Gender? I Hardly Know Her!
My pronouns are mind ya business.
New gender, who dis? Honies, we are *back* and we couldn’t be happier about being in your earholes once again. The Panera has taken a toll on all of us, and we all hated not being in person in a studio talkin’ about baby arms, bottoming tips, and the white supremacist, cis-heteropatricharial, murderous machine(s) of late capitalism. Also, Teebs. While Teebs hates being anywhere in person, he’s putting up with us sluts long enough to bring you a brand new Food 4 Thot every week until… forever!
Catch the latest episode here:
This week on the little broadcast, we are talking about *gender* and *changes* and *choices*. You may have noticed that some of us thots are on a little gender journey and we’re finally ready to let you ride shotgun! Like every week, we serve you a nasty mix of the high and the low. Identity discourse! Saline fleets vs. Twitter fleets! Olivia Colman threw the first brick at Stonewall!!
So get in loser, we’re going shopping (while also understanding that the luxury of buying things to feel pleasure is deeply embedded in how consumerism drives atomization and abject cruelty)!
Xx Denne Michele
*extra* delectable content
1. Paws up, Rodrig-hos! Olivia dropped the album of the summer (well, ok three really good songs of the summer and the rest of the album is…... fine).
2. Dominique Jackson is a national treasure and must be protected at all costs.
3. Read about how the term two-spirit came to be.
4. How about how race and gender are co-constructed as simultaneous identities? Our favorite there: Mama's Baby, Papa's Maybe: An American Grammar Book by Hortense Spillers on the intersection of blackness and womanhood as identities:
“I describe a locus of confounded identities, a meeting ground of investments and privations in the national treasury of rhetorical wealth. My country needs me, and if I were not here, I would have to be invented.”
Woof!
5. Can we talk for a moment about our spandex fetish,? Because, we will talk for a whole-ass *moment* about our spandex fetish—we mean the Summer Olympics.
6. For posterity, Fran bought this speedo recently and loved it.
7. Have absolutely loved all of Mykki Blanco’s writing and thoughts about gender and fluidity. A template for us all!
8. This essay by Tre’vell does not seek resolutions as much as it asks important questions about what it means to be nonbinary, cis-passing, on the trans spectrum, and everything in between.
9. Olivia Colman saying “gay rights” you’re welcome.
10. Someone hire Food 4 Thot to write the gritty Bunnicula origin story!!
11. I still can’t believe this video of Wendy Williams farting and burping at the same time on live TV is real.
12. Check out our Bad Bunny stan account, I mean Instagram.
13. Want to learn more about how we were born naked and the rest is drag? Check out the classique Gender Trouble by Judith Butler (and give urself time to get into the extremely painful and dense academic philosophy text).
Also,
If you haven’t already, check out the Lesbian Bar Project — a documentary/initiative trying to preserve the last 21 queer femme bars in the county so they stay open and thriving!
Omg I'm so excited. I love these new round ups. Thank you for being you.
Sending extra love to Denne Michele 💜