Be The Change: Allies, Accomplices and Collective Liberation
What’s the difference between ally and accomplice? How can you use these terms to think about how you’re in solidarity with others?
What’s the difference between ally and accomplice? How can you use these terms to think about how you’re in solidarity with others?
“I’m growing something in my chest that’s spreading through my bones.”
Plus: Niko and Mel go on the cutest little detective chase on “Charmed.”
Let’s talk about big gay superpowers we’d want like being invisible to straight people or growing out undercuts in an instant.
I spent five days in Miami and Miami Beach, and it was not nearly enough! Here are some things I checked out and would recommend.
“Please would you like to bang? I think you’re glorious.”
“When was the last time you saw a straight person in a bog? That’s what I thought.”
“I have recently grown attracted to someone who is older than me. Not too much older, but enough to make me question where I’m coming from.”
In the mirror, I saw a scrawny, hollow-eyed girl dressed in ill-fitting boys’ clothes, a parody of a parody of masculinity. But in the screen, I saw myself made strong, confident, fearless, perfect.
Vida’s second season promises to be deliciously complicated, sultry, and heart-wrenching. Dammit, I already want more!
Highlights include: going down while wearing a nose ring, surviving the United States as a queer immigrant, living on the same college campus as your ex, and also how to perfectly time your break up. That’s just the beginning!
This summer I want to kiss girls. Girls sticky with lipgloss, girls purple with lipstain, girls sweet with cherry chapstick. I dream about kissing girls in my car (front or back seat). I dream about kissing them in the shade or in the sun. We are always a little bit sweaty and smelling like grass. We are always kissing to music.
Plus, Cheryl and Toni slow dance!
Handmaid’s Tale Season Three promises revolution and darkness, Kristen Stewart talks about pressure to define her sexuality, Suranne Jones hired a lesbian sex consultant for “Gentleman Jack,” Clairo on not being straight, writers from Pose and Boomerang and Good Trouble discuss LGBTQ rep, and so much more!
“I can’t explain how unreal it felt to be able to let my guard down with a big group of strangers on a hike.”
These are all love stories.
Also: Samira Wiley’s time-traveling, Tessa Thompson’s slow dancing with herself, and Janelle Monáe is maybe on her way to the moon.
Moraga’s latest, “Native Country of the Heart,” is a deep meditation on memory — reflections of the past, recalling hard moments, losing ourselves, and remembering who we are as Mexican-Americans, in more ways than one. She spoke to Autostraddle about her new book and the journey her queer feminism has taken over the course of her career.
Taurus season is in full bloom — whatever your relationship is to embodiment and pleasure, expect it to change this month.
“SHIT WAS GAY HEATHER
SHIT HAS BEEN GAY”