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Wonder Woman and Wonder Pig!

Olivia Hussey and Leonard Whiting in Romeo and Juliet - 1968

Behind the scenes in Romeo and Juliet - 1968

Show me what you cooked!

Enjoy this illustration from Mary Blair~

“It’s not a Chinese arc, it’s not an Asian arc; it is an Asian-American arc, and I’ll probably get shit for saying this, but in terms of the Hollywood or media perception of nonwhite cultures, one thing I have noticed is they’re more comfortable hiring the Chinese-Chinese actress who is a star in China and who has bankability there and who they understand as a thing to celebrate if not exoticize. The Asian-American experience [is something] a lot of us as Asian-Americans really haven’t explored, because they lump us all into one. Asia can be Japan and it can be India; it’s a balance, and it’s not easy, and that’s probably why it’s easier for Hollywood to hire Chinese-Chinese actresses as opposed to people who fit the Asian-American mold, because a lot of people like to simplify problems. It’s terrifying to say, ‘This is a thing that is complex and worthy of our time,’ but it is complex, and that’s why you’re not going to always find an easy, palatable answer. I think [the show is] trying to approach that complexity in a very traditionally simplistic form. And I think if we can do that, it’s almost its own type of activism.”

Listen: Kesha returns to music with confident and beautiful “True Colors” 

Congrats to Kesha for being so steadfast and speaking the truth for herself and millions who have been silenced. 

Wind’s in the east, mist comin’ in… Like something is brewin’, about to begin…

These controversies ignite similarly, sparking the same misinformed rhetoric from the peanut gallery living above the Mason-Dixon line. Endless versions of indignant outrage are parroted that condemn an entire Southern state as a monolith of hate and held accountable. No matter the shape it takes, however, these expressions of rage emanating from straight “allies” operate under a singularly misguided belief: that I do not exist. That there are not transgender men and women in North Carolina who would have benefited from a job at a company that protects them, despite state lawmakers hostile to their existence. All of this magnanimous outrage does not extend to the very group for which it surfaces—Southern queers. Instead, these powerful, “inclusive” entities threaten to pack their things and go; leaving us high and dry, and fighting alone.

True Loves Kiss, the most powerful magic of all.

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