It’s been a long, hard summer: here’s a photo of Janelle Monáe’s new haircut + glasses just because! Also: Monáe is starring in the new “Gloria” movie coming to Amazon and here’s a first look; we have Niecy Nash’s wedding video; and so many links to read to carry you into the (almost) long weekend!

Janelle Monáe and Tessa Thompson are baiting us for Democracy this Election Day… and I’m not mad at it? Also: Lots of good, thoughtful election reads that (mostly) won’t piss you off and concrete, actionable ways to distract yourself right now if you need it.

Also: Why is this Rebecca trailer so straight, Ellen says she’ll “talk about it” when she returns for season 18, Lizzo won big at the IHeartRadio Music Awards, Pose will begin filming season three in October!

Grimes says her next album will be a space opera about a lesbian A.I. romance? Nah. Also, behind the scenes of Batwoman season two, the search for Renee Montoya, the PLL reboot fills in its cast, why Fear Street is built around a queer love story, and more!

Also: Wynonna Earp’s season four episode titles, the real puppers of Last of Us 2, Keke Palmer covers Cosmo, your BSC personality based on your sign, and more!

Happy Sunday! Janelle Monáe is headlining NYC Pride Island, lady basketball coaches, new music videos, and so much more! Come celebrate with us!

Happy Sunday! Here’s some good news: Janelle Monáe might be non-binary, Janet Mock is winning an award, Jonathan Van Ness wrote a children’s book, and more!

Kristen Stewart’s long history of playing moody teenagers, the casts of Hamilton and The Nanny reunited and it feels so good, here’s what your favorite TV characters might do during a pandemic, what the hell is Quibi, and more!

Also: the music that takes you back to high school, and have you ever considered that potlucks are a site of queer resistance?

One Day at a Time scores an animated special, The Last of Us II gets a real release date maybe, a show about social distancing from the Orange Is the New Black team, Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris talk activism on and off the filed, and more!

Hello it’s Sunday and every single one of our faves is here! Lena Waithe and Westworld, Janelle Monáe and Lizzo and “Lady and the Tramp” and Tessa Thompson and Kiersey Clemons! What a great Sunday!!

Black femmes won Oscars weekend, starring: Janet Mock, Janelle Monáe, Angelica Ross, Billy Porter, and MJ Rodriguez! Also, links about why we still don’t believe survivors, moms starting a housing rights revolution, and more.

The WNBA is back! Owl House is back! Janelle Monáe joins Knives Out 2! Good news abounds!

Some good news and hope to fill your week: Taiwan’s Pride Parade, new queer movies, Raveena celebrating queer brown love, Janelle Monáe, and queer polyamorous foster families!

Can Mariah Carey teach you how to sing? Unfair wages in the WNBA, and the author of “Little Women” is a trans icon.

10 of the most stylish lesbian characters in cinema, Janelle Monáe on Antebellum and Chadwick Boseman, Brandi Carlile’s cover of Mad World is a real 2020 mood, Indya Moore’s NYFW debut, and more!

A new series for Niecy Nash, the enduring bisexual majesty of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Fortune Feimster’s truly hilarious wedding photos, your weekly Javicia Leslie check-in, and Janelle Monáe on the cover of Out magazine.

Hey and so would Ali Liebert! Motherland: Fort Salem and Gentefied have been renewed, more details on ODAAT’s animated special, Vanity Fair’s Janelle Monáe profile is a must-read, and more!

Ella Hunt is queer, Pose will end with season three, Chloë Grace Moretz was set to star in Nimona, St. Vincent’s new album, and more!

Being single is more expensive on purpose, Janelle Monáe is curating Afrofuturist short stories, and If your coping mechanism through hell has been avoiding paying attention to what’s going on with SCOTUS, we have your required catch up reading.