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Natalie Wynn knows that people can change. After all, she sometimes jokes, she was a “male alcoholic” until 2017. A 32-year-old trans woman, she’s now a wildly popular political YouTuber. Her channel,
ContraPoints, was a cultural bright spot of the Trump era, and she may be one of the few people in the left media who can credibly claim to persuade her opponents on occasion. Her videos are also in a left-media ecosystem of scolds and ascetics a lavish pleasure to watch.
Like so many others suddenly faced with an excessive amount of downtime over the past year, Jilian Medford has picked up a new hobby: knitting. Her specialty? Hats. “Initially, I just did a YouTube tutorial for elf hats,” she explains while modeling an oversize bell-shaped creation that completely swallows her shaggy brown and bleach-blond hair. By this point, she’s moved on to more experimental forms: beanies with tiny animal ears, a Creamsicle-colored cap that sits on her head like a cartoon carrot, a baby blue number that lands somewhere between giant bunny ears and a
Star Warscreature.
The bubbly 27-year-old is showing off her wares from her home in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Silver Lake. Gnawing on a bone next to her is Blueberry, a petite, white rescue pup with a speckled tummy who bears a striking resemblance to Dobby, the house-elf from
Untangling Queer Countryâs Many Connections to Country Music Talking with artists Mercy Bell, Melissa Carper and Brennen Leigh, Country Queer founder Dale Henry Geist and many more Tweet
Mercy BellPhoto: Chad Cochran
At first glance, you might get the impression that the genre called queer country is a kind of country music that exists in its own zone, apart from any concerns about commerciality. Without a doubt, queer country â because of its range of sensibilities and its variety of musical approaches â sounds familiar to fans of Americana, itself another capacious genre that seems to connect only fitfully with country music.Â
Ahead of Wednesday's presidential inauguration, Lenny Wee posted an image of himself in D.C. with the caption "very proud to represent all the immigrants that call this great country home."