In the excitement around Kamala Harris’s nomination, the gays are getting their absolute lives, whether in the form of brat memes, coconut tree memes, memes about Harris’s commitment to cementing Jonathan Glazer’s Birth as a contemporary classic, and memes about potential gay running mates.
RelatedFrom all things coconut trees to Charli xcx references, the internet is giving the presidential hopeful the meme treatment she deserves.
But all memes aside, sapphics are having their own reckoning with the possibility of a Harris presidency, and it’s getting steamy in here.
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“Why do I keep seeing pictures of young Kamala Harris looking like a stud?” Asked user @minisouryelloworange on TikTok. “And why is she kinda fine?”
It’s been the question on everyone’s lips since an old photo of Harris—cropped hair, faraway look in her eye, coat collar pulled up—started resurfacing online.
The photo was taken during Harris’s time at the historic Black college Howard University. We don’t have too much context apart from that, but we do know we’re obsessed with it.
Studly, babely, amazing…she’s serving.
Obviously the sapphics are quite excited by this development…
This kind of cool? You can’t buy it. You’ve gotta be born with it.
The girls are so excited about this look that there’s a dedicated TikTok “stud Kamala” search bar now.
“She’s securing the lesbian vote 🙏🏼,” one commenter noted. She certainly is. “My entire fyp has turned into Kamala thirst traps,” another said.
RelatedNo, dating mascs does not make you straight!
As propoganda goes, it’s pretty damn effective, and we’re not complaining. Whatever you might feel about Harris’s politics, it can’t be denied that this picture is serving. “I just saw a picture and licked my phone I’m ngl,” another commenter wrote.
Thirst might not be the best reason to get people to the polls, but if it helps us avoid total fascism, we’re all for it.