Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Masculine Nerd Witch
I’m taking back power this year, after a year of feeling so powerless. I’m reveling in the parts of me that feel most like me.
Relevant To Your Interests: Be The Gym Leader
I do not like gyms. They smell like people. Not in the good way. Here’s some nerd gear to get you through.
Monday Roundtable: What Reality Show/Game Show Would You Destroy?
“Does anyone at the CIA who is for sure reading this want to hire me?”
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Is Having Sex On Shrooms
Why you should be careful about sex on shrooms, rumbly vs buzzy vibrators, dating as a hobby, why “microcheating” is absurd and more.
Sunday Funday is Saluting Helen Grace James, 90-Year-Old Lesbian American Hero!
Helen James wins her case and is generally a real American hero I can get behind, new documentary about Black lesbian playwright Lorraine Hansberry, Sarah Waters on 20 years of Tipping the Velvet, Joan Greene is yet another LGBT candidate running in 2018, Melissa Etheridge wants an uprising of love, and more good stuff!
Femme Brûlée: Dark Chocolate Sea Salt Cranberry Nut Bars
Bonus points if you listen to The Cranberries while you make these bars.
Baopu #42: I’m Falling
Don’t worry, I’m fine…most of the time, anyway.
2018 GLAAD Media Award Nominees Include Autostraddle, Gabby Rivera’s “America,” “One Day at a Time” and More of Your Faves
GLAAD Award nominations were announced today and Autostraddle got a fifth nomination!
Boob(s On Your) Tube: The TV Gays Are Out In Full Force in 2018
Grey’s Anatomy, grown-ish, Fresh Off the Boat, The Fosters, and Sara Ramirez in that tux!
Things I Read That I Love #255: An Extended Exposure Therapy To All The Things You Once Feared.
Topics include Newsies, Katja Blichfeld, the abuse of temps in a Toronto factory, Diana Vreeland, book covers, privileging choicelessness and so much more!
FRIDAY OPEN THREAD: What’s Your Type??
Happy Friday I have a crush on an actor! Let’s talk about it!!
The Comment Awards Are Weak in the Knees
“Of course Kristen would be scissors.”
On Loving My White Mother
In which a debate over body hair pushes a white mother and her brown daughter to the limits of mutual understanding.
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Playlist: My 2018 Brand Is Basically Just Eartha Kitt in the “I Wanna Be Evil” Video
It’s 2018, we’re sick of this, and we’re hungry for blood.
Pop Culture Fix: Tig Says Lesbian Masterpiece One Mississippi‘s Season 3 Was Gonna Be “Quite The Force” and Other Stories
Tig’s statement on the unfair no-good terrible cancellation of the wonderful One Mississippi, a new Heathers trailer continues to confound, Bellevue features a trans actress playing a murdered trans girl, Lena Waithe is gonna be on “This Is Us,”omg Black Lightning, the story of Steven Universe and so much more!
In a Movie Full of Tops, Who has the Most Top Energy in the “Ocean’s 8” Trailer?
“This is a pant-suited Cate Blanchett in the kind of natural leg spread that would make a young Jodi Foster seethe with envy.”
Cristy C. Road’s “Next World Tarot” Boldly Defines a New Generation of Saints
Cristy C Road’s intersectional tarot deck, enchanted with resistance, survival and spirituality, is no longer a dream of the future.
Lez Liberty Lit: Backwards Books
A proposed New York prison book ban, asexuality in fiction, working from home, paper planners, spine-in books and more.
Day in the Life: On Tour With Australian Songwriter Alex Lahey
I met up with singer-songwriter Alex Lahey while on tour at her San Diego show.
“One Mississippi” Got Cancelled and I’m Going to Set My Television on Fire
AMAZON CANCELLED “ONE MISSISSIPPI” AND “I LOVE DICK” WHICH IS A PERSONAL ATTACK AGAINST ME AND ALSO BUTCH LESBIAN VISIBILITY