May 18, 2013
Sorry, Texas, But Letting Student Groups Discriminate Is Not the Same As "Religious Freedom"
To your average conservative legislator, it may seem like a good idea to let anti-gay religious or political groups choose not to have members who don’t reflect their “values.” But when it involves having students pay for their own discrimination, it’s not so simple.
May 18, 2013
Tech Spring Cleaning Part 3: Actually Literally Cleaning Your Tech
There are only two steps, to be completed on days of your choosing: 1. obtain the following materials and 2. use them on your technology. Ready. Set. Go.
May 17, 2013
Butch Please: A Letter to Baby Butches
I have every faith in you, baby butch. I know you will be careful with this word and its legacy. It looks like a badge but it feels like a battleaxe, and I need you to know that it’s five times as difficult to earn and ten million times more dangerous.
May 17, 2013
The Comment Awards Are Feeling Campy
Cyborgs, Adam Lambert, camp dreams and more!
May 17, 2013
Five Solo Crash Pad Scenes For Masturbation Month
I like to call this meta-masturbation. Touch yourself to scenes of people touching themselves. Happy Masturbation Month!
May 17, 2013
Liberty Lit #20: Remember Library Lesbianism
An excerpt from Michelle Tea’s new novel, chicken lit is the new chick lit, library lesbianism, sexism in publishing and more.
May 17, 2013
How Sailor Moon Made Me A Feminist: An Ode to Magical Girl Shows
Maybe it’s the influence of Sailor Moon that is part of what made me a feminist, someone who didn’t think that being a girl was a weakness but was, in fact, a special kind of power.
May 17, 2013
Things I Read That I Love #76: Astro-Ride!
Topics include the Khmer Rogue, crisis pregnancy centers + race-baiting, SamRo, coffee, Little House on the Prairie, grief, growing up gay and Kevyn Aucoin!
May 17, 2013
Date With A Google Glasshole: Cyborg Dating 101, A Report From The Field
A true, first-hand account of a real-life ladydate with a real-life Glasshole. Let’s just say that the phrase “breakup-inducing cyborg face device” got tossed around.
May 17, 2013
You Can Take It With You: Blood Orange and Wheat Berry Salad
Both rule-following and improvisation have their place in this post. First course: a wheat berry salad by the book. Followed by: my own take on the recipe.
May 17, 2013
Team Pick: Buycott Helps You Save The World and Support Pro-Gay Companies While You Shop
Because I’m perpetually spending my last dollar and I want to know exactly where it goes.
May 16, 2013
Identity Theft: A Trans* Intersex Woman On Traumas and Surgery
“It’s unfortunate, unfair and illogical that intersex people get assigned a gender and a sex and are expected to either stick with them or fix someone else’s mistake with expensive, risky surgery on their genitals.”
May 16, 2013
Why Grey's Anatomy's New Story Arc Is A Pretty Big Deal
Because lesbian and bisexual characters now have longer shelf lives, network TV is beginning to go beyond the same trope-tastic story arcs.
May 16, 2013
Brittani's Video Party: The Return of Television
DeAnne Smith on the teevee, Arrested Development, Brooklyn 99, and gas station karaoke party it up.
May 16, 2013
A Prairie Homo Companion: Wanderlust and Lessons Learned
I like to think all of this travelling has taught me a few things, or else what would be the point? Here’s a list of 10 things I’ve learned as a prairie homo in the great wide world.
May 16, 2013
Lez Get Dressed For Work: Yes, Virginia, There Are Professional Tops That Aren't Button-Ups
How to not wear button ups and how to not tuck your shirt in.
May 15, 2013
South Carolina Intersex Lawsuit A Major Step In Ending Nonconsensual Surgery to "Fix" Intersex Kids
Adoptive parents of 8 year-old, intersex child M.C. Crawford are suing the state of SC because cosmetic genital surgery was performed on M.C. without his consent.
May 15, 2013
Album Review: Mal Blum "Tempest In A Teacup"
Mal Blum’s new album, “Tempest In A Teacup,” is so endearing and good and fun and I’m pretty sure you’ll love it.
May 15, 2013
Also.Also.Also: "Bill de Blasio’s 'Formerly Lesbian' Wife Patiently Explains Human Sexuality" and Other Stories We Missed This Week
Zines, lesbian MPs, international news, gay TV, bad news, sexual spectrums and lesbian poetry about manicures.
May 15, 2013
Mom Dresses Daughter Up As Historical Badass Ladies, Is Awesome
Vanessa’s Team Pick: Awesome mom dresses 5-year-old daughter up as independent strong women from history, results in infinite cuteness and warm fuzzy girl power feelings.
May 15, 2013
Listling: 18 Things Found In The Wrong Places While Organizing A-Camp Supplies
On cleanup day, everyone just wants to go home.
May 15, 2013
Almost Famous: *~~
*~~ works in a variety of genres from folk to shoe gaze to electronic noise to experimental intermedia. She wanted to piss people off by having a name that no one would know what to do with.
May 15, 2013
I'm A Trans Woman And I'm Not Interested In Being One of the "Good Ones"
If you present in a traditionally feminine way, you’re just being a misogynistic parody of a woman, and if you fail to present in a traditionally feminine way, well ha! There’s the proof that you’re not really a woman right there.
May 14, 2013
We Won A Thing! Marriage Equality Comes To Minnesota
“As we held onto each other in that sea of people, he just kept looking at me and saying, “You’re going to get married, mama. You’re going to get married.”"
May 14, 2013
Girl Power In Eurovision: 10 Songs Charting The Evolution
Each year in Spring, citizens of Europe take a break from sabotaging the global economy and gather round their TV sets to enjoy the greatest cultural event known to human civilization: Eurovision.
