All about the Companion app, which allows people walking home alone to request a digital buddy (or Companion!) to track their location. Get in here and tell me what you think!
In which we contemplate choosing a box.
Tiny lesbians, squirrel monkeys and religious leaders blessing lesbians in this week’s comment awards.
Get in here! We’re talking about the first LGBTQ books we ever read and how they made us feel.
“I truly believe in story, I think the stories we see and the ones we choose to engage with are one of life’s most vital elements, it’s right up there with food and shelter. This has always been true.”
“A murder, Fred Armisen, a bar mitzvah and Molly Shannon.”
“This week has involved a lot of needing to let go of all the things I can’t have total control over and I’m not good at that and I don’t like it but also maybe that’s okay.”
New Eileen Myles, students who don’t want to read Fun Home, Hogwarts updates, asexual characters in YA, a review of the IKEA catalog and more.
You may have heard that somebody’s gynecologist found a cat hairball in her vagina. Why stop there? There are so many other wonderful tales to tell each other!
Is “confidante” the new “gal pal”?
The Black Lives Matter movement also repudiated the Democratic National Committee’s endorsement, a Maryland judge refuses to drop charges against the six officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray, a professor received a grant to study health in bisexual women and more news stories.
Where did the taco come from? From the Aztecs to silver mines in Mexico to the Taco Bell founder, these are some big moments in taco history.
In which we make a refreshing pear, vanilla and vodka concoction that signals Autumn while acknowledging the heat of September.
The Fun Home star returned to her roots at Joe’s Pub at the Public Theater in New York City on August 31st to perform a one-woman cabaret show following a rural lesbian through her tomboy childhood, an engagement (to a man!), her first stint as an actress in New York, another marriage (to a woman!), and her ever-tense relationship with her Colorado cowboy father.
We all know someone who has become part of the conservative punditry herd and, over time, traded their compassion for paranoia; their thoughtful opinions for manufactured outrage; and their empathy for hateful rhetoric.
These 10 women traversed lands, set records, and embraced adventure. We should know their names!
Nerve.com begins a new chapter with a look back on all previous chapters, The Butter shutters, September is a big month for black women on magazine covers, The Daily Beast shuts down comments and more interesting stories!
Tegan and Sara have a cute dinner together, Jenny Owen Youngs is lost and found, Jasika Nicole and Brittani Nichols have a secret project, and Samira Wiley wants to share this stir fry with you.
This week I thought we’d talk about the best ways to stay active if you spend most of your day sitting, whether it be because you’re studying or working a desk job or in another profession that requires lots of bum time.
Season 2B of “Faking It” is finally here, and everybody is still lying to everybody else.