excuse me?

can we take a goddamn minute and think of how many literary awards, allegedly open to all, are won in every year by straight, cis, people? You really gotta try to take the fucking LAMBDAs too? Queer/trans folk can't have one damn award that is theirs? shut the fuck up, please. gotdamn. You gonna bitch that white people can't win the Essence lit awards?


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books

you know how every so often these lists come out of like '100 books everyone should have read or they are cultural philistines? I always wind up with like 6 books I have read on those lists, and they aren't even books I liked much.


but this list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_commonly_challenged_books_in_the_U.S. ? I've read at least half those books, and many of my all time favorites from childhood and adulthood are on that fucker.

I EXPECT BETTER FROM WHOOPI

Polanski was not guilty of 'rape-rape', says Whoopi Goldberg | Film | guardian.co.uk

I really used to love Whoopi, hard. This shit? I can't even