No Filter: Da Brat Made Your 2021 Vision Board for You
Janelle Monáe is your biggest motivator, Trace Lysette frees the nipple, Melissa King is still the boss, and more!
Every James Bond Theme Song, Ranked by Their Lesbian Energy
“I love a ballad that reaches it’s climax with a big note. Lesbians known all there is to know about reaching a climax so there ya have it.”
Harm Reduction in Hard Times: What Safety & Care Around Drug Use Can Teach Us During COVID-19
Even prior to COVID-19, harm reduction has been a strategy of leftist organizing and key to an abolitionist future. Building a politics which acknowledges how layers of marginalization impact your health outcomes, and still goes “beyond just surviving to actually enjoying our lives and accounting for those health disparities,” is the goal.
Extra! Extra!: Making Sense of What’s Actually Happening with the Stimulus Package
Extra! Extra! is on a bit of a holiday schedule, so we’re here today to round out 2020 with the news from the last couple of weeks. In this week’s Extra! Extra! we cover judicial actions on LGBTQ+ rights in the U.K. and the U.S., the latest in Trump corruption scandals and pardons, updates on the COVID-19 pandemic and the recently passed stimulus package and more.
Also.Also.Also: Happy New Year! Have a Gay Old Time!
15 things that prove queer women won 2020, the fight to include HIV-positive people in COVID-19 vaccine trials, women undoubtedly ran rap music this year, and Christine Baranski knows you love her. It’s the last link roundup of the year so I made it MAXIMUM sized, let’s do this!
“RuPaul’s Drag Race” Is Queer Women Culture
There’s nothing inherently more lesbian about watching two famous cishet Rachels playact queerness than watching a nonbinary drag queen kiss the shoulder of a trans woman drag queen.
BTW, Shannon Berry from “The Wilds” is Queer
The stars of The Wilds say it’s a great day to be gay.
Reading List for the Revolution: Angela Davis & Radical Inspiration for 2021
What if we all committed to a radical reading list for 2021? What would we learn? And with this, what could we do? This collection of books will set you up with hope and pathways toward radical change in 2021.
Pop Culture Fix: Here’s Hoping Steve Trevor Stays Dead in “Wonder Woman 3”
T’Nia Miller in The Guardian, Mackenzie Davis chats lesbianing in Happiest Season and San Junipero, Laverne Cox on Promising Young Woman, your weekly Batwoman check-in, and more!
10 Times Trans and Gender Nonconforming People Destroyed 2020
In a year of grief and turmoil, trans communities gave us a glimpse of a future we all deserve.
Dykes and Their Emotional Support Albums
I can’t help but wonder: What is each dyke stereotype of your past listening to during COVID lockdowns?
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: December’s Prologue
Like so many others, I’ve been chirping about the end of 2020, as if the transition from one year to the next will somehow magically suture our open wounds.
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Can’t Stop Talking About The Sex Content Purge
More on the impact of the Pornhub content purge, plus some of what’s going on at Instagram and Tik Tok. Also: the dream a horny post-lockdown rampage, why clit pumps are hot, your 2021 sex horoscope and more.
I Wish “Wonder Woman 1984” Had Been About Wonder Woman
Steve Trevor is the main and unconquerable problem with Patty Jenkins’ follow-up to 2017’s nearly perfect Wonder Woman origin story, but it’s not the film’s only issue. Wonder Woman 1984 is a complete mess.
Behind the Scenes of The 13 Days of A+
“I can talk about fisting and making gluten-free biscuits. Those are my two talents.”
Reine #16: Lesbian Media Explosion
This year we got a lot of additions to our lesbian media library, but holiday classics are a tough nut to crack.
Respect Your Elders: Carter Bachmann Came Out as Trans at 64
“Having presented a woman, a lesbian, and then come out as transgender man… don’t be afraid. You’re not alone. We are worthwhile. We are forever. We are everywhere. All you have to do is look for us. Be who you are.”
The Comment Awards Are Finding Light In New Places
PLAY WITH MY EMOTIONS SO THAT I DON’T HAVE TO!
Day 13 Is Here and We’re Dancing For You
We have great news because we sure are repurposing our leftovers (footage) in a big way, just for you.
S L I C K: The Ass That Ate Back
Tanya wasn’t the kind of queer to make the first move, generally speaking, but that night was different. Marianne was different. She seemed more than interested in what Tanya had to say. Her words were gentle and warm, but funny and sexy. Like a horny heated blanket that could make you laugh.