David Bowie as Tilda Swinton, with Tilda Swinton as David Bowie
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Revolutionary Gay Magazine: 5 Unconventional Drag Stars That Changed The Face Of Drag Forever
1. Raja: This queen won the third season of RuPaul’s Drag Race and rightfully so. Her statuesque “stomp the runway” and eclectic looks made her a front runner every time on her season. Never willing to conform and never giving a fuck about what people have to say, Raja has proven she is a force…
Love all these girls!
Roxane Gay is Spelled With One "N": What Empathy Is
I was a visiting professor at the University of Alabama last week, teaching a group of students about how to write difference into our fiction. I thought about how we teach many things in the creative writing workshop—how to read and think like a writer, how to bring discipline to the wilder of…
We lived on cul-de-sacs & avenues,not streets, & with fireflies hummingat the partition, a shadow couldn’t bemore than a shadow. I couldn’t sleep—consumed as I was by my trembling—but felt their sleeping, their dormancy,how it stirred in me a hungerblack as a pocked tooth. The painof that night was like the pain of a tooth:it swelled, it ached. It was growing.
Safe House: On Catharsis
Nick Flynn wrote one of the best memoir’s I’ve ever read, Another Bullshit Night In Suck City, which is also the only literary work I know that refers to my hometown by name. The book is about, among other things, his mother’s suicide, his own history of addiction, and his father’s homelessness….
Smart stuff!
One of the best things about last night’s 30 Rock! Lick it Donaghy!
What it’s like living in the Castro as a woman
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This is the best .gif. Game over.
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Can we take a minute just to appreciate the best photo of the President of the United States that I’ve ever seen? And by best, I obviously mean sassiest. Seriously, this could be the cover of Sassy magazine! SASSYPANTS FOR PREZ.
[via Washington Post]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcu8w7D6qe1rk5df6o1_500.jpg)
Can we take a minute just to appreciate the best photo of the President of the United States that I’ve ever seen? And by best, I obviously mean sassiest. Seriously, this could be the cover of Sassy magazine! SASSYPANTS FOR PREZ.
[via Washington Post]
Wonder on a Whim: Satan Says by Sharon Olds
I am locked in a little cedar box
with a picture of shepherds pasted onto
the central panel between carvings.
the box stands on curved legs.
it has a gold, heart shaped lock
and no key. I am trying to write my
way out of the closed box
redolent of cedar. Satan
comes to me in the locked box
This fucking poem. TOO GOOD.
Announcing the 2012 National Book Award Finalists!
For information about this year’s twenty Finalists, visit our website.
