No Filter: Samira Wiley Is Swimming In The Ocean, Mother
Samira Wiley learns to surf, Angel Haze learns photosynthesis, Janelle Monáe learns face-swapping and we all learn not to sit next to Cara Delevingne at the movies.
Rebel Girls: It Turns Out, Voting For Women Isn’t Enough
Voting for women isn’t all it takes to reach gender parity in politics. Changing our political system from the bottom-up will go a lot further.
Survey Says: Black Americans Supportive of LGBT Equality, Discrimination Protections
A new study debunks the myth that Black people are overwhelmingly homophobic, a new policy in Texas is making it impossible for transgender student-athletes to play on the right team, an anti-trans Lyft driver put Monica Jones in danger when he shared her location with a Facebook group, students in California were asked to remove their anti-gay symbols off their student badges and more news!
Boob(s On Your) Tube: The Lesbians Are Gearing Up For a Showdown on “Black Sails”
On Black Sails, Eleanor is back on Nassau and getting ready to tag-team with Max (in every way); Maggie has kind of disappeared from Younger; and Susanna finally says something real to Luisa on Jane the Virgin.
Someone You Love Is Voting For Donald Trump — Now What?
Here are five ways you can cope with the knowledge that a person you love is making a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad decision.
2016 Super Tuesday Open Thread and Liveblog
It’s Super Tuesday! What’s the latest? Find out and then talk about it here.
View From The Top: How Topping Taught Me Physics And Feminism
Trusting physics, trusting agency, trusting desire, and trusting the people I played with changed everything.
Life, Death and Surrender: It’s Hard to Know When It’s Time to Say Goodbye
On losing a pet, resilience and vulnerability, human frailty and animal intelligence, and everything that goes into saying goodbye.
Drawn to Comics: Support the Fresh Romance Kickstarter for Cute, Sometimes Queer Romantic Comics
“Fresh Romance is pretty and positive and made with a lot of heart. Having it in print will only let the publication grow and expand, and will allow even more amazing creators the chance to tell their stories!”
25 Unsolved Lesbian TV Mysteries Sarah Shahi’s Nancy Drew Should Investigate
“If Karma isn’t gay for Amy, why does she act so gay for Amy?”
What I Wore: Navigating the Heternormative Patriarchy (Part One)
“When I want to go for a drink at a bar where I know the crowd will be overwhelmingly straight, I take great strides to ensure a look that says I’m both sexually unavailable and I might attempt to convert you to a new religion.”
You Need Help: Is She For Real?
“I now have a million conspiracy theories in my head about the possibility that maybe the girl I met in person was not the same girl writing me these emails.”
The 10 Most Abhorrent Oscar Snubs of the Past 20 Years
“That’s the price you pay for thinking too far ahead, flying too close to the sun.”
50 Ways to Deal with the Aftereffects of Trauma
“The day begins when you say it does: I’m not talking about work. I’m talking about the soul.”
Say My Name, Mey’s My Name Pt. II: Independent (Legally a) Woman
“As I write about my name now, I feel strength, and contentment and comfort and home. I feel more like myself than I ever have before.”
29 Foods My Girlfriend’s Cat Would Like to Cook for Me
“I’ve collected some recipes that (way, way deep down) I think my girlfriend’s cat would secretly like to cook for me.”
NSFW Lesbosexy Sunday Will Meet You At Sunrise
Consensual non-consent, an electrosex checklist, tumblr is for porn, two things people in long-term relationships are good at, dating as a transfeminine girl and more.
Kate McKinnon Is Carol and Trans Actress Mya Taylor Makes History This Sunday Funday
Puerto Rico did in fact get that lesbian Supreme Court Chief Justice after all, Italy’s same-sex civil unions bill is gaining steam, Taylor Victor is gonna get to wear her badass lesbian tee shirt to school whenever the f*ck she wants, some Peeps re-enacted Hamilton for you, and the Independent Spirit Awards made trans history!
Breaking Down the Apple iOS Back Door Fight
“We can not use a law from 1789 to regulate a digital space in such an overreaching way.”
Saturday Morning Cartoons: Perfect Apartment, Part One
“This is gonna be our first apartment together, so it has to be perfect!”