Winona Ryder as Veronica Sawyer in Heathers (1989)
same energy
I love this because she doesn’t even acknowledge Pedro Pascal with a backhanded compliment like “you’re so brave.” She just straight up calls him old and wrinkly. Incredible.
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From booktopia.au:
Boy, girl, artist, advocate. Courtney is more than the sum of her parts.
Meet Shane Jenek. Raised in the Brisbane suburbs by loving parents, Shane realises from a young age that he’s not like all the other boys. He finds his tribe at a performing arts agency, where he discovers his passion for song, dance and performance. Shane makes a promise to himself- to find a bigger stage.
Meet Courtney Act. Born in Sydney around the turn of the millennium, Courtney makes her name in the gay bars of Oxford Street and then on Australian Idol. Over ten years later, she makes star turns on RuPaul’s Drag Race and Celebrity Big Brother UK, bringing her unique take on drag and gender to the world.
Behind this rise to national and global fame is a story of searching for and finding oneself. Told with Courtney’s trademark candour and wit, Caught in the Act is about our journey towards understanding gender, sexuality and identity. It’s an often hilarious and at times heartbreaking memoir from a beloved drag and entertainment icon. Most of all, it’s a bloody good time.
I think some of you are missing the point with free Britney. You shouldn't only care because it's Britney Spears. It shouldn't be "oh she's suffered enough publicly so now I'll care". There are estimated 1.5 million people in the US under conservatorships. It's upsetting that people only care about disability justice if it's a celebrity and Britney Spears is by far not the worst case.
@ The people who only care because it's Britney, Britney herself said it's not just her suffering under this. She says:
I truly believe this conservatorship is abusive, and that we can sit here all day and say oh, conservatorships are here to help people. But ma’am, there is a thousand conservatorships that are abusive as well.
Britney's case is heartbreaking and infuriating, but she's not the only one suffering under this system of conservatorships that allow for so much easy and economically benefitial abuse. Other people who're also going through abusive conservatorships matter just as much as Britney does, they all matter a lot. This is a systemic issue that goes beyond Britney alone and she herself is very aware of it.
While it's true and important to say that despite claiming she's so "unfit" for a fully free adult life yet she keeps being exploited as a full time worker against her will, it's extremely shitty to try and justify getting Britney out of her conservatorship by saying "she's not disabled, so she shouldn't be in a conservatorship".
No. I don't know if she's actually disabled or not, that information is none of our business unless she decides in all freedom to tell us. But, regardless of whether Britney is actually disabled or not, people who are in fact disabled shouldn't be going through this type of hell on Earth either. Britney doesn't deserve to be under a conservatorship not because she might not be disabled. She doesn't deserve this conservatorship BECAUSE NO HUMAN BEING DOES. Not even the ones with confirmed and utterly debilitating disabilities!
Top tier take
It’s honestly wild how many times my friends would be like “did you know people were saying this about you?” And I was like. No.
Chapter 69 - Courtney’s Thievery
Courtney’s good little assistant attire, complete with the stolen panties from her photoshoot with Roxy.
Chapter 68 - Bianca After the Party
(I’m a little behind, but here’s how Bianca comes home to Courtney in 68.)
