Extra! Extra!: A Socially Distant Democracy
This week’s Extra! Extra! considers the shocking indictment against Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro and what democratic action looks like during social distancing.
You Should Make A Blanket Fort This Weekend
Literally why not?
Mae Martin on “Feel Good,” Dating, and What They’re Doing In Quarantine
“Everyone is going to want to have orgies after this.”
The Comment Awards Are Taking It One Day At A Time
“I have never been as concerned about our community as I am to hear that pool sex came in 8th place instead of 1st.”
Into the A+ Advice Box #11: Meeting the Parents, Department Drama, Friend Breakups and More!
Recovering after being ghosted, dealing with queer tokenism, knowing if you’re a top or a bottom, straight people are STILL not ok, and did that organizer ask you for an organizing coffee or a COFFEE coffee??
In Love Wit Chu: Rapper Da Brat Has a Girlfriend, Is Dating Jesseca Dupart
Y’all the world is not ending. Far from it! Black queer love is alive and thriving!! Girls are still buying girls extravagant gifts and presenting them with huge custom made bows just to say “happy birthday, boo” and we LOVE to see it!
Lez Liberty Lit: The Emergency Library
1.4 million free books, virtual museum tours, maintaining a creative practice (but maybe not starting that coronavirus novel) and more.
Fat Liberation Is the Future
It’s time we stopped telling people to “love themselves” and started demanding fat liberation at every level, in every way. Here’s how we liberate ourselves from the tyranny of diet culture, and why that matters for the betterment of our communities and our future.
Also.Also.Also.: Skateboarding Is Queer Culture
Learning to swim as personal journey, how corona is affecting the WNBA, queer skating collectives and more!
A Therapist on What You Need to Know About Your Own Mental Health in the Time of COVID19
We all must do the internal work of unpacking how the harms of our social structure have become internalized, have lived in our bodies, have shown in our relationships. We must allow ourselves to feel the weight of it.
Year of Our (Audre) Lorde: March’s Poetry Is Not a Luxury
One of the biggest lessons of Audre Lorde’s work is the strength of coalitional politics. I need a movement that can hold my anger. I need a movement that can hold my contradictions. I shouldn’t have to qualify my rage when speaking out about injustice.
“One Day at a Time” Is Back When We Need it Most
To have this show on the air at this moment — even if Netflix had renewed the show, it likely would have debuted in January — it just felt fated. We needed this show at this moment and I was so grateful for it.
Pop Culture Fix: Animal Crossing Players Are Recreating Your Favorite Lesbian Movies
Lots of One Day at a Time convos and interviews, Love Is Blind and The Circle are coming back to Netflix, Sue Bird doesn’t give an eff if you think she’s too old for the 2021 Olympics, and The Doctor would like you to listen to science please.
Basic Butch Style: The Breakup
Newly single? Read this first.
No Filter: Celebrities Are Staying Inside With Dogs, Cats, Muffins, Masks, Pianos, Influencer Memoirs and More!
Gigi Gorgeous needs book recommendations and Hayley Kiyoko has some iconic lounge wear!
Foolish Child #68: Current Events
Fine. Everything is PERFECTLY fine.
Dominique Provost-Chalkley Is Queer: “Wynonna Earp” Actress Comes Out on Her Birthday
“I am queer. I am into ALL humans. I guess maybe I am just really into love? Who knows? But finally… I am OUT.”
Respect Your Elders: Tea with Trans Lesbian Poet Barbara Marie Minney
Lou Barrett sits down with Barbara Marie Minney to talk about coming out later in life, being a trans lesbian poet, and BDSM.
Also.Also.Also: Digital Drag, Socially Distant Lesbian Weddings and Wow We’re All Homeschooling Now
Queer culture and history in light of corona, women’s sports news, links on homeschooling and some political quick hits!
Extra! Extra!: People Are Rising to the Occasion with COVID-19, Many Governments Not So Much
This week’s COVID-19 news roundup sheds light on what’s going on with the stimulus package and how governments are using this moment to consolidate power. And we continue to have the same old fights around reproductive rights, immigration and health care.