Advice for when you want to nurture a partnership but also honor your independence, for when you’re not sure if you want contact with an ex, on working through discomfort with your own sexuality, and more!
You are just picking up Naomi. Your very good friend, Naomi, whom you have only not-so-jokingly offered to take up on her not-so-joking offer to fuck for a decade. She literally just got emotionally gut punched by some fuckboy. Don’t be another fuckboy. Not today. Unless she initiates. Fuck, she always initiates. Fuck, I missed my exit.
“It’s funny that I’ve seen a hundred queer couples on TV at this point, and it was finally these two teenage dorks who really reflected my own reality back to me for maybe the first time.”
The thing about miscarriage is that the word itself does no justice to the great tragedy that it is. There are very few things I know anymore, but I do know this: Birdie will always be a part of our Hanukkah story.
Congratulations to trans lesbian Kate Freeman, making book girls everywhere very proud. Also: an oral history of fashion’s response to the AIDS epidemic and 8 holiday horror movies to stream when you wish 2020 would just end already.
It’s best books season, the addiction-memoir genre has been dominated by men, somehow it will be March again in just three months, and yes — that piece about High Femme Camp Antics that everyone is subtweeting about.
This child wouldn’t allow me to draw in peace unless I was drawing dinosaurs. It’s fine — I’ll just say something queer and relatable.
Two days until Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom(!!), Jo Ellen Pellman knew her people were out there, nonbinary TV characters had a landmark year, what ODAAT’s final episodes would have been, Black Swan is a Hanukkah movie(?), and more.
Today, toys are less about a harder better faster stronger version of more of the same, and all about the different ways it’s possible to experience pleasure and sensation.
It’s easy to get overwhelmed by crashing Towers and painful Deaths, the big changes and shifts within and around us, the endings and releasings and restructurings. But even when we aren’t sure what the fruits of our labors will be just yet, that doesn’t mean that nothing is happening. Sometimes we shift and change in the darkest spaces, hidden from the world and even ourselves, slowly adapting until we are transformed from within.
Sarah Paulson’s dog is the face of your next holigay card, Stacy London’s hair is just so shiny, and Ashlyn Harris even makes Ivy Park face masks look good.
It’s Nancy Meyers Week somewhere in the world! Also: James Baldwin’s magnificent friendships, throples making history, and will 2020 be the year we lost forever?
We have the transcript as well as links to any products that were shown during Merry Fistmas: A Virtual Vaginal Fisting Workshop, AND the link to the recording, all wrapped up for you right here!
Transmitting a deadly virus doesn’t exactly say “I love you,” so it makes sense that this particular conflict is bringing up big questions about your relationship.
For me, what makes the show so unique are the moments Valeria spends with Cristina and Paca and all the other trans women around them. It’s watching this cross-generational support among trans women that’s so important for us but so rarely portrayed on screen.
“Not to brag, but I *did* win a cornbread contest once (deep in the southern U.S, no less!) with my dad’s recipe.” Join us in the comments section from 7am-10am PST, 2pm-5pm PST and anywhere in between to chat all things holigay baking, cooking and yes, eating.
“Even once the surprise of it has been lost, I find myself returning to it time and again in my memory. A truly perfect moment of acting, of cinematography, of television. Easily the best of the year.”
Kitchen gifts for beginners and people who get bored in kitchen. I mean, I love making dinner but also like damn we really gotta have dinner EVERY NIGHT?????!!!!
“I have seasonal affective disorder which is what I call my year round depression when it’s winter. So, sure, Tidal is always one of my go-to sad girl albums, but it just feels so right this time of year!”
Also! Dickinson’s season two trailer, Ilene Chaiken is finally getting her murder show, we’ll never be over the way ODAAT was treated, and more.