How Sailor Moon Made Me A Feminist: An Ode to Magical Girl Shows
Maybe it’s the influence of Sailor Moon that is part of what made me a feminist, someone who didn’t think that being a girl was a weakness but was, in fact, a special kind of power.
Things I Read That I Love #76: Astro-Ride!
Topics include the Khmer Rouge, crisis pregnancy centers + race-baiting, SamRo, coffee, Little House on the Prairie, grief, growing up gay and Kevyn Aucoin!
Date With A Google Glasshole: Cyborg Dating 101, A Report From The Field
A true, first-hand account of a real-life ladydate with a real-life Glasshole. Let’s just say that the phrase “breakup-inducing cyborg face device” got tossed around.
You Can Take It With You: Blood Orange and Wheat Berry Salad
Both rule-following and improvisation have their place in this post. First course: a wheat berry salad by the book. Followed by: my own take on the recipe.
Team Pick: Buycott Helps You Save The World and Support Pro-Gay Companies While You Shop
Because I’m perpetually spending my last dollar and I want to know exactly where it goes.
Identity Theft: A Trans* Intersex Woman On Traumas and Surgery
“It’s unfortunate, unfair and illogical that intersex people get assigned a gender and a sex and are expected to either stick with them or fix someone else’s mistake with expensive, risky surgery on their genitals.”
Why Grey’s Anatomy’s New Story Arc Is A Pretty Big Deal
Because lesbian and bisexual characters now have longer shelf lives, network TV is beginning to go beyond the same trope-tastic story arcs.
Brittani’s Video Party: The Return of Television
DeAnne Smith on the teevee, Arrested Development, Brooklyn 99, and gas station karaoke party it up.
A Prairie Homo Companion: Wanderlust and Lessons Learned
I like to think all of this travelling has taught me a few things, or else what would be the point? Here’s a list of 10 things I’ve learned as a prairie homo in the great wide world.
Lez Get Dressed For Work: Yes, Virginia, There Are Professional Tops That Aren’t Button-Ups
How to not wear button ups and how to not tuck your shirt in.
South Carolina Intersex Lawsuit A Major Step In Ending Nonconsensual Surgery to “Fix” Intersex Kids
Adoptive parents of 8 year-old, intersex child M.C. Crawford are suing the state of SC because cosmetic genital surgery was performed on M.C. without his consent.
Album Review: Mal Blum “Tempest In A Teacup”
Mal Blum’s new album, “Tempest In A Teacup,” is so endearing and good and fun and I’m pretty sure you’ll love it.
Also.Also.Also: “Bill de Blasio’s ‘Formerly Lesbian’ Wife Patiently Explains Human Sexuality” and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Zines, lesbian MPs, international news, gay TV, bad news, sexual spectrums and lesbian poetry about manicures.
Mom Dresses Daughter Up As Historical Badass Ladies, Is Awesome
Vanessa’s Team Pick: Awesome mom dresses 5-year-old daughter up as independent strong women from history, results in infinite cuteness and warm fuzzy girl power feelings.
Listling: 18 Things Found In The Wrong Places While Organizing A-Camp Supplies
On cleanup day, everyone just wants to go home.
Almost Famous: *~~
*~~ works in a variety of genres from folk to shoe gaze to electronic noise to experimental intermedia. She wanted to piss people off by having a name that no one would know what to do with.
I’m A Trans Woman And I’m Not Interested In Being One of the “Good Ones”
If you present in a traditionally feminine way, you’re just being a misogynistic parody of a woman, and if you fail to present in a traditionally feminine way, well ha! There’s the proof that you’re not really a woman right there.
We Won A Thing! Marriage Equality Comes To Minnesota
“As we held onto each other in that sea of people, he just kept looking at me and saying, “You’re going to get married, mama. You’re going to get married.””
Girl Power In Eurovision: 10 Songs Charting The Evolution
Each year in Spring, citizens of Europe take a break from sabotaging the global economy and gather round their TV sets to enjoy the greatest cultural event known to human civilization: Eurovision.
More Than Words: Dyke Pt. 2 — Dyke Dynasty
In which some Dykes on Bikes take on the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Start your engines.