No Filter: Carrie Brownstein and Annie Clark are Ex-Girlfriend Goals
Welcome back to No Filter, where once again we shall peruse the week in queer celebrity Instagram and present the cream of the crop for public analysis. This week, maybe Angelina Jolie has a girlfriend?? Are you Angelina Jolie’s girlfriend? Please email me immediately if you have tips.
At the top of the hour, we are reporting to you live from the scene of Lena Waithe’s haircut, where DAYS LATER we are still dealing with it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlKbhn3loJN/?taken-by=gabyroad
If Ellen didn’t spend the whole night hitting on SOMEONE, was it really a party?
Your pal and mine Jasika Nicole grew that snorkel in her own organic garden and then used it to sew some sea creatures together in the briny deep.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlOYPGKFagi/?taken-by=ddlovato
This post is dedicated to the person who commented on this photo telling Demi she should release her own line of elevators called eLOVATOrs. I see you, and I appreciate you.
I honestly don’t think you even have to be a Hayley Kiyoko fan to watch this and realize how goddamn cool this must feel.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlTfk6YHwub/?taken-by=parisjackson
Ah yes, my favorite genre of Instagram photo, in which a person asks someone else to take a “candid” photo of them either sleeping or staring wistfully out a window.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlLZxXhhs-A/?taken-by=st_vincent
I will dream about Annie and Carrie getting back together forever and you can’t stop me.
Come on, you laughed.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BlN4m5RnAvA/?taken-by=kehlani
Anyway Kehlani and I are dating now.
Join us next week, for hopefully more excellent Demi Lovato humor.
30 Days of Carol: Day 5 – Let’s Talk About Carrie Brownstein’s Role in “Carol”
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There’s no denying that Carrie Brownstein is an artist. She writes, she acts, she sings, she plays, she fronts, and as the face of Sleater-Kinney – and to a certain degree, the riot grrl scene – has left her mark on the feminist movement. She is clearly someone with a vision, and while seeing it through is infuriatingly, effortlessly funny.
None of this shields her from the fact that her role in Carol had absolutely no business being there, and, in my opinion, came close to ruining the movie. You’ll remember (or will you?) Carrie Brownstein’s character as the potential suitor for Therese tucked into the tail end of the movie. Therese has just turned down Carol’s proposition that they move in together, and for a moment, if you hadn’t read the book, you might have worried Carrie’s character and sultry looks were on their way to steal your girl. The amount of time you worried, however, would have been for a full six seconds, as that was the amount of time this tension was allowed to linger. And so what was the point?
Imagine telling people you were going to be in this major Hollywood film that was the first mainstream-mainstream story about two gay women being in love and be playing Rooney Mara’s love interest, and after being on set for days on end having the final result be like, “Op, yeah, if you can see that speck of an outline of a human woman’s body from across the street, and then that set of eyes from across that crowded room – that’s me.” Fellow Carol stan and The L Word cosplayer Stephanie Ritter likes to remind me that SHE HAD A MORE SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN THE BOOK AND ALSO IN THE SCREENPLAY AND THEY FILMED MORE SCENES WITH HER BUT THEY WERE JUST SAVAGELY EDITED OUT. Okay? This is the final cut of the movie! Either give us a few fully-realized scenes or get out!
Carrie’s role is a concert performance where someone is just wailing on a jazz sax and the crowd is loving it and then – to, I don’t know, mix it up in case people wanted variety – a person playing the recorder appears front and center with their mic turned all the way up. Everyone’s like, “What?” but also still vibing because the overall feel of the song is still there with the jazz sax in the background, and then, as suddenly and mysteriously as they appeared, they dissolve into the shadows while the jazz sax takes us home.
Carrie’s role is when you’re first learning to write an essay and you’ve said all you need to say but you’re about 75 words short of the requirement and so you start in on what is essentially an entirely new thesis, maybe even one that contradicts your original one, and only give it three vaguely-supporting sentences before dropping it and moving on to your conclusion paragraph.
Carrie’s role is a second wind chime. The first one is doing its job, and then here comes the second one with a different swing slash chime rate throwing off the first one’s rhythm, and where before it was a pleasant experience, it is now a frantic one. Obviously, you’re in a position where your only concern is the amount of wind chimes sounding in your general area, so ultimately things are pretty great, but could it have been… better.
It’s an opinion, and it’s legal to have one. “Change my mind” in the comments.
OK Guys, Which Celesbian Is The New St Vincent Song About?
Late Thursday night, celestial creature and Vapid Fluff regular St Vincent released her latest song, downtrodden ballad “New York.” You’ve heard it; your ex sent it to you that night, followed by a ? emoji.
“New York isn’t New York without you, love / So far in a few blocks to be so low / And if I call you from First Avenue / Where you’re the only motherfucker in this city who can handle me,” Clark sings mournfully, and the entire world stops. I’m not even a huge St Vincent fan and this song completely ruined me.
So who’s the song about? Clark has famously dated musician/actress Carrie Brownstein, model/actress Cara Delevingne and actress/sulkmonster Kristen Stewart (she was also rumored to be involved with musician Lissy Trullie in or around 2009). Is the song about heartbreaker Carrie Brownstein? Both performers are notoriously private, and although tabloids love to speculate about the breakup being less than amicable, little is known about their relationship or its demise.
(Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/VF13/WireImage)
Of these, it seems that her most intense relationship was with Delevingne, with whom Clark was rumored to be engaged; the two seem to have remained good friends. As far as we know, all clues seem to point in this direction.
“New love wasn’t true love, back to you, love / So much for a home run with some blue bloods / If I last-strawed you on Eighth Avenue / Where you’re the only motherfucker in the city who can stand me.” Story checks out!
Remember when Cara and Annie broke up and then Annie was almost immediately spotted walking down Astor Place with Kristen Stewart in matchy-matchy outfits? And then five minutes later that relationship was over too, and Cara and Annie were seen out together in LA? I do.
https://twitter.com/ridll/status/808919690189926400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fperezhilton.com%2F2016-12-14-kristen-stewart-cara-delevingne-stella-maxwell-st-vincent-spotted
“New York isn’t New York without you, love / Too few of our old crew left on Astor / So if I trade our ‘hood for some Hollywood / Where you’re the only motherfucker in the city who would / Only motherfucker in the city who would / Only motherfucker in the city who’d forgive me.”
Cara, if you’re out there, don’t fuck it up.
No Filter: Carrie Brownstein, Take It Down A Notch
Welcome back to No Filter, your weekly dose of celebrity Instagram with a side of whatever Kristen Stewart’s been doing with herself (this week, it was wearing Chanel to a Chanel Oscars party). This week, everybody went to the Oscars and it was very impressive and we found out that Caitlyn Jenner and Andreja Pejic are not dating (we didn’t even think they were, but OK!).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRAd00MDNQp/
Look at this perfect queen eating chocolate in a limo. Janelle’s overall Oscar season Instagram situation has been really top notch.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRAKvO2jSKl/
Carrie Brownstein wore this insanely perfect suit to a Sleater-Kinney show in Portland and none of us are ever going to look this good in a blazer so we might as well give up now.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ–I49jWcO/
DANIELLE BROOKS YOU CAN KEEP THE GIRLS UP ALL NIGHT IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN.
#Transparent's @tracelysette is here! #SpiritAwards pic.twitter.com/OQdfCsNx1H
— IFC (@IFC) February 25, 2017
Trace Lysette, you need to calm down. I am actually upset by how long I’ve been watching this gif.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQ36i6sjGLK/
Evan Rachel Wood is high again. Girl, it’s a cheetah.
Listen, I don’t know anything about knitting but I know that I am obsessed with this sweater Jasika Nicole made.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BREh7DKgFAj/
El Sanchez is here to inquire about the businessperson’s special.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRAQHHyl0DZ/
You know what we haven’t been covering nearly enough of in this column? Sara Quin’s cat drinking a La Croix.
Join us next week, when I’d like to have a better understanding of who exactly Danielle Brooks is taping up. Is it me? I hope it’s me.
No Filter: Gabby Rivera Joins The A-List
Welcome back to No Filter, in which we dissect the week in celebrity Instagram. This week, I’ve been very busy cataloging all of Kristen Stewart’s recent outfit choices in an effort to unlock the subliminal messages she’s been sending out into the world. Some other (more famous) people have been much more productive. Let’s get to it.
There are dozens of amazing photos of Brittani Nichols looking sharp at various screenings of Suicide Kale to choose from, but I chose this one because it was in New York and I’d like to encourage her to come here more often.
MORE LIKE “CARRIE: THIS BOOK” AMIRITE?!?!?
This is as gay as a DJ booth can possibly be. We have reached peak gay. The other gay DJs can go home.
What if you went on a rollercoaster with Ellen Page? What would that be like?
How about this picture of former Autostraddle writer and current dream person Gabrielle Korn eating this taco loco? For the uninitiated, it’s a hard taco inside a soft taco with like, beans or guac or cheese or something in the middle, it’s a whole thing. Also, the rules of New York City clearly state that it can only be consumed in the dead of night after an evening of debauchery. Anyway, hey Gabrielle, you look pretty.
What if I only post Autostraddle writers past and present named Gabrielle today? Here’s famous author Gabby Rivera and one of her fans.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BL-q7ohg1-4/
If you want Ruby Rose to fall in love with you, you should get her sardines.
So much of Jiz Lee’s feed right now is posts encouraging California residents to vote no on Prop 60, and if you live in California you should vote no on Prop 60! Also this is a great post.
Here’s St Vincent two years ago, probably wishing this flower would eventually turn into her current girlfriend Kristen Stewart. I begin each day reading about Kristen Stewart and Annie Clark’s antics. Recently, they bought dog food. Dreams do come true!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLmeLAYDBOP/
Someone last week asked if we could include Ria Mae in this week’s No Filter and I’m a people pleaser so I’m just gonna leave this here.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BLxtK1CBtxl/
Are you fucking kidding me right now?
Join us next week, when for all we know Gabby Rivera will be hanging with Gwyneth Paltrow or whatever.
No Filter: Carrie Brownstein And Abbi Jacobson Are A Thing, Huh?
feature image via Getty
Hello, dear reader, and welcome back to another edition of No Filter, the most serious and academic column on all of Autostraddle dot com. Generally speaking, we are here to dissect the week in celebrity Instagram, and I bet you thought I was going to be talking about Samira Wiley and Lauren Morelli’s engagement this week?! Well we will, but not yet. the biggest story of the week as far as I am concerned is Lindsay Lohan’s traumatic boating injury, in which the actress (who currently does not identify as bisexual despite having been half of the Greatest Queer Couple Of Our Time) lost part of one her fingers to a motor.
According to the Huffington Post, the end of Lindsay’s finger was recovered by friends (don’t click that, it’s awful) and later surgically reattached. She has since been making grim jokes about taking one-handed selfies and tweeting about the exact nature of her injury, so we think she’s gonna be alright. Lindsay, girl, you’ve had a rough go of it over the past couple of months and we sincerely wish you a speedy recovery.
Yeah, yeah, these two knuckleheads got engaged. Small consolation for what happened to Poussey, Morelli. We haven’t forgotten.
Abbi and Carrie are DEFINITELY DOIN’ IT, right? Right. My sources on the ground in Portland tell me that these two have been canoodling up a storm; I can’t believe I’ve become the kind of person who says things like “canoodling up a storm.” I can’t believe I have sources on the ground in Portland. Anyway, Abbi’s Instagram seems to imply she’s spending a lot of time with Carrie’s dogs and you all know what that means.
Our favorite eyebrow Cara Delevigne hung out with this tiger a couple of weeks ago and we missed it cos we were too busy trying to figure out if she’d broken up with St Vincent or not (seems like she has). Did Annie break up with Cara over those dumb braids she wore at Burning Man or what? Remember when Cara dated fellow problematic dummy Michelle Rodriguez and they met some illegal wild animals together? Seems like Cara’s really into using big cats as a coping mechanism. Anyway, love is still a lie, take that Riese!
In the meantime, Annie’s still too busy to take her calls. Between you and me, I’m into this breakup; it gives Annie the freedom to date other people, like (just a suggestion) a different Cara.
Brittani Nichols, lord and saviour of the A-Camp Midwest Dead Lesbian And Bisexual Television Character Haunted Hayride, a real thing that happened.
Breaking, Laura Jane Grace is a nerd.
Be Steadwell came to camp and taught this songwriting workshop and was a babe and everybody handled it just fine, everything’s fine.
Ellen Page has been spending a lot of time with creamed spinach enthusiast Rooney Mara’s sister Kate, who I mostly recognize from American Horror Story: Murder House but will now forever associate with this cute picture.
Join us next week, when Annie Clark answers her phone… and finds love of her life Cara Giaimo on the other end.
No Filter: Ellen Page Is Consistently Canadian
Welcome back to No Filter, in which we dissect the week in celebrity Instagram. This week in celebrities who refuse to give me their private Instagram accounts, Kristen Stewart went and got some food in LA with her girlfriend and was described by the Daily Mail as “out and proud.” Did we ever think we’d see the day?!?!? Anyway, here are some famous people who don’t care if you look at their feeds or not.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJbIXFcjG0e/
Amandla Stenberg doing a great job just casually being a regular person who isn’t an actual perfect angel.
In thumbnail form I assumed this was a mustache dress.
Who is Margot Robbie’s publicist and why is that person trying so hard to make me care about who Margot Robbie is?
Your #1 Canadian is back at it again, this time deeply identifying with a cardboard box.
This Against Me! video looks insane, and I think we know from insane Against Me! videos.
This picture is very special because it looks like Brittani is publicly shaming Carly and everyone else from the Suicide Kale cast is very, very into it.
I’m very into Carrie Brownstein directing. No snark, just actually into it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJapNeVhtOU/
How long have you been watching this video of Danielle Brooks dancing? Not long enough.
Lauren and Samira are going on a ROAAAAD TRIIIP… or probably just to the airport, whatever.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BJdi6SaA6hn/
Meredith Graves’ VMA coverage is a blessing.
Annie Clark will probably win all the VMAs anyway.
Join us next week, when the cast of Suicide Kale finally get to have a stern word with noted fashion photographer Robin Roemer.
No Filter: Kate McKinnon And Gillian Anderson Share An Interest In Hard Science
Hello, haunting white eggplants! If you’re anything like me, you spent this weekend dealing with your very intense emotions by going to see Ghostbusters in 3D by yourself. Also, you probably fell deeply in love with Kate McKinnon as Jillian Holtzmann, pansexual beast of my dreams. An image has been floating around the internet for quite some time featuring a very young Kate McKinnon dressed as Special Agent Dana Scully for Halloween, but that image received new life this week wheeeen:
Kate McKinnon, we have something in common & it's not slimy green things. #Ghostbusters #thefutureisfemale pic.twitter.com/5m00Xk5CET
— Gillian Anderson (@GillianA) July 18, 2016
The image of Dana Scully and Jillian Holtzmann gazing deeply into each others’ eyes over a Bunsen burner is forever engraved upon my heart.
Seriously, famous queer women hitting on each other via Twitter is my new favorite thing. In other Unattainable Bisexual News, Ke$ha is going on tour and Lady Gaga is single. As you were.
The internet’s been sort of exploding over the new Against Me! single and album, on top of Laura’s friggin’ adorable relationship with Coeur de Pirate’s Beatrice Martin. That said, I’d like to focus this week on this incredibly intricate and beautifully done tattoo on Laura’s leg. Also, allow me to take a moment to say damn, Laura.
There is literally a rainbow floating above the rainbow unicorn Lauren Morelli and Samira Wiley are riding through this pool, but that’s OK, no big deal.
HEY DID YOU KNOW HER STORY GOT NOMINATED FOR AN EMMY?!??!!? WELL IT DID.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BH-XzjUDka2/
Suicide Kale won the Audience Award and Brittani Nichols won the People’s Choice for Cute Smiles Award.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BH7pglZAWX1/
Just thought you guys would like to know about this very attractive situation, since their Insta is just screenshots of Pokemon Go now.
Even wonky-eyed Ellen Page is pretty adorable.
Very important celesbian dog Kimberly, reading No Filter for a very MC Escher-esque effect.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BH_T8CUgshz/
Carrie Brownstein caught you this tiny frog.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BH6DXM9j02O/
Mey’s girlfriend Demi Lovato is allegedly hooking up with some MMA guy but she’s probably thinking about Mey here.
Please join us next week, when this column will probably be exclusively Pokemon Go screenshots for all I know.
No Filter: Some Important Dogs
Welcome back to No Filter, where we keep our fingers firmly on the pulse of all the most important happenings in celebrity Instagram culture. This week, I’m on a mountain with a few hundred of my closest friends, so I can’t stay super up to date with everything going on in Lena Waithe’s life (unless she shows up at A-Camp and asks me to camp prom, in which case I say YES). In lieu of that, I present to you a collection of my favorite dogs. I hope you’re OK with that, and if you’re not, I don’t really have wifi on the mountain so complain allll you want.
Kate Moennig’s three-legged chihuahua Floyd ponders his own existence.
https://www.instagram.com/p/_eidTshFbS/
This is a pug puppy I don’t know staring at Laneia’s wife Megan the same way I often stare at Megan.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BE4KZDMCzNO/
Samantha Ronson adopted a brand new English bulldog puppy named Thunder, and Thunder is adorable and squeaks.
Classic Duncan.
One of Nylon Digital Editorial Director Gabrielle Korn’s dog Kimberly’s eyes is bigger than the other one and I think I have liked every single picture of her that exists on the whole internet.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BASQc0LRx4D/
Carrie Brownstein has easily the handsomest dogs of this entire post.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBs0qh8p4-X/
Riese and her fiancée Abby got like, the smooshiest dog anybody has ever owned, and this is the only picture I could find where Fancy looked like she might be awake.
Pretty much all Ellen Page ever posts is pictures of her girlfriend and her dog Patter. I probably would too.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BEcu4dEhFdU/
Laneia’s dog Penny is one of my favorite dogs of Instagram.
https://www.instagram.com/p/9g1g8bKy2I/
I’m still trying to understand Snapchat, but my favorite thing on Snapchat so far is the saga of Yvonne’s dog Tungi trying to learn how to walk in dog shoes. Here he is adapting much more readily to life as a lion.
https://www.instagram.com/p/4N9e_fLmp_/
Remember when Angel Haze and Ireland Baldwin adopted this handsome wolf? I probably miss this dog more than I miss most of my exes. Has anybody seen him? Is he OK? Does he miss me too?
Join us next week, when we get back on track with up-to-date celebrity happenings.
No Filter: Carrie Brownstein Rolls Deep
Welcome back to No Filter, the most important part of a nutritious breakfast. This week, Autostraddle went to the GLAAD Awards and met a lot of celebrities, which I won’t post here because it’s cheating (but trust me, it was great).
This is what your girlfriend Lena Waithe looks like with Autostraddle’s design director Alex Vega at the GLAAD Awards. It’s very casual and not a big deal at all; honestly it’s about time your girlfriend Lena Waithe started meeting your friends.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDsDoyRRx4G/
Carrie Brownstein went above and beyond to prove that all of Carmen’s favorite people know each other. Carrie Brownstein is the queen of Brunches I’d Like To Attend Someday.
Queen Latifah is really into home improvement, I guess.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDpgXcqwcYN/
Soko giving Chuckie Doll vibes in this chilling video.
Samira’s been really killing it in the cute selfie department this week, but this is the post I’ve been thinking about the most.
Cara Delevingne thinking thoughts at the Eiffel Tower, probably about that time she and St. Vincent allegedly got engaged there. Seriously though, she opened up a lot about mental health this week (and so did Ruby Rose!) and that is awesome.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BDzdss5QTXf/
Probably Carly.
Join us next week, when your girlfriend Lena Waithe will finally meet your mom.
No Filter: Oh My God Danielle Brooks
Welcome back to No Filter, in which we unpack the week’s celebrity social media like a pack of hyenas tearing apart a zebra. All week long, famous people post flattering photographs of themselves in vivid Valencia, and we collect said images and pore over them as though we were meaningfully involved in said celebrities’ lives. It’s extremely fulfilling. Let’s hop to it!
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCnobJ0pqK2/
I cannot handle Danielle Brooks right now and hereby award her this week’s coveted Crush of the Week Award.
Sarah Paulson maybe got a trim, maybe got an alternative lifestyle haircut, maybe is a total weirdo who walks around hair salons and steals the discarded clippings off the floor (Update: she got a cute trim, not the Marcia Clark Makeover Special).
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCmgYu9xx_s/
For #squawkgoals, Carrie Brownstein gets a gold star this week.
Samira you are actually killing me.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BCjanTGi4Js/
This might be one of the gayest photos I have ever posted in this entire column, which is saying a lot. Thanks, Kaki King!
Ran into this little lady the other day! @KREAYSHAWN pic.twitter.com/IoxR1iumf9
— Danny Trejo (@officialDannyT) March 8, 2016
When Danny Trejo brags about meeting YOU, you’ve really made it, kid. Someone please tell me Kreayshawn will be in the next Machete movie.
As a longtime America’s Next Top Model fan I’m personally pretty excited to see Isis King, but everybody’s look is on point here.
Just thought you might need to look at Jiz Lee and their trainer’s biceps today. Jiz Lee goes to a queer gym?!?! This is almost inspiring me to exercise.
What would you do if you saw Camila Grey leaning against a wall, casually twirling her chapstick?
Join us next week, when hopefully we’ll find out what’s going on with Sarah Paulson’s hair, among other pressing issues.
No Filter: Bette And Shane Celebrate Dana Being Miraculously Alive
Welcome back to No Filter, a weekly collection of Instagram posts by queers of note, tirelessly sifted through by yours truly. In an ideal world, we would mix it up every week and have different stories to tell, but if we’re getting real I want to know what Samira Wiley is up to every week, and I think you do too. That said, if anybody has suggestions for more nonbinary or trans women, particularly people of color, that we could follow for this column I would love you forever.
Also this week in Evan Rachel Wood Watch, our lady of Dubsmash posted this super cute video of herself with Alia Shawkat and Angela Trimbur lip syncing Miley Cyrus, so let’s not act like the internet hasn’t been generous. I just need this one thing.
https://twitter.com/evanrachelwood/status/694365077655302144
We’re going to take the time to appreciate Samira and Lauren looking incredible on the red carpet, while lamenting the perfect photo Samira posted and then deleted of herself luxuriating over a pile of fast food french fries post-award show. I like these two. I like their award show traditions.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBK9RpaRxxz/
Heather Hogan, this one’s for you.
This is what your girlfriend Lena Waithe looks like when you guys just kick back and relax on a Sunday afternoon.
Dana is ALIVE and hugging Shane and Bette is curiously undeterred by this visit from the undead.
One day I dream of a love so true that my person will celebrate my birth by posting pictures of cats, sandwiches and donuts. This tribute to Ingrid Nilsen from Hannah Hart is very sweet.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBNzGeCrmis/
Keep it classy, Angel Haze.
Jenny Owen Youngs’ hands perfectly capture how it feels to hear a story about Sex and the City from Carly.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBStOiFQqTk/
I don’t know, you guys, we haven’t checked in with Kreayshawn in a while – maybe it’s been too long (this is a video, worth watching).
Jenny Shimizu discovered the true spirit of Christmas.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BBTU0DwJTvj/
Really into making new friends with this person at A-Camp, looks like we have a lot in common.
Join us next week, when Kreayshawn uses her time machine to figure out whose hair Jenny Shimizu found in the snow, among other mysteries.
No Filter: Amandla Stenberg Steals Your Date, Looks Adorable Doing It
Welcome back to No Filter, a collection of rare butterfly specimens meticulously pinned to a board. This has been an eventful week for my celebrity friends (They’re not really my friends but like, at this point I’d like to think we’re at least acquaintances, you know?). Also, the Golden Globes happened and some people won awards or dressed up or whatever. Why tell you when I can just show you? Let’s get started.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAS4NUWm1Zq/
Amandla Stenberg, welcome to No Filter. We’ve been waiting for you.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAYl_Nvxx8W/
Carrie Brownstein and Kathryn Hahn are hanging out at the Golden Globes, talking about all the ways a fictional manbaby named Josh has hurt their feelings.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAI4jZCLmmo/
OMG GET A ROOM YOU GUYS.
Laura Jane Grace’s sink looks just like mine and I’m not even writing a book, just this column.
If you were a leopard in a tree who happened to be thinking about dropping a deer on Samira Wiley, your view would look a lot like this.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAWBNKOMZX5/
Ruby Rose is haunted.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAcx6GeDKIR/
Remember when Cara Delevingne got Annie Clark that guitar signed by Bowie and won all the girlfriend awards? Cara does, and this is actually very sweet. All of the commenters pointing out that it was not Wednesday when she posted this are jerks.
Jill Soloway brought Eileen Myles as her Golden Globes date and it was a wonderful day for blazers everywhere.
Ellen Page is levitating above her girlfriend. Probably this is Ruby Rose’s fault.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BAJKNveGFZ4/
I just really, really needed this today.
Join us next week, when the ghost of Ruby Rose takes on all the shitty commenters on Ellen Page and Cara Delevingne’s Instagram accounts.
No Filter: Kate Moennig, Angel Haze, Ellen Page And The Dogs Who Love Them
Welcome back to a very special edition of No Filter, the most hard-hitting regular feature of Autostraddle dot com. Have you been reading the news? Have you gone outside? Are you currently experiencing winter? If so, you’re probably pretty depressed, so this week I’m pleased to present a No Filter comprised almost entirely of cute puppies. Don’t say I never did anything for you.
https://instagram.com/p/-3-Gvcrmin/
Really missing my feed being mostly a steady stream of Angel Haze gushing about their beautiful rescue husky, but this adorable pit sorta makes up for it.
I won’t tell you how many times I’ve watched this.
Please click on this picture to enjoy a video of Ellen Page’s dog Patter typing replies to Brendan and Stella.
Lauren Morelli’s dog Duncan presumably had his bar mitzvah pretty recently.
Does your dog ever look kind of embarrassed to be seen in public with you?
https://instagram.com/p/-0cSxwxx4m/
Carrie Brownstein has some truly adorable dogs, and Sleater-Kinney has a truly adorable touring guitarist.
https://instagram.com/p/_BSsvBq6XH/
Brittani and Bandit are my favourite couple on Instagram.
https://instagram.com/p/-2j2TbN12K/
Jamie Clayton’s dog is significantly less animated than the rest, I guess.
I searched far and wide for a recent post of Danielle Brooks with a dog but instead I found this adorable baby picture, which is just as good.
https://instagram.com/p/-4eYlPH_p4/
Mostly for the caption, really.
Beth Ditto is just really pretty, you guys. She needs no dog.
Join us next week, when this entire column becomes our first annual celebration of the myriad accomplishments of Tegan and Sara’s cats.
No Filter: Lena Waithe Got You An Americano, Left Room For Almond Milk
Welcome back to No Filter, where we give thanks for all the pictures Tegan and Sara posted of their cats this year. This week, Samira Wiley didn’t post any good selfies because she doesn’t love me and doesn’t want me to be happy, but that’s OK because a lot of other celebrities took carefully-curated photos of their mega-glamorous private lives and posted them on the internet for their adoring fans. There are enough heart-eye emojis to go around. Let’s start things off by objectifying Brittani Nichols and go from there.
https://instagram.com/p/-NxW2Sq6W8/
I would be remiss if we didn’t kick things off with a sample of how goddamn goodlooking Brittani Nichols looks in her festive new Autostraddle sweater.
Not pictured: Leisha Hailey’s upstairs neighbor banging on the floor and threatening to call the cops.
https://instagram.com/p/-LR1r7sZZZ/
I just keep picturing Ruby Rose’s assistant or friend or whoever when she was like, “Hey, can you take a picture of me staring pensively out the window real quick? I wanna look deep in thought.” Caption this, GO.
https://instagram.com/p/-W14rCRdqp/
Janet Mock met Tyler Ford and THIS IS HOW CUTE IT WAS.
https://instagram.com/p/-ab6QHRx9M/
Sleater-Kinney met Shamir. I mean, Shamir met Sleater-Kinney. Everybody in this picture is a winner.
https://instagram.com/p/-cLJD4GFdu/
At long last, I can finally tell Tegan and Sara apart.
https://instagram.com/p/-caU7rRA0G/
I’m here for Trace Lysette in this suit. BYE.
Jasika Nicole spent this week building her own weaving loom and making ceramics, so in her spare time she also helped mastermind this very unsettling gluten-free fabric. We get it, Jasika, you’re good at everything forever.
Lastly, here is your girlfriend Lena Waithe. Here’s what she would look like if she took you on a coffee date. She’d put her arm around you while you waited in line for the barista, she’d double check to make sure they used almond milk in your latte, and she’d be a good tipper. I can just tell.
Join us next week, when Leisha Hailey learns the mandolin and strums it gently beneath your bedroom window.
2015 OUT 100 Honors Roxane Gay, Abby Wambach, Hannah Hart, Other Women You Have Crushes On
The Out 100, an annual celebration of glamorously-photographed queer excellence, debuted today with a pretty rad assortment of LGBTQ folks. In the past, the Out 100 was notorious for not only skewing wildly white and male but for always putting straight cis people on the cover. However, the straight-cover-star years appear to be behind us, and this year’s list has quite a lot of women, trans folks and people of color. (Some of your favorites don’t show up ’cause you got them last year, like Samira Wiley, Ellen Page, Lena Waithe and Evan Rachel Wood.)
99 of the Out 100 honorees are now available for your appreciation at their website. #100, their cover star, will be unveiled tomorrow. It’s not me, in case you’re wondering. I mean, it might be me, but it’s probably not me. I feel like it’s gonna be Laverne Cox. Who wants to put money on it.
The Out 100 Press Release emphasized that Caitlyn Jenner has been honored as Newsmaker of the Year. This feels like an accurate assessment as Caitlyn Jenner did, indeed, make a great deal of news this year.
Ryan Pfluger for OUT Magazine
Other women earning high honors include:
Carrie Brownstein
She of Portlandia, Transparent, Sleater-Kinney and your sexual dreams, is Artist of the Year. She just wrote a book called Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, I bet you’d like it.
“There’s always been a strain of humility in my work, a relationship to what is awkward and the ways I feel like I don’t belong. I don’t value a way of living that protects me from grit and dirtiness and messiness.”
Photography by Ryan Pfluger at Tribeca Journal Studio, New York, on October 5, 2015. Styling by Michael Cook. Hair: Rheanne White. Makeup: Kim Bower. Dress by Michael Kors.
Abby Wambach
She just retired much to our collective sadness and is OUT’s Athlete of the Year:
“I feel so lucky, because when I was first on the team, there were really no gay people. The girls were like, ‘No, we’re straight.’ They had long hair and ponytails. And now you see this eclectic group of people from all different places, who are different colors, with different preferences. That’s the thing I’m most proud of.”
Photography by Ryan Pfluger at Milk Studios, new york, on October 6, 2015. Styling by Michael Cook. Hair: Naivasha at Exclusive Artists management. Makeup: Angela DiCarlo. Shirt and pants by Nike. via out magazine
Alicia Garza
Alicia Garza is the co-founder of Black Lives Matter and special projects director for the National Domestic Worker’s Alliance:
“To see how black people all over the world have embraced Black Lives Matter is awe-inspiring. The best moments are when black people stop me in the street and share with me the impact that BLM has had on their lives and on their faith that another world is actually possible.”
Photography by Ryan Pfluger in Washington, D.C., on October 5, 2015
The “Fun Home” Family: Alison Bechdel, Roberta Colindrez, Beth Malone, Joel Perez, Lisa Kron
Alison Bechdel told Out Magazine:
“It’s not about sex, it’s about identity — which is perhaps even more threatening. In the play it’s a brilliant thing, but to reach that broader audience of people watching television? Who knows what the average viewer thought? Even if it’s not about sexuality, but about a child having awareness and subjective power, it’s kind of revolutionary.”
Photography by Ryan Pfluger in brooklyn, on September 1, 2015. Styling by Marc Anthony George. Hair and Makeup: Angela DiCarlo. Roberta Colindrez: Jacket by Elie Tahari available at Bloomingdale’s, Pants by Reiss available at Bloomingdale’s. Joel Perez: Suit, shirt, and tie by Prada, Shoes by Florsheim.
Roxane Gay
Roxane Gay is your favorite Bad Feminist.
“It’s OK to believe in your voice. And to use it.”
Photography by Ryan Pfluger. Photographed in Beverly Hills on August 19, 2015.
The full list includes lots your fave babes, like actresses Hannah Hart, Lily Tomlin and Cynthia Nixon. Mya Taylor and Kitana Kiki Rodriguez of “Tangerine” also ranked, as did trans activists Bamby Salcedo, Breanna Sinclairé, Jennicet Gutiérrez and Jen Richards. Also they included Roland Emmerich, who made a terrible movie called Stonewall, maybe you’ve heard of it. You can check out the full list here.
Pop Culture Fix: Carrie Brownstein Is Kinda Cool On Colbert, Cara Delevingne Is F*cking Terrifying In Suicide Squad
Welcome to the pop culture fix, your weekly dose of important news related to — you guessed it — pop culture!
Queer People, Out And About
+ Carrie Brownstein is doing the rounds promoting her memoir, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl, and so last night she stopped by Colbert to talk about being a kickass musician and also a person who does “talky talk.” He asked if she was cool and she answered him so charmingly, because of course she did. She also talked about her passion for the Somber Grrrl movement and announced her new solo album, O Dreary, Baneful Morning. (I didn’t mention this in my Carol review, but Brownstein has a brief cameo in the film.) (Also, just in case you’re worried, the meat of her memoir is Sleater-Kinney.) (And she’s doing an AMA on Tumblr today.) It’s Carrie Brownstein Month, basically, is what I am saying.
+ Ruby Rose hosted MTV’s European Music Awards on Saturday night in Milan. When she was introducing Duran Duran, she addressed the audience as “Ladies and gentlemen and everyone in between,” and even though the internet went bananas for it — because who even hints at talking about gender fluidity on TV ever? No one, that’s who — the U.S. re-broadcast cut the line out. MTV said it was because they needed to get the show down to two hours, which is maybe true since they edited out Duran Duran’s entire performance. I don’t know. MTV makes me tired. Remember when they kept saying “girl beef” at the VMA’s this year, and like trying to get all the female performers to do impromptu naked oil wrestling or whatever? I’m a thousand years old.
Anyway, Ruby Rose looked great that night! I think she tired to burn down the patriarchy with flamethrower!
+ Would you like to take a look around Ellen’s horse ranch? Would you like to see her talk to Matt Lauer about how she’s Dr. Evil? You can do both of those things, thanks to the Today Show.
+ The legendary Sylvia Rivera is the first trans person to have a portrait in the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. From the museum:
Luis Carle’s photograph, taken the Saturday before the 2000 Gay Pride Parade in New York City, depicts Sylvia Rivera (1951–2002), a transgender person who was a leading figure in the quest for LGBTQ rights. Rivera sits in the center of the photograph, between her partner Julia Murray (right) and Christina Hayworth. The three women are shown, hands interlocked, sitting on a stone wall with a sign at their feet that reads “Respect Trans People/Men!” The photograph captures a somewhat atypical scene for Pride Weekend. Rather than the bustling energy of the parade with crowds and celebration, this captures a moment of tranquil friendship and unity. The three women are shown joined together in the movement to ensure equal protection for the transgender community. As a Latina who spent much of her life homeless, Rivera was particularly sensitive to the struggles of trans people of color and those living in poverty.
Teevee
+ GLAAD has released its annual Where We Are On TV report, and it’s pretty optimistic this year! They counted 271 LGBT TV characters across various platforms, 35 of which are regular characters on primetime TV. The problems, of course, are the complete lack of diversity among those characters. Bisexual characters, for example, almost all reinforce negative stereotypes. And most of those 271 characters are white gay men. The report likes The Fosters and Orange Is the New Black best of all, which makes sense because they’re actually diverse and actually awesome. If you have time, flip through the whole report. Even if you just want to look at the charts. It’s fascinating.
+ Y’all, Fox is remaking The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which: fine blah blah whatever. But the main thing is that Laverne Cox has been cast as Frank-N-Furter!
+ Netflix has finally released the full trailer for Jessica Jones (a show that will feature three queer characters), and it is dark as fuck. Like Dark Knight dark.
+ If you are one of the five people in the United States of America who did not watch the Supergirl pilot, you can download it for free on iTunes. And you should. You should do that. It’s a sweet and awkward and self-assured show about a lady superhero who cares about her career and her bond with her sister and beating the hell out of bad guys. I love it. (It’s sort of the anti-Dark Knight.)
+ Despite bleeding viewers toward the end of the first season, I Am Cait has been picked up for one more go. E! announced its renewal yesterday. I’ll bet you five dollars it’s going to be suuuuper Kardashian-heavy going forward.
+ Soon-to-be Freeform is releasing new promos for the upcoming Six-Year Time-Jump season of Pretty Little Liars. I wish I were more excited about it. One thing that makes me happy is there’s a photo floating around from the 6B premiere of Ezra having like a full-on psychotic break. I hope the Liars fuse together like some Steven Universe Gems and punch his head off his body.
Movies
+ Cara Delevingne’s Suicide Squad Enchantress has been revealed, and she is legitimately terrifying.
“She’s an ancient sorceress,” says the star. “A feral being. She’s been trapped for so long and now she’s finally let out.” The hapless human whom Enchantress takes over is June Moone, who finds more than she bargained for while exploring a creepy cave. “June is an adventure-seeker who’s always wanted some excitement. And she gets what she wished for, in an terrible way.”
+ Oh, you know, just another study showing that women with boss jobs on TV/film sets means more women behind-the-scenes on that set, full stop.
Pop Culture Fix: The Good Gay News From New York Comic Con and More Zesty Stories
Autostraddle’s Pop Culture Fix is a weekly round-up of the queer arts and entertainment news you need in your life.
New York Comic Con
This year was my first NYCC (and also maybe my last because I contracted what I think might be the actual plague there), and I was very pleased with the queer pop culture news that came out of the weekend.
+ Person of Interest is really, truly going there with Root and Shaw in the final season. This is a huge deal! With the singular exception of Santana and Brittany on Glee, no TV show has decided to explore a romantic storyline with two established female characters who accidentally have sizzling chemistry. It happens all the time with male/female pairings when TV writers stumble onto that rare on-screen spark they didn’t anticipate, but for female/female pairings, we get the Rizzoli & Isles treatment.
During the POI panel, Sarah Shahi said:
It’s incredibly important for [the LGBT community] to have role models—to have someone on TV they can empathize and emulate and find strength in. I’m so happy to work with this lovely lady, and I want to thank [the writers] for the storytelling. It has been one of the most fulfilling things, to be a voice I feel is underrepresented.
The future is now.
+ Netflix screened the first episode of Jessica Jones and it was even better than I imagined! Carrie-Anne Moss does, indeed, play a gender-flipped Jeryn Hogarth. She has a girlfriend. Also, she has a mistress. Also, the pilot hints very strongly that Jessica Jones herself is bisexual and was, at one time, in a relationship with Trish Walker. And look at what Moss told Entertainment Weekly about Hogarth’s relationship with Jones:
“They’re not friends but they need each other,” Moss said of Hogarth’s relationship with Jessica Jones during an interview with EW. “They come to each other in these scenes, and there’s a lot of back and forth and bad flirtation at times, in life. They’re funny together and can’t stand each other. It’s interesting.”
The series lands on November 20th!
+ The Pretty Little Liars panel at NYCC was interesting. For starters, someone dressed like Red Coat shoved me out of the way to get my seat. But that wasn’t even the most Rosewood role play of the day. No, the most Rosewood role play of the day came when the 50-year-old men in the crowd started screaming at the Liars to love them and marry them, even though they’re all half those guys’ ages.
Here are the first four minutes of the season 6B premiere; it screened at the panel.
Y’all know I have loved this show and have a lot of affection for so many of the people who make it, but I don’t have a great feeling about what’s coming.
Teevee
+ CBS has ordered a comedy pilot from Liz Feldman.
+ Laneia mentioned this in Monday’s AAA, but it bears repeating: Cartoon Network is planning an eight-part Adventure Time mini-series focusing on Marceline the (Queer) Vampire Queen!
+ It feels like this rebooted female-led version of Paradise Island has to include a couple of lesbians, right?
+ VH1 is hosting a panel called LHH: Out in Hip Hop. It’s about being openly gay in the hip hop community.
Film
+ Dope is out on Blu Ray, DVD, and VOD today. It’s one of my favorite movies of the year, in large part because it features one of the most refreshing lesbian characters in film.
+ Jennifer Lawrence wrote an essay about Hollywood’s gender pay inequality problem, and everyone loved it.
+ The trailer for Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is so much better than it has a right to be!
https://youtu.be/QWr3mLI8Xl8
Queer Folks
+ This is a really good interview with Ellen Page. Here is an excerpt:
To experience being in love and get to live my life, hold my partner’s hand, bring her to the premiere of the film, go down the red carpet — it’s all these firsts in my life. I’m like, “This is the first time I’m in an out relationship in an airplane!” That might sound so insignificant to a lot of people, but probably not to a lot of people in the LGBT community because they would understand. I can’t tell you how special it is. It’s really extraordinary, and I feel really lucky.
+ Hey, you can read an excerpt from Carrie Brownstein’s new book, Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl: A Memoir, in The New Yorker. It’s about her father coming out as gay and it is some gorgeous prose.
No Filter Pregamed For The Emmys With Samira Wiley, Carrie Brownstein and Brittani Nichols
Welcome to No Filter, the most intellectually stimulating and psychologically rewarding column on all of Autostraddle dot com. This week, everybody walked a red carpet and looked glamorous and presumably hobnobbed with one another. You might have heard about it! Otherwise, they’ve been lounging in the park with their gal pals, walking their tiny dogs or wearing cute hats. Let’s hop to it:
Samira, Selenis and Diane are Taylor, Cee and me on the staff bus to A-Camp, apparently.
https://instagram.com/p/73jzn9xx_2/
Oh, just my dream date Carrie Brownstein squiring Miranda July to the Emmys, just a typical day.
https://instagram.com/p/71fWzShnge/
All of our favourite lesbians’ weirdo homo soccer league got cute uniforms!
Kate Moennig and Camila Grey didn’t get uniforms because they are injured. Ruby Rose didn’t get one because she’s on tour, slicking her hair back and staring intensely at people.
According to Riese, “I don’t even know if we are ready for what Ellen Page openly having a girlfriend means for us as a society.” She’s right. However, one thing it definitely means is more unsolicited opinions from brandon_jacob_34.
https://instagram.com/p/75qMKxRA6U/
Is it in bad taste for me as a neutral, responsible journalist to comment on how crazy hot Trace Lysette looked at the Emmys, like she does in this picture with Hari Nef? Because if so, I’ll leave it to you. I believe this is what esteemed Dr. Lizz Rubin would refer to as a “smokeshow.”
Fashion week lives.
https://instagram.com/p/743pqAK6fS/
I’d like to celebrate Brittani Nichols’ excellent post-Emmys look here. She describes it as “lesbian mobster,” only I read it as “lesbian monster” and kept thinking “aw, but she looks nice.”
https://instagram.com/p/74Z-JpJYBP/
Why, how’d you celebrate YOUR Emmy night?
https://instagram.com/p/70nitimFSL/
Tegan and Sara had a birthday and somebody got them these hats, portraits of the cats and an “IT’S TWINZ” banner. I hope they ate a lot of fried carbs.
Mainly posting this so that we can A) dream of a time when we would have asked the very dreamy young Tatum O’Neal to the A-Camp prom, B) speculate about wtf exactly is going on between her and Rosie and C) admire how adorable people her age are when they try to figure out things like “Throwback Thursday” (a previous post includes the hashtag #tbthursday). You’re so close, kid!
https://instagram.com/p/70xzdspc6Y/
Remember Lindsay Lohan? Well, she got locked in an elevator. Lindsay Lohan is reliving her days in the hit blockbuster smash Just My Luck these days.
Join us next week, when teen gumshoe Encyclopedia Brown investigates just who’s been putting bisexual former child stars in elevators around here.
No Filter Is On A Dinner Date With Samira Wiley And Carrie Brownstein’s Entire Coven
Welcome back to No Filter, where we collect examples of celebrity Instagram accounts in order to fill a hole deep within our souls. This weekend, I was treated to a very long car ride with a relative stranger who mentioned several times how shallow and stupid celebrity culture is and how proud she is that she doesn’t follow anything about it. Congratulations to that person, who is a liar and who is probably reading this column right now. Anyway, let’s talk about Instagram!
Camila Grey and Kate Moennig just woke up in what is apparently my dream house. After a cup of coffee, they’re probably headed out to play badminton in the park.
This adorable scamp.
Nothin’ worse than losing your tot, especially if said tot is Jenny Owen Youngs.
https://instagram.com/p/6_fJ7QGFWE/
Sara Quin posted a bunch of pictures of her cats this week but I thought I might switch it up and post a picture of her with Tegan instead, eating this giant pile of bread, animals and breaded animals.
Jasika Nicole and Brittani Nichols are hard at work on a thing! What is this thing?!? Surely we will learn in due time.
I can’t wait to see this movie and cry forever!
https://instagram.com/p/66GGnRLmnM/
Nobody loves a selfie quite like Angel Haze. My feed has become a lot less interesting since Ireland presumably took over custody of their dog.
https://instagram.com/p/7E99YSxx5l/
Carrie’s been posting pictures of herself hanging out with Kim Gordon, Amy Poehler and Aimee Mann for years and every single time she does, my whole body trembles with FOMO. I ache to eavesdrop on their brunch conversations.
https://instagram.com/p/7GXpfGRA2Z/
Surprise videos are the worst.
Maybe I printed out a lifesize version of this picture and eat dinner in front of it every night, while having imaginary conversations with my best friend Samira Wiley? Who’s to say? You can’t prove anything.
Join us next week, when my best friend Samira Wiley and I enjoy a lovely stir fry.