FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: Riding the Gender Roller Coaster
How did you realize and/or develop your relationship to your gender identity or gender presentation, if at all?
Things I Read That I Love #286: It Was That Time Where Everyone Wanted To Be Edgy
Topics include kayaking in Alaska, taking Amtrak across the U.S., Queer Teen Stars, Cathy, Lindy West, frequent flyer mile obsessives, calories, the professional poet and more!
Getting in Bed With Kristin: Situationships, Invisalign, and Spike!
Come bask in Kristin’s vacation energy and get some loving advice at the same time!
Broad City’s Celebration of Romantic Friendship and Bisexual Culture Has Changed TV Forever
“Often we need the possibility of more not in order to reach it, but in order to stop just short of it, which is still far beyond where we would’ve landed had it not been there at all.”
Tomorrow’s Parties: Emily Dickinson’s Black Cake
Emily Dickinson sent her girlfriend, Nellie, her recipe for Black Cake that was so staggering (two pounds of flour, 19 eggs, etc) that it reads like one of her curiously queer poems. It seems impossible, but suggests the potential for a delicious celebration.
Queer Your Ears March 2019: New & Upcoming Releases from Queer & Trans Artists
We’ve got a good mix of tunes here this month: some hip-hop and EDM if you’re ready to bounce off that winter chill, some intense vibes and chill folk if you still want to hibernate for a bit — and of course a bunch in between.
All Bones and Blood and Breath: Remembering Barbara Hammer
Barbara Hammer was the evidence that living a queer life could be good, and long, and full of wonder at a time when I felt like this was all was out of reach.
Lez Liberty Lit Is Checking Out These Hot Literary Rivalries
Getting real about the financial realities of writing, creative forces of subculture, K-pop, the branded ephemera of Frida Khalo, and shedding books to survive academia.
Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out: Grown
There’s nothing like a good old, grown up coming out story! You have 48 hours to vote for your favorites!
Natalie Morales on Playing a Revolutionary Bisexual Bartender on “Abby’s” and Sharing the Stage With Squirrels
“It’s so important to tell stories about marginalized people, but if we tell stories that reduce them always and only to the ways they’re marginalized, it just perpetuates the problem.”
No Filter: Stephanie Beatriz is Fine and Dandy at the Dolly Parton Museum
Also, KEHLANI FINALLY HAD HER BABY.
“Good Trouble” Episode 112 Recap: Broken Arted
“Broken Arted” succeeds where other episodes of Good Trouble have faltered. It turns two of the show’s occasional weaknesses — the non-linear, overstuffed storytelling — into its strength and produces the best episode to date.
Pop Culture Fix: Tessa Thompson Shares Your Valkyrie and Captain Marvel Dreams
Plus: A remake of The Craft, time to get hyped for more Vida and Legends of Tomorrow, a Glee reunion, #Karmy, and more Marvel’s Runaways is on the way.
Foolish Child #42: “Work” “Out”
“You mean to tell me your regimen is dancing through the opening credits of One Day at a Time?”
Lena Waithe’s “Boomerang” Is Bringing a Gay Reckoning to BET
Not only has Boomerang proven itself to be one of the most cutting edge black voices on television, it’s also invested in showcasing a full spectrum of young blackness, including sexuality.
Sophie Turner Sure Has Been With Girls: “Game of Thrones” Star “Loves Souls, Not Gender”
“I think once you’ve found the right person, you just know. I feel like I’m much older a soul than I am in age. I feel like I’ve lived enough life to know. I’ve met enough guys to know — I’ve met enough girls to know.”
Autostraddle March Madness — Best Coming Out: Baby Gays
The Baby Gays have been revealed! You have 48 hours to vote for your favorites!
Find Your Fit: The Fancy Gay Seeking Dapper Summer Style
“I’ve finally truly embraced myself and the fact that I’m pretty masc-of-center… but I have no warm weather work clothes that fit, and don’t know how to dress in keeping with my dapper MoC self once it warms up.”
Please Not Forever 19
It’s difficult to romanticize your teenage years when you’re not straight and spent them anxiously hiding your identity.
“Abby’s” Review: Natalie Morales’ Bisexual Bartender Makes History (But Won’t Make You a Mai Tai)
In NBC’s new comedy, which lands this Thursday, Morales owns the role of the prickly, commanding, loyal, lovable former Marine who sets up an unlicensed, uninsured bar in her rented backyard.