Megan Carpentier, writer

enjoli:

golden-notebook replied to your post: I’ve actually become a Megan apologist lately but…

megan carpentier?

I’m liveblogging Mad Men.

Come now, everyone knows when I cry I turn all red and it’s the only time my lips have any plumpness to them and then I fill with snot. And I don’t do it in front of people (except for that one time that Maura and Peter undoubtedly remember and in cabs when I can pretend the drivers aren’t looking).

But there’s one other consideration: how many times are marriage equality supporters supposed to believe the winking declarations of Obama’s team that the President actually believes in marriage equality if he doesn’t actually do anything to support it? … If Obama actually supports marriage equality, it’s long past time to actually say it. Otherwise, perhaps voters — on all sides — should take him at his word.

Raw Story’s executive editor, Megan Carpentier, on the Administration’s position on marriage equality… on April 24. (via rawstory)

He’s had 4 years to “evolve” a spine to stand up for what some liberals swear he believes. Maybe he just doesn’t.

WHEN I READ A DRAFT BY A WRITER WHO THINKS HE’S ON SOME NEXT LEVEL, DFW SHIT

editorrealtalk:

All the fucking time.

And for good measure, here's video of Willam Belli talking about cunnilingus, just because. →

And yet more video from Monday night, in which Chad, Sharon, Phi Phi and Lashauwn talk about bullying.

Go read about how I interviewed Chad Michaels, Sharon Needles, Phi Phi O’Hara, Willam Belli, Madame LaQueer and even The Princess (though I sadly mangled the footage) about their views on marriage equality, bullying, immigration, AIDS policy, prison reform and corporations with homophobic policies.

My review of "Hillary: The Movie" for Radar →

Which disappeared for years but is now back, in case you forgot about all those years that lots of people disliked her.

Just found my first-ever published piece →

An open letter to the then-president of my alma mater who decried the overabundance of female students in a speech to faculty in 2002.

the trollgaze index: not just about music! →

maura:

thanks, megan, for bringing it into the legit press. i’m flattered! and thanks of course to katie roiphe for being an OG TROLLGAZER

Hey, when something is a brilliant framework, what’s a writer supposed to do but adapt it (with credit, of course)?

In which I finally reveal my ongoing problem with homophobic activists who can’t get the definition of “sodomy” right.