I think it was better when gender and sexuality labels actually meant things. If you can call yourself a lesbian even though you're on testosterone, you've had top surgery, and you call yourself a "tboy", then what does it actually mean to be a lesbian?
One thing about Dolly that gets under-discussed in my opinion is that she's easily one of the greatest & most famous drag queens of all time and a living testament to the idea that cis women can be drag artists. No one but her family even knows what she looked like under all that
Visiting your hometown is so crazy cause on one hand you’re forced to reckon with every ghost of unresolved trauma from your past over and over forever but on the other hand there’s like that one sandwich that’s so good
true. the fact that this was not a 9-0 vote shows that the constitution is not the standard by which the court operates, if there was any remaining doubt. there is no unclear language in the 14th, it does not need to be interpreted. only a new amendment can nullify it.
this is making me cry. he could cure cancer, he could cure fucking cancer and spare millions the agony of the disease and he has to beg on TV for funds instead of gold falling right into his lap.
I remember crying in the car when I learned he won in 2016. I saw all of this happening in my head but it was strange back then because EVERYONE, conservatives and liberals, were gaslighting people saying everyone was overreacting.
Here we are 10 years later.