First of all, let's just celebrate the recent coming out of two amazing teenage celebrities: Amandla Stenberg (bisexual; I follow her on Tumblr by the way) and Rowan Blanchard (queer). Amazing start to the year.
Now, a playlist.
She - Dodie Clark
The Gay Song - Jenna Anne
Uprising of Love - Melissa Etheridge
Girls Like Girls - Haley Kiyoko
Proud - Tegan and Sara
She Keeps Me Warm - Mary Lambert
Keep in mind that all of the above singers are either white or white-passing. None are transfeminine. And six of them are thin, while five are gender-conforming and all but one are cis. So yeah, we definitely need more trans, GNC, fat, and QPoC visibility. If you have any links to songs sung and/or written by trans WLW, androgynous- or masculine- read/identified WLW, fat WLW, or WLW of color (particularly non-white passing and dark-skinned WoC), please comment below.
And also, some spoken word poetry.
We Get It, You're Gay - Ashley Mardell (yeah, another femme, thin, cis white woman)
Dear Straight People - Denice Frohman (a Latinx butch lesbian - finally!)
Blue and Green - Alyssa Cassese (another one...I know, I know)
Bisexual Slam Poem - Emma Robins (oh my god they're EVERYWHERE)
Unbuttoning My Boy Shirt - Joy Young (a white, thin, genderfluid butch lesbian)
Trigger - Teresa Siagatonu (a thin, cis bisexual woman of color)
The word "cr*zy" is used in an ableist way in one video, jsyk, and please remember to beware of homophobia, biphobia, and misogyny in the comments.
And also, this comic. It's about four teenagers living in the desert after a military takeover, and it's my new favorite thing. There's no apparent WLW representation (neither Maria nor Alice, the two female main characters, has made her sexuality apparent).
But there is:
Now, a playlist.
She - Dodie Clark
The Gay Song - Jenna Anne
Uprising of Love - Melissa Etheridge
Girls Like Girls - Haley Kiyoko
Proud - Tegan and Sara
She Keeps Me Warm - Mary Lambert
Keep in mind that all of the above singers are either white or white-passing. None are transfeminine. And six of them are thin, while five are gender-conforming and all but one are cis. So yeah, we definitely need more trans, GNC, fat, and QPoC visibility. If you have any links to songs sung and/or written by trans WLW, androgynous- or masculine- read/identified WLW, fat WLW, or WLW of color (particularly non-white passing and dark-skinned WoC), please comment below.
And also, some spoken word poetry.
We Get It, You're Gay - Ashley Mardell (yeah, another femme, thin, cis white woman)
Dear Straight People - Denice Frohman (a Latinx butch lesbian - finally!)
Blue and Green - Alyssa Cassese (another one...I know, I know)
Bisexual Slam Poem - Emma Robins (oh my god they're EVERYWHERE)
Unbuttoning My Boy Shirt - Joy Young (a white, thin, genderfluid butch lesbian)
Trigger - Teresa Siagatonu (a thin, cis bisexual woman of color)
The word "cr*zy" is used in an ableist way in one video, jsyk, and please remember to beware of homophobia, biphobia, and misogyny in the comments.
And also, this comic. It's about four teenagers living in the desert after a military takeover, and it's my new favorite thing. There's no apparent WLW representation (neither Maria nor Alice, the two female main characters, has made her sexuality apparent).
But there is:
- A canonically gay, mentally ill, black boy who has a prosthetic leg (Daniel)
- A canonically mixed-race trans girl of color who is probably also mentally ill (Maria; the creator has confirmed that she is Latina and Native American)
- A canonically trans boy who is either bi or gay and probably a person of color and probably mentally ill (Milo; we know he's into guys because he briefly mentions kissing them. He seems to have a connection to an indigenous tribe, the Amori, that once lived near the comic's setting, so he's probably a member).
- A canonically mixed-race, Japanese, mentally ill fat girl (Alice; there's heavy fandom speculation that she's ace but no confirmation from the creator. I, personally, headcanon her as aromantic asexual.)
Have fun with all of this.
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