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It Gets Better: The Prime Minister
Holy shit—color me shocked, floored, and grateful. And this is the leader of the conservative party in the UK. Try to picture a Republican politician making an IGBP video—not one that I’m aware of has—much less the leader of the GOP. But I have to say… David Cameron isn’t the first straight politician who has […]
Can Do Better
The Hairpin (which has totally replaced the space in my heart formerly occupied by Jezebel) linked to Can Do Better. It’s a Hot Or Not-type website in which you can vote on whether a specific person in a relationship could find someone more attractive to date. (Warning: Clicking over to the site activates a brief, […]
Mother Love
A mom gets her five-year-old son the costume he wants for Halloween—he wants to be Daphne from Scooby Doo—and then gets his back: And then the big day arrives. We get dressed up. We drop Squirt at his preschool and head over to his. Boo doesn’t want to get out of the car. He’s afraid […]
Five Minutes of Awesome People Doing Awesome Things
What follows is a five minute video of awesome people from the internet doing awesomely amazing internetty things. (In fact the only thing UN-awesome about this video is the ’80s-style creepy rah-rah techno in the background. Please hit the mute button, open a new tab, and play this song instead.) Soooo… HOW DOES THIS VIDEO […]
Jesse + Alec = TRU LUV
Watch: Then watch: Then donate—the laughs alone were worth $5 or $10, right?
It Gets Better: The New York Times Checks Back In
Brian Stelter has a piece in the NYT today about the IGBP. It focuses on the accidental activism that the project has inspired: because we asked people to create their own YouTube accounts to post their videos (instead of emailing in their video files for us to post), comments posted to individual videos go directly […]