dispatch from angela bassett doing the thing

and something about the new york times rapidly losing braincells

Welcome to this week’s dispatch from the lesbian internet, a mid-week news roundup from Paging Dr. Lesbian, exclusively for paid subscribers. If you like this type of thing, tell your friends to subscribe.

Viola Davis smiling and snapping in the background is so wholesome.

I’m sorry that today’s first news item doesn’t refer to the headline (or the header image), but there’s one thing that’s more important than that woman rapping. Last week, I posted the link to an open letter addressed to the New York Times, signed by the paper’s contributors. The letter presented a strong critique of how the Times has framed and commented on trans issues, especially those concerning youth. We now have an update. In response, the Times then called out the critique, wrongly naming those who signed the letter as activists (rather than contributors) and conflating their letter with one sent by GLAAD. The signatories then published another letter fact-checking the erroneous conflation. Then, this Tuesday, a number of prominent Times reporters A careless (and similarly un-fact-checked) response was then published in New York Magazine. Then, this Tuesday, a number of prominent Times reporters (not the aforementioned contributors) wrote an angry letter to the Guild, saying that they are journalists and not activists, but simultaneously continuing to frame those who wrote the original letter as activists. I saw someone say the main thing with the Times is that they absolutely refuse to be criticized, and I think that’s exactly on the money.