Last year in 2015, Buzzfeed put out a video exploring what "Female Masculinity" meant to a group of people who identified on different ends of the gender and female masculinity spectrum.
Trish Bendix also wrote a brief piece along with the video Titled the Spectrum of Female Masculinity.
There's also a book written by Judith Halberstam called Female Masculinity, that explores the idea of what that means. Here's a short description from Amazon, "Masculinity without men. In Female Masculinity Judith Halberstam takes aim at the protected status of male masculinity and shows that female masculinity has offered a distinct alternative to it for well over two hundred years. Providing the first full-length study on this subject, Halberstam catalogs the diversity of gender expressions among masculine women from nineteenth-century pre-lesbian practices to contemporary drag king performances.."
Masculinity is not exclusively male. Cumberbund is feeling the love.
1. Trans Rights
Moving ad about transgender bathroom rights, that were run on Fox News on the last night of the GOP Convention. And that's how you change hearts and minds. More info on FairnessUSA.org
2. Coming Out
Parents Throw a Coming Out Party for their 17 year old daughter. These parents are winning when it comes to parenting. Bravo!
3. Remember Pulse Orlando and the Survivors
CBS News created and featured a page remembering the Forty-nine who were killed during the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando. They also added the poem by Patience Carter, who was shot in the leg. "The Guilt of Being Alive is Heavy."
4. Hunger Crisis in the LGBT Community
In the New York Times there was an article, "Hunger Crisis in the LGBT Community," written by Roni Rabin who reported that many people in the LGBT community were unable to afford food to feed themselves and their families, at least once in the past year. A new report on hunger notes that 1 in 4 LGBT adults go hungry compared to 1 in 6 heterosexual identified people in the same situation.
5. United Methodist Still Trying to Figure it Out
The United Methodist Church elected its first openly lesbian bishop, Rev. Karen Oliveto the senior pastor of Glide Memorial Church in SF, was elect by the Western Jurisdiction Conferences and the UMC Council of Bishops are losing their minds over it. Read more about it here.
Those are my Top 5 Things you should know for the week of July 18th!
-- CV
This week I decided to post 5 inspirational quotes. 5 quotes I think are inspirational. You may not think so. I don't care, than you go get your own website. Oh, sorry. I should go drink more coffee. I had a little bit of a moment. I'll get into my Zen happy place and repeat the quotes below a couple hundred times. Namaste.
Here we go:
1. "Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love." -- Albert Einstein
2. "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough" -- Mae West
3. "Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don't have the strength." -- Theodore Roosevelt
4. "Always be a first rate version of yourself and not a second rate version of someone else."
-- Judy Garland
5. "There are only two days in the year that nothing can be done. One is called Yesterday and the other is called Tomorrow. Today is the right day to Love, Believe, Do and mostly Live."
-- Dalai Lama XIV
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