Queer Naija Lit: “We Are Flowers” Documents the Beauty and Resilience of Nigeria’s Queer Community
We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.
We Are Flowers, a Queer Nigerian anthology, is defiant and audacious. It has no choice but to be.
Which of the many gay gals populating Prime Video’s “League of Their Own” is your intended soulmate? There’s only one way to find out: THIS QUIZ!
It was a lot like coming out later in life, but this time instead of going to a bunch of lesbian parties and hooking up with strangers, I’m staying up until 4 a.m. Googling shit like “how is Loki still alive.”
Instead of getting shields for defense, you get condoms or aprons. And instead of swords and other classic weapons, there’s mace, hair dryers, or press-on nails to fight with.
Popeye wasn’t just a salty sailor punching people. Strength was fluid, gender was fluid and the spinach flowed freely.
“It’s definitely giving top, you know that.” — Megan Thee Stallion, a bi legend among us.
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Mariana goes full Callie (and not in a good way), while Alice and Sumi try to put their sex workshop skills to the test.
Being femme is being unafraid. Unafraid of shape, of texture, of color.
Whiteness needs to be decentered from the fight for reproductive justice. History is a powerful tool for transformation and rethinking – I want to share the history of mass sterilization and reproductive genocide of Puerto Rican women between the 1930s to 1970s.
“Damn, I dressed like #5 every day this summer and yet experienced a distinct and disappointing lack of inevitable reunions with former love interests.”
“I wanna know about the image for Laneia’s hate fuck list — these are some very choice collage images…”
Jules Ohman paints the harsh, sharp-angled modeling industry with soft, tender prose and tells many queer narratives at once in the novel.
The documented history of queer culture and mermaids, de-gentrifying pole dancing, queer YA books are selling in record numbers despite bans targeting them, and learning the limits of nonviolence.
I have never lived anywhere that wasn’t in Pennsylvania. This state is my home, but I’m ready to move on from it.
They’re the only two young women in the Red Keep, which I don’t have any experience with, but I do know what it’s like to be best friends with the only other lesbian on your Little League team, so probably it’s similar.
The series one finale introduces a plot twist that’s a slap in the face, and undermines the show’s messages of empowerment for survivors of sexual assault.
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“My sexual identity has more to teach and to tell me,” Malone wrote on Instagram. “Finding words that feel more right to explore in my telling. Pansexuality. Sapiosexuality. Polyamory.”
It’s a fight against time as Raelle’s witch bomb ticks closer to going off in the series finale of Motherland: Fort Salem.