His Majesty, Prince of Pegging 👑
also, AirBnb's plantation problem
Oopsie🌼 alert: In case you’re wondering what happened to last week’s newsletter, here it is:
patreon: Finally, an excuse to share all the pegging studies I’ve been saving!
When I saw that #PrinceofPegging was trending on Twitter last week, I knew my golden opportunity had arrived. Back when I was prepping for the strap-ons and pegging episode earlier this year, I wasn’t expecting to find much in the way of academic research. Silly me. OF COURSE, gender and sexuality scholars had already come through with studies, like the perfectly titled ‘It’s Time to Ease Your Fears – and Your Sphincter’: Gender and Power in Contemporary Media Discourses of Heterosexual Anal Sex. 👏🏻👏🏻 But alas, there wasn’t enough room in the episode to discuss.
So while I typically wouldn’t waste your brainspace on deuxmoi blind items about the alleged sex lives of the British royal family, I made an exception—y’know, for research!
I also took the world’s worst Architectural Digest tour through the “slave quarters” and plantation “cottages” all over AirBnb, which . . .
THANK YOU, THANK YOU to this week’s newest Patreon supporters: Abby, Alexandra, Jill, Rachel, Shakezilla and Tabitha!!!! 💞
need to know:
PROUD OF Y’ALL, KANSAS! (Vox) An historic number of voters in the 🌻 state turned out to shut down a proposed amendment strip abortion rights from the state’s constitution.
Defund crisis pregnancy centers. (National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy) While pro-lifers love to hate on “the abortion industrial complex,” their anti-abortion clinics rake in 5x more funding than legit repro orgs.
Allez les femmes! (Cycling Weekly) After fits and starts and decades of sexist naysaying, the Tour de France Femmes finally happened and—surprise!—cycling fans were into it.
RIP, Lieutenant Uhura. (NYT)
unladies are saying:
It took a lot of humility to admit this, but there was definitely a part of me that owned a weapon because it made me feel cool. I would instagram photos of going to the range. It made me feel more feminist. It made me feel more edgy and mysterious. . . . But what the fuck. It was shallow and I acknowledged that publicly. I would give up looking cool and breaking down stereotypes that pretty girls don't shoot guns and even that feeling of "potential safety in self-protection" -- if only our gun laws to change and for people to be safe. It's the growing up that a lot of the population needs to do. I'm glad I let it go.
- listener and former gun owner Laurel in a still-relevant response to ep. 14: How to Shoot a Gun
til next week . . .
