I haven’t exactly had the best opinion of sorority girls before. In fact, I kind of viewed them as stereotypical blonde bitches with lots and lots of pink attached to their lives.
V definitely doesn’t fit that stereotype.
She asked me to be her date to her sorority’s formal, and I agreed, with a lot of stereotypes being muttered at the back of my head.
The formal itself turned out to be very different from what I expected, and we left early because (surprise!) it was at a hookah lounge and our allergies were bothering us.
We ended up going to a diner that had been on Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives, which was pretty cool. V had a peanut butter chocolate chip pancake mountain, which was pretty incredible, and I had a loaded baked potato omelet, which was also delicious. We had a lovely night out, and although my idea of sororities wasn’t exactly improved, I’m definitely trying to be more open-minded about sorority chicks.
Plus, I like dressing up.
Don’t we look snazzy? V’s face shared with her permission. <3
Did you ever belong to a sorority or fraternity? Were you like the ones on tv?
4/27/2013- a “mechanical” poem (i chose to substitute mechanics for recipe)
how to toast a sorority girl
-kb
previously, in my mind,
a sorority girl was a simple recipe:
1 part giggles
2 parts tits
1/80 part dignity
3 parts superficiality
1 part loyalty
1/2 part bitch
1/2 part crazy
2 1/2 parts pink
and sprinkled with as much school spirit as the booze would provide.
for the past 5 years, my recipe proved to be pretty solid,
with only the occasional modification.
that was, until now.
now i’m dressed in
3 parts hairspray
1 part new dress
1 part nice shoes
2 parts makeup
and 1 part biting my tongue
for my
4 parts butch
2 parts secretly girly
2 parts kindhearted
1 part silly
1 part tux
1 part bow tie
all parts love
After not really being on the internet much last night, I finally logged on around 11:30 and saw that Facebook kind of went wild with red equality signs. I also saw this banner on a few of my Facebook friend’s pages, which gave me a clue about what the red was about.
It’s no secret that I’m a lesbian. (Surprise.) Ya’ll have seen me ramble about gay shiz before, and you even witnessed my 21st century coming out to the family.
So far this morning, I’ve been overwhelmed by the amount of red I’ve seen on social media. Sure, there have been plenty of gays and lesbians “painting the town red,” but there have also been an incredible number of allies with red equality signs as their profile pictures. As a lesbian woman, to have the support of so many people whose lives really aren’t affected by marriage equality is truly breath taking.
I do, however, want to point out that marriage equality won’t solve all issues of equality. As progressive as today’s society is, it is still very behind in the “all (people) are treated equal” aspect of our country. Please take a moment to look at NCLR’s issues and cases, and hopefully you’ll realize that the lack of marriage equality isn’t the only injustice in our country.
Oh, and, just for the heck of it, here’s a lovely moment of Golden Girls on marriage equality.
To learn more about the red equality signs and what’s going on today check out the Human Rights Campaign.
I didn’t know what to expect, and my social anxiety prevented me from wanting to make new friends at the conference, so I decided to do what I had done when I was younger: pretend I was a news reporter and super important at an event.
I ended up creating GingerSass and live-blogging the conference. GingerSass had over 300 hits in its first 24 hours of existence. By the end of the week, GingerSass had a domain name, a Twitter account, and me solemnly swearing that I wouldn’t toss GingerSass to the side after a few weeks, like I have done with so many writing projects in the past.
One year later, GingerSass has grown into something I never could have dreamed of. A year ago, I thought GingerSass would just be something to make me feel like less of an awkward turtle at a conference. Now, GingerSass has over 745 Twitter followers, 170 fans on Facebook, and, on average, over 5,000 visitors per month. THAT’S CRAZY TALK.
GingerSass has given me a lot of opportunities this past year I wouldn’t have had otherwise. I attended the BlogHer conference in NYC. I met fellow bloggers and made some amazing friends. I became a National Runner Up to be the Verizon Ultimate Insider. I’ve booked a few appearances and made a bit of money as a poet (unheard of!). I’ve been mentioned on AfterEllen. I’ve interacted with celebrities whose alter-egos have questioned what a celesbian is and why I want to be one. (coughcoughCadyMcClaincough) I’ve also been sent fun things in the mail, including a book from Eden Riegel’s mom. (I’m still finishing it, Lenore! Sorry!) GingerSass is also found in the first few pages of “celesbian” search results on major search engines.
Besides the Z-list celesbianism I’ve managed to obtain, GingerSass has given me a lot personally. It’s helped me grow as both a person and a writer, and it’s helped me get through anxiety, stress, grieving, student teaching, excitement, a hurricane, love, and so much more. It’s helped me become more in tune with who I am, and who I want to be. GingerSass gave me the voice that I kept locked away for so long, and it has helped remind me that I am a strong, independent, incredibly awkward yet endearingly sassy ginger woman.
GingerSass has been one of the best things that has come into my life, and I am forever grateful for what it has evolved into. It wouldn’t be possible without all of you– THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart.
I’ll be announcing a giveaway at some point this week to commemorate one year of GingerSass. Until then, be sure to like GingerSass on Facebook, follow @THEGingerSass on Twitter, or subscribe to GingerSass using the “Subscribe” button on the side of this page.
Stay tuned for an update– with cake– later tonight! Thanks again for making this past year possible. I really couldn’t have done it without all of you. <3
Oh, and here’s a Hillary Scott (of Lady Antebellum fame) song I found that perfectly sums up how much my life has changed in the year that GingerSass has been around. Blogging and running GingerSass truly has been life-changing for me.
