Lez Liberty Lit Is Watching Eliza Bright
This is a We Are Watching Eliza Bright appreciation post. Plus: reading in the morning, the collapse of the dream of eternity, learning queer community and more.
Arts + Pop Culture
Pop Culture Fix: Tig Notaro Is Baffled You Think She’s “Sexy AF” But Her Wife Is Super Into It
Margaret Cho on Good Trouble’s season finale, Ginny & Georgia is a go for season two, lesbos on this Spanish teen soap, Pose begins its victory lap, and more!
FYP: How Close to Your BFF Are You?
When the strap acts up it now goes back into the “STRAP PACK.” Also — how do you act with your best friends because I feel like I’m doing it wrong?
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” Is a Smart, Feminist Thriller – and Also a Very Cool F*cking Book
“We Are Watching Eliza Bright” is a direct response to GamerGate… and a searing indictment of the political nightmare it foreshadowed.
Pop Culture Fix: “The Bering and Wells Show” Is Righting The Queer Wrongs of “Warehouse 13”
Welcome to the show where you write the show! Also, Ma Rainey racks up at the Dorian Awards, the best Korrasami episodes of The Legend of Korra, In The Heights is headed to Tribeca, and more!
Zoe Kravitz and Taylour Paige Are “A Thing,” We Stay Winning!
In the middle of Saturday night, Zoe Kravitz announced on her Instagram that she and Taylour Paige are officially “a thing.” What kind of thing? That remains unclear. But gays — it is time to sound the alarms!
Angel Olsen Is Gay, “Shut Up Kiss Me” Now Canon Dyke Anthem
Angel Olsen put it quite simply: “I’m gay” and me and my homegirls are quite pleased. It’s safe to say I’m a fan and I’m very happy about this news.
Things I Read That I Love #318: Eternally Hopeful That This Time There Will Be a Snack
Topics include marrying your platonic best friend, the rise of therapy-speak, COVID in prison, Homecoming at HBCUs, abuse documentaries, the road to terfdom, ranking the muppets and more!
Malice’s Lesbian Love Story (and Bitter Realities) Are Worthy Additions to Dark Fantasy Re-Tellings
The dark fairytale re-telling has become an established fantasy sub-genre in its own right, and Malice’s sweet lesbian love story and bitter realities are a more-than-worthy addition.
Came Through Drippin: The New WNBA Jerseys Are Fire (and So Are The Players Wearing Them)
The new WNBA jerseys for 2021 are the must-have merch for your post-COVID vaccine summer. We’ve ranked our faves and, of course, tried to satiate your thirst for the players wearing them.
Pop Culture Fix: Wynonna Earp Season 5 Would Have Had More Dark Angel Waverly
Demi Lovato singing to squirrels, the queer directors of Queen Sugar, Erin Kellyman from Falcon and the Winter Soldier is gay IRL, and more!
No Filter: Thank You, Niecy and Jessica! I Did Need Some Black Love Today!
Ali Krieger and Ashlyn Harris’ baby has SIMPLY the best baby face I have ever seen, and Hayley Kiyoko is wearing HARD PANTS??? Can you even imagine? I cannot.
FYP: Tiktokking My Way to Being a WNBA Wife
I am ready to look gorgeous on the sidelines and settle down with a woman whose sport I know nothing about. Also, making out in cars is underrated, and if I facetime you with a bonnet on we must be getting serious.
Joss Whedon and JK Rowling Don’t Own My Queer Narratives
Whedon and Rowling don’t get to lay claim to the stories we wrote, whether they were in fan fiction, on forums, or even just in our own, quiet thoughts. We own the narratives that give us meaning.
Remake Every Tom Cruise Movie With Tig Notaro, You Cowards
Zack Snyder’s Army of the Dead Trailer is here, and the whole internet is finally in on the fact that Tig Notaro is a stone cold fox.
25 Quotes From Queer Authors About Heartbreak, Loss and Moving the F*ck On
“I want you to know, if you ever read this, there was a time when I would rather have had you by my side than any one of these words; I would rather have had you by my side than all the blue in the world.”
Pop Culture Fix: Witness Kate McKinnon and The World’s Saddest Flirting In Your Yearly Lesbian Period Piece
Plus trailers for: A Black Lady Sketch Show, Younger, and Legends of Tomorrow.
Power Is Searingly Political and Personal In Melissa Febos’ “Girlhood”
Secrets, silence, internalized misogyny, power, desire, and the catastrophic — yet very common — ways in which girls are harmed as they grow into women are all themes that Febos examines in “Girlhood,” an essay collection that blends memoir, journalism, and cultural critique.
15 Robes for Gay Divorcées
Although not everyone is lucky enough to be a hot gay divorceé (yet! Life is long, stay positive!) everyone can get into the staple of the gay divorceé wardrobe: the robe.
Lez Liberty Lit: How Do Plague Stories End?
How DO plague stories end? Plus, “non-binary” in Italian, was this one feminist classic actually trash, the Tamagotchi cemetery and more.
Pop Culture Fix: Wynonna Earp’s Series Finale Is Going to Make You a Very Happy Human
The trailer for the final season of Pose, JoJo Siwa is happier than ever since she came out, the first look at the Glee cast’s Naya Rivera tribute, and more!