A four layer funfetti sponge cake, with rainbow themed buttercream frosting, a chocolate drip and even more for the best rainbow explosion cake ever! So I was super lucky to fit three quarters of a million followers on Instagram the other day, so I thought I would make an insanely colourful and fun cake to…
Rainbow Explosion Cake!
A delicious and bright Rainbow Cake with vanilla buttercream frosting, a pink drip and sprinkles! Oh hellooo most requested recipe OF ALL TIME. I am not even joking, this recipe has been requested over and over again and I am ~finally~ posting it on to my blog! It’s taken a fair old time as I…
Rainbow Cake!
I was in the lobby of a theater in Washington, D.C. when I saw the first of the tweets about the Trump administration’s decision to stymie protections for transgender students on the federal level. It wasn’t until the play ended and I was on the Metro home that I had cell service; I began to piece together what exactly had happened. My palms were sweating. I tried to make conversation with my friend, but I felt nauseated and heartsick.
I thought of the transgender and gender non-conforming kids in the youth group where I volunteer and the outspoken, proud, lovely trans kids in our county’s schools. I thought of Gavin Grimm, who’ll stand up against the Gloucester County School Board in front of the Supreme Court on March 28. I thought of how often trans folks have to reduce their stories to make them palatable to cisgender people, smoothing all of our glittering edges into sameness, rather…
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Transgender Awareness Week occurs during the beginning of November, traditionally culminating in the Transgender Day of Remembrance. This period serves to amplify the achievements of the trans community, as well as illuminate its struggles. The Transgender Day of Remembrance honors the victims of hate crimes, suicide, murder and countless other violences trans folks face daily.
2015 has not been kind to the trans community. Trans celebrities receive awards and accolades, yet 79 trans-identified folks have been murdered this year. Many of them are women of color. Many were killed by people they knew, people they trusted.
Historically, the complexities of the trans community have been overlooked, its activism whitewashed or erased or ignored completely. Hollywood continues to cast cisgender actors in trans roles, reaffirming these revisionist attitudes. Subconscious, thoughtless or intentional, this is insidious. Erasing the experiences of a community—the good and the bad—erases the community altogether.
Every story is…
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Hadley Stewart speaks to Nathaniel Hall about stigma, shame and his one-man show, ‘First Time’.
“Writing it was a hard process”: TQ meets Nathaniel Hall
The #longreads hashtag on Twitter is filled with great story recommendations from people around the world. Pravesh Bhardwaj is a longtime contributor — throughout the year he posts his favorite short stories, and then in January we’re lucky enough to get a list of his favorites to enjoy in the year ahead.
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As much as it breaks my heart, our trilogy must conclude here. (It doesn’t really matter what order you read these in, but if you want to read the first two before you keep scrolling, click here and here.)
If you’ve read the last two instalments- or just, y’know, the title of this one- you should know the drill by now. Rather than give J.K. Rowling’s transphobic ramblings any more airtime, this three-parter is about acknowledging and celebrating the Wizarding World actors who have in some way affirmed their support for the trans community. (This is regardless of whether or not they denounce Rowling by name- let’s not forget, aside from various personal reasons they may have for not doing this, quite a few of them technically still work under her.) It doesn’t matter whether they’re relatively obscure or household names- if they’ve expressed views that are the antithesis…
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Welcome back! If you’re here then hopefully you’ve read Part 1- if not, you can find it here– but suffice it to say this brief trilogy is all about acknowledging the Harry Potter actors who’ve proclaimed themselves to support trans rights, rather than give J.K. Rowling’s anti-trans outpourings any more airtime. It doesn’t matter whether they worked on the original films, the Fantastic Beasts pentalogy or any production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child– if they’ve used their platform to speak up for trans rights, they’re going on this list. Starting with…
(PS: this is the part where I start to break the alphabetisation-by-first-name rule, for absolutely no reason whatsoever besides dramatic effect. Enjoy!)
The above badass photo of Watson sporting a “Trans…
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I mean… you can tell what you’re getting by the title, right?
I’m not going to go over Rowling’s bigoted outpourings again- we’ve all read them, we all know by now what she said, although you can check out my other Potter-related pieces here and here. Instead, I want to spread the word on the many actors affiliated with the Wizarding World who, with varying degrees of readiness to call Rowling out directly, have expressed their support for the trans and non-binary community. So, without further ado, here are all the Harry Potter actors (from the initial films, Fantastic Beasts and various Cursed Child productions) who have publicly supported trans rights.
Oh, and the really good news? This list ended up being long enough to split into three parts! So this isn’t actually all the out-and-proud pro-trans thespians, just the first five of them (in alphabetical order by…
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