Plus: The story behind Stacey Abrams fiction career, the WNBA’s 25 firsts on their 25th anniversary, Tumblr is trying to win back queers after driving them away, what does “cancel culture” even mean anymore, and more!
It sounds like your idea of your sexual dynamic with your girlfriend isn’t lining up with the reality of it.
Loneliness is an old bedfellow of mine; despair, my oldest friend. If I can come to embrace those parts of myself I’ve always tried to push away — perhaps, that is the only lifelong love I can count on.
Elektra remembers her fraught relationship with her own mom, and how she became the mom her children needed.
Four More Shots Please wants to broach serious issues relating to gender and sexuality but puts in no work to actually address them in any kind of meaningful way and opts for superficial declarations of feminism, instead.
“Watching this fierce pack of teenage girls punish those that harmed them resonated with me. I too sought catharsis for the trauma that I’d endured — I began to realize that forgiveness was not a requirement of me.”
Mary, Ryan, and Sophie go on a hijinks-filled crime-solving mission in one of the greatest superhero team-ups ever.
Ava and the Legends follow an alien lead back to the 50s while Sara finds herself on a strange planet with Gary and…Amelia Earhart.
SNL parodies Mare of Easttown, Azie Tesfai in her Guardian suit, MJ Rodriguez and Maya Rudolph are teaming up, Apex Legend’s Valkyrie is queer, and more!
“My bookish exterior perhaps belies it,” write Alison Bechdel in The Secret to Superhuman Strength, “but I’m a bit of an exercise freak.” That is, it turns out, an understatement. Alison Bechdel shares her process of writing this latest book over the last ten years, collaborating with her partner, and the “huge blossoming of lesbian culture.”
Welcome to the world, George Elizabeth, and congratulations on being born after TikTok has erased all traces of heteronormativity; you’ll never know a time when everyone wasn’t already just gay!
You probably didn’t learn this in your Gender Studies class, and that’s because I made it up.
Love is true and temporary, queer erotica about how hot it is to watch porn with a partner, post-pandemic summer safer sex and more.
“What’s your anxiety at?” “A Ten.”
Plus updates on Nancy Drew, Legacies, Home Economics, and Top Chef!
COVID returns to the forefront of this week’s Extra! Extra! as we look at the outbreak of COVID in India and the threats posed by variants across the globe. We look at the one thing that’s proving stronger than COVID: capitalism and how that’s impacting our recovery. The team also examines new developments on the immigration and criminal justice fronts and ponder what it means to hear the president tell transgender Americans he’s got their backs.
“Just surround yourself with dogs and keep chanting, ‘I was a lesbian in 1974.'”
The AS team tackles advice for entering your 30’s (and we’d love to see yours in the comments), as well as advice for a member who’s found their sex drive has disappeared shortly after moving in with a partner, advice on coming out and labels, untangling trauma while exploring sex with your partner, finding boots that don’t make your feet hurt, and more!
Queer elders on coming out as non-binary, the oral history of Madonna’s Truth or Dare, burn all the leggings, and no matter what the internet tells you — Liz Cheney is not your friend.
If you’d like more backstory on the real-life story of Sister Benedetta that inspired this film while you wait for its wide release, or just want more to read about real-life lesbian nuns, this is where to get started.