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logotv: REBLOG if you want Jinkx Monsoon to be America’s Next...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:34:04 -0400

REBLOG if you want Jinkx Monsoon to be America’s Next Drag Superstar!

She’s too talented to not be declared the winner. I love Alaska too, but Jinkx’s form of drag has endless potential to expand the audience for the art form. As RuPaul’s Drag Race continues to make gains in popularity, Ru should take note of queens that can push drag in new directions.

Writing about this moment (and quite a few others) from the...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:19:52 -0400

Writing about this moment (and quite a few others) from the final episode ofIngmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage. This is one of the most beautiful love stories I’ve ever had the privilege of watching—even though it doesn’t present itself as a love story initially.

Relevant to this week’s class discussion on race and TV....

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 19:53:07 -0400

Relevant to this week’s class discussion on race and TV. Good on the Happy Endings writers for calling out Dave’s whiteness in the show’s absurd way.

"You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this..."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:21:04 -0400

““You guys know about vampires? … You know, vampires have no reflections in a mirror? There’s this idea that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. And what I’ve always thought isn’t that monsters don’t have reflections in a mirror. It’s that if you want to make a human being into a monster, deny them, at the cultural level, any reflection of themselves. And growing up, I felt like a monster in some ways. I didn’t see myself reflected at all. I was like, “Yo, is something wrong with me? That the whole society seems to think that people like me don’t exist?” And part of what inspired me, was this deep desire that before I died, I would make a couple of mirrors. That I would make some mirrors so that kids like me might seem themselves reflected back and might not feel so monstrous for it.””

- - Junot Diaz [via] (via pushinghoopswithsticks)

This is harrowingly truthful.

O Pioneer!: Marriage

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:34:13 -0400

O Pioneer!: Marriage :

richardlawson:

I was having an after-work drink with a friend of mine tonight and in the banquette section next to us was a group of three coworkers, two gay guys and a girl, all probably in their mid-thirties, decidedly and determinedly fabulous in a way that made me think they must work in fashion or…

Richard Lawson is a phenomenal writer, and his penultimate paragraph is the thing I wish everyone would read, because it hits the nail on the head.

It’s really vitally important to me the way women are...

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 21:32:29 -0400

It’s really vitally important to me the way women are portrayed. As someone who has always felt at times pretty genderless because of my size, it interests me to challenge ideas of prejudice and femininity and what it is to be a woman. It’s still something that I don’t have all the answers for but I would like to make a bit of a difference; do something, anything, that causes people to have more sense of equality….

Imagine; I used to have really long blonde hair, always wearing heels, lots of make-up. I had been someone who was highly feminised and had chosen to look that way, partly because I was 6ft 3in but also I was into that aesthetic. I knew it had to be stripped away. I knew this would be an important part not just for my work but in terms of my own development, because I would be confronting elements of myself that I didn’t want to confront. It was actor’s vanity and personal vanity. To see yourself displayed as unattractive, large, masculine, it’s quite tough… But I know it’s just perspective. A social conditioning that causes us to view these traits in a woman in a negative way, but it’s still hard to watch myself even now. (x)

Her transformation into Brienne is astounding and completely fantastic. I am so excited for Game of Thrones to come back this Sunday!

MuuMuse Tells the Story of Passover, Starring Pop Divas (and Nicole Scherzinger)

Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:33:33 -0400

MuuMuse Tells the Story of Passover, Starring Pop Divas (and Nicole Scherzinger):

I am dead.

I NEED MY HAPPY ENDINGS BACK. I’m tired of holding my...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 02:42:53 -0400

I NEED MY HAPPY ENDINGS BACK.

I’m tired of holding my horses.

jumbled-memory: I’m so, so sorry… Well I’m dead.

Tue, 19 Mar 2013 23:10:10 -0400

jumbled-memory:

I’m so, so sorry…

Well I’m dead.

My message for all my friends at the IU Auditorium.

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 12:41:41 -0500

My message for all my friends at the IU Auditorium.

plenilunes: the queen I mean, this is just gorgeous.

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:40:20 -0500

plenilunes:

the queen

I mean, this is just gorgeous.

franciscotirado: I FOUND IT I GOT IT EVERYONE Flaw-free...

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 23:06:33 -0500

franciscotirado:

I FOUND IT I GOT IT EVERYONE

Flaw-free entrances. Look at Michelle being like “Yeah, bitches. Bow to me, too!”

Look at Ke$ha’s amazing Inauguration outfit. (The makeup...

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:37:35 -0500

Look at Ke$ha’s amazing Inauguration outfit. (The makeup might be my favorite part?)

photo via Just Jared.

huffposttv: nbctv: buzzfeed: This is the most important thing...

Sun, 13 Jan 2013 22:05:55 -0500

huffposttv:

nbctv:

buzzfeed:

This is the most important thing that’s ever happened in history.

THIS X 1,000,000

Sry Will Arnett.

Will Arnett, you FUCKED UP.

Kenya Moore is the best/worst thing to happen to #RHOA.

Thu, 10 Jan 2013 12:29:26 -0500

Kenya Moore is the best/worst thing to happen to #RHOA.

Really the only photo of the Les Miz premiere you need to see.

Fri, 07 Dec 2012 00:27:22 -0500

Really the only photo of the Les Miz premiere you need to see.

Drag queen or Mariah Carey? Trick question, obvs. No drag queen...

Wed, 28 Nov 2012 23:52:00 -0500

Drag queen or Mariah Carey?

Trick question, obvs. No drag queen would be caught dead in that.

IS SHE WEARING BERMUDA SHORTS?!

Mon, 26 Nov 2012 00:49:31 -0500

IS SHE WEARING BERMUDA SHORTS?!

On the left, Raven from RuPaul’s Drag Race. On the right,...

Wed, 21 Nov 2012 21:58:40 -0500

On the left, Raven from RuPaul’s Drag Race. On the right, Christina Aguilera, of The Voice. I am waiting for a very special edition of Fashion Police’s best segment, “Bitch Stole My Look!”

alexandergold: The best song from UNAPOLOGETIC was written for...

Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:10:10 -0500

alexandergold:

The best song from UNAPOLOGETIC was written for Rihanna by Emeli Sande. Stunning.