What’s going on with Gawker, what’s going on with Reddit, Facebook’s algorithm, coming up with ideas as a freelancer, why many entrepreneurs are comfortable taking risks, and more!
By the time straight women of the second wave had caught up to the times, queer women had already f*cked up their movement — and built one all their own.
Zoie Palmer and Ruby Rose face off on Dark Matter this week, lesbian director Kelsey Jannings returns to BoJack Horseman, Batwoman is getting animated, Lavrene Cox chats some more about Caitlyn Jenner, Miley Cyrus is hosting the VMAs, Jimmy Fallon forgot her went on a bender with Tig Notaro, and more more more news!
And Laverne Cox finally met this dinosaur.
“I asked Riese if she thought I would ever have sex again if I started wearing kaftans from World Market and she said no.”
“The threat to move to Michigan was always made in a specific context: some element of my life fell apart and I didn’t know how to fix it or myself.”
Her murder reminds us of just how little society values the lives of black trans women.
“What are you doing/do you want to do with your life? Sit with yourself, your love, your horrors, your victories, and your losses. Prioritize the answers to those questions that are not explicitly connected to a degree or career.”
How do we both honor our child’s memory and prepare to open our hearts again to a new child?
I should really just buy all these and mix you drinks, right?
My exercise routine has started feeling cruisey so in an effort to push myself a little harder and further here’s what I’m doing.
Jeez, Abigail, what did the Grootslang ever do to you?
A NYPD officer is being investigated for assaulting a black queer woman, Black Lives Matter protestors take over the Netroots Nation conference, Rachel Dolezal still stands by her views of herself and more news stories!
Stef and Lena finally decide to go to therapy on The Fosters, Gretchen kicks another guy in the nuts on Complications, and a lesbian bites it on Scream.
The Same Difference takes the lid off of the many boxes that we as a community put ourselves into in respect to gender.
I’m intrigued by the ways that makeup can be both feminizing and masculinizing, often at the same time. As I started working on this project, I realized that’s been true for a long time.
This video includes a lesbian metal band shredding (on guitars) and a bunch of kittens shredding (your couch).
For when you hate men so much, you have to tap dance about it.
Infusions, tonics, tea, lemonades, fizzes, sangrias and more.
Meet the first lesbian couple to marry in Puerto Rico, rewatch Caitlyn Jenner’s ESPYs speech, pet a sea bunny, celebrate Ramadan with your chosen family, check out what the Ali Forney center did with that donation from Bea Arthur, and then get a f*cking job because the EEOC wants to protect you from your potential employer’s bullsh*t while you do.