gender-nonconformity as long as it's safely framed, compartmentalized, and compensated for.

Both the reframing of GNC (quite limited) as *really* masculine and the rubber band model gives me terrible dissonance.

"Men can do that," often doesn't work for me for two reasons. The first is that *thing* usually gets reframed as differently masculine. "The Manly Art of Knitting," male tears, a male fashion experiments, drag queens, gender play and cuckolding as kinks.

Then there's the rubber band problem where stretching in one direction results in tightening in a different direction. You can do "feminine" this if you do "masculine" that. (cont)

Meta-study on suicide rates among trans and gender-nonconforming adults. It's not pretty:

http://www.liebertpub.com/global/pressrelease/increased-rates-of-suicidal-thoughts-and-attempts-among-transgender-adults-reported-over-two-decades/2168/

A brief history of the comics code authority and LGBTQ censorship:

https://queerscifi.com/history-comic-book-authority-kept-gays-out-of-comics/

Animals retouched to look like minecraft. It reminds me more of cyriak though:

https://www.imzy.com/daily_weird/post/photos_of_animals_retouched_to_look_like_real_life

Sense8 is back!

https://youtu.be/a8NYhEXnOhA

ACLU: “Today’s executive order signing was an elaborate photo-op with no discernible policy outcome.

“President Trump’s prior assertion that he wished to ‘totally destroy’ the Johnson Amendment with this order has proven to be a textbook case of ‘fake news.’ "

https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-statement-so-called-religious-freedom-executive-order

Mirror in the Bathroom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbUW2EY4KE

Woohoo! Local community center.

http://savannahnow.com/news/2017-05-03/savannah-set-unveil-lgbt-community-center

Death in Paradise: It's all fun and games until the Commissioner is a suspect.

Mostly, I see the debates around knitting as yet another pointlessly gendered space I'm forced to navigate.