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Analouisa Valencia: The Miss South Carolina Pageant’s First Lesbian Beauty Queen

Jessica WakemanApril 8, 2013 //
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Analouisa Valencia

Beauty pageants usually get the sideeye from The Frisky for their perpetuation of tired old beauty standards, so we are delighted to hear about Analouisa Valencia of South Carolina. Valencia, a 19-year-old singer who has been competing in pageants for over a decade, is African-American, Latina and a lesbian — and she’s gunning for the Miss South Carolina crown! She’s been out since 9th grade and in a relationship for the past three years with the same woman. If she wins Miss South Carolina, she hopes to make it all the way to Miss America. Not surprisingly, she isn’t looking for world peace but “equality for everyone.” LOVE. [Madame Noire, Huffington Post]

Today’s Lady News: Gloria Allred Would Be “Impressed” With His Dick Size, Donald Trump Crows

Jessica WakemanApril 5, 2012 //
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  • When pressed about transgender beauty queen Jenna Talackova, who was first disqualified from Miss Universe and then re-qualified following an uproar, pageant co-owner Donald Trump bragged that Jenna’s lawyer Gloria Allred would be “very impressed” with his anatomy, if he were forced to prove his gender. EW. [New York Daily News]
  • Shaima Alawadi, a 32-year-old Iraqi-American, was murdered last month in an attack that police, and the country at large, thought was an anti-Muslim hate crime. But new documents obtained suggest family violence  — of some sort — in the California woman’s death. Alawadi was supposedly planning to divorce her husband and move out of state when she was killed. Her 17-year-old daughter was also “distraught” over a forced, arranged marriage to a cousin. Police haven’t implicated anyone in particular in the murder, but are supposedly less certain the death was a simple hate crime. [UTS San Diego]
  • Etsy.com and Hacker School have announced 10 grants of $5,000 each to women in technology who’d like to attend the 2012 summer session of Hacker School in Brooklyn, New York. [Etsy.com] Keep reading »

Morning Quickies: Ex-Miss USA Rima Fakih Arrested For DUI

Jessica WakemanDecember 5, 2011 //
Who Is Rima Fakih?
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Meet the first-ever Arab-American Miss USA. Read More »
"Fat" Beauty Queen
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Mirror, Mirror
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Beauty Queens In Cuffs
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  • Former Miss USA Rima Fakih, 26, was arrested this weekend in Highland Park, Michigan, for drunk driving. Rima Fakih tweeted on Saturday “Let’s clear things up now … I’m NOT in Michigan and I’m NOT in Jail! Wrong Fakih!” but the tweet was later removed. Her lawyer has confirmed Rima was busted for a DUI. In 2010, Rima Fakih became the first Arab-American to win the Miss USA pageant. [People]
  • Madonna will be playing the Super Bowl halftime show on February 5. [Huffington Post]
  • Christina Aguilera jokes about her boyfriend Matthew Rutler proposing “all the time in front of him,” which is making him uncomfortable. [Perez Hilton] 
  • Victoria Gotti and “RHONJ”‘s Teresa Giudice might be on the new season of “Celebrity Apprentice.” Keepin’ it classy, Trump! [ONTD] Keep reading »

Muslim Beauty Pageant Contestant Katya Koren Stoned To Death

Jessica WakemanJune 2, 2011 //

Katya Koren, a 19-year-old contestant in the Miss Ukraine beauty pageant, was found stoned to death in a forest this week. Police are not clear on who killed her, but the main suspect is a mentally unstable 16-year-old boy who confessed to killing Koren, a Muslim, for violating sharia law by participating in pageants. The boy was possibly a “stalker” who was “obsessed” with Katya Koren and may have raped her before killing her. Other reports say that Katya Koren was stoned to death by a whole group of Muslims enacting sharia law. According to the UK’s Telegraph newspaper, enacting sharia law in that part of the Ukraine is rare.

It’s incredibly sad in either case. But as someone who is extremely critical and unsupportive of beauty pageants, I just wanted to note that something I scoff at in America is, in other parts of the world, a freedom that I take for granted.

[Telegraph UK]
[Daily Mail UK] Keep reading »

Miss Turkey Shills For Carl’s Jr.’s Turkey Burger

Jessica WakemanApril 5, 2011 //


Among what I’m sure are the many honors of Miss Turkey Gizem Memiç, the face of Carl’s Jr.’s turkey burger is surely on top. In Carl’s Jr.’s latest commercial, Miss Turkey shills for the fast food joint’s turkey burgers in stiletto heels, a pageant sash and a custom-made bikini with little turkey burgers printed on it. While Carl’s Jr. commercials are always gratuitously frat-tastic — boobs! fried meat! blowjob imagery! — I have to admit that bikini is pretty awesome. Congratulations, Carl’s Jr., you made a commercial that’s approaching slightly tasteful. [YouTube via Styleite] Keep reading »

Today’s Lady News: Beauty Queen Fired For Eating Too Many Tacos Is Reinstated

Jessica WakemanMarch 25, 2011 //
Beauty Queens In Handcuffs
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  • San Antonio beauty queen Domonique Ramirez — who was supposedly fired because she got “fat”from eating too many tacos — has been reinstated after a court battle. Oh, Texas. [
    • Wait. What? You mean all women are not pacifists and naturally kinder and gentler than men? [The Nation]
    • The word “curvy” is dead to her! [Black Voices]
    • Us ladies are apparently “returning to the death care industry in droves.” OK then. [Slate]

Beauty Pageant Drama Used To Be A Lot More Feisty

Jessica WakemanNovember 22, 2010 //

These days, the most exciting thing to happen at a beauty pageant is someone saying Americans cannot find the United States on a map “because they don’t have maps.” But back in 1970, things got way more feisty! This weekend was the 40th anniversary of the 1970 Miss World Pageant, when a feminist group called the Women’s Liberation Movement pelted smoke-, flour- and stink-bombs at the host, Bob Hope, while they chanted, “We’re not beautiful, we’re not ugly, we’re angry!” Keep reading »