Ally is gay smash
If someone had told us that Red, one of the major characters in Rovio’s Angry Birds franchise, might acquire just proven himself a gay ally, we’d have been very skeptical.
Angry Birds first came onto the gaming scene in 2009, with Rovio daring to ask the question: what would you get if you combined steamed birds that you could chuck at things, all to protect and store their eggs? Good, that would be Angry Birds, and it quickly propelled into being one of the most popular mobile games in the earth soon after its launch.
With popularity comes spin-offs, and even movies and TV shows. No wonder Red and the rest of the Angry Birds cast has become high-quality meme material over the past couple of years.
But as it so happens, Red isn’t just a popular nature in the Angry Birds franchise. He also is a bird (man? A bird-man?) of appetite.
In a recent TikTok from the official Angry Birds account, Red sits down to participate ‘Smash or Pass’ with various gaming characters. Incidentally, many of these characters are featured in Smash Bros, though we’ll be decent and say we’re not sure if that makes the video funnier or not.
The mad bird,
5 Times Cyndi Lauper Showed Her Outspoken Allyship Through Her Music
The ’80s pop icon has proven herself to be a right ally of and advocate for the LGBTQ+ society over the years, as shown by her consistently outspoken political stance and her (meaningful) timeless songs…
By Christopher Turner
Cyndi Lauper burst onto the music scene back in 1983 with the release of her smash album She’s So Unusual, and helped define a new era of pop music that evolved alongside MTV. With the launch of that album, she made history by becoming the first female creator in history with four top-five songs from a debut album. With a string of top 10 hits and two Grammy wins (including one for Best New Artist), and her over-the-top looks, Lauper instantly appealed to lgbtq+ audiences, but it is thanks to her consistent advocacy and her long-time activism for LGBTQ+ rights that the quirky vocalist with her four-octave vocal range is still famous decades later.
Lauper has always asserted that she originally became involved in the fight for gay rights because her sister Ellen is a lesbian, but throughout the years she has proven herself to be one of our greatest allies… time and ti
Inclusive Allyship
Allies:
noun. a express formally cooperating with another for a military or other purpose.
verb. combine or unite a resource or commodity with (another) for mutual benefit.
Allyship:
A lifelong process of building relationships based on trust, consistency, and accountability with marginalized individuals and/or groups of people. not self-defined—work and efforts must be known by those you are seeking to ally with.
Why do we need to be Inclusive Allies?
We are all humans. We are all equal. We all need to check our privilege. We need to empathise with the fight that some people proceed through. We need to be aware of the obstacles and the barriers in the way of some people on their journey. We need to be aware of the impact of prejudice and discrimination.
#HeForShe and #WhiteAlly are two labels I own heard used in the last few years as the grassroots communities promote supporters to join their movements for change.
Much appreciate #DiverseEd aims to construct connections between the alternative communities, we need a term to capture everyone who works with others to. At the #CollaborativeSupportForWomen event and our #DiverseEd event we have p
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Author Bio
Ally Wilkes (she/they) grew up in a succession of isolated—possibly haunted—country houses and boarding schools. After studying law at Oxford, she went on to disburse eleven years as a criminal barrister.
Ally now lives in Greenwich, London, with an anatomical human skeleton and far too many books about Polar exploration.
Twitter: @UnheimlichManvr
Website: allywilkes.com
Introduction
CMR: Well hello, and welcome to the next episode of Eldritch Girl, and I’ve got Ally Wilkes with me, author of All The White Spaces which is coming out soon. Ally, it’s lovely to have you, would you like to introduce yourself?
AW: Hi Mel, it’s so lovely to be on the podcast, and a terse introduction to me, I am a former criminal barrister turned horror penner. I’m coming to you from Greenwich London, which is where I reside, I am an absolute nerd about polar and exploration horror, that’s my passion, and also in terms of sidelines I’m the book reviews editor for Horrified Magazine, the British horror magazine, and I’ve also had a few short stories here and there in various magazines and anthologies.
CMR: That&