A shorter workweek, but somehow it’s managed to feel like two weeks. Or maybe I’m just trapped in a black hole loop (is that how black holes work?). Please tell me you’ve also had two weeks this week so I don’t feel so alone!
Queer as in F*ck You
What’s Next for Meg Rapinoe and Sue Bird Hmmmmm is it happiness and being my new lockscreen wallpaper?? I THINK SO.
There’s No One ‘Gay Gene,’ but Genetics Are Linked to Same-Sex Behavior, New Study Says
ESPN’s The Body Issue has arrived and there are several of your faves involved! Butts!
The Founder of America’s Earliest Lesbian Bar Was Deported for Obscenity
Kristen Stewart Is Looking Ahead
Beyond the Turkey Baster: A Queer Mom Dishes on Donor Sperm
VSCO Girl Culture Is Actually Just Lesbian Culture
What It’s Like to Be Out as LGBTQ At School
Excuse me. Proud Dad Built a Bisexual Chair for His Bisexual [Genderfuck] Daughter
7 Non-Binary People on What It’s Like to Have an ‘X’ Gender Marker
The W.N.B.A. Is Putting On Some of the Best Pro Basketball in America
How to Make It in Hollywood When You’re Gay, Female, and Thirtysomething
Country Music Is a Man’s World. The Highwomen Want to Change That.
Trans Writers Have More Than One Story to Tell
Chopping All My Hair Off As A Plus-Size Woman Taught Me Some Difficult Lessons
Saw This, Thought of You
Lizzo Is Proudly Black No Matter What Azealia Banks Implies
Student Debt Is Transforming the American Family
Migrant Girls Menstruating in Detention Centers Left to Bleed Through Their Underwear: Lawsuit
The Dixie Chicks’ ‘Fly’ at 20: How the Country Group Was Always Revolutionary
The ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ Doublemeat Burger Walked So Beyond Meat Could Run 🙏
A real goddamn mood: After Busting Through a Glass Ceiling, Maya the Agave Plant Is Dying As Dramatically As Possible
’90s Erotic Thrillers and the Satisfaction of Watching Women Burn the World
Funding Black Beauty Tech Founders Should Be a No-Brainer
Political Snacks
Cherokee Nation Names First Delegate To Congress
This is a lot. ‘Some Of Us Might Not Make It Out Alive’: A Letter To My Students About School Shootings
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Always happy about more trans for trans fiction! And by the author of A Safe Girl to love? And I wore my maple leaf shirt today, so go Canada and the Walrus.
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not alone! this week fit so many weeks into this week!
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‘the once-relevant artist went on a tirade’
Oohoohoo burn.
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That article on Chawa Czlotcheber/ Eve Adams (not sure which they would prefer to be remembered as) was really interesting.
The wonder and richness that we have lost again and again
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in a small way, learning that the Cherokee Nation has had a woman serve as chief and that her name was Wilma Mankiller makes me feel better about things.
also, rooting for their new congressional delegate.
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A professor of epidemiology at Emory wrote this wonderful takedown of the gay gene paper:
https://medium.com/@cecilejanssens/study-finds-no-gay-gene-was-there-one-to-find-ce5321c87005
It was a poorly conducted study and it’s not very clear whether participants consented to being involved in this kind of research, since they signed permission for health research, and I think it’s a stretch to call this health research.
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Thanks for the plus size haircuts -link! Marie Southard Ospina is my idol.