Things I Read That I Love #175: The Return Of Witch-Hunting
Topics include Oscar the Grouch, Monster-in-Law, Uber, Key & Peele, the cruise industry, nail salons and more!
Fan Fiction Friday: 15 “Warehouse 13” Bering and Wells Stories to Honor Endless Wonder
Do you smell apples? I smell apples.
The Comment Awards Are Buzzing With Excitement
Queer prom adventures, Frosted Mini Wheats and bees!
Trans Women Prisoners Suffer Most From Failures To Stop Prison Rape
Many eyes are on Passion Star, but overall the urgency around prison rape has faltered in the 12 years since PREA passed, the Times notes. Regulations won’t do much if prisons and state governments don’t have cultures of taking sexual violence, especially against LGB and trans prisoners, seriously.
Friday Open Thread: Longing and Lusting for the Open Road
Oh, how I wish we could go on a road trip right now! Have you ever gone road trippin’? Tell me about your best road trip IRL or in your mind. Where did you go? Or where would you go? Alone or with a friend or lover? Describe it to me!
Lez Liberty Lit #72: Self-(De)Construction
Structuring and restructuring the self through notebooks, the city with the most bookstores per capita, poetry collections that are like documentaries and more.
VIDEO: Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara Gal Pal Around In These Two Clips from “Carol”
Carol is a lesbian-ish film by that up-and-coming Australian actor who has had many relationships with women or whatever, nbd.
You Need Help: What’s My Label?
“We want these labels to tell us who we are and what we want because figuring out who we are and what we want in a big expansive lawless space is HARD.”
On Learning to Love My Body: Because Summer Is For Fat Girls, Too
Dipping into my summer wardrobe for the first time reminded me just how far I’ve come in learning to love my body.
Daily Fix: It’s Been 30 Years Since the MOVE Bombing and Other News Stories
Stories on the status of incarcerated trans women, Palestinian statehood, Jeb Bush, blood donation guidelines, crisis pregnancy centers being glitter-bombed, and more!
No Running Required: Joggers That Don’t Need A Gym Membership
Chill people unite: joggers are the new normal. Joggers live in the realm of clothes you wanna wear around the house during a Broad City marathon and keep wearing when you hit up the grocery store/ambiguous queer hangout/night out.
We Went to the GLAAD Awards and Talked to Laverne Cox, Andreja Pejić, Janet Mock, Dascha Polanco, Lynda Carter & More!
It was an exciting night full of laughter and tears and Ketel One White Cosmopolitans.
Rebel Girls: Meet (Some Of) the Gal Pals of the Suffrage Movement
We’ve broadly written off intense and deep relationships between these fearless suffrage leaders as “friendships” for years, but it’s worth considering what we’re erasing when we do.
No Filter: Stars – They’re Just Like Us
Will this be the week that Kristen and Alicia start a totally gross joint account and post simultaneous softly-lit pictures of each other from across the breakfast nook?
Pop Culture Fix: Shit’s Getting Real For Gender Discrimination in Hollywood and Other Mind-Blowing Stories
ABC’s got some hot new shows, the ACLU wants Hollywood to look at its gender discrimination problem, all about that weird Scream promo, Britney Spears’ new video, general hotness and like 50 other super-important things.
The A+ Bee Issue Twenty: Going Platinum
This issue has a picture of Stef’s cat eating lasagna, the triumphant return of Laura and Luna, the Cincy straddlers being adorable, and so much more! Grab some tea and get in here!
Where Intersex Meets Lesbian
“Not all of my experiences as an intersex person inform my being gay, and vice versa, but the overlap is there and it affects things in ways that are both good and complicated at a time in history when homophobia and intersexphobia are alive and kicking.”
Cate Blanchett Has Had Many Relationships With Women, What Is Even Happening
In an interview with Variety, Blanchett says her upcoming lesbian film Carol is not her first dip in the lady pond.
Women’s Best Bet For A Synced-Up Sex Schedule Is Lesbianism
A new survey finds that men and women like having sex at totally different times of day — how do their numbers compare to ours about when queer women like having sex?
9+ Queer Canadian Poets to Break Your Heart and Put It Back Together Again
Queer Canadian poets tend to be experimental, to push against boundaries. They tell it like it is, challenge our ways of thinking, and actively organize for change. Their words are hilarious, heartbreaking, and wise. Here are some queer Canadian poets — mostly female-identified — whose words have changed my world for the better.