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hi i'm still alive! it is summer and life is outside and i am a bit sunburned and things are fine and good. also it is pride week!!

i wanna magic the time space continuum and be the little girl in 'fun house' back in my musical-theatre-baby days. how great is this?! a musical about a baby lesbian based on a graphic novel?! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!



happy monday, swaggerers, wearers of dungarees.

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oh hi there. i just found some really amazing wallpaper on the internets, so i'm in a pretty good mood, i can't lie. and. here's a good tune for being in a pretty good mood, do some dancing or maybe some jumping. watch out, tho! you had better run...

happy monday! it's you i'll come for!

ff

ALL OF THE LINKS!
or at least many of the links. lots and lots to read this week.

* stop blaming women for holding themselves back

* the world is listening

* the road to structural erasure is paved with well-intentioned white ladies

* these are apple's new, diverse emoji

* teen charged with raping fellow student told police he was 're-enacting' fifty shades of grey
(big time trigger warning)

ABOUT THAT LAST LINK:
50 shades of grey didn't cause this assault. but it sure as fuck didn't do anything to help dismantle the world of rape culture and the dehumanization of women. it sure as fuck didn't do anything to help women gain power and autonomy over their bodies and their lives. it sure as fuck didn't do anything to help men understand consent. if you already live in a world where you don't believe that women can or will tell you what they want (bluuuurred lines, amirite?), where you already feel you are owed things from women, 50 shades of grey is just another thing whispering (or shouting...) 'it's cool, bro. she wants it. you just gotta show her...'. 50 shades of grey didn't cause this truly heinous and horrifying assault. but it joined on in with everything else that was already cheering this asshole on, and it gave him a high-five and a douchey smile and said 'yeah, man. alright!'

* i dated christian grey

okee bye, happy friday!

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although i LOVED the 'everything is awesome' performace, and patricia arquette's speech, and graham moore's speech, i gotta give, hands down, best performance and moment of the oscars to 'glory'.

and sorry to my ladies (holla emma stone, lupita nyong'o), best dressed goes to david oyelowo in that red get-up, sir that is some fierce dressing.

happy monday, dapper dans.

ff

can we just take a moment to appreciate this moment of rihanna brilliance:

 

{spirit animal ri-ri gawd she's so cool}

 

and we have no more days till friday!!

 



 

okay. linkstown:

* questions for men

* why i'm fighting for girls who want to play football

* scotus thinks that firing women for breastfeeding isn't discrimination

please know that as i am writing this i am receiving unsolicited dickpics on instagram from someone i went to gradschool with. whut, even?! why would you... i don't even... okay. okay bye.

happy friday, the internets is forever...

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i am feeling all dizzy and post-vacation emo j-lo, you know how it goes. heady and hollow but very happy. what a fantastic weekend i had! oof. real life. this is my real life!!

http://youtu.be/JCT_lgJ5eq8

(why can no embed today?!)

happy monday, light headed lovelies.

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we are doubling up today - saved my life and feminist monday. i planned on writing a wee bit about björk on friday, but honestly i just soaked in the new album and also the above tove lo song and had all the feels. oh the feels! you guys!! but also: so good. (reminds me a bit of medulla, which is my fave björk - intense close choral-ish harmonies that make me go ooooooof.) now on to the feminism.

{jessica hopper interviewing björk for pitchfork}

* the invisible woman: a conversation with björk

the whole interview is great, but particularly the discussion of women auteurs in music is worth reading.



happy monday, heart breakers and hearts broken.

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moooaaar daaaancing!



happy monday, bodies.

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let's have all videos be dance videos like this video, okay?



obviously. first time ever i've liked sia labeouf.

happy monday, thick skins, elastic hearts.

ff

hi. all i wanna do is listen to rihanna and an orchestra.

but also, there are things to read about wearing makeup like a deviant. pour it up, pour it up:

* how to be a ladyperson at the holidays

but all of this is really just to make you happy before you watch this next video. because this one hurts. it is powerful as hell. all we wanna do is take the chains off.



that's all for today, then.

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHDVENT!

i can't believe how fast it is going, this month o' decem. ber.

this is almost too easy, this week's choice. prepare to play on repeat foreverrrrrrrrrr.



amen, amen, amen.

happy monday, mix masterz.

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tough week, tough weekend, turning to a toronto favourite, a true love, we have used it before, we will come back to it again and again. diana and carmen elle have saved my life often.



happy monday, hoping for a better week.

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duuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh it's yoncé.

(i could have put up a video of me & lissa singing 'firework' or 'like a prayer' or 'scrubs' or 'we can't stop'... but i have a feeling that you had to be there to experience the true epic joy that was pouring out our faces... also no one filmed it. so lucky you. god bless that tiny karaoke room with incongruous videos of completely random stuff.)



i wanna be the redhead with the bow top. also jay-z doing a cameo-roll-through makes me like him WAY more that i used to.

happy monday, knee pad dancers!

ff

can't talk now, euggie's 30th birthday, byyyyyyyyyyyyyyyeeeeeeeeee!!!







happy friday, HAPPIER BUUURRRRRRTHDAAAAAAYYYY!

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sometimes i'm just not feeling inspired on monday and i look and look for something to save my life, and it just isn't happenin.

this is a lesson: wait. something perfectly groovy is about to happen. oh you groovy oldschool beats! just exactly what i was looking for.



(can't find the full video to embed, so you can go here for the dancemoves.)

happy tuesday, funk masters!

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top of my playlist for some weeks now, just can't get sick of it:



happy monday, models.

ff (nope)

2tired2blorg.

i got my ticket to the opening night of the mockingjay. so. instead. here:



happy friday, tributes.

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oh! good day.
an old classic dancetime today. with a story.



this weekend i learned that the human person i live with, whom you might know to be quite a smart human person, has thought, for years and years, that this song contained the lyrics:

'you know i'll take you to the tub...'
instead of: 'i'll take you to the top...'

funny, sure.

but what is truly great is that she assumed that to 'take it to the tub' was some sexy-party saying that she just didn't know when she first heard the song, being a young lady in elementary school not well versed in grown-up-partying and sexy-times.

and she has been making jokes based on this assumption. for years. years and years. a million tub-based partying jokes that NO ONE EVER GOT. and only last week did she learn the truth.

and that is great. just great.

happy monday, soakers.

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remember when there was all that music? yeah. at e&c's wedding party? that was amazing. sigh. just rememberin that time. OH HEY! look at what i found:



happy monday, beautiful voices.

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happy monday, public singers.