Links & Bits for 6/10/11

Ontario Catholic School Bans Rainbows. Yup. Rainbows! They Banned RAINBOWS. (Autostraddle)

To get around the ban, students baked cupcakes with rainbow batter, but they weren’t allowed to donate the proceeds to a lesbian-, gay-, or trans-related organization, such as Youth Line. Instead, they were told to donate to a Catholic homeless shelter.

Kathleen Hanna Talks Odd Future Lyrics Controversy (TwentyFourBit)

[I]f people are writing lyrics that piss you off, hurt your feelings and make you feel like s—-, don’t listen to it. I don’t think the best idea is to have a boycott. Just don’t talk about them and they’ll go away. (Via Spinner)

Women of Color in Burlesque: The Not-So-Hidden-History (Racialicious)

My pleasure perusing the Jet archive quickly turned to anger as I realized that I have been bamboozled into believing that my Black burlesque foremothers didn’t exist or were all little-known, no-name (read low talent) chorus girls. Due to racist and exclusionary scholarship, I’ve been tricked into believing that it was racism from long ago that kept these brown burlesque queens nameless and lost to history, that no one bothered to document their presence then so we can’t find documents now. And that’s a lie. Such performers were documented, extensively, by the black press, and that documentation isn’t impossible to find