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Geekery

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.

A.E. Osworth May 18, 2013 11 Comments
First Person

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.

Kate May 17, 2013 72 Comments
Straddleverse

The Comment Awards Are Feeling Campy

Cyborgs, Adam Lambert, camp dreams and more!

carrie May 17, 2013 6 Comments
Love + Sex

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!

A.E. Osworth May 17, 2013 11 Comments
Literature

Lez 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.

Ryan Yates May 17, 2013 9 Comments
Geekery

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.

Rose May 17, 2013 94 Comments
Literature

Things I Read That I Love #76: Astro-Ride!

Topics include the Khmer Rouge, crisis pregnancy centers + race-baiting, SamRo, coffee, Little House on the Prairie, grief, growing up gay and Kevyn Aucoin!

Riese May 17, 2013 14 Comments
Geekery

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.

taylor May 17, 2013 51 Comments
Recipes

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.

Laura May 17, 2013 4 Comments
Geekery

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.

Cara May 17, 2013 5 Comments
First Person Gender Issues

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.”

A. S. May 16, 2013 41 Comments
TV Reviews

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.

fonseca May 16, 2013 46 Comments
Pop Culture Fix

Brittani’s Video Party: The Return of Television

DeAnne Smith on the teevee, Arrested Development, Brooklyn 99, and gas station karaoke party it up.

Brittani May 16, 2013 4 Comments
First Person

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.

Malaika May 16, 2013 12 Comments
Queer Fashion

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.

Gabrielle Korn May 16, 2013 30 Comments
Politics + Activism

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.

Claudia May 15, 2013 18 Comments
Music

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.

Hansen May 15, 2013 16 Comments
Society + Culture

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.

Carmen May 15, 2013 38 Comments
Parenting & Family

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.

Vanessa May 15, 2013 32 Comments
Camp

Listling: 18 Things Found In The Wrong Places While Organizing A-Camp Supplies

On cleanup day, everyone just wants to go home.

Laneia May 15, 2013 20 Comments
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